McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-07-27
TENNESSEE GLEAN|NGS
News of Interest Prepared
in Epitomized Form by
Special Writer'S

| Win SOme companions. CnaTleS luuyt
Of st. Elmo. was drowned.
/ Shelbyville.-About rs prominent
farmers met in the Farmers National
bank and organized the Bedford coun.
ty national farm loan association.
Jacksonville automobile of ex-Chiel
Of Police T. c. CASTOR, which was
stolen from in front of the Southern
hotel, was left in battered condition
near Pinson.
Jackson.--Col. /. N. Snowden, ageo
81, for many years prominent shoe
merchant of Memphis, died at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. s. P. An
derson, in this city.
| Nashville.-The Episcopal church in
Tennessee has entered upon cam
paign to increase the endowment of
the episcopal fund to provide for
salary for bishop coadjutor.
Knoxville.-E. R. Boyle of Nashville,
who has for several years been in
charge of the safety first" department
of the n, G. & ST. L. railway, has en-
listed in the Third Tennessee infantry.
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| Newbern.--The large dredge boat,
which Is at work in the Obion river
drainage district north of Trimble, has
cut through the Obion and Trimble
levee, and has suspended traffic to
Obion.
| Memphis.-The custer proceedings
against T.. C. Ashcroft, mayor, and
Ennis NJ Douglass, fire and police.
commissioner, will be heard by Judge
H. w. Laughlin, diviion four, circuit
court, Aug. Z.
Wartrace John w. Tilford, who
was probably the Oldest man in this
community as well as Wartrace's pio-
neer citizen, he having built the first
home in town, died at his home here,
aged 8S years.
Huntingdon Miss Vivian Hawkins,
home demonstration agent for Carroll
county, will conduct a short course
for the canning club girls in the in,
dustrial and training school here July
24-2S, inclusive.
Bolivar.-Mrs. Octavia r. Polk,
widow of Gen. Edwin Polk and daugh,
ter of Gen. Calvin Jones, one of the
early settlers of this place, died at her
home here. She would have been 81
years of age next September.
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Lexington.--A Nashville, Chattanoo-
ga & st. Louis railway freight train
struck Mrs. Mary Paralee Tully, aged
CT, as she was walking along the track
near the Beech river bridge, mile
west of town, instantly killing her
Nashville-Pat Gallagher Of Louis.
vile, conductor of the first section Of
freight train No. 70, inbound, was kill
ed when the second section Of the
train crashed into the rear end Of his
train at the Perry street crossing in
northeast Nashville.
Knoxville. -The damage to Knox
vile and adjoining counties from a
cloudburst is estimated to be over
100000. The main losses were from
streets and roads, crops, railways and
flooded houses and manufacturing
plants In Knoxville
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emphis.-Sixteen Of the SO restau.
rant keepers, grocerymen, butchers.
druggists and soft drink stand owners
upon whom warrants were served,
charging violations of the food and
drug laws, pleaded guilty and were
fined $40 and costs each.
Knoxville.--A strong, well educated
young man of German ancestry, who
has been "loafing" here for six weeks,
was arrested by the federal authorities
on q charge of being suspicious char
acter and having talked too freely"
against the United tSates.
| Nashville.--Figures just compiled
by the car accounting department of
the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis
railway show that while the road
owns 1862 freight cars, it is at pres
ent operating with $3.50 cars dnclud.
ing foreign cars On Its line), or Gill
per cent equipment.
4 Lexington.-Two notable REVEALS
are in progress in this county one at
). Hepsibah Baptist church. in which Rev.
T. r. Hammons of Bemis is assisting
the pastor, Rev. G. T. Azbill. The 9th.
err is at Mazie's Chapel Baptist church.
4 In which DR.. !. N. Penick of Martin is
assisting Rev. Fleetwood Bail, the pas
tor.
| Memphis.-Formal application vas
made by the Memphis chamber of
commerce for the new Illinois Central
general hospital, which will be rebuilt
to replace the infirmary destroyed at
Paducah. KY, last week, occasioning a
loss Of approximately half million
dollars.
Dyersburg.-The short course con.
Quoted here in the basement OF the
Cumberland Presbyterian church, un-
der the supervision of Misses Shelby,
, McCabe and Luscome, was a decided
success.
Newbern.-The Irish potato crop in
this section has been harvested and re-
ports are that a record-breaker was
made throughout the county.
Jacksonville city officers have