Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1917-09-27


the biennial registration in Knox
county.
The property of the Bristo! Traction
company will be sold at public auction
on Sept Is.
The Wartrace preparatory school
opened with Prof John F. Pruett as
principal.
e. f. Arnold, fam demonstration
agent for Dyer county for the last
year, has resigned.
The citizens Of Union City and Obion
county gave a dinner to the drafted
boys of the county.
The Carroll county exemption board
has certified to the names of 17S as
being subject to military duty,
The First ambulance company OF
Tennessee has arrived at Camp Mills
to join the Forty-second division.
ne lITsl HiUbOu equity UOg hHOWh
to be with the United States forces
in France is Robert X. Christenberry.
ssss.
The Jackson lodge of Elks will con-
tribute total of $3.50 to the prosech-
ton of the war against the Teutonic
powers.
Col. Thos. e. Halbert has been elect
ed superintendent of the military de-
partment in Castle Heights school at
Lebanon.
The body of Guy Gillespie, killed IN
the British trenches somewhere in
France" will be brought to Knoxville
for burial.
The exemption board of Gibson coun-
ty has called for 400 additional men
to report at Trenton this week for
examination
A contracting firm of Dyersburg
has been awarded the contract TO build
the gravel road from Tiptouville to
Reelfoot Lake.
Rev. G. S. Thomas has resigned the
care of the Baptist church at Parsons
and accepted a call to the First
church. Jonesboro, H., effective Oct. |.
Road machinery for beginning work
on the Dixie highway through Bedford
county has arrived and work has be-
gun and win be pushed to completion.
Frank b. Coleman, formerly owner
of the Memphis baseball club and
| prominent in business and sporting
circles of Memphis for many years, is
dead
J. w. Johnson brought freak canta
loupe to GAINESVILLE. Three melons
growing on one stem, so close together
that the rinds joined, made the curl
osity,
Rev. Hugh S. McCord, pastor of the
| Cumberland Presbyterian church OF
Dyersburg for the past five years, ten
dered his resignation, to take effect
Nov. l.
A mass meeting of citizens of Mar
shall county was held for the purpose
of perfecting a permanent organization
to take action in regard to needed 10
cal legislation.
In the Montgomery criminal cour
in the case of the State VS.. Mamie
Pardue, the jury returned verdict o.
murder in the first degree, under miti
eating circumstances.
Selecting Memphis as the next meet
ing place, electing officers for another
year, the sixteenth annual session o
the Tennessee Optical society ad
journed at Knoxville.
Construction crews OF the lllinoi!
Central railroad have completed laying
from Millington to the United States
army aviation school. ...
Miss Flora Shelby, who has been II
charge of the home economics demon
stration work for Dyer county for thu
last two years, has resigned for th'
purpose of taking a much needed rest
All cows which prove 'slackers" d
fail to produce the amount OF mill
that they should this winter will b.
indicted" and sent to the butcher, &C
cording to a decision of the Knol
County Cow Testing association.
|
A committee of about 100 coal op
orators from East Tennessee and Ken
lucky coal mining districts have gon'
to Washington to present data as t,
the cost of production of coal In thi
district to Coal Administrators Garfield
The appointment of Hon. Daniel II
for the government farm loan depart
ment, with his headquarters in Louis
Vile, KY, is merited recognition o
one of the ablest and most popula
lawyers of this section of the state
|
At the concluding session of tn
Tennessee bar association at Eppersol
Springs. Col f. Watkins of Chatta
nooga was elected president. A. "
, Akers of Nashville. vice-president 70
Middle Tennessee; Chas. j. Jones @
Athens. yice-president for East Ter
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