The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-01-25

of carbolic acid.
Albert Blauvelt of Chicago COM
mitted suicide by leaping from
bridge over the Cumberland river at
Nashville.
| The Madison county court appro
priated 5000 for continuation OF the
| girls tomato club and women's nome
demonstration work.
| There have been sold to the pro-
duce shippers of Milan in the past 81
days by the hunters of this section
thousands of rabbits.
Thirteen hundred and seventy en-
listed men have arrived at Fort Ogle'
thorpe from Camp Greenleaf to attend
the officers third training camp.
Prof. John ]. Hendrickson, formerly
principal in the Greenfield high school,
| assumed his new duties as rrlnc1pal III
the Industrial and Training school at
Humboldt.
Sheriff Davidson of Gibson county
is preparing to send a box OF lquor
to the war department. This liquor
has been confiscated during the last
| three months.
Contrary to expectation, no radical
changes were made in the operation
| of the Southern railroad at the con-
ference of general officers held at
Chattanooga
Among the United States railroad
commissioners reported arrested in
Siberia by the Bolshevik government
is thought to be Lieut.. Edward A. Eos
| ter of Knoxville.
Preparations are being made at
Camp Greenleaf, headquarters OF the
medical reserve corps at Fort Ogle'
thorpe, for the training OF 5000 med
ical officers by March l.
Thirty-one corn club boys of Dyer
county, reporting for the year OF 1917,
made an average yield per acre OF
1888 bushels, AT an average cost OF
$1s.77- per acre, or 25.74 cents per
bushe1.
1 '.E%' ~
Alta meeting of the Lexington board
Of mayor and aldermen u. 7. Fielder
alderman and chairman of the board,
was unanimously elected to fill out the
unexpired term of the late Mayor Z.
c. Davis.
|
Active solicitation of business 10y
agents of outside railroads whose rails
do not run into Nashville have entire
ly ceased and several commercial ana
freight agents have been called to
their home offices.
!. Fuel Administrator Williams nag
modified his regulation limiting tne
purchase of coal to half ton at Chat
tanooga, and issued an order that con-
sumers may buy one ton OF lump OF
two tons of mine run.
At a meeting of the Haywood coun'
ty high school board in BROWNSVILLE
the resignation of Prof. W. M. McLau'
rine as principal of the high school
was accepted and Prof. J. r. Tlts'
worth, first assistant, was elected.
At a meeting of the Humboldt busf
ness mems club the directors author'
lied the committee having in charge
the sale of thrift stamps to say TO the
children of the Humboldt city schools
that the club will pay for the last 20
cent stamp for each SIS certificate Che
school children will take up to and in
Guiding June, 1918.
The annual meeting OF the stats
school officers closed a two-day ses-
sion at Nashville with the election OF
Officers for the ensuing year, result
ing as follows: ]. M. Hatfield OF Put
nam county, president; John w. VIII
liams of Portland, vice president;
Claude ]. Bell of Nashville, CORE
sponding secretary, P. L. Harmed Oh
Clarksville, treasurer; T. E. Lowry OF
Bells and Hubert Bell of Nashville, as
sistant secretaries; Superintendent 5.
w. Sheriff., Joe Jennings of Campbell
county. r. L. Harris of Columbia, F.
E. Ranck of Pulaski, Miss Charl VIII
liams of Shelby county, executive COM
mittee
DIR. Samuel T. Parker, one OF the
leading physicians of Lexington, Sec
rotary of the Henderson county med
zeal society and prominent in higher
ND medical organizations, has been
accepted for medical service in the
United States army.
J Approximately only 400 unnatural