Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1917-09-28
TENNESSEE GLEANINGS
News of Interest Prepared
in Epitomized Form by
Special Writers

ne OplOh cOuhty Aah WIZ w NSA@
at Union city Oct and continue for
four days.
Firemsn and patrolmen of Knoxville
have asked the city commission for an
increase in salaries.
The Manchester, civic league gave Z
silver tea in the Odd Fellows hall fOF
the benefit Of the Red Cross.
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The opening of the Henry county
fair in Paris was marked by the larg.
est attendance known in several years.
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DR.. o. G. Mayberry of JellicO has re-
ceived an appointment as lieutenant ia
the dentistry department of the U. s.
army
The revival in progress at the White
vile M. 4. Church, South, has been
one of the best in the history Of the
town.
The annual convention OF the Ten.
nessee State Woman's Christian Tenn.
perance union will be held in Bristol
Oct. II, 10, IA and Is.
The forty-seyenth session of Martin
college opened with the greatest NUM-
Der enrolled at any opening in the hiss
tory Of the institution
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The southern headquarters of the
Young Peoples Society Of the Chris
tian church has been moved from Bir-
mingham to Chattanooga.
In frenzy over being discharged,
Fred Brown, negro, killed James VIII
hanson, foreman for firm of road
contractors, near Sweetwater.
Capt. l.. f. Christman Of the jack
son home guards announces that
campaign to raise funds to equip the
company with guns will be inaugu-
rated
Earl Graul informed German sailor,
who died at base hospital, Fort Ogle.
thorpe. was given a military funeSal
and his body inferred in the National
Cemetery.
The recent appointment ct DR.. A. G.
Buckner OF Fayetteville as adtutant-
general Of the state to succeed Gen.
Rogan is gratifying to his many
friends.
Sam E. Clearge, for IL years East
Tennessee clerk to the supreme court.
Knoxville. was reelected to that post.
ton by the court for another term of.
six years.
While the fruit growers Of Henry
county have been complaining of the
shortage Of the peach crop, the apple
crop, especially Of the late varieties.
seems to be more plentiful
B Company, Indiana engineers, re-
cruited from Indianapolis, passed
through Jackson on their way to Camp
Shelby at Hattiesburg, Miss, where
they will continue n training
The 1918 session OF the Tennes-
see Polytechnic institute at Cookevills
opened under the most favorable aus
pieces. The enrollIpent Of students -
the largest In the history Of the lnstb
tuition.
After thrilling experiences as an ant
bulance driver with the British army
in France, Dr. George Herbert Clarke
has returned to the University of Ten.
nessee as professor of English litersr
ture.
Bristols delegation to the ninth an
nual convention Of the Southern Apps-
lachian Good Roads association, which
meets in Nashville, Oct. 16, will leave
Bristol in automobiles on the morn
ing Of Oct. Is.
The Rev. j. Tyler Frazier of Smyth
county, Va. himself a veteran, was
Il6 OIdlOF al DAlSLOk uu llAC OGSdSlOh
Of the nineteenth annual reunion OF
the Confederate veterans Of Eastern
Tennessee and Southwest Virginia.
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George r. James of Memphis and
D. w. Moss Of Dyersburg were prin-
cipal speakers at the closing session
of the annual West Tennessee Farm
ers' institute held in Jackson, at which
there was an attendance OF 1000 or
more farmers and their wives Mr..
James spoke on Agricultural Proper
edness" and Mr.. Moss on County and
Community Organization"
Food and grain Investigations mada
in East Tennessee counties with q
view to ascertaining how much grain
weuld be available for seeding, shows
available in "A counties $4,000 bush
els of rye. The remaining sc counties.
embracing Middle and West Tonnes
see, have in comparison only $4,000
bushels of wheat and 1900 bushels OF
rye for sale. These figures are Off
cial, and represent the work of county
and federal agents, whose reports have
been submitted to Prof. Charles A.
Keffer of the state university.
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