McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-09-07

ghum crops In the history o. Dyer
county will soon be harvested.
Milan.--The series of meetings at
lakewood Missionary Baptist church,
two miles north of Milan, have closed.
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Jackson.--A total of 1883 voters
registered during the general biennial
registration in this city and Fifteenth
district
Milan.-The first Gibson county boy
known to be with the United States
forces in France, is Robert X. Chris,
tenberry.
Bristol.-A valuable horse and lot
of chickens were killed by lightning
stroke at the barn of Robert Carmack.
near Bristol.
Notwithstanding annual picnic
and barbecue of the Rutherford coun-
ty creamery association was held at
the fair grounds.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES L. Gatlin, the
eight-year-old son of J. M. Gatlin, who
lives mile south of town, was kicked
to death by mule.
Milan.-The fall term of the Milan
high school will begin it's school on
Monday, Sept. 8. Prof. w. A. Bass is
superintendent; Miss Irene Holt, prin-
cipal.
Decherd. Rev. James Willis OF
Cowan has accepted call as pastor
of the Baptist church here and will
preach the second and fourth Sundays
In each month.
Chattanooga - Assistant Attorney
General T. Pope Shepherd has issued
a warning to drug stores selling bit.
ters, bay rum, paregoric and other
substitutes for whisky.
Selmer-The annual meeting of the
Harmony association of the Missionary
Baptist church will be held with the
Shady Grove congregation near Burns
vile, Miss, Sept. 7, s and 3.
Dyersburg. The Dyersburg high
school will begin the fall session Sept.
II. Prof. C. NJ. Walker, a Vanderbilt
graduate, is superintendent, assisted
by an able corps of teachers.
Chattanooga. -Secretary of Labor
Wilson has accepted an invitation to
come, here early in October as the
guest fthe Chattanooga Rotary club
to deliver an address on conditions of
labor.
Benton.-The cool, dry weather OF
the last few days is having telling
effect on the corn in this section and
will cut short what would otherwise
have been one of the largest corn
crops ever raised in Polk county.
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Jackson.-Chas. ]. Smith of the
Washington department of agriculture
is the first of the food survey contin.
gent of the government to arrive here
to make the survey for the state in
Jackson.
Chattanooga. Oglethorpe au.
thorities insist that the man captured
at Cedar Grove, Ca, by farmer and
now in the guardhouse at Fort Ogle.
thorpe, is Arnold Henkle, the German
prisoner who escaped.
Newbern The Forked Deer river
drainage district south of Tatumville,
on the Dyer and Gibson county line, Is
now an assured project, and the land
owners of that section have begun to
work on the worthless swamps that
are such a menace to the progress Of
Dyer county.
Selmer--J. B. Gibson, rural carrier,
charged with killing E. L. Lambert,
postoffice inspector, at Stantonville,
waived examination before H. C.
Gooch, justice of the peace, who fixed
his bond at $4,000, which was made.
His case will be tried at the Septem-
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Covington.--At the First Methodist
church the organization of a local Red
Cross chapter was completed. The
following are the officers of the chap.
ter: G. B. McClelland, chairman; Mrs.
Col. William Sanford, vice chairman;
Mrs. John Y Peete, secretary, and
Rev. Chas. E. wauford. treasurer.
Chattanooga, Tenn.-Suit to recover
s1,0S5,0OO from the Tennessee Iron &
Railroad company for breach OF con-
tract has been filed by G. E. James Of
Chattanooga and the Eastern Steel
company in the supreme court of New
York city, as the result Of alleged fail
ure of the Tennessee corporation to
oliver 10000 tons of pig iron to the
complainant James.
Chattanooga.-Chattanooga's big pa.
rade of the men drafted for military
service will take place on the eve OF
mobilization, and elaborate arrange.
ments are in the hands Of the commit
tee Officers at Fort Oglethorpe have
been asked for cavalry troops and regi.
mental bands, and the committees plan
the biggest, most spectacular parade
in the history of the city.
Chattanooga.-W. l.. Frierson, pres
ident of the Chattanooga bar associa-
ton. who was appointed assistant at
of the United States,
is a native Of Shelbyville, where his
father and grandfather were promi-