McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-05-18

Martin.-The members OF knights
Of Pythias In the Martin district held
district meeting here.
Chattanooga. There are now $50 ap
plications on file at the officers train.
ing camp at Fort Oglethorpe.
Jackson -Forty-two students OF the
Jackson high school will receive d.
plomas Of graduation this year.
Knoxyille-Paul Goforth and Walter
Fishburn are in Jail at Maryvilie
charged with the murder of Sam Best.
Dyersburg.-The fifteenth annual
field meet was held here and the
events were witnessed by one Of the
largest crowds ever assembled on the
campus.
Nashville.-An important meeting of
representative business men of Nash
vile was held at the commercial club
in the interest OF the food prepared
ness campaign.
Jacksonville democratic primary
to elect candidates for the positions Of
Judge and attorney general of the six.
teenth judicial circuit of Tennessee
was set for July 20.
Cleveland.-J. s. Roberts, venerable
bushes sman, prominent church mem.
Der and faithful leader In all causes
for good, celebrated his seventy-fifth
birthday anniversary.
Dyersburg.-The democratic execu-
tive committee for this chancery dis
trict met here and called primary
for July %, the same dates as that of
the primary for circuit judge.
Humboldt-Strawberries are NOV.
ing from the Humboldt territory in car
lots and the prices being received
range fom $3.50 to $3.25 per crate. The
acreage is heavy this year.
Humboldt.-The Gibson county dem.
ocratic executive committee met in
Trenton and organized by electing T.
X. Happel of Trenton chairman and T.
J. Walsh Of Humboldt secretary.
Knoxville. With representatives
from nearly every state in Dixie in al
tendance, the tenth annual convention
Of the southern commercial secre.
taries' association convened here.
misunderstanding Officer M. G.
Fitzhugh for the U. S. army, who has
been stationed here for several months,
received orders from the department
to close the lc 'ai recruiting office ON
May 10,
Covirgton.-Chaplain ]. B. Frazier,
who was chaplain on the Olympia, AID
miral Dewy's flagship at the battle of
Manila, and who is the third senior
chaplain in the U. S. navy, spoke at
the courthouse here.
Jackson-Judge N. r. Barham OF
the criminal court did not hesitate to
excuse the farmers who had been
summoned for jury service. feeling it
more important for farmers to cult
vate growing crops than do jury serv.
ice.
Bolivar.-The May term of circuit
court convened with Judge s. J. Ever
EFT presiding. l.. E. Gwinn of Coving.
ton is acting as attorney general In
the absence of Gen. Upton. Several
lawyers from, distance ale in at.
tendance.
Misunderstanding to slight tech
nicality in failure to print a part
of the election notice, the recent bond
issue voted in Humboldt for a high
school building has been declared H.
legal and another election has been
called May Is.
Knoxville-At sessions OF the tri.
annual camp meeting of Modern
Wnodmen of America, Murfreesboro
was selected as the next place of meet
ing. w. F. Davis of Johnson City was
reelected state consul and G. H. Holly
Of Elizabethton, state clerk.
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Fayetteville.--Mis. Sarah Spears,
aged 60 years, died suddenly Of heart
failure while crossing the square on
her way to the depot. Mrs. Spears
had received news Of the death Of her
mother, Mrs. Gum. at Normandy. and
was on her way to attend the funeral.
Manufactured by a confession
alleged to have been made by Ell Per.
sons, negro woodshopper, accused of
the murder of Antoinette Rappal,
school girl, near this city, several hun.
bred men came to Memphis from the
vicinity of the girls home, and gath
cred about the county Jail, but dis
persed when leaders were convinced
that the negro had been removed to
the penitentiary at Nashville.
Chattanooga. = Fourteen of the
youngest doctors of Chattanooga have
already taken the examination and
qualified for commissions in the
United States hospital corps. 1t is
said that some of the older physicians
are considering the matter of volun-
teering for at least six months some
where in France, and Chattanooga may
have a medical unit for service at the
front.
Jackson. - Central high school OF
Memphis won the fourth annual West
Tennessee athletic, oratorical and mu.
steal meet by only nine points over
the Jackson high school.