The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-09-14
TENNESSEE
Happenings You
Are Interested In

a big vote was polled.
Bristol automobile owners have been
worried with auto pilferers.
A small tornado swept over Giles
county, doing much damage to corn
fields.
A total Of 1924 men registered in
the biennial registration in Knox
county.
Knoxville's new city directory, just
out, gives Knoxville's population as
94,289.
Members of the Christian church at
Churchton are erecting handsome
church.
The 1917-18 term of the Gleason high
school will open the second Monday
in september.
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
Two of the recently elected teach.
ers of the Union City public schools
were drafted and accepted for army
duty.
The Bristol ladies OF the Women's
Christian Temperance union will en-.
tober
The Jackson lodge of Elks will con-
tribute total of $3.50 to the proseca.
ton Of the war against the Teutonic |
powers
The exemption board of Gibson coun-
ty has called for 400 additional men
to report at Trenton this week for
examination.
Battery d of Paris, under command
of Capt. Leon Caraway, is the first bat
terry in the state, it is said, to recruit
to full war strength
The contract for the handsome new
high school building to be erected in
Hendersonville was let to w. H.
Crutcher of Nashville.
Great interest is being manifested
in tobacco raising in Washington coun-
ty, and several thousand acres are
now under cultivation
TENN STATE B-Sept a.. E. :. go.
The Carroll county exemption board
has certified to the names of ITS as
being subject to military duty.
J. Elmer Lambdin, president Of the
Tennessee State Baptist Young Peo-
Dle's union, announces he will resign
Y. P. U.
D. w. Moss, chairman of the Dyer
county council of national defense, has >
Ielected delegates to attend the Farm =
RS Institute at Jackson Sept II, ID =
md IA.
With orange and white betting on il
telephone poles along the streets and
highways, the Burlington Route has A
enn marked as far south as Corinth, E
Iiss.
A robber entered the Farmers and
Ierchants' bank at White Bluff, drew
pistol on the assistant cashier, and
ook all the mony from the cash n
rawer.
Miss Lillian Byrn SAMSON, %, school
sacher, died at a Knoxville hospital, s.
blowing injuries sustained a few a
ours previous, when she was struck
= an automobile.
Following one of the most sensa =
onal trials ever held in Kingston,
apt. Thorn Brown, charged with the n
urder of Frank Gambill, contractor, II
the office of the latter on Jan. 10 I
st, was promptly acquitted.
wi
John A. Waddell has announced that e.
: will offer his country place, EaS mi
n, for a landing site for the aviation
hool at Wilmington. The place con-
SITS of 10 acres, its western edge
irting the eastern corporation line u
the town of Union City.
%
S. P. Anderson of the as CO.
citation Of commerce has received n.
surances from Congressman T. w. Or
ms and Senator ]. K. Shields that 90
ey are working in Jackson's interest no
r the location of the infantry arms y Va
d machine gun schools which are to ~.