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VOLUME 31-No. 42
HUNTINGDON. TENNESSEE. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 7, 1919
Sl.fiO THE YEAR
FARMERS' PROGRAM
STATE CONVENTION
Addresses by State and National
Officers and Many Prom
inent Workers
Following is the program fo
the state convention of the Farm
ers' Uniou, Tennessee Division, to
be held at Huntingdon, November
20-21, 1919:
Thursdav. 1 o'clock p. m.
Meeting called to order by the
stata Dresident.
Welcome address on part of
the town of Huntingdon Mayor
C. M. Watson.
Welcome address on part of
Carroll County Union State oec
retary C. W, Brooks.
Response to welcome addresses
State Vice-President B. A. Cherry,
Address by State President J,
H. Koffman.
Address by National Secretary
A. C. Davis.
Address bv Phil S. Taylor.
Short addresses by other state
and national officials.
Appointment of credential com
1 mittee.
Appointment of other commit
tees.
Heport of officers.
7:30 d. m. to 9:00 p. m.-'Enter
taiment of Industrial Training
School.
9:00 to 9.30 Address by L. M.
Rhodes, state market commissioner
of Florida.
9:30 to 10:00 Address by Ne
tional President C. S. Barrett
Subject: "My Trip to Europe."
November 21. 9:00 a. m. Ex
ecutive session.
BIG POTATO HOUSE
BUILT AT M'KENZIE
One of the Largest in West Ten
nessee is Constructed for
Housing the Tuber
L. D. Parnell has recently com
pleted ac McKenzie one of the larg
est potato houses in West Tennes-
see, the building being 36x90 feet.
It is made of brick and the bins are
of all sizes and extend 17 feet high.
The building cost several thousand
dollars and will store more than
15,000 bushels.
The potato crop this year will
be about double that of last year,
there being sold there last year
100,000 bushels. The rain of the
last two weeks injured the crop.
Several other houses have been
erected in that section by potato
growers and the greater portion
of the present crop will be housed
and held for higher prices than
obtain at the digging season.
A man is likely to make a fad
out of almost anything except the
woman he married.
TEACHERS TO MEET
SPLENDID PROGRAM
Meeting of Carroll County Teach
ers at Huntingdon on Satur
day, November 15
The nxt meeting of the white
teaehers of Carroll county will be
held at the school building in
Huntingdon Saturday, November
IS, 1919, beginning at 10 o'clock
a.m. As this is another of our
institute meetings, every teacher
in tbe county is required by law
to attend, unless an institute was
attended in some other county or
some accredited summer school was
attended.
Rural teachers receive half pay
for the day and mileage one way
f , where they live more than 6ve
miles from the place of meeting.
We think the following program
will be interesting and helpful:
Devotional Song, America.
Prayer by D. B. Raulins.
Roll Call Answered by paying
10 cents dues, unless already paid.
Proi,, Harrell will conduct a
class in English grammer, using
the teachers as his class, and show
ing how he teaches the subject.
Prof. Fred M. Little will con
duct a class in history in the same
way. .
Prof. J. D. Mullins will conduct
a class in arithmetic in the same
way, covering whatever portions
he chooses.
"Some Pending School Legisl
ation of National Importance."
Prof. Moody.
"Subjects Which Can be and
Should be and HowCorrelated."
Prof. Weston.
"Some Methods I use with Be
ginners." Miss Lillian Gardner.
Questionaire Composed of at
least one written question from
each teacher.
"Federal and State Agencies
which May be Utilized as Rural
School Helps." Prof. J.B. Brown.
state rural school supervisor.
Adoption of Supplementary
Readers General Discussion.
Respectfully yours,
W. L. Denton, Chairman.
D. T. Barniiill,
County Superintendent.
Mrs Ida McCollum, Sec.
Sugar Shortage
There is a shoa'tage of sugar in
the local market, anc' customers are
a'lowed to buy ool.v 25 cents worth
an at ime. The price is also advanc
ing. The dealers say that they are
unable to buy sugar even at the ad
vanced price.
Coal Strike
The coal strike, which now pre
vails in the coal producing sections,
wi)l soon be felt in this commun
ity, The light plant has already
cut out the morning service and
the lights are cut off at 11
o'clock at night. If the strike
should continue several weeks a
shortage of fuel will be felt along
many lines.
CENSUS TAKERS
STAND EXAMINATION
Forty Applicants Given Test at
Court House Thursday
of Last Week
An examination of applicants
for enumerators for Carroll county
in the federal census for 1920 was
held at the court house in Hunt
ingdon Thursday of last week.
Forty applicants took the test,
which was conducted by Mr. H. D.
Barry, of Lexington, suDervisor
for the Eighth congressional dis
trict. Women are eligible to serve and
three or four ladies took the test.
The test is said to have been
rather hard and quite a number
failed to finish their task before
time was called on them.
The enumerations will begin
January 2, 1920, and will continue
two weeks in the cities and 30 days
in the rural districts. The super
visor has until the eighteenth of
the month to finish grading the
papers.
The
You Surely Will Make Money on What You Buy Now
Goods for next season are alarmingly
scarce and much higher bestir yourself
GREATER M'TYEIRE
SITE TOBE CHANGED
McKenzie's Splendid School to
be Greatly Enlarged
by Next Year
The desired amount is now
pledged to insure a new plant, for
a greater McTyeire school building.
Fifty thousand dollars has been
raised, but the drive will go on
until $75,000 has been secured. A
new site will be selected in the
near fu,ture, and the present
grounds will be sold for residence
lots. There are a large number
of citizens that are ready to pur
chase. McTyeire has a record that
few schools in the South can beat,
having turned out several hundred
graduates that have made good in
the business world.
James A. Robins, the head of
the school, has been in charge for
twenty years, except for one year
that he spent in France with the
Y .M. C. A. McTyeire school will
open next year in the new build
ing, and it is expected that the
enrollment will double that it has
ever been.
This has alway been a good
school. As McKenzie College it
had a liberal patronage and was a
popular institution of learning.
Nearly forty years ago, when the
present brick building was con
structed, the name was changed to
McTyeire Institute, being named
for Bishop McTyeire, at that time
a leading bishop in the Southern
Methodist church. The bishop was
claimed to be very wealthy and
some friends of the school hoped
that he would contribute to tie
financial support of the school,
but we do not think he ever did so.
The Methodist church is in hearty
accord with the present movement
for a Greater McTyeire.
A. M. Leach Dead
Albert M. Leach died at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Car
ter last Tuesday afternoon aft 'ran
illness lasting only since Sunday
morning. Mr. Leach retired Sat
urday night in his .usual health.
Failing to get up for breakfast
Sunday morning, a member of the
family went to his room and found
him in an unconscious condition.
He never regained consciousness.
Apoplexy is said to have been the
the cause of his death.
Mr. Leach was 64 years old Sep
tember 22, and was a clever, up
right citizen. He was a little pe
culiar in his ways, but he was
kindly in his disposition, and never
harmed any one. He was honest
and straight in his dealings and
had many friends. He was never
married and is survived by three
brothers, J. S. Leach, of Atwood;
W. J. ard S. W. Leach, of Texas,
and one sister, Mrs. B. C. McCoI
lum, of Milan.
The funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon at the home,
conducted bv Rev. D. B. Raulins.
and the burial followed at Oak
Hill cemetery.
Grand Leader
PRIEST & PRIEST
CIRCUIT COURT
ODES MUCH BUSINESS
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After Nearly Two VVeeks Work
Adjurnrnent was Reached
lesieraay
The October term of the circuit
court of Carroll county, after
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special term, of hard work, reached
an adjourment yesterday.
The special term 'finished its
work and adjourned. The reg
ular October term convened on
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ueunesaay, iwo aays mer, on;
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account of many of the local
lawyers having to attend federal
court at Jackson Monday and
Tuesday of last week. This term
was completed yesterday.
"The new grand jury received its
charge and at once got down to
business. The grand jury of the
special term found about 40 in
dictments. The grand jury of the
regular term found quite a number,
but not so many as the first did.
The condition of General Sher
rod's wife was such that he was
able to return and take up his
duties at the begining of the reg
ular term.
Mart Adkison, charged with
transferring liquor, plead guilty
was fined $50 and giren six months
in jail.
The court overruled a motion
for a new trial in the Dave Wilder
murder case, and an appeal to the
supreme court was taken. The
jury gave bim twenty-years. The
other case against Wilder was con
tinued by the court.
Ben Fogg and Jethro Jorden,
both colored charged with larceny,
fined $25 each and given fifteen
days.
Albert Allen, colored, carrying
pistol, was given $50 and cost.
John Humble, colored, having
liquor in his possession, on a plea
of guilty, drew a $50 fine and
sixty days in jail.
Dual Rushing and Pink Rogers,
gaming, on plea of guilty, got $10
and cost.
Elmer Lathan, public drunken-'
ness, plea of guilty fined $10.
William Wood, violated bone
dry law, and fined $50 and cost.
Adrian Newbill, carrying pistol,
given $50 and 60 days.
T. E. Bennett, public drunken
ness, was given $25 and cost.
The case against Ben Fogg,
Elihu Grizzard and McMillin
Dos, chsrBed
holding up Tom llliams, a white
man, on the streets of Huntingdon
and robbing him of about $60.
was continued. Douglass was never j Mrs. Dodds' health has not been
This case was continued because j they hae peopie and personal in
of the absence of the prosecutor, j terests in Florida, which made it
Williams. It is said that Williams i to their interest to locate in that
left, either through fear or wasstate
paid to do so. An effort will be
made to have him here at the next
term of court.
The bunch of young men from
iGleason, who were intercepted
jhere a few months ago by Sheriff
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i they had secured in the eastern
porti0Q of thig M was hj(.
pretty hard by the court. They
fi . fftiftW.
J. P. Beasley, $150; W. H.
!Dinwiddie, $150; C. B. Bass, $300,
and Homer Hawk, $300. They also
i had to pay the cost, which amounted
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to several hundred dollars
Robert Hines, colored, porter
on the N., C. & St. Louis railway,
for violating the bone dry law, got
i3ou ana cost in rour cases, tie ae-
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posited $o00 for his appearance
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the rest. The surplus will hardly
be worth calling for.
H. G. Young submitted through
his attorney and got $150 and cost.
Another boae dry case. He
claimed to live at Pulaski.
S. Osborn, violating the bone
dry law, plead guilty and was fined
$100.
Archie Hooper, tippling, was
fined $50 and given four months.
Bob Hailey, who killed the
Parish negro a few weeks ago,
submitted and was given tweuty
years. He leaves for Nashville
at once.
Odie Woodson, violating the
bone dry law, was fined $50 and
gets 60 days in jail.
Walter Butler was acquitted in
the state cases, which were filed
against him.
In the run of years you will find
that every falsehood hurled at your
reputation is absolutely in your
favor. It always makes the other
fellow feel so cheap when you can
demonstrate what a liar he is.
DR. B. C. BODDS WILL
- HOVETfl FLORIDA
Huntingdon is to Lose One of Its
Best Physicians and Most
Excellent Families
The friends of Dr. B. C. Dodds
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mey nave ueuiucu c nuur
intrdon. Thev will go between
the 10th and 15th of this month to
Florida, where they will reside in
the future.
Dr. Dodds entered the practice
of medicine here about nine years
ago and has a fine practice, and
has made a host .of friends among
our neople. He is a progressive,
I enterprising citizen, ana lanes an
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j and hag a charming wife and bright
; little girl, and the family have a
i hn?t of friends among our people.
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Th'pv have sold their beautiful
new home in East End to Dr. R.
A. Douglass, who will move to
the place as soon as the doctor and
family move out.
CLINT C. O'MALLEY
SERIOUSLY WOUNDE
Former Carroll County Boy Shot
While Making an Arrest
in Alexandria, La.
News was received here this
week of the serious shooting of
Clint O'Malley at Urania. La., on
the morning of October 29.
Mr. O'Malley is a deputy U.S.
marshal, and also special city de
tective connected with the Alex
andria police force. He was ef
fecting the arrest of J. Y. Mc
Veigh, who was wanted on a
federal charge of using the mails
to defraud. O'Malley went to
McVeigh's home, called him out,
read the warrant to him and Mc
Veigh said he would go with the
officer.
McVeigh then turned and walked
into the house, being closely fol
lowed by O'Malley, He dodged
into a room, closing the door after
him. O'Malley pushed the door
open and found his man standing
with pistol drawn, who imtreli
ately tired one shot at the officer,
the bullet entering the right breast,
passing through the right lung and
out of In bsck on the same side
near the back bone. The prisoner
ran, but O'Malley tired three shots
at him, but shot wild and the man
escaped.
Mr. O'Malley was reared near
Huntingdon, but has been away
several years. He bears the repu
tation of being a fearless officer
and is very popular in Alexandria,
his home town.
Mr. O'Malley was brought from
Urania to Alexandria on a special
train, and was met at the depot by
his mother and wife, and a large
number of friends. He was car
ried to a hospital, and his condition
pronounced very serious.
TUESDAY'S ELECTION
LOCAL ISSUES CONTROL
Three States Out of Five Are
Democratic Kentucky
Goes Republican
Tuesday's elections resulted in
electing a democratic governor in
Mississippi, New Jersey and Mary
land, and republicans were victor
bus in Massachusetts and Ken
tucky. At this writing, Wednes
day night, there is some doubt
about Maryland, but the latest re
Urns seemed to favor the demo
crats. It may require an official
count to determine the result.
Ohio voted to remain in the dry
column by a majority of about
75,000.
Massachusetts elected a republi
by nearly 125,000 majority. The
republican candidate stood upon
his record made in dealing with
the Boston strike, while the demo
crat appealed to the labor interest.
DIG LAND DEAL
MEIilPIIIAN BUYS HERE
J. R. Townes Sells 409 Acres
of Cut-Over Land Near
Town at Nice Prof it
J. R. Townes, of Huntingdon,
sold to E. L. Manker, of Mem
phis, 409 acres of land in Drain
age District No. 1, between Hunt
ingdon and Hico, last week at $30
per acre. Every acre of this land
is in Crooked and Beaver Creek
bottom, through which the drain
age system has recently been com
pleted. It is all cut-over land, and
very fertile, and when developed
will be worth considerably more
once. Land similar to this is now
producing 10 to 12 barrels of corn -f
per acre. ' j
Mr. Townes bought this land a
few years ago and has made a fine
profit on his investment. 1 The
drainage of this land has made the
cultivation of it possible, and when
cleaned up and properly developed
will be one of the finest bodies of
land in the county. i':