Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1916-05-04
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Statistics Just completed show more
than $30,000,000 in bonds have beer
issued in Tennessee for highway work
The $4,000 six to ten-year 6 pei
cent Greene County courthouse war
rants were sold to w. w. Willis and
Co. Of Knoxville, the price being pal
and accrued interest.
When the cattlemen of Memphis
meet at Shreveport, La. in August for
the National Cattlemen's Convention
they will make desperate effort to
have the meeting in Memphis in 1917
Attorney Chas. c. Trabue shot and
killed Attorney Harry S. Stokes at
Nashville. They had been opposing
counsel in the so-called taxpayers
suit" involving the probe into the
city affairs.
Work on Bristol's big 100000 hos
iery mill, which is to be a branch of
the Davis Hosiery Mills in Chattanoo.
ma, started with the task of excavating
and constructing the concrete founda'
tion this week
The Southern railway has just pur.
chased forty-five locomotives, sixty
all-steel passenger train cars, $500
all-steel coal cars, 1907 steel center
sill box cars, and 100 steel center sill
caboose cars.
Twenty representatives from the
University of Tennessee are. expected
to attend the student conference at
Blue Ridge, N. c., June 1925, under
the auspices of the Young Mems
Christian Association.
The noted hog case in which B. F..
Shearin is suing j. B. Kingston at
Shelbyville, for damages for an alleged
sale Of diseased hogs, was tried at this
term of the court, and the jury found
for the defendant.
A feature OF the commencement ex.
ercises at Turner college at Shelby
vile was the address of ex-senator w.
R. Webb, of Bell Buckle, who delivered
the annual address to the school in
the college chapel.
Final arrangements for the enter
tainment Of the Carolina Retail Hard
ware association, which will meet in
Chattanooga July lila, were perfected
at meeting of the committee on ar.
rangement last week.
Sentence Of one year and a day in
the Atlanta federal penitentiary were
imposed on Joe Turner and Tom Pep
pers, negroes, who pleaded guilty in
federal court on charge bf robbing a
mail bag at Tullahoma.
Gov. Tom c. Rye and former Gov.
Ben w. Hooper, spoke from the same
platform at Chattanooga east Sunday,
under the auspices of committee of
Inter-Church Federation and Tennes-
see Anti-Saloon League.
The Democratic State Convention
will meet in Nashville Wednesday,
May II; Republican State Convention
will meet May 3, and the Progressive
State Convention will meet in Nash
vile, Saturday, June 8.
The first crate of homegrown
strawberries in Bradley County this
season we're sold by Rufus Hughes, a
farmer, to local grocer at the rate
of 30 cents per quart or $12 for the
crate of twenty-four boxes.
The state department Of highways is
working with officials Of Lawrence
county, securing data for a prospectus
for general bond sale to take place
the latter part of May. This sale will
represent $350,000 in bonds.
Announcement is made that the
Of the Cleveland Woolen
mills has made some concessions to
the strikers in the weaving and knit
ting departments, and that a majority
OF them have returned to work.
DR.. r. M. w. Black announced to the
parish of st. Peters church, Columbia,
at the annual parish meeting that he
had decided to decline the call to st.
AIMS church in Nashville, and would
stay with ST Peters at Columbia.
Mrs. Mamie Hamlin, who was freed
after six months confinement in
Jail at Jackson, KY, has been arrested
again at Memphis for robbing the
house of S. c. Harvey, wealthy gov
ernment contractor, and then setting
the house on fire to cover the theft.
s. D. Hicks, division superintendent
Of the Nashville, Chattanooga and st.
Louis railway, visited McMinnville
and said plans were being drawn for
4 new passenger depot at McMinnville.
The location has not been definitely
decided
Lewisburg will have her third five
day chautauqua this year on May 10
"a. Many high-class attractions are
promised in the coming course and the
svent is looked forward to with much
interest by the citizens of the town
and county.
Shelbyville is having an unusual de-
gree OF prosperity now The new rail-
'oad to the big cotton mills which is
low under construction will soon be
and this will furnish fac;;-
ties for this big factory not employed
The Robertson county high school
BOARD has organized with the election
II Harvey w. England, Of Greenbrier,
rs chairman r. +. Kelly, of Orlinda,
Prof. o. H. Bernard,
county superintendent of public in /