Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-06-07
TENNESSEE
Epitome of Interest
ing Events That Are
Transpiring Over
the State = = =

Harrowgate.-T degree of doctor
of laws was conferred upon President
Wilson here by Lincoln Memorial uni,
yersity The occasion was the annual
commencement exercises.
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Nashville-The bank clearings for
the month of May for Nashville as re-
ported by the Nashville clearing house
were $55.S74,OS5, compared with $40,-
115,0S5 for the same month last year,
or an increase slightly over 81 per
cent.
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Bolivar. Fire destroyed fine barn
on the Lespedeza farm at Hickory
Valley. The building was used as a
commissary for the storage OF nipple
ments, oils, etc. Loss between $25, 900
and $4,000, with about one-fourth GOV.
cred by insurance.
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Jackson: Ernest Wilson, prominent
young farmer Of the Denmark vicin.
lty, was placed on trial in criminal
court, charged with the murder Of
Bernie Il. Dickinson, middle-aged
farmer and well-to-do citizen, living
on the Madison4Haywood county line.
Much mystery surrounds the killing
and Wilson is being tried on circun-
stantial evidence.
Chattanooga.-In compliance with
President Wilson's proclamation Chat
tanooga observed a day of prayer and
fasting in supplication for the success
Of American armies and the early
coming Of lasting peace throughout
the world. The churches were all kept
open throughout May 30 and hundreds
of people gathered and offered up
their petitions for the cause So close
to every heart.
Nashville.-Luther Harris, aged 30,
drafted man of Sumner county, Is
dead at the Jail in Gallatin as a result
of poison taken. His young wife, who
shared the poison, is in a critical con-
dition at a Gallatin hotel. Harris en-
trained at Gallatin for Camp Pike, but
left the train at Nashville and re-
turned with his wife to Gallatin, where
he was arrested. The young wife the
next morning procured the poison,
and, it is alleged, secured admission
to his cell and the two divided it.
Memphis Agents of the United
States department of justice and CITY
detectives are hot on the trail of two
white men suspected of having ex.
ploded bomb which caused the de-
struction by fire of a huge cargo of
hay and alfalfa feed in the warehouse
Of John Wade & Sons, Front street
and Butler avenue. The white men
were implicated by Tom Turner, me-
gro, II years old, who was shot and
wounded while seeking to escape froi1
the burning warehouse by j. A. Da-
wilson, night watchmaA.
Washington.-Br Bristol, a city OF 90
600 people, situated in both Virginia
and Tennessee, has pledged itself 10
so wheatless until harvest, in order
that the absolute needs of the allies
may be met from Americas meager
store, Five large mills, so wholesale
and retail grocers, all hotels and
scores of patriotic citizens have turned
in their entire stocks for the use Of |
the government, and have pledged |
themselves TO use no more until the
present need has passed. No more
wheat flour will be sold and the en-
tire output Of the mills is to be placed |
at the disposition of the food admin.
istration.
Trezevant.-The Red Cross cam
paign has not altogether closed in Car
roll county, but the county has al |
ready gone over the top with more |
than $4,000 to spare.
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Selmer-A. H. Grantham has &C. |
cepted the position of superintendent
Of the Troy, Tenn, schools where no |
will work with seven teachers. For
several years he has been one of the |
most prominent educators in this sec.
ton. He is now serving the second
term as superintendent of the McNairy |
county public schools, has been prin. |
cfpal of the Bethel Springs high school |
SIX years and was principal of the Ad-
high school for two years.
Paris.-The farmers of Henry coun.
~ generally report crop conditions ex.
cellent. Planting in many instances is |
about completed, and the corn crop
looks unusually well. The weather
has been seasonable and the crops are
rapidly. A majority of the
fields are free from foulness and the
farmer is literally making hay whila
he sun shines. Some farmers with
arge acreage of wheat report the |
wheat crop as unusually fine.