McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1922-09-29
FROM KENTUCKY
Barbourville, Kentucky,
Sept. Is. 1922.

iCICII iiOiIl 4 lie Oiu due MI dos
State y Well | suppose it has
been long enough, and here |
come with some Of my wit. :"
Of course in fact. my visit among
relatives and friends recently
was more than a letter. To my
surprise of some new acquaint-
ance they would ask the question;
Are you the one that writes the
scary letters from Kentucky?'
Of course | acknowledge that
was my name at the bottom of
them.
| am proud to hear of the re-
suits the people are having in
revivals, and also glad to see
such interest and fine results
manifested in the opening Of the
schools IN McNairy county. You
would see old McNairy near the
top round of success, if the good
roads question was only put
across. Boys and girls are hav-
ing a good chance of preparing
themselves for the journey Of
life. The parent who sends his
son out into the world uneducated,
defrauds the community of q use
full citizen, and bequeaths a nui-
sance. James Kent.
Oh, my! You all should have
seen the eyes Of Irby and other
passengers on the train Wednes-
day evening, when a couple of
the officers Of Knox county march
ed in Mr.. Moonshiner, with guns
in hand and q part Of his still.
They are still going after the
moonshiner and bootlegger. This
is the fourth week of the circuit
court at Barbourville. | was in
the sherif's office this evening,
and his Office is beginning to look
like a junk room for he has sew
eral stills piled up in there. Here
is a copy of a clipping from our
county paper with this title:
How about it, boys?' "A gen.
tleman in this county has writ
ten us that there is shortly to be
a bootleggers' and moonshiners'
conference. The gentleman men
toned is somewhat of a wag,
but why not have such a confer
ence. We do not doubt that any
of our ministers will be glad to
open it with prayer if the con-
ference is to deal with doing
away with the business. What
a beautiful solution of our ex-
cessive court activities it would
be, wiping away about ninety
per cent of the cases that now
are entered on the docket" Also
another interesting item from
Middlesboro Daily News of Bell
County: Zone hundred coppe,
stills captured in various raids in
the county, were sold to a junk
dealer from Cincinnati for cop.
per manufacturers on the court
house steps at Pineville Tuesday
morning. The sale was made by
Judge Rollins, United States
Commissioner. Officers around
the court house evidently hatec
to give them up. 50 they posed
among the hundred stills and hac
their pictures taken. The sale
has not entirely depleted the sup
| ply of stills, however, and the
magistrates office still have {
number on hand"
Good news has been reported
The railroad strike has been set
tied now for awhile, and it will
go down in history as one of the
great events of the day. Further
more this weeks issue of thu
Literary Digest" has an inter,
esting article, giving some start
ling facts about the boil weevil
in which they nicknamed him the
"Billion-Dollar Bug" Las
month alone, the damage is es
timated at $50, 900 bales, and il
the rate of destruction keeps or
going up, it may soon amount t.
a million bales a month. Suci
as that almost drives back The
sunshine and smiles of life, but
no man (no matter what comes
has a right to make a nuisance
of himself. The ill-humored mar
is an unmitigated nuisance where
ever he obtrudes his unwelcom'
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