The Sneedville news. (Sneedville, Tenn.) 191?-19??, 1919-02-21

Observation-Disclosures was paid Z
the memory of Theodore Roosevelt
here Sunday, at a meeting under tn
auspices of the Boy Scouts of Amer
fca. The principal address was dc
livered by Foster ". Brown, forme
attorney general of Porto Rico.
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Trenton. = Col Mack Morris, for
merly of this city, but now of Jack
son. proposes to donate to the city o
Trenton q hospital, to cost not les,
than $1,000. and more II necessary
the only obligation on the part OF thu
city to be that it keep the hospital IL
~ good shape as 1t is presented.
Northumberland services n
memory OF Theodore Roosevelt wer,
held here Sunday at ali city parks. The
exercises consisted Of eulogistic ad
dresses by prominent citizens, the sing
Ing Of patriotic songs by school chill
dren and the adoption of resolutions
Of sympathy for the family Of the ex'
president.
Chattanooga. - AS climax to an
unusual series of accidents here, j. NJ.
Potts. inspector for the street railway
company, was killed near the Iowa
monument, on Mission Ridge, tonight,
having been run down and horribly
mangled by a car. Several serious ap.
tomobile accidents were reported, two
Of the victims being sent to hospitals.
Knoxville. A memorial service for
ex.President Theodore Roosevelt was
held at the Second Presbyterian
church Sunday night, in which Capt.
William Rule, editor of the Journal and
Tribune. paid tribute to the late ma
tional leader. while the Boy Scouts
who took part in the program were
awarded a gold cup for highest eff
ciency.
Lexington. - Stephen A. Haboush, a
shepherd OF Galilee, native OF Pales-
tine, but who has been educated in
America, preached at the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South. here, and |
thrilled his auditors with a recital of |
conditions in the Holy Land since the |
English, under Gen. Allenby, have con- |
Iuered and driven out the unspeakabls
turk.
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Covington.-Taylor Smith. 10 years |
II age. died as the result Il injuries
sustained about O'Clock one mornihg.
When his coat sleeve was caught In
shaft at the Cotton Oil Company
Mill. while he was engaged in oiling
he moving machinery. His left arm
'as torn from his body, his right leg
ably crushed and fractured, and he
uttered internal injuries.
Camden. - An epidemic has broken
ut in the northern part of this county.
ear Big Sandy. among the hogs. and
lose familiar with It's symptoms say
operates on the hogs I'm about the :
lme manner of the flue acts on peo-
70 hho hiottci iiaS ooch Nahcu W
10 attention Of s. A. Clement, county 7
dge. who Is going to take the matter
, with the state veterinarian in an ef. I
TT TO stop further spread OF the dis.
sc.
- G. w. Brooks, who q
'es near here, and his five sons, are
the army. Mr.. Brooks has Just re- {
rned after seven months service In G
ance. He has a broken foot, ankle v
d leg as a result of a she'll explosion,
Tile he was at the front near verdun.
J was also gassed with mustard va.
r, which settled I'm his wrist and IN. q
YER part OF his arms, which are still
re. Mr.. Brooks told the recruiting
icer that he was ~ years old, in .
Ter that he might be accepted for
vice. but friends who know him
te that a score OF more years could
added and the result would still be
king his exact age
telling OF how he enlisted, Mr.. 2
street one day. and was thinking ml
my five sons in the army. but the y
a Of enlisting had never occurred -
me. Just then I passed a recruiting
lion. where an officer said: why en
70 you enlist9 You ought to be in 81 =.
army helping your country I
Mt thought Of going before. but |
!. Well. will you take a man OF ~ ~
He looked me over and told mo
IL the physician would pass me u
all right with him. went to o. ira
stefan and was passed on in. I ad. "
that ] am a rather ancient %. but !
is my official age and a man can ON
" young as he feels. and when
over there felt as young as the Tbs
% them" do