Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-11-24
TENNESSEE
i STATE ITEMS

| 1TeLeNdnI- survey DeIng made O
Bristol to Memphis highway through
Carroll county.
Ripley.-Rev. F. ]. Harrell has &C
cepted call to the pulpit of the Bap
fist church at Dyersburg.
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Lexington.-Pneumonia fatal to EN-
NETT Sneed, veteran NJ, C. & st. l.
engineer.
Tiptonville.-Miss Irene Jackson OF
this place was struck and knocked
down by an auto here.
Union ty.-Government biologist
at Reelfoot lake making migratory
bird survey.
orally nomination over M. W. Ewell
and J. E. Harrell.
Nashville.-Mr Albert E. Hill was
reelected president of the Womans
missionary society of Tennessee.
Chattanooga Granddaughter of Sit
ting Bull delivered lecture at court
house auditorium.
Nashville.-Mr Walter Smith, Sr.,
was reelected president of the Belle
Meade country club at annual mem.
bership meeting
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Friendship.-At Attorney General G. c.
Sherrod of Humboldt, native of this
county, addressed a large audience at
the Methodist church here.
Ridgely-Thieves broke into the J.
C. Cox & Son dry goods establishment
ON Main street and stole about $3.50
worth of dry goods.
Trenton.-Box car fire resulted In
serious damage to 81 bales of cotton
Paris.-Walter w. Powell was killed
and w. K Washburn seriously injured |
when their auto ran off bridge.
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Nashville. Bread is being sold two /
and three cents per loaf cheaper to
he Nashville consumers. The cut is
lue to reduced prices of flour and
other ingredients used In the bread.
Tiptonville II. Estes has been
sentenced to five to Is years in tho
Itate penitentiary following his con-
fiction here on a charge of embezzle-e
nent.
Nashville.-State censorship of NOV.
ng pictures was advocated by the
'aptist Woman's Missionary Union of
tennessee, which organization passed
resolution to that effect.
Gibson.-Mrs. Rebecca Meals, who
yas seriously hurt when she fell from
buggy in which she was riding two
Teeks ago, died from her injuries,
ever having fully regained conscious
ess.
Nashville.-State and church aid
chools from all over the state will
aye representatives present Friday
the conference called here by ]. B.
rown, state superintendent of public
struction.
Chattanooga--Capt. George A. Arm.
rong, former regular army officer
Id recently instructor in military
aiming at the Chattanooga high
hool, was run down and seriously
jured by an automobile driven by C. {
Shelton.
Bass, a veteran of '
e famous Thirtieth division, attend /
the reunion at Nashville last week L
d then hied himself on to Portland,
nm. where he and Miss Lila Wilknr-
n were married at the home of the
ide's parents. t
Nashville Taylor has granted
pardon to Albert Hunter, sentenced y
life imprisonment from this county, :
, pardon being granted that Hunter,
W afflicted with tuberculosis, might
outside of prison.
reduction in the gas
es for Knoxville will be asked of the
te utilities commission by the city
icials. The rate reduction to be
led Is not fixed, but will be based
the reduction in the price of coal.
-Investigation into the
racter of teaching in Baptist and
te schools of Tennessee and into
character Of textbooks employed
hose institutions will be authorized
the Baptist state convention here II
,rable action is taken upon reso- n
on by the Baptist pastors confer A
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