Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1916-03-30
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which have been bar to the routing
Of the highway through that county.
The women of oliver Springs, under
the leadership of Mrs. e. d. Phillips
sent the warning nations a box by
freight containing 451 pieces of band.
ages, drains and pillows.
Small plots of ground on farms in
various part of Coffee County are be.
ing used by agricultural experts in
making demonstrations to the far
mers.
Several prospectors from Indiana
and Illinois visited Lawrenceburg and
Lawrence County, some of them max
ing purchases there and will locate
permanently.
A large box containing 1,030 surgical
dressings, has been sent from Frank.
Nm to the wounded soldiers in Europe
by Mrs. N. B. Dozier. chairman of a
relief committee in Franklin.
Mrs. J. H. Hirsch. on behalf of the
W. c. T. u, at Jackson, has presented
. petition to the City Commissioners
asking that a woman be appointed on
the police force of Jackson.
Fifteen applications for the navy
we're received in a single week at
chattanooga. Ten of this number
we're rejected on account Of the
physical requirements which the appli.
eAnts must possess to enter the navy.
The firm of H. W. White & Son.
Jackson. bought S75 bales of cotton
n Mississippi for which they sent
their draft for $4,000 This is the
largest largest single purchase Of cot.
tsn this year in Jackson.
The Imperial Hotel of Knoxville.
which burned with furnishings esti
mated in value at from 100000 to
$25O,00O and the company carried ap
Droximately from $125.000 to $150,000
Insurance. The loss is estimated at
100000.
Rev. Benton M. Johnson, Of Cooke.
Vile. the well-known commercial
traveller and Methodist minister, who
for several years was president of the
Tennessee Gideon's Association, has
presented Gideon Bible to the press
gallery of the United States Senate.
Nashville insurance agents are ar
ranging for the formation of state
federation of insurance men. 1t is
planned to make 1t unit of the Ma.
Nonal Federation. Dealers in all
classes of insurance will be urged to
Join.
Determined to raise at least $500
men within the next six weeks, Off.
GERS at the Memphis army recruiting
station announce that several addi.
tional sub-enlistment posts would pro-
bably be opened Immediately. Al
station has already been opened at
Jackson.
J. e. Hite, Nashville, recently ap-
pointed superintendent Of the state
farm, has been appointed assistant
agricultural agent of the Nashville,
Chattanooga and st. Louis railway,
and will devote his time to the demon
stration work of the road and to other
agricultural work which the road is
The only Tennessee officer in the
Fifth U. s. cavalry that entrained
from Fort Myer for the Mexican bor-
der is First Lieut.. Robert Mckinney
Barton son of Judge r. M. Barton. of
Memphis. He began his military
career as corporal in the Third
Tennessee U. S. v. during the war
with Spain.
Fifty boys and girls of Davidson
County have taken advantage of
pig and poultry club" offer made by
q Nashville bank. The bank agrees
to lend $40 to each member of the two
clubs for twelve months at per cent
interest for the purpose of interesting
the little boys in raising pigs and the
girls in poultry raising.
What promises to be one of the
most exciting money-raising move
ments in the history of Nashville, will
be launched in Nashville early in
April. Several hundred widely known
business and professional men and
Bociety women will start campaign to
raise substantial fund to finish and
sQuip Galloway Memorial hospital.
More than 800 persons interested in
Sunday school work from Knox and
adjoining counties are expected to at.
end the Sunday school institute which
will be held at Knoxville April 1O-11.
rhe institute, which will be interde-
will be under the aus
,ices Of the Knox County Sunday
school Association.
e. e. Johnson, county court clerk
Il Marion county has refused to sign
he $3.50 coupons attached to the $780,
100 bond issue. unless paid so cents
or each signature, or total of s1,S75.
lie also asks for $50 as fee foy
lacing his seal on the one hundred
! 900 bonds. There is no question
yer that feature.
Alfred H. Stinnet, teamster at
Nashville, says that he has been
dvised that he has become
Millionaire through the death of an
ncle. Aaron Stinnet, who, he says,
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