The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-01-27
\ gen.ral increase in sAe prosperity

tabulated report published in the cur
rent number of Associated Advertss-
ing, the Official journal Of the Asse-
ciated Advertising Clubs of the World.
The tables show healthy expansion
of trade for the various departments
Of six leading lines Of business.
Probably the largest land sale con-
summated in the South during the
past year was closed recently, when
Virginia corporation, Of which j.
Albert Bum, of Big Stone Gap, Va,
is president, purchased 2,700-acre
river farm. known as Rivermont farm,
in Jackson County, Alabama, Sc miles
from Chattanooga, from A. L. Osborne,
of Bristol, Tenn, paying therefor
$1oS,0oe Live stock, farm machinery,
cotton gin, saw mill and other person
atty was included with purchase.
Carson and Newman College will be
rebuilt on its present site In Jefferson
City, and the sum of $125,000 will be
raised for this purpose, as decided
upon at a meeting of the board Of
trustees. After the college has again
been established, another campaign
will be inaugurated to get $126,e00
more as an endowment fund, which
will make total of $250,0oo to be Sc
cured in two different campaigns.
The appraisement jury, composed OF
P. ID. Reid, of Limestone; N. P. Earn
est, of Chucky; E. j. Baxter and ].
C. Aiken, of Jonesboro, and w. M.
Hyder, of Johnson City, has looked
over 10000 acres in Carter and John
son Counties in the interest of the
Appalachian Park. Chief Deputy U.
S. Marshall Frank w. Flenniken, Of
Knoxville, and District Attorney Lewis
M. Coleman, of Chattanooga accom-
panied the jury.
The Samuel Doak Chapter, d. A. R.,
of Morristown, originated the idea Of
placing a memorial to the State Of
Franklin at its old capitol in Greene
vile and is raising funds for that pur-
pose. The women's clubs are cooper
ating in the work, and there is no
question, according to dispatches, but
what sufficient amount will be OBJ.
tanned to erect a memorial that will
be credit to the chapter as well as
to the town and county.
Immediate surveys for two low
dams on the Tennessee River in the
vicinity of the Caney Creek shoals
and of Little River, with view Of
securing development In the direc-
ton of the American aluminium plant
and other industrial activities In
Blount County are provided by amend
ments which Congressman r. w. Aus.
tin has had attached to the rivers
and harbors bill that is now ready to
be reported to the House at Washing
ton.
With final withdrawal of the dis
charged fremen from further proceed
ings, and renewal by the Nashville
Terminals of its motion for an award
in its favor, the Federal Board of
Arbitration, sitting in the controversy
over the discharge of the thirty fire.
men by the terminals company, ended
its sessions, which have been held In
Nashville. Justice Grafton Green said
the board saw no use to continue It's
sittings in the present status of af-
fairs.
Dairymen Of Jefferson County have
found cow-testing associations so prof
table that they have voted an in
creased fee for each member. There
are fewer cows this year because Of
the wedding out" which has been
going on this year, as the improbable
cows have been ascertained. The as
ISOLATION now has twenty-five men,
bers, with $40 cows. The members
pay SITE per cow. This is an in
crease of twenty-five per cent over
last year.
Because he had his delivery horse
hitched to the meat counter in the
rear of his store when an inspector
of the State pure food and drugs de-
partment called, Nashville grocer
will be tried on the charge of vio-
lating the statute governing the sani-
tation of groceries. Ottenville ex-
planned to the officers that his horse
had suffered a general breakdown
the day before and that he had hitched
him inside the store where he could
watch over him and nurse him back
| to health.
! The greatest celebration of Lin.
coins birthday in the country this
year will take place at Lincoln Me-
mortal University, at Cumberland Gap
| 1t will not only commemorate the
birthday OF the great President, but
will mark the twentieth anniversary
of the founding of the university, by
General o. O. Howard, of Vermont
| Governors, senators, captains OF
finance and industry and noted edu
Gators will take part. The exercises
will last three days. February 10, II
and IL.
The son of the Secretary Of Agri
culture of Argentina, Senior Jose Leon
Suarez, has just entered the Univer
sity of Tennessee for three years
course In agriculture. Arrangements
for Senior Suarez to enter the Uni
versity of Tennessee were made by
South American Agent c. L. Chandler
of the Southern Railway. During a
recent trip through South America
Mr.. Chandler also arranged to have
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