The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-03-24
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Tennessee with per capita Of $1.33
appropriates $s05,1S3 for education,
spending 1881 per capita of attend
ance annually.
William D. Kyser, of Memphis, was
nominated by President Wilson ais
United States attorney for the west
ern districts of Tennessee.
A gift of $1SO,O0O by the Carnegie
Corporation of New York for a library
building at George Peabody College
for Teachers was announced in Nash.
vile.
The senate sustained the veto of
Governor Rye of the cotton futures
bill which made the state law prohib-
tting bucketshops conform to the fed
eral law.
Administational approval to bin
authorizing bond issue Of 100000
for joint market house site in Mem
phis is expected Of Mayor Ashcroft
and the city commissioners.
The Maury County National Farm
Loan association was organized lat
Columbia with twelve farmers pres
ent. $4,000 in loans were asked for
and $1,758 stock in the farm loan
bank subscribed.
Arthur Fitzgerald, Tom Bradley,
Obey Creacy and Dock Meadows were
arrested in Gallatin, charged with VIC
lating the "bone-dry" law. Bradley is
prominent business man, while the
other men are we'll known In Gallstin.
Charging that her husband, Fl, Z.
Forworth, of Chattanooga, had an
other wife and two children in Colam-
bia, S. c., Mrs. Lille Foxworth, of
Orlando, Fla, secured an absolute d.
vorce. Foxworth is seriously Ill With
pneumonia.
Arney Long, 15-year-old son OF p. j.
Long, of Stella, near Bethel, commit
ted suicide by shooting his head off
with a shotgun. He refused to go to
school at Prospect, and his father had
Just told him he must go, which is
the only cause given for the act.
Herbert Quick, member of the Fed
eral Farm Loan Board, will be In Lou.
| isville, Ky. this week where he Will ar.
range for the opening OF the bank
that is to serve the district. It IL ex.
pected rate of per cent via be
fixed on all farm loans in this district.
In furthering the work of complet-
ing the Memphis-to-Bristoi highway,
| the Nashville, Chattanooga & St.
Louis railway has agreed to donate
several miles of abandoned r0adbed in
Dickson county to the project. The
old roadbed can be easily converted
into a splendid stretch pike.
I Every frame frestfes JR me ~ aiilasss
of the Southern railway systems line
| between Morristown and Salisbury,
will be replaced by permanent strnc-
lures Of steel and concrete when the
work of strengthening this line, which
has been in progress for several
months is completed.
Secretaries Baker, Lane and iHous-
ton, Brig. Gen. Bell and others We're
In Nashville to hear the claims Of
delegation from the upper Cumber-
land river to the $20,00O,000 nitrate
plant. The principal claim made was
that power could be developed more
cheaply than elsewhere
The Dayton Coal and Iron Company,
which entered the Bankruptcy Court
in June 1918, has been sold to Francis
C. Gary and associates, Minneapolis,
for 100000, with the agreement OF
the purchaser to spend 100000 on
improvements before the court grants
deed.
An election will be held on March
81, to vote upon the question OF wheth-
er Greene county shall issue $4,000
worth of bonds for grading and maca.
damizing more highways. II the bond
issue should carry, Greene county
will have spent $1.5O0,O0O on her
highways in the past ten years.
The forty-fourth annual meeting OF
the East Tennessee Farmers Conven-
ton and Institute will be held at the
University of Tennessee experiment
station farm on May Is, 16 and II
On this occasion Knoxville will again
be the mecca for hundreds OF tillers
OF the soil from over the state.
Charging that he had sused profane
and otherwise improper language ovel
the telephone in addressing party al
the other end of the line, indictment
was drawn against D. Davis by Gen
r. A. Mynatt, in Knoxville, and will
be taken up by the grand jury The
indictment Is the first Of its kind OF
record, at least in the Knoxville courts
, Fred Bird, aged Sc. cambridge, her
NIT and reputed miser, who has beer
missing from his home for severa
, weeks, has been found dead. TIL,
tragedy occurred near the home of tn,
: aged man His head had been sho
= almost from his shoulders. shot
gun was found near his body 1t 4
believed that he was shot and robbed
An automobile containing 1873 ga
Ions of whisky was captured b.
officers near Cleveland. Luther Pos
|. ton and Robert Cotton, of Knoxville
in charge of the machine, were al
rested on a charge OF violating tn
"bone dry" laws. The liquor was BIZ
ing taken to Knoxville where tn
Tennessee militia is 10 be mustere
out, it is believed.
County agents In home demonstr;