The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-09-21
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News of Interest Prepared
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The annual convention of Knights OK
Mactabees will be held at Dyersburg
Nov. 6.
A total OF 1874 men registered in
the biennial registration In Knox
county.
The property of the Bristol Traction
company will be sold at public auction
ON Sept. Is.
The Wartrace preparatory school
opened with Prof. John F. Pruett as
principal.
e. F. Arnold, farm demonstration
agent for Dyer county for the last
year, has resigned.
The citizens of Union City and Obion
county gave a dinner to the drafted
boys Of the county.
The Carroll county exemption board
has certified to the names Of 17S as
being subject to military duty.
The First ambulance company Of
Tennessee has arrived at Camp Mills
to join the Forty-second division.
The first Gibson county boy known
to be with the United States forces
in France is Robert K. Christenberry.
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The Jackson lodge of Elks will con-
tribute total of $3.50 to the prosecd-
ton of the war against the Teutonic
powers.
Col Thos. E. Halbert has been elect
ed superintendent of the military de-
partment in Castle Heights school at
Lebanon
The body of Guy Gillespie, killed in
the British trenches somewhere in
France" will be brought to Knoxville
for burial
The exemption board of Gibson coun-
ty has called for 400 additional men
to report at Trenton this week for
examination.
A contracting firm of Dyersburg
has been awarded the contract to build
the gravel road from Tiptonville to
Reelfoot Lake.
Rev. C. S. Thomas has resigned the
care of the Baptist church at Parsons
and accepted call to the First
church, Jonesboro, ILL.,, effective Oct. l.
Road machinery for beginning work
on the Dixie highway through Bedford
county has arrived and work has be-
gun and will be pushed to completion.
Frank B. Coleman, formerly owner
of the Memphis baseball club and
prominent in business and sporting
circles of Memphis for many years, is
dead.
J. w. johnson brought FREAK canta-
loupe to GAINESVILLE. Three melons
growing on one stem, SO close together
that the rinds joined, made the curl
osity.
Rev. Hugh S. .McCord, pastor of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church Of
Dyersburg for the past five years, ten
dered his resignation, to take effect
Nov. l.
A mass meeting of citizens Of Mar
shall county was held for the purpose
of perfecting permanent organization
to take action in regard to needed To-
cal legislation.
In the Montgomery criminal court
in the case of the State VS.. Mamie
Pardue, the jury returned verdict OF
murder in the first degree, under miti-
eating circumstances.
Selecting Memphis as the next meet
ing place, electing officers for another
year, the sixteenth annual session OF
the Tennessee Optical society adj
journed at Knoxville.
Construction crews of the Illinois
Central railroad have completed laying
the steel on the 4,000-foot spur track
from Millington to the United States
army aviation school.
Miss Flora Shelby, who has been In
charge of the home economics demon
stration work for Dyer county for the
last two years, has resigned for the
purpose of taking much needed rest
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All cows which prove "slackers" or
fail to produce the amount OF milk
that they should this winter will be