Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1918-10-17
TENNESSEE
Interesting Events
From all Parts
of the State

county.
Paris-J. f. Russell prominent
farmer of the Elkhorn section, killed
an owl which measured So inches from
tip TO tip.
Mt Pleasant.-With an allotment OF
$4,000, Mt. Pleasant, of the seventh
district, has gone handsomely over the
top in the Liberty Loan drive by over.
subscribing a total of $172,160
Fayetteville.-It is believed that Lin
coin county has raised her quota for
the Liberty Loan drive. The county's
quota is 1852 $50, and with ten dis
tricts to hear from the pledges on hand
aggregate $$SOO,OOO.
Milligan College,-The students of
Milligan college of required age were
formally indicted into the S, A. T. c.
on Oct /. This date had a peculiar
significance for more than 500 colleges
and universities throughout the United
States.
Jackson.-A. E. Griffin and wife left
for Grand Rapids, Mich. to attend the
annual convention of the National Flu
neral Directors association and also
the conference of the embalming
boards of North America. Mr.. Griffin
is treasurer of the National Funeral
Directors association and is president
Of the embalming boards.
Knoxvile.-Mrs. Samuel Phillips Of
Memphis, formerly of Knoxville, state
of loan activities in Tennessee, made
one of the addresses at the great Lib
erty Loan mass meeting held here
when Knoxvillians packed Staub's The.
alter in eagerness to hear in full the
messages of several distinguished
speakers.
Selmer.-Lieuts. II. C. G. Smith and
H. r. Minehan of Park Field, Mem.
phis, landed here in Curtiss training
piano wv ooool. II Sy dppiodIHOu
from the north and were sighted at
height Of 1900 feet. The town was en-.
circled several times and the pilot en-
tertained with some fancy diving, loop.
ing the loop, and gave splendid exhi-
bition of driving before landing.
= tanooga-A.robber of the quar-.
termasters department at Fort Ogle
thorpe, Ca, was unearthed with the
arrest of Sergt. j. Follow, according to
police authorities. Thousands of dol
lars worth of leather and raincoats
are reported missing from the quarter.
masters warehouse. According to the
police, the stolen goods were shipped
to Chattanooga in Red Cross boxes and
then reconsigned to Philadelphia.
Covington,- Boshers, farmer
Of District No. ~, aged "a, son of ]. P
Boshers, shot and killed Curtis Var
bro, a negro, aged 35, on the public
square in Covington. 1t appears that
Yarbro owed Boshers an account fo,
! hauling hay and refused to pay it, and
when Boshers demonstrated with him
witnesses state that Yarbro advanced
on Boshers with drawn knife, when
the latter drew pistol and and shot
Yarbro the ball taking effect just be.
low his heart. Boshers surrendered to
officers, and after executing a 50 900
bond before Justice J. L. Richardson
was released.
Huntingdon.-Lieu Robert H. Car.
ter former Huntingdon boy, has
been awarded a captains commission
! at Camp Perry, o., where he has been
stationed the past six weeks at the
rifle range. He made such fine rec.
ord as a marksman he was selected t.
| shoot in the international shoot when
he qualified as an expert rifleman.
Capt. Carter received his commission
as first lieutenant at the second Off.
| GERS training camp at Fort Oglethorpe
and made record of so out of so as a
sharpshooter Capt Carter will be
transferred shortly to Camp Sherman,
Chillicothe, o., to become member of
the Ninety-fifth division.
Washington.-The United States de.
partment of agriculture has announced
/ the appointment OF the following men
| to act with the district draft boards
of Tennessee as advisers regarding ag.
ricultural needs:
H. K. Bryson Nashville, agricultural
| adviser to district board for middle
! district, with headquarters at Nash,
vile.
A. ~ jackson, Louisville, agricultu.
raj adviser to district board for East.
ern Tennessee, with headquarters at
! Knoxville
]. P. Matthews, Oakland, agricultu
raj adviser to district board for the
Western district, with headquarters at
Memphis.
The agricultural advisers are not 70
be members of the district boards, but
are to furnish to the boards facts rela.
tive to farm labor requirements, not
only of their own districts but of the
entire country. Such information will
be supplied to the advisers by the de
partment of agriculture. The advisers
also may concern themselves with III.
div:dual cases before the district board
County agents of the departments OF
agriculture have been supplied with
questionnaires to be sent out for the