Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1917-05-31

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White Bluff.-At an election at
White Bluff $1,000 in bonds was voted
to be used in grading and improving
the streets.
Pulaski.--Dr. John S. Harris, well.
known physician and surgeon OF
Minorhill. will remove to McMinnville,
to reside, June 1.
Knoxville.--With the usual number
Of cases on docket from all over East
Tennessee, the court OF civil appeals
has convened here.
Springfeld.-C. II. Jerhigan, a mail
carrier, was shot and seriously wound
ed by a negro at the latter's home
about nine miles from Springfield.
Chattanooga. -Fifty-eight represen.
tatives of the Y. NJ, C. A. in six states
met in conference here to discuss
plans for moral welfare of the young
men In army camps.
Huntingdon. Miss Vivian Hawkins,
home economics agent for Carroll
county, is helping Huntingdon women
solve the high cost OF living and food
conservation question.
Chattanooga. -Thirty men of the Of
ficers' reserve engineering corps, from
New York and other eastern states,
headed by Maj. F. A. Molitor. arrived
here for training at Fort oglethorDe
camp.
Columbia. II. Harris, a young
man who came here several months
ago and secured employment with the
Witherspoon Furniture company, is
being held in Nashville on charge OF
bigamy.
Chattanooga Heyman and
Leonard R. Frank have been appoint.
ed receivers of the business of the r.
H. Rose liquor company, which was
closed by an involuntary petition In
bankruptcy
Covington-Th April 1917, term of
the quarterly county court met in a
called session at the courthouse IN
Covington. and unanimously elected
Sherrod Smith, county attorney for
Upton county.
Paris.-The Boy Scouts and Camp
Fire Girls of Atkins-Porter school are
taking military training. DIR. George
McSwain is drill master for the boys
and Yancy Caldwell, of the Boy Scouts
is drilling the girls.
Camden Excitement has been Gre
ated by the discovery of mineral ~
miles north of here, on the land of
Bruce Former. by mining prospectors,
and Mr.. Fornor, II is said, has been
offered 100000 for his land, which is
only small farm.
Chattanooga.-Millard Hudson, OF
Chattanooga, and brother of r. F.
Hudson, superintendent of the asso-
ciated charities, who graduated from
Vanderbilt medical college, has re-
ceived a commission in the naval hos
pital in Washington, d. c.
tingdon.-George Murphy. sec.
ond son of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Murphy
has been appointed deputy clerk and
master for Carroll county by Clerk
and Master E. A. Bryant, to succeed
Gordon Browning, who resigned re-
Gently to join the army.
Dyersburg.-The graduating exer.
cises of the Hosmer Hospital training
school fer nurses were held at the
Presbyterian church. The principal
address was delivered by the Rev. e.
s. Baker. The graduates were Misses
Louise Cooley, Azzie Bledsoe and Mary
Hook.
Knoxville.-Capt. r. A. Mcmillan of
the Third regiment has gone to the
Lincoln Memorial university, where
he will undergo an operation for APP
pendicitis Capt. Mcmillan was strick-
en- while enroute home from the Dor
der, and fearing another attack de-
cided he would have the ailment re-
moved.
Chattanooga - Fourteen of tho
youngest doctors Of Chattanooga have
already taken the examination and
qualified for commissions in the
United States hospital corps. II is
said that some of the older physicians
are considering the matter of volun.
teering for at least six months some
where in France, and Chattanooga may
have medical unit for service at the
front
mphis.-Stirred by a confession
alleged to have been made by Ell Per.
sons negro woodshopper, accused Of
the murder of Antoinette Rappal, a
school girl, near this city, several hun
bred men came to Memphis from the
vicinity of the girls home. and gath
cred about the county Jail, but dis
persed when leaders we're convinced
that the negro had been removed to
the penitentiary at Nashville.
Deyrsburg.-Sam Gordon, a promi.