Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1916-06-08
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ternational Bible Students Association
will meet in Nashville August "a to n.
The first annual convention of the
state B. Y. p y. was held in Chatta-
nooga, with 500 visitors and delegates
present.
There are now eighty-five registered
automobiles in Warren County. At
least fifty are owned by citizens of Nc
Minnville.
Ninety-eight young men and women
received degrees at the graduating ex-
ercises of the University of Tennessee
at Knoxville.
Baptists in Bristol expect to start a
College, the Baptists' school for girls
located in that city.
Mrs. l.. F. Johnson died at Bristol
aged SO years She was the widow of
Lafayette F. Johnson, pioneer bust
ness man of Bristol, who died in 1905
at the age of 92
The Southern Railway Company has
purchased 30 acres of land for the stor-
age of newly manufactured cars at
Lenoir City. Ii is understood that
tracks will be laid capable of handling
1,045 cars for storage.
Three persons were reported killed,
SO injured and property amounting to
thousands of dollars damaged when a
cyclone of great intensity passed over
a territory covering about 100 miles
about Memphis.
The family of Vernon Booth had a
miraculous escape from death when
lightning struck his residence, nine
miles east of Brownsville. The light
ming struck the kitchen and complete
ly demolished the stove and fiue and
also splintered the porch.
The heavy construction work on the
rebuilding of three miles of the ~. c.
& st. l.. Railway at Burns has been
completed and the crews will be trans
ferred to Camden, where like work
will be continued. 1t will probably be
twelve months before trains will be
running over the new road.
Wandering off to meet daddy, who
had promised to bring the little tot
some candy on his return home from
lockwood, the little two-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry French, who
live at Pine City, In Cumberland Coun-
ty, fell into Piney Creek and was
drowned.
The past two weeks have been busy
days for the tobacco growers of the
black patch in the eastern part of the
state. A good deal of tobacco has been
put out and all of the crop would have
been set if the land had been ready
when the season came and the plants
on some beds had been some larger
A total of $40 in premiums is Of
fered this year by the West Tennessee
Agricultural and Mechanical Fair, to
be held at Jackson the week beginning
September II, for community club ex-
hibits, which will include boys corn
club and girls canning club exhibits.
Extra good premiums are also offered
for all kinds of live stock.
Since the passage of the state game
and fish laws and of more recent date
when it became known that the state
was going to establish game propaga-
tory farm on lands donated for that
purpose, there have been offers of sew
eral fine tracts of land in different
counties seeking the distinction of
possessing the game farm.
The purchase at court sale of the
Riverside Woolen Mills means the re-
opening of another industry for Knox
L. 1a. ,JA- So,
two years. More than 100 persons will |
be employed. The mills were pur-
chased by the Jefferson Woolen Mills |
of Jefferson City for 6,100 They will |
be put in operation as soon as possible. |
Sportsmen in and around Memphis
as well as all of the territory adjacent |
to the Mississippi River are much
pleased with the announcement made |
by the biological survey of the Depart
ment of Agriculture that duck shoot
ing will be permitted on the river dur
ing next spring. None has been al
lowed during the past two years.
Mrs. W. c. White, of 2119 coliseum
street, New Orleans. was killed; her
son. J. J. White. IA years old; j. P.
Tyner, Is Dallas avenue, Nashville;
his wife and son, J. d. Tyner, IL years
old we're injured when Mr.. Tyner's
automobile was struck by an inter-
urban car from Franklin on the Frank
lin road, near Nashville.
President p L. Harmed has called
the members of the State Board of
Education to meet at the Capitol. Nash
vile, at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning,
June 13, to elect faculties for the nor
NAL schools, to consider the erection
of young mems dormitory building
at the West Tennessee School, and to
transact such business as may come
regularly before the board.
The state board of control has
agreed to furnish Hamilton and
Marion Counties one hundred or more
convicts 20 work on the Dixie High
way. The men can be used until De-