Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1918-06-20
TENNESSEE GLEAN|Ns
News of Interest Prepaid
in Epitomized Form by
Special Writers

| HdTlu6S- nine were UH4NoIS SHY VI 10
sissippi students who had just finiled
the spring term at the university md
had caught the first train into Nm
phis to file their applications that icy
might be called on Immediately to
serve on the front. Four of this I'm.
Der were graduates of the school bis
year.
Nashville. Bishop W. A. Gamer,
of the Methodist Episcopal Chwh,
South, in speaking of the centenarof
OF American missions, said: me
Centenary celebration Of Amerhn
missions is timely and inspiring. 1t
is fitting that this centenary celera.
ton should be observed, and In Wv
of all that has been done in the lst
one hundred years, and all that ogEt
to be done now, 1t is to be hoped M
boarded treasures will yield underhe
Inspiration of the celebration.
Nashville. -Tennessee will furBh
17,167 men under the new national all
as of June, which has been receied
from Washington by Maj. Rutleg ,
Smith, executive officer These Ill
not be taken at once, but will BEN
Quoted in intallments. The numbelof
registrants Tennessee now has fin;ly
classified in class one and examisd
physically and accepted for mility
service is fixed at 30,172.
Memphis. Thirty-three Germns
who have been placed in detenon
camp by the federal authorities, wre
here, accompanied by five guats
They were being taken from the cnr
at Hot Springs, N. c., to Paris. Teas
where they will work on large fam
They were guarded by five Officers
headed by w. w. Eyster, immigrantn
spector.
Selmer.-Jane Prather, a negrss
known to have been 10S years of ge,
died at her home one mile east of ais
place. She was remarkably preserved
and had retained her faculties til q
short time ago, when paralysis strcl
her. She was slave of the late VII
liam Prather, one of the most prom
nent pioneer planters in McNar,
county.
Paris Food Administrator JdIl
Richardson has made arrangement
to ship at once car of flour yolunar
lily rendered from the stocks of the
people of Henry county. The flou IL
for the immediate relief of our flint
ing forces ana the allies, and thse
voluntarily rendering 1t will be nid
for 1t on the basis Of the cost to thm
Brownsville. - The commencement
sermon for the high school was DELI
cred in the Methodist church by RS
A. U. Boone, of Memphis, and the q
ercises continued during the wedS
Prof Ellsworth, the principal, vii
leave June to enter the Y. NJ. C. \
war work. He will be succeeded y
Prof. Dan Rogers. of Morristown, Ter.
Newbern.-Work has begun alols
the new right of way in the Forkl(
Deer river basin, eight miles frdr
Newbern. More than two miles d
Tim har hoe haan o,,t apd rap,Nyad f,1,
the new line where the river will *
tend through the county to Dyersbug
Memphis Memphis is to have til
first annual convention of the ri
State Retail Shoe Dealers association
1t will be held in March, 1919. Thee
after the conventions will rotate
through the three states, Arkansas
Mississippi and Tennessee.
Knoxville.-Fire starting from {
bursting shell in the munitions PIN
OF the w. J. oliver company, wE,st
output is furnished the United Stae:
government, endangered the $2,000l0(
plant, but fortunately only $1,500 dam
age resulted.
Medina Medina, aided by West ant
Chapel Hill, with other points of DIS
trict No. 1, of Gibson county, instat
OF stopping at the quota Of $500, la'
gone over $1,000 in the campaign fol
the Red Cross drive.
Dyersburg.-Capt. E. L. Guest of ths
British army, on a tour of the United
States, recuperating from wounds IL
action, told the people of Dyersblre
about the war in France and BELGIUM
ic an address here.
Union City.-The wheat crop in hi.
county looks extra well and If NTH
ing happens to it between now and the
time of harvest, big yield will bt
made all over the county.
Dyersburg.-A passenger car vas
seized here by Deputy Sheriff Finley
and a quantity of whisky, beer lnt
champagne confiscated.
Memphis. Tennessee bakers are
asked to curtail business as mucf as
possible in order that more wleat
flour may be saved. Charles K. Ev-
ers, state chairman for the National
Bakers Service board, has writer j.
A. Winkelman, district captain for
West Tennessee, requesting that ale
ter be sent to all, bakers in the terri-
tory recommending that the OUTPUT OF