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Chattanooga, Tenn. Realizing that nothing is more vitally important to its interest than the prosperity of the farmers living along its lines and in the tributary territory, the Southern Railway company is doing everything in its power to promote their interests. One of the methods adopted is the running of special agricultural trains in co-operation with the officials of state agricultural departments. Such a train was recently run over the Mobile and Ohio railroau from Guys to Union City, Tenn., under the direction of M. V. Richards, land and industrial agent of the Southern railway and the Mobile and Ohio railroad, and Honorable John Thompson, commissioner of the Tennessee agricultural department.
This train bore a party of lecturers furnished by the state agricultural department, fifteen stops were made, and more than two thousand five hundred farmers heard the addresses. Such signal success attended the running of the train that Commissioner Thompson has requested the Southern to furnish a similar train to be run over its lines in East Tennessee. This train will probably be furnished as soon as the state authorities are ready to undertake the trip.
Nashville, Tenn. Criminal costs for the state of Tennessee increased over $3,000 during the year 1909. In Davidson county the criminal courts increased more than $5,000 over the previous year.
In Shelby county they decreased nearly $4,000; in Hamilton county a decerase of $1,000; in Knox county a decrease of nearly $100. The total paid out by the state to the various counties for criminal prosecutions for the fiscal year, beginning December 20, 1908, and ending December 19, 1909, was $161,020.91. For the year preceding, the total was $157,934.73. The increase came in the costs before the supreme court, in the jail fees and boarding of juries. The clerks', sheriffs', and witnesses' fees all decreased.
Johnson City, Tenn. Dan Walters one of the wealthy citizens of this place, is at Limestone looking after the establishment of a fertilizer plant. Mr. Walters expects to install machinery which will grind livestone rock. Its initial capacity will be about twenty-five tons per day. This pulverized stone will be sold to the farmers at about $3 per ton. If this proves to be a success, Mr. Walters will enlarge the factory.
Harriman, Tenn. The industrial school of this city has been reorganized and a new board of trustees elected and has been made a portege of the Tuskegee, Ala., institute, under the auspices of Booker T. Washington.
Chattanooga, Tenn. Chattanooga leads all Tennessee cities in the percentage of postal receipts for March of the present year, as compared wita March of 1909. The percentage 01 gain is 7.18 per cent. Chattanooga's receipts for March of the present year are $39,071.02, and for the same time last year $36,452.96. March of last year was the largest month in the history of the local postoffice, but in spite of all things which have happened since then the postal receipts show a healthy increase.
Nashville, Tenn. Governor Patterson extended clemency in fiive cases, as follows:
Claude Waite, colored, fourteen years old, Davidson county, six month for petit larceny.
Porter Graves, colored, Davidson county; $50 fine for carrying pistol.
G. C. Wright fifteen years old, Polk county; one year for larceny. Served nine months.
Theodore H. Williams, colored fifteen years old, Davidson county; attempted forgery; six months.
I. C. Parrott, Carter county; felonious assault; eleven months and twenty-nine days.
Johnson City, Tenn. The charter for the Nolachucky Power corporation was registered and the papers were forwarded to the secretary of state. The purpose of this corporation is to develop a water power for furnishing electricity to Erwin for lighting the city and for manufacturing enterprises, including the large cotton mill to be erected by O. P. Heath & Company of Charlotte, N. C. The dam will be built at the Devil's Looking Glass on the Nolanchucky river, about a mile from the center of Erwin. It is the intention of this corporation to begin work at once on the construction of the dam and the power plant. An order has been placed by O. P. Heath & Company for machinery for the cotton mills. With this industry as an assured fact, together with the other manufacturing enterprises that the cheap excess electric power will bring, will place this thriving mountain town among the leading manufacturing cities of the south.
Cookeville, Tenn. Jere Whitson receiver of the Bank of Cookeville mailed out checks to the two thousand five hundred depositors of the bank. This was the first pro rata
payment of twenty-five per cent. He
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