Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1916-05-18

Tne Lincoln County Breeders asso-
citation, for breeding cattle, sheep and
hogs, was formed at Fayetteville by a
number Of representative farmers
from all sections of Lincoln county.
This movement has been agitated for
some time by County Agricultural
Agent A. v. Beard and d. l.. Conger,
who has near Fayetteville one of the
best stock farms in southern Middle
Tennessee. Prof. A. W. Murphy of the
agricultural department of the Univer-
sity of Tennessee was present and
made a forceful address.
Frightened by large snake, one of
the women in boat became frantic
and capsized the craft, resulting in the
drowning of the three occupants and
an attempted rescuer. The tragedy
took place last Sunday in Reelfoot
Lake, near Hamburg. Those in the
boat who were drowned were Mrs. F.
J. Bum, Mrs. HI. f. Keller and the two
year-old son of l.. S. Hazelgrove, all of
Dyersburg. George Hamilton saw the
boat capsize, and in an effort to save
one of the women, was drowned. All
OF the bodies were recovered
Extensive preparations are being
made for the annual state convention
of the Tennessee Sunday School Asso-
citation. which will be held in Lewis
burg June 6, Z and 8. A large number
OF the most prominent Sunday school
workers in the state have accepted
places on the program John l.. Alex
ander of Chicago, superintendent of
the secondary division of the Inter-
national Sunday School Association,
Will be present, and Leon C. Palmer of
Montgomery, Ala, secretary of the
Alabama Sunday School Association,
will have an important place on the
program
Recently William Wilson. who sells
tinware from Nashville, and Thomas
R. Marshall, of Mckenzie, who sells
harness in West Tennessee, regis
tered at hotel in Bells, near Jack
son. A wag changed the record to read
Woodrow Wilson and Immediately the
little city was in excitement over the
news that the president and vice-pres-
ident of the United States we're at
the hotel. and the entire population
turned out to get glimpse of the dis
tinguished guests. Mr.. William Wilson,
of Nashville, is now generally recog-
nized as Mr. Woodrow Wilson, as he
goes about selling tinware. He is q
jolly fellow and enjoys the joke.
Vanderbilt men and women in Nash.
Vile. students, former students and
faculty, completed the task they had
set themselves In the Vanderbilt en-
dowment campaign when teams re-
ported subscriptions for grand total
of $103,957. There have been large sub
scriptions in Nashville campaigns, but
there has never been one of such mag
nitude from SO small q. body Of can
tributors. No effort was made to solicit
the people of the city generally, and
the entire campaign was confined to
the few hundred Vanderbilt men there
Another remarkable feature OF the
work was that 1t Was done in four
days-the shortest, campaign Of the
sort on record in Nashville.
Announcement has been made hy !
Captain GOrd0ns johnson, lof Chattan-
oosa, aide de camp to General Leonard |
Wood that feature Of the coming
southern military encampment in June |
will be the special training of COM
pany of $50 engineers. Those announ-
ced as eligible for tfhs special train
Ing are. any who have previously at
tended military camp, been men,
ber of the state militia, beensconnected
with any commercial concern IN engL
neering work or student OF any col
lege in engineering work Practical
modern military engineering work will
be taught this company.