The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-09-22
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special SOlQlef AopS service was
held at the First Methodist church in
Covington Sunday.
The Rev. H. R. Rose, the new pastor
of the Jackson First Methodist church.
has assumed his duties.
There was reunion of Confederate
Veterans of Western Tennessee and
Western Kentucky in Paris.
The First State, Bank & Trust COM
pany was organized in Colliersvills,
with a capital stock of $4,000 paid up.
Rev. c. G. McIlwain preached his
farewell sermon as pastor of the Cum
berland Presbyterian church at New.
bern.
The public roads along the mail
routes throughout Dyer county have
been graded and put in excellent con.
Iition.
Central Association of Baptists met
in the eighty-first annual session with
the lakewood church, between Milan
and Cades.
The annual convention of the Ten.
nessee State Woman's Christian Tenn
perance union will be held in Bristol
Oct u, 10, IA and Is.
| While operating a joiner at the Wa
tertOwn planning mill Ernest Patton,
son of the proprietor lost three fin
gers from his right hand.
The southern headquarters of the
Young Peoples Society of the Chris
tian church has been moved from Biz
mingham to Chattanooga.
Central Association of the Mission.
afy Baptist church at lakewood ad.
iourned to meet in September, 1918,
with the church at Medina Tenn.
Hard tack, old-fashioned war bread,
was served at dinner at the annual
reunion of the Knox County Union Sol
diers' association at Fountain City.
Earl Graul, interned German sailor,
who died at base hospital, Fort Ogle-
thorpe, was given a military funeral
and his body inferred in the National
Cemetery,
Sam E. Clearge, for II years East
Tennessee clerk to the supreme court,
Knoxville, was reelected to that posi-
ton by the court for another term of
six years.
Memphis has contributed more ply
sicians to the medical corps of the
army than any other city in the Unit
ed States, in proportion to it's popu-
lation, according to information con-
tanned IN q telegram.
SO
. The Rev. Albert Roller, the new pas
tor of the Mars Hill Presbyterian
church in Athens, and the Rev. s. B.
Ogle new pastor of the First Baptist
church, have arrived and both minis.
tiers filled their pulpits Sunday.
Tennessee's minerals and forests
will be wonderfully depicted in an i'm
posing exhibit at the Memphis Tri-
State Fair, which begins its annual
Seven-tay run Sept Y, according to
Frank d. Fuller secretary of the fair
Litigation launched in the Ruther.
ford county chancery court at Muir.
freesboro involves the disposition OF
what is known as the Boggatt place
there, containing 1,4OO to 1900 acres
and valued at $4,000 to $4,000.
Rose Jackson, prominent farmer
of the Thirteenth district, 40 years old.
was killed on his farm, near PALMYRA.
when heavy piece of timber fell on
HIM, breaking his neck. Mr.. Jackson
was hauling timber when heavy beam
became dislodged.
Organization Of farmers in various
ways, in order to do their patriotic
duty to their country in the war crisis,
was the keynote of practically all the
addresses delivered at the session of
the West Tennessee Farmers Insti.
tute in Jackson.
In amount and quality the Sullivan
county wheat yieldl of the present yea
is said to have surpassed that of any
other county in East Tennessee.
The old school building and lot
known as the Newbern public school
which is located on the north side o.
the railroad, near the business section
of the city, was sold here at auction
by City Recorder lobe Fulghum. and
brought $4,000.
The woman's committee of the ma.
tional council of defense, recently o.
gained in Paris, has sent in its first
order for wool for knitting for the sol.
dier boys Of Henry county The ladies
have resorted to various methods TO
raise funds with which to purchase the
thread. The food conservation com.
mittee, Of which Mrs. ]. D. Beasley IA
chairman, is distributing Hoover
pledge cards to the housewives of Hen
fy county
Tribute to Workers.