McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1922-08-04
Tennessee
EVEN
Happenings over the
State condensed for
our busy readers

McCleish of Brownsville prominent
planter of Tennessee and Arkansas,
who attended the West Tennessee
Farmers Institute at Jackson. Mr..
McCleish says that If it were not for
the boil weevil ana the fear it has
inspired the farmers of this section
would be raising scent cotton and
starving to death. He argues that the
weevil has turned the farmers atten-
ton to producing feed and feedstuffs
and has therefore been an economic
blessing.
Remains of "Bonny Kate" Sewer,
wife of John Sewer first governor of
Tennessee which for Sc years lay bur-
led In an unknown, unkept weed over
grow cemetary outside of Russeville
Ala has been removed to Knoxville
where it will be laid beside that of her
husband in the court house yards.
DR.. James NJ. 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.
John H. Gothard of Bridgeport, Ala,
who was shot by Frank Hatfield June
IL, as the result Of labor feud, is
dead Both men were molders Goth
ard belonging to the union and Hat
field outside the ranks. The shooting
IL, Of hop
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.
William e. 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. 27,
1847 in east Tennessee, and at the
age of IA years enlisted as member
OF the First Tennessee heavy artillery
volunteers, C. s. A. He received his
discharge at Lynchburg at the sur
render. After the war he moved to
obion 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 F. Dillon and
T. L. Roper, first assistant sergeant
OF Oakley farm, IL miles west of Sell
mer. He offered no resistance. Vile
man made his escape June 80. He
accompanied Roper back to Missis-
sippi without requisition papers. VILE
man Is % years of age and has wife
and three children. $50
The plant of the Southern Cotton
and Paper Company at Chattanooga
at which 1t 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 tc produce finer quail
ties from this material. The method
to be used is entirely new.
Declaring that 1t would be impossi-
BILE to enforce the Hoover price mini
mum as long as congested rail condi-
tions prevail, F. C. Mahan, who is
representing coal operators ins South
eastern Kentucky and Tennessee
fields In conservation measures, insti-
gated by Secretary Hoover, issued q
statement tonight in which he describ-
ed the coal outlook in Knoxville terri
tory as exceedingly gloomy"
Wagon loads of peaches are being
| marketed at Selmer every day. The
crop in McNairy County is one Of the
| biggest ever known. The fruit is I'M
usually large and of fine flavor. There
| were very few peaches in the county
last year and every household Is can
ming this year. The apple crop in the
county is fairly good
|
A Newborn Gun Club was organized
at Newborn recently with G. D. Hask-
ms, president; M. A. Jenkins, vice
president; M. c. Hamilton, secre-
| tory and treasurer and so members.
| The traps are located at an ideal
place On the Jess Davis Higway near
town.
| Mrs. C. w. Cox, of Tulsa, Okla. and
| Miss Ella Renfro, of Chattanooga,
were fatally injured this morning
| when an automobile in which they
were driving along Stringer's ridge,
near Chattanooga, backed off high
embankment and turned over several
times rolling down the embankment
at a distance OF rs feet.
A group Of men said to be striking
shopmen of Jackson, boarded the IL
linois Central train at Malesus, six
miles south of Slab No. l, and forced
rs track laborers from the passenger
coaches and when they alighted pro-
ceeded to attack part Of the number
The home OF Mrs. Sudie DeBow, In
the second civil district near Union
City, was completely destroyed by fire
of unknown origin. Very little of the
household furniture was rescued. This
home was one OF the handsomest
country homes In Onion county.
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