Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1917-04-13
TENNESSEE
Interesting Events
From all Parts
of the State

Waverly.-Prof. w. H. Knight has
been elected county superintendent Of
public instruction by reclamation.
Knoxville.-Y. M. C. A. directors
closed a deal for lot on West Church
avenue, on which will be erected a
fine home.
Nashville.-More than 200 members
attended the eighty-fourth annual SEES
sion of the Tennessee medical associa.
ton in this city.
Nashville naval recruiting of
flee here accepted SO recruits out OF
80 applicants, the heaviest business
ever recorded here by naval recruiting
offers.
Paris. Harry Dunbar, one of the su.
perintendents of the Redpath Chautau,
qua, was in Paris arranging for the
chautauqua, which will probably be
from June II to June Is.
sss&a
Lexington.-News has just been re.
ceived here of the destruction by fire
of the First Baptist church of Clarks.
dale, Miss, OF which the Rev. Martin
Ball, well known at this place, is pas.
tor.
Nashville.-Dr. J. r. Thompson, Da.
wilson county health officer, was sus.
pended temporarily by Judge Thomas
E. Matthews until the final decision
of the custer suit now pending against
him.
Standardization of the 55th an
nlversary Of the battle of Shiloh was
observed here April 6 and 7. Real
campfire life was a feature at which
thousands Of survivors and friends al
tended.
Jacksonville jewelry concern es-
tablished many years ago by the late
A. X. lobe, and which since his death
has been continued under different
ownership, under the original name,
has gone out of business.
Jackson first conviction under
the "bone dry ordinance" came when
Ed Bell, colored, was adjudged guilty
of selling liquor and fined $50 by the
city judge. He was turned over to
the state.
Notwithstanding an operation
for appendicitis, Miss Allie Wolfen-
barger, aged 81, drained the contents
of two-ounce vial of carbolic acid,
dying just as the physician reached
the scene.
Alamo. The regular April quarterly
court met here and only one day was
required in transacting the business
before the court. w. A. ]. Riddick,
chairman, presided, and every magis
trate was in attendance.
Knoxville.-For only 5 cents per
meal 1870 children are being well fed
at the Knox county industrial school,
as shown in the quarterly report Of
Miss Leah Fletcher, superintendent,
to the Knox county court.
Friendship Hubbard & Henning
timber men of Dyersburg, have pur-
chased S25 acres of land from DR.. J,
B. York, near town. The considera-
ton of the deal totaled $22,5OO. This |
is one of the largest land deals ever
made here.
Knoxville.--A decrease of 800 cases
heard by City Police Judge Robert P.
Williams during the month Of March, |
as compared with the same month last |
year, is declared by him to be evi.
dence of the good effects of the bone
dry" law in Tennessee.
Huntingdon w. M. Wright OF
huntington was elected delegate to |
the state medical association in Nash
vile, with DR.. B. G. Dodds as alternate
by the Carroll county medical society,
which held very interesting meeting
in Mckenzie.
Nashville.-At mass meeting in
the Vanderbilt chapel the students
present agreed, almost to a man, to
enlist in military companies which
are being formed in order to train
students 10 be officers in
the volunteer army.
Trenton.-An unsuccessful attempt |
was made to take Charlie May, ne.
gro, from Jail here. NThe mob was CON-
posed Of men from the vicinity Of |
Bradford bent on lynching the negro,
who, it is charged, some weeks ago
eloped to illinois with Lola Talent,
15-year-old white girl.
Selmer-Chairman George A. Pra-
her, of Ramer, convened the regular
April session of the McNairy county
court with So members answering roll
call. A franchise for the right of
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