The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-03-15
TENNESSEE GLEAM!NGS
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of the strike was announced by Fred
erick G. Davis of the federal bureau
of Cancellation.
L. l.. Fonville, a prominent ana
successful member of the Jackson
bar. and the Rev. ]. A. Daever, pas
tor of the Cumberland Presbyterian
church, Jackson, have gone to New
York, whence they will sail Tor
France to do Y M. c. A. war work.
The Paris city council has appoint
ed committee to negotiate for I've
purchase of additional ground for a
filtration plant for the city water.
Some months ago the city vote
bonds to take care OF this plant and
also other city work.
Gov. Tom C. Rye, who has been con
fined to his room for week or mo e.,
is greatly improved. He has been suf-
fering with severe attack OF grippe.
and for time it was feared that
pneumonia might develop.
w. Y. Allen of Gallatin has been
appointed by State Director Thomas
r. Preston of Chattanooga as chair
man Of the war savings certificate
campaign, which has been Launched
in Sumner county.
The organization of the Boosters
was perfected at Somerville by the
adoption of resolutions setting forth
their purposes and plans and the elec'
ton of officers from the younger bust
ness and professional men OF the city.
Francis Burdet of Knoxville, gun
ner on the U. S. S. Amerika, died at
sea, Dec. 2. of heart failure, accord
ing to information received by the
young mans father, Gustaye Burdet'
Malone Waller, aged %, son OF DR..
Amos L. Waller of Juno, died at the
United States naval station at Nor
folk, Va, after short illness OF
measles and bronchial pneumonia.
Henry J. Swindler, after serving
Newborn as mayor for sixteen years,
has retired voluntarily from the Of
flee. The newly-elected mayor is 1--WE
N. Williams.
The Y. w. C. A. war fund campaign
met with an enthusiastic response at
Spring Hill, the two teams OF wom'
en-, headed by Percy Brown and
Haynes Ayres, raising $315.
The first Knoxville candidate to
qualify for the republican county pri.
mary of March 81 is w. c. Grimm,
who seeks the nomination for chan
cellor of Knox county.
Miss Callie MCGEE, an esteemed
and popular teacher in the Jackson
high school, fell upon the street while
returning from school and broke her
left arm.
DR.. G. C. English of Mt. Pleasant
has received a commission and lett
Fort Oglethorpe. DR.. English is q
graduate of Vanderbilt medical
school.
On a recent order from the post
office department at Washington, the
humboldt office became the central
. counting office of Gibson county.
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Mrs. Isla Williams Polhill, United
States demonstration of home eco.
Monies, has organized d club of thirty
members at Pulaski.
George K Mcclellan, circulation
manager of the Bristol Herald-Cour-
Ter, has volunteered for service in
the medical corps.
Col R. S. Fletcher of Jackson has
been called to Fort Bayard, N. M,
where his nephew, John T. Fletcher,
is critically i'll.
The heaviest ice fields that have
passed Memphis in over thirty years
are floating slowly down the Missis-,
sippi river
John Gallavin, a prominent con-
tractor Of Franklin, broke one of his
arms by falling on a frozen pave
ment.
Knoxville is covered by a blanket
Of snow four inches deep, the heav-
lest in thirty-one years.
Watkins Ewell is the first Dyers-
burg youngster to adopt a French or
phan.
The gymnasium of the Sewanee
Military academy was destroyed Dy
fire.
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