The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1917-01-18
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years Kitty League Daseoall circuit.
A workhouse system will be estab'
lished for Henderson County.
Vanderbilt Day" will be celebrated
April q at Nashville by students and
Alumni.
Miss Sadie Fenton, %, was drowned
while bathing at Knoxville. She was
editor of the Logansport Qnd) Times.
The annual meeting of the Tennes-
see Manufacturers Association met
at Knoxville last week.
Hardin County will have good
roads" election June 3, for the purpose
of voting on a 100000 bond issue.
At the August election Henry Coun-
ty will vote on the issuance of $25O,OOO
bonds to build roads.
A charter for the Knoxville Hotel
Company, with capital stock OF $780,
00O has been applied for. About $125,-
600 to $150,O00 of the securities have
already been sold.
]. NJ. Renfro, registry clerk at the
Fayetteville postoffice, has been re-
moved on a charge of "inefficiency, in
subordination and failure to cooperate
with the postmaster"
The trials of Judge Jesse Edgington
and Acknowledgement z. Newton Estes,
Of Shelby County, impeached by the
Lower House of Representatives, will
begin Monday, April "a.
Bank clearings for the month Of
March, according to the record of the
Nashville clearing house, amounted to
$233,253, 2225S, against $2S,231, 5S264
for the same month last year.
A claim Of $S,00O,OOO with interest
for 1876 years is being prosecuted
against the United States Government
by the heirs of Tennessee's first Gov
ernor, John Sewer.
The County Court at Union City
passed resolution appropriating not
to exceed $1,000 to be used in an audit
of the records of all county officers for
at least eight years back.
Monroe County Court voted $4,000
school bonds to erect school buildings
at Sweetwater, Madisonville and Tel
leo Plains. Each town is to raise
about $4,000 to add to this amount.
f. l.. Hendry Abner Davis, J. H..
Brooks and H. G.. Wynne, who were
sentenced in the United States Dis
trict Court at Memphis, are granted
a new trial by the Court of Appeals.
A road patrol system will be in.
stalled on the Weaveville highway at
Ashevile, recently completed, which
is declared to be the finest stretch Of
county road in the state.
The County Court in session at
.Jonesboro ordered a bridge built
across the Chucky River at Mauk's
to cost not to exceed $4,000. A ten
cent levy was made to take care of
this bridge proposition.
One hundred and twenty-five thou
sand dollars will be expended by Ten
nessee state treasury on roads, $780,
537.O5 having been apportioned to va
rious counties, and $35, 500 on hand not
yet apportioned.
A ten days campaign to raise $780,
600 with which to complete the unfin-
ished Galloway Memorial Hospital is
now going on at Nashville. The hos
pital when completed, will represent
an investment of $425,000.
The City Commission at Chatta-
nooga has declared April 10 half
holiday on account of the opening of
the baseball season of 1916.
The Park City Tabernacle has been
purchased by the Park City M. e.
Church. The lumber will be used in
the erection of a new church building
Prof. John NJ. Webb, co-principal Of
Webb School, Bell Buckle, widely
known scholar, died at his home after
a long illness
The National Congress of Mothers
and the Parent-Teachers' Association
met at Nashville, it being the TWEEN
tieth annual convention.
Title to the Rand Powder Company
Knoxville, was Invested in the Her
cules Powder Company by Chancellor
Will d. Wright.
The Girls Friendly Society of Ten.
nessee has just been offered the use
of the hundred-room Monterey Hotel
during the summer months,
James Dewey Tate. rs. committed
suicide by slashing his throat with a
razor at his home, Monteagle, near Sc
vance.
A girls canning club has been
formed at Peytonsville, near Frank.
lin, under the direction of Miss Lula
Chiesman, the county agent, with
about twenty-five members. Much IN.
,erest is being manifested by the mem.
bers.
Nashville Is to have large repre-
sentation at the Southern Sociological
Congress, which VIII meet in New Or
leans April 1916, and enough dele
gates have announced their intention
OF going 10 provide for a special car
which will run direct 70 New Orleans
Julius Morgan. who assaulted an
1S.yearold white girl at Dyersbu Is
now confined in the Davidson County
Jail, awaiting the execution Of his sen.
tence OF death by electrocution June
/. which will be the first electrocu-
ton in Tennessee.
The Masonic Temple Association OF
Knoxville has purchased lot from the
Y. ". C. a.. 116 by $50 feet. upon
which it is the purpose to erect
mammoth auditorium. The property
a6jolns that &C the Few Masonic Tenn.
pie.