The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1917-01-25
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vanderbilt Day VIII De celepI dI0u
April 81 at Nashville by students ana
Alumni.
Miss Sadie Fenton %, was drowned
while bathing at Knoxville. She was
editor of the Logansport (IndO Times.
The annual meeting of the TenneS'
see Manufacturers Association met
at Knoxville last week.
Hardin County will have a "good
roads" election June 3, for the purpose
of voting on a 100000 bond issue
At the August election Henry toun'
tv will vote on the issuance OF $250,o0o
bonds to build roads.
A charter for the Knoxville Hotter
Company. with capital stock OF $3oo'-
600. has been applied for. About $l25'-
0O0 TO $4,000 of the securities have
already been sold.
J. NJ. Renlro, registry clerk at the
Fayetteville postoffice has been re
moved on a charge of "inetiiciency IN
subordnation and failure to cooperate
with the postmaster"
The trials of Judge Jesse ISlhgtoh
and Acknowledgement Z. Newton Estes
of Shelby County, impeached by the
Lower House of Representatives. VIII
begin Monday, April "a.
Bank clearings for the month OF
March. according to the record OF 'he
Nashville clearing house, amounted 10
,2225S, against $2S,231,5S2,64
for the same month last year.
A claim Of $S,GOOOO0 with interest
for 1856 years is being prosecuted
against the United States Government
nv the heirs of Tennessee's FIRST GOV
ernor, John Sewer.
The County Court at Union Guy
passed a resolution appropriating not
TO exceed 81 500 to be used in an audlt
of the records of all county ofllcerS LOT
at least eight years back.
Monroe County Court voted $5oooo
school bonds to erect school buildings
at Sweetwater, Madsonville and Tel
leo Plains. Each town is to raise
about Sc, 600 to add to this amount.
r. l.. Hendry, Abner Davis, J. II
Brooks and II. e.. 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
Asheville, recently completed, which
IA declared to be the finest stretch o
county road in the state.
The County Court in a session a
Jopesboro, ordered a bridge bull
across the Chucky River at Mauk
TO cost not to exceed $4,000. ten
cent levy was made to take care
this bridge proposition.
One hundred and twenty-five thor
sand dollars will be expended by Ter
Dessee state treasury on roads, SS9
537O5 having been apportioned to w
rious counties, and $25,500 on hand nc
yet apportiOned.
A ten days campaign to raise SOU
600 with which to complete the unfll
ished Galloway Memorial Hospital
now going on at Nashville. The no
initial. when completed, will represer
an Investment of S425,OOO.
The City Commission at Chatt'
nooga has declared April 10 a ha
holiday on account OF che opening
the baseball season of 1916.
The Park City Tabernacle has bee
purchased by the Park City NJ.
Church. The lumber will be used
the erection of new church buildin
Prof. John NJ. Webb, co-principal
Webb School Bell Buckle, wide
known scholar, died at his home aft
a long illness.
The National Congress of .Mothe
and the Parent-Teachers' Associate
met at Nashville it being the tive
tieth annual convention
Title to the Rand Powder Compan
Knoxville, was Invested in the He
cules Powder Company by Chancell
viii D. Wright.
The Girls Friendly Society OF TIE
nessee has just been offered the IL
of the hundredroom Monterey Hot
during the summer months.
James Dewey Tate, rs, commit
suicide by slashine his throat with
razor at his home, Monteagle, near
vance
A girls canning club has be
formed at Peytonsvilie, near Frat
lin. under the direction Of Miss y
Chiesman, the county agent, W
about twenty-five members Much
,erest Is being manifested by the ne
bers.
Nashville Is 20 have large rep
seutat.on at the Southern Sociologi
Congress. which ali, meet il New
leans April 1916 and enough Dc
pates have announced their in,ent
OF going 10 provide for q special
which VIA run direct 20 NeT OTlea
lnlIns Morgan, who assaulted
1S.vear.old white girl at Dyersburg
row confined in the Davidson Cou
iail awaiting the execution OF MS
terce OF death by electrocution y
which will be the first electro
ton in Tennessee.
The Masonic Temple Association
Knoxville has purchased iot from
Y ". c. A.. 1l6 by 159 feet, u
which II is the purpose to cree
Cn4mmuth auditorium. The prope
cdjolns that &c the ne" Masonic !
pie.
Cost OF Progress
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