The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-08-24
TENNESSEE PICKINGS
Wire Tappings Over Volun-
teer Slaie Prepared in
Epitomized Form
Anna Reilly, aged IL, drowned in the
Holston river near Mascot

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man at their posts.
Lightning killed two men and >seri-
ously injured boy during thunder
storm near Abingdon.
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The animal meeting of the Dyer
county farmers institute was held at
the county courthouse in Dyersburg.
Saturday, Aug. Is, has been selected
as the date for the big flag raising at
the .Asbury school, in the Eighth dis
trict.
Weekly bank clearings of the Knox
vile clearing house continue to show
an increase over similar weeks of last
year.
Arthur Bradbury, who lives near
Sango, was seriously hurt by his auto
mobile turning over on the Port Royal
turnpike.
The Dyersburg recruiting office OF
the United States army has enlisted
many recruits the past two or three
weeks.
Arrangements for the Montgomery
cave on Aug. %, %, "a and Is have
been completed.
The veneer plant at Johnson City |
has contract to supply the Federal !
government with larg quantity of |
walnut gunstocks.
The annual encampment and field
trials of the Forked Deer Red Fox club
at Crawford Springs has been aban-
doned for this year.
$500"
The prospects in Dyer county at
present look very promising for a
bumper corn and cotton crop in every
district of the county.
A branch of the Gibson County Red
Cross Chapter was organized at Milan.
Officials of the Burlington highway
were in Selmer recently.
Millington's dream is at last realized
in the completion of what able educa-
tors pronounce as perhaps the finest
rural high school in America. ,
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The Middle Tennessee agricultural
experiment station will be located in +
Maury county if site suitable in that r
county for a station is secured. r
oerland Telephone company, was "a 5
ally injured at Chattanooga when in !
a pole he came in contact
With live wire. .
Judge Joseph C. Higgins, president p
f the Tennessee Bar association, an t.
the 1917 meeting of the as b
ociation will be held at Epperson
springs Aug. 3031. lie
At well-attended meeting of the II
executive committee of n,
Office county, primary election was n,
rdered for the county officers to be. n
ED tn second Saturday in March, N
918. n
Headquarters and supply companies 49,
the First Tennessee Field Artillery ~
ave passed examinations and all but -.
men in both organizations were &C.
opted by Col. E. " Smith of the reg 90
ar army. M
w. o. Menefee, scholastic enumera. TO
r of Upton county, has just finished vi
king the scholastic population of W.
strict No. l, and reports the popula- ~ =,
IN as follows: White male students, III
z; white female students, 80. l ~.
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B. E. Siebert, nephew of Gen. W. L. ey
ebert, who is with Gen. Pershing in th'
ance, has just been accepted into col
2 national army at Nashville. He is eXl
xious to get to France and join his
nerican uncle with the Pershing ex- 81
iition. cal
ss... jec
The Henderson county farmers TIL
ion met in the courthouse at Lexing- the
!. The following officers were elect ant
for the ensuing year: President, Joe ".
en- Deere, Warren'5 Bluff; secre- wa
Y, W. S. Park, Safford assistant sac
Irby Pope. 2:o
Expanding its executive board to Is and
mbers instead of five in order to IL.
re ably attend to the great amount The
work attached to its departments, tho
Union CITY Red Cross CHAPTER an loni
noes splendid cooperation between wer