McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 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 deal for lot on West Church
avenue, on which will be erected
fine home.
Nashville.-More than 200 members
attended the eighty-fourth annual ses-
sion of the Tennessee medical associa-
ton in this city.
Nashville.-The 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 SUI
perintendents Of the Redpath Chautau,
qua, was in Paris arranging for the
chautauqua, which will probably be
from June II to June IS.
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, we'll 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.
Selmer.-Celebratio of the 55th an
nlversary of the battle of Shiloh was
observed here April and Z. Real
campfire life was feature at which
thousands OF survivors and friends at
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 a 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.
Observation-Disclosures C Henning
timber men of Dyersburg, have pur.
chased 225 acres of land from DR.. J.
B. York. near town. The considera-
ton Of the deal totaled $22,500. 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 evil
dence of the good effects of the bone
dry" law in Tennessee.
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Huntingdon.-Dr. w. M. Wright OF
Huntingdon was elected delegate to
the state medical association in Nash.
vile, with DR.. B. c. Dodds as alternate
by the Carroll county medical society,
which held very interesting meeting
In Mckenzie.
Nashville.--At a 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
Vanderbilt students TO be officers in
the volunteer army.
Trenton.-An unsuccessful attempt
was made to take Charlie May, a me-
gro, from jail here. The mob was COM
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, a
15-year-old white girl.
Selmer.-Chairman George A. Pra-
Their, of Ramer, convened the regular
April session of the McNairy county
court with 3S members answering roll
call. A franchise for the right of
way for the proposed turnpike from
Selmer by Adamsville to Tennessee
river was granted by the court.
Chattanooga.-In his report to the
U. S. weather bureau at Washington of
the loss due to property damage and
interruption of business by the recent
Tennessee river flood, L. M. Pindell,
local meteriorogist, places the figures
at approximately $469,2o0.
Knoxville.-A deep water route to
Chattanooga on the Tennessee river