Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-03-31
TENNESSEE
L STATE ITEMS

KnOXville.-Cases against nearly 100
coal dealers and companies charged
with profiteering under provisions OF
the lever act, were dismissed by Judge
E. T. Sanford in federal court here.
! Dresden-The remains of Lieut.. Her
bert ]. Jones arrived in Dresden from
France via Calais and Hoboken. They
were accompanied by Corp. Clifford
Jordan. Company E, 10th Infantry,
Camp Dix, New Jersey.
Memphis. - Memphians dug deep
when the Children's Flower associa-
ton sold Easter eggs and novelties for
the benefit of the Crippled Children's
Hospital. More than $500 was re-
ceived. Mrs. Robert McKeller treas
| urer, announced.
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Dyersburg.-Doyle Beckett and
Frank Shaw were found guilty of the
charge of murder of the 14-year-old
daughter of c. NJ. Adcock while en-
gagged in robbing the Adcock home
some weeks ago. Punishment was
fixed at life Imprisonment for both.
Beckett is the son of a prominent Dyer
county farmer.
Ripley-County politics is opening up
in Lauderdale with rush. Since the
announcement of Miss Frances Ander-
son for the office of county court clerk
c.. S. Carney, present county court
clerk, made his formal announcement.
J. H. Coughlan, brother of Sheriff ].
T. Coughlan, announced for trustee
There will probably be several out for
this office.
Observation-Disclosures for a show to
be put on here soon by the boy Scouts
Of the city will begin, it was announc-
ed at the Y. NJ. C. A. The name of the
play to be given by the kid organiza-
ton is "a Kids Awakening" and is
said to be a play with fine moral
for youngsters. The rehearsals will
be under the direction of John Cart.
nell, scout master.
Camden.-Should Chancellor J. w. |
Ross be appointed to the vacant judge
ern district of Tennessee, the demo-
Gratis and a large number of repub-
licans of West Tennessee will ask
Gov. Taylor to appoint the Hon. John
T. Peeler to the vacancy, as the demo-
Gratis elected Chancellor Ross by re-
fusing to let any democrat run against
him The chancery district is largely
democratic and democrat could have
been elected very easily
s.-Heretofore it has been the
duty of the county court of Henry
county to appoint juries for the next
term of the circuit court, but by
recent act of the legislature this has
been changed and they will be named
by three jury commissioners. In &C.
eordance with this law Judge T. R.
HARDWOOD, circuit judge, presiding over
he March term of circuit court Of
Henry county, now in session, has
named S. T. Doty, w. ]. Brite and ].
:. Porter as this commission for Hen.
y county.
Nashville.-The three negroes, Dan
cannon, Grover Dunn and Milton
Hayes, suspected of participating in
he killing of Thomas Mitchell, prom
emit farmer of Cotton Town, Sumner
ounty, and Frank Wilkes, a Nashville
axicab driver, near the Mitchell home,
yer a liquor transaction, and who ,
ere threatened by an armed mob Of
bout 200 persons, were taken from :
lie Sumner county jail at Gallatin, =
enn., and returned to Nashville by ! :
lie so state police who were sent to
lie scene in answer to a call FOR as.
stance. q
Ripley-According to report, work y
l the Jefferson Davis Highway be.
veen Ripley and Covington will be
,sumed soon. Hughey Bros, con- =,
actors, of Memphis, have full equip Il
ent ready to begin and camps are To- n
tied at Covington, Rialto and Hen Il
ng. 1t is the plan to haul out ma r
rial from each point simultaneously II
i'd thus facilitate the work. 1t is es. in
mated that it will take at least 60 N'
lys to lay the base course, which will
of ebert or gravel of the best grade
stead of broken limestone as orig
ally planned a.
acknowledgements emerged victo- -
JUS from another red hot legislative r
tile and incidentally the Tri-State
ir is no longer dependent upon the
Inns of legislators for the handout |,
has been getting from the state Il
The senate passed the bill IL
by Gov. Taylor and l.
ssed by the house, levying tax Of :
e-tenth of a mill throughout the &c
tie for the support of state, division IL
| county fairs. Under the arrange :
mt the Tri-State Fair will get at k
st $25, 900 though at the same time .r
taxpayers of Shelby county will IL
$4,000 of the extra tax
Lula Bales, who IA
y shot her husband, Jim Bales, near s.
loir City, was given a preliminary 3
ring, bound over to circuit court Ell
remanded to iail without bail An | W