Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1916-04-13

which it Is the purpose to erect
mammoth auditorium. The propert.
adjoins that Of the new Masonic Tenn
pie.
Historic Hotel Lamar. Knoxville
has reopened for "Stags." 1t wal
erected in 1911 as the Knoxville Inn
then the City Hotel. the Coleman
House, the Lamar House, and the
White House, and now known again
under the historic name of the Hote
Lamar.
Mrs. Hugh Blizzard, 35, and hei
seventeen-year-old daughter Pauline
we're killed instantly by a stroke Of
lightning at the family home at Ar
cadia. They were on their way to the
spring house when the lightning
struck a clothes wire on a level with
Mrs. Billiards. head.
The annual meeting of the Tennes
see survivors of the Inflated ship Sui
tana will be held April 81 at Colonel
Minis farm, South Knoxville The
monument to those on the vessel, now
DOAA6 CiCCtCu at Az. W. DCliy SOhO
terry, near Mt. Olive, about four miles
south of Knoxville, will be unveiled
| some time in May.
Assistant SUPERINTENDENT John Nc.
Mullen, of the United States public
health service, was in Nashville for a
few days for conference with DR..
R. @. Lillard, of the State Board of
Health. on the location of a govern.
ment field hospital in East Tennessee
for the treatment of trachoma (granu.
lated eyelids).
All telegraph poles, lights and other
poles owned by public utility corpo-
rations in Knoxville must be painted
and numbered, and map showing the
location and owner Of the same filed
with the Commissioner of Street and
Public improvements. The companies
are given sixty days to comply with
the ordinance.
After a burglar robbed an agents
furnishing store. Memphis. Of dozens
Of red silk ties, dozens of silk shirts
and several suits of clothes, he went
to the Mississippi River and took a
bath and then donned new clothes.
The police found his discarded suit.
shirt and tie with note pinned on
top. saying: Il have stolen the
clothes dressed up in"
The NJ. c. & st. L. Railway has we'll
under way Of construction a strip Of
road between Burns and Bakersville,
which runs parallel to the present
road. eliminating curves and cutting
out the grade almost entirely. The
noted McNairy cut will be cut twenty
one feet lower and the three miles of
piling will be driven on when the dirt
is dumped as it is hauled from the cut.
As a result of the first six weeks of
the Vanderbilt endowment fund cam
paign at Nashville, $537 so has been
turned'in at the campaign headquar-
ters through the efforts of the students
of the university. OF this amount
$36550 was made by the two perform
ances of "Stunt Night" In the sale
of tickets for stunt Night" 5000. 20
was realized by the classes.
J. M. Dean, district agent for Middle,
met the Jackson County Court, out
lined the farm demonstration work
being carried on by the division Of
extension, Knoxville, Tenn, and Sc
cured an appropriation in cooperation
with the United States Department of
Agriculture and division Of extension
in employing county agent for Jack
son County.
The Merchants and Manufacturers
exposition, pure food, electrical. house
hold and fashion show to be held at
the Hippodrome at Nashville in May
promises to exceed all expectations.
Applications for space from many con-
Germs has been most satisfactory to
the management and requests have
come in for space also from Chicago,
Baltimore, Battle Creek and other out
of-town points.
Knoxville may get proposed south
ern factory of the Akron Airless Tire
Company. The annual maintenance
expenses of the southern branch of
the concern would amount to approxi-
mately $150.00O, it is understood. while
a large amount would be invested in
the building of the new plant. The
concern has an exta ablishment at Ak
ron, O., and manufactures Akron No
Air cores, made of rubber. These
cores take the place of the familiar
inner tube.
Sweetwater Community Club is the
name of the new organization formed
at Sweetwater to further add to the
progressiveness of this city. With an
executive board and publicity commit
tee composed of men in all lines of
ndeavor-merchants lawyers. real
estate men, manufacturers and farm
ers-the club is bending its efforts
with remarkable success to obtaining
better prices, markets, roads, schools,
sewer systems and other improve
ments.
The Nashville, Hartsville & Red |
Boiling Springs Railway Company sub
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