McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-05-03
FROM ALL PARTS
OF TENNESSEE
Reports of Interesting
Events Boiled Down
for Hasty Perusal.

| Union City.-Farmers in this sec
ton are going to put out $50 acres Of
tomatoes for the early market.
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| Knoxville Bales, 14-year-
old boy, was horribly mangled beneath
q Southern railway freight train here.
| Newbern.-One of the largest acre
ages of Irish and sweet potato crops
will be grown in this county this year.
Nashville.-The Southern Metho-
dist board of missions authorized a
subscription for $4,000 of Liberty
loan bonds.
Jackson.--A $4,000 corporation for
the manufacture and distribution OF
the smokeless fuel emonomizer is be-
ing formed here.
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Dyersburg.-At a meeting of the
commercial club arrangements were
made to put on a community fair in
Dyersburg next October.
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Dyersburg = The Dyersburg Red
Cross rooms have been moved from
the basement of the Sugg hotter to the
Forked Deer club rooms.
| $3.50.
Whiteville.-M. A. Webb, represent
alive of Hardeman county in the
lower house of representatives, is Sc
riously i'll at his home here.
Dyersburg, The West Tennessee
Ice association was organized in
Dyersburg with 20 ice factories Of
West Tennessee represented.
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Knoxville.-IPassenge agents Of
fees of the Norfolk & Western and
the NJ, C. & st. L. railroads will close
May for the period of the war.
Knoxville-Constru of a $4,000
900 nitrate plant at Maryville is ex-
pected to result in the improving OF
the main highway from Maryville to
Knoxville.
Knoxville Richard Cooley of Knox
vile, a United States internal reve-
nue. officer, shot himself through the
head in the lavatory on the second
floor of the federal building.
Jackson.-Local manufacturers and
the railroad agents are complaining OF
shortage of labor as result Of a
recent visit of labor agents from Nash.
Vile, Sheffield and elsewhere.
| Newbern.-Since making the sur
veyof the present crop, County Agents
S. G. Alternately and Miss Ruth Lus-
combe of Dyersburg have been push
ing the food production campaign.
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Paris.-J. l.. Stewart, president OF
the Henry County Sunday school IS
ISOLATION, has called the first annual
meeting to be held at Palestine
church, five miles west of Paris, on
the first Sunday in May.
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Bolivar. - An immense American
flag was raised at the Western hos.
pital with appropriate exercises, con-
sisting of songs. addresses, readings,
etc. Dr. J. B. Bond, superintendent
of the institution, presided.
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Knoxville - East Tennessee and
| southeastern Kentucky coal mines
produced 1S0,915 tons more during the
month of March of this year than the
corresponding month Of 1917, accord
ing to the latest government report.
Lexington.--News has been received
here by his many friends of the ap-
pointment of Rev. Fred H. Peoples,
formerly pastor q the Methodist Epis-
copal church, South, at this place, to
chaplaincy in the national army, to
be stationed at Camp Greenleaf, Fort
Oglethorpe, Ga.
Newbern.-The farmers in the rural
districts of Dyer county were busy
working the public roads over the
county last week, owing to the cult
waited land being too wet to work.
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Chattanooga.-Liberty day In Chat
tanooga was featured by thrilling
military spectacle under direction CT
Col. J. N. Pickering, chief of staff.
Sixth division, including an exact du.
plimation of trench warfare as prac.
ticed on the fields of Picardy.
Cookeville.--The student body OF
Tennessee Polytechnic institute has
just closed very vigorous thrift and
war saving campaign, which was car
ried on in a business-like and system
attic manner. The student body was
divided into two sides, the Army and
the Navy.
Dyersburg.-At meeting Of the
Business Mems club Red Cross and
other organizations in the courthouse,
1t was resolved to establish a commu-
nifty club in Dyersburg. This will be
along the lines of the community
clubs already established in the
county.
exington.-Sheriff W. II. Mcbride
of Henderson county, who was ruth.
lessly murdered ON the night OF the
goth, was serving by the election of
the county court in April, 1917, to fill
out the unexpired term of Sheriff
Frank Martin, resigned.
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Newbern.-Mrs. Write Goad. wife
of Alphus P. Goad, who is attached
to a machine gun company at Column
bia, S. c., died at Camp Jackson az