Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-01-27
TENNESSEE
i STATE ITEMS
PLAN FARM MEETINGS.

Jackson.-In order that a sound IL
nancial and agricultural program may
be mapped out for the coming year
number of interesting meetings have
been planned by the county council OF
agriculture, which is backed by the
farm demonstration agents of the
county, and one of. the biggest and
most important meetings Of this cam
paign will be held at the court house
in Jackson.
A team of workers will be present
from the farm development bureau Of
the Memphis Chamber of Commerce to
enter into discussion of the matters
before the farmers of the south at
this time. Cooperation upon the part
of the business men, bankers, mer-
chants and farmers will be the only
solution of the problem that is facing
the southern states at this moment.
Knoxville.-Local southern railway
officials announced completion of one
hundred new express cars for service
on the southern system by the South
eastern Express Company. The cars
were built at the Lenoir City car
works near here. They are SO feet
long, of steel construction and 80 tons
capacity and are equipped for steam
heat, signal hose, etc. They were de-
signed especially for carload move
ments of express.
Nashville.-The 35th annual confer
ence of financial directors and COM
missioners of the Christian education
movement of the Southern Methodist
church will be held in Memphis to per-
feet organizations of the financial de-
partment of the movement. Bishop
James Cannon, Jr, chairman OF the
commission, will preside, and several
other bishops will be in attendance
Jacksonville board of trustees of
Union university recently held meet
ing at the home of President H. E.
Waters. The trustees authorized the
president to erect as soon as possible
a new building for academy and bust
ness department of the university. 1t
was pointed out that the advantages
in the erection of the new building
will be many and the main one will
be that the school will be placed on
the list Of accredited schools of the
Southern Association of Accredited
Schools and Colleges.
Nashville.-At a joint committee
hearing on the pending Sunday OBJ
servance laws, the senate judiciary
committee recommended for rejection
the so-called Cooper blue laws, which
proposes to stop Sunday trains and
newspapers and deferred action on
the bill which exempts public utili-
ties and acts of necessity. The house
committee deferred action. The first
of the proposed reform measure bills
was knocked out in the senate when
the Tillman bill, which would have
outlawed pool and billiard rooms in
Tennessee, was rejected by a vote OF
10 to 4.
Observation-Disclosures of the Lee
highway association designated the
road from Knoxville through Lenolr
City, Loudon, Sweetwater, Athens and
Cleveland, known and referred to as
the Sweetwater Valley route, as the
official Lee highway route between
this city and Chattanooga. This &C.
ton was taken after full hearing at
the first annual convention of the as
ISOLATION which closed here. The con.
vention, which has been in session az
the auditorium of the Business Mems
club came to close following a long
open hearing on the question OF
choosing an official route.
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Nashville. - Sick children being
made to sleep two in bed in the hos
pital because there is not sufficient
bed clothing to go around. Bath
ing facilities limited because of dam
aged water system, lack of blankets
and springless beds are among the in
dictments against the management OF
the leUU6SSe6 AShONA
by the joint committee of the general
assembly which was appointed to in
yestigate the immediate needs OF the
institution and which filed in its re-
port with the senate.
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ADMINISTRATION that receiver
be named and the Memphis Aerial
company be adjudged bankrupt was
filed with the clerk of federal court
by A. j. Mitchell and Cecilia Sullivan.
The petition recites that the defend
ant company owes them more than
$500, and further charges that 1t owes
more than IL other parties in Mem,
phis more than $1,000. The petition
was filed by James Bickers, attorney
The Memphis Aerial company Is To-
Gated at the North Memphis Driving
Park. Il was the first organization
of its kind to locate in the south.
Huntingdon.-He Brown and
Miss Lillian Taylor, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. w. Taylor of Buena Vista,
were married at the home OF the
hrida's narents recently, the Rev. t.