The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1922-02-24
TENNESSEE
/ STATE ITEMS

| postmaster at Mckenzie.
The Fourth and First National
Bank OF Nashville, has made profit
| Madison County Farm Bureau has
now enrolled almost 400 members.
| Application for charter has been
filed by First Bank and Trust Co.
Thomas ]. Haley, well known resi-
dent Of Gibson. is dead.
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J. N. FHte has been elected presi-
dent Association of Commerce at Jack
son.
Livestock sold through Henry county
Shipping Association in 1921 totaled
more than $4,000.
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The city of Ridgely has sold 100000
worth of bonds, to build water works
and sewerage for the town.
C. E. Yarbrough, recently from Spar
tanburg, s. c., clerk in a Chattanooga
hotel was found dead in his room this
morning.
Eighteen persons here have taken
the Pasteur treatment All were bitten
by Pot poodle, found to be suffering
from hydrophobia.
Official notice that nomination of
William D. Howser to be postmaster
at GAINESVILLE has gone to senate,
has been received.
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Mrs. Mary B. Chambers was found
dead in bed at her home near Pebble
in southeast McNairy County, due,
physicians report to poison.
of 100000 on Liberty bonds, accord
ing to a letter addressed by James E.
Caldwell, president, to the stockhold-
ers of the institution.
Obion county Magistrates have
voted to issue $4,000 in bonds to meet
the expense of building a road from
Union City to Troy.
A total of 4O,100 acres was planted
in cotton in Madison county last year,
and is is estimated that 1870 bales
we're realized
t.. Tom Truett9a farmer and John Grad
dock, a machinist, both of Nashville,
have been arrested and charged with
murder of James Hay, near Lincoln.
DR.. Alexander, the mayor, reports
that work viii soon start on these pro-
jects. and will be pushed to completion
as rapidly as possible.
l.. P. Brewer, collector of the in
ternal revenue, announces that the
office of the income tax collector will
be opened in Jackson for the filing of
income tax reports for 1921 on Feb. IL.
The State Democratic committee in
session at Nashville unanimously de-
cided that no convention of the Demo-
cratic party would be held in Ten
nessee before the August primary.
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Loss by fire in Tennessee during De-
cember 1921, as shown by reports re-
ceived by Fire Prevention Commission
err Arthur Rodgers, amounted to
$447, 74O.
The Madison County Farm Bureau
campaign, conducted in an effort to
sign up every farmer in Madison Coun-
ty as member of the bureau was
highly successful.
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Curio seekers have destroyed every
thing of scientific value in the cave
near Benham skeletons were found,
according to Dr. Alex Hrdlicka of the
Smithsonian Institution.
John Hurt, 65, prominent farmer OF
the Pleasant Valley vicinity, near
Union City died at his residence south
east of this place after several weeks
illness from pneumonia.
A delegation of fourteen Nashville
builders will represent the Nashville
Contractors Association at meeting
of the National Association of Build
er's Exchanges in Memphis Feb. %.
G. E. Wheatley, travelling insurance
Inspector who was found in a Nash
Vile hotel lying across a bed dead
with a crucifix clutched in his hand,
died Of heart disease, according to the
coroner's jury verdict.
Recently seven prisoners escaped
from the heavy county Jail by saving
through the bars. There were three
white men and four negroes who made
their escape, and each of the number
mnro in for minor nffenSaS such as