Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1918-05-16
FROM ALL PARTS
OF TENNESSEE
Reports of Interesting
Events Boiled Down
for Hasty Perusal.


Union City.-Farmers in this sec
ton are going to put out $50 acres OF
tomatoes for the early market.
Knoxville.--Crawford Bales. 14-year-
old boy. was horribly mangled beneath
Southern railway freight train here.
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Newbern.-One of the largest acre
ages of Irish and sweet potato crops
will be grown in this county this year.
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Nashville.-The Southern Metho-
dist board of missions authorized
subscription for $4,000 of Liberty
loan bonds.
Jackson.-A $4,000 corporation TO:
the manufacture and distribution oil
the smokeless fuel emonomizer is be-
ing formed here.
Dyersburg.--At a meeting OF the
commercial club arrangements were
made to put on community fair IL
Dyersburg next October. -
Dyersburg. - The Dyersburg RED
Cross rooms have been moved from
the basement of the Sugg hotef to the
Forked Deer club rooms.
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Whiteville.-M. A. Webb, represent
alive OF Hardeman county in tkh
lower house of representatives, is Sc
riously i'll at his home here.
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Dyersburg,-The West Tennessee
Ice association was organized III
Dyersburg with 20 ice factories Of
West Tennessee represented.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. agents Of.
fees of the Norfolk & Western and
the NJ, C. & st. L. railroads will close
May / for the period of the war.
Knoxville.-Coustruction of a $1,000
600 nitrate plant at Maryville is ex-
pected to result in the improving Of
the main highway from Maryville to
Knoxville.
observation-disclosures Cooley OF Knox
vile, a United States internal reve-
nue. officer, shot himself through the
head in the lavatory on the second
floor of the federal building.
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Jackson. manufacturers ard
the railroad agents are complaining Of
shortage of labor as result OF a
recent visit of labor agents from Nash
Vile. Sheffield and elsewhere.
Newbern.-Since making the sur
vey of the present crop, County Agents
s. G. Alternately and Miss Ruth Lus-
combe of Dyersburg have been push
ing the food production campaign.
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Paris.-J. L. Stewart, president Of
the Henry County Sunday school s.
ISOLATION, has called the first annual
meeting to be held at Palestine
church, five miles west of Paris, OF
the first Sunday in May.
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Bolivar. - An immense American
flag was raised at the Western hos
pital with appropriate exercises, con
sisting of songs, addresses, readings,
etc. DR.. J. B. Bond, superintendent
of the institution, presided.
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Knoxville. - East Tennessee and
Southeastern Kentucky coal mines
produced 1S0,915 tons more during tbs
month of March of this year than the
corresponding month of 1917, accord.
ing to the latest government report.
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Lexington.-News has been received
here by his many friends of the ap
pointment of Rev. Fred H. Peoples,
formerly pastor of the Methodist Epis-
copal church, South, at this place, to
chaplaincy in the national army, tc
be stationed at Camp Greenleaf, Fort
Oglethorpe, Ga.
Newbern.--The farmers In the rural
districts of Dyer county were busy
working the public roads over the
| county last week, owing to the cult
waited land being too wet to work,
-Chattanooga.-Libe day in Chat
tanooga was featured by thrilling
military spectacle under direction CT
Col. J. N. Pickering. chief of staff,
Sixth division, including an exact du
plimation OF trench warfare as prac
ticed on the fields OF Picardy.
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Cookeville.-The student body OF
Tennessee Polytechnic institute has
just closed very vigorous thrift and
war saving campaign, which was car
ried ON in business-like ane system
attic manner. The student body was
divided into two sides, the Army and
the Navy.
Dyersburg.-At meeting OF the
| business Mems club, Red Cross and
other organizations in the courthouse
! it was resolved to establish a commu.
nifty club in Dyersburg. This will be
along the lines of the community
clubs already established IN the
county.
Lexington Sheriff w. Ii. Mcbride
of Henderson county, who was rutF..
lessly murdered on the night OF thr
20th, YVES serving by the election OF
the county court in April. 1917. TO fiji
cat Tie unexpired term OF SAeritf J
FraIk h.'rtLl, resigned.