The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-02-17
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The eleventh annual meeting Of the
Tennessee Pathological Association will
be held at Maryville college, Friday
and Saturday, Feb. 20 and "a.
Gov. Tom G. Rye has issued pro-
clamation making April go To Sun.
day School Day" in Tennessee.
The United States senate passed a
bill providing for an additional federal
judge for the middle district of Tenn.
essee.
Severe cold weather of last week has
cost the farmers of the south millions
Of dollars and will result in an i'm.
mediate curtailment of the supply of
early vegetables.
Knoxville was 1875 years of age on
Saturday. A comparison of the village
and its cow-paths in former days with
the progressive metropolis and we'll.
paved streets today indicates remark
able growth.
There are more squirrels within the
corporate limits of Memphis than any
the secretary of the park commission
1t is estimated that fully million
squirrels are in the various parks.
Lydia Davis, aged years, was shot
and instantly killed at his home near
Johnson City, by his 11-year-old
brother, with a homemade pistol
which they had made from the staff of
an umbrella.
Ben Council, of Limestone, has a
flock of ninety White Leghorns and
Blue Andalusians which have laid an
average of four and one-half dozen
eggs per day, or thirty-one and one
half dozen per week.
Prof. William X. Tate, 46 years old,
Nashville, Treasurer of George Pea
body College For Teachers and widely
known as an educator, died of pneu
monia.
officers of the State Pure Food and
Drugs Department emptied into sew.
er in Nashville 400 gallons of whisky
and 500 gallons of beer, seized in re-
cent raids in alleged bootlegging es.
Establishments.
In appreciation of George Peabody S
gift and the benefits that have come
to it's various sections through the
proper distribution and use of the Pea
body fund, the school children of the
South celebrated the fiftieth annivers.
airy of his gift to the South
Chattanooga is offering nine sites to
the government for the location of the
government armor plate plant. The
sites extend all the way from the
Cincinnati Southern bridge to Look
out valley. One of the afff2rs- III q ans
that sells at $500 per acre.
A Tennessee man has practically
been agreed upon for the presidency
of the Louisville Farm Loan Bank,
which will serve Ohio, Indiana. Ken.
lucky and Tennessee. 1t is understood
that Mr.. Howell, banker of Union
City, Tenn, is slated for this place.
Homage was paid to the memory of
the immortal Lincoln at Cumberland
the twentieth anniversary of the found.
ing of Lincoln Memorial University.
Nearly 80 members of Congress, Sen.
ators and Representatives, delivered
brief addresses.
The Nashville Bridge company can
equip its plant for the manufacture of
munitions, and in telegram sent to
, Congressman Byrns at Washington
requests that the proper authorities be
notified of the desire of the company
to aid the government in case of
eventualities requiring the same.
Senator-elect Hiram w. Johnson, OF
California, has wired. Senator John c.
Houk, of Knoxville, his acceptance of
the invitation recently extended him
to address the Tennessee legislature.
He indicated that he would be able
| to come about March 1, soon after the
recess.
| DIR. /. B. Simmons, of near Cleveland
is living now in the same room where
he was born u years ago, and has
never occupied any other house. He
was for years actively engaged in the
practice of medicine, but on account
of his age now only makes professional
visits to friends. He was soldier in
the Civil war.
Gen. John P. Hickman, having been
authorized to do SO by the Confederate
veterans, has sent the following tele
gram to President Wilson: 1.-THE
Confederate soldiers of the arm OF
Tennessee, which / have the honor to
command, tender you their services
and moral support in case of war
John P. Hickman"
A very conservative estimate places
the amount of money scattered along
the Dixie Highway, along detours
while construction work is going or
and along the East Coast route from
the New England states enroute tt
Florida during the season of 1861
In excess of $2,760,000, according t.
~. D. l.. Robinson, secretary of thu
Dixie Highway Association
At the meeting of the board of trus
tees of Maryville college resolution
Of thanks was adopted and extended tt
the people of Blount county for theil
cooperation in raising the fund to re
build Carnegie hall, which has beer
completed and is now occupied by /
great part of the 500 students of thu