The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-12-21
TENNESSEE
BRIEFLY TOLD EVENTS
OF THE STATE

Carroll county Weut oV0i eho VIZ
with the "Y" subscription in the army
Y M. C. A. campaign. Her apportion'
ment was $4,000. The amount sub
ycribed is $S,455.83.
James Alexander of Memphis signed
q contract with the government to con-
struct the buildings on the aviation
field near Montgomery, Ala, giving
bond in the sum of $4,000.
An inte1denominational Sunday
school convention was held at Pleas
ant View Baptist church, four niles
west of GAINESVILLE, over which Dr. H.
e. Norris, president of the district pre-
sided.
The University of Tennessee began
instruction of class OF ~ In radlo
work, including only the men VINO are
subject to the next draft. The class
will be taught the code, sending and
receiving.
The weeks contest for new members
to the Red Cross chapter at Dyerspurg
closed. The sum of $285 was added to
The Red Cross funds. There were 2S4
new members added, making the total
membership now about S4O.
At the service in the Hendersonville
Presbyterian church, DR.. J. H. Mcneil
" of Nashville, the pastor, delivered
q strong sermon, and the sum ofS6727
was given for the Armenial-Syrian re-
lief fund. This contribution is from
the people of Hendersonville.
Another Tennessee boy, Farrar
Smith Of Covington, soon Will be III
France He has been appointed an
army field clerk and will leave for
France at once. In order to accept MS
appointment young Smith resigned his
position as a stenographer to the rama
ma Canal Commission. Congressman
Fisher recommended him for the posi-
ton with the army.
Guarded by railroad policemen, who
took the places of about 100 striking
negro truckmen and freight handlers,
at Knoxville, are handling the heavy
freight traffic of the Southern railway
here Although some of the leaders
Of the striking negroes have threat,
ened serious trouble, none Is ant1cl-
pated by railroad officials. The ne
gnoes struck demanding 81 instead OF
$50 a day for ten hours work
Can't, r. M. Gates, born in Paris,
Tenn, and for rs years resident OIL
Jackson, celebrated his seventy'nlnth
birthday. Enlisting in the Civil war
with the Southern guards as private
he was made a lieutenant after the
battle of Shiloh and later captain
Of 100 men who joined his company,
only five survive. Capt Gates has
lived during four wars-the Mexican,
Civil. Spanish-American and present
European conflict
Mrs. Lizzie Miller, white woman
residing on farm eight miles north
of Chattanooga, was brutally assaulted
by an unknown yellow negro at her
home. She was discovered in an un-
conscious condition by her husband
when he came to his lunch at noon,
but later revived. She is said to be in
a serious condition. The excitement in
the neighborhood and Sheriff Busch
accompanied by deputies and blood
hounds, rushed to the scene and are
ON the trail of the negro.
Lieut.. William Richardson of the
United States navy, now in European
waters in the struggle against U-boats
of the enemies, communicates with
his father, Henry Richardson. of Bris-
toll here. A recent letter is OF most
hefeful nature. AS to how submarines
are being accounted for, no details are
given. but Lieut. Richardson sounds
the hopeful note that where his crew
originally sighted from so to so U-boats
within a given time, they ara now able
to sight from to within the same
period of time.
This would indicate that the effect
iveness Of the U-boat campaign was
being materially restricted as the re-
suit of the work of American, French
and British destroyers.
A total of $4,50O,OOO will be received
in federal and state aid for highway
work by Tennessee counties during
the next four years, says Prof. Chas
Il. Ferris, member Of the state high
way commission and dean of the col
lege of engineering, University Of Ten.