Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1918-01-24
FROM ALL PARTS
OF TENNESSEE
Reports of Interesting
Events Boiled Down
for Hasty Perusal.

Ices Will be manufactured In Knox
vile during the war.
Memphis--A report from the Mem
phis fire department shows that dur
Ing the year 1917 the department has
made exactly 1852 runs.
Chattanooga. - Manufacturers in
dorse the presidents action in taking
railroads under government control
ssss'
Dyersburg The Red Cross mem.
bership drive in Dyer county has re-
suited in securing about 500 new
members.
Chattanooga Sarah Scale.
who, according to relatives. was 1T
years old, died here after an illness
Of two weeks.
Nashville,-Albert Blauyelt of Chi.
cago committed suicide by leaping
from a bridge over the Cumberland
river in this city.
Knoxville. ~ Twenty-Five students
and graduates of University of Ten
nessee have left here for Camp Pike,
Ark, to enter the third officers train
Ing school
Dyersburg Dyer county farm
loan association has received its first
check from the federal loan bank in
Louisville, covering loan in this
county on real estate.
Lexington.-A big hog production
rally for Henderson county will be
held here Friday, Jan, IL, under the
management of Hugh A. Powera
county farm demonstrators.
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Knoxville. - Miners employed at
Peabody voted unanimously to work
on Sundays in order to relieve the
coal shortage. The vote was volun-
tary on the part of the miners.
Chattancoga.-W. M. Landess, farm
demonstration of Hamilton county, and
Mrs. J. B. Lauderbach will conduct
an annual short course in war eco
Monies for rural men and women.
Bethpage. Mrs. Peter W. Cannon.
at her home three miles from here,
fell and broke her arm She was
walking across the back porch, which
was slick with ice, when she fell,
breaking both bones of her arm.
Tullahcma. Mrs. Eva Taylor
passed away here at the residence of
Mrs. ]. B. Cowan at the age of 80
years. Mrs. Taylor was a sister of
the wife of Gen. N. B. Forrest and
is the last surviving member of her
immediate family.
noxville.-Baroness Zollner, held
In Jail at Chattanooga on charges of
conspiracy against the United States
government, will be brought to Knox.
Vile for a hearing before Judge E.
T. Sanford, Jan. %. according to Dis
| trict Attorney w. T. Kennerly.
Knoxville-John P. Davis, an at
torney of Tazewell, has made bond
to appear before federal court here in
February. Davis is charged with hav-
ing failed and refused to serve as
member of the legal advisory board
to the exemption board of Claiborne
county Davis was formerly mem
Der of the state senate.
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Nashville.-Gov. Rye presented to
the county Judge of Humphreys coun-
ty and the county judge of Benton
county each a gavel made from wood
taken from the hull of one of the old
union ships sunk in the Tennessee
river at Johnsonville by Gen, N. B.
Forrest in 1854.
Jackson.-Dr. Luther Little, who
closes very successful four-year pas
torate of the First Baptist church in
Jackson to become pastor of tue First
church in Charlotte, N. c., has been
preaching for IS years.
noxville-Federal court here has
been adjourned until Feb. 4, by an or
der of Judge E. T. Sanford. The or.
der was given SO that the lawyers
might assist in work on the draft le-
gal advisory board.
Observation-Disclosures with having
resisted and fired upon federal Off
GERS who raided an Illicit distilling
outfit in the Walden's Creek section
of Sewer county about two weeks
ago, Wise Fox, Walter Emert, Arthur
Shular and Pleas Shular, alleged
moonshiners, were placed under ar.
rest.
Johnson City.-According to a re-
port from Kingsport, there are 46
cases of smallpox in the flourishing
city of opportunities. However, no
apprehension on the part of the au.
thorities is felt, as the disease mani
| tests itself in mild for.
Murfreesboro primary cleo,
ton held here to nominate candf
dates for city commissions resulted
as follows: n c. Nancy, 1872; ]. I
Rather, 17s; B. B. Kerr, lie; H. O
Parker, lis; G. B. Ciltner. 101; |. D
! Miller, 90; S. NJ. Frey. IL.