The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-07-13
TENNESSEE:
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ing Events That Are
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ton of Agricultural Editors concluded
its fifth annual session here
Dyer. Gibson Wells, noted SUM
ner resort of this county, will not be
open to the public this season
Martin. The crop situation in this
part Of Weakley county is fine. Hay
saving is the order of the day.
Chattanooga.--Go Rye will
open his campaign for United States
senator here on the night of July 8.
Knoxville.-A big war exhibit will
be displayed at the East Tennessee
Division Fair, Oct. 7-12, at Chilhowee
Park.
Dyersburg. Rogers Clarke, with the
1l5th F. A., has notified his father,
Emmett Clarke, of his safe arrival in
France.
Martin.-The annual state conven.
tion of the B. Y P. U. was held here
last week. Memphis was represented
by delegation of 20.
Chattanooga city is to have
Red Cross motor corps A number
of prominent society bellies have de-
clared their intention of enlisting, it
is said.
Nashville-Adfred w. Powers, 40,
was killed and four Others including
Powers son, Alfred, injured when
their automobile turned turtle near
Nashville.
Notwithstanding is suffering
from an ice shortage The factories
are turning out all the ice they can
make with their equipment, but it is
not enough
Dyer.-The highest price on record
for lambs was paid at meeting of
the Gibson County Sheep Growers as
ISOLATION. The price Of 1874 cents a
pound was paid.
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Bolivar -Seventy-fiye negroes en-
trained at Bolivar for Camp Dodge,
Des Moines, Iowa. This makes to.
tai of 297 negroes who have gone
from this county
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Covington. first cotton bloom
of the season in Upton county was
brought in by Charles B. McClelland,
and was raised by George Fletcher,
on the McClelland farm.
Medina.-The funeral of Private
Harrison James, whose death occurred
rom gas asphyx.ation at Brooklyn.
n. Y, was held at Hopeweil cemetery,
two miles east of Medina.
Memphis Shorthorn breeders from
all parts of the south are planning to
90 to Birmingham on July to attend
an auction sale of so pure bred Short
horn bulls for the benefit of the Red
Cross.
Union City The farmers in this
county were never more busy. The
exceedingly favorable weather has en-
abled them to complete the wheat
harvests and many have finished the
clover cutting.
Memphis. Negotiations pending for
several weeks eliminated when the
board of directors Of the Lucy Brink
ley Hospital formally transferred the
name, good will and property OF the
institution to the Methodist Hospital |
Jackson.--Judge Ben B. Lindsey OF |
Jackson, writing to his aunt, Mrs.
Pattie l.. Bates, from Paris, France,
states that everything American is
the object OF deepest admiration by
the French people and their armies.
Chattanooga.-The first Of the coun-
ties in Tennessee to reach its quota in
pledges for war savings is Lincoln
county, which went over the top in
the pledge drive The workers in
that county have succeeded in secur-
ing pledges to the amount of $5lS,1l6.
Nashville. Major Rutledge Smith
has received letter announcing the
indictment in Overton county of JAS
per TuGer on the charge of uttering
seditious words. Tuder Is reported
TO have said that eve had just as well +
be under the German kaiser as to be
in the shape we are in, " and on another
occasion he is said to have remarked:
Il would not care if Germany would
sink every vessel in the world
Covington.--Th annual conference
of the Memphis Conference Epworth
League, which has been in session in
the First Methodist church, closed a
most successful conference and adj
journed to meet next year in May
field, KY
Union City.--Many friends in Union
city are deeply affected at the news
that Corporal Howard Stoney Max
well, Of Troy, with American marines
in France was killed in action. Young