Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1917-01-26

member of the Tennessee legislature
twenty-five years ago.
Knoxville.-Jesse Cooper aged IS,
of Bluff City, was accidentally killed
on the Pittsburg lumber company
works at Laurel Fork when a falling
limb struck him on the neck.
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Columbia-The barn Of Mrs. Fanny
Brown Graves in Highland Park was
destroyed by fire together with the
servants house, two horses, buggy
mare, wagons, corn, hay, etc
Bristol.-Brwin Hicks. insane in his
mountain home near Elk park for near
ly thirty years due, it is said, to griev-
ing over his lost mother, who disap-
peared one day, never to return, is
dead.
CleVeland.-The local foundry is en-.
larging its plants so that the output
will be three times its present capac-
ity. The addition now being built is
60x120 feet, and will be ready for use
by February /.
Knoxville.-Three towns are hot af-
ter Carson & Newman college, Jeffer-
son City, Newport and Morristown.
The last named has made such an at
tractive offer that the trustees are
loath to ignore it.
Petersburg.-Mrs. w. A. Morrison.
R. F. D. 4, Petersburg, has won the
palm, so far as heard from, for the
sale of eggs. She sold last year 2,474
and one-half dozen and the sale
amounted to $477.39.
Notwithstanding from the new
buildings now in course of construc-
ton and those contemplated within
the near future, prosperity has struck
Gallatin and the town is now on
building boom as never before in its
history.
Newbern.--Joseph Light, the newly
elected tax assessor for Dyer county,
has taken up his work, beginning in
the lower end of the county on the
Mississippi river district before the
backwaters begin to spread out In that
district.
Bristol.-Probably the largest land
sale consummated in the South was
closed few days ago when Virginia
corporation purchased 2700-acre
river farm, known as Rivermont farm,
ffty-six miles from Chattanooga, pay
ing therefor $1OS,OO0.
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phis,-Three hundred or more
lumber manufacturers are expected to
VISIT Memphis this week to attend one
or more Of five lumber meetings SEIZED
uled for Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day. 1t will be the biggest gathering
of lumbermen In this city in years.
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Humboldt-At a well-attended meet
ing of the Humboldt fruit growers as
ISOLATION the members unanimously |
and enthusiastically voted to join in
with the Ozark fruit growers associa.
ton in a cooperative movement to I
market their 1917 strawberry crop.
Chattanooga.-DeLong Rice, secre-
tary of the Shiloh National park, says
that the Confederate monument at Shi. |
loh being built by the Daughters of the I
was complete with the
exception of placing the statuary in |
position He announces the monu-
ment will be unveiled on June /.
Knoxville. Malcolm H. Crump, field
secretary of the Universal Military
Training League, is in Knoxville, seek
Ing to enlist interest in Senator Cham
berlain's bill to require all young
of able body to take six
months of intensive military training,
beginning at the age Of is years.
Jackson.-Union university started
The new year with 400 students en-
rolled, the largest number in the his
tory of the institution. President G.
NJ. Savage attributes part Of the
arge enrolment to the efforts of DR.
Rufus Weaver of Nashville, secretary
If the board of Christian education Of
he Baptist church.
Jackson.-Eli Cantrell, farmer re-
siding in the Eighteenth District, was
acquitted in criminal court on the
charge of killing Will Stunson, negro.
Jantrell pleaded self-defense, declar-
ng that the negro drew knife on him
md threatened to cut his throat, when
le shot his assailant.
Jackson. Following an address by
R. N. Crane, poultry expert of the di-
Vision of extension, University of Ten
lessee, the West Tennessee poultry
was reorganized in Jack
son and steps will be taken to estab-
ish central egg Matching plant in
his city to promote commercial poul.
ny raising.
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KaoxT!!le.-A eharsn Of dynamite
which it was thought had exploded the
lay before killed Charles McLemore,
ICED 30 years, and seriously injured
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