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


Selmer.-A parent.teachers associa-
ton has been organized here with an
enthusiastic membership.
Gibbs.-C. e. Bushart sold his farm,
near here, to John Semones for S1O..
5e0-a tract of seventy-five acres.
Dyersburg.-Two chickens auctioned
off here brought 500. They were do
mated by Capt. Brackin to the Red
Cross.
Nashville-Light frost fell here
Sept. 20, but no material damage was
done, according to the local weather
station
Dyersburg.-The home of W. B. Nc
Bride, In the Thirteenth district, was
destroyed by fire. There was no in
surance; loss, $4,000,
Rutherford.-The Obion Presbytery
of the Cumberland Presbyterian church
met in regular session last week al
Bells chapel, five miles west of here.
Paris.-Parnell Hickman, who is n
the signal service at Fort Leaven.
worth, Kan, is another Paris boy wh)
has been honored with the rank Of SER
geant
Paris.-Dr. o. X. Warmack of Nc
Kinnon is the new physician for the
Louisville & Nashville railroad eIn.
ployes here. He will move his family
here Oct l.
Nashville.-The court of civil ap-
peals adjourned for one month to eli,
able attorneys of the state to assist in
classifying men for the army, accord.
ing to questionnaires.
Union City.-Frost fell throughout
this section Sept 20, but not enough to
materially affect the crop. Peas, pc.
tato vines and some other things show
the effect of the frost.
Newbern.-The cotton buyers here
are getting everything in shape to han
die the cotton crop. The crop is es.l-
mated to be 30 per cent better than
(, the growers thought at first
stsss
Paris.--Last week several men were
! called from Paris for army service,
among them being DR.. J. I. Johnston. 4
dentist; Robert l.. Murray, Arthur Sen
sing, N. d. Copeland and Ora Kendall.
|
Memphis. total registration at
| the West Tennessee State Normal
school to date is 1924. DR.. A. A. Kin
cannon, president, states that he is
confident that by October l the NUN.
Der will be increased to 1000.
|
Newbern,-The total registration for
Dyer county has been completed and
the record shows that 1886 signed up
with the government The estimate
for the county was exactly that figure.
so the county made a 100 per cent
registration.
| Knoxville.-Although the date for
the encampment Of the Tennessee ma
| tional guardsmen here has been post
| poned several times, Col. d. G.. Chap
man now has information which indi
Gates that it will likely be held the
lost of September or early in October.
| Nearly $500 soldiers are expected
Selmer.-L. c. Dickey, farmer, was
the victim Of very serious accident
while working at Weatherford gil,
nine miles southeast of Selmer. He
attempted to clean the saws while the
machinery was in motion. His right
arm was caught and badly cut. Two
fingers were lost and the bone in the
upper arm was stripped of all flesh.
Newbern.-An appeal is being made
to the farmers in Dyer county to grow
more wheat by an increase of half over
| the previous crop that has been har-
vested. according to the statement Of
W. G. Wilson, the newly elected farm
agent for Dyer county, The county
has been requested by the government
to increase the wheat acreage by 5000
acres.
The following Tennesseans hay,
been commissioned second lieutenarts
of infantry from fourth training camp
at Camp Pike, Ark: Harold Bond,
Oneida, Tenn, assigned to Camp Pike,
Ark; Luther Herschel Brigham, Erin,
Tenn, Camp Pike, Ark; William Van,
in Costello, Shepherd, Tenn, Camp
Beauregard, La; Golden Burton Fluty,
Flatwoods, Tenn, Camp Pike, Ark;
Walter Collins Johnson, Jr., Paris,
Tenn, Camp Pike, Ark; Roy William
Miller. Johnson City, Tenn, Camp
! Pike, Ark; Key Pinkey Mott, Union
City, Tenn. Camp Pike, Ark; James
Perry Pullman, Rossville, Tenn, Camp
Beauregard, La; Luther Ward, ella.
ton, Tenn, Camp Perry, Ohio.
! Chattanooga. - Chattanooga school
authorities are faced by a perplexing
problem. A small colony of wives Of
Germans interned at Fort Oglethorpe
have settled in one of the city's SUI
y!