The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1917-01-11
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editor of the Logansport Qnd) Times.
The annual meeting of the Tennes-
see Manufacturers Association met
at Knoxville last week.
Hardin County will have good
r.u,s" election June 3, for the purpose
of voting on a 100000 bond issue.
At the August election Henry Coun-
ty will vote on the issuance of $25O,OOO
bonds to build roads.
A charter for the Knoxville Hotel
Company, with a capital stock of $780,
Geo. has been applied for About $125.-
Geo to $4,000 of the securities have
already been sold.
J. NJ. Renfro, registry clerk at the
Fayetteville postoffice, has been re
moved on a charge of ''ineficiency, in
subordiration and failure to cooperate
with the postmaster"
IT, t,fais of Judge Jesse EIgington
and Attorney General Z. Newton Estes,
of Shelby County, impeached by the
Lower House of Representatives, will
begin Monday, April "a.
Bank c,earings for the month of
March, according to the record OF the
Nashville clearing house, amounted to
$33.253.2225S, against $2S,231, 5S2 "a
for the same month last year.
A claim of $S,00O,O00 with interest
for 135 years is being prosecuted
againet the United States Government
by The heirs of Tennessee's first Gov
erno~, John Sewer.
The County Court at Union City
passed a resolution appropriating not
to exceed 81 500 to be used in an audit
of the records of all county officers for
at least eight years back.
Monroe County Court voted $4,000
school bonds to erect school buildings
at Sweetwater, jacksonville and Tel
Eco Plains. Each town is to raise
about 5000 to add to this amount.
f. L. Hendry Abner Davis, J. H.
Brooks and II. G.. Wynne, who were
sentenced in the United States Dis
trict Court at Memphis, are granted
a new trial by the Court of Appeals.
A road patrol system will be in
stalled on the Weaverville highway at
Asheville, recently completed, which
Is declared to be the finest stretch of
county road in the state.
The County Court in a session at
Jonesboro, ordered a bridge built
across the Chucky River at Mauk S
to cost not to exceed $4,000. A ten
cent levy was made to take care of
this bridge proposition.
One hundred and twenty-five thou
sand dollars will be expended by Ten
nessee state treasury on roads, $685.
537.O5 having been apportioned to va.
rious counties, and $35,560 on hand not
yet apportioned
A ten days campaign to raise $780,
600 with which to complete the unfin-
ished Galloway Memorial Hospital is
now going on at Nashville. The hos
pital, when completed, will represent
an investment of $425,000.
The City. Commission at Chatta-
nooga has declared April 10 a half
holiday on account of the opening of
the baseball season of 1916.
The Park City Tabernacle has been
purchased by the Park City M. E.
Church. The lumber will be used in
the erection of a new church building,
Prof. John NJ. Webb, coprincipal of
Webb School, Bell Buckle, widely
known scholar, died at his home after
a long illness
The National Congress of Mothers
and the ParentTeachers' Association
met at Nashville, it being the TWEEN
ticth annual convention.
Title to the Rand Powder Company,
Knoxville, was Invested in the Her.
cules Powder Company by Chancellor
Will D. Wright.
The Girls Friendly Society of Ten
nessee has just been offered the use
Of the hundred-room Monterey Hotel
during the summer months.
James Dewey Tate, rs, committed
suicide by slashing his throat with a
razor at his home. Monteagle, near Sc.
vance,
A girls canning club has been
formed at Peytonsville, near Frank.
lin, under the direction of Miss Lula
Chiesman, the county agent, WIFI
about twenty-five members. Much IN
,erest is being manifested by the mem
bers.
Nashville is to have large repre-.
sentation at the Southern Sociological
Congress. which will meet in New Or.
leans April 1916 and enough dele
gates have announced their intention
of going 10 provide for special car
which will run direct 10 New Orleans
Julius Morgan. who assaulted an
| 1S.year-old white girl at Dyersburg. Is
now confined in the Davidson County
Jail, awaiting the execution of his sen
tence OF death by electrocution June
| |. which will be the first electrocu-
ton in Tennessee.
The Masonic Temple Association OF
Knoxville has purchased lot from the
Y. W. c. A.. lie by 159 feet, upon
which it is the purpose to erect q
| mammoth auditorium. The property
adjoins that q the rev Masonic TEN.