The Sneedville news. (Sneedville, Tenn.) 191?-19??, 1918-11-29


johnson City.-Firs destroyed the
main building of Milligan college hose'
causing q loss of $4,000. only one
building remains, the sifis dormitory.
and Il IL announced that the school
will be continued. Among the student
body are many from the student army
training corps. Many of the boys were
attending football game and lost con-
siderable OF their personal property
Knoxyille.-A cablegram from Brig.
Gen. l.. ID. Tyson to Mrs. Tyson con-
firms the death of their son, Lieut..
Charles McGhee Tyson. and states
that the body has been recovered and
will be brought to Knoxville for burial.
Gen. Tyson. commander of the Fifty.
ninth Brigade. Thirtieth Division. A.
f. f.. went to England Immediately al.
ter signing of the armistice and made
arrangements for having his sons
body returned home.
Lieut.. Tyson's death resulted from .
seaplane accident off the English coast
Oct. IL. Young Tyson belonged to tho
Royal Air Force.
Memphis.-By oversubscribing the
United War Work Campaign quota for
Shelby county by many thousands OF
dollars. Memphis and Shelby county
have again attested their patriotism.
raising 1891 ,0S9 for the activities OF
the war work organizations minister
ing To the soldiers. and sailors.
The greatest campaign in the mtpgA
of free win offering q the htstoFy q
the county practically ended vheu ~
their final meeting the team capla1cc|
and team members made their rsDortA
With quota OF $4,000. the n
counties : including Shelby = raised
s553.65i, an oversubscription OF moro
than $4,000 for the district. The quota
OF Shelby county was $4,000
Jackson was set aside to
celebrate as centenary day by the
Methodists OF Jackson and Of the
whole Memphis conference The cent
enary missionary effort inaugurated
by the NJ l.. Church. and TO commence
during the new conference year, pro.
yides for raising s35.OO0,OOO for varied
missions during the fiye.yoar period
succeeding. Prominent laymen of the
church participate in this movement.
as well as all OF the bishops. presid'
ing elders. preachers and secretaries.
Bishop James Atkins presided over
the sessions OF the conference. which
was scheduled TO be held In the
First Methodist church. The Memphis
conference Is one OF three confer.
ences included in the episcopal dis
trict OF Bishop Atkins. the other two
being the North Alabama conference
and the Tennessee conference.
The Memphis conference includes all
the Methodist churches OF tho city Of
Memphis and OF West Tennessee.
There are in this conference eight dis.
tricts, each under a presiding elder.
as follows: Brownssffis district. }. v.
Freeman. presiding elder; yersours
district, W. c. Waters. presiding eid
er; Jackson district. w. ID. Jenkins.
presiding elder: Lexington district. J.
y. Pickens. presiding elder; Memphis
district. T. F. Sharp. presiding elder.
Paducah district. l.. ID. Hamilton. pre-
siding elder: Paris district. W. W.
Adams. presiding elder: Union City
district. W W Armstrong. 70 siding
elder.
Memphis. city Is to have q
real birthday party She n going TO
celebrate the passing of the century
mark Of her existence in May. 1913.
n movement fostcred by the Hon. J.
n. Malone finds the ready response In
the hearts 81 tho general public that ~
has already found IN the county court.
the city commission. Rotary club. u
ons' club. Kiwanis club and number
~ civic welfare organizations before
which judge Malone has appeared and
spoken Of the plan
Nineteen hundred ard nineteen j.
10, only the one hundredth birthday Of
the city % Memphis. but II - the cen.
frnnIal ~ the founding Of shelby eoun
o. a. sell u Is. further. ths one hun.
dredth year since the laying 81 tho
fist boundary line between the states
n, Teunessee and Missis ppi All %
these things. and many more which
should be- % prime iniere-i 60 an who
love our home country. we're told hy
Iudsa Na'oas In bis aidres-es befors
the various bodies n sought 70 tax
NJ ihe centennial program and oarrI
n on