The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-01-13
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The Sullivan county c0fGrt is said te
favor the adoption of THE toll gate as
a means of regulating auto traffic.
The total enrolment for the city
schools of Nashville foEr 1867 is
1897
Armour & Co. have antpounced their
intention of spending 100000 in estab
fishing a branch in Nashville.
Twelve hundred heakyy artillery
mules were shipped FRONT Columbia to
England last week.
Thirteen miles of pike, the last link
of the Dixie highway, Was purchased
by Bedford county for $4,000.
Seventy students are NOW enrolled in
the short course in agriculture at the
University of Tennesseek They are
learning about how to aet the best
results from their soil.
Sullivan county, Tenn, Including the
Tennessee half of Bristol shows more
than 700 automobiles Registered. This
is an increase over ye$ar ago in ex,
cess of 200.
Sheriff Nick Bush, pf Hamilton
county, has been sued in federal court
at Chattanooga for $25,040 by Eugene
H. Bush, an Asheyille negro, who al.
leges false arrest.
The Jackson city commission an
nounces that an election would be
called at an early date td vote on the
issuance of $4,000 or $40 poo bonds for
the extension Of the sewerage system
to sections of the city not now served
Bradley county court voted two more
bond issues together amounting to
$4,000. Added to the $4,000 issue
voted for building the Charleston
school makes total of $48,000 in
bonds.
For the first time in the history oil
the state, the governor Of Tennessee
appeared in person before the legisla
ture to deliver his message. Govrnor
Rye addressed the solons in joint con
vention.
In cave near Johnson City large
amount of the stamps taken from the
post Office recently has been found
Reports from the save section state
that three men camped there weeks be
fore the robbery, but since the stealing
they have not been seen at that place.
A,total of $3.50 Red Cross Christmas
seals were sold in Knoxville this yule
tide, according to complete report
just announced by President H. P
Collie, of the Knoxville Association fol
the Prevention and Relief of Tubercu
losis
Supt A. G. Kusecker, of The fishery
near Erwin is -egneGtiingrt2 niaSaEe ETC f9I
the streams Of East Tennessee, south
western Virginia and western North
Carolina more than one million blacb
bass and rainbow trout, Supt. Kusecke1
has been in charge of the hatchery al
Erwin for more than fifteen years.
Alleging he had been deprived wrong
fully Of the affection, society and serv
ices" of his wife, Pearl L. Cherry, Don
E. Cherry, Chattanooga, filed suit in
United States District Court against
Nicholas Walsh, Jr, Cincinnati, Ohio
son of the late Nicholas Walsh, Million
aire distiller, for $4,000 ab damages.
Permanent injunctions were issued
in Knoxville by Judge VonlA A. Huffaker
Of the circuit court against the United
Union Workers, the OrderIof Owls and
the Smoke House, all Knoxville organ
izations, in cases recently field against
them charging violation of the nuisance
act. It was alleged that the clubs were
selling whisky In violation of the law
The Governors of Kentucky, Virginia
and Tennessee, the three States whose
borders meet at Cumberland Gap, will
deliver addresses of welcome to the
notable men and women who are ex
pected to attend the memorial celebra
ton Of Lincoln Memorial University
Cumberland Gap, Tenn, February 10
II and IL.
The Todd oil well, near Glen Mary
is reported flowing over| the casing
In the first eighteen hburs it has
yielded over 800 barrels ef oil John
Toomey, In charge Of the company
owning the Todd wells. states that II
is the largest well ever truck in either
Tennessee or Kentucky and that it will
mean something big for this sate.
The members of the Southern APP.
palachian Coal Operators Association
will hold their annual banquet on Feb
ruary IL, in Knoxville. which will
bring together many we'll known cap,
tains of industry representing an out
put of over $4,000 annually in the
bituminous coal mines Of Tennessee
and Kentucky.
Three negro employees lost their lives
and 100 automobiles and auto trucks
were destroyed when fire destroyed the
plant of the Dixie Auto exchange in
Nashville The negroes who were
sleeping in the rear OF the first floor
were suffoeated. The fire is supposed
to have originated from a bolt Of light
ming.
An important bill looking to the
states relief In the matter of taxation
and revenue is now in the hands oil
Senator Eugene Fulghuml of Jackson,
and Representative Al S. Mont
gemery, Of Henderson county The
bill provides for ou9ting and for prose
cutting the property owner who wilfully
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