Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1917-04-19

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Mason. w. D. Gray's residence was
destroyed by fire which started in the
attic from a defective flue.
Knoxville.-Y. Nj. G. A. directors
closed deal for lot on West Church
avenue, on which will be erected a
| fine home.
Friendship. -President II. l.. Zones
of this place has called a meeting OF
the county farmers institute at Bells
for April Z.
Lawrenceburg. The civic league
met with the city commissioners and
decided on a plan to make Lawrence.
burg The City Beautiful"
Memphis.--Four firemen were in
jured. two perhaps seriously, when a
speeding salvage corps automobile
which they occupied turned over
while responding to an alarm.
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Lexington.-News has just been re
ceived here of the destruction by fire
of the First Baptist church of Clarks.
dale, Miss, of which the Rev. Martin
Ball. well known at this place, is pas
| tor.
Nashville.-Dr ]. II. Thompson, Da-
wilson county health officer, was sus-
, pended temporarily by Judge Thomas
e. Matthews until the final decision
of the custer suit now pending against
him.
Friendship. Hubbard & Henning
timber men of Dyersburg, have pur-
chased 225 acres of land from DR.. ]
| B. York near town. The considera-
ton OF the deal totaled $22,500. This
is one of the largest land deals ever
made here.
Huntingdon.--Dr. w. NJ Wright of
Huntingdon was elected delegate to
the state medical association in Nash
vile, with DR.. B. c. Dodds as alternate
by the Carroll county medical society,
which held very interesting meeting
In Mckenzie.
Nashville.-At mass meeting in
the Vanderbilt chapel the students
present agreed, almost to man, to
enlist in military companies which
are being formed in order to train
Vanderbilt students 10 be officers in
the volunteer army.
Chattanooga-In his report to tho
u S. weather bureau at Washington of
the loss due to property damage and
interruption of business by the recent
Tennessee river flood, L. M. Pindell,
local meteriorogist, places the figures
at approximately s4G9,2OO.
Knoxville.-Mrs. Richard Todd OF
Knoxville, wife of the recruiting officer
here, has the distinction of being the
first southern woman to be enlisted
for service in the U. S. navy. She be-
gan her duties as chief yeoman on the
receiving ship Franklin at Norfolk
navy yard.
Dresden.z-April 10 has been desig-
mated by Col. Allen Sharp, president
of the Weallley county farmers in.
stitute, as general cleanup day on the
farms of Weakley county, and County
Judge Mayo has issued proclamation
declaring this day general cleanup
day, and asking all farmers to unite
in carrying out the suggestion of Mr..
Sharp.
| Clarksville.-The farmers of this
county are up in the air" over the
passage of an amendment to the
Montgomery county road law, By the
legislature This law compels every
farmer who owns wagon and team
to contrihAte five days hauling on the
public roads or pay communication Of
SO per day for five days.
Bristol.--Impeded heart action, due
to a tumor, resulted in the death of
Mrs. Elizabeth Young Hagan, widow
of the late Col. Patrick Hagah, mil.
lionaire land owner.
KnoxVille.-A deep water route to
Chattanooga on the Tennessee river
will be opened when ten other shoals
have been dredged to depth of three
feet and $50 feet in width. This work
is expected to be finished within about
five years.
Nashville.--The celebrated murdsI
case of the State VS.. VIM. F. Cook
from Rutherford county, was affirmed
by the supreme court, and Cook was
given a term of from 10 to 20 years
in the penitentiary for the murder oil
his wife near Smyrna on the night oil
Aug. %, 1913.
Nashville-The thirty-first annual
convention of the Tennessee Sunday
school association will be held in
Murt1eesboro June 10, 20 and 81. the
West Tennessee Institute will be- held
In Dyresburg June rs, q and 2S.
| Knoxville.-Ten Knoxville girls
have applied to the local recruiting of
ficer for enlistment in the navy The