Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1916-08-17
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A machine gun company organizer
at GAINESVILLE will be attached to Com
pany H, First Tennessee Regiment, a
Camp Rye.
Hardin County will soon begin tn,
construction Of new roads over the
principal highways. One hundred
thousand dollars will be expended.
The annual ten days camp meeting
Of the Tennessee Conference of Sew
enth-Day Adventists is now being held
in Nashville.
The annual Confederate reunion
probably the last to be held at Ripley
was the occasion of a gathering OF
scores Of veterans and their families
at Confederate Park.
Between 500 and 600 farmers will
perhaps visit the experiment station
at the University of Tennessee August
II from the Piedmont section of South
Carolina.
Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga
and Knoxville are each making an ef-
fort to land one of the federal farm
loan banks to be established by the
government. >
Monroe Goddard, of Hartman, has
q peach tree in his yard loaded with
peaches measuring nine inches in cir
conference. They are of the free
stone variety and are very delicious.
The Mifflin-Hood Pottery Clay Prod
ucts Company is building new plant
at Daisy, near Chattanooga, for the
purpose of manufacturing shale rings
from the shale found in that section
for lining acid towers.
A hopeless" situation exists among
Tennessee farmers who hold $135,000
worth of stock in the Kentucky Rural
Credit Association, for which a receiv-
er has been appointed, according to
Attorney r. A. Mcdowell of Louisville.
A mass meeting at Middlesboro was
attended by 1900 people. intent upon
having the laws enforced so that boot.
Logging would be broken up. An ordi-
nance has been passed requiring all
screens to be removed from soft drink
stands.
q. H. Miller, alias Brown, who sew
eral weeks ago sang solos in various
churches at johnson City, and who, it
is said, circulated number of bogus
checks, has been arrested in Cincin-
natl. He will be returned to Johnson
City.
Frederick d. Gardner, who was nom-
mated for governor by the Democrats
Of the commonwealth of Missouri, is
3 former Tennessean and personally
well known and popular in Tennessee.
He was formerly Of Union City and is
\ brother Of Mrs. Malcolm r. Patter-
son.
Fifteen thousand dollars will be
-aised by Southern cities as a cam
paign fund to be used in the move
nent to secure the government nitrate
plant for Muscle Shoals, on, the Ten
lessee River Nashville will furnish
$500 of this amount, subscriptions
low being raised.
The Queen & Crescent Railroad an
lounces the abandonment of its in
lustrial demonstration train this year.
This action has been taken because OF
he damage done crops along that sys-
EN- by the recent foods, which pro-
libits the collection of good exhibits
or the car.
Earl Drumwright, II, son of R. j.
of Nashville, was !
rowned in the Y. M. C. A. swimming
ool of that city. Physicians who ex-
mined the body believe the boy suf-
cred an attack Of heart trouble when |
e touched the water, as very little ,
vater was taken from his lungs.
Possibly one Of the greatest events
l Henry County agriculture is the
roposed drainage along the eastern
order of the county which is deter
lined by the Big Sandy River and
hich, when completed, will reclaim i.
10000 2cres Of fertile farm lands.
he canal bed will be so miles long.
A single stroke of lightning killed
venty head of cattle at Hunters
oint, eighty miles up the Cumberland
ON Nashville. Eleven of the cattle
ere killed on one side of the river
Id nine on the other The carcassesN
ere dumped into the river, according
reports, and were seen floating |
,wn the stream above Nashville.
The Middle Tennessee Beef Breed
q Association has been organized
r the purpose Of creating q greater !;
terest in pure-bred beef cattle as
ell as helping breeders who are al.
ady established to better care for |
cir herds and to afford them an
portunity, through breeders sales,
dispose Of their cattle. It
The two troops Of cavalry raised in t
,nnessee by Captain Ellsworth VIII
n and Colonel j. Perry Fyfe will be
mt to the Mexican border with the
her units of the Tennessee guard 6