Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1919-10-09
FROM ALL PARTS
OF TENNESSEE
Reports of Interesting
Events Boiled Down
for Hasty Perusal.
TENNESSEE CROP ESTIMATE.
Prepared BY c. L. Morris, Nashville
Field Agent U. S. Department of
Agriculture.

! NaS0Nliie.-l he COlLOu crop iOT L ct
nessee for September % shows varie
conditions. The general lateness of tn
crop on account of wet. late spring
dry weather that followed and tn
lack Of proper cultivation, has places
the condition below the average TO
this date. There has been more thar
The usual abandonment since June %
when an estimate was made of acre
! }ge, considerable rust and some rec
spider is reported, and army worms
have been numerous in some localities
The northern counties in the west
arn part of the state and the Middle
| Tennessee counties have the best
showing, if frost remains off until ma
| turity.
Picking has progressed nicely the
past two weeks, and being rapidly
yinned; while the yield in some places
is rather disappointing, the quality OF
| lint is better than last season.
The condition of the crop in Ten.
ccsese on September % was 64Gs, com.
pared with 500 last year and a ten,
year average of 500, and with an acre
age to be picked estimated at 10000
would indicate a total yield of about
10000 bales for the state.
The condition for the United States
5 54495 and indicates a total u. S.
crop of 10,696.000 bales.
Atlanta, Ga.-Fully 1000 Tennessee
women were pledged to work for the
third Red Cross roll call by Mrs. Ben.
nett d. Bell of Gallatin, Tenn, presi,
dent of the Tennessee Division, United
Daughters of the Confederacy, in At,
lanta, to attend meeting of promi
1ent club women from all over the
southern division of the Red Cross.
Chattanooga Memorial auditorium
bonds in the sum of $4,000 will be
sold INN ediately for the purpose OF
paying cash fof the Caldwell site and
the municipal commission appropri.
ated the sum of $1,000 to be used by
members of the commission in inspect
ing auditoriums recently erected in
other cities,
u 4. Wandering university has
enrolled 526 studei.+ss fI0aF ~ states
the District of Columbia, China, Japan,
Panama and Canada in the academic
and engineering departments.
Chattanooga. open meeting of
the chamber of commerce will be held
On the night of October 8 to consider
the subject of local housing conditions
Memphis firm of Marks & Da-
Wis, Buntyn, breeders of big type Po-
land China hogs, swept the field
awards almost clean at the Chatta
nooga fair.
Bristol-Eight hundred gallons of |
10 proof whisky were sold and at the |
same time purchased by the govern
nent in public auction in front of the |
ocal pOstoffice.
Capleville.-At a meeting of the |
finance committee of the Capleville M. /
. church definite plans were laid for
.e erection of a $4,000 modern
,hurch building
Memphis-Lieut Col Leslie MacBin,
assistant chief of the United States
ir training department, paid a one
lays visit to Park Field on his tour
# inspection of the various govern
nent fields throughout the country.
Newbern.-The w. C. T. U. met at
he Newbern Methodist church and
lected officers for the year 1920.
Nashville.--The state highway COM
mission will open bids October II for
he CONSTRUCTION of a federal aid bridge
ear Jackson.
Chattanooga. - Beginning Monday,
he double platoon system will be put
lto operation in the Chattanooga fire
apartment, necessitating increasing
he force by "a men.
Ripley.-Judge Colin P. Mckinney
+ this city, member of the supreme
Durt of Tennessee, has been host to a
camping party at Open
AXE, nine miles west Of here.
Newbern.-T Obion presbytery,
hich has been in session at the Union
rove (Cumberland) Presbyterian
lurch four miles east of town, has
osed after a two days session.
ssss'
Chattanooga number of in
,rned Germans at the war prison
at Fort Oglethorpe is slowly
ecreasing and it is thought that with
a short time the barracks will be
Memphis.-The United States dis
let court for the western division OF
enc ssee will convene for the fall
SSH. on the fourth Monday Of Octo-
n, at Jackson, Tenn. The court will
tarn to Memphis and open Noyem-
II "a
Knoxville Maurice Mays, a negro
trial on a charge of numbering Mrs
,rtie Lindsay, August 80, which crime
arted serious riot here, was identi.
"A raaitivaiy 90 tha aIavar IN tho