McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1919-02-14

utes after being taken to hospital.
Milan Milan has lost three OF her
best families in the past few weeks
DIR. J. l.. Stanfil and family removed
to Nashville, and l. J. Harwood and
family and J. l.. Dannwood ana family
to Memphis.
Chattanooga. AS q result OF the
demand of textile workers for an eight
hour day, the owners of the United
Hosiery and allied mills announced
that they would operate on six and
a half hours basis.
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jackson. The Southern Supply
Company, capitalized at $4,000, was
organized here. The company has
taken over the mill supply department
of the Southern Engine and Boiler
Manufacturing Company.
Memphis.--A four years military
training course, under the directions
of Lieut.. Col. Alfred s. Frost, will be
started In the Central and VOCATIONAL
High Schools about Feb. 20, at which
time the spring semester begins.
Irrelevant. That there Is good
money in growing sweet potatoes has
been proven to the satisfaction Of the
farmers OF this community, and an I'M
creased acreage will be grown by Car.
roll farmers this year. There win be-
about 100 acres of this crop planted BY
farmers OF this immediate community.
Milan. - George W. Bryant, Of Bry-
ants Chapel, three miles east of here,
gave an entertainment and birthday
| dinner to his children, three sons and
one daughter, and friends, last week.
He was So years old. He Is hale and
hearty. His wife was 81 years old on
Feb 4, Mr.. Bryant is living on the
farm he was reared on.
Jackson.-Corp. Jack May, of the
Thirtieth Division, writing to his moth
er, under date of Jan. Ia, said that his
| contingent had orders to turn in all
equipment that day and get ready to
entrain for a port of embarkation, pre-.
paratory to return to the states A
| cablegram was received from Sergt.
B. O. Sullivan, stating that the Thir
tieth was still in France.
Jackson. Four hundred acplica.|
tons for jobs have been filed with the
local government employment agency
by discharged soldiers and those about
to be relieved of army duty, according
to the statement of Manager T. b
Hardeman. He has been able to place
| 100 OF these. Practically every fac
tory and business house in Jackson
has agreed to give back the jobs tc
returning soldiers.
Nashville. Six OF the eight avail
able dates for. the Vanderbilt 1918 foot
ball schedule have been filled. Tho
open dates are the first two OF the
season, Oct and II. The first game
is Oct. Is, when the Commodores will
meet Georgia Tech at Atlanta.
Other games on the schedule are:
Auburn, at Nashville, Oct. rs; Ken
lucky State, at Lexington, Nov L:
University OF Alabama, at Nashville
Nov. s.; University Of Virginia, al
Charlottesville. Nov. Is: Sewanee. al
Nashville, Nov. 81.
Lexington. The Lexington and
Saltillo Turnpike Company is an &C
tuality The capital stock is $4,000
and the incorporators are H. e. Ora
per, T. A. Lancaster and A. s. Mont
gomery, Of Lexington; A. M. Powers
OF Reagan; C. D. Wilkerson, Robert
Hinkle and G. A. Ross, of Saltillo. This
corporation will launch at an early
date the construction Of an up-to-date
graveled pike from this place to Sal
tillo, on the Tennessee river, in Har-
din county, distance Of rs miles. The
people along the proposed thorough. |
fare are receiving with delight the|
news of the much-needed benefac
ton.
Knoxville. - Pig club work, as en-
couraged by the Rotary club here,
through the county agricultural agent
in Knox county, has received much
stimulus by the record of one boy of
the Fountain City community. Norton|
Crane. This boy has won $S7 In prizes
$45 being when his animals have been|
in competition with experienced farm
ers. He now owns animals valued att
s525. His total sales, prize winnings
and value of animals on hand amounts
to $745.
jackson. - Mrs. Birdie Askew Owen,
OF Jackson, president of the TennesseeI
Daughters of the Confederacy, received
word from Mrs. Robert Bacon, Newt
York, chairman OF the American Mill
tary Hospital No. l, in Paris France,
that there will be no need Of furtherl
funds for the upkeep Of the beds ip
Neuilly hospital, to which the u. d. c.
Of Tennessee have been contributing.
Mrs. Owens advises the U. D. C. of
the state, however, to keep the fund
now held intact for future use, as there |
will be other war work done and need
OF further funds for that purpose.
Memphis. suffragists are much dis
turbed over the action OF the lower
house Of the Tennessee legislature in
repeating the Bejach law of 1918. bet
ter known as the married woman's act.
The bill repeating this law was intro