Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-09-29
TENNESSEE
EVENTS
GatheredfrOmAHC Cor
ners of the State and
Told In Briefest Form

Stewart or bloomington, ina. were
shot to death. Charles Bellmyer OF
of Bloomington, who is held at police
station charged with the double killing
calmly denies connection with it oil
that he entertained ill-feeling against
the men. The police theory, based on
the examination of witnesses, is thai
Bellmyer became furiously angry when
told by Stewart, his employer In
lunch stand, to go home because he
was drinking, after Pickett, assistant
manager of concessions, had told Slew
art that he must get rid of the man
as he was getting obnoxious.
Jackson. George Baddard was found
guilty of attempting to obtain money
under false pretenses and was sen
fenced 20 four months in the county
workhouse in criminal court here. He
is alleged to have forged kilograms to
the manager of the Southrn hotel here
purporting to be from the York lum'
Der company of Memphis. The tele-
grams asked that the hotel manager
here advance Baddard several hundred
dollars. The deal was found to be a
fraud anG Baddard was held.
jackson. home Monday
with a roll of money on his person
amounting to about $500, J. r. Bennett
a grocer of Middle avenue, has not
been heard from since, and his wife
is beginning to feel anxious about his
whereabouts. He is said to have
stated that he was going to Carroll,
north Of Jackson, to purchase some
cattle from a party who had telephon
ed him.
Chattanooga.-It has been officially
announced by reunion headquarters
the railroads had granted one cent
a mile rate to the meeting of the Unit.
ed Confederate Veterans here in Octo'
Der, the initiative having been taken
by the Nashville, Chattanooga & st
Louis railroad. The rate will apply tc
veterans and their families, United
Daughters of the Confederacy and all
affiliated organizations.
Irrelevant REVIVAL services are be.
ing conducted at the local Methodist
church, South. The pastor, Rev. I. H.
Davis, is being assisted by Rev. W.
J. Mccoy, of Mckenzie, who is doing
the preaching, and Miss Essie Morri'
son of Nashville Is conducting the
song services. There is good inter
est in the meeting. This is the last
of the annual revival meetings to be
held by the Trezevant churches.
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Jackson. Phillips was In
dicted by the grand jury for an attack
on a young girl from the Malesus
neighborhood at the district fair here
Phillips will be arraigned at the pres
ent term of criminal court, although
the date for his trial has not been set
His bond was fixed at $4,000 and he
was remanded to jail. Later he made
bond.
Columbia in the growing
of cantaloupes and Strawberries IN
Maury county is increasing, and for the
purpose of reaching working basis
public meetings to discuss thse crops
will be held at McCains, Stiversville
and Mooresville this week. DR.. w. e
Largen, who has had long experience
in the strawberry fields of Kentucky
and E. ]. Park Of the Culleoka Pro
duce company.
Jackson. cleanup squad has
heard applications of over 300 ex-serv
ice men from this and five adjoining
counties while here. A number OF
Jackson women are volunteering theii
services in meeting trains and trans
porting those ex-service men to the
federal building, where the board is IN
session.
Memphis.-A widespread conspirac,
ITO kill off all negro brakemen on the
Illinois Central railroad and 1t:
branches was contained in the alleged
confession by Joseph Miller Baker, 81
a former flagman, who admitted shoot
ing a freight conductor at Wilmington
by mistake, Detective Inspector Grit
fin said.
Knoxville.-Pryor IL. Draper, one o.
the few survivors OF the Inflated
steamer Sultana, which sunk from al
inside explosion In the Mississippi
river near Memphis at the close of the
civil war, died here. aged SO.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. claims the
record of the state of Tennessee FOL
having the greatest number OF students
off TO college. The town, with onl,
100 In population, has 81 boys and