The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1919-10-31
TENNESSEE GLEAN!MGs
News of Interest Prepared
In Epitomized Form by
Special Writers

Memphis.-Orders were received at
Park field to transfer 40 men to Brooks
field at San Antonio, Texas, to the bal
loon corps.
Memphis.-In order to expedite the
transportation of cotton into the Mem
phis market the Frisco railroad plans
to divert $50 stock cars to the hand
ling of this product.
Chattanooga-Cha will prob
ably have a real aviation school when
the proposed flying field has been
bought and hangar and other i'm
provements erected.
Neutrality-suspicious. Of the world
war, members of the verious posts of
the American legion throughout the
state of Tennessee, will meet In Nash
Vile on Oct. "a and rs.
Chattanooga.-The Society of the
Cumberland, G. A. R., met here for its
fifty-fifth annual reunion. There was
small attendance, not more than 20
veterans being present.
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Chattanooga - Judge McReynolds
held the state dog tax law unconstitu-
tional and gave Harry o. Lane judg-
ment for the SO he paid the county
tax assessor on his white bulldog.
Memphis.-A service flag with 49,
0AO cfo nc ropraoonfinU tho and
sons of Confederate soldiers who were
in service, will be kept in the Con-
federate headquarters in Memphis.
Nashville-The Tennessee state
highway commission has recently an.
nounced an examination for resident
highway engineers to be held in the
capitol building at Nashville on Nov. 8.
Dyersburg.-The Nichols auditorium
of this city has been secured for the
exhibit to be put on by the boys pig
clubs of the county. A pig sale of
thoroughbred stock will be put on at
the same time.
Chattanooga-In order to curb the
ever-growing illicit manufacture OF
liquor in this section a. special force
of trained men has been sent here by
the federal revenue department to
wage an intensive campaign.
Jackson.-Interior decorations cost
ing $1,000 have been completed on the
Carnegie library building here. Miss
Alice Drake, librarian, announces 81
multaneously the addition of large
number of the latest books.
Nashville.-Rev. Henry Allen Boyd
was elected delegate to the worlds
Sunday school convention, which
meets in Tokyo in October, 1920, at a
meeting of the negro national Baptist
convention Sunday school forces.
Memphis B. King, Mem
phis, chairman of the chamber of COM
merce good roads committee and one
of the most ardent supporters of high
ways in the valley, is the new presi-
dent Of the Mississippi river scenic
highway association.
Brownsville.-The 1919 synod Of
Tennessee opened in the Presbyterian
church here with organization by the
election of DR.. R. l. Long Of Ripley 20
moderator. DR.. ]. H. Lumpkin OF
Memphis was reelected stated clerk
for period of two years.
hot
are making on the business OF the
wholesale grocers of the south through
the use of the alleged special prtvi'
Ieges allowed them by the carriers OF
the United States was told in a con-
crete form by R. NJ Hobbie, secretary
treasurer of the H. M. Hobbie grocery
company of Montgomery, Ala, at the
hearing before w. P. Bartel, examiner
for the interstate commerce commits
sion at the Hotel Gayoso.
Cordova.-Since the recent contin.
ued rain which has fallen almost In
cessantly, harvesting has been handi-
capped to a large extent.
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Knoxville.-A convention of the
keepers of records and seal of the
Knights of Pythias lodges OF East Ten
nessee was in Knoxville.
Chattanooga-That Chattanooga Will
not have anything like serious influ-
enza epidemic this fall or winter is
the opinion now of Chattanooga physi-
clans.
Observation-Disclosures bondsmen
no longer will be accepted as sureties