The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-02-24
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Panama singers.
Athens.-The ladies of the Athens
Browning circle have organized q
chrysanthemum club.
McMinnville.-T McMinnville dis.
trict of Christian Endeavor conven,
ton was held last week.
Knoxville-The man who introduced
weinerwursts, hot tamales and hockey.
pokey to Knoxville, Harry Royston, is
dead.
Dresden.-Clarence Ward, one OF
Dresden's progressive farmers, was
killed while telling tree near his
home.
Nashville.-Special Commissioner e.
Doak has postponed the sale of the
Tennessee Central railroad until the
first of March.
Newbern-A mass meeting was
held at the courthouse in Dyersburg
to protest against the proposed drain
age of Reelfoot lake.
Brownsville,-The building owned
and occupied by William Moore on
Key Komer street, in this city, was
entirely destroyed by fire,
Clarksville.-The friends of A. M.
Leach are we'll pleased over his APP
pointment as treasurer of the farm
loan bank for this district
Paris.-The $65, 900 coupon bonds of
Henry county, authorized to meet the
county's outstanding Indebtedness,
were sold to the Paris banks.
Rogersville-Robert Armstrong, the
bright little 9-year-old son of W. S.
Armstrong, was badly injured when
he exploded a dynamite cap.
Gallatin.-Workman are now engag-
ed in remodeling the interior of the
building owned and occupied by the
First and Peoples national bank.
Fayetteville.-Rev Burke Culpep-
per, one of the best known evangelists
in the south, is conducting meet
ing at the Methodist church here.
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Columbia.-Judge E. H. Hatcher,
aged 6S years, leading ss !. en- q -
Columbia bar, died of acute indiges-
ton, after an Illness lasting but a
short time.
Chattanooga-The Fifth Maryland
infantry, LOO in number, under com
mand of Col. John Hinkley spent over
two hours here on their way home
from the Mexican border.
Newbern.-The next state eXamina-
ton will be held at Dyersburg March
80 and 81. Superintendent Riley M,
Grills of Trimble will preside over
the examinations in this county.
Dyersburg.-Rev. S. A. Atwood, pas
tor of the Baptist church at Browns
vile, has accepted the call to come to
the Dyersburg Baptist church and will
take charge of the pulpit here March |.
Knoxville.-Miss Anne Martin, OF
Reno, New, chairman of the woman 4
national committee, was the principal
speaker at the suffrage banquet held
at Johnson City in connection with
the congressional union.
Lynnville-For many years the sub
ject of electric lights for Lynnville
has been agitated. Now the business
men and board of aldermen say elec
trio lights are a certainty and that
within a few months the long-needel
convenience will be realized
Minnville.-Despite the pouring
rain large crowd of men and women
gathered in the school auditorium to
hear an address on suffrage by the
national organizer Miss Josephine
Miller of Little Rock, who has just re,
turned from nursing in France.
Nashville.-At a public meeting res,
olutions were passed after a stormy
debate, calling for referendum vote
by the people before the United Sattes
shall declare war, except in case of in
vasion. Discussion for and against
the resolutions grew so heated that q
call was sent in for the police.
Knoxville.-A proposition that the
city commission either secure a man
datory injunction forcing the South
ern railway to erect a viaduct across
| its tracks at Broadway or that the
commission order the erection of the
structure and then sue the Southern
for the recovery Of the same was sug
gested by members of delegation oil
100 citizens, which appeared before the
commission.
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DISADVANTAGES in dairy farming
in Weakley county increased greatly
In the last year. The farmers in one
dairy community report to r. E. Ellis
county agent in farm demonstration
work, that they have contracted for q
new silos.
Columbia.-Douglas Stephenson wa.
almost instantly killed when he jumped
from an automobile near Neapolis, thi