The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-01-20

The call has been issued for the
tenth annual convention of the Tenn
sssee Equal Suffrage Association which
will be held in Nashville, January 30
and 81 Mrs. Guilford Dudley, pres
ldent Of the association and her execu-
tive board have issued the call. Thirty
ave delegates Of the state will be rep
resented
The Webb-Kenyon law, designed to
prevent liquor shipments from wet"
to "dry" States, was declared constitu-
tional by the Supreme Court by vote
Of z to 2, which also upheld West Vir-
ginia's amendment prohibiting citizens
from receiving liquor for personal use
shipped by common carriers In inter-
state commerce.
Committee on legislation OF the Bar
Association of Tennessee has issued an
address to the lawyers of the state,
urging them to use their efforts to
have the present session of the legis-
lature create commission to codify
the laws of Tennessee and have them
published in official form for the ben
eft Of the lawyers Of the state and the
general public.
The Chattanooga Rotary Club I'M
yelled public bulletin board to be
called the municipal Searchlight, and
on which is to be posted every two
weeks. The purpose of these bulletins
is to direct attention to matters which
will tend to upbuild the city and in.
crease its prosperity and give the pub.
lie an opportunity to take hand in
all civic movements.
L. j. Breed, a contractor of Hunts
vile, Ala, was arrested in Fayetteville,
Tenn, on a charge of kidnapping
Georgia May Harris, Huntsville heir
ess. The couple eloped to Tennessee
to get married, but guardians of the
young woman stopped the wedding by
having Breed arrested. The girls
mother is away on her honeymoon, and
Breed claims she gave her daughter
to him.
E. F. Arnold, county agent for Dyer
| County, reports with satisfaction in
creased interest in the agricultural ed
| ucational work being done in the coun-
ty. Recently e. e. Reed, proprietor
of drug store in Dyersburg, stated
that he had decided to keep his farm
rather than to sell 1t, that he had been
persuaded to hold the farm by his boy
who took such liking to farm work
| Mr. Reed had all but sold his place.
More than 800 representative citi-
zens Of Tennessee attended home
! coming banquet in Nashville, in honor
of William ]. Cummins, and Joined in
demonstration to welcome the for
mer Nashville citizen who was par
doned Christmas week by Governor
Whitman, of New York, after serving
three years in prison for violation Of
the New York banking laws. Promi-
nent state and city officials and lead
ing professional and business men
| from all over the state were present.
AS the result of the favorable action
i of the Senate Commerce Committee
on the bill of Senator John K Shields
appropriating $4,000 for a fish cul-
tural station in Tennessee it will be-
come a clause in the omnibus fish
hatchery bill now before the Senate
which has passed the House and will
undoubtedly be law. Tennessee now
has one fish hatchery at Erwin, which
cost $4,000, and the institution that
was provided for will, it is said 60
I, to Middle Tennessee. probably to the
fifth or sixth districts.
Il The Hamilton county court appoint
ed committee of appraisers to look
into the advisability of selling the Old
Orchard Knob Workhouse and county
hospital and invest the money in site
for those institutions at a more con
venient place. This property is in the
!, suburbs of Chattanooga and it is re
garded as valuable for residence prop
erty. Justice King introduced resolu
, ton to ask the legislature to give the
, county authority to issue $733,00(
bonds to be used to complete the Mar
/ ket street bridge, and for. other i'm
. provements.
The celebration concentrating Lin
coins birthday and the twentieth an
[ niversary of Lincoln Memorial univer
sity, to be held at Harrogate, Februar.
10, IL and IL, will bring together a
Cumberland Gap and Harrogate tn
1, largest and most distinguished bod.
: of men in the history of the institu
ton. It is practically assured that
special train will run from Washing
ton D. c., bringing at least one hun
: dred prominent people, senators, con
gressmen and other public officials
Another train will perhaps come from
!, Chicago with just as large grou
} of people.
The Hughes vocation educationa
bill, making national grants for train
ing persons of more than 14oyear
|, to increased efficiency in trades, II
dustries, agriculture, commerce an
home economics, with appropriation
running up to an ultimate annual ez
penditure of 100000, was passed b
the House in Washington. The school
> to receive aid must be under publ