Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1918-06-13

DyerSDurB.DfrOI. Edgar McfeaK,
member OF the faculty OF the Dyers-
burg high school, has given up hiS
school work to enter the aviation ser.
vice.
Chattanooga.-As an innovation in
local Industrial circles, 20 girls, repre-.
senting a high type Of womanhood.
donned overalls and went to work for
a local manufacturing plant in its
shops.
Johnson City.-All negroes have
left Erwin following the riot attend
ing the burning of the dead body Of
Tom Devert, mob leaders having or
dered every negro to leave town i'm
mediately.
| Jackson.-Thomas E. Gates, evan
gelical singer, known we'll in Tonnes
see and adjoining states, died sudden
ly in Hot Springs, according to a mes
sage received by his father, Capt T.
M. Gates.
Jacksonville celebrated murder
case from Gibson county, styled Sam
Taylor vs.. State, was argued in the
supreme court, with Attorney w. w.
Heron Of Trenton representing the
defendant and Assistant Attorney Gen
eral w. H. Stuttgart the state
ssAss
| Henderson.-The Red Cross drive
was carried out in Henderson county
under the direction of John s. Fielder,
county chairman. Speakers from the
legal, ministerial, teaching and conl-
mercial professions intellectually
gave themselves to the campaign and
touched every nook and Granny of the
county.
| Dyersburg.-The dredgeboat Marion
arrived here from st. Louis ready to
dig the North Forked Deer drainage
ditch, which begins at the Gibson
county line and continues to Dyers.
burg. The ditch is 26 miles long and
drains fertile section of country. A.
v. Wills & Son of st. Louis are own
ers of the boat and have the contract
for the ditch.
Milan-.The picking and shipping
season of the berry crop of Milan and
vicinity has closed. Prices were good
from the first to the end of the sea.
| son. Growers realized much money
] from the crop, notwithstanding there
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| having been killed by the April frost.
The crop was shipped in carload lots
to eastern markets by the local buy
ers.
Camden.-Gov Tom C. Rye will
speak here at the courthouse in the
interest of theaRed Cross war fund
The ladies Of this place are making
all necessary arrangements for the
parade and indications are that there
will be large crowd present. The
merchants of Camden have agreed to
close their places of business from
1870 to 2:30 and will hear Gov Rye
speak.
Humboldt. J. w. Nc
Glathery of Humboldt has obtained
an agreement from every business
house in town to accept war savings
stamps and thrift stamps from every
postoffice employee in payment for all
bills made during the month of June
AS the local office employs about 20
men on good salaries, this movement
will boost the sale of stamps to con.
siderable extent for the month of
June. This lead may be followed by
other employers of labor for other
months, taking one factory month.
Knoxville East Tennessee coun-
ties, Greene in particular land Greene
is one of the best agricultural counties
in the state), report that wheat is fall.
ing in the fields. A sample of this
fallen wheat was forwarded from
Greene county to the state pathologist
who diagnozed the disease as due to
the effects of joint worms.
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Jackson.-On April 81 $500 was
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drew, this city, and young colored
girl, 10 years old, an employee or the
home, was arrested charged with the
crime She confessed and implicated
others. Four hundred and fifty-five
dollars of the money was recovered.
The confessed thief was turned over
to the juvenile court
Murfreesboro.- E. Compton,
reported as severely wounded in
France, Is a son of Ed Compton, a
farmer formerly residing on the Halls
Hill pike, but now living on the Ben
Batey farm, off from the Lascassaa
pike. The young man is about rs
years of age and enlisted in the regu.
lar army about three years ago The
family is a well-known and substantial
one in this county.