The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-09-22
TENNESSEE:
Epitome of Interest
ing Events That Are
Transpiring Over
the State y = >

| Collierville.-The First State Bank
& Trust company was organized here
with capital stock of $3.50 paid up.
Manchester - The county demo-
cratic primary, called for March g.,
will apparently be well supplied with
| candidates.
Watertown-While operating a join.
er at the Watertewn planning mill Err
nest Patton, son of the proprietor,
lost three fingers from his right hand.
Memphis.-Fire destroyed the build.
ing and contents of the Joseph Rosen-
field company, ladies' clothing. Loss,
$4,000, partly covered by insurance
Bristol.-In amount and quality the
Sullivan county wheat yield of the
present year is said to have surpassed
that of any other county in East Ten.
nessee
Knoxyille.-Sam E. Clearfge, for y
years East Tennessee clerk to he
supreme cou>s was reelected to that
position by the court for another term
of six years.
Ashland City-The annual Cheatn.
anna county fair will be held at this
plalce on Oct 10, and preparations are
now under way to make this the most
successful ever held.
Chattanooga.-Earl Graul, interned
German sailor. who died at base hos
pital, Fort oglethorpe. was given a
military funeral and his body inferred
in the National Cemetery.
Memphis Trapped on the upper
floor OF her residence by flames which
cut of her escape by stairs, Mrs John
". Brownell leaped from a second
story window. She was painfully in
jured
Milan.-Mrs. Henry Gunter was kill
ed and three others painfully injured
when an l. & " freight train st-alk
an automobile il which they zs-s
riding at Bluff Springs crossing. three
miles from Milan
Memphis Memphis has cOntrlt lied
more physicians to the medical te-ps
Of the army than any other CRY il me
United States. in proportion to It'll up
uIation according to infOrmatioa agn-
tanned IN telegram
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see win hold state conTaz - re
city Of Us ug Ta aeT
G. Their q large rlm s ~
and each tent viii have q prese4a4-
tive to this convention
Jackson-Crganization OF tarmerg Z !
various ways, in order 10 do heir !
patriotic duty TO their country IL the
war cris.s vas the keynoga of prac |
tically all the addresses delivered at |
the session Of the West tennessee |
Farmers Institute.
Newaera The old school buiIding |
and lot saown as the NewDeEn public /
school, which is located On the North
side Of ,e railroad, near the business
section Of he city, was sold here al
auction ay City Recorder Tobe Fuig- |
hum, and brought $4,000.
Chat-aL0oga.-W. H. Payne, pCpu /
lar member Of the Chattanooga bar, |
was drowned in the Tennessee river.
He missed his footing while crossing a
gang plank leading from launch 70 I
the dock and fell into the river.
ChattanOoga,-The four hundred and
more interned Germans at Fort 0gle-
thorpe have been moved to their new I
prison barracks, which squad Of the
prisoners built. The barracks are
fashioned after the modern soldier
cantons and are proided with all mol !,
ern conVen1ences.
Athens-The Rev. Albert Keller,
the new pastor of the Mars Hill Pres
byterian church in Athens, and the
Rev. s. B, Oglle, new pastor of the
First Baptist church, have arrived and
both ministers filled their pulpits Sun
day morning and evening and we're
heard by large congregations. DR..
Keller comes from st. Louis and DR.. |
Ogle from Nashville
Jacksonville trial of DR.. ]. E. Voss,
a Well-known chemist of the city and I
former head of the socialist party in
Tennessee, who is charged with the
murder of Oscar Blakeny in Novembec,
1915, will be held in the Madison Grim
inal court Sept. 10. DR.. Voss was tried
q year ago and found guilty of second
court reviewed the case it reversed the
lower court and stated he could not be
tried on charge greater than that
Of voluntary manslaughter. DR.. Voss
killed Blakeny on the ground that the
latter had insulted his (Voss') wife.
KnoIville.-All cows which prove
'slackers' or fail to produce the
of milk that they should this
winter will be indicted" and sent to
Tho butobnr ooonrdinny ~ a dao;oin,t f,f