The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-06-21
TENNESSEE
BRIEFLY TOLD EVENTS
OF THE STATE


The Memphis Methodist Conference
Biblical Institute will be held in jack
son June 25-29 at the First Methodist
church.
The tobacco market GAINESVILLE was
quiet last week. Leaf sold for SO to
$14, while Jugs found ready sale from
Sc to So.
Twenty pipe filters of the Chatta'
nooga gas company struck for higher
wages, when the company refused
their request for an increase.
The fifty-fifth annual conclave OF
the Grand Commandery of Tennessee,
Knights Templar, was held at Leba'
non with over 300 in attendance.
A war work council has been organ
lied at Friendship to assist In the
work of raising funds for the Y. NJ. G.
A. work at the training camps.
Joseph Blevins, now a prisoner IN
Montana, has confessed to being I'M
plicated in the robbery Of the johnson
City (Tenn.) postoffice Dec. 3, 1916.
At a sale of IS head OF eight and
ten-months- old Aberdeen Angus cattle
$1,466 &c was realized at Knoxville
The highest single bid offered was
1872 cents a pound.
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Among the new buildings being
erected In Gallatin is the handsome
new Sunday school room or the Meth
odist church, which is about complet'
eI at a cost of $4,000.
Twenty-six members of the unlver'
sity of Tennessee ambulance corps OF
the U. S. army left Knoxville for AL
lentown, Pa, where they will be mus
tered into the federal service.
The G. H. Lord corporation OF Chi
cago has acquired 568 acres of miu'
eral land near Cleveland, Tenn, and
will begin manganese mining opera
tons there with large force at once.
Gleason sweet potato growers are
planning for an increased yield this
year, setting about one-third more
acreage than last year. 1t is estimat'
ed the acreage this year will be about
400 bushels.
Capt. H. w. Kingman, for the past
two wears 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 board Of directors of Gleason
high school have elected teachers for
the coming year, as follows: Prof
w. G.. Robinson, Mrs. Robinson, Miss
Erin billiard, Mrs. Roht. Matheny ana
Miss Lila May Bates
At the annual meeting of the Jack
son rotary club the following board OF
directors for the year was elected:
Dr. Jere L. Crook, F. Il. Wilkinson, l..
Palmer Brown, j. C. Felsenthan. J. q.
Hughes and S. P. Anderson
The democratic executive commit
tee for Lauderdale county met at the
court house at Ripley and called a
primary to nominate county officers
on Sept. /. So far Sheriff j. T. Cough
IAN and County Court Clerk c. S. Car
ter have no opposition.
Representatives Of commercial, In
dustrial and agricultural organizations
throughout the state will meet N
Nashville in July for the purpose OF
formulating definite plans for the Or
SANITATION of Tennessee chamber OF
commerce.
Ten dynamite bombs were discov-
cred lying against an abutment Of the
Southern railways bridge at Straw
berry Plains, II miles east Of Knox
Vile. These bombs were slightly ex-
posed and were placed in such a way
that it was apparent the men who
placed them there intended to return
later and explode them.
Each of the rs chapters of the Unit
ed Daughters of the Confederacy n
Tennessee were asked by Mrs. Birdie
Askew owen, state president, to buy
Liberty loan bonds. The Jackson chap
ter started the movement with the
purchase of a 500 bond. 1t is esti'
mated that fully $4,000 will be sub
scribed in this manner.
Through the courtesy of T. B. Car
roll. chief clerk, the chamber Of the