Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1916-06-01
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cinnati so strong when international
Rotarians gather for their annual con
vention during mid-July.
The German-American bank of Nash
vile has filed its charter. Capitalize
tion is $500,000 and the directorate is
composed of some of Nashvilles most
prominent bankers and business men
Application for a receiver for
the w. s. Biles Co. million dollar
corporation in Memphis has been ask
ed. This has been one of the largest
plantation and land purchasing con-
Germs in the south.
The new $4,000 incinerating plant
bought by the city of Jackson has been
erected beyond the waterworks plant
in South Jackson. Carcasses of ami
mails, the city-run garbage and all
night soil will be taken care of by the
plant.
: While drilling and playing soldier
with shotguns in Oliver Springs, one
of which they didn't know was loaded,
John Shoopman, aged 21saccidentally
discharged one of the guns, seriously
wounding his cousin, Chester Shoop-
man, aged 20.
Judge Jesse Edgington, of Memphis,
testifying in his own behalf in the i'm
peashment case filed against him told
the members of the state senate sit
ting as court in the Capitol at Nash
Vile, that he was not guilty of any Of
nh In hok ha hoA
received mony for beer sold in Mem
phis.
A unique exhibit of the work done
by the women of the Eastern Hospital
for the Insane was displayed to the
state board at Nashville. Superinten-
dent Ragsdale explained the benefit
in diverting the minds from brooding
and in re-education. Tennessee is the
first southern state to adopt such
course
N. B. ReMine, secretary of the Bris-
tol board of trade and the member of
the general committee appointed by.
the East Tennessee Association of
Commercial Executives in charge of
the campaign in Sullivan, johnson and
Carter counties, is rapidly completing
the preliminary arrangements for the
observance Of homecoming month.
1t is officially announced in Chatta-
nooga that Adolph s. Ochs, of New
York has donated $4,000 to build a
children's cottage at Pine Breeze, the
tuberculosis sanitarium on Stringer's
Ridge, near Chattanooga The entire
cost of cottage is to be borne by Mr.
Ochs and 1t is to be memorial dedi-
Gated to the memory of his father and
mother
A movement is on foot at Nashville
to have the state purchase certain
grounds adjacent to the state capitol
to be used for the additional buildings
needed. 1t is part Of the plan to have
the capitol group when completed, con-
form to general architectural plan of
artistic beauty, with plenty OF space
and leaving the capitol as at present,
an imposing figure in the city's sky
line.
Unicoi county joined the good road
procession In East Tennessee when in
an election the people voted bond is
sue Of 100000 for a system of pike
roads The people of Unicoi county
took keen interest in the issue and
there is great satisfaction among them
over having won out The bonds, it is
stated, will find ready market and
the work Of building the roads will be-
gin at an early date.
Saying that to his knowledge the
"war has not increased the price of /
water" nor in any other way explains |
the reason why prices of Memphis ice |
should soar skyward, Judge John e. |
Mccall, in his charge to the federal |
grand jury In Memphis, instructed |
them regarding government investi- |
CATION Of possible local "ice trust"
citing the Sherman antitrust regula-
tions.
1t Is reported that a farmer living
in the Smoky mountains near the
head Of the middle prong of Little
river, has become so exasperated at
the deprecations of bears on his little
farm. that he has written the game
warden asking is he can offer any re-
lief. Every few years when bears
become plentiful they cause much t
damage by their inroads on the hogs
and sheep Of the mountain people.
1t Is being rumored in Bristol that
the New York management of the Dix
lie Tannery located there have ordered
the removal of all machinery in the
finishing department to New York,
where 1t is said they expect to ship all
leather to be finished This decision
was reached, it is said, after a confer
ence with the striking employees Of
the plant, at which no agreement was
arrived at. Els
The Morristown board of trade has
arrangements for the is
suance in large editions Of twenty-four
different souvenir post cards and
souvenir post card folder containing
twenty views, all Of which will be used
In advertising the Ham
Dlen county homecoming September
1928. In addition to these there will
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