The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1919-08-08
TENNESSEE
Happenings You
Are Interested In

the war broke out.
Memphis. - Advices reaching here
Indicate that railway clerks will soon
be granted an increase Of wages
amounting to about 81 a day.
Nashville.-The first claim to state
land since the repeal of the act in 1903
was received at the secretary of states
office from Lawrence county.
Dresden - August 4th to the 9th
are the dates set for the five days
camp school for the Weakley County
Boys and Girls Club members.
Nashville. Sterling B. Anderson.
state auditor, whose office has been
engaged in an audit Of the automobile
tax, announced that in one county,
Pickett, not a single car was owned.
Nashville. The Middle Tennessee
Farmers Institute, in session at Co.
lumbia, adopted resolutions asking
their congressman to oppose the Ken
yon- Kendrick bill to regulate the
packers.
erected at the University of Tennessee
and incidentally the oldest brick build
ing standing west of the Alleghaney
mountains, is to be saved. 1t is Old
College, erected in 1926.
Lewisburg. = meeting OF the
dairymen, of this county was held at
the court house here for the purpose
of organizing cooperative creamery,
Knoxville. - The first building
Cleveland pitched battle, de-
tails of which are not obtainable, oc'
Cured between revenue men and
moonshiners in the Businesses of White
Oak mountain, eight or ten miles west
of this city.
Knoxville. Farmers are beginning
to avail themselves more and more of
the advantages of the federal farm loan
proposition, and the amount Of money
loaned by the government is steadily
increasing every month.
Knoxville. - Jess McDade, a return,
ed soldier, was killed and his wife and
sister, also three children of Mr.. and
Mrs. McDade, had close call when
an automobile occupied by the party
was struck by train at Cleveland.
Memphis. - The Memphis Retail
Credit Mems Association has larger
number of delegates in prospect for
the St. Paul convention, August 1926,
than has New York, according to an
announcement at their last meeting.
Memphis. - To take definite steps
tow"rd preventing as far as possible
the exodus of negro laborers to De-
troit, Mich, and other northern cities,
a committee has been named from the
Chamber OF Commerce.
Washington. = Notification has been
given of the Bry-Block Mercantile
Company's designation as the distrib-
uting agent for the municipality OF
Memphis of the surplus stock OF
canned meats and vegetables.
jackson. Under the operation OF
the Kenyon bill which is now before
congress, Jackson would lose about
$4,000 per year, according to state
ment of James Mitchell, manager of
the Armour Packing Company branch
here.
. Memphis. - Embargoes on freight
for coastwise trade, because of the ma
rine workers strike at all ports, were
received by virtually all roads operat.
ing in and out of Memphis which con-
meet with ports and have arrangements
with steamship lines.
Memphis. Purchase of the South |
Memphis Brick Company by a local
syndicate and it's enlargement to a ca
pacity of 100000 900 brick per year has
been announced.
Nashville. - Isaiah Montgomery, |
former bodyguard of jefferson Davis, |
who is now lecturing at the Peabody |
College, visited Gov. Roberts.
Jackson. - Sergt. Alvin York and |
bride will arrive in Jackson August 8 |
to be the guests two days of Mr.. and |
Mrs. Benton Johnson.
Chattanooga. = ]. NJ. Haley of Oko-
Iona, Miss, known to the newspaper i
world as Uncle Eli Perkins" is a Wis /
Itor in Chattanooga.