The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-03
LATE NEWS
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Happenings Over
Comm nwealth
as Cleaned from
| Various Places

Lexington. REV. T. ]. StrIcklin OF
Dickson, the new pastor of the Meth,
odist Episcopal church of this place,
has arrived and taken hold of the
work.
Paris.-A Home Demonstration club
has been organized here under the Ii
rection of Miss Moffett, who is han
ding government demonstrations in
West Tennessee.
Nashville.-The Davidson county
democratic executive committee adopI
ed primary plan for the selection
delegates to the judicial convention t.
be held December H.
Dyersburg. The Dyer County Red
Cross has shipped IL boxes of hospital
supplies. These boxes contained one
complete unit of articles for one base
hospital of As patients.
Knoxville.-The annual meeting Of
the East Tennessee Teachers associa
ton was brought to close here will
a record attendance. The meeting vii
be held here again next year.
eDyresburg- Bill Buntyn of Upton
vile has been arrested by the chief o.
police at Charlottesville, Mo-, on sus
picion of being one of the robbers win,
robbed the c., M. & G. train of $4,000
Chattanooga.-Ca Kenneth Kern
chief of the military police in lChatta
nooga, claims that his efforts in sup
pressing bootlegging joints and houses
of ill-repute have been greatly ham
pered by leaks from the police depart
ment.
Knoxville.-Thirty-two coal mines il
the East Tennessee-Kentucky distric
received mandatory instructions from
Fuel Administrator Garfield to shil
their entire outputs to points in Obi
and Michigan, except railway fuel AM
slack coal.
Nashville. MRS Guilford Dudley
state chairman of the women's Libert!
loan committee of the Council of Ma
tional Defense, received reports from
over the state to the effect that VIC
men of Tennessee sold Liberty bond
to the extent of $2,000,000.
Chattanooga.-Mr Henry jarrett
OF Chattanooga, has received q cable
gram from somewhere in FL tas4yI
nouncing that her brother, Williar
Speedman, had been killed in battle
Mrs. Jarrett has two other brother'
Peter, in the British, and George ia
rett, in the United States army.
! Knoxville-A partial victory for til
defendants in the municipal ouste
suits was scored, when Circuit Judg
Won A Huffaker, before whom tn
cases are being heard, refused to su:
pend the two defendants, Mayor job
E. Mcmillan and City COMMISSIONS
John w. Flenniken, from office penC
ing the hearing of the suit against hil
on It's merits.
Jackson the Southern Met
odist Episcopal church will continu
its labors for the prosecution of tn
war was the strong sentiment express
cd at the semiannual college of bisl
ops. Not only will the church stron!
ly espouse the religious work at tn
camps, but will assist in all patriot
endeavors to win the war for America
Patriotism was the strong keynote {
the conference Ten. delegates we
chosen to attend the International p
rity Congress at Louisville, KY, NJ
vember 9 to IA.
Jackson.-Russell Dewey rs, an er
, ploye of the West Tennessee agricu
, tural station, was perhap5 fatally i
] iured when hemmed in a stall by
large Angus bull and gored. His a
domen was crushed
: Lexington.-W. Vol league, aged T
, died at his home, six miles west
town, after an Illness of several week
j He was a farmer, an upright citize
3 and a member of the Primitive Ba
t fist church.
!, neutrality-suspicious. of mini
/, ters in the United Brethren churc
e throughout East Tennessee were mao
3 at the closing session here of Il
United Brethren conference. Amor
+ definite appointments are: PresidiI
/ elder and superintendent of East TIE
}, nessee district, Rev. w. G. Wright,
: Knoxville; Forestdale, Rev. M. M. Sea
y Bookwalter, Rev. G. H. Bath; Kno
/ Vile curcuit, Rev. w. H. Williams
g Marble City, Rev. Mr.. ROUGE; Johnst
u City, Rev. B. S. Fowler; Greenevil
l. curcuit, Rev. s. A. DeFord: Otterbil
circuit, Rev. W. H. Carder; Moshei
circuit, Rev. S. G. Smith. Bishop Y
M. Bell of Los Angeles, Calf, presi
ed over the conference
Clarksville.-The Rev. r. e. FuIt
has accepted a call tn sarva nc n.