The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-11-09
TENNESSEE
BRIEFLY TOLD EVENTS
OF THE STATE


e. w. Neal was elected chairman
OF the Knox county republican ex-
ecutive committee.
The business men of Dyersburg are
behind a movement to have five
days fair at Dyersburg in 1918.
The ladies of Paris have appointed
Q committee to collect jellies. jams
and preserves to send to d Battery.
The farmers club at Montpelier,
Weakley county, sold to a buyer from
Union City 100000 pounds of seed
cotton at 11A cents.
The Upton county truck growers
association has purchased so acres
of land in the vicinity of Solo, four
miles east of Covington.
H. Tate, carpenter, was shot and
mortally wounded at Ft. Oglethorpe
by J. r. Hardness, night Waterman
in a row over stool.
Fire, causing total property loss
of more than $4,000, destroyed the
Western hotel and number of other
business structures at Ripley.
The Tennessee state convention oil
the American National Red Cross was
held at Nashville. w. S. Shields, state
director of Tennessee, presided.
James Wilson, age 80 years, died al
his home near Sitka of infirmities in
cident to old age. He was one Of the
Oldest residents of Gibson county.
The monument erected on Lookout
Mountain in honor of the soldiers Of
the sixties from Ohio was dedicated
by the state monument commission
An custer bill was filed in the cir
cult court at Centreville against ]. T.
Webb and T. H. Erwin, two of the
road commission of Hickman county
The swagger stick, so popular dur
ing the May officers training camp
seems to have had it's day. The bar
was placed on the stick by Gen. Perish
ing.
Reports from the various sections OF
Dyer county indicate that the cotton
crop has been very seriously damaged
from the late season and the early
frost.
The Womans' Missionary society OF
the Methodist church, comprising all
the societies of the Brownsville dis
trict, held an interesting session al
Brownsville.
Six regiments of regulars, one bat
talon Of infantry and two batteries
training camp paraded at Chattanooga
as a feature Of the Liberty day de-
Russell Dewey, Is, All employe o;
the West Tennessee agricultural sta
ton, was perhaps fatally injured wheu
hemmed in stall by large Angus
Dull anu BOE6u.
Mrs. Henry Jarrett, Of Chattanooga
has received a cablegram from some
where in France announcing that heI
brother, William Speedman, had been
killed in battle.
Ed James Alsup and ]. B. Williams
ohio wood with criminal aaaaOIi
on a young girl, were found guilty al
Pulaski and sentenced to death in the
electric chair Dec. IA.
During the past Smelling season,
from March to October, there have
been taken out of the Tennessee river,
from Mussel Shoals to the mouth,
about 100000 pounds of mussei
shells.
Organization of boys agricultural
,lubs over the county was discussed
oy Prof. H. S. Nichols, West Tennes
zee district agent, at a meeting OF the
Poplar Corner community club at the
lone of T. B. Carroll, at Jackson.
The Rev. Adolph Kistler, for many
,ears pastor Of the Central Presbyte
ian church of Bristol, has announced
IFS resignation and he and Mrs. Kist
er will leave soon for Vincennes, Ind,
where DR.. Kistler has accepted a pas
crate.
Appointments of ministers in the
United Brethren church throughout
last Tennessee were made at the clos
ng session here of the United Breth-
en- conference. Among definite APP
ointments are: Presiding elder and
~ To Of Tanuessea dis.