Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1917-05-24
MUST SAVE SEED FOR 1918
No More Coming From Europe Until
After the War, Says II. M. Cot
tress, Aorieulturist.

tress, earieulturist.
Memphis.--City and county garden,
ers who desire TO cooperate in the ma
tion-wIde campaign to increase the
production OF food must begin now to
save seed In America is practically ex
hausted, and that no more seed will be
imported from Europe until the wal
ends. II is common prudence, there
fore. that those who would eat next
year should save the seed now.
Every family is urged by Mr. Cot.
trell to save three times as much seed
as 1t will need, to guard against the
possible ravages OF mice, mold and
other influences.
In this connection, Miss Bessie r,
Murphy, director of the woman's de.
partment of the farm bureau, issued
the following bulletin to members OF
community clubs;
81 ask every club member to save
at least twice as much seed OF every
garden crop as she will need during
the next IL months.
Save a few plants of mustard, rad
ish, turnips. English peas and other
crops this month and let them go TO
seed. Every month save a few oil
your best plants for seed of every crop
that grows that month"
Neutrality-suspicious. for state cam.
paign for a constitutional convention
were made here by the committee OF
nine, comprising men from the three
divisions of the state. The committee
plans to organize each county in the
state through the agencies of the
county committees. Efforts will be
made to hold mass meetings in every
county shortly before the election.
June rs.
Fayetteville. Sarah Spears,
aged 60 years, died suddenly Of heart
failure while crossing the square on
her way to the depot. Mrs. Spears
had received news of the death of her
mother, Mrs. Gum, at Normandy, AID
was on her way to attend the funeral.
Memphis body of Antoinette
Rappold, a 15-year-old girl, was found
in a dense patch of woods, the head
having been severed from the body,
apparently with an ak The finding
of the body disclosed one of the most
fiendish crimes that has startled the
people of Shelby county in years.
Obion.-The following young men
have volunteered in the army and
will leave Dyersburg for st. Louis to
begin drill practice: Paul Jenkins,
Feeling Parks, Robert Davidson, Sharp
Smith, Knox Smith, Pete Allen, Erwin
Cox, J. Lancaster, Lotus Erwin. They
are from the best families of the good
old Volunteer State.
Jackson.--Jackson authorities will
ask that a detachment of the national
guard be statiohed here for patrol
duty, as there are number OF rail
road bridges, big factories and the
biggest boilermaking plant in the
south located here.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. H. C. Bate, aged
78 years, for many years connected
with the weather bureau and retired
on half pay during recent years, died
at his home here. He was an uncle OF
Senator w. B. Bate.
Washington.-Nat White, Of
paris, Tenn, former Memphis and
Nashville newspaper man, has been
appointed clerk in the office of the
supreme court of the District of Co
lumbia.
Jacksonville Madison county road
commission was organized with r. A
Hurt as chairman; NJ. B. Moore as
vice chairman, and ]. A. Thompson
county court clerk, as secretary.
&%ass
Nashville. THE Vanderbilt univer
sity faculty will give degrees to sen
Tors in the academic and engineering
departments called to government ser
vice before commencement
/
Dresden.-A terrific windstorm com
ing from the west cut a swath loo
yards wide a distance Of mile and
half near here.
Halls.-The new Cumberland Pres
byterian church at Poplar Grove, -four
miles northwest of Halls, was dedi
Gated.
Memphis. West Tennessee
chapter of American Guild of Organ
lists held the final meeting of the sea
son at the Chisca.
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Nashville.-Irish Nomads, WHO make
Nashville the burial place for theil
dead gathered here for the annua
ceremony.
Chattanooga.-There are now $50 ap
plications on file at the officers train
ing camp at Fort OglGthorpe.
Nashville. Men of The Nashville
battalion, of the First Tennessee in
fantry, who saw service on the Mex
can border last winter, we're presented
at Camp Andrew Jackson with bronz'
medals by patriotic women Of this cit!
in appreciation of their services TO
their country.