Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1917-09-14
TENNESSEE GLEANINGS
News of Interest Prepared
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county, doing much damage to corn
fields.
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A total of 1924 men registered in
the biennial registration in Knox
county.
The Wartrace preparatory school
opened with Prof. John F. Pruett as
principal
The citizens Of Union City and Obion
county gave a dinner to the drafted
boys Of the county.
The citizens of Camden and Benton
county held a farewell program for
the Benton county soldiers.
The Carroll county exemption board
has certified to the names of 17S as
being subject to military duty.
The First ambulance company Of
Tennessee has arrived at Camp Mills
to join the Forty-second division.
The first Gibson county boy known
to be with the United States forces
in France is Robert X. Christenberry.
Two of the recently elected teach
ers of the Union City public schools
were drafted and accepted for army
duty.
The Bristol ladies' of the Women's
Christian Temperance union will en-.
terrain the state organization in Oc-
tober.
The Jackson lodge of Elks Will con-
tribute total Of 81 so to the prosecN-
ton Of the war against the Teutonic
powers.
Col. Thos. e. Halbert has been elect
ed superintendent of the military de-
partment in Castle Heights school at
Lebanon.
The exemption board of Gibson coun-
ty has called for 400 additional men
to report at Trenton this week for
examination.
Road machinery for beginning work
on the Dixie highway through Bedford
county has arrived and work has be-
gun and will be pushed to completion.
Frank B. Coleman, formerly owner
Of the Memphis baseball club and
prominent in business and sporting
circles Of Memphis for many years, is
dead.
J. w. johnson brought freak canta-
loupe to GAINESVILLE. Three melons
growing ON one stem, so close together
that the rinds joined, made the curl
osity.
Rev. Hugh S. ,McCord, pastor of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church Of
Dyersburg for the past five years, ten
dered his resignation, to take effect
Nov. /.
A mass meeting of citizens Of Mar
shall county was held for the purpose
of perfecting a permanent organization
to take action in regard to needed To-
cal legislation.
In the Montgomery criminal court
in the case of the State vs. Mamie
Pardue, the jury returned a verdict OF
murder in the first degree, under miti-
eating circumstances.
Selecting Memphis as the next meet
ing place, electing officers for another
year, the sixteenth annual session Of
the Tennessee Optical society ad-
journed at Knoxville.
Construction crews of the Illinois
Central railroad have completed laying
the steel on the 4,O00-foot spur track
from Millington to the United States
army aviation school.
MISS lUId ouCIDyy WIZ has uOSA IA
charge Of the home economics demon.
stration work for Dyer county for the
last two years, has resigned for the
purpose of taking much needed rest.
A committee OF about 100 coal OPP
orators from East Tennessee and Ken
lucky coal mining districts have gone
to Washington to present data as to
the cost of production OF coal in this
district to Coal Administrator Garfield.
The appointment of Hon. Daniel H.
Morgan Of Cookeville as an attorney
for the government farm loan depart
ment, with his headquarters in Louis
vile, KY, is merited recognition Of
one of the ablest and most popular
lawyers of this section Of the state.
At the concluding session Of the
Tennessee bar association at Epperson
Springs, Col E. Watkins Of Chatta-
nooga was elected president; A. W.
Akers of Nashville, vice-president for
Middle Tennessee; Chas. ]. Jones Of
Athens, vice-president for East Ten
nessee, and H R. Boyd, vice-president
for West Tennessee. Lee Winchester