McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1922-08-18
TENNESSEE HAPPENINGS

The railroad and public utilities
commissioner has entered an order
requiring the Tennessee Electric Pow.
er Company, which has recently ac,
CURED all property rights and fran
chises OF the Chattanooga Railway
and Light Company, the Chattanooga
and Tennessee River Power Com,
pany and the Tennessee Power Conn
pany, to file general uniform SEIZED.
ule Of rates with the commission with,
in sixty days.
The American Poultry Association
convention at Knoxville was deadlock
ed last week over the admission of
two breeds OF fowls to the book of
standards. At one time debate waxed
so furious that pandemonium ragged
for 10 minutes before order was re-
stored. On roll cal the Rose Comb
Rhode Island White breed was &C.
cepted and the single comb rejected.
The show entrance weight Of White
Leghorns, which precipitated heated
debate was not changed.
Frank Smith, superintendent of the
Rosedale Sunday School, and former
president Of the Sullivan County Sun
day School Association, was arrested
last week when federal agents made q
raid in the Holston Mountains near
Big Creek. Smith and james Booher
we're arrested while operating large
still, the officers say. In the course
OF the raid two big stills were de-
stroyed. The officers also seized
more than 5000 gallons of mash and
quantity Of liquor.
The University of Memphis Law
School will begin its 14th year with
Its opening on September IA. S. w.
Jones, president announces that be-
ginning with the session of 1929,
the law course Of the school will COM
prise three years or thirty months
of work instead of the two years or
twenty-one months, as per former
schedule.
R S. Wilkes, building contractor
of Memphis, accused of having attack
ed and beat c. c. WORKMAN, 65-year-
old Hollywood citizen, who served as
election Judge in the voting last week,
was ordered to the grand jury by
Squire John Klinck after a hearing.
The charge against Wilkes is assault
to murder.
Cotton planters from Arkansas, Mis-
sippi and Tennessee have been flock.
ing to Memphis in quest of poison but
find the supply has been exhausted by
the unusually heavy demand. Prema-
ture ravages by the army worm on
the leaf of the plant were reported
by the farmers from Keeling and
somerville, Tenn; Forrest City, Ark,
and around Clarksdale, Miss.
Ernest L. w. Polk, member of the
first year class of the University OF
Memphis Law School has been award
ed set Of law books valued at $500,
by the American Law Book Company
as the result of contest in legal re.
search work, in which the students of
the school participated. Mr. Polk OBJ
tanned an average Of 100 per cent in
finding answers to 140 legal questions,
and his wife, also a student of the
University Of Memphis Law school,
received an average of SO per cent,
The award was complete set of legal
research books, known as "Cyc" and
Corpus Juris.'
The boy scouts are being reorganiz-
ed In Dyersburg, Bert Hodge. Dyers-
burg High School coach has been
made scout master, with ]. W.. Ten
ney, ex-service man, as assistant. The
council is composed Of H. B. Rike, w.
s. Draper and DR.. Rust, prominent
professional men, all interested in
athletics for young men.
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L. P. Brewer, collector of internal
revenue for Tennessee, has filed suit
against H. w. Westmoreland, former
sheriff Of Marion County, asking $780,
900 damages for alleged Islander,
charging that the defendant had ac-
cused him of burning the courthouse
at Jasper last week to prevent an
audit OF the books.
| The first woman to hold a seat ON
/ the Democratic state committee In
Tennessee by virtue Of election is
Mrs. Neal Wright of Huntingdon, who
was one OF the two committeeman
elected in the Eighth Congressional
District. Mrs. Wright led a field of
four by over LOO votes.
Prince Green, OF Memphis, negro,
603 Jessamine ST., was apparntely at
tackled by cramps while swimming in
the river near the foot of Nett!eton
street last week and drowned before
his companions could reach him. His
body was not recovered.
Application to build 12-mile rail.
road out of Campaign, Tenn, has beer
filed with the Interstate Commerce
Commission by the Nashville & Allan.
tic Railroad.
Low water in the Mississippi Rive.
at several points between Memphis
and Carlo is causing considerable trou
BILE to operation of federal barge line
steamers as shown in official reports
issued from the offices of Capt C. e
Patton, general superintendent.
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