McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-06-28
FROM ALL PARTS
OF TENNESSEE
Reports of Interesting
Events Boiled Down
for Hasty Perusal.

SESSION mere. NASHVILLE was cnoSSH us
the next meeting place and the follow.
ing officers were elected:
DR.. Stanley Rich, Nashville, presi-,
dent; DR.. J. L Austin, Chattanooga,
first vice president; Dr. James VIM
Nashville, second vice president: Dr.
J. L. Powers, Paris, recording secre-,
tary; DR.. R. HI. Harwood, Morristown,i
corresponding Secretary; DR.. d. H..
Johnson, Nashville, treasurer.
The following executive committee,
was elected: DR.. w g. Hutchinson,
Nashville; DR.. D. M. Cattell, Memphis;
DR.. C. o. Rhea, Nashville.
The association adopted resolutions
calling upon the governor and the
state prison commission to employ a
dentist to care for the teeth of the
| prisoners.
Gov. Tom G, Rye confirmed the
death sentence of the supreme court
| upon Homer Lawson, convicted Of
criminal assault in the criminal court
of Knox county, in 1917. Lawson has
| been five times reprieyed by the gov
| ernor in order that his friends might
present new evidence in his favor,
asking for Communication of his SEN
tence to life Imprisonment He will
| be electrocuted.
Jackson. Hon. T. B. King of Mem.
| phis was here perfecting arrange
ments for the young peoples encamp
ment of the Memphis Conference Wo-
mans Missionary society to be held
at Crawford Springs, August to 7.
|
Murfreesboro-F here swept al
most through block of business
houses, burning one bank and more
than half dozen stores. The loss is
estimated at more than 100000.
| Newbern.--The second quarterly
meeting of the Newbern Methodist
circuit convened for a two days ses.
sion at Rehoboth Church, four miles
south of Newborn, June 90 and 2S.
| ss*ss
| Mdl Till no Stdto CUuFcHLluu VI
the Baptist Young Peoples union of
| the church convened here in the First
| Baptist church with E. e. Hanson Of
| Memphis, vice chairman, presiding, ia
the absence of the regular chairman,
J. E. Landden of Chattanooga, who is
| in the service of the country.
Covington.- address Of DR.. T..
W. Lewis, pastor of st. Johns Met l.
odist church, Memphis, was the feat.
ure of the nights session Of the annual
| conference of the Memphis conference
of the Epworth League, in session
here.
Knoxville.-Knoxville is to have a
sanitarium for the treatment and care
of people afflicted with tuberculosis.
The board of directors of the East
Tennessee sanitarium will build the
sanitarium and the city of Knoxville
will maintain the institution after it Is
completed.
A lone highwavRan confronted the
treasurer of the Biiou tleater with a
big gun and forced min to hand over
the theater's strong box, containing
several hundred dollars. Two police
men happened to be near and respond
| ed to the treasurerNs call for help by
| firing at the fleeing thief. In his flight
he dropped the box and then engaged
in shooting affray with the officers.
| He fired six shots at them and they
fired ten, but the highwayman es-
capped.
Stating that, it is an impossibility
for the Huns ever to win battle
against, an allied army, "as they can
not stand cold steel" Rev. R. e. Vale,
DID,, in an impressive address at the
summer school of the south, declared
that the few advances gained by the
enemy have been by spy and intrigue
system and not he-oism. DR. Vale
praised the response of America to
the call for additional troops to face
the fiendish forces OF the devil, and
Landed the efficiency Of the Sammies
as already demonstrated on the west.
ern front.
Chattanooga. The departure Of 25S
negro selectmen for Camp Dodge, Des
| Moines, Iowa, was the occasion of the
/ biggest patriotic demonstration Of the
draft movement.
/ Provost guards arrested Charles
Schminrantes, resident OF Chatta'
nooga, on the charge of making sedl-
tious remarks about the government
and declaring that he would not buy
Liberty bonds because this would be
contributing toward killing his own
people in Germany. He was held with.
out bond.
Principles of the Maryland compul,
sorry work law are to be put into effect
Immediately throughout Tennessee
through a statewide campaign partici-
pated in by police departments off tho
cities and towns. The move will affect
all men between the ages of is and 80.
| Msmphis.-The $40 negro selectmen
leaving Memphis were given fare
we'll which will go down in the mem
DRY of those leaving as one of the
most patriotic leave takings ever wit
messed by Memphis troops, either
white or colored.
Troy.--Capt Howard S. Maxwell.
whose name appears among the dead
I in the marine casualty list, was the
first volunteer to enlist from here in
the gre war. He took the oath in
Memphis IN March. 1917.
| Selmer.-The Acton Agricultural