The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1922-01-20
TENNESSEE
i STATE ITEMS


tanooga & ST. Louis Railway is pro-
posed in a letter addressed by Presi-
dent w. R. Cola to the employees which
was made public recently.
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At q conference at Nashville of the
joint commission representing the sou-
thern Baptist convention and the negro
national Baptist convention, it was Ie-
cided to begin early building opera
tions on the theological seminary for
negroes that will be erected jointly
by the two conventions.
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Following on the heels of the Demo-
cratic harmony banquet in honor Of
Cordell Hull, chairman of the national
committee, announcement was made
that the state committee will meet al
Nashville Jan. 81, to call a state
convention for early April to draft
platform for the state campaign.
The Huntingdon lodge No, JOG, Free
and Accepted Masons held its regular
annual meeting, at which the following
officers were elected. John r. Pitts,
w. M; DR.. " e. Massey, s. W.; Prof.
ID. w. Moody, j. w; G w. Parrish,
treasurer; w, C.. Sanders, secretary;
DR.. d. L. King, S. D.; Herman War
rem, j. D.; Rev. w. F. Price, chaplain;
L. H. jolly, tiler
No longer can fair goods of Mary
vile College at Knoxville display more
than 13 inches Of shapely lefts and
rights to the gaze of the male contin-
gent. Miss Mary Caldwell, dean of
women, has decreed that skirts must
be lowered to within Is inches of the
ground. This rule, she says, is a pre-
requisite to higher education.
Jeff Baisden. alleged mooshiner, was
seriously wounded in battle with
Prohibition Officer Victor Williams and
Deptut Sheriff Massengale on the Ten
nessee river, IL miles below Chatta-
nooga.
Appointment of w. F. Appleby, as
u. S. Marshal at Memphis to succeed
Stanley H. Trezevant, by Jan. s, pre-
dicted following a conference between
leading Republicans of West Tonnes
see with Congressman Lon Scott, in
Jackson.
Hunter Yates and Martin Phillips.
young men Of Bristol section we're
arrested and taken tosthe Jail at Abing.
don, where they are held ON the charge
of killing Charley Swinney, % former
soldier, whose body was found near
his home at Kings Mill.
Jim Montgomery, on trial at Kings
ton on the charge of attacking a 10
year-old Hartman girl, was sentenced
under an agreed verdict to life impris-
onment in the state penitentiary The
crime was committed at Hartman
Aug. 81.
Baxter Gass, secretary of the state
board of charities of Nashville, is, in
vestigating an incident when Ia young
boys were driven twice through tho
main streets of Chattanooga shackled
together in chains by the state prison
transfer guard.
Frank Whitehead, supernumerary pc.
liceman, is one of a trio arrested in
connection with the robbery of three |
boxcars on the Southern railway at |
Knoxville. He is charged with stealing |
1880 worth of cigaretts, automobile
tires and tubes.
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The county attorney generals office |
Is investigating the death of DR.. Hugh
B. Smith, Nashville physician, who Was
found dead in his room in a Nashville
hotel
An old landmark was destroyed at
Greenfield the Warehouse adjacent to
The roller mill, and belonging to that
was burned: The building
was in flames when discovered and no
efforts were made to save it.
A. w. Miller, deputy sheriff, with
special duties at the national sanitar
UNI at Johnston City, was probably
atally wounded when he attempted to
Irrest Clarence Smith, of Spruce Pine,
Y. G. reputed whiskey runner
Joel Chandler, Jackson autoist, de-
nolished buggy and killed horse be-
onging to Deputy Sheriff Phillips.
court discharged him when it was
hown ne was attempting to dodge
mother auto. +
A reward of $500 for the capture Of
rank Brooks, negro, dead or alive,
as been offered by the sheriff of Han T
ock county. Brooks is charged with
he murder of Dock Brooks.
Eight prisoners made their escape