Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1917-05-18
TENNESSEE GLEANIHGS
News of Interest Prepared
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discovery OF mlhefal ~ Mlles nOftn
Of Camden.
Mrs. Mary s. Dalton, aged 200 years,
died at the residence Of her daughter
at Huntsville.
The members of knights OF Pythia5
in the Martin district held a district
meeting at Martin.
Forty-two students OF the Jackson
high school will receive diplomas Of
graduation this year.
The Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls
OF Atkins-Porter school at Paris ara
taking military training.
The fifteenth annual field meet was
held in Dyersburg and the events were
witnessed by large crowds.
At an election at White Bluff $4,000
in bonds was voted to be used in grad
ing and improving the streets.
DR.. John Morris of Somerville, Tenn,
has been appointed first lieutenant in
the medical reserve corps of the army.
The thirtieth annual meeting of the
Woman's presbyterial auxiliary Of Co
lumbia presbytery was held at Mt.
Pleasant.
Strawberries are moving from the
Humboldt territory in car lots and the
prices being received range fom $3.50
to 1925 pc crate.
Sam Gordon, prominent young at
torney Of the Dyersburg bar, has gone
to Fort Oglethorpe to join the Off
GERS training camp.
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J. S. Roberts, venerable business
man and prominent church member at
Cleveland, celebrated his seventy fifth
birthday anniversary.
J. NJ Dean and Prof. 0. N. Smith
addressed a mass meeting OF farmers
at the Lafayette court house along the
line Of food preparedness.
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Fourteen OF the youngest doctors of
Chattanooga have already taken the
examination and qualified for commits.
sions in the u s. hospital corps.
The $1,OO0,O0O endowment for Lin
coin Memorial university will be COM
pletely subscribed by January, accord
ing to the prediction of Judge U. L.
Marvin Of Cleveland, o., trustee,
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The April term, 1917, OF the quarter
ly county court, met in a called SEES
sion at the courthouse in Covington,
and unanimously elected Sherrod
Smith, county attorney for Upton
county.
The May term of the circuit court
convened at Bolivar with Judge S. J.
Everett presiding. L. q. Gwinn of Gov
ington is acting as attorney general in
the absence Of Gen, Upton.
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At sessions of the triannual camp
meeting of Modern Woodmen of Amer.
lea at Knoxville, Murfreesboro was Sc
lected as the next place Of meeting.
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A0nnvAanos - 1Aa SaI1
been gathered, more than 1000 miles
of new roads will be built in East Ten
nessee during this spring and sum
mer.
s. More than $500 persons are expect
ed to attend the annual meeting OF Inc
East Tennessee educational associa-
ton, which will convene in Knoxville
Oct. %.
Chaplain ]. B. Frazier, who was
chaplain on the Olympia, Admiral
Dewey's flagship at the battle of Ma.
Mia, spoke at the court house in Gov
ington.
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The democratic primary to elect
candidates for the position of Judge
and encouragement of the sixteenth
judicial circuit OF Tennessee was set
for July 80,
Recruiting Officer NJ. G. Fitzhugh
for the U. S. army, who has been sta.
toned at Lexington, received orders
from the department to close the re.
cruiting office.
With representatives from nearly ew
cry state in Dixie in attendance, the
tenth annual convention OF the south.
ern commercial secretaries associa-
ton convened in Knoxville.
The Memphis and Shelby county
anti-tuberculosis association has Sc.
cured@the assistance Of DR.. Gerald B.
Webb of Colorado Springs in the fight
now being made on tuberculosis.
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A portion of the right ear of M. H.
Taylor was bitten off by a horse.
When Mr.. Taylor started across the
street to his office in Jackson the vi.
cious horse made lunge at him and
bit off considerable portion Of his
ear.
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r.. B. Snowden, instructor in physi-
iology and pharmacology at the medi-
cal college of the University of Ten.
nessee, left Memphis for Great Lakes,