The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-04-07

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Mason.-W. D. Gray's residence was
DESTROYED by fire which started IN tht
attic from defective flue.
knoxville.-Y. NJ @. A. directors
closed deal for lot on West Cpurcl
avenue, on which will be erected 4
fine home.
Friendship. H. L. VofS
Of this place has called meetinSRol
the county farmers institute at Bells
for April T.
Lawrenceburg The civic league
met with the city commissioned and
decided on plan to make LAWRENCE.
burg "The City Beautiful"
Memphis.-Four fifemen wereh in.
jured, two perhaps seriously, Will a a
speeding salvage corps autont BILE
which they occupied turned over
while responding to an alarm
LeXington.-News has Just been re,
ceived here of the destruction by fire
of the First Baptist church of Clarks-
dale, Miss, of which the Rev. Martin
Ball, we'll known at this place, Is pas.
tor. 49,
Nashville.-Dr. J. R. Thompson, Da-
wilson county health officer, was sus-
pended temporarily by Judge Thomas
E. Matthews until the final decision
of the custer suit now pending against
him.
Friendship.-Hu G He4Atsg
timber men of Dyersburg, have pur-
chased 225 acres Of land from DR., J.
B. York, near town The considera-
ton of the deal totaled $4,000 This
is one of the largest land deals ever
made here.
Huntingdon.-Dr w. M. Wright Eof
Huntingdon was elected delegate ito
the state medical association in Nash
vile, with DR.. B. c. Dodds as alternate
by the Carroll county medical society,
which held very interesting me- ling
in Mckenzie
Nashville.-At mass meeting in
the Vanderbilt chapel the students
present agreed, almost to a man, 10
enlist in military y. coppaa res e' q,
are being formed IN order tJ tfaih
Vanderbilt students to be Officers i'd
the volunteer army.
Chattanooga.-In his report to the
U. S. weather bureau at Washington OF
the loss due to property damage and
interruption of business by the recent
Tennessee river flood, l.. NJ Pindell,
local meteriorogist, places the figures
at approximately $469,2OO.
Knoxville.-Mrs. Richard Todd of
Knoxville, wife of the recruiting officer
here, has the distinction of being the
first southern woman to be enlisted
for service in the U. S. navy. She be-
gan her duties as chief yeoman on the
receiving ship Franklin at Norfolk
navy yard. .~+-r4~
~Clarksville.-Th farmers of this
county are Cup in the air. over the
passage of an amendment to 1.-THE
Montgomery county road law, by the
legislature. This law compels EVERY
farmer who owns wagon and team
to contribute five days hauling on the
public roads or pay communication of
SO per day for five days.
Bristol.-Impeded heart action, hue
to tumor, resulted in the DEATH of
Mrs. Elizabeth Young Hagan, widow
of the late Col. Patrick Hagan, mil.
lionaire land owner.
Knoxville.-A deep water route to
Chattanooga on the Tennessee river
will be opened when ten other shoals
have been dredged to depth of three
feet and $50 feet in width. This work
is expected to be finished within about
five years.
Nashville.-The celebrated murder
case of the State VS.. VIM. F. C6ok,
from Rutherford county, was affirmed
by the supreme court, and Cook WAS
given term of from 10 to 20 years
in the penitentiary for the murder of
his wife near Smyrna on the night of
Aug 25, 1913.
Nashville.-The thirty first annual
convention of the Tennessee Sunday
school association will be held in
Murfreesboro June 10, 20 and 81 Irhe
West Tennessee Institute will be held
in Dyresburg, June rs, 81 and %.
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