Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1918-01-10
FROM ALL PARTS
OF TENNESSEE
Reports of Interesting
Events Boiled Down
for Hasty Perusal.

FAsASh Va SNtNASASht ChANCASANJ ~ va
nessee. was held at Blountville last
week. with J. e. Dali, county agent
II charge.
Union City.-Run into by a freight
while he was trying to get hand
car off the track, L. G. Summers, sec
ton foreman OF the NJ. & o. railroad,
was almost instantly killed a few
miles south of Union City.
Knoxville Twelve miners were
killed in an explosion of mine No. 3
of the Oar Dour Coal 4 Coke COM
pany, at Catosa, near here. Seventy.
five men we're in the mine. All es-
capped except those killed outright.
Columbia.-A probe of the charges
against w T. Boaz, dismissed super
intendent OF the Tennessee orphan
home, has been completed by the
Maury county grand jury, which made
ita final report to the circuit court.
Ceiina.-This section of the state
was for many days in the grip of one
Of the worst cold waves ever known
Tor many years. Both Cumberland
and Obed rivers were frozen over for
the first time In more than twenty
years. .t
Observation-Disclosures J. NJ. Thomp-
son, who was on trial in the circuit
court here, charged with emhezzle-
ment of about $4,000 of Dickson
countys funds during the six years
he was trustee of the county, has
been acquitted.
Troy.-The Troy auxiliary of the
Memphis and Shelby county chapter
OF the American Red Cross has made
and shipped to date 81 pairs of pa
jamas, 81 bed shirts, 40 pairs of socks,
II wash cloths, AZ pairs of operating
leggings and 10 sweaters.
Pulaski.--While the snow was on
the ground the past week thousands
OF rabbits were killed in Giles county,
supplying the local market and ship
pers, through whom several thousand
dressed rabbits found their way to
city markets at good prices.
Hunhngdon.-C. w. Blakey, former
" state boys work secretary in the
Tennessee Y. M. c. A., and secretary
of the boys department In Y. NJ. C.
A. in Atlanta, Ga. the past two years,
has been granted a leave of absence
by the Atlanta board for work in the
army camps in France.
Lexington.--No patriotic move ever
went stronger in this town than the
Red Cross work among the ladies,
who have banded themselves into a
club and meet at regular intervals for
knitting necessary furnishings for the
work of the organization which is do.
ing so much for the relief of the SOL
diers.
ClarksYille.--I d. WEIGH of Mont
gomery county, who has been working
under the direction of County Farm
Demonstration Agent w. S. Baldwin.
In an attempt to bring the crop yields
Of his farm to higher standard. was
surprised this year when his demon
stration in corn yielded 751a bushels
to the acre.
Knoxville.--Perry Patty, possemau,
was shot in the left shoulder and pain
fully injured when he and r. B. WINS,
field deputy internal revenue collect
or, and w. B. Upton, deputy United
States marshal. raided wildcat dis
tillery and engaged in pitched bat
tie with six Sewer county moon
sinners in the mountains.
Huntingdon.-The Carroll county
teachers association has been reor-
ganized with Miss Love Hawkings
chairman and Miss Kennedy secre-
tary. The association adopted a plan
of subdividing and grouping the va
rious school districts into commune
ties and naming one school in the
group as the community center.
Knoxville.-The first candidate to
qualify for the republican county pri-
mary of March Fl is w. C. Grimm, who
seeks the nomination for chancellor
Of Knox county.
Nashville--Gov. Tom G. Rye, who
has been confined to his room for
week or more, is greatly improved. He
has been suffering with severe at.
tack of grippe, and for time ii was
feared that pneumonia might develop.
Humboldt-On a recent order from
tie post office department az Wash
hgton the Humboldt office became the
central accounting office OF Gibson
county.
Sewanee.-The gymnasium OF the
5awanee Military academy was de.
stroyed by fire.
lexington Malone Waller, aged
%, son of Or. Amos L. Waller of Juno,
lied at the United States naval sta.
ton at Norfolk. Va, after a short Ill