Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1916-04-27
twenty-five thousand dollar new
Masonic home for Morristown.
A state militia is being organized at

Voters of Maury County will, at q
special election to be called, pass upon
the question of public ownership OF
the toll roads.
Seyenty-four churches, with com
bined membership of S,737, were rem
resented in the annual spring sessions
of the Knoxville and Union Presby-
teries, held last week
Over 800 patients were in the Chat
tanooga Free Clinic in a period OF
three weeks. This number does not
include the dope" fiends, who are be-
ing treated separately.
The total receipts of the city Of
Nashville during March, according to
the monthly report of the city comp
troller, submitted to the City Com
mission, were $SO2,69945. The dis
bursements were $214,4S441.
Declared to be unfit for human use,
46, 6,025' pounds of food, which had been
offered the public during the period
of thirty days, was seized, confiscated
and condemned in Nashville by the
Health Department
II it had not been for tiny brown
mole, Ann Sledge, 10-months-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. E. C. SleIge.
1243 Vinton avenue, Memphis, would
have made a perfect score Of 100 in
the recent baby show.
Mac C. Jackson, one of Nashville's
most prominent business men and
owner of one of the largest retail gro
c<O fal
by firing bullet into his brain at his
residence on West Side avenue.
The twentieth child welfare confer
ence of the National Congress of Moth
ers and Parent-Teacher Associations
was concluded in Nashville last week
with discussion on the spiritual de-
velopment of the child.
Thomas A. Early, professor of sec
ondary education in theN Mississippi
Agricultural and Mechanical College,
of Starksville, Miss, was elected presi-
dent of the Cookeville Polytechnic
School,
Sewer connections at once or fines
is the ultimatum issued by the city
Of Knoxville. The trouble along this
line has been in rented houses, as
practically every home owned by the
occupant has been equipped.
The Tennessee District (Nashville)
is the largest producer of snuff of any
city in the United States, and curl
Gus feature of the consumption of snuff |
in this county is found in the fact that
great quantities of this form of to- |
bacco is retailed in New England.
The Morristown Retail Merchants
Association. incorporates. With this
action the organization becomes a per-
manent institution and is better than
ever prepared to regulate credit con
ditions and provide for public improve
ments.
A saving of $3S,126 to merchants OF
the Knoxville Advertising Club has
resulted from the club Vigilance Com
mittee's investigation of 80 doubtful
schemes, including certain
school publications. Only two of the
80 propositions we're reported on favor
ably.
A resolution requesting that neces-
sary steps be at once taken to organ
ize and equip three more militia COM
panies in Knoxville has been passed
by the Board of Commerce of that city.
now has one infantry COM
pany, one machine gun company and a
hospital corps.
The names of nine old employees
Of the NJ, G. & st. l.. Railroad were
added to the pension roll at the last
meeting of the Pension Board. The
aggregate years of service of these
nine men was 237 years. During the
past year four pensioners died, leav-
ng total of IS men on the roll
Through the efforts of the Parent
Teachers Association of the Rose
School, Morristown, the Mayor and
Board of Aldermen at their last meet
ng voted an appropriation of $4,000
md play ground for the school chill
lren of Morristown.
Sixteen hundred men are engaged at
work for the Aluminium Co. of Amer
ca in Blout County at and near the
ites of the Little Tennessee River,
where this company will build the
zig dams to generate the power that
8 to operate the big aluminium plant
o be established.
At meeting OF the Park Commits
toner's of Nashville it was announced
hat an agreement had been reached
o purchase park site in the fire.
wept area of East Nashville. The
ity will tender notes for $37.500 in
ull payment. for land between Wool
and and Russell and Sixth and Sew
nth streets.
The annual meeting of the Middle
'ennessee Education Association is
eing held in Nashville this year on
Friday and Saturday of this
eek This is one Of the largest, If
OF the largest educational gathering
l the South, and has an annual at
sndance Of more than thousand