Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1916-05-25
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Knoxville is to have a negro public
library at a cost of $4,000 for the
building and the money is furnished
by Andrew Carnegie of New York.
simultaneously at Memphis, Nash
vile and Knoxville, the state board o.
medical examiners will conduct exam
nations June 16 and II.
Two of the three prisoners, who
made their escape from jail at Harts
vile, have voluntarily returned tC
complete their terms of Imprisonment
Bankers from all parts of the state
gathered in Chattanooga at the an
nual meeting of the Tennessee Bank
ers' association. which convened there
for two days session.
Work has been commenced by the
Tennessee state highway commission
on the Chattanooga-Cleve high
way, which has been officially desig
mated as Estate Highway No. L."
Delegates from posts of the Travel
ers' Protective Association in various
parts Of the state are planning to at
tend the national convention which
meets in Lafayette, Ind, June 5-S.
Sixty-five physicians and surgeons
from Memphis, Dyersburg, Union City
and other cities attended the annual
session of the West Tennessee Medi-
cal Association in the Masonic Tenn
pie at Jackson.
The Durham Coal and Iron Com
pany's tipple and washer at the Soddy
coal mine, near Chattanooga, were de-
stroyed by fire of unknown origin
Monday morning. The loss was esti-
mated at 100000. No one was hurt.
Rev. H. r. Fitch, of Mineral Springs,
near Cleveland, celebrated his eighty.
first birthday by preaching sermon
to young people of Chattanooga. Mr..
Fitch has been in the ministry for
fifty-nine years.
The Maryville water plant will be
completed and ready to turn over to
the city by July 1. The people are al
ready having plumbing done, prepar
atory to having water in their homes.
Maryville will have a municipality
owned water system.
Just to show common ordinary meat
eaters what actual sure-enough vege-
tartan teeth can do, Prince Paul
Troubesakov sojourning in Cleveland,
chewed a dime until it .resembled a
spit ball. And it was no thin dime,
either.
Two prisoners are dead and another
wounded as result of a one-man
munity in the State Prison at Nash
vile. Jady Harris, who caused the
trouble, was shot and killed after he
had wounded two other prisoners, one
fatally, with rife snatched from
guard.
Official announcement was made
that the New Orleans, Mobile and Chi
cago railroad, now operating from Mo-
bile to Middleton, Tenn. will be ex-
tended from the latter place to Jack
son, Tenn. The approximate cost will
be $1,225,000 to build the forty miles
extension.
Erwin, the hustling railway town in
Unicoi county, is looming up as an In
dustrial center, 1t having recently
secured the location of large pottery
plant. This new concern will employ
about $50 men at present, and about
fifty girls. Within two years officials
of the company state that 600 people
will be employed,
The Lookout Post, G. A. R., ald
Woman's Relief corps are planning to
build fifty thousand dollar memorial
hall at Chattanooga in honor of the
Loyal women of the south. The relief
society has already purchased lot
and the post is planning to inaugurate
a campaign for assisting in raising the
necessary fund of $4,000.
Geo. w. Poague of Fargo, N. D., re-
Gently moved to GRANVILLE, and has
purchased large tract of strawberry
land. Mr. Poague was the candidate
of the Democratic party for governor
of North Dakota in 1900 and in 1908
managed Bryan's campaign in his
state.
In the absence of his parents, little |
Raleigh Chandler, 6-year-old son and
only child Of Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. Chan
dler Of Chattanooga, accidently shot
and instantly killed himself while
playing with his fathers 3S-calibre
pistol at his home, 700 Poplar street.
The bullet entered the left breast, and
piercing the heart, passed completely
through the body.
One OF the severest hail storms that |
has visited the eastern part of the
state In the past fifty years according |
to the weather bureau, struck German
town, twelve miles southeast of Mem
phis last night. Hailstones as large as
eggs fell for a period of ten minutes,
with train service, shatter-
Ing thousands of windows, killing hun
dreds of chickens and badly damaging !
the growing fruit and vegetable crops.
A tannic acid plant, to be erected at
} cost of approximately $150.000, and
which will give employment to con-
siderable number of persons and pro-
vide fresh outlet for the high grade |
acid bark abounding in this section,
may be located In Knoxville within
he near future. Hartman has also