Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1916-04-06
Through the efforts of tne

DooAu VI lTduc, IL is announced ina
Bristol has just secured one of tn
most important industries in her hi:
tory. A hosiery mill representing a
Investment of quarter OF milio
dollars is to be established there a
once by the Davis Hosiery Mills Co
of Chattanooga. makers OF "Buste
Brown" and other brands OF hosiery.
Two hundred applications from
Nashville business men have been
made to attend the military training
camp at Ft Oglethorpe in May and
June. Besides these large number Of
students from Vanderbilt university
and other schools and colleges in
Nashville will go to the July encamp
ment.
| Suspicion that individuals antag
onistic to the manufacture of high ex-
plosives for European war markets
caused the fire at the plant of the
Carcolite Chemical Company at Cop,
per Hill. induced Washington authori
ties to order an investigation, and the
report from Government agents is that
Is was not incendiary.
Fifty eight thousand, eight hundred
and thirteen cans were accumulated In
Q cleanup contest at Bristol. A two
days campaign was conducted and a
prize Of goat and cart offered to the
lad securing the greatest number of
cans. They were piled up in Foun-
tain Square at Bristol and Viewed by
hundreds of people.
Senator John X. Shields, acting on
request of citizens and organizations
in various communities of the state,
presented petitions from them pray .ng
that congress submit to the country
the amendment to the law prohibiting
the importation, manufacture and sale
Of intoxicants, of all kinds. 1t is now
before the senate and known as the
Sheppard bill.
Engineer j. A. DoweH was instantly
killed by being caught under the ten
der of his engine, when the locomo-
tive was derailed near Church Hill. in
vicinity of Bristol, and rolled down
a bank, carrying with it six loaded
cars. The fireman and other men,
bers of the crew escaped injury, and
the fireman is said to have leaped
from the engine in time to escape in
safety.
The Rev. w, A. Brown, international
Sunday school field worker, and Judge
Joseph Carthel, state secretary of
Tennessee, and E. E. French, of Nash
vile, have arranged series of Sun
day school Institutes for April in this
section of East Tennessee The dates
and places are as follows: Hartman,
April and 5; Lenoir City, April and
Z; Athens, April and 9; Maryville,
April 10 and H.. Knoxville, April IL
and 13, and New Market, April IA.
The campaign being conducted by
the University of the South for pay
ing the debt has passed the period of
preparedness and active accomplish
ment of the purpose to raise 100000
by the Commencement in June has
been started, according to dispatches
from Sewanee. The plans were made
at meeting of seven bishops of the
Episcopal church, many rectors of
note and over a hundred resourceful
laymen from all over the South. at a
conference in Chattanooga.
Charles Watkins. was arrested at
near Knoxville, charged with
killing his father-in-law at a little town
in Georgia, near the Tennessee line,
eight years ago. A crime was not
suspected until a few months ago,
when the skeleton was found in an
old WE'LL Watkins disappeared and
was located at Mascot. where he was
working at the zine plant under the
name of Smith. His wife and two
children are at Mascot He was taken
to Georgia.
The officers of the Tennessee Bank
ers' Association have announced that
they have been forced to change the
place of the annual conven-
tion from Knoxville to Chattanooga on
account of the burning of the Imperial
Hotel in the former city. 1t was also
decided to change the date to May 49,
19, to avoid conflict with the State
Democratic convention Knoxville |
bankers cheerfully offered to make ar.
to hold the meeting in
Two Knoxville mills have just se-
cured contract for $250,OOO worth of
cotton yarns. The greater part of this
yarn will go to European countries. !
The companies which secured the con-
tract are headed by. Col. L. D. Tyson.
rhe order means night and day shifts
or the next three months and affects !
about 600 employees. The work of fill /
ng this order begins at once. 1t will
,e handled as speedily as possible
md other orders will be fled coin
,identiy by the two mills. These mills
ire booked to their capacity until
December 1.
The 1S5 miles of graded roads to be
constructed in Humphreys county are
lalf completed. A link Of several.