Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1916-05-04

place had been raided by officers.
The Board of Education of the
Southern Methodist Church, Nashville,
has accepted plan to raise $4,000. 900
by popular subscription among church
members for educational purposes.
This sum would be divided among all
colleges and schools of the denomina-
tion.
State Commissioner of Agriculture
H. X. Bryson, who has returned from
conference at Washington at which
was considered bill for the erection
of national chamber of commerce.
says that the bill will be simply the
means of putting to a good use the
parcel post"
About 200 persons from all sections
of the state attended a conference in
Memphis in the interest of constitu-
tional convention for Tennessee. A
number of speeches by we'll known
persons were made, urging the conven-
tion, which will supplant the alleged
antiquated constitution with a brand
new one.
During the first part of the week
Humboldt will be marketing the
greatest strawberry crop, from present
indications, in it's history. Berries will
be picked from about two thousand
acres and shipped from Humboldt
proper, and the yield per acre prom
ises to be greater than was ever before
known.
Six members of the family of Mrs.
Alston, of lockwood, were found
seriously ill of poisoning as result
Of eating canned green beans. Mrs.
Vittitoe, the aged mother of Mrs.
Alston, was in the most serious condi-
tion. A son, who works in the Rock
wood mill did not partake of the beans
at supper and escaped the illness. All
are expected to recover.
To those men who desire to take
active part in the preparedness pro-
gram now extended by the government
and who prefer naval training to life
in military camp the opportunity Of
spending four weeks on a battleship is
presented, "ccording to the announce
ment by the Memphis naval recruiting
station in charge of c. H. Mcdonald
and W. M. Jordan, turret captains.
The annual meeting of Tennessee
State Medical association will be held
in Knoxville, May 20, '21 and 22 1t is
expected that about 200 dentists from
all sections of the state will be pres
he of hn
will be held in the new Masonic tenn
pie, that organization donating the hall
to the members of that association.
DR.. Hutchinson, of Nashville, is pres
ident and will preside at the sessions.
Coal operators in Tennessee, Ken
lucky and West Virginia and the pub
lie service commission of West Vir-
ginia were permitted by the interstate
commerce commission to intervene in
the lake cargo coal case, involving
rates on coal from mines in those
states to ports on the great lakes for
A hearing will be
held in the case at Washington, May
IL.
William RAIDER, who completed a
term of three years in the penitentiary
was confronted with warrant from
Missouri for his arrest as soon as he
left the prison gates. The indictment |
on which the warrant was issued |
charges that RAIDER broke into house |
which was used for postoffice in |
Missouri. He waived examination be- |
fore u. s. Commissioner Luck and |
was at once returned to the Missouri |
authorities.
Petroleum operators who have been |
looking over prospects in Tennessee |
believe that state is destined to be one |
Of the mos active fields for test work |
In the country in the near future.
Prospects, it is said, favor the proving
If many scattered pools. Conditions
Ire regarded much the same as those
'ound in the Kentucky petroleum
fields, it being improbable that any I
district of great extent will be proven
out indications favoring scattered de-
)osits, with no connection
A community May festival will be
leld on Friday May 5, at the East
tennessee State Normal school at
Johnson City. The entire day will be
devoted to rendition Of cantatas, cho-
uses, folk songs and folk dances, and !.
orchestral music. At the morning pro-
,ram the cantata PAN which was so
yloriously sung at a recent concert by
he Wednesday Morning Music Club,
will be reDeated. The afternoon will I.
,e devoted to folk songs and folk y
lances. A chorus of 600 normal stu
lents and 1900 school children from
he Martha Wilder, Columbus Powell
md West Side schools will appear,
living an exhibition of Community
inging"" and folk dances.
No expense is being spared to com
'lete the big chlorine plant OF the
Federal Chemical and Dyestuff COM
ANY, now under construction at
<ingsport. Large forces o. men are
Working overtime on the plant and the
ompany is paying time and a half