The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1922-02-10
TENNESSEE
EVENTS
Gathered from All Cor
ners of the State and
Told In Briefest Form


of Middleton.
Work has been started on the Bris-
toll to Lake highway.
Ollie L. Davis has received his ap-
pointment as postmaster at Gates.
A. M. Keller reelected marshal at
Whiteville election.
The government ginning report for
Dyer county shows that $4,000 bales of
cotton were ginned up to January l.
The Dyer County Teachers Associa-
ton have held their annual meeting
in Newbern.
First sermon to reach Jackson by
wireless was received by Paul M. Will
son, member Jackson wireless club.
City of Chattanooga will soon estab-
lish municipal golf course at Monta-
que Park.
J. w. Woosley, newly elected mayor
of Union City, has been indicted into
office with fitting ceremonies.
Almost 500 of the 1,160 persons who
have paid their poll taxes at Jackson
were women.
Ill health is believed to have caused
Daniel c. Buntin, real estate man, to
end his life at Nashville.
Government experts have been in
Nashville investigating new variety of
cotton, said to be immune to boil
weevil
Martin Wickers' general merchan-
disc store at Adamsville destroyed by
fire. His insurance. policy expired a
few days before. the fire.
With sweet potatoes bringing eighty
cents hamper on northern markets,
Gleason growers are shipping out tu-
bers by the carload.
The public roads extending into New
bern are known to be in better condi-
ton at this time Of year than was ever
known in the history of the county.
Work of raising the $4,000 quota of
the Eighth congressional district for
the Woodrow Wilson foundation fund
has begun in earnest.
jackson health authorities are urg-
ing vaccination as precaution against
Smallpox Reports epidemic nearing
Tennessee state line.
The second anniversary of the ma
tional prohibition amendment to the |
constitution was observed with a union
service in the Christian church at
Selmer. ...
At annual meeting of stockholders |
Of Obion County Telephone Asoscia-
ton plans were agreed upon for i'm
proving the exchange and extending
the service.
Warrants have been issued for three
men living in Knoxville, following the
killing of Mrs. Lille Partin when men
posing as prohibition officers riddled
her home with bullets.
Albert D. Varnell, one of the last sur
vivoTs of the steamer Sultana, which
was destroyed on the Mississippi river
at Memphis, April ~, 1865, died at his
home in Knoxville the past week. He
was 81 years old.
A new trial has been refused Arthur
and Frank Tucker, convicted of the
murder of Russ Hughey, and they will
be taken from the Dyersburg jail to
the penitentiary at once to begin serv-
ing life term.
Seventyfive acres of cabbage and to-
matoes have been pledged by the farm
ers this year in the Newbery territory.
It is predicted that goal of 100 acres
will be reached by planting time
Judge Nathan L. Bachman, member
Of the supreme court of Tennessee,
set at rest all rumOrs concerning his
candidacy for governor of Tennessee
when he announced positively that he
would not make the race.
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That the amount of tonnage moved
during the present month wiA-be small
or than during any similar period with
In the past year was the prediction
made at Nashville by the officials of
the Nashville, Chattanooga & st. Louis
railway.
"A special term Of circuit court for
Dyer county was held the past week,
Will Indoa Rnhart Filling nR IlraS.