Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1917-02-02
TENNESSEE PICKNCS
Wire TapPings Over VOlun-
teer SlHte Prepared IN
EpitOmized Form
A city directory is being issued for

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Dyersburg.
The City bakery at Athens was de-
stroyed by fire.
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A brass band has been organized at
Dyersburg with thirty-fve pieces.
The Water Roller MIL company ct
Liberty is preparing to rebuild their
MILL
The Montgomery county medical as.
sociation elected officers at Clarks.
vile.
A large crowd was in McMinnville
Saturday, as the day had been set
apart as mule day,
The 1O-year-old daughter Of Wal
liam McGee at McMinnville was fatal
Iy burned Friday about the body.
Judging from the new buildings now
in course of construction, prosperity
has struck Athens as never before.
The Pulaski Civic league had an i'm.
portant meeting at Mary White rest
room, and officers for 1917 were in.
stalled.
A white woman was found In the
mountains near Middlesboro frozen to
death. Inquiries failed to reveal her
identity.
w. B. McSpadden, Bristol young
man, has been advised he is the win
ner of the national prize for window
electric decorations.
J. A. Parker of Nashville is charged
with shooting and probably fatally
,wounding his wife. Parker claims the
shooting was an accident.
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R. D. Boyer, in charge Of the farm
demonstration work in McMinn coun.
ty this year, has arrived and is get
ting well into the work.
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Taking every article of food within
reach, burglars left unmolested jew
elry and other valuables in the home
of prominent Knoxville citizen.
Announcement has just been made
that the district convention of Knights
of Pythias will be held with Orion
lodge at Carthage on March %.
Mrs. John R. Dodds, SO; who sus-
tanned burns on her face and hands
four weeks ago, when she fell into an
open fireplace, died at her home near
Jackson.
A meeting of the Tennessee Print
ers' federation was held at Nashville,
observing the two hundred end twelfth
anniversary of the birth Of Benjamin
Franklin.
Mayor Mcmillan and the city COM
missioners have agreed upon an ordi-
nance providing for strict regulation
Of Knoxville restaurants, hotels and
eating houses.
The Knoxville municipal employ
ment bureau will be opened about
Feb. 1, when applications for workmen
or for positions will be acted upon
free of charge.
The boiler at the courthouse at Co.
lumbus blew up and the officials have
been shivering in the cold. Practical.
ly all Of the, coal oil stoves have been
put into service.
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German Collins, assistant express
agent at Pulaski, who suffered con.
cussion of the brain as the result Of q
fall on the ice and who has been con.
fined to bed, is recovering.
Prof. F. M. Massey at Pulaski has
just received barrel of sugar and
barrel of sugar molasses as Christ.
mas present from a friend in British
Honduras, Central America.
George Green, proprietor of the Ar.
lington hotel at Clarksville has EN-.
ployed white girls for his dining room
and white men for porters. The girls
employed are residents Of the city as
well as the boys.
A committee OF twenty prominent
men of Franklin and Williamson coun.
ty was selected at a mass meeting for
the purpose of obtaining some action
by the present legislature on the turn.
pixies of the county.
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William H. Taylor, a deputy sher
IF, died at Memphis from a pistol
wound. The shot was fired by B,
81 years old, florist Jeal.
ousy over young wife. police say, is
responsible for the killing Of the Of
ficer.
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A cablegram received at Memphis
states that the French steamship ON
mum, which left New Orleans Dec. 4
for st. Nazaire, had been torpedoed.
The Memphis concern shipped 10000
railroad ties aboard the Omnium for
The French government.