Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1917-10-11
FROM ALL PARTS
OF TENNESSEE
Reports of Interesting
Events Boiled Down
for Hasty Perusal.

tempting to evade arrest.
Shelbyville.-Elder John T. Smith,
of Sparta, is conducting a revival
meeting at the Christian church in
this city.
Lynchburg.-William A. Gore, one
OF Moore county's wide-awake farm
ers of the Second district, sold 40 hogs
for s1,515.
Gleason.-The second contingent of
Weakley county's army quota, recent
ly selected, were honored with rally
and barbecue at Dresden.
Ripley.-Charles Mcneil, farmer. is
in Jail here, charged with the killing
Of Charles Cannon, planter, and the
shooting Of his 15-year-old son.
Murfreesboro.-The Central high
school OF this city opened with an
extra large attendance. On the OPEN
ing days there were I'll present.
Jacksonville Jackson Trades and
Labor Council adopted unanimously
a resolution favoiing the location of
the military camp in Madison county.
Memphis. ]. Losier, former post
master at Jackson, and well known in
state political circles, died at his home
here, following an illness Of few
hours from paralysis.
Shelby-The democratic executive
committee for Bedford county has
fixed Saturday, Nov. "a, as the date
for holding the primary election to
nominate candidates for county Of
fices.
Union City.-Slipping away from
their friends here DR.. ]. T. Lasley, ~,
and Mrs. A. Prieto, II, went to Hick
man, KY, and were married. The
bridegroom is retired physician of
this county.
Bristol.-The Rev. ]. Tyler Frazier
of Smyth county, Va, himself vet
eran, was the orator here on the occa-
sion of the nineteenth annual reunion
of the Confederate veterans of east
ern Tennessee and southwest Virginia.
Murfreesboro- college
opened the school year here with an
unusually large attendance, the school
having enrolled more students on the
first day than during any entire year
of its existence except that of last
year.
Knoxville.-Through the discovery
OF two mountains of ebert in Knox
county, the use of which has been Of
fered to the road commission, Super
intendent of Pike Roads John Doug
lass estimates that he will save the
county more than $4,000 annually.
Boliyar-A. M. Kahn and T. A. Par
ran met with a serious accident while
returning from Jackson in an auto
mobile. While crossing the levee just
north of Bolivar the lights of the car
went dead, and in the darkness the
machine plunged down a 30-foot en-
bankment
Union City.-Valuable walnut logs
from the bottom of Reelfoot Lake,
where they have lain since the great
earthquake which felled them and
formed the lake in 1912, have been
shipped to an eastern factory for the
construction of airplanes and hydro
airplanes is a report from the lake
territory.
Dyersburg. thousand citizens
were at the train to see the Dyer
county selective draft soldiers entrain
for camp. The boys met at the court
house and marched to the train In a
body, headed by the B. NJ. C. band,
They were given an ovation on leav-
ing. Forty-two men were in the party.
Knoxville The Southern Railway
employees say that the increase to be
granted on salaries of clerks Oct /
will amount to 10 or IL per cent. One
hundred and sixty-five men will be af-
facted on the Knoxville division, it is
stated.
Halls.-A mothers love failed to i'm
press her son to the point of pushing
his claim for exemption from the Unit
ed States army He wrote to the fed
eral appeal board, insisting that he is
big, strong and healthy, and that he
wants to go Go war. "My mother is
having an exemption claim fixed up in
an appeal which she will send you !
ask the board to pass my case and re-
fuse to allow these claims. My moth
er is not dependent on me. | believe
every honest American who can ought
to go out in defense of his country"
Alamo.-The Maccabees of Tennes-
see will hold state convention ia the
city of Dyersburg on Tuesday. Nov.
6. There are large number of tents
and each tent will have a representa-.
tive to this convention.
Obion.-B. A. Harris and Lloyd Pee
Ter of Dexter, KY, were instantly kill.
ed when an automobile in which they
were riding was struck by an l. G.
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