The Sneedville news. (Sneedville, Tenn.) 191?-19??, 1922-08-11
Tennessee
E E N is
Happenings over the
State condensed for
our busy readers

Tic 5iatchSht ny w =
McCleish of Brownsville prominent
planter of Tennessee and Arkansas,
who attended the West Tennessee
Farmers Institute at Jackson. Mr..
McCleish says that if 1t were not for
the boil weevil ana the fear IL has
inspired the farmers of this section
would be raising scent cotton and
starving to death. He argues that the
weevil Las turned the farmers atten-
ton to producing feed and feedstuffs
and has therefore been an economic
blessing.
John II. Gothard of Bridgeport. Ala,
who was shot by Frank Hatfield June
IL, as the result OF a labor feud, 10
dead. Both men were molders Goth
ard belonging to the union and Hat.
field outside the ranks. The shooting
occurred in front of Hatfield's home
at Bridgeport and Gothard was car.
ried to Chattanooga for treatment
His assailant is now in the Alabama
penitentiary. where he was rushed for
safekeeping following the shooting,
friends of Gothard having threatened
violence.
Remains OF "Bonny Kate" Sewer,
wife of John Sewer first governor OF
Tennessee which for SO years lay bur.
led in an unknown, unkept weed over.
grow cemetary outside of Russeville
Ala. has been removed to Knoxville
where il will be laid beside that OF her
husband in the court house yards.
DR.. James M. Maxon. bishop coad.
tutor of the Episcopal church OF Ten.
nessee. has definitely accepted the
presidency OF the State Council Of So
cial Agencies at Nashville.
william z. Massengill, rs years old.
has been summoned to join his com.
rades who have passed on before. He
leaves behind him an enviable record
OF bravery and service to the Lost
Cause" He was born on Sept. q,
1S47. in east Tennessee, and at the
age of IA years enlisted as a member
vi tut stihtbott htafy
volunteers, c, 8. A. He received his
discharge at Lynchburg at the sur
render. After the war he moved I,
Onion county. and in 1872 married
Miss Louise Harrison.
Dewey Wileman of Prentiss county,
Miss, an escaped convict from the
Mississippi state prison, has been ar.
rested by Sheriff John +. Dillon and
T. L. Roper. first assistant sergeant
Of Oakley farm. IL miles west of Sci.
mer. lie offered no resistance. Vile.
man made his escape June 30. He
accompanied Roper back to Missis
sippi without requisition papers Vile
man IL % years of age and has a wife
and three children.
The plant of the Southern Cotton
and Paper Company at Chattanooga
at which II is proposed to manufac-
ture band paper from cotton linters.
the first experiment of the kind, will
be opened about Sept. l. Blotting
paper has been successfully manufac.
tured from cotton linters but no effort
has been made to produce finer quail.
ties from this material. The method
to be used is entirely new.
Declaring that IL would be impossi.
BILE 10 enforce the Hoover price mini.
mum as long as congested rail condi-
lions prevail, r. c. Mahan. who is
coal operators in South
eastern Kentucky and Tennessee
fields In conservation measures, insti.
gated by Secretary Hoover, issued
statement tonight in which he describ-
I'd the coal outlook I'm Knoxville terri
tory as exceedingly gloomy"
Wagon loads OF peaches are being
marketed at Selmer every day. The
,rop in McNairy County is one OF the |
biggest ever known. The fruit is un.
Usually large and of fine flavor. There
sere very few peaches in the county |
asst year and every household is can.
ling this year. The apple crop In the
county is fairly good
A Newbern Gun Club was organized
4 Newbern recently with @. ID Hask'
ms. president: NJ. a. jenkins, vice
resident: VI. G. Hamilton. secre
DRY and treasurer and so members
he traps are located at an ideal
lace on the Jess Davis Higway near
own.
Mrs. c. w. Cor. Of Tulsa. Okla. and
iiss Ella Renfro. of Chattanooga.
Eere fatally injured this morning
Then an automobile in which they
rere driving along Stnngers ridge.
ear Chattanooga. backed off a high
and turned over several
mes rolling down the embankment
/ a distance Of IS feet.
The home OF Mrs. Sudie DeBow. IN
h. second ciyil district. near Union
ity. was completely destroyed by fire
7 unknown origin. Very little Of the
Dusehold furniture was rescued. This I
ONE was one of the hSndsomest (,
1untry homes in Obion county.