McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-05-10

bern.
Trezevant.-The commencement ex.
ercises of the Irrelevant high school
will conclude on Tuesday night, May
l4th.
Union City-The May term of the
circuit court convened Monday for a
term Of four weeks, with heavy
docket
Dyersburg. The T. BIS, a local or.
ganization of young men of Dyersburg,
shipped to Memphis 700 books for the
soldiers.
Bristol.-A permanent organization.
comprising the leaders of every branch
of war activities in Sullivan county,
was formed In Bristol
Paris. The board of education for
the Grove high school, elected D. M.
Clements as principal of the school
for the next scholastic year.
Chattanooga.-Cap Kenneth Kern,
chief of provost guard, has been trans
fered to an eastern post and will leave
Chattanooga in a few days.
Halls.-Dr. Walter NJ White, Chris.
tian pastor of Memphis, delivered a
strong commencement sermon here to
the graduates of the high school.
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Newbern.-Six of Newbern's most
prominent young men have volun-
teered their services and have enlist
ed as machinists in the ship yards.
Chattanooga. Osceola Geronimo
Stone, prominent lawyer and politician,
died at a sanitarium here, as the re-
suit of an operation for appendicitis.
Bristol-T. S. Mcneil, of the A. s.
Mcneil & Sons Furniture company, Of
this city, has made arrangements to
supply soldiers passing elrough Bris-
toll with cigarettes.
Knoxville.-One thousand gallons Of
good, bad and Indifferent captured
whisky were taken from the booze"
room at police headquarters and
emptied into sewer.
Trezevant.-T Red eros celebra,
ton for Trezevant and community was
a great success. Lunch was served by
the members of the Red Cros auxil-
larry, and receipts from the sales to-
tailed $3.50.
Murfreesboro. The Rutherford
County Pure Bred Live Stock associa-
ton has been so successful with the
advertising carried in the newspapers
that all of the stock offered for sale
has been taken.
Dyersburg G.. AIbernathy reports
1900 crop census cards in and the
survey so far indicates an increase in
hogs in the county of 80 per cent, corn
about 20 per cent, peas about 80 per
cent and hay nearly 100 per cent.
Nashville.--A merited promotion has
come to Col Daniel u. Porter, United
States internal revenue agent for the
Tennessee districts he having been ele-
waited to the position of supervising
revenue agent for the entire United
States, with headquarters in the in
ternal revenue department at Wash
ington.
Cookeville. -Mountview Lodge, /. O..
o. f., of this city, celebrated with a
banquet the ninety-ninth anniversary
of the organization of the first subord-
mate Odd Fellows lodge in the United
States, it having been instituted by
five English Odd Fellows in Baltimore,
Md.
Winchester-To Franklin county Is
accredited the distinction of having
furnished the tallest man for the train
ing camp at Camp Gordon, Atlanta.
Private Ernest w. Wilson, who comes
from the mountains Of Franklin coun-
ty, is six feet seven inches tall, and
weighs 220 pounds.
Trezevant.- L. Younger died
at his home near here after a linger-
ing illness.
Paris.-H. Lytton Bruce, vice chair
man Of the Liberty Loan activities in
Henry county, is in receipt of a letter
from State Chairman John ]. Helm,
in which he compliments Henry coun-
ty for going. "over the top without it
being necessary for the banking insti-
buttons of the county to buy a single
bond.
Memphis.-An order closing Peter
Tavarna's bakery was issued bp J. A.
Winkleman, deputy food administrator
in charge of bakeries. The bakery will
be closed indefinitely
Nashville plans are TAX
ing form for the releasing Of the man
power of the country by placing wo-
men in certain industries. A confer
ence was held at the state capitol, in
Nashville, last week, at which the no.
tel and restaurant men were asked to
begin the reorganization of their force,
bv the employment of mattresses.
Chattanooga comparison OF po-
llce statistics showing the effect OF
the enforcement of temperance laws
has been compiled and they indicate
a very wholesome effect of the pro-
hibition laws in Chattanooga.
Gallatin.- Between $50 and 20v en-
ployes leave Gallatin every moraing