The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-02-22
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AHo lehHeSSee leIILr Carriers aSSO'
citation will meet in Chattanooga
Feb. %.
Work has commenced on Lake
Russell" in Paris to make it an ideal
summer resort.
Fire destroyed the building and
stock of merchandise of C. T. Oxford
at Warren's Bluff.
D. Brundridge was killed at McKen-
zie while on duty as brakeman for the
l.. & N. railroad company.
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The most generally prevalent cpl.
demic of measles ever known in Put.
nam county is now raging.
At meeting of prominent farmers,
at Franklin, the Harpeth farm loan as.
ISOLATION was organized.
There is now almost 100000 pounds
of tobacco stored in the Manchester
warehouses awaiting shipment.
Between forty and fifty girl opera.
tives of the Medicine hosiery mills OF
Chattanooga went out Oh a strike.
An election has been called to pass
on an issue of $750,OOO in bonds for
building roads in Washington county
H. R. Buckhart, white, and Henry
Hoyle, negro, are held in the Jackson
jail charged with thefts from freight
cars.
A crusade to enforce the city's anti.
splitting ordinance has been started by
of the Memphis health depart
ment.
H. P. Fowlkes, former speaker OF
the house of representatives, died at
his home in Franklin at the age of rs
years.
On March 1 an election will be held
at Hollow Rock for the purpose of
electing a mayor, recorder and board
Of aldermen.
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The TreZevant Fruit Growers asso.
citation is arranging to market the
1917 crop of berries and fruit grown
In this section.
The eleventh annual meeting of the
Tennessee Pathological association |
will be held at Maryville college Feb.
'uary % and "a.
At meeting of the GAINESVILLE city
council, George Fort and Emory Kim.
trough were elected members of the
BOARD of education.
As result of frozen water pipes,
he kitchen range in the home of the
lev. G. w. Coleman at Cleveland blew
p with terrific force.
w. A. Weatherall, aged IS, widely
nown throughout Tennessee and one
the leading figures in the Socialist
art, is dead at Memphis.
A mass meeting will be held at the
Ourthouse in Dyersburg March for
lie purpose of establishing a creek in
le Lewis Creek drainage district
A large delegation of Johnson City
Isiness men went to Knoxville to
infer about locating the government
NOR plate plant in the Watauga val
y.
Dayton had the only real get-togeth.
meeting she has ever had when 12S i
embers Of the Dayton business mems Il
lb, including the invited guests, at {
nded banquet n
DR.. NJ D. Austin, who has been serv E
g as pastor of the Dyersburg Bap
It church for three years, has re A
,ned to take charge of the First Bap D
It church at Versailles, KY. =
In response to a call from the Ma.
nal red cross society, the Bristol or. II
is shaping matters to in
ease its membership and prepare W
service in the event of war. -
rhe county finance committee OF
flee met and awarded the deposits
the county's funds to the First Ma. Of
nal bank of Tullahoma and the Peo- is
IS Bank & Trust company of Man. %
ester. &c
Dr.. ]. V. Freeman Of Lexington pre-. vi
ing elder of the Lexington district PC
the Methodist Episcopal church, VI VI
18th, and one of the most aggressive ~ ~
of his denomination, has az
eived notice of his appointment to ar
position of grand chaplain of the
nd Lodge Of Tennessee, Free and kis
,pted Masons. Sc
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