Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1917-10-25

states dairy products exceed $4,000
900 as well as her poultry products.
Following is the estimated values
of each crop based on the 1917 acre
age production and present market
| prices:
Cotton ................S 50,525, 900
Wheat ................. 22,44O, 900
Corn ..................... 157, 0,0o0
OdtS ................. o,UI0.UUO
| Irish potatoes .....,...... 4,42Ss0DO
! Sweet potatoes ......... 2,105,000
nay .'....... '..'..'.''.. Ao,11uipOV
Apples ................ 525 900
| reaches ...........,..... 5Vl,UUU
Peanuts ............... 2,1S7,0O0
Cottonseed and cottonseed
oil products ........... 7O,OOO,O00
Tobacco ................. 6,7S0,0O0
Poultry .................. 5,25O.00G
Live stock, all kinds ...... 160,195, 49f
Dairy products ......... b,250,00C
| Sorghum ................ 1,452, 437
Buckwheat ............. 10000
Broom corn .............. 27,735
|
| Jackson-In spite of the fact that
there have been more business oppor-
tunities for boys of public and high
school age, owing to vacancies caused
by war conditions, Prof. G. B. Ijams,
city school superintendent. reports
that there are 2.9O1 pupils enrolled In
the white schools this year, as COM
pared with 2,S06 last year, and that
| there are 97S colored school pupils, or
/ a decrease of eleven from last year.
Bristol.-Judge Sanford of the fed
eral court will hear motion in Nash.
vile to appoint receiver for the Fed
oral Dyestuff and Chemical company,
operating a mammoth industry at
Kingsport, this county, and capital
ized at $15,0O0,0OO. Receivers have
been appointed for the same concern
in New York, under proceeding insti-
tuted there. It is said to be the re.
suit of a row among the stockholders.
Jackson.--That practically every
county In west Tennessee Is organ.
ICED for the registration of women snl
this state on Oct Is, is the statement
of Miss Sue s. White OF Jackson.
chairman of this division. Miss White
has returned from a trip to several
counties which had not been organ
lied and she states that with the COM
pletion of these every county is ready
for registration day.
Jackson.-Perhaps for the first time
III the history of revials in this county
Quoted under the auspices of labor or
Carnations. The four brotherhoods OF
railroad trainmen of this city have en-.
gagged the services of Rev. Burke Gull
pepper, who will come to jackson to
begin a revival in large tent.
Selmer.-The store of ]. w. Britton
in east McNairy county was entered
and robbed: One 500 gold certificate,
one check drawn by w. G. ELAN OF
Stantonvile on the McNairy County
bank at Selmer for $98.32, some sill
yer of small denominations and mer-
chandise are reported missing.
Jacksonville local Jewish citizens
have raised $1,000 in this city to DO
used as part of the $l0,000.000 nation
wide fund to be sent to Europe for
the alienation of war sufferers.
Newbern.-Assistan Ship Surgeon
Hubert w. Harris, son of Albert G
Harris, a prominent farmer residing
two miles south of Newbern, who Is
stationed on the G. s. s. Rhode Island,
is at home on furlough, visiting his
parents. Dr. Harris is a graduate OF
the University of Tennessee at Men,
phis.
Newbern.-The Newbern branch of
the Red Cross chapter of Dyer county,
ago, is one of the busiest places in
town. The auxiliary has completed
and sent to headquarters at Dyers-
ourg for shipment, 20S hospital bed
shirts. The women are now at work
on gowns of heavy flannel.
Newbern.-C. d. White and Parker
.Ds:more of Newbern narrowly missed
death when large touring car in
which they were riding turned turtle,
piIining both beneath the machine.
Dyersburg- public cannery
here has been discontinued. The work
has been in charge of Mrs. Joe Burns,
AMI thousands of quarts of every va
rte-y of fruits and vegetables have
been canned under her supervision.
Union City-The Obion county fair
opened with the largest attendance
SINE its organization, showing more
stock, more farm products, more
races, more interest and the biggest
display of school work that has ever
been seen in the county.
Chattanooga.-A meeting OF the
Chattanooga bar association, attended
by practically every lawyer in the city,
adopted resolutions denouncing OBJ
structionists and endorsing the course
of Col R0nSnvalt'a attifld0 r0RnrdiuR