The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-05-31
TENNESSEE
BRIEFLY TOLD EVENTS
OF THE STATE


The ladies of Dyersburg have organ
lied Red Cross society.
Jack Shropshire, 40, a well TODD
farmer, committed suicide
Sixty head of goats were stolen
from the farm of G. l.. Isabel, near
Jackson.
The East Tennessee farmers con-
yention held it's forty-fourth annual
convention at Knoxville.
The biggest crowd in the history or
Ridgely attended the ceremonies at
tendant on the flag-raising.
The twenty-first annual convention
Of the Tennessee Federation OF Wom-
ems Clubs was held at Tullahoma.
The Rev. Andrew Potter, Baptist
minister of Lexington. has been called
to the First Baptist church, Enid,
Okla.
strong effort is being made in
Gibson county to raise company or
volunteers for service in the state
guard.
nv a vote of 1913 to IS the voters OF
Manchester expressed their approval
of the bond issue of $4,000 for water
works.
The election held in Humboldt to
vote $4,000 for the erection OF a new
high school building carried by vote
Of 1853 to Is.
The civic league or the woman's
club. under the direction OF Mrs. w.
w. Powell, will give prizes for the
best canning done in Dyer county.
A revision of the list of candldats
for Officers commissions in training
at Fort Oglethorpe show that there
was an excess of 60 men on the rolls.
The annual May meeting at historic
old Goshen, a Cumberland church,
which was organized more than hun
dred years ago, was observed this year
as usual.
Insurance agents who are unli-
censed will have to seek other fields
than Tennessee, as State Insurance
Commissioner Dunbar IS on the look
out for them.
The Peoples bank of Kelso, whose
capital stock is $4,000, has tempo
rarily closed, and the cashier, H. B.
Sorrels, aged 81 years, with family,
cannot be found
The jury in the case OF Herman ROD
erts, Bob Thompson and Bud Sharp.
charged with the murder of Arlo Green
at Sparta a year ago, brought in a
verdict of acquittal.
Miss Martha Hamilton, head Of the
department of expression in the by
ersburg high school for some years.
has accepted principalship in the
Peru state normal. Pep Neb.
Boys between t and FL
have organized a q mpany of Junior
Home guards in Jackson, under the
leadership of S. E. Wilson, Jr with
about so members enrolled.
The election held IN Paris for the
issuance of 10000 bonds for the con-
struction of liberation plant and
erection of a negro school building
carried two to one in favor of bonds.
A Hartman firm has been awarded
contract for 2O,OOO,OOO feet of ship
building yellow pine, to be used in the
wooden fleet of merchantmen that
the United States government will
build.
Gen. John P. Hickman. commanding
the army of Tennessee, has announc-
cd the routing Of special trains leaving
Nashville for the 9th annual Confed-
crate reunion at Washington, June 5,
and z.
A unit for cooperation with the Navy
Comforts league was organized In
Paris, and in honor of Tennessee's
governor, who is a resident of Paris,
the organization will be called The
Gov. Tom c. Rye Unit"
The readjustment OF the courses
and schedules at Vanderbilt univer-
sity. to meet the present national
crisis will enable the students to di,
vide their time equally, if necessary,
between university work and such con-
struction work as farming.