The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-12-07

meetings, including public schools,
churches and picture shows, IN New
bern has been lifted here.
Dyersburg County Agent w G.
Wilson announces competition for
the corn and pig club boys OF the
county, to be held in Dyersburg Nov
80. A special corn show in connection
with the boys show will be open TO
both men and boys, with special prizes
for the men.
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Nashville Arthur Balm Of Camden.
Tenn, charged with eomplicity in
wrecking a bank at, Wartrace, several
years ago, was sentenced to five years
in the federal prison at Atlanta. w.
H, Hooser, cashier of the bank, is now
serving on fiye-year term, having
pleaded guilty in 1916.
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/ Johnson City-Fire destroyed the
main building of Milligan college here.
causing loss of $4,000. Only one
building remains, the girls dormitory,
and it is announced that the school
will be continued Among the student
body are many from the student army
training corps. Many of the boys were
attending football game and lost con-
siderable of their personal property
Knoxville-A cablegram from Brig.
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Gen. l., D. Tyson to Mrs. Tyson con-
firms the death of their son, Lieut..
Charles McGhee Tyson, and states
that the body has been recovered and
will be brought to Knoxville for burial.
Gen. Tyson, commander of the Fifty
ninth Brigade, Thirtieth Division, A.
f. f., went to England Immediately af-
4 ter signing of the armistice and made
arrangements for having his soma
body returned home.
Lieut.. Tyson's death resulted from
! seaplane accident off the English coast
4 Oct. IL. Young Tyson belonged to the
Royal Air Force
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i Memphis.-By oversubscribing the
4 United War Work Campaign quota for
Shelby county by many thousands OF
4 dollars, Memphis and Shelby county
have again attested their patriotism,
4 raising $331,0S9 for the activities Of
u the war work organizations minister
i ing to the soldiers and sailors.
The greatest eampaign Ii theasu sse,
81 ot d free win offering In the history OF
the county practically ended when at
4 their final meeting the team captains
and team members made their reports.
With quota of $475,000, the 81
counties including Shelby raised
, $559,654, an oversubscription of more
than $4,000 for the district The quota
, of Shelby county was $4,000.
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Jackson-Th was set aside to
celebrate as centenary day by the
Methodists of Jackson and of the
: whole Memphis conference, The cent
! enary missionary effort inaugurated
I by the M. E. Church, and to commence
during the new conference year. pro-
vides for raising S35,000,0O0 for varied
missions during the five-year period
! succeeding. Prominent laymen of the
Q church participate in this movement,
8 as well as all of the bishops, presid-
ing elders, preachers and secretaries.
, Bishop James Atkins presided over
i the sessions of the conference, which
| was scheduled to be held in the
Q | First Methodist church. The Memphis
= conference is one of three confer.
e ences included in the episcopal dis
!. trict of Bishop Atkins, the other two
! being the North Alabama conference
I and the Tennessee conference.
The Memphis conference includes all
9 the Methodist churches of the city OF
8 Memphis and of West Tennessee
s There are in this conference eight dis
J. tricts, each under presiding elder
/ as follows: Brownsville district, j. v
Il Freeman presiding elder; Dyersbure
!. district, w. C. Waters, presiding cid
8 err; Jackson district, w d. Jenkins
d presiding elder; Lexington district, ]
NJ Pickens, presiding elder; Memphis
= district T. E.. Sharp, presiding elder;
h Paducah district, l.. D. Hamilton, pre-
t. siding elder; Paris district, w. w
Il Adams, presiding elder; Union City
e district, w. w. Armstrong, presiding
r elder.
IN | staf,
e Memphis. city is to have ;
d real birthday party She is going t
IS celebrate the passing Of the centur.
r. mark of her existence in May, 1919, !
% movement fostered by the Hon. J
e. H. Malone finds the ready response il
te the hearts of the general public that !
y has already found in the county court
g, the city commission, Rotary club, II
d ons' club, Kiwanis club and humble
or of civic welfare organizations befor
"a which Judge Malone has appeared an
spoken of the plan.
"
~ Nineteen hundred and nineteen
n not only the-one hundredth birthday 3
So the city of Memphis. but it is the Ger
n tennial of the founding Of Shelby cour
a ty as we'll. 1t is, further, the one hui
dredth year since the laying Of tn
Of first boundary line between the state
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