The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-03-01
TENNESSEE
BRIEFLY TOLD EVENTS
OF THE STATE

held at DyerSDurS MdlCH on anu oA'
The Fox River butter company has
established creamery station in
Jackson.
Shot in a pistol affray at Lees sta
ton, Robert Womack, aged AZ years,
is dead. d.
The McMinnville district Of Chris
tan Endeavor convention was held
last week.
The ladies of the Athens Browning
circle have organized a chrysanthe-
mum club.
Clarence Ward, one of Dresdens pro
gressive farmers, was killed while
telling a tree near his home.
Douglas Stephenson was almost In
stantly killed when he jumped from
an automobile near Neapols.
The man who introduced Weiner-
wursts, hot tamales and hokey-pokey
to Knoxville Harry Royston, is dead.
The building owned and occupied by
William Moore on Key Komer street,
in Brownsville, was entirely destroyed
by fire.
A mass meeting was held at the
courthouse in Dyersburg to protest
against the proposed drainage OF Reel
foot lake.
The total amount of tobacco sold in
the Greeneville warehouses up to this
time is a little more than three and a
half million pounds
w. D. Gale, insurance man, has been
appointed county court clerk for Da'
wilson county following the suspen'
sion of Clerk w. F. Hunt.
+ Rev. Burke Culpepper, one OF the
best known evangelists in the south,
is conducting meeting at the Meth
odist church at Fayetteville.
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Workmen are now engaged III re-
modelling the interior of the building
owned and occupied by the First and
PEOPLES national bank at Gallat1n.
The board of trustees of the |. o. o..
F. home at Clarksvile contemplate
securing moving picture company
for the purpose of making films of the
home
The sixth annual session OF the Wom-
ans missionary conference OF the
Methodist Episcopal church, South.
was held at the Methodist church at
Pulaski.
Sid R. Clark temporarily occupying
a bench in the supreme court IN the
absence of Judge M. NJ. Neil, has an
nounced his candidacy for the court
of civil appeals.
T. T. Kranz, of Nashville, executive
@cretary of the Tennessee antl-tuber-
culosis league, will deliver speclal
lecture on "The Public Health ana
Charities" at Jackson.
While removing a brick chimney at
the old Hendricks residence, near
Jackson. built in 1880, one brick was
removed which had the foot print OF
a dog plainly stamped on 1t.
Chief of Police S. L. .Odell, comment
ing upon conditions in police circles
since whiskey was banished from
Bristol. declares that there is mark
ed dropping off in law violations.
Rural credits gained popularity in
Humphreys county when Or2on Dens-
low. president of the Humphreys coun-
ty farmers union, explained the plan
70 a special meeting of farmers at Wa
verify
Bringing a total of $3,125, or an av-
erage of $125 per head. the auction
sale of registered Holstein cattle at
the grounds of the West Tennessee
fair association proved eminently sue
cessful.
An epidemic of measles caused the
indefinite suspension OF the Medina
high school Other schools in adJoln-
ing rural districts have had to close on
account of the widespread prevalence
OF measles.
At the meeting of the executive
committee of the East Tennessee press
association held at Knoxville no action
was taken in regard to the establish
ment of a cooperative paper mill as
had been originally proposed.
Whisky made many, many years ago
at the famous Jack Daniel old-time dis