Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1917-09-21
TENNESSEE
Happenings You
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The annual convention u AhlsHts "a
Maccabees will be held at Dyersburg
Nov. s.
At a mems mass meeting at Mount
Pleasant a home guard company was
organized.
E. F. Arnold, farm demonstration
agent for Dyer county for the last
year, has resigned.
The Rev. H. R. Rose the new pastHF
Of the Jackson First Methodist church,
has assumed his duties.
Hon. John T. Peeler Of Huntingdon
has been appointed as election COM
missioner for Carroll county
The Maccabees of Tennessee viii
hold state convention in the city OF
Dyersburg on Tuesday, Nov. 6.
Emmett Bytacle, aged 20, a young
married man living three miles from
Wildersville, committed suicide.
Karl Kraul, warrant officer, one OF
the interned German sailors confined
at Fort Oglethorpe, is dead of fever.
The First State Bank & Trust COM
pany was organized in Colliersville,
with capital stock of $4,000 paid up.
$500
The first Gibson county boy known
to be with the United States forces
in France is Robert X. ChristeEberry.
Rev. c. G. McIlwain preached his
farewell sermon as pastor of the Cum
berland Presbyterian church at New
bern.
Central Association of Baptists met
in the eighty-first annual session with
the Oakwood church, between Milan
and Cades.
The body Of Guy Gillespie, killed in
the British trenches somewhere in
France" will be brought to Knoxville
for burial.
While operating joiner at the Wa
tertown planning mill Ernest Patton.
son of the proprietor, lost three fin
gers from his right hand.
Earl Graul, informed German sailor
who died at base hospital, Fort 0gle-
thorpe, was given military funeral
and his body inferred in the National
Cemetery.
Sam E. Clearge, for IL years East
Tennessee clerk to the supreme court.
Knoxville, was reelected to that posi-.
! ton by the court for another term OF
six years.
In the Montgomery criminal court
in the case of the State VS.. Mamie
Pardue, the jury returned a verdict OF
murder in the first degree, under miti-
eating circumstances.
Mrs. Henry Gunter was killed and
three others painfully injured when
an l.. & NJ freight train struck an au-
tomobille in which they were riding at
Bluff Springs crossing, near Milan.
The trial of J. E. Voss, former head
of the socialist party in Tennessee
who is charged with the murder Of
Oscar Blakeny in November, 1915,
will be held in the Madison criminal
court Sept 10.
Memphis has contributed more ply.
sicians to the medical corps Of the
army than any other city in the Unit
cd States, in proportion to its popu.
lation, according to information con-
tanned in telegram.
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The Rev Albert Roller, the new pas.
tor of the Mars Hill Presbyterian
church in Athens, and the Rev. 8. B.
Ogle, new pastor of the First Baptist
church, have arrived and both minis
tiers filled their pulpits Sunday.
All COWS which prove "slackerR" or
fail to produce the amount OF milk
that they should this winter will be
indicted" and sent to the butcher. 40
cording to a decision OF the Knox
County Cow Testing association.
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Tennessees minerals and forests
will be wonderfully depicted in an i'm
posing exhibit at the Memphis Trt'
State Fair, which begins its annual
seVen-eay run Sept "a, according to
Frank D. Fuller, secretary Of the fair
Rose jackson, a prominent farmer
of the Thirteenth district, 40 years old,
was killed on his farm, near Palmyra.
when heavy piece of timber fell on
him, breaking his neck. Mr.. Jackson
was hauling timber when heavy beam
became dislodged.
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Organization of farmers in various
ways, in order to do their patriotic
duty to their country in the war crisis.
was the keynote Of practically all the
addresses delivered at the session OF
the West Tennessee Farmers Instt
tute in Jackson.
In amount and quality the Sullivan
county wheat yieldl of the present yea.
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