McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-05-18
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Happenings Over
Comm onwealth
as Cleaned from
Various Places

school will close the present session
Friday, May 18.
Paris.-A freight wreck occurred on
the l.. & N, at Springville, IL miles
north of here, and nine care were de-
rallied.
| White Bluff--At an election at
White Bluff $4,000 in bonds was voted
to be used in grading and improving
the streets.
Pulaski.--Dr. John 8. Harris, we'll.
known physician and surgeon Of
Minorhill. will remove to McMinnville,
10 reside, June /.
Knoxville.-With the usual number
OF cases on docket from all over East
Tennessee, the court Of civil appeals
has convened here.
Lafayette.-J. M. Dean and Prof, o.
NJ Smith addressed a mass meeting
OF farmers at the court house along
the Line of food preparedness.
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Deyrsburg, Sam Gordon, promi-
nent young attorney c.f the Dyersburg
bar, has gone to Fort Oglethorpe to
Join the officers training camp.
Chattanooga.--Fi fty-eight represen-
tatives OF the Y. M. C. A. in six states
met in conference here to discuss
plans for moral welfare of the young
men In army camps.
Huntingdon.--Mi Vivian Hawkins,
home economics agent for Carroll
county, is helping Huntingdon women
solve the high cost of living and food
conservation question.
Knoxville.-Forty-t three members of
the sophomore, junior and senior
classes of the University of Tennes-
see have gone to Fort Oglethorpe to
take military training.
Chattanooga men of the Of
ficers' reserve engineering corps, from
New York and other eastern states,
headed by Maj. F. A. Molitor, arrived
here for training at Fort Oglethorpe
camp.
Columbia. H. Harris, a young
man who came here several months
ago and secured employment with the
Witherspoon Furniture company, is
being held in Nashville on charge Of
bigamy.
Covington.-The April, 1917, term of
the quarterly county court met in a
called session at the courthouse in
Covington, and unanimously elected
Sherrod Smith. county attorney for
Upton county.
Paris.-The Boy Scouts and Camp
Fire Girls of Atkins-P Porter school are
taking military training. DR.. George
McSwain is drill master for the boys
and Yancy Caldwell, of the Boy Scouts
Is drilling the girls.
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Jacksonville Rev. T. e. Sharp, pas
tor of the Madison Heights Method
ist church, Memphis, delivered the
baccalaureate sermon at the seventy
fourth commencement of the Mem
phis conference female institute.
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| Camden.-Excitement has been cre-
ated by the discovery of mineral IL
miles north Of here, on the land Of
Bruce Former, by mining prospectors,
and Mr.. Fornor, it is said, has been
offered $4,000 for mis- land, which is
only a small farm.
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Chattanooga.-Millard Hudson. Of
Chattanooga, and a brother OF R. F.
Hudson, superintendent of the. asso-
ciated charities, who graduated from
Vanderbilt medical college, has re-
ceived commission In the naval hos
pital In Washington, D. c.
Huntingdon.-George Murphy, sec.
ond son of Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Murphy,
has been appointed deputy clerk and
master for Carroll county by Clerk
and Master e. A. Bryant, to succeed
Gordon Browning, who resigned re.
Gently to join the army.
Hartsyille.-Mrs. Mary 8. Dalton,
the oldest person in Trousdale county,
died at the residence of her daughter,
Mrs. Eliza Rodgers. Mrs. Dalton was
born in the same house in which she
died In January, 1918. and consequent
| ly was in her Tooth year.
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Harrogate.-The Lincoln Memorial
University has conferred upon Jacob
M. Dickinson, former necretary of war;
Marcus M. Marks, president of the
borough of Manhattan; former Sena-
tor Theodore E. Burton of Ohio; DR..
w. S. McCombs of New York City,
Harry S. Clarke of Knoxville, and
Franklin S. Rutau of Ohio the de.
gree of doctor of law.
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| Newbern.-Dr. Hubert Harris of
Newbern, son of Albert Harris, who
has been attending the University OF
| Tennessee for the last five years, has
| been assigned to active service as as
sistant surgeon with the rank of lieI.
tenant In the U. S. navy.
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Chattanooga.-Col. Herbert J. Slo-
cum, Fort 0glethorpe reserve officers
straining camp ,commandant. told the
Rotary club here that he believed Edi-
son or some American inventor would
solve the problem of sweeping Ger
| man submarines from the sea.
Jacksonville annual West Tonnes
see athletic, musical and oratorical
meet was held in this city, at which
there were 500 or more visiting school