Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1919-02-06
STATE NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS

county. is now in operation. On the
opening day 100 pounds OF cheese was
manufactured from the same number
OF gallons of milk.
Coyington.- Upton county quarterly
court elected Prof. Eugene Younger,
county superintendent of public in
struction. Prof. Younger has been
identified with school work in Upton
county for many years
noxvlle.-Frederick Meyer, civil
war veteran and a member OF the
Mountain Branch of Soldiers Home at
Johnson City, committed suicide in a
hotel at Johnso. City. He fired a bull.
let into his righ, temple
Chattanooga,-The funeral of Amos
Rank, the 80-year-old hermit of Wal.
dens Ridge. whose dead body was
found in his cabin home on the Ridge,
was held and the body sent to Salem,
Ohio, the home of his daughter
Selmer-Recent statements of the
seven banks in McNairy county show
an unusual prosperity in this section.
Deposits are more than on any former
statement period. Substantial divi'
dends have been paid shareholders
Dyersburg R. NJ. Grills, the incum-
bent, was reelected superintendent of
education over Miss Dora Bowen of
Tigrett, G. r. McCorkle, of Newbern,
was elected bridge and levee commits
sioner, defeating the incumbent, Will
McAfee.
ChattanoOga.-In compliance OF or
ders from the war department Camp
Greenleaf and Camp Forest in Chick
amauga Park, have been oblterated
as separate military camps, Brig Cen
VIM. S, Scott having assumed com.
mand of Fort Oglethorpe and the en-,
tire reservation as one Guilty
Knoxville.--Dr. Brown Ayres, presi
dent of the University of Tennessee
went to Baltimore to attend a meeting
of presidents of the As land grant uni
versities of the United States. The
chief topic of discussion there being
the establishment of reserve officers
training corps in state universities.
Knoxville.-A new phase developed
in the long litigation over the estate
OF the late Col B. Rush Strong, valued
at 100000, when Circuit Judge Hut
faker ordered the case held open and
the hearing continued until such time
as Maj Joseph Erwin Borches, now
with the American army in Belgium
may return to Knoxville. Borches is a
nephew of Strong and is suing for a
one-fifth interest of the estate,
Nashville.-News of the death oil
former President Theodore Roosevelt
was great shock to his acquaintance
in this city. Col Roosevelt paid two
visits to Nashville, both of which were
notable for different reasons: AS an
author securing material for his win
ming of the West" he came first In
| 1883. Col. Roosevelt came again in
1907, being a guest at the Hermitage
| the old home of Andrew Jackson. AS
result of that visit he wrote in his
next annual message recommending
an appropriation to aid in preserving
the home of "Old Hickory" The ap
preparation was made and added mate
rally III the Identification of the Her
! mitage.
Jackson-Capt. John Y Keith, mem
Der of the state senate in 1882 and
1884, first president of the West Ten
nessee fair association and captain
in tie Confederate army, died at his
! home here, 81 years of age.
He practiced law in Corinth, Miss.
before the civil war, being in partner
ship with the late Col. lnge. Capt
Keith came to Jackson in 1865 and has
been prominently identified here for
|
pared and introduced bill for the re
vision of the state constitution, but
withdrew it at the instigation of Mem
phis and Jackson lawyers because its
passage would have meant the removal
of the supreme court sessions from
this section of the state.
Nashville.-The Tennessee capito
association, organized and chartered
in 1916, laid aside its work for more
overwhelming duties when this coun
try joined the allies in the great worlc
war. Now that the cause of humanity
and civilization is won, the association
comes again to the loyal people of Ten
nessee and asks their interest ant
help in furthering patriotic work.
The objects of the association, as Sc
forth in it's charter, are: The preserya
ton of the state capitol in its dignity
and beauty; the extension and proper
treatment of its grounds; the acquisi
tion by the state of the adjoining prop
erty for state purposes; the erection
bv the state of state buildings on sale
property of such construction archi
techturally as will harmonic with thu
present capitol building; the creation
Of a public sentiment throughout thu
state to carry these purposes into Ell
feet; the acquisition of such propert!
as the corporation may deem neces
sary for its purposes.