Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1916-04-27
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The Tennessee delegates to the D
A. r. convention which convened in
Washington included many prominent
women.
The county court of Roane county
has voted the tax levy for the year
1916 of 1925 on the hundred dollars
which is twenty-five cents higher than
1t has ever been before.
Memphis hardware jobbers will go to
Birmingham to attend the annual con
vention of the Southern Hardware
Association with the determination to
bring the 1918 convention to Memphis.
State Game Warden w. d. Howser
announced that temporary state
game farm for the propagation of game
birds will be established Immediately
at Glendale, near Nashville.
The teachers will meet in Memphis
again next year They chose for their
new president. Prof B. o. Duggan. of
Covington. He succeeded F. R. Ogilvie
of Brownsville
About forty employees of the Cleve-
land Woolen mills have gone on a
oti INC IOl Hi6hCi WdSco aUOul OOO CHI
plOyes will be affected which will re-
suit in the closing down of the entire
mill
Announcement has just been made
of the appointment of F. w. Kelsey
as assistant superintendent of the
Chattanooga division of the N. c. & ST.
l.. railway, with headquarters in
Nashville.
DR.. ]. F. Morris, Nashville, profess
sOr of chemistry of Vanderbilt Uni.
versity, received notice of his appoint
ment by Secretary Josephus Daniels
OF the navy, as a member of pros
pective state board of engineers.
Orders were given by Chief of
Police Perry that every bar fixture
within the city limits of Memphis must
be taken down Immediately These
instructions were quickly passed to a
half hundred policemen.
Hobard Ledford, killed during the at
tack of the Carranza garrison upon
United States troopers under the COM
mand of Maj. Tompkins at Parral,
Mexico, lived at Johnson City, Tenn,
where his parents now reside.
Nearly two miles of false trestle
work has been completed at Burns by
the NJ, C. & st. L. railway, where the
change in the roadway is being made,
and the crew has been transferred to
Cowan.
Memphis Rotarians plan to attend
the national meeting in Cincinnati 100
strong, according to G. o. Waring, club
secretary. An entertainment feature
Of the July convention is a music fes-
tival planned for the occasion by mem.
bers of the Cincinnati club.
Ex-Gov. John l. Cox is now in charge
as postmaster, Of the Bristol postofiice,
having just succeeded DR.. A. J. Roller. |
the Republican, who held the Office for |
over five years Postmaster Cox an
nounced that he will devote his entire
time to the Office.
After courtship of about forty
years, Mr.. Lafayette Yates and Miss
Bette Reagor people who have lived
all their lives in neighborhood about
six miles east of Rutherford united in
marriage, and are receiving congratu-
lations of friends.
Ministers and laymen alike will don
overalls at knoxville to do vol
unteer labor on the Slough taber.
nacle, which will seat about 1000 per-
SONS when completed Ladies will serve
dinner. The revival begins April 30
and continues until the middle of June.
For the purpose of developing the
welfare interests of the community the
Beech Spring Community Club of
Sewer County, was recently organized.
At the meeting held on April Is,
seventy-five farmers and their wives
were present.
Corps of civil engineers of the C.
N. O. & T. P. railway from Cincin
natl are in Hartman taking eleva.
tions, running levels on the proposed
lines and lookingNover the
ground in general for the new Union
passenger station at Hartman
A whirlwind campaign of three days
will be made through the peanut grow.
ing section of the state in the next few
days. when an effort will be made to
Increase the acreage and improve the
luality of the peanuts raised in Ten
nessee. i,
On motion of J. w. Canada repre-. ),
senting the Arkansas and Memphis
and Bridge company, a $2,500..
300 suit filed by Barnett E. Moses. ,
and Chas. NJ Bryan, City Attorney, ;
Memphis on part of the municipality
was transferred from the circuit to the ,
United States Court
Final inspection of the Southern I
Wauhatchie extension was !
made few days ago. e. NJ. Dur.
lam, general agent of the railroad
made the inspection, accompanied by :
,ther local officials. They reported :.
hat the extension is in excellent :
hape. ;,
At meeting of the executive COM n
nittee Of the board of directors OF q