Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1916-06-22
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The forty-ffth annual convention o.
the Grand Lodge of knights of Pythias
Of Tennessee will be held at Ovoca
The six-months-old baby of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thos. Lumpkin, who live two
miles and half southwest of Nun
ford, was killed when the wind blew
the house down.
Forty-two diplomas were awarded
to graduates of Maryville College al
the ninetyseventh annual commence
ment exercises.
The Tennessee Women's Press and
Authors Club will hold their eight.
eenth annual convention in Morris
town, June 21-23.
Tennessee Normal school, at johnson
City, opened with several hundred in
attendance. Seven or eight hundred
are expected to enter.
Silas- Little, son of a farmer near
Lexington; accidentally shot and killed
his sweetheart. Miss Hester Scott, at
her home in the same vicinity. He
was showing her pistol which he
did not know was loaded.
Plans for $4,000 aviary at the
Overton Park Zoo, Memphis, are un-
der way under supervision of the Park
Commission. When completed this
aviary will be the largest of its kind
in the country. 1t will be 120 feet
long, so feet wide and 35 feet high.
An ordinance providing for the
granting of permits or licenses to jit-
ney cars on payment to the city of
Nashville of special tax of $100 per
car has been prepared and presented
to the Board of Commissioners with
the approval of the city attorney.
DR.. Brown Ayres, President of the
University of Tennessee, presented
diplomas to almost 100 graduates of
the medical, dental and pharmaceuti-
cal departments at commencement, ,ex-
ercises held in Memphis.
More than $4OO has been raised for
O monument to the late DR.. G. w. Per
ryman, former pastor of Heading Bap-
tist church of Knoxville, more recently
of Winchester, KY. DR.. Perryman led
the fight here which resulted in Knox
vile voting dry by majority of more
than two to one. This was in 1907.
Chief of Police Alex Barthell won
In the law suit in first Circuit Court
at Nashville brought by Dan Wilson,
one of the leading Socialists of Nash
vile, for $4,000 damages for injured
hands Of the chief during clash be-
tween the police and Socialists in
South Nashville about a year ago.
Fifteen TRUSTEES" from the State
at Nashville have begun
work on the stockade at the mouth
of Suck Creek, near Chattanooga,
which will house the hundred or more
who are to be employed on
the Dixie highway in Marion and Ham
ilton Counties. The full force are ex-
pected within the next week.
Hon. Jacob NJ. Dickinson, former
Secretary of War, and wife sent a
check for $4,000 to the Protestant Or
phan Asylum of Nashville. The money
Is to be invested and the interest ap-
piled toward expenses of the infant
1t is to be known as the
Overton Dickinson fund, in memory OF
their son.
At a meeting of the Nashville Com !
mercial Club at Nashville, steps were
taken to launch an active campaign |
to secure for the South the proposed !
SIC, 100000 hydro-electric plant propos-
ed to be established at Mussel Shoals
by the Government for the manufac.
ture Of nitrogen from the air in peace
lines and war munitions in time of
war.
The May crop report, which has been
ssued by the State Agricultural De-
partmept, of which H, K Bryson is
shows that conditions
n Tennessee from crop standpoint
ire excellent. There has been some
on account of adverse
conditions In the western and eastern
portions of the State, but this has in
he main been overcome.
Poll taxes are payable this year on 4
,r before July 3, or 80 days before
he August election, according to an Z
lct OF the last Legislature. Polls paid
n 1915 entitle voters to cast their bal
OTIS, but those whose poll tax receipts
,ear the date of 1914 or earlier will
'e obliged to fork over" in order to
egister their desires in the summer
nd fall elections. /;
Julius Morgan, col0red, convicted In
'helby County of the crime of sape
ommitted in Dyer County, seems ig- j
Iorant of the fact that he is to be
lectrocuted July 13. since the death 4
entence was affirmed by the Supreme
curt Morgan is confined in the Da- =
idson County Jail, and has been told
be status Of his case, but refuses to
efieve It,. SU
The shareholders Of the new knit
Ing mills to be located on the north
ide of the river at Chattanooga have
btained charter and selected site
3r the plant. The incorporators are
4 III. Miller, George S. Arnold, o. l..
'unn, w. A. Jones and Floyd Murphy
IF. Murphy is one of the best known ,