The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-10-05
FROM ALL PARTS
OF ENNESSEE
Reports of Interesting
Events Boiled Down
for Hasty Perusal.

OGlHltT.--A pdIeul-tSdCHClS 3 doSoSif
ton has been organized here with an
enthusiastic membership.
Gibbs e. Bushart sold his farm,
near here, to John Semones for $780,
500-a tract of seventy-five acres
Dyersburg -Two chickens auctioned
off here brought 800. They were do
mated by Capt. Brackin to the Red
Cross.
Nashville. Light frost fell here
Sept. 20, but no material damage was
done, according to the local weather
station.
Dyersburg. The home Of w. B. Nc
Bride, in the Thirteenth district, was
destroyed by fire. There was no in
surance; loss, $4,000.
Rutherford The Obion Presbytery
of the Cumberland Presbyterian church
met in regular session last week al
Bells chapel, five miles west of here.
Paris.-Parnell Hickman, who is il
the signal service at Fort Leaven.
worth, Kan, is another Paris boy VIII }
has been honored with the rank of ser,
geant
Paris. DIR. o. K. Warmack of Nc
Kinnon is the new physician for the
Louisville & Nashville railroad ELI
ployes here. He will move his family
here Oct. l.
Nashville The court of civil az
peals adjourned for one month to Ell
able attorneys of the state to assist in
classifying men for the army, accord
ing to missionaries
aaAss
Union City.-Frost fell throughout
this section Sept. 20, but not enough to
materially affect the crop. Peas, po
tato vines and some other things show
the effect of the frost.
Newbern.-The cotton buyers here
are getting everything in shape to han
die the cotton crop. The crop is est
mated to be 80 per cent better than
the growers thought at first.
Paris Last week several men were
called from Paris for army service
| among them being DR.. ]. I. Johnston, d
] dEsists Rohert. :. Murray AEthur Sen q.
sing, NJ ID. Copeland and Ora Kendall,
ssssa
Memphis. The total registration at
the West Tennessee State Normal
school to date is 1924. DR.. A. A. Kin
cannon, president states that he is
confident that by October / the mum.
Der will be increased to 1000
\ Newbern, The total registration for
Dyer county has been completed and
the record shows that 1886 signed UP
with the government. The estimate
for the county was exactly that figure
so the county made a 100 per cent
registration.
Knoxville. Although the date for
| the encampment of the Tennessee ma
| tional guardsmen here has been post
| poned several times, Col. D. c. Chap
man now has information which indi
Gates that it will likely be held the
lost OF September or early in October
Nearly $500 soldiers are expected.
|
Selmer.-L. c. Dickey, farmer, was
the victim Of a very serious accident
while working at Weatherford's gin
nine miles southeast of Selmer. He
attempted to clean the saws while the
machinery was in motion His right
arm was caught and badly cut. Two
fingers were lost and the bone in the
upper arm was stripped of all flesh
|
| Newbern An appeal is being made
to the farmers in Dyer county to grow
more wheat by an increase of half over
the previous crop that has been har.
vested according to the statement OF
| w. G. Wilson, the newly elected farm
agent for Dyer county. The county
has been requested by the government
to increase the wheat acreage by 5000
acres.
The following Tennesseans have
been commissioned second lieutenants
of infantry from fourth training camp
at Camp Pike, Ark: Harold Bond,
Oneida, Tenn, assigned to Camp Pike,
Ark; Luther Herschel Brigham, Erin.
Tenn, Camp Pike, Ark; William Van
in Costello, Shepherd, Tenn, Camp
Beauregard, La; Golden Burton Fluty,
Flatwoods, Tenn, Camp Pike, Ark. /,
Walter Collins Johnson, Jr., Paris,
Tenn, Camp Pike, Ark; Roy William
Miller, Johnson City, Tenn, Camp
Pike, Ark; Key Pinkey Mott, Union
City, Tenn, Camp Pike, Ark; James
Perry Pullman, Rossville, Tenn, Camp
Beauregard, La; Luther Ward, Gin
ton, Tenn, Camp Perry, Ohio.
Chattanooga - Chattanooga school
authorities are faced by a perplexing
problem. A small colony of wives OF
Germans interned at Fort Oglethorpe
have settled in one of the city's su.
| hurbs With them are soma 60 chiI,