The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-08-17
TENNESSEE
Interesting Events
From all Parts
of the State


want.
! Earl McRae, aged %, was drowned
at Johnsonville.
Flick Rouse, aged 10, was drowned
at Big Creek park.
Engines from Southern railway lines
are being given up for movement to
France.
A new Baptist church was organized
at Enville. There were thirteen char
ter members.
The farmers Of Trousdale county Sc
lected twentyone delegates to the in.
stitute in Nashville.
Charles R. Smith was stabbed in
the head with knife and killed by
Lotion Malone, near Alexandria.
Protracted meetings are in progress
in every section of Dyer county and
much interest is being manifested.
Saturday, Aug. IS, has been selected
as the date for the big flag raising a.
the Asbury school, in the Eighth dis
trict
Prof R. E. L. Bynum, former super.
intendent Of schools at Jackson, has
been appointed postmaster for tho
U. S. senate
The prospects in Dyer county at
present look very promising for a
bumper corn and cotton crop in every
district of the county.
Bristols second company of sol.
diers, organized recently and desg-
mated as company A, has been re-des-
ignated as company F.
About 50 auto owners of Jackson
formed an organization at called
meeting to protest against the impos:'
ton of the S. city auto tax.
The Morgan County teachers insti'
tute, which has just closed at Wart.
burg, was pronounced to be one of the
best ever held in the county.
Much anxiety is manifested at
Union City on account of IA persons,
mostly children, having been bitten
by dog affected with rabies
The Bristol exchanges and the
through lines of the Cumberland Tele.
phone Company and the Bristol Tele.
phone Company are being consoli.
lated
Responding to national airs, played
W the Bristol band, fully five thous- |
md people assembled at Bristol to pay /
farewell tribute to BristoPs ESQ SOL q
Ter boys. t
A canning factory with a capacity y
f 10000 cans per day, was opened at "
knoxville by S. Lewis and J. S. Ad-
ock. About seventy-five persons will
Q employed.
The land owners of the are embrac- a
by the North Fork drainage district t.
let at Dyersburg and let the contract n
} dig ditch from the Gibson county A
ne to Dyersburg. 2
II
DR., Herman Hawkins has been II
ccted city physician of Jackson, to ii
Ike the place of DR.. G. w. Saunders,
no enlisted in the United States
my medical corps.
DR.. ]. A Phillips, who has been pas,
r of the First Baptist church in -,
thens since early in the year. has u
zen forced to give up his work OH
count of failing health. Is
Permanent organization of the Madi, Is
n County Automobile Protective as
citation was perfected by the election 10
c. R. Hotchkiss president and o. P. W
oval ecretary-treasurer. "
A total of 223,067 women are enlist ar
in the army of food preparedness 81
Tennessee, estimates Miss Virginia 30
Moore, who has charge of the home
,nomics work in Tennessee for the 70,
with headquarters at the Nc
iversity of Tennessee. 81
promotion from the rank Of sec.
l lieutenant to that of first lieuten- Al
of the Thirty-seventh United fir
ties infantry has been awarded w.
we'll Scobey, now at Fort Leaven- OIL,
nth, Kas. Lieut. Scobey formerly -,
ided in Memphis. lbs
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It's ever made to the West Tonnes Z
ernerimpnf station hrouphf 1 QO0 80