McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-02-15
FROM ALL PARTS
OF TENNESSEE
Reports Of Interesting
Events Boiled Down
for Hasty Pcrusal.
for Hasty Perusal.


ton to Gov. Rye. who accepted 1t.
Nashville.-The Tennessee Central
railroad delivered Ito carloads Of coal
to Nashville in five days.
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Lexington-Col. Henry E. Graper Of
the Citizens bank has volunteered to
furnish the money to finance a pig
club for Henderson county.
Union City.--Falling on the Ice on
his front steps resulted in Harry Rob-
inson, popular travelling man OF West
Tennessee. being seriously injured.
Observation-Disclosures of Sullivan
county, in largely attended mass
meeting, having gone on record as en-
phatically opposing woman suffrage.
Athens.-The custer proceedings
against Horace Kimbrough, finance
commissioner of the town of Etowah,
filed recently, are being held up pend
Ing an adjustment.
Nashville.-Gov. Tom c. Rye ap-
pointed Laurent Brown to act as spe-
cial Judge of the First circuit court in
the custer trial of Sheriff Joe Wright.
in place of Judge T. E. Matthews.
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Lexington. has been re.
ceived here by relatives of the death
in a mysterious manner In Kansas
City of C. Ben Scott, aged 40, who for
merly resided at Wildersville, this
county.
Trezevant.--A mass meeting was
held here In the interest of demon
stration farm for the Trezevant high
school. Subscriptions were secured
guaranteeing the purchase Of the
farm OF about 100 acres.
Union City.-Leaving word that his
country needed his services more than
his county, Prof. A. B. Vaughn, Obion
county school superintendent, left his
office and boarded train for Men,
phis, where he enlisted as a seaman in
the navy.
Milan.-While out rabbit hunting
Fred Sanford, Is years of age, acct
dentally shot himself in the foot. His
companion, Butch Wheeler, bound up
the wound with piece Of suspenders
cut from his overalls, probably saving
| the boys life.
Knoxville.-A conference of state,
| county and several national road Of
| ficials will be held February IA and
| Is at the University OF Tennessee. 1t
will be under the supervision of the
Tennessee highway department and
the university.
| Nashville.-Plans of the Southern
Baptist commission on ministerial re-
lief propose 100000 as the first go6
to be aimed at. Two million dollars
OF this will be used as a general en-
Gowment fund to provide relief for
ministers of any age who are sick,
broken down or in need.
Knoxville. at the last
| term Of federal court Of failing to
register for selective military service,
James M. Newport of Robbins, Scott
county, minister, who Is said to be
opposed to army duty, was sentenced
to one month in the Scott county jail
and to pay the costs of the case.
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Greenville Camp Sewer is putting
out with mumps, and no less than 800
boys are nursing swollen jaws, while
reports Indicated that the epidemic is
spreading and threatens to seize many
more soldiers from the thinly popu-
lated districts who never came In con-
tact with the disease in their child.
hood
Gallattn. Naive-Spillers COM
pany will hold their fourth annual
poultry show for sumner county Sat
urday, March 2.
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Selmer.--Sheriff A. H. Jopling 70
ports the incarceration Of two in the
McNairy county Jail. the first since
November IA, 1917. The inmates are
negroes.
Nashyille.--At bay IN the half
flooded basement Of an unoccupied
+, rding, to which no had previously
set fire, a we'll dressed white man, in
en- apparently demented condition,
and supposed to be Frank P. r. Best
of Chicago Heights, H., was shot to
death by Officer s. P. Morrill, while
resisting an attempt to effect his res
cue from the flames.
I Dyersburg.-One of the largest sales
of real estate in the history of the
county was contaminated in Dyersburg
when Bose Pillow sold tract of land
in the fourth civil district for $4,000.
The tract contained more than 1000
acres.
Knoxville. Roy E. Vale, pastor
of the Second Presbyterian church, will
leave Feb. Ii foi Fort 0glethorpe,
where he will enter the service Of the
war Y. NJ G.. A. Leave OF absence
of three months has been granted him
for this purpose.
Trezevant.-A most successful cam
paign in the sale Of war savings and
thrift stamps has just closed in this
city.
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Chattanooga. Bird, a negro.
was shot and instantly killed by Dep
uty Sheriff Carter, in raid on negro
craps game.
| Memphis.-The foundation for con-
certed patriotic conservation Of fuel
| aud fond as n vital war necessity was