Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1919-02-14
FROM ALL PARTS
OF TENNESSEE
Reports Of Interesting
Events Boiled Down
for Hasty Perusal.

Memphis. Capt. A. B. Hill, com
manding officer of a Confederate com
pany in the war between the states
and for 3S years secretary of the city
board Of education, died at the age OF
81 years at the family residence here
Jackson. Earl w. Jones, a mem.
Der Of the old Tennessee national
guard, who has been in the infantry
branch of service in France, reached
home bearing two shrapnel wounds re
ceived in action. Young Jones saw
some of the heavy fighting while
abroad.
Chattanooga The twentieth an
nual convention of the Tennessee River
Improvement Association will be held
here Saturday, Feb. Is. The conven
ton will consider chiefly the opposi.
tion to the Mussel Shoals dam project
and urge the completion Of the co-ordi.
mated plan already worked out by en-.
gineers for year-around navigation OF
the 6,521 miles of potential water trans.
portation lines from Knoxville to the
Ohio river.
Memphis.-President Wilson may be
present as an honored guest of Mem.
phis at the centenary celebration OF
the founding of the city, to be held
next May. At meeting of the execu.
tive committee in charge of arrange
ments for the celebration, a special
committee was named to confer with
Senator X d. Mcclellan and Congress.
man Hubert Fisher, to ascertain wheth
Hr the president can possibly attend
the great observance of the centenary
here
Knoxville. - The will Of DR.. Brown
Ayres, late president Of the University
of Tennessee, was admitted to probate.
Dr. Ayres bequeathed the proceeds OF
life insurance, amounting to about $35,
900, to his widow, Mrs. Kate Anderson
Ayres, to whom he also willed a resi-.
dence at Lexington, Va, cash in bank
and the greater part of his library. One.
tenth interest in stocks and bonds is
bequeathed to each of his children, the
residue to go to Mrs. Ayres and their
daughter, Ruth. Scientific books go to
the university
Chattanooga. The police here ar
rested Jennings Morgan alias w. j.
Bates, an escaped lunatic from Long
view asylum, Cincinnati Some time
ago Bates escaped from the asylum and
was later captured in West Virginia
When a guard started back to the asy
lum with Bates he jumped from NOV
ing train and made a second getaway
He was picked up here recently, and
an investigation which followed estab
iished the mans identity as Bates the
Cincinnati authorities came and took
Bates to Cincinnati.
Nashville. - There has been an in.
crease in the past year in all live stock
in Tennessee. In horses and mules the
change is slight, about two per cent.
There has been an increase in mich
cows Of about three per cent. In other
cattle, which includes calves, heifers
and beef cattle, the increase has been
six per cent. A slight increase is shown
in sheep, while the heaviest increase
Is in swine, being about 20 per cent,
there being possibly more shoats and
young pigs in the state than ever be.
fore A mild fall and winter has aided
the live stock industry in Tennessee
greatly, there being good pasturage ur
until the new year.
Knoxville. Chairmen have been
appointed and quotas announced fol
Tennessee Presbyteries in the New
Era movement of the Presbyterian
Church, U. S. A., by Rev, Roy e. Vale,
D. d., Of this city. The quota of the
Synod OF Tennessee is $61 900 Fol
owing are the chairmen and apportion
nents:
Union Presbyter., Hev. George L.
Hamilton, chairman. Quota, $22,
1856.
Chattanooga Presbytery, Rev. o
fardner, chairman. Quota, $9,916.65.
Columbia Presbytery, Rev. James N,
chairman. Quota, $9,916.65.
Cumberland Mountain Presbytery,
Rev. ]. fl. Miller, chairman. Quota,
j, O59S4.
French Broad Presbytery, Rev. ]. H
froyer chairman. Quota, $3,303.4S.
Holston Presbytery, Rev. ]. Edgar
lance, chairman. Quota, s4,S21.57
McMinnville Presbytery, Rev. H. z,
Orr, chairman. Quota, $215O.67.
months after the armistice was
Nashville Presbytery, Rev E. M.
Bryant, chairman. Quota, $9,315.45.
West Tennessee Presbytery, Rev. E. !
:. Beard, chairman Quota, S5,6O9.10.
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Knoxville. = Pig club work, as en-.
outraged by the Rotary club here,
through the county agricultural agent