Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1919-10-10

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Dyersburg.- Turner, Day &
Woolworth Handle Co. of Louisville,
KY, has purchased four sawmills in
this county and will build one in Dyers-
burg.
Memphis.--Plans for the convention
of the Mississippi River Scenic High
way association, to be held in Mem
phis, Octo. is, have almost been COM
pleted.
Nashville. Twenty-Five Methodist
preachers representing more than 3d.
600 people in Nashville indorsed the
league of nations at their weekly meet
ing Monday.
Friendship Statements of the Tri-
County bank and the Bank of Friend
ship Of this place appear in the local
paper and they make an unusually
good showing.
Dyersburg board of control of
the Dyer county community fair has
called off the 1919 fair on account of
the fact that farmers are backward
with their crops.
Knoxville.-The coming meeting of
the East Tennessee educational asso-
citation to be held in Knoxville, Oct.
S0-Nev. l, promises to be even greater
than that Of 1917
Lexington.-Th Beech River Baptist
association, comprising 43 churches, in
Henderson, Decatur Perry, Hardin
and Chester county, began its 49th an.
nual session at Parsons.
Nashville.-The jury returned YER
dict of not guilty in the case Of Orfrey
Duncan, indicted in the federal court
for shooting off two fingers of his
right hand to avoid military service.
phis.-Orders have been receiv-
cd at Park field by Maj. Lowell, COM
mandant, to entrain pilots and enlisted
men of the First aero squadron, now
on duty at the field, for Garden City,
New York.
Memphis.-It was announced from
the Chamber of Commerce that mem
bers of the Mississippi Valley associa-
ton will meet in Memphis Oct. 30 for
the purpose of organizing zone No. 2
of the association.
Dyersburg. account Of the I'M
precedented attendance at the city
schools the old opera house building,
in the business part of the city, has
been leased for the term to take care
of some of the classes.
Memphis Memphis has become the
home of the Perfect Stop Compression
Brake company. The compression
brake is a device to be placed on auto
mobiles to insure safe and sure stop
page in emergency cases.
Memphis Thirty-two soldiers, who
were wounded overseas, were sent to
the Marine hospital A few of them
were sent to the City hospital. The
men are convalescent, just recovering
from injuries and sickness.
Nashville. - That Tennessee will
more than raise her quota of $4,000
for the Roosevelt memorial fund was
the opinion expressed unanimously at
state conference of leaders in the
movement held at the Hermitage ho-
tel
Memphis.--Plans for the raising Of
funds to erect 5000 clubhouse and
headquarters of Memphis Post No. |,
the American Legion, win probably be
discussed at the next regular monthly
meeting of the organization the second
week of October.
Huntingdon.-The plan Of consoli-
dating schools is gaining in favor and
popularity in this county. Vale, Mitch
ell and Edna, all in the Seventeenth
district, near the town of Vale, have
been united and will be placed under
one management
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Jacksonville Rev. Frank Van Vliet,
who has been rector of st. Luke's
Episcopal church for the past two
years, left for Grand Rapids, Mich,
where he has accepted the passionate
of the Grace church and will also hold
4 chair in the UNCONVENTIONAL school
# that city.
Memphis. Police and private detec-
tiyes are conducting a country wide
search for a forger of national notS
out of Memphis, who is
wanted in four states on charges of
passing bogus checks and defrauding |
through the means Of bogus bills Of
lading, HIS peculations will run up
into the thousands.
Chattanooga.-The state convention /
Of the Tennessee Church of Christ, just
closing its session here, selected Mem. i
phis as the next convention city.