Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1916-04-06
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plant has been started in Chattanooga
Two hundred and seventy-five mem
bers were added to the Y. M. C.. A
In a membership campaign at Bristol.
Ten thousand dollars will be spent
by the L. & N. railroad in remodelins
the station at Clarksville.
The Tri-State Poultry association
show will be held this year Septem
Der "a to 30 in connection with the
Tri-State fair at Memphis.
Damage to the extent of about
$4,000 resulted from the forest fire
which swept through Piney destroying
q quantity of valuable timber.
The 25th annual spring rally of the
Holston Episcopal Church Epworth
League will be held in Hartman on
April 1916.
Four hundred volunteers enlisted in
the campaign at Nashville this week
to raise 100000 in ten days to make
the Galloway Memorial hospital cap
able Of supplying every need.
Operations have been resumed after
two weeks delay, over the Tennessee
River bridge, six miles north Of Chat
Ntanooga, a part Of which collapsed
while freight train was passing over.
An oil painting of Judge w. B. Tur-
ley, of Memphis, former justice of the
supreme court of Tennessee, was pre-
scented to the supreme court by re.
latives Of Judge Turley.
Citizens of Memphis will pledge a
fund of $4,000 to the medical college
Of the University of Tennessee, the
sum needed to prevent deficit in the
revenue during the current year.
Judge Jesse Edgington and Atty.
Gen. z. N Estes, of Memphis, were
impeached by the lower house of the
state legislature in special session at
Nashville
Sam McCaulin, 2S. engineer. and
Marvin and Mack Beckham, aged 10
and IL, brothers, we're killed and three
others injured at Houston when an
old water tank, used as boiler in the
Goodwin Saw Mill, exploded.
Actual drilling in the elementary
tactics of military science started at
Central high school, Chattanooga.
One hundred boys enrolled in the
coursel which is an entirely optional
one.
Two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars worth of furs was handled by
dealers in Nashville during the past
season.
The Tennessee Manufacturers Asso-
citation convened at Knoxville this
week for the fourth annual meeting.
The largest attendance in the history
OF the organization was present, Nash.
Vii sending one hundred.
The Goth annual convention of the
Tennessee Federation of Woman's
Clubs will be held in Chattanooga
May 8, 4, and 5 and promises to be
the best in the history of the fedora
ti0n.
Nine thousand dollars worth of
whiskey will be thrown to the fish of
the Mississippi river If the Valley Dis
tributing Co., convicted of violating
the liquor laws, loses an appeal from
. decision by Chancellor Fentress in
the courts of Memphis.
Efforts are being made in Lawrence
county to engage in cantaloupe grow
ing on large scale. Parties have
been in communication with eastern
firms that handle cantaloupes, and the
outlook for good market is fatter-
ing
Forty officials of the Southern divi- |
sion Of the Western Union Telegraph
Co., from all parts of Tennessee and
the south, met at Nashville to receive
their first lessons in telegraphic sales
manship of the most modern and eff.
cient type.
Indications are that under the plans
of the pike board, Nashville, oiling of |
the county roads will be well under |
way within the next six weeks. and
that a maximum number of miles OF |
dust-proof pixies will be had from the
oil tax fund.- in which there is now
$500.
According to the Tennessee Print
ers' federation delegates, gathered in
third quarterly session in Memphis,
the printing material industry, is ex.
critical Many of the nations
paper mills are already refusing or
ders and the supply Of colored and
tinted papers is about exhausted.
Dorothy Ann Harris, 3 years old.
was crushed to death by street car
at Nashville. The accident occurred
while she was walking with her grand.
father, Patrolman. A. M. Harris. The
little girl ran directly in front Of the
car and her grandfather was
struck as he attempted to save her.
County Judge Will Cummings. Chat
tanooga. has secured committee
which will conduct the probe into the
affairs Of the Tennessee river bridge
commission. The bridge commission
asked that this committee be named.
because of published reports that an
was demanded
The total damage donesby the con-
Migration which swept East Nashville
= few days ago officially estimated at Il