Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1916-06-29
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The women of Sullivan County arr
organizing a chapter of the Red Cross
Mount Pleasant will have free mai
delivery after July 1.
Memphis proposes to build $1,000,
600 municipal electric light plant.
Road improvement bonds to the ex
tent of $65,o00 carry by a majority o.
800 in Polk County.
According to a physician, lockwood
Is in the throes of an epidemic oi
measles.
A new bag manufacturing company
has been established in Memphis
which will employ one hundred men
The golden anniversary of the Ten
nessee State Dental Association will
be celebrated in Memphis next June
The Jackson gun tournament held
their secomi annual meet with a good
attendance.
Tennessee has a larger representa-.
ton than any other state at the Blue
Ridge Student Y. M. G. A. conference
held at Black Mountain, N. c.
The tomato growers and shippers
of Gibson County met recently in
Humboldt and formed an association
to market this years crop.
The appropriation of $4,000 made
last year for the state audit has been
exhausted, and it has become neces-
sary to appropriate $1,000 more.
The twenty-fourth annual conven-
ton Of the Tennessee Christian En-
deavor was held in Knoxville, with 800
Endeavorers present.
A stream Of hot tar from the burn
ing roof of a cottage in Bristol which
he had entered with a line of hose
struck Fireman J. M. Jones in the face
and inflicted very painful wound.
Ensign o. o. Kessing, nephew Of o.
N. Moffett, well-known lumberman Of
Memphis, is held prisoner by Mex
leans, according to dispatches from
Washington.
The whistles of various factories in
Johnson City sounded the war alarm
when Company F of that city was
called into service by the War Depart.
ment.
The body of an unknown man was
found in the intake pipe Of suction
pump on a dredge boat at Memphis.
He was we'll dressed and wore a tie
pin with the initials P. e. G.
Through the assistance Of Knoxville
business men by a subscription Of
$4,000, the fifteenth session of the
Summer School Of the South was
made possible.
Houston Miller, aged 80 years and
well-known veteran OF the Civil War,
died at Murray after a protracted i'll
ness. Mr.. Miller was one of the last
Of Davis bodyguard.
Between nifty and seventy-five
young men. employees in the plant Of
the Aluminium Company of America,
Maryville, have volunteered for army
service in the Mexican crisis.
The Preparedness League of Amer
lean Dentists, with headquarters in
Maryville, are endeavoring to register
10000 dentists to agree to prepare the
teeth Of an applicant each to pass the
army or navy examination.
Mrs. Leslie Warner, Nashville, re-
ceived in a cablegram news of the
death OF her nephew. Martin Newell
Schiff, of London who was killed in
action, it is thought, near Verdun. No
particulars were given.
Chattanooga dentists are making ar
rangements to send a large delegation
to Louisville for the National Dental
Association, which meets July 25, with |
a view OF securing the next session for
Chattanooga.
j. M. Dickinson, son of ex-Secretary
Of War Dickinson, of Tennessee, wcs
married in Chicago, after which the
couple left on quiet honeymoon, he
to join his battery. which was called
for Mexican service
Ninety-eight state convicts, chained
together by tows, have been put to
work at Suck Creek. where they will
be employed building link in the
Dixie Highway connecting Hamilton
and Marian Counties.
Fifteen thousand persons in the
ulSCTlct, comprising hQOX
and surrounding counties, will pay in
come tax. This is quite an increase
over the number who paid last year,
and will average well with any Other
section OF the state.
Tennessee's willingness to fight for 4
he union has been demonstrated
throughout the state every day by the
many enlistments to the state guards
Il the various stations. 1t is evident
hat her reputation as the Volunteer I
State will remain unsurpassed by any !
n the Union.
A "moonshine" outfit has been cap !.
ured in Campbell County, three miles !
vest of Habersham, by Captain w. M. I
.efever, deputy revenue collector; i
sheriff James NJ. Davis and w. H. Nell 7
on. division deputy collector from r
No liquor was found at .
he distillery. a
The youngest high school principal \
a attendance at the summer school b