The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-12-07
TENNESSEE
BRIEFLY TOLD EVENTS
OF THE STATE

s. Granger Latta has been appoint
ed fuel administrator for Dyer county
Negroes of Madison county raised
81. 900 in the army Y. M. G. A. CAM
paign.
Louis Adams of Selmer has been ap'
pointed fuel administrator for McNalry
county.
William Tucker, Jr, has been ap'
pointed fuel administrator for Laude-
erdale county.
Regular quarterly meeting OF the
McNairy, county singing convention
was held at Finger.
The Odd Fellows of Jackson are
planning to organize an encampment
branch of the order in the city
Guy Mallard of Trimble, a soldier
boy at home on furlough, was hit by
train at Newbern and badly hurt.
The Madison county corn club snow
was great success, some OF the pest
specimens ever seen being presented.
A home demonstration club was Or
ganized at Paris by Miss Ruby MOI
fatt, emergency home demonstration
agent
Mrs. Grace Robbins, state vlce-pfes-
ident of the Woman's Christian Tem'
perance union, visited the Paris w.
G. T. u.
J. N. Fite, president Of the Central
lumber company at Jackson, fell down
15-foot stairway at the plant and
suffered serious injuries.
A box supper at the EdgeWood
school at Newborn, netted more than
$50, which will be used for an organ
for the Union Sunday school.
1.-THE Cardinal Light Infantry is the
name given to military company re-
Gently organized at Union university
under the captaincy of R. M. Jennings
Baptists of Knoxville and upper East
Tennessee may purchase Lincoln Me-
mortal hospital from trustees OF Lin
coin Memorial university at Cumber'
land Gap.
At a tea and reception given at the
Young Women's Boarding home at
Jackson more than 500 was raised
for this institution, which is home
for working girls.
Farmers of the Gravel Hill commu'
nifty, near Selma, met at the school
building, and planned campaign to
beautify the campus and make many
needed improvements.
The republican senatorial and jul
diciaI committee of the First district
has, in view of the fact that they had
no opposition, annulled the primary
called for December 8.
Two Memphis detectives, former
patrolman and three others were In
dicted by the Shelby county grand
jury on charges of larceny of nineteen
cases of whiskey confiscated by the
police in a raid.
The federal grand jury at Chatta
nooga returned an indictment against
J. F. Smith, an electrician, for inter
ference with and obstruction of inter
state commerce, the case growing out
of the recent street car rioting.
Col. A. w. Ewing Griffin, who was
elected president of the North Amer
lean board of embalmers, in annual
session at Jacksonville, Fla, is mem
Der of the firm of Implicit & Griffin
of Jackson.
Fiery Howard, %, died at Camp
Jackson, Columbia, S. c., of pneu'
monia, and his body was brought to
Lenox. He was Dyer's first soldier
who has given his life for his country
being one of the first drafted nen sent
to the training camp.
H. w. Stanley, receiver of the Ten
nessee Central railroad, has informed
w. E. Meyer, federal fuel administra'
tor for Tennessee, that in the future
all locomotives on the western divis'
ion of the road, Nashville to Hopkins
Vile, would consume wood instead OF