McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1922-06-16
Tennessee
EV EN- is
Happenings over the
State condensed for
our busy readers

The chuches at Milan have united
to hold big tent revival meeting.
The Dixie spinning mills at Chatta
nooga, with capital Of s1,O0o,OO0. has
applied for a charter.
]. e. Summers of Selmer was seri-
ously injured when a truck he was
driving overturned.
A case of anthrax has been found
on a farm in Davidson county.
J. o. Brown has been elected SUPER
intendent OF the city schools at Lex
ington.
Large shipments of cabbage are be-
ing made from Cordova to market CEN
tiers In the north and east.
The wheat and clover crop in Dyer
County is rapidly harvested and the
crop promises to be one of the best
in recent years.
The condition of the cotton crop In
Dyer county Is reported excellent, and
good stands are generally reported
through out the entire county.
Farm Bureau members at Jackson
voted unanimously for the employ
ment of an assistant to county demon
stration agent.
Rev. l. G. Murray has closed his
work at Henning with the Elm and
Henning Baptist churches, making
two years of service.
Building activities have received
fresh impetus in Brownsville and sew
eral new business and residential
structures are now under way.
John Turnbro and J. w. Shark,
government prisoners at Jackson es-
capped from county Jail, by saving
through window bars.
Earl Whitman, suffering from fit
of melancholia, ended his life by hang
ing himself in his fathers garage at
Chattanooga.
Oliver B. Andrews, Of Chattanooga
has been elected president of the In
ternational Association of Civilian
Clubs.
The board of edHcation of the Tres
evant High school at a recent meet
ing, completed the selection of teach
ers for the next school year.
Because she said he had beaten her
for years. Mrs. Matte McMurray shot
and probably fatally wounded her hus-
ban, Will McMurray, 40 years old, at
their home at Nashville.
Nathan Hirsch, Nashville boy, stu
dent at Cambridge College has been
awarded IA fellowships and given a
years free tour of Europe for excel
lent records made in college.
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It is reported that bugs are attack
ing watermelons, cantaloupes ard Gu
cumbers in Dyer county. The bugs are
appearing in large quantities and
threaten the crop.
A committee of citizens has been
named by the Association of CONNER
ce at Jackson to map out definite
plans for conducting city auditorium
campaign.
Heavy rains of last week have caus-
ed water to stand about two feet
deep over lowlands seriously dam
aging corn and hay crops in McNairy
county.
Robert Whitell, u s. prohibition Of
ficer for West Tennessee, arrested
Luther Middleton, Ezekiel Jones col.
ored, and Lincoln King, colored. when
still was found in their possession
at Dyersburg.
With approximately $4,000 qualified
voters in Hamilton County at the
close of the time limit for paying poll
taxes. Democrats are claiming ma
jority of about 5000 and are expect
ing to elect their entire ticket.
Memphis has higher rate of en-
ployment increase during the month
OF May than any other city in the
United States, according to figures
made public by Director General of
the employment service of the labor
department at Washington.
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An alumni club of all former Bethel
College students is being organized
at Mckenzie for the purpose of help
ing to make the new Bethel College
one OF the best schools of abe south.
X. X. Wilkes claims to have the
champion rat dog, for her age, in
Madison County, an Airdale puppy
five months old, which recently dug
up and killed eighteen rats,
Mexico and France joined hands at
Jackson when Miss Damaris Jaccard,
for three years student of Union
University, and Prof. Alfredo G. Muel-
Ter, native of Mexico and professor of
Spanish at the university, were united
in marriage.
The Lions Club of Union City, at
their regular weekly luncheon, made
plans for a trip over obion County,
with the object of encouraging county
cooperation with view Of promoting
boys pig clubs, educational work and
community interests.