The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-04-28
TENNESSEE
Interesting Events
From all Parts
of the State

bytery held three-day session al
Cordova
Ripley.-The West Tennessee BapL
fist Sunday school convention was
held here.
Selmer.-The McNairy county med
zeal society held its regular monthly
meeting here.
Knoxville-The American Red Cross
has inaugurated campaign in Knox
vile to get 5000 new members.
Milan.-The rear of the Commercial
hotel was discovered on fire. The fire
company soon subdued the flames.
Friendsville.-Joseph Hamilton Nc
Cornell, 72 years old, died at bis
home here. He had been ill only TWO
days.
Trenton.--Bonds to the amount At
$4,000 have been sold to meet ok
penditures of erecting a new sch9cf
building.
Clarksville-Robert jackson wi ;
run over by handcar on the Tennis
see Central railroad, breaking both pf
his legs.
Selmer.-The annual meeting of the
West Tennessee convention of Chris
tian churches will be held at Halls
May 7, 8 and 9.
Dresden.-Dr John Porch, an agfsl
farmer residing three miles north kf
Dresden, was painfully injured when
mule kicked him in the face.
st<.s
Humboldt-Rob Rosamon, agedE 40
years, shot and killed Willis Buckfflg-
ham, aged Il years, in the kitchen Eof
Rosamon, who is tenant on the farm
of Buckingham.
Nashville.-Prof. o. N. Smith OF
Wilson county, prominent in edIca'
tional and agricultural work, was ap
pointed assistant commissioners o.
agriculture for Middle Tennessee,
emphis.-Through the efforts at q
committee of business men q cam
paign for funds with which to buy 81
worth Of garden seed for each of 7gOC
school children has been launch N
Chattanooga, Maj. e. F. Weston
commandant of Fort OglethorIr MAS
selected Snodgrass field and ST. il
Chickamauga park for the, gq'etss 81
ofncess tases W IA d .cf .&y.
opened May l. III
GAINESVILLE. Frank Nichols, fPrm
erly of New Providence, but now witt
an Indianapolis concern, was fneda 50
in the city court on a charge of hi1in!
and enticing away laborers in the lem
ploy of others.
Clarksville.-Dr. w. N. Dinwiddie
dean of the Southwestern Presb5yte
rian university, has been elected dom
missioner to the general assembly 0
Southern Presbyterian churches tip b
held at Birmingham, Ala.
Knoxville.-The Holston manufact
uring company, Lenoir City, wit
branch mills at Morristown and C{eVt
land, has given notice of the 1,200l en-
ployes of an increase Of five per Icen
in moUoc offantiva Nov 81
Covington.-W. M. Simonton, chat
man of the democratic judicial icon
mittee of the Sixteenth judicial eli
, cult, has called meeting of the icon
mittee at Jackson Thursday, M$y
, to adopt plan for the nomination
democratic candidates for circu
Judge and attorney general for the 81.
teenth judicial circuit.
Covington.-The Upton Cpunt
Farmers Union bank Of Covilngte
will establish and operate branch
that bank at Humboldt, Gibson count
q
Clarksville.-White farmers hay
s agreed here to produce larger crops
e food and feedstuffs this year and hay
also agreed to interest the negroes
the same plan.
y
q Humboldt.-The democratic jIdicii
O committee of the thirteenth judicial CT
o cult have called primary election fC
Saturday July rs, to nominate dem
cratic candidates for judge and fatto
n ney general for this circuit.
!. Knoxville.-With more than a m
c lion dollars available for tho co
o struction of highways in Greene cou
q ty, the road commissioners ARE as
ing bids for the construction bf |,
n miles Of macadamized roads.
- Jackson.-But few families iIa JAG
y son will fail this year to cultiva
: home gardens, it was ascertained by
y survey of the food production stu
- ton by students of schools and C
" leges. The report of the surv'
:. shows that 2,34O gardens will
- planted.
e Selmer.-The formal dedication
the handsome newly built Mount Sh
le ron Presbyterian church, in the eai
e ern portion of McNairy county, VI
II observed with an all-day Jubilee ser