The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-12-16
TENNESSEE
EVENTS
Gathered from All Cor
ners Of the State and
Told in Briefest Form

cent IrelgnJ rate cut Oh cdfl0du lOtS
If commodities, to. take effect some
ime In December. 1t is proposed by
the railroad to make the reduction APP
ply to an experimental period of six
months on carload shipments of
wheat, corn, oats, grains, flour and
meal, hay, straw, alfalfa, unmanufac-
tured cotton, tobacco, cotton seed and
products, except cottonseed oil and
meal, citrus fruits, potatoes, dried
NUTS and vegetables, horses, mules.
cattle and calves, sheep and goats.A
hogs, poultry, eggs, butter, cheese and
WOOL
All corn producing records in Hen
derson county have been broken this
year by Fay Pope of the Huron vi
cinity Pope produced 105 STA BUSH
els of corn on measured acre, under
the direction of county Agricultural
Agent H. A. Powers. The cost OF
production was $3453.
Judge James B. Newman has over
ruled the demurrer in the case of
Manse Sheriff., circuit court clerk OF
Hamilton county, VS.. John B. Thoma.
son, state comptroller, and sustained
the constitutionality of the delinquent
tax law, which transfers the collection
of delinquent taxes from circuit court
clerks to chnacery clerks.
The Colored Normal School of Nash.
vile is under fire at the hands Of gov,
eminent investigators, and unless GER
tain practices are not stopped the 200
negro vocational students will be tax
en- away from the institution. accord
ing to advices from Washington.
Criminal court grand jury at Knox
vile has indicted II citizens, IL Of
them city employees, for alleged fraud
in a bond election here last Setp. 8.
1t is claimed the ballot boxes in two
wards were stuffed.
Isaac Pennebaker, 83, veteran loco.
motive engineer and whose career
during the Civil War was unusually
stirring, is dead at his home in. Chat.
tanooga.
Nashville.-Three weeks illness ter
minated in the death of J. A. Kimbro
chairman of the Brotherhood of Rail-
way Trainmen of the NJ, C. & st. L.
ossss
Nashville.-"Old Limber," Gov Tay-
lor's hound dog, will take part in the
"Jollies of 1922" to be staged by
American Legion.
Nashville.-Rt. Rev. Samuel A.
Stritch has gone to Cincinnati, where
he will be consecrated bishop of that
diocese.
Knoxville. Through efforts of Mrs
Ben c. Kennedy, wreath of flowers
placed on the grave of every Knox
county World War martyr.
MISUNDERSTANDING of all Ep
worth league societies of city will be
held soon at Marker Memorial church.
>ssS~
Jackson-C. w. Fly shot himself
through the chest, but doctors say he
has a chance to recover.
Collierville.-E. F. Moreland has
been elected president of the Collier y
w.. !. &c Ell association. III
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AAe sn.-Chamber Of Commerce
lied veterans bureau here would
be enlarged.
Bristol.-Word received here .na,
John Vickers, Bristol resident, was
shot and killed W officer in West vir.>
ginis
Chattanooga-Arthur G. Levy, Chi
cago, expected to make announcement
soon of location here OF new depart
ment store.
Chattanooga Professional Women's
club completes plans for annual
Christmas bazar.
Lexington. Lewis, para,
lyzed by bullet wound, refuses to tell
circumstances of shooting.
Newbern.-0fficials believe incendi-
AIRY responsible for destruction of Be
gotta high school.
Knoxville.-Auction of doll bunga.
low will be feature of Christmas ba-
Ear given by NJ. E. church.
Lexington.-Mass meeting called for
Dec 5 to file protest against removal
of N, C. & st. l. terminals