Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1916-07-06
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Work has begun on new bridge to
cross Emory River at Hartman.
Tennessee National Guards mobilize
in Nashville.
Jackson contracts for $4,000 worth
Of brick paving for the principal
blocks Of the city. a' ~.
j H. Hirsch, aged 73, former Jack
SON mayor and q citizen Of much in
Auence, dropped dead at Hot Springs,
Ark. He was there for his health.
His body was buried in Jackson.
The Supreme Court will sit at Nash
Vile for days session the latter part
Of July or first of August No bust
ness will be transacted other than the
handing down Of opinions.
The Tennessee Retail Hardware As
sociation will meet in Memphis on
August IL, 16 and II and will be at
tended by hardware dealers from all
parts of the state. ~ ~
The immense plant of the Little
River Lumber Co., Of Townsend, was
destroyed by fire, entailing q loss OF
$4,000. Six million dollars worth Of
lumber was saved by bucket brigade.
H. o. Breedlove, spiritual me-
dium," who undertook to do business
in Bristol. was released from Jail with
the payment of small fine and the
promise to- shake the dust of the city
from his feet. %n A-f t
The mayors of the Tennessee portion
of the border cities of'Virginia put the
lid on the Tennessee side in sympathy
with the neighbor state, making it i'm
possible to buy most anything on Sun
day.
Jacob M. Dickinson, Jr., son Of ex-
Secretary Of War, o Tennessean, was.
commissioned first lieutenaYitN in Bat
terry G, the Chicago millionaire bat
terry, according to dispatches from
Springfield, Ill. sfitAl
The contractors have begun work on
the roads of Monroe County. The
roads are to be macadamized through
out the county. Bonds for this pur-
pose to the amount of $325,000 were
voted short time ago
Benton, the county seat of Polk
County, is town of about 600 popula-
tion. When the train carrying the
Benton company of the Third Tennes-
see pulled out for the mobilization
camp 1T carried with it 1877 soldiers;
nearly all the men folks in the town.
Plans are being made for speeches
in every civil district in Knox County
and In every county in East Tennessee
in the campaign for a constitutional
They will begin the last
of this week. Many other counties are
mapping out similar campaigns.
In accordance with a warning issued
several days before July 1, all corpora
tions which failed to make their an
nual report to the Secretary of State
by that date will be fined 81 per day
as long as the said corporations are
delinquent. 1t was said that there are
a number OF delinquents.
Unless conditions along the eastern
branch of the Dixie Highway. in East
ern Kentucky and Tennessee. are
quickly improved the proposed tour in
October will have to be abandoned,
Secretary Gilbreath announced in Lex
Ington, KY. Carl Fisher, of Indianap-
oils, concurs in Mr. Gilbreath's views.
The case Of the Back Tax Commits
sion against the Federal Chemical Co.,
pending in the courts at Columbia for
four years. has been compromised by
the Federal Chemical Co. paying
$4,000 In full for settlement to Thomas
H. PEBBLES for the state revenue agent !
Tor Middle Tennessee.
The Dixie Highway has total mile
age of 4,206 and traverses eight states
and 163 counties. 1t will serve terri |
tory with population of approximate
y forty million. There are over SOO.-
700 automobile owners in this terri
tory, from which the Dixie Highway
san reasonably expect to attract tour
SITS.
The state of Tennessee RECEIVERS
1870 in fees from Knox County. as
he result OF an investigation by State
Revenue Agent G. S. Hauk, who found
hat attorney-general fees were being
urned over to the county, when, as
shown by the law, they belong to the
tate. The integrity of no officials is
involved in the case
Contracts have been let by the Bran
lam & Hughes School at Spring Hill
or work on the new building, Alumni
Hall. There will be ready FOR the
opening of school In September the
arge dining hall and twelve dormi-
orfes. The building will be one of
he finest In the South, and will con.
ain all modern conveniences.
Millers throughout Tennessee who
ave steadfastly refrained from mix
ng corn -four and glucose with the
vheat hour they manufactured ex-
ress much qualification over the de-
rec recently entered by the United
tates Supreme Court ordering dis.
olution of the American Corn Prod
cts Company into its component
arts. 1t was this company, some
ines designated as the glucose trust,
hat was the chief advocate Of the
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