The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-06-28
TENNESSEE
Epitome of Interest
ing Events That Are
Transpiring Over
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ton Of Agricultural Editors concluded
its fifth annual session here.
Dyer.-Gibson Wells, a noted sum.
mer resort of this county, will not be-
open to the public this season.
Martin.-The crop situation in this
part of Weakley county is fine. Hay
saving is the order of the day.
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Chattanooga.-Go Rye will
open his campaign for United States
senator here on the night of July 8.
Knoxville.-A big war exhibit will
be displayed at the East Tennessee
Division Fair, Oct. 7-12, at Chilhowee
Park.
Dyersburg Rogers Clarke, with the
18th F. A., has notified his father,
Emmett Clarke, Of his safe arrival in
France.
Martin.-The annual state conVen.
tion of the B. Y. P. U. was held here
last week. Memphis was represented
by a delegation of 20.
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Chattanooga.-This city is to have
a Red Cross motor corps. A number
of prominent society bellies have de-
clared their intention of enlisting, II
is said.
Nashville.-Adfred w. Powers, 49,.
was killed and four others, including
Powers son, Alfred, injured when
their automobile turned turtle near
Nashville.
Nashville,-Nashvile is suffering
from an ice shortage The factories
are turning out all the ice they can
make with their equipment, but II is
not enough.
Dyer.-The highest price on record
for lambs was paid at meeting of
the Gibson County Sheep Growers as.
ISOLATION. The price of 1914 cents
pound was paid.
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Bolivar-Seventy-five negroes en-.
trained at Bolivar for Camp Dodge,
Des Moines, Iowa This makes to,
tai of 207 negroes who have gone
from this county.
Covington.-The first cotton bloom
of the season In Upton county was
brought in by Charles B. McClelland,
and was raised by George Fletcher.
on the McClelland farm
Medina.-The funeral OF Private
Harrison James, whose death occurred
from gas asphyxiation at Brooklyn,
N. Y, was held at Hopewell cemetery,
two miles east OF Medina
Memphis.-Shorthor breeders from
all parts of the south are planning to-
80 to Birmingham on July to attend
an auction sale of 90 pure bred Short
horn bulls for the benefit of the Red
Cross.
Union City-The farmers in this
county were never more busy. The
exceedingly favorable weather has en-.
abled them to complete the wheat
harvests and many have finished the,
clover cutting.
Memphis. Negotiations pending for
several weeks eliminated when the
hoard of directors Of the Lucy Brink.
ley Hospital formally transferred the
name, good will and property of the
institution to the Methodist Hospital.
Jackson.-Judge Ben B. Lindsey, OF
Jackson, writing to his aunt, Mrs.
Pattie L. Bates, from Paris, France.
states that everything American u.s.
the object of deepest admiration by
the French people and their armies.
Chattanooga.-The first of the coun.
ties in Tennessee to reach its quota in
pledges for war savings is Lincoln
county. which went over the top in
the pledge drive. The workers IN.
that county have succeeded IN secur-
ing pledges TO the amount OF s5is,11e.
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Nashville.-Major Rutledge Smith
has received a letter announcing the
indictment in overton county of Jas
per Tuder on the charge Of uttering
seditious words. Tuder Is reported
10 have said that 1--WE had just as well
be under the German kaiser as TO be
In the shape we are in, and on another
occasion he is said to have remarked:
I would not care II Germany would
sink every vessel in the world
Covington annual conference
of the Memphis Conference Epworth
League. which has been in session in
he First Methodist church. closed a
most successful conference and sd-
lourned to meet next year in May.
,ield. Ky.
Union City-Many friends ii Union
city are deeply affected al the news
hat Corporal Howard stone5 MAJ