McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-10-12
FROM ALL PARTS
OF TENNESSEE
Reports of Interesting
Events Boiled Down
for Hasty Perusal.

burg on the O., M. u q. railroad.
Union City.-Eighteen young men
left for Camp Gordon to join the ma
tional army. Another draft will be
made soon, 1t is said, and will include
negroes.
Dyersburg. The public cannery
here has been discontinued, The work
has been in charge of Mrs. Joe Burns,
and thousands of quarts of every va
riety Of fruits and vegetables have
been canned under her supervision.
Union City.-The Obion county fair
opened with the largest attendance
since its organization, showing more
stock, more farm products, more
races, more interest and the biggest
display of school work that has ever
been seen In the county.
CHATTANOOGA meeting Of the
Chattanooga bar association, attended
by practically every lawyer in the city,
adopted resolutions denouncing OBJ
structionists and endorsing the course
of Col. Roosevelts attitude regarding
the prosecution of the war.
Newbern Special arrangements
are being planned by the teachers of
Newbern and rural districts to attend
the first annual meeting Of the Dyer
county teachers association, which
will convene for a one-day session at
the county court house in Dyersburg,
Oct 10.
Jackson.-In order to meet some of
the many pledges of money for vari-
Gus patriotic causes which the Jack
son lodge of Elks has made, the order
will put on minstrel show early in
November. The local lodge Of Elks
has contributed nearly $4,000 toward
patriotic causes.
Selmer-The store Of j. w. Britton
In east McNairy county was entered
and robbed. One 500 gold certificate,
one check drawn by w. G. Elan of
Stantonville on the. McNairy County
bank at Selmer for 1882, some sill
yer Of small denominations and mer-
chandise are reported missing.
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Newbern.--The Newbern branch Of
the Red Cross chapter of Dyer county,
which was organized here two months
ago, is one of the busiest places In
town. The auxiliary has completed
and sent to headquarters at Dyers-
burg for shipment, 20S hospital bed
shirts. The women are now at work
ON gowns Of heavy flannel
Jackson.-,Perhaps for the first time
in the history of revials in this county
an evangelistic meeting is to be con-
Quoted under the auspices of labor or
Carnations. The four brotherhoods of
railroad trainmen of this city have en-
gagged the services of Rev. Burke Cul-
pepper, who will come to Jackson to
begin revival in large tent
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Hubert w. Harris, son of Albert G.
Harris, a prominent farmer residing
two miles south Of Newbern, who is
stationed on the c. s. s. Rhode Island,
is at home on furlough, visiting his
parents. DR.. Harris is a graduate Of
the University of Tennessee at Men,
phis.
Jackson. practically every
county in west Tennessee is organ
ized for the registration Of women in
this state on Oct 10, is the statement
OF Miss Sue s. White of Jackson,
chairman of this division. Miss White
has returned from trip to several
counties which had not been organ
lied and she states that with the COM
pletion of these every county Is ready
for registration day
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Bristol.-Judge Sanford of the fed
eral court will hear motion in Nash
vile to appoint receiver for the Fed
eral Dyestuff and Chemical company,
operating a mammoth industry at
Kingsport, this county, and capital
lied at $15,O00,0OO. Receivers have
been appointed for the same concern
In New York, under proceeding insti-
tutedl there It is said to be the re-
suit of row among the stockholders.
TonGoou In cptfQ nf tho fart that
there have been more business oppor-
tunities for boys Of public and high
school age. owing to vacancies caused
by war conditions, Prof. C. B. Ijams,
city school superintendent, reports
that there are 1901 pupils enrolled In
the white schools this year, as COM
pared with 2,306 last year, and that
there are 97S colored school pupils, or
0 decrease OF eleven from last year.
Bristol.--King college. the Presby-
terrain school here for the education of
young men, has opened its fall term.
The new plant in East Bristol is being
used, the first building, known as
Bristol hail." having just bee, COM
pleted.
Knoxville-In campaign for French
war orphans the local society for the
relief Of French war orphans sold $546
worth OF buttons on the streets Of the
city. Young society girls of the city
were on every street corner, properly
identified with French flags, to receive
gifts.
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