The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

g4e byCi5DuIS.--lu6 HfSJ meeting OF the
Dyer County Teachers association will
be held in Dyersburg Oct. 10, at the
high school.
Knoxville.-A company OF steve
dores will probably be organized from
the negroes who are enlisting for this
service in Knoxville
n Knoxville. The Cincinnati branch
OF the Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society will hold a three-day session
here beginning Oct. 8.
Springfield. The Springfield Boost
or club, 100 strong and accompanied
by the local brass band, has made its
/
! Jacksonville first annual conven
ton of the Shiloh National Park Diyis
ion of the Burlington Way, will be
held in Jackson on Oct. 18.
!
Nashville. the general municipal
election William Gupton was elected
mayor OF Nashville, defeating Hilary
Howse by majority of 1874.
! knoxville.- East Tennessee emery.
ency and regular agents have been
announced by the division of extern
sion OF the University of Tennessee.
! Maynardville.-Sixty additional men
have been summoned by the local ex.
emption board for Union county, at
Maynardville, for physical examina.
ton.
Clinton.-A primary election to nom.
mate candidates for the judgeship and
attorney-generalship of the Nineteenth
judicial district has been called for
Dec. 8.
Benton.-G. B. Smith, an ex-trustee
Of Polk County, died at his home about
eight miles south of here. Mr.. Smith
was one of the oldest men in Polk
county.
Greeneville - The soldiers from
Greene county have departed for Camp
Gordon, Ga. Citizens gave them a
grand ovation ON the eve of their de-
parture.
Dyersburg. Pond creek ditch, in
Dyer county, Wis nearing completion.
When finished large area in Dyer
and Crockett counties will be greatly
enhanced in value
Jackson.-Lee McLain, whose trial
for murder last week resulted in a
hung jury, made bond for $4,000 and
was released, pending the hearing OF
the case again in October.
Dyersburg. The chamber of COM
merce at Dyersburg has established
farm benevolent bureau E. F. Ar
mold, formerly county agent, will be
at the head of the bureau.
Chattanooga. Three more Germans,
whose names the officers refuse to d.
s;:9i,,lge.4 were brought from New York
and committed to the German prison
barracks at Fort Oglethorpe
Selmer.-Leonard J. Kerr, county
farm demonstration, met with the farm
ers at Acton, in southern McNairy
county, and organized a wheat grow
ers' club. The meeting was enthusias.
tic and well attended.
.Bristol.-King college, the Presby-
terrain school here for the education of
young men, has opened it's fall term.
The new plant in East Bristol is being
used, the first building, known as
Bristol hail." having just been COM
pleted.
johnson City.-The county board of
education and the superintendent of
schools, A. C. Watson, of Monroe
county, have adopted regulation rel
alive to the training and salaries of
teachers, which If followed in Tennes-
see, would soon result not only in sup
plying teachers to all the schools, but
would provide that these teachers
to all the schools, but would provide
that these teachers would do efficient
work.
Watertown.-The Linwopd Baptist
church will be the hose of the New
Salem association Oct. 3-5, and the
delegates will be conveyed by arrange
ment OF committee appointed from
the church.
Bristol.-Octor McClelland is dead,
William A. Pemberton probably will
die and two others were slightly in.
jured when an automobile returning
from the fair grounds smashed into O
telephone pole
Observation-Disclosures of respect to
the memory of the late Attorney Gen.
eral B. ]. Howard were adopted at a
meeting of the Jackson Bar associa.l
ton and were presented in criminal
court to be spread upon the minutes.
Jackson. dressed In the garb of
antebellum days, and with distinct
air of the olden times about the house,
Mrs. Maria Jane Thompson celebrated
her ninety-ninth birthday in the pres
ence of large number of old friends.
Springfield. Springfields new Meth
odist church, costing $4,000, is near