The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1919-07-04
TENNESSEE
NEWS
Happenings Over Common
wealth Cleaned From
Various Places

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blowing the safe of The ]. T. Farga-
son Grocery company. and made q
clean getaway
Whiteville. - In the near future q
forty-barrel per day capacity Touring
mill will be installed in Whiteville by
c. H. Hastings of Memphis.
Standardization county's tax
rate for the coming fiscal year will
be fixed at the quarterly meeting OF
the county court which convenes
July Z.
Ripley-Blue Mountain won first
honors from Ripley in the intertown
tennis tournament held at Blue Noun.
tain. The visitors took both the sim
giles and doubles.
johnson City.-The summer team
Of the State Normal school is prov
ing to(be not only the best in point
of attendance but in the interest and
enthusiasm Of students and in the ex-
cellency of work being done.
Manchester Flora Shelby,
home demonstration agent for David
son county; Miss Jennie Baker, agent
for Coffee county, and Mrs. May G.
Merritt, domestic science teacher in
the local high school, conducted a
short course in domestic science at
the teachers institute here.
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Nashville.-The first copy of the
public acts of the 1919 legislature has
been received in the office of the sec
rotary of state, Ike B. Stevens. This
is the earliest the copy has been re-
ceived by the secretary Of state. Of
ficials of the office declare the work
meets with their approval in all re-
spects.
Nashville-Gov. Roberts has offered
a reward of $50 for the arrest of one
John Schultz, who is taking subscrip-
tions for a magazine called Sunset"
and offering a music box as pre-.
MUM. Schultz is said to be an i'm.
poster and is alleged to be acting
without authority from the magazine.
He was recently in Maury county
Benton. = While Boss Lewis was
blowing on his farm near this place
the ground gave way beneath his
team and the animals were precipi-
tated to the bottom of cave. Mr..
Lewis, with the help of members OF
the family, succeeded in getting one
of the horses out alive. but the other
was suffocated before it could be res
cued.
Knoxville Newman College, q
Baptist institution located at Jeffer-
son City, gets 100000 endowment
fund as the result Of its recent CAM
paign. Several months ago ]. H. An
derson, local merchant, and A. r.
Swan, q Jefferson county farmer, Of
fered to each give the college $4,000
IL the Baptists of East Tennessee
would give 100000 to the fund.
Chattanooga. States Attorney
General Frank M. Thompson, in a
statement issued here declared that
women would not be allowed to vote
in the municipal election on July s.
and that should they do so they would
be in contempt of the court OF Chan
cellor Newman of Davidson county,
who has declared the suffrage act
passed by the legislature as uncon.
stitutional.
Nashville.-The machine guns of
the Fourth Tennessee Regiment have
arrived and have already been set up
by the officials of the company in
Knoxville, according to information
received In the office Of Adjt Gen.
Baxter Sweeney.
Knoxville. - Charges OF fraud and
sabotage against VIM. ]. Oliver and
others will be heard in Federal court
here Tuesday, July 20. The sabotage
charge is an outgrowth of charges Of
making bad shells for the United
States government.
Nashville = The rectangle In front
of the capitol. and bounded on the
north by Cedar street, east by Sixth
avenue, south by Union street and
east by Seventh avenue. has been Sc
lected as the location for the memo
rial building and capitol annex by the
State Memorial Association.
Nashville. Promotion Of Lieut.
Col. Ewing Caruthers. of Memphis to
colonel commanding the Fourth Ten
nessee Regiment National Guard af
was announced by Adjt.-
Gen. Baxter Sweeney. Ii
Nashville. Five trainmen were
killed and two seriously injured when
a heavily loaded coal train. north
bound. and the third section Of . !
south-bound crashed together one mile
north OF Faxon.
Dayton-orviIle Truck. superintend-
ent OF the Dayton plant Of the Public
Light & Power Co. was instantly
Killed here when his body came into
cents I with a wire containing 1900