Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1916-03-23


recruiting officer for the United States
army. received orders from the war
department to reopen at the earliest
possible moment the auxiliary recruit
Ing stations at Bowling Green, KY,
Decatur, Ala, Clarksville, Tenn, and
Cookeville, Tenn These sub-stations
were abandoned number of months
ago.
Rutherford county will contribute
its quota to the goat Dixie highway
Assurance to this ct was given by a
committee of Mu. =. eesboro men, who
met with the good roads committees
of the Commercial Club, Nashville
Business Mems Association and Nash.
Vile Automobile Club
Bishop Thomas B. Gailor, of Mem
phis, has been appointed on the Strike
settlement" committee of seven of the
United States Chamber of Commerce,
according to advices received here The
committee has been charged with in
vestigating ways and means for bring
ing about an amicable settlement of
differences between the railroads and
employees.
Frederick w. Bounds, chief clerk in
the office Of the Chicago, Memphis
and Gulf Railroad, shot and killed
himself in the office of the company at
Dyersburg. An automatic pistol was
used, the ball penetrating the right
temple and going through his head.
| Hn dind in al q nt1u loft tUp ot
one to his wife and one to the super
intendent of the road.
| Alarmed at her husbands failure to
return home at his accustomed time,
Mrs. R. L. Mosely, of Memphis, went
to his cigar store, accompanied by c.
H. Easum, friend of the family, and
A. c. Klotz, an employe. They found
the veteran cigar merchant seated in
a chair behind an ice box at the rear
of the store, bullet hole through his
head and revolver on the floor at his
side. Mrs. Mosely tainted.
Grover C. White was killed, J. e.
Duckworth. was badly injured and
seven others, mostly negro workmen,
were hurt, when a motor-driven rail
road car turned over and was wrecked
not far from Fayetteville, Tenn, on
the Nashville, Chattanooga and ST.
Louis Railway. An iron bar fell from
the car and caused the wreck. The car
was filled with section hands The
injured were taken to Fayetteville.
disease among cattle that has for
weeks baffled veterinarians at johnson
City and Jonesboro has been called to
the attention of the bureau of animal
industry in Washington by Congress
man Sam R.. Sells of the first district
and DR.. J. R. Smith has been sent to
Washington county to make a COM
plete investigation. Cattle become sick.
stagger, and soon died, according to
indefinite reports.
Ben Crox and Griffin Hale were
drowned in Ocoeee river. near Benton
The men attempted to cross the river
in small boat that leaked, but when
they had reached the middle of the
river the boat sank. They swan some
distance, but owing to heavy clothes
and the water being so cold they soon
sank also. Mr. Crox was born and
reared on q farm near where he was
drowned
In observances Of Andrew Jackson's
birthday. Daughters Of the American
Revolution placed bronze tablet on
the tomb Of "Old Hickory" at the
Hermitage, Nashville. The tablet
commentaries Jackson's service as
boy soldier in the revolution. The
most important incident connected
with that service was q blow on the |
head from a British dragoon's sword |
when he refused to black the dragoon's |
boots after being captured.
Secretary Of the Navy Josephus |
Daniels furnished the important in
formation to Congressman Padgett OF |
Tennessee. chairman of the committee |
on naval affairs, that the great SUI
perdreadnaught to be built at New York |
will be named Tennessee in honor
of the volunteer state and in reference
to the earnest solicitations and patient |
waiting of Mr.. Padgett, whose long
and sincere desire has been that his
state should be complimented by hav-
ing one of the greatest and most pow
erful battleships in the world called
The Tennessee"
Frank M. Thompson, attorney gen.
eral of Tennessee, has gone to Wash
ington to join T. w Riekett, attorney
general of North Carolina, in the prep
aratiOn Of the final decree in the case
involving, the establishment of the
boundary line between the two states,
which was recently decided by the
United States Supreme Court. The
case involved the right to $4,000 acres
of land lying between the Tennessee
river and Bald Knob. North Carolina
won the suit and the long drawn-out
litigation cost Tennessee approximate
ly $4,000. The case had been pending
for many years.
At the request of President Allen
r. Hawley, of the Aero Club of Ameri-
ca. Adjutant General C. B. Rogan, of
the Tpnnocaee National Huord hoe A. |