The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-06-14
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truck, Wnlcn is calculated 10 40 tuo
work Of ten teams.
A meeting of the Bradley county Doe
keepers association was held at the
courthouse In Cleveland.
The men of Friendship and COM
munity have decided to organize and
drill on the school Fairgrounds.
A large crowd witnessed the laying
of the cornerstone of the first building
OF the new King college at Bristol.
Sheriff G. G. Pickett of Smithville
and two of his deputies, C. D. Hall
and F. r. Terry, are making it hot for
the "wildcatters."
The first graduating exercises in
the history of the academic depart
ment of Union university at Jackson
were held last week.
Mayor Ewing has ordered the Nash
vile board of moving picture censors
| to prevent the showing of all films
bearing on the war.
DR.. John B. Steele, former city
health officer of. Chattanooga, has
gone to Fort Riley, Kan, to report for
duty in the medical corps.
Mai Hal Holmes of Trenton was
tl,n oil a a.
ton of Jefferson Davis birthday by
the Daughters of the Confederacy in
Jackson.
Private VIII H. Davis, of company
H, First Tennessee regiment, was Sc
riously injured near the Strawberry
Plains bridge, sixteen miles east OF
Knoxville.
A representative of moving Him
company is at the l. o. O. F. home at
| Clarksville, securing films of every de-
partment, to be placed on exhibition
throughout the state.
Maj. E. 8. Walton, in charge OF the
construction of cantons at Fort Ogle-
thorpe, held a conference with meat
packers to discuss the building OF
large refrigerator plant at the post.
A distressing accident occurred nine
miles from McMinnville at the home
of Davis Cope, when his four-year-old
son, Lucky Lee, was shot and Instant
Nv killed by his six-year-old brother.
Mai. Matthias Crowley of the Sixth
infantry has been detailed as chief Of
police for moral zone surrounding
an army division mobilization camp
recently occupied in Chickamauga
park.
Parties living in the Mansfield COM
munity, some 40 miles east of Treze-
want, found a coat belonging to E. E.
Couch. who resides near Trezevant.
The coat was blown that distance by
the wind.
Capt H. w. Kingman, for the past
two years professor of military science
and tactics at the University of Ten
nessee. has received instructions to
Join the Eleventh U. S. infantry at
Douglas, Arizona.
The biennial municipal election was
held at Lucy with the following result:
Hon. G. R. McDade was elected mayor
and Messrs. D. H. Burnett, P. ". Moi
fatt. J. w. Presly, J. E. Moffatt and
DR.. w. F. Roberts. aldermen.
The Commercial club of Union City
has recently purchased teams, road
machinery, etc, at a cost Of $500.
and has begun work in cooperation
with the county to improve and re-
build the jefferson Davis highway
It is announced at FIT. Oglethorpe
that one field hospital and one ambu-
lance company of the Tennessee ma
tional guard would be ordered to Ogle-
thorpe for the new training camp for
medical officers and medical enlisted
men.
Among the notable names of the stu
dents at Fort Oglethorpe officers re-
serve training camp besides Leonard
Wood. Jr, son of the commander or
the department of the northeast, there
is a Nicholas Roosevelt from Oyster
Bay, a relative of Col. Roosevelt, and
there was a James Woodrow, but he
has returned to Washington.
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At the closing session of the Tfi-
State launderers' association at Nash
Vile. Sam S. Woolwine was chosen
president. The other officers elected
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