McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1922-06-23
Tennessee
EVEN is
Happenings over the
State condensed for
our busy readers

The Rev. ]. H. Harmon is holding
series of services at the Nazarene
church at Paris
Additional suits aggregating $4,000
have been filed in the circuit court
| against the estate of the late Nate Sill
verman at Chattanooga,
An essay Of Byron Hill, at jackson,
has been selected by the state commit
| tee to represent Tennessee in the ma.
tional highway council.
About $4,000 has been subscribed
so far, and it Is expected that the to-
tai subscriptions will run between
$4,000 and $4,000.
It has been announced that the
American Cigar company has definite
ly decided to establish branch fac.
tory at Dyersburg.
Up until June 15, is carloads of
beans and seven of blackberries had
products bringing on thousands Of dol
lars to the farmers.
Judge Baptist has adjourned the
June term of civil court at Jackson.
and has returned to his home at Cow
ington.
The new Hotel Brumley at Green
vile has been thrown open to the pub
lie, and is said to be one of the most
commodious hostelries in that section
Of the state.
I Will Smith, superintendent of the
Madison County workhouse, was killed
when a bridge on which he was stand
! ing fell and a timber struck him in
| the head.
Sunday was bad day for traffic &C
cidents at Bristol and as a result one
is dead, one is badly injured and two
are suffering from painful cuts and
| bruises.
A social feature arranged for the
national federation convention of bust
ness and professional women which
meets at Chattanooga in July will be
an elaborate barbecue at Brunt Cabin
| Springs on Signal mountain.
! Grand Master Walker M. Taylor of
| Memphis, Grand Secretary Smith M.
Cain of Nashville, Worshipful Master
Ben Bateman Of Cuba Lodge, Upton
County and ]. Siegel of Halls were
recent visitors at the Friendship lodge
of Free and Accepted Masons.
| The middle Tennessee state normal
school at Murfreesboro has opened its
eleventh annual summer session. Dur
| ing the first week the enrolment
reached over 900, and it is believed
the number of students in attendance
will probably reach 1000.
| $3.50
Three hundred and fifty men and
women have matriculated for the six
| weeks summer school Of the Tennes-
nee Polytechnic institute, which open
ed at Cookeville under the most aus
picious circumstances. 1t is expected
this number will be doubled.
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The citizens OF Humboldt are finish
ing a campaign for raising $4,000
| to erect and equip small hospital at
Humboldt. The movement was started
4 by G. w. Bailey, wealthy citizen,
who volunteered to make donation
Of not less than 1880 il others would
pay an equal amount with which to
buy the lot and construct the building.
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4 Farmers of this county are about
through with gathering and marketing
their blackberry crop for this season.
4 The yield has been good and the quail
lty of the fruit has been good this sea-
son, but the prices paid have not been
as high as on some former years, al
4 though the fruit has brought some
good money into the company.
"
Eight Tennesseans have just gradu-
ted from the University Of Virginia
as follows: Law-Joseph Kent Brown,
Il Blountville; Bryan Carver, Knoxville:
Jack harrington White, Jackson. Sci
ence John Alexander Stewart, Chat
| tanooga; Frederick Russell Westcott,
| Chattanooga; Charles Green Andrews,
Memphis. Bachelor OF Arts Summer
field Key johnson, Chattanooga: VIII
| liam Cleghorn Pitner, Chattanooga.
/ Mrs. Joseph D. Brown, chairman on
4 teachers and text books of the board
4 OF education OF Memphis, has notified
friends in Chattanooga OF her appoint
! ment as chairman OF the state Of Ten
4 nessee to represent the state womena
clubs in the national educational asso.
citation which meets In Boston in July,
i A special train with large Knox
vile delegation made a trip to Morris
town to hear Billy Sunday.
Maj. Benjaman Mccullough Horde
veteran of the civil war. former com
missioner of agriculture of Tennessee
widely known authority upon Jersey
cattle died at the home of his daugh
ter, Mrs. Frank N. Boensch, Jr., al
Motion near Nashville.
The official board OF the Dyersbure
Methodist Church at recent meeting
decided to go ahead with the construc
ton of their new church building
which was planned three years ago
but help up pending return to norma
| finaes