Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1917-02-16
TENNESSEE GLEANINGS
News of Interest Prepared
in Epitomized Form by
Special Writers


The Tennessee letttr 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.
The most generally prevalent cpl
demic of measles ever known in Put
nam county is now raging
At a 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 on 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
attaches 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 an election will be held
at Hollow Rock for the purpose Of
electing a mayor, recorder and board
of aldermen.
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 Maryyille college Feb
ruary 20 and "a.
At meeting of the Clarksville city
council, George Fort and Emory Kim
brough were elected members of the
board of education.
AS a result of frozen water pipes,
the kitchen range in the home of the
Rev. G. w. Coleman at Cleveland blew
up with terrific force.
w. A. Weatherall, aged IS, widely
known throughout Tennessee and one
Of the leading figures in the Socialist
part, is dead at Memphis,
A mass meeting will be held at the
courthouse in Dyersburg March for
the purpose of establishing creek in
the Lewis Creek drainage district.
A large delegation OF Johnson City
business men went to Knoxville to
confer about locating the government
armor plate plant in the Watauga val
ley.
Dayton had the only real get-togeth-
er meeting she has ever had when 125
members of the Dayton business mems
club, including the invited guests, at
tended a banquet
DR.. M. D. Austin, who has been serv-
ing as pastor of the Dyersburg Bap-
fist church for three years, has re-
signed to take charge Of the First Bap-
tist church at Versailles, KY.
In response to a call from the Ma
tional red cross society, the Bristol or
ganization is shaping matters to in
crease it's membership and prepare
for service in the event Of war,
The county finance committee Of
Coffee met and awarded the deposits
Of the county's funds to the First Ma
tional bank of Tullahoma and the Peo-
pies Bank & Trust company of Man
chester.
DR.. ]. V. Freeman of Lexington pre-
siding elder of the Lexington district
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
South, and one of the most aggressive
churchmen of his denomination, has
received notice of his appointment to
the position of grand chaplain of the
Grand Lodge of Tennessee, Free and
Accepted Masons.
Members of the Trezevant fruit
growers association held their annual
meeting and election of officers, as
follows: President, w. F. Holt; vice
president A. H. Jones; secretary, w.
H. Galway