McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-26


severely that 1t caused q compound
fracture.
Knoxville Rev. L. L. Naples, aged
SO, minister in the Baptist church for
IS years, died at Hampton. He was q
member of the Tennessee legislature
twenty-five years ago.
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Knoxville.-Jesse Cooper, aged IS,
of Bluff City, was accidentally killed
on the Pittsburg lumber company
works at Laurel Fork when falling
limb struck him on the neck.
| Columbia.--The barn Of Mrs. Fanny
Brown Graves in Highland Park was
destroyed by fire together with the
servNts' house, two horses, buggy
mare, wagons, corn, hay, etc.
| Bristol-Erwin 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.-Th local foundry Is en-
larging its plants so that the output
will be three times it's present capac-
ity. The addition now being built is
60x120 feet, and will be ready for use
by February /.
| Knoxville.--Three towns are hot as
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. 1, Petersburg, has won the
palm. so far as heard from, for the
sale Of eggs. She sold last year 2,474
and one-haif dozen and the sale
amounted to S477.39.
Gallatin.-Judging 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 a
building boom as never before in It's
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 a. 2,700-acre
river farm, known as Rivermont farm
fifty-six miles from Chattanooga, pay.
ing therefor $10S,000.
Memphis.-Three hundred or more
lumber manufacturers are expected to
visit MEMPHIS this week to attend one
or more Of five lumber meetings sched-
uled for Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day. 1t will be the biggest gathering
of lumbermen in this city in years.
Hum boldt--Ata wellattended 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
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
| Confederacy was complete with the
exception of placing the statuary in
position. He announces the monu-
ment will be unveiled on June /.
Observation-Disclosures H. Crump, field
secretary of the Universal Military
Training League, is in Knoxville, seek
| ing to enlist interest in Senator Cham
berlains bill to require all young
Americans 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..
M. Savage attributes part of the
large enrolment to the efforts OF DR..
Rufus Weaver Of Nashville, secretary
of the board Of Christian education of
the Baptist church.
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Jackson.-Eli Cantrell, farmer re-
siding in the Eighteenth District, was
acquitted In criminal court on the
charge of killing Will Stunson, negro.
Cantrell pleaded self-defense, declar.
ing that the negro drew knife on him
and threatened to cut his throat, when
he shot his assailant.
Jackson.-Following an address by
R. N. Crane, poultry expert Of the d.
vision Of extension, University of Ten.
nessee, the West Tennessee poultry
association was reorganized in Jack
son and steps will be taken to estab.
fish central egg Matching plant in
this city to promote commercial poul-
| try raising.
Knoxville.-A charge of dynamite
which it was thought had exploded the
day before killed Charles McLemore,
aged 80 years, and seriously injured
W. ]. Wooter. These men were EN-.
ployes of the American zinc company
at Mascot. They were directly over