The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-11-30
TENNESSEE GLEAN!NGS
News of Interest Prepared
in Epitom:zed Form by
Special Writers i

kuOWu lu0u VI I1CAiJ Souhe1' ~
after suffering stroke of paralysis
The following young men OF ALTO
have enlisted in the navy: OrVllle
lizard, Edward Roave and Jess Gibson.
While out coon hunting Elmer Rusn'
ings Of Trimble was instantly Killed
when tree he was cutting down fell
on him.
Several of the Coffee county schools
have been closed during the past few
weeks on account of falling OF In at
tendance.
Twenty-one Red Cross nurses, mem
bers of the Vanderbilt hospital unit
left Nashville for New York to report
for active service.
Plans are being made for the ex'
tension of the lines of the Manchester
Telephone company, mutual concern.
recently organized.
The home of Edwin Newsome, ru'
raj route mail carrier, was destroyed
by fire at Whiteville. A rev pieces
of furniture were saved.
Burglars broke into the homes OF l.
E. Lassiter and ]. B.. Carter, While the
two families were attending moving
picture show at Martin.
A fund is being raised by public sub
scription at Manchester to install a SET
of 16 or more band instruments In the
Coffee county high school.
DR.. Samuel H. Caldwell, aged 81
years, one Of the best known c1tlzens
Of Henry county and prominent ex'
Confederate soldier, is dead.
DR.. J. L. Andrews of Memphis, head
consul of the Tennessee Woodmen OF
the World, delivered an interesting
lecture at Jackson on Woodcraft
Mrs. Allen D. Deane of Brlck
Church has received Wire from
Natchez, Miss, telling of the killing
of her brother, Ed Nicely. He was shot
by negro.
.
Circuit court for Henry county is
now in session at Paris, with Judge
T. E. HARDWOOD, the judge OF the CIR
cult, presiding, and A. B. Trousdale,
clerk, present
The Rev. Felix w. Muse has ten
dered his resignation as pastor Oh the
Baptist church of McMinnv1lie, alter
serving his congregation faithfully for
the last three years.
Two instead of one national guard
regiments in Tennessee may be organ
lied, says Gen. D. C. Chapman, Knox
Vile, who has been active in planning
for the new military units.
John Freeman, son of the late Capt
John Freeman, for many years SUI
preme court clerk at Jackson, has
been commissioned second lieutenant
in the Thirty-eighth infantry.
William Ledbetter, 60, and his son,
Walter Ledbetter, %, were buried in
the same grave at Manchester The
son died at Greeneville, where he was
in training in the national army.
The heavy rain which fell recently
in Dyer county has greatly relieved
the wheat crop, which is coming up
rapidly. The largest acreage on rec
ord was sown in Dyer county this fall.
The Red Cross girls at Grove High
school, Paris, have been divided into
SQUADS of five, with a captain for each.
The object is to see how much each
squad can accomplish in a patriotic
way.
David Lipscomb, So, teacher, preach
er and author, founder of the Nashville
Bible school and for 80 years editor OF
the Gospel Advocate and one OF the
leaders in the Church OF Christ, Is
dead.
The remains OF Fred H. Roland,
who died at Camp Sewer, S. c., OF
were inferred in Palestine
cemetery, northwest of Selmer. He
was q member of company ID, 117th
u. S. infantry.
At a meeting of the Godmothers'
auxiliary to the Red Cross society at
Jackson addresses were delivered by |
DR.. Luther Little, DR.. JE. Brown,
Judge Tom Rothrock and others in
the interest of an increased member
ship.