Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1916-05-11
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Work has begun on the new Central
High school building for Bristol.
Pulask's Women's Clubs have de
cided to cut out card games in the
future.
The hosiery mill at Bluff City, Sui
livan County, was destroyed by fire
entailing loss of $4,000.
Construction of municipal market
house in Memphis on the site of the
old county courthouse, will be started
Immediately.
East Tennessee Educational Asso-
citation adopted resolution offered by
R. P. Will ms favoring constitution
al convention for Tennessee.
Twenty thousand delegates are ex
pected at Chattanooga when the ma
tional convention of Odd Fellows meets
there.
Jno. A. Patten, of Chattanooga, who
died in Chicago strweek following a
surgical operation, carried $250,O0O life
insurance.
Sam Smith, 10, of Chattanooga, was
killed by a passenger train in the
Southern Railway yards near Miller's
Siding, five miles west of Johnson City.
Chas. F. Vaccaro, 72, of Memphis,
until month ago employed as a
moulder by the l. G. Railroad, was
drowned in Wolf River few days ago.
The Montague Mailing Machine Co.,
Chattanooga, closed its plant when 100
union machinists refused to remain
unless wage demands were granted.
A military company for Paris has
been organized, and Adjutant General
Rogan, of Nashville, will have an Off
Ger in Paris to muster in the company.
The cornerstone of new $25,0O0
high school in Cleveland has been laid,
and the building will be completed in
time for the fall session.
Miss Lena Warner, of Knoxville, was
chosen q director in the national Or
ganization of trained nurses, which
held it's meeting in New Orleans.
The Greeneville corporation bound
aries were extended by a vote of the
people, and the town will make bet
ter showing in the next census.
TRANSMISSION Of blood from its
fathers veins into the little infant of
Mr.. and Mrs. Sowell, of Columbia,
saved the child's life. 1t was said to
have been a remarkable operation.
Chattanooga was selected as the
place for the 1917 meeting of the sew
enth district Grand Lodge, Independ-
ant Order B'nai Birth, at their recent
annual session in Little Rock, Ark.
Eva Campbell. IA, of Cupp, was in
stantly killed when dead tree fell
on her while she, with two sisters, was
helping their father plant corn. The
sisters were injured, but not seriously.
Two hundred delegates attend the
annual state convention of the Travel
ers' Protective Association at their
meeting in Memphis. The delegates
posts at Nashville, Knox
willie, Chattanooga and Jackson.
Two hundred and fifty business and
men from New England
to Mexico were transformed into
citizen soldiery at the OPEN
ing of the Southern military camp at
M. Davis, who was arrested and
lodged in jail at Covington- April 13,
charged with arson, was tried before
Squire ]. l.. Richardson. Davis waived
and was bound over, bond
being fixed at $1,000.
The will of Harry s. Stokes, who
was shot in Nashville, provided for
SIC, 900 to be expended in the taxpay-
ers' case and also provided that all he
had already spent in the City Hall
fight be donated ito the cause of good
in Nashville"
A whole special train instead of a
special car will be necessary to carry
the Memphis, Shelby County and West
Tennessee teachers and their friends to
the meeting of the National Education
Association in New York City on July
3 to s.
Eight thousand are expected to par
ticipate in the fifty-seventh annual
Mayfest at Memphis, May 15. Proceeds |
II the affair are to be turned over to
The German branch Of the Red Cross
A monster street parade and an enter
.ainment are to feature.
Reno Anderson, said to be an es-
.aped convict from the Arkansas peni-
tentiary, has been captured at his !
nome near Sparta. He was held for
he Arkansas authorities. He is said
o have escaped early in March and
had been with his wife some time.
The M. F. Hopkins Company, Of
shipped $4,000 pounds of cot
on rags for paper manufacturers in
Baltimore and Philadelphia. The ship
nent occupied two freight cars, and
makes the fourth carload of rags sent
rom Bristol during the past month.
Aunt Betty" Blunt, of Marion, re-
.artlv celahrafed her one hundredth /