The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-09-02
TENNESSEE.
EVENTS
Gatheredfrom All Cor
ners Of the State and
Told In Briefest Form

MchonZl0, through W6dkloy county,
| to Martin, and on to the Obion county
line. This road will pass through
Gleason and Dresden and other small
er towns along the route. 1t will ex-
tend from Mckenzie southeast on To
Huntingdon, where it will connect with
the Bristol-to- Memphis highway.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. trouble is report
ed from the Oneida section due to the
recent activities of an organization
calling themselves white Shirts"
Several citizens have been sent warn
ings Activities ascribed to the White
Shirts include an attempt to kill three
negroes employed by the Oneida and
Western railroad, the house in which
they were living being dynamited and
two of them being seriously injured.
Nashville-In an address here Frank
y. Lowden, former governor of Illinois,
said that the first step toward stabil-
izing farm production was to bring
transportation charges down to a point
where the farmer could regain the
American market he has lost. The
cost of transportation for farm pro-
ducts was practically double it was be-
fore the war, said Mr.. Lowden, while
such products are now upon a level
slightly above pre-war prices.
Camden.-Camden merchants are
figuring on way to get cheaper
freight rates to Camden and are con.
sidering plan to have their goods, or
what they can of them, come to John
sonville via the Tennessee river and
have truck make the trip to and from
the river every day The Camden
board of trade has been asked to look
into the matter.
UnionCity. AT the last meeting OF
the mayor and board of aldermen OF
this city the assessment Of city prop.
erty was lowered about half million
dollars, the old assessment being 49,
784,985 and the new assessment $2,-
246,880. The tax rate was raised from
$110 to $3.50.
Ripley.-C. 3. Mckinney, son OF
Judge and Mrs. C. P. Mckinney, Is at
home for few days, he having stop
ped over from his trip west, Mr.. Nc |
Kinney graduated with honors from
the law department of Vanderbilt and |
was a member of the D. K. E. frater-
nifty
Milan.-The protracted meetings at
Bellows chapel, north of here, have |
closed There were more than 80 con-
versions and 20 additions to the
church A very large crowd gathered
on the banks of the Obion river four
miles north of here to witness the bap-
tizing.
Trezevant.-Rev. w. L. Hart, for
many years pastor of the Methodist
church at McLemoresville, has resign
ed his pastorate and has moved with
his family to Boaz, Ala, where he has
accepted a position as teacher of rural
life in Boaz Seminary.
Ripley-The quarterly county court
for Lauderdale county met in special
session here in response to a call is
sued by Judge w. C. Patton for the
purpose of electing O. new county
board of education, as provided for by
an act of the last legislature.
Milan.-The first small load of seed
cotton of the crop of 1921 was brought
here and was sold to the L. S. Cole
grain company for eight cents pound.
It was raised by August Rauchley, a
farmer four miles west of
Milan. The crop is beginning to open
rapidly and picking will begin gener.
ally very soon.
Camden.-Since the chairman of the
democratic committee of the county
called a meeting of the committee for
the first Monday in September several
candidates have announced for the diff.
ierent offices, including N. j. Cuff and
Cecil Harris for county clerk, and E. [
.. Flowers for sheriff.
Trezevant.-Jeff ]. Blanks has re-
,ently let the contract to Messrs. Car
.er and Cresswell for the building of
i've brick business buildings on his I
OTIS facing Main street, and the work
S to begin soon.
Jacksonville Moose lodge is pre- !
pairing to stage its annual minstrel !
how at the Marion theatre here Oct.
i5-27. Governor Bowen, formerly
With Fields minstrels, has been en-
.ak sd to direct the show.