McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1922-05-19
TENNESSEE HAPPENINGS

TIRE dJ Lu6 OllFST garage anu rOTu
agency at Somerville caused damage
Of $4,000.
Arthur Womack, a telephone line
man, was fatally injured when struck
by a falling tree limb at Manchester.
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George Jeff CIlbreath, college stu
dent from Stanton, has won the high
est scholarship medal at Nashville.
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Nate M. Silverman, stock broker,
ended his life at Chattanooga by firing
bullet into his head.
Carload shipments Of strawberries
are going forward daily from Newbern
to the northern markets.
The commercial travellers of the
state will hold their annual meeting at
Nashville beginning May rs.
A new undertakers' firm has been
organized at Dresden under the firm
name of Winstead, Jones & Bowlin
Brothers.
Rob Cravins a prominent citizen Of
Gleason was kicked by the old family
horse, breaking both bones in Mr..
Cravins' leg.
Shot by a rifle in the hands of his
13-year-old son, Mitchell, Floyd V.
Chapman, IS, died at Knoxville of his
wounds.
Claude p. Street of Nashville has
been appointed by Governor Taylor TO
the Tennessee commission for the
blind, succeeding e. G. Francis OF
! Nashville, resigned.
| Davis Gootch a we'll known citizen
at Huntingdon, was drowned while
swimming with a number of friends
in drainage ditch.
The Lions club at Paris celebrated
its anniversary of organization by
holding open house for ladies of the
city.
| Much excitement was caused when
DR.. M. J. Hackney and DR.. H. Otis
Johnson staged fistic encounter on a
principal street at Chattanooga.
| Maury county's first cooperative sale
| of lambs under the direction of the
County Farm Bureau was held at
Spring Hill and was decided success.
Judge Clarke w. Turner, for many
years professor of law at University
of Tennessee, died at his home at
Knoxville at the age of Is.
w. c. Houston, Waterman at Rich.
mond Spinning Mills at Chattanooga
died of bullet wounds without reveal.
ing indemnity of his assailant.
Berry raisers in the vicinity of
Meridian broke all past records when
they shipped 10 cars of strawberries
to northern markets on May 10.
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Two negroes were badly injured
when lumber truck they were driv-
ing was demolished by ~, C. & ST. L.
train at Mckenzie.
Following the filing of creditors
bill, the Central Loan & Savings Co.
has voluntarily closed its doors at
Chattanooga.
Berry picking was begun in the
southeast section of this county last
week and three cars were shipped
from Kenton at price OF 81 per
crate.
The Christian Church of Dyersburg
is installing pipe organ. An addi-
ton has been built to the church edi-
flee to take care of the instrument
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| Strawberry shipments for last week
were very satisfactory, although there
was much rain. twenty-five cars were
packed. 1t is estimated that the
weeks harvest amounted to $4,000.
w. F. Appleby of Lexington, recent.
ly appointed United States marshal
at Memphis has taken the oath of Of
flee before Judge j. w. Ross in FEEDER.
al court at Jackson.
Approximately $750,000 will be ex
pended in erecting and equipping a
new Methodist hospital at Memphis
according to an estimate announced
by L. M. Stratton, chairman OF the
hospital board
Josiah Bartlett, prominent farmer
was found mortally wounded in the
woods five miles east of Manchester
by a searching party. Earlier in the
day Bartlett had shot and killed his
wife and a neighbor.
A terrible tragedy occurred about
eighteen miles south of Cookeville, in
White county, when Mrs. Robert Pres
ley and her 11-months-old baby perish
ed in the flames which consumed theiI
residence.
The truck growers of Millingtor
community one day last week shipped
three carloads of strawberries and one
car OF peas. The pea crop is excep
tionally good and is making from u
to 100 bushels an acre.
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Eddie Mellon, who states he is skat
ing from Chicago to New Orleans, or
rollers, stopped over in Pulaski. He
left Chicago March % and expects &c
reacn New Orleans by the last of this
month. He says when he comes tC
| rouoh road he locks his skatec anf