McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-07-20

oShooA puhuihS July ~ w 80,
Mt. Pleasant-A handsome herd OF
registered Hereford cattle, numbering
sixteen, have been imported from Illi-
nois by Hinton Kittrell.
Bristol.--More than 100 Bristol Girl
Scouts engaged in the tag day cam.
paign conducted in this city for the
benefit of the Red Cross.
Nashville.-A pardon was granted to
Port Webb of Rutherford county by
Gov. Rye. Webb was convicted in 1915
of violating the four-mile law.
Lexington. Henderson county
teachers institute under the direction
of Supt. Otis e. Holmes, was held
here with an enrolment of over $50.
Knoxville. of Knoxville
held a mass meeting to take place in
Market Hall to protest against the
high prices of coal in East Tennessee.
Dyersburg.-M. ]. Jenkins, popu
lar citizen Of Dyersburg, was elected
president of the rural carriers associ.
alton at their recent meeting in Nash
vile.
Jackson.-Jerry Nave, a Jackson
boy, was one of the sailors on board
the transport Neptune, which was in
the fleet to carry American troops to
France.
Paris.-The great union revival be-
ing conducted in Paris by Rev. Clyde
Lee Fife, evangelist, and his assist
ants, is doing great good in the com
munity.
Kyle's Ford.-An election for pike
bonds in Hancock county voted on
by the people for issuance of 100000,
carried by approximately five hundred
majority.
Dyersburg. Earl johnson, county
trustee has the distinction of getting
in his financial report to the state
comptroller ahead of the other ninety
five counties in Tennessee.
Bristol.-Ollie Coleman, 10 years
old, was seriously injured in this city,
when struck in the throat from bull
let from 22-calibre rife. The gun
was discharged accidentally.
Cn1nar - w pristpr of MamnhiS
president of the West Tennessee nor.
NAL school, addressed the McNairy
county teachers institute and rep
resentative crowd of citizens here.
Jackson.-Mrs. Thomas Polk, state
regent of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, has been elected chair
man for West Tennessee Of the Wo-
mans National Council of Defense.
Knoxville -Senator John X Shields
donated pure white Shetland pony
for the sacrifice sale which was held
here for the purpose of raising funds
to buy comfort kits for the soldiers.
Mlidu.--DullHB d HcdNy lainStoiih
two fine horses and mule in past
ure near here were instantly killed by
lightning, They were trying to shelter
themselves under some willow trees.
ngton--Lightning struck the
barn of Joseph Beaver, who lives near
Wright, set it afire, and the barn, to-
gether with large amount of corn,
hay and wheat, was totally destroyed
jacksonville Madison county ex-
emption board has completed its work
Of numbering the registrants for the
national war army draft and has post
ed the numbered names at the court
house.
Jacksonville jackson district con
| ference of the Methodist church con-
cluded its annual session here at the
Trinity church, with Rev. w. D. Jen-
kins, presiding elder, in charge of the
meeting.
Jacksonville tenth annual field tri-
ais and encampment of the Forked
Deer Red Fox club will be held at
Crawford Springs, just across the bor-
der of Madison in Henderson county,
beginning August is.
Nashville.--The Tennessee highway
commission met in the Offices of the
commission In the board Of control
building to take action for the early
construction Of state and national
highways in Tennessee.
Nashville.-Rev. H. J. Mikell, rec
tor of Christ's church, the leading
Episcopal church OF this city, an
nounces that he had decided to ac-
cept the post of bishop of Atlanta. to
which he was recently elected.
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Johnson City.--The ministers Of the
Christian church In the First district,
composed of five counties, Johnson,
Carter, Sullivan, Washington anC
Unicoi, have made plans to visit every1
church in the district during the latte.
part of July.
Jackson.--An entirely unique and re.
markedly beautiful entertainment, the
allegorical pageant, 1.-THE Garden OF
the Nations" was given on the /. B.
Tigrett lawn by the choir guild OF st.
Luke's Episcopal church for the ben
eft of the Jackson McClaran Chapter
of the Red Cross.
Cookeville.- charred bones Of
an adult human being were found In
the woods near Bald Hill, about fif.
teen miles southeast of Cookekville.