The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-08-11
LATE NEWS
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Happenings Over
COmmonWe hlth
as Cleaned fErom
Various Places

and seriously injured soy during a
thunderstorm near Abing don
Milan.-A branch OF gthe Gibson
County Red Cross ChapteE was organ
lied here at the Presbyt5frian church.
Chattanooga A fare Ewel dinner
dance was given the members of Bat
terry II of the officers t1bintng camp
at the Golf and Country gub
Knoxville. Weekly ba{eE Clearings
as shown by the Knox dc clearing
house continue to show Nm increase
over similar weeks of las year.
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Trezevant.-A new gins3s being put
up at this place. A staek company
was organized and will he known as
the Farmers and Merchants Gin COM
pany.
Bristol-Mary street church here,
erected by the Rev, a Straley, 2S
years ago, is soon to be form down to
make room for new and costlier edi-
flee.
s%sas
Selmer.-O of tile burlington
! highway were in Selmer Recently. ]. s.
Alexander, supervisor oASthe Shiloh
Park division, Of Bradforh Tenn, and
C. L. Thetford, engineer composed the
party
Camden.-Ear McRae, aged 20, was
drowned at Johnsonville.. M Rae was
helping push a log around barge in
the Tennessee river and as he gave
the log a shove lost his footing and
went over.
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Manchester Saturday. Aug. IS, has
been selected as the date for the big
flag raising at the AsbFy school, in
the Eighth district. TIE flag to be
raised is the one which was won by
the district in the paraddof registered
men hele July a.
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mphis.-Judge JoselhAC. Higgins,
president of the Tennessee Bar asso-
citation, announces the 49, meeting of
the association will be Ald at Epper-
son Springs, Aug. sO-sll Judge Hig-
gins says this meeting VIII be largely
attended. A most intere4ing program
has been prepared.
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| Knoxville The Knox ~ Iinty crimi-
nal court grand jury, y result Of
1 Its probe into causes ofise high price
I II sogF s.efT fSsfse ssEa
ment is all done i. the ainea The
only solution of the situation the
grand jury could find was for the fed
eral government, by proper regula-
tons, to buy and resell coal alta price
based upon the cost of production plus
a reasonable profit.
Athens.-R St. John left for Blue
Ridge N c., where he goes to take
special course in the army X. M. G. A.
training camp. After completing the
course he will be assigned work as
Y. M. c. A. secretary He is young
attorneysof Athens and ID very popu.
lar. &
Knoxville.-Ed D. Connors, denoted
from the office of Knoxville chief Of
police in 1913 to the office Of market
master, but whose case has been liti-
/ gated through all courts from circuit 10
he supreme and back, was formally
dismissed from office by the Knoxville
city commission.
Wartrace.-T Cumberland Tele-
phone Company is4making some extern
sive Improvement in its plan. here. A
new toll test section has been added to
The switchboard and an up-toidate dis
tribution frame is being yinstalled with
! other Improvements
Dyersburg THE land owners OF the
area embraced by the North Fork
drainage district met at Dyersburg
and let the contract TO dig ditch
from the Gibson county line to Dyers-
| DufS. Inc meeung was .preslden over
| by ]. N Parker.
Newbern. -PDotracted meetings are
in progress in every section Of Dyer
county and much interest is being
manifested. The pastors of the
churches are nrging the boys that are
expecting to be called to thesfront to
live better lives.
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