The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-10-14
TENNESSEE
EVENTS
|Catheredfrom AnCor-
ners Of the State and
Told in Briefest Form

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Jail here charged with attempting to
wreck passenger train on the N, Z.
& st. L. track near Denmark, this
county. The negro made a confession
to Railroad Detective T. w. Allen
and Deputy Sheriff C. G. Barrier, the
officers claim. They say he admits
he placed tie across the track, be-
tween the rails, but did not get it high
enough to wreck a train. Several
trains passed over it and the brake
beams cut up the tie considerably.
Had the tie been one inch higher, the
officers say, disastrous wreck OF the
Memphis bound passenger train would
have occurred, as this. was the first
to pass over the track after the tie
had been placed.
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Puryear.- Mary Byars, an aged
lady, sustained badly fractured foot
when she fell from a fence at the
home OF her daughter, Mrs. Johnnie
Stamps. The old lady was helping to
skim molasses at q sorghum mill near
the house. She was climbing over the
fence with two sorghum buckets In
her hand and her foot caught in the
wire Of the fence and she fell to the
ground.
Dresden.--Horace Waggoner, prom
inent farmer Of the second district,
residing eight miles southwest OF this
city, barely escaped death when a
team he was driving to moving ma:
chine ran away with 1t. They became
frightened at a passing car and com
menced to run. Mr.. Waggoner had
his two-year-old son in his arms and
this prevented him from checking the
team, and they got beyond his con
troll.
Morristown.-Th Holston Metho
dist annual conference, representing
5000 Methodists, has unanimously
adopted the report of Sabbath observ
ance committee urging congress II
enact the national Sunday law to stor
all interstate Sunday mails, newspa
pers and other business. The genera
conference was memorialized to in
| dorse state laws to stop all work fol
profit on Sunday.
Trezevant.-Carroll county schoO
| teachers will hold their next regular
meeting at Huntingdon on Oct. ~
The program has not been prepared
and announced yet, but it is the hope
of the county superintendent, D. T
Barnhill, that this meeting will be at
| tended by all the teachers, as there
will be some important matters fol
| discussion.
Dresden.-What is considered ;
| killing frost was visible here Thu
week and garden truck suffered, al
we'll as tobacco in low places. There
Is much uncut tobacco in the patches
due to the late planting and slow ma
turing, and it is feared that much 0
the weed, will suffer from this frost
Considerable ice was visible also.
Ripley.-The ginners' report, onl!
recently made public for Lauderdal'
county shows that as of date of Sep:
| 25, 1855 bales of cotton had beer
ginned in this county as against onl,
40 on the corresponding date las
year The crop has been opening ant
picking and ginning have been prose
cuted to the limit.
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Knoxville-A test case will b
made of Tennessee's old Sunday oh
servance law, which fifty-four mer
chants who operate cigar, fruit ant
confectionery stores from Gay stree
west are charged with violating.
Jackson.-V. H. Vowel owns a sof
drink establishment, but ne cannot en-
ter it until the case against him in tn
federal court under the dry act is dis
posed of.
Gainesboro.-Eldon Pate Draper o
Gainesboro, was seriously Injuries
when the car which he was driving
turned turtle, from which he died.
Dyersburg.-The plant of the Mon
arch cooperage company has beef
destroyed by fire. The loss was abou
Sic, 900, with no insurance.
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Greenfield.-Seven or eight ex-sol
diers have gone to Union City, wher'
the cleanup squad" win be for sew
eral days.
Ripley.-The election commissioner
/ for Lauderdale county have called 81
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