Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1917-05-03
TENNESSEE
Interesting Events
From all Parts
Of the State

bytery held a three-day session at
Cordova.
Ripley.-The West Tennessee Bap-
fist SUNDAY school convention was
held here.
Selmsr.-The McNairy county med.
zeal society held it's regular monthly
meeting here.
Knoxvi!le-The American Red Cross
has inaugurated a campaign in Knox.
vile to get 5000 new members.
Milan.-The rear of the Commercial
hotel was discovered on fire. The fire
company soon subdued the flames.
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Friendsyille.-Joseph Hamilton Nc.
Connell, u years old, died at his
home here. He had been i'll only two
days.
Trenton.-Bonds to the amount OF
$4,000 have been sold to meet ex.
penditures of erecting n new school
building.
Clarksville-Robert Jackson was
run over by handcar on the Tennes.
see Central railroad breaking both of
his legs.
Selmer.-The annual meeting OF the
West Tennessee Convention of Chris.
tan churches will be held at Halls
May Z, and 8.
| Dresden.-Dr. John Porch, an aged
farmer residing three miles north of
Dresden, was painfully injured when
q mule kicked him in the face.
Humboldt.-Rob Rosamon, aged 10
years, shot and killed Willis Bucking-
ham, aged q years, in the kitchen Of
Rosamon, who is tenant on the farm
| OF Buckingham
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Nashville.-Prof. o. N. Smith of
Wilson county, prominent in educa,
tional and agricultural work, was ap
pointed assistant commissioner oil
agriculture for Middle Tennessee.
! Memphis. the efforts of a
committee of business men a cam.
paign for funds with which to buy 81
worth of garden seed for each of 1000
school children has been launched.
|
Chattanooga-Maj. E. f. Walton,
commandant of Fort Oglethorpe. has
selected Snodgrass field and hill in
Chickamauga park for the site of the
officers reserve training camp to be
opened May l.
| Clarksville.-Frank Nichols, form
erly of New Providence, but now with
an Indianapolis concern, was fined $50
in the city court on charge Of hiring
and enticing away laborers in the EN-
ploy of others.
Clarksville.-Dr. w. N Dinwiddiej
dean of the Southwestern Presbyte
rian university, has been elected com
missioner to the general assembly of
Southern Presbyterian churches to be
held at Birmingham, Ala.
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Knoxville.-The Holston manufact-
uring company, Lenoir City, with
branch mills at Morristown and Cleve-
land, has given notice of the 1000 en-
ployes of an increase OF five per cent
in wages, effective May q.
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| Covington-W. NJ. Simonton, chair
man of the democratic judicial com.
mittee of the Sixteenth judicial cir.
cult, has called meeting of the com.
mittee at Jackson Thursday, May 3.
to adopt a plan for the nomination of
democratic candidates for circuit
judge and attorney general for the Six
teenth judicial circuit
Covington.-The Upton County
| Farmers Union bank of Covington
will establish and operate branch of
that bank at umboldt, Gibson county.
| Clarksville-White farmers have
agreed here to produce larger crops of
food and feedstuffs this year and have
also agreed to interest the negroes in
the same plan.
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Humboldt.-The democratic judicial
committee of the thirteenth judicial cir
cult have called primary election for
Saturday, July IS, to nominate demo-
| cratic candidates for nudge and attor-
ney general for this circuit
| sssss
| Knoxville.-With more than a mil
lion dollars available for the con
| struction of highways in Greene coun-
| ty, the road commissioners are ask
ing bids for the construction of 100
miles of macadamized roads.
Jackson. But few families in Jack
son will fail this year to cultivate
home gardens, it was ascertained by a
surveyor the food production situa-
tion by students of schools and col
leges. The report of the survey
shows that 2,34O gardens will be
| planted
! Selmer.-The formal dedication OF
the handsome newly built Mount Sha-
ron Presbyterian church, in the east
ern portion of McNairy county, was
observed with an all-day jubilee serV-
ice.
| Jackson. Company K has recruited