Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1919-02-27
FROM ALL PARTS
OF TENN ESSEE
Reports of Interesting
Events Boiled Down
for Hasty Perusal.

Somerville.-Five hundred Fayette
county farmers heard Prof J. L. High |
saw plead for a reduction in cotton |
acreage and the growing of more food |
stuffs.
Bolivar.-A meeting of the farmers,
merchants and bankers of Hardeman |
county was held in Bolivar. 1t was
unanimously agreed to reduce the cot
ton acreage one-third in 1919.
Westinghouse was stated that the
Thirtieth Division probably would
start for home March 1. This division
is composed OF Tennessee, North Car.
olina, South Carolina and District OF
Columbia troops
ashville.-Herschell B. Howard
son of the late Maj. H. B. Howard, OF
Mount Pleasant, and member of one
of the most prominent Middle Tennes
see families, was found dead in a room
in the Windsor Hotel
Dyersburg-At a well attended
mass-meeting held here the farmers
| Of Dyer county went on record as ia
voring a reduction in the cotton acre
| age for the 1919 crop, and pledging
themselves as ready to back any plan
| that might be agreed on at New Or
| leans, provided the entire cotton belt
| favored it.
Dresden.-Hundreds and thousands
| of pounds of tobacco are being daily
delivered here at the tobacco houses.
Prices paid for the weed run from Z
to II cents per pound for Jugs, and
| from 10 to 20 cents per pound for the
| leaf. This farm product has brought
into the county more than $1,000,000
since the season commenced.
|
| Jackson-Messages received from
| Washington by Sam Baum state that
his son, Amos Baum, who was mem.
Der of the United States naval crew
aboard the Inflated American oil
tanker ]. M. Guffy, which sank OH
Cape Race, is safe The message states
that while the ship sank, all the crew
and passengers were rescued.
Union City.-The Farmers Coope
rative association, of Kenton, Tenn,
has been organized for the purpose OF
selling everything a farmer needs and
buying everything a farmer has to
sell. The capital stock is placed at
$4,000, and has as its incorporators
number of wealthy men, and they
guarantee to the stockholders 10 per
| cent plus a share in the profits.
| Brownsville.-In resposse to the
call made by Gov. Roberts for the OBJ
servance of Safe and Sane Farming
Day." more than a thousand farmers,
merchants and bankers assembled in
the circuit court room in this city and
perfected a definite organization for
the purpose of decreasing by at least
30 per cent the cotton acreage in Hay
wood county and increasing the acre
age of the food and feed corps.
Ripley.--A mass meeting was held
at the courthouse in response to a
call issued by Senator w. R. Miller
and Representative E. r. Oldham to
ascertain the wishes of the people rel
alive to the road law for Lauderdale
county. 1t was the consensus Of the
meeting to have the present road law
| for Lauderdale county repealed and a
new one enacted. The chairman ap-
pointed a committee composed of one
man from each civil district to ascer-
tain the wishes of the people in each
district relative to the new law. and
during the recess Of the legislature
said bill will be drafted and presented
for passage after the recess.
|
westinghouse table showing the
number of men furnished to the army
by each state during the war was made
public by the War Department. New
York led with 367,S64, and Nevada
stood last with 5,105 in the total of g.
757624 men obtained by draft, voluns
tary enlistment or through the nation
al guard. Men actually furnished ran
very closely, the table shows, 10 the
obligation of the states making their
quotas proportionate to their popula-
ton. The figures are compiled up to
Nov. II. The states in the south fur
nished the following number of sol.
diers: Texas, 161 ,O65; Georgia, 49,
SOC; Oklahoma. SO169; Tennessee,
1925; Kentucky, 75,O43; Alabama,
7467S; Virginia, 1862; North Caro-
lima, 73,003 Louisiana, 65,9SS; Ar.
kansas, 61,O27; Mississippi, 54,295;