McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-01-04
TENNESSEE
BRIEFLY TOLD EVENTS
OF THE STATE
A quilt sold at auction for the Red
Cross at Waverly brought SAG.

Cross at Waverly brought SAG.
Election returns In Clay county In
dictate that the road bond issue car
ried in the election by nearly three
to one.
Wartrace Is emerging from an cpl
demic of roseola and chickenpox,
many of the victims having both NAL
aides in a severe form.
One hundred and seventeen men OF
the Lenoir City company of the Fourth
Tennessee regiment, we're inspected by
Col. E. v. Smith, U. S. A.
Charles T. Gates of Knoxville deliv-
cred an address at Selmer at the
Methodist Episcopal church under the
auspices of the Red Cross workers
On recent order from the post
office department at Washington, the
Humboldt office became the central
accounting office of Gibson county.
Or. Luther Little, pastor of the First
Baptist church of Jackson, has re-
signed to accept the pastorate of the
First Baptist church at Charlotte, NC.
The first ANIMAL corn club exhibit
under the direction of the division of
extension, University of Tennessee,
was held at Blountvllle last week,
with J. E., Dali, county agent, in
charge.
Run into by freight while he was
trying to get handcar off the track,
L. c.. Summers, section foreman OF
the M. & o. railroad, was almost in
stantly killed a few miles south of
Union City.
Twelve miners were killed in an ex-
plosion of mine No. of the Oar Dour
Coal & Coke company, at Catosa, near
Knoxville. Seventy-five men were in
the mine. All escaped except those
killed outright
Andy West, a white man, aged %,
was arrested near Eagleville, Ruther-
ford county, by w. R. Frazier, consta-
BILE, on the charge of being Stacker,
having failed to register on June last.
A. B. Foust, secretary of the Hum.
bolt business mems club, has been ap-
pointed fuel inspector for Humboldt.
Special effort is being made to per.
suade the citizens to buy all the wood
possible.
Homer Phelps of Lauray did not
wait for developments when John
Crook, his uncle, attacked his brother,
Bob Phelps, with knife Homer
Phelps seized shotgun and shot OF
his uncle's ear.
Ex-Trustee ]. NJ Thompson, who
was on trial in the circuit court at
Dickson, charged with embezzlement
of about $4,000 of Dickson county's
funds during the six years he was
trustee of the county, has been &C
quilted.
The section Of the state around Ce-
lima was for many days in the grip
of one of the worst cold waves ever
known for many years. Both Cum
berland and Obed rivers we're fir, IN
over for the first time in more than
twenty years.
The Ozark Fruit Growers associa.
ton, which handles the strawberry out.
put In about 20 of the largest straw
berry shipping points in West Tonnes
see, has arranged for general meet
ing to be held at the courthouse in
Humboldt on Jan. 22.
No clew has been found as to the
whereabouts of John Bundren, mem
Der of Columbia university, New York.
faculty, who is alleged to have shot
his brother,in-law, John r. Fitzgerald,
at the II tter's home at Knoxville.
Raising hogs in Henry county is
proving more and more profitable.
The Carroll county teachers asso-
citation has been reorganized with
Miss Love Hawkings chairman and
Miss Kennedy secretary. The asso-
citation adopted plan of subdividing
and grouping the various school dis
tricts into communities and naming
one school in the grAup as the COM
munity center
Perry Patty, posseman of Knoxville,
was shot in the left shoulder and
painfully injured when he and T. B.
WINS, field deputy internal revenue
collector, and w. B. Upton, deputy
United States marshal, raided wild
cat distillery and engaged in pitched
battle with six Sewer county moon
sinners in the mountains.
Harry C. Calcutt, a well-known lam.
Der and timber man Of Dyersburg, is
undoubtedly dead, relatives and friends
agreed, after having searched for him
since Dec. 10. When last seen alive,
he was leaving a party of hunters on
Reelfoot lake for his lumber camp at
Markham, eight miles on the other
side. He was on skates and wore q
heavy hunting outfit.
A probe of the charges against w.
T. Boaz, dismissed superintendent of
the Tennessee orphan home, has been
completed by the Maury county grand
jury, which made it's final report to
the circuit court.
c. w. Blakey OF Huntingdon, for
merly state boys work secretary in
the Tennessee Y. M. C. A. and secre-
tary Of the boys department in Y. M.