McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1922-05-26
TENNESSEE
EVENTS
Gathered from All Cor
ners Of the State and
I old in Briefest Form
Troy's special High School has
awarded diplomas to 20 graduates.

ham Coal & Iron Co., win reopen its
mines at Graysville. =
The commercial club at Mckenzie is
cotton seed at cost to the
farmers of the county.
The Christian Endeavorers of the
northwest district at Newbern are
planning or their annual outing at
Samburg on Reelfoot Lake.
Southern Railway has ordered 20 To-
$500 freight cars, 800
cars, 100 passenger coach
es and ESQ cabooses.
Leon Hale, about % years old, a
veteran of the world war, died at his
home at Gibson after several months
illness of tuberculosis.
Roy Davis was shot and killed at
Hickory Valley and w. A. Shearin,
charged with the shooting has been
liberated on $1,000 bond.
The strawberry season is on in full
force in Gibson county and every day
solid train loads go to the northern
and eastern markets.
Judge A. r. Nell at Nashville hak
rendered decision that search Of
mans home or person without proper
warrant is Illegal.
The McFerrin Alumni association at
Martin is planning a big day for May
20, which has been selected for home
coming day for all McFerrin students.
At the regular monthly business
meeting Of the First Baptist church at
Martin. 100 members of the church
were granted letters for the purpose
of organizing another Baptist church.
Elwood Brewington of Nashville was
killed when an automobile in which he
was riding with Jonas Taylor, also of
Nashville, struck telephone pole and
turned over.
Ozzie B. Bates, aged %, was drown.
ed while fishing in what is known as
the George Adams Buffalo hole in the
old channel of the Obion river three
miles north of Trezevant.
Grant Murphy, popular travelling
man and well-known republican leader
Of Dyersburg, has been appointed by
Judge Ross as United States COM
for his county.
Wade Hampton Cooper has been
named by Gov. Taylor of Tennessee's
representative at the dedication, May
80, of the Lincoln memorial at Wash
ington. :
Bacillus Botulism, the deadly dis
ease which killed score of persons
last year after they had eaten ripe
olives, has attacked hogs in Humph-
reys county.
A new bus line service has been es-
from Mckenzie, this county,
to Paris by the Moore Motors company
Of Mckenzie. Two round trips will
be made each day between the two
towns.
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Yeggs operating in the downtown
district at Knoxville entered IA stores
and offices, cracked four safes and
carried away 5000 in cash. Checks,
jewelry, and other yaluables were left
by the robbers.
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With the confirmation by federal
decree of the asale Of the Southern
Engine and Boiler Works .splant at
formerly known, as the Har-
vey Steele Products Corp, work has
been resumed s...
The charter of the Union City Saw
ings Bank and Loan Association has
been approved by the secretary of
state, and the association has been in
corporated with a capital stock of
100000.
The state Of Tennessee is making
one of the hardest fights ever waged
In an effort to save more than $500, 900.
In bodybuilding in this state in the
next few months. Assistant Attorney
William H. Swiggart, Jr, has
gone to Washington where he will ap-
pear before the supreme court of the
United States to fight the appeal of
the railroads and the interstate COM
merce commission from the recent de-
cision of three federal judges who held
that the rate increase of 25 per cent
on stone and gravel for bodybuilding
could not apply on intrastate business
where the points of origin and destina-
ton are within the state and where.
shipments are made by the state, a
county or municipality.
Charles Shadden of Cottonport
Tenn, dead, John Shadden,
his father, probably fatally injured,
and Charles Paul is being held in
10000 bail on the charge of murder
as the result of a melee in which
four men were involved.
A fund OF $4,000 for enlarging
Union University is being raised, an
intensive drive being conducted by
citizens committee headed by DIR.
Jere L. Crook, an illustrious alumnus
of the school and former president of
the Southern Medical Association.
The funeral of Rabbi Isadore Levin
thai, for 80 years head of the Vine
Street Jewish synagog and one of the
most widely known rabbis in the coun-
try, was held at Nashville.
The Southeastern Hardware and