Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1917-08-02
FROM ALL PARTS
OF TENNESSEE
Reports OF. Interesting
Events Boiled Down
for Hasty Perusal.

Bristol.--Military training may be
added to the school curriculum OF the
Bristol public schools.
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TreZeyant-The Carroll county court
set aside a 10.cent tax on the hundred
dollars for high school purposes.
Dyersburg men took much
interest in the performances given at
a local theater for the benefit of the
Boy Scouts.
Newbern.--The Irish potato crop In
this section has been harvested and re-
ports are that a record-breaker was
made throughout the county.
Chattanooga.-Th city was select
ed over Birmingham as the headquar-
ters OF the extension committee of the
All.Southern Christian EnGeavor.
Jacksonville trial of Lee McClain,
| charged with the murder of his half
brother, Dave S. Harris, has again been
| postponed from July II to Sept. 4.
ENTHUSIASTICALLY board of direc-
tors OF the Rutherford fair association
met and decided to hold the annual
fair three days, Sept. IL. 10 and IA.
Covington.-Two children of Joe
Brastield, a respectable farmer, who
lives near Solo, were burned to death
when the home was destroyed by fire.
Clarksville.-During the last week
about 10000 pounds of tobacco was
sold by the loose floor houses. Lugs
reached the $40 mark and leaf $1275.
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Newbern.LThe movement in the in
terest of road working day, Aug. Z,
when citizens of West Tennessee will
turn out a man to work on the public
roads is gaining impetus.
Newbern.-A movement conducted
by the Mothers club of Newborn In
the interest of French war orphans,
succeeded in providing maintenance
from this community for Is war ba-
bies
Jacksonville city officers have
started their regular summer cam
paign against violators of the fiy-trap
ordinances, which specify that mer-
chants shall not only have fly traps
but keep them well baited at all times.
Jackson. have been Sc
cured for all OF the 25 men who are af.
fected by the discrimination Of the
dining car service on the Mobile &
Ohio railroad, is announced by Herman
F. Warren, superintendent of the serv-
ice with commissary headquarters
here.
Jackson.--With a view to reaching
important decisions on the best meth
DDS for meeting war time demands,
the farmers of West Tennessee will
meet here at the state experimental
station September s. 6 and 7, in the
annual sessions of the West Tennessee
Farmers Institute.
KnoXville-Forty'fi five Sante Fe freight
locomotives, costing about s4000,000,
with pulling energy 80 per cent
greater than the Mikado type, are ex-
| pected soon for use in the middle dis
| trict of the Southern railway, of which
| e. e. Norris of Knoxville is general
| superintendent. Twelve freight en-
gines of the Mallet type, with pull
Ing capacity of Is per cent more than
the Santa Fe type, and As per cent
more than the Mikado, are also coming
for Use on the Appalachian division in
the coal fields of Virginia.
Hunting don.-The automobile Of
Robert Thomas was struck at the
crossing of the N, c. & st. l.. Railway
here by a freight train and Mr.. Thorn
as was killed, his wife and two daugh-
tiers, and Jess Wyatt, who were in the
car were all badly injured. The car
was entirely demolished.
Kyle's Ford.--An election for pike
bonds in Hancock county voted on
BY the people for issuance of 800, 00o,
carried by approximately five hundred
majority.
Jackson.-The tenth annual fed tri-
ais and encampment of the Forked
Deer Red Fox club will be held at
Crawford Springs, just across the Dor
der Of Madison In Henderson county.
beginning August 10.
Jackson. ZION. B J. Howard. who
had served for 90 years as attorney
general of the twelfth judicial circuit
| Of Tennessee, died at his home in
Jackson of paralysis. He had already
served longer than any other public
official in the position he held and
had recently been nominated without
opposition for his fourth consecutive
term.
Chattauooga.-J. M. Anderson, ref
cree in bankruptcy, in an opinion in
the case of the Dayton Coal & Iron
| company, held the mortgage held by
the Central Trust company as trustee
for the Scottish bankers, is invalid,
| because the bankrupt company had
never complied with the state law re-