The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-03-02

Dyersburg. The farmers of Dyer
conity in mass meeting here pledged
inetased hog production this year.
Nashville. Hays Flowers, state au-
ditIr since 1915, rendered his resigna-
tiol to Gov Rye, who accepted it.
Nashville. The Tennessee Central
rajtoad delivered ITS carloads Of coal
TO Nashville in five days.
iEington. -Col Henry e. Graper of
the citizens bank has volunteered to
furnish the money to finance a pig
club Ior Henderson county.
EsAlbn City-Falling on the ice on
hiront steps resulted in Harry Rob
inSon, popular travelling man of West
Tennessee, being seriously injured.
Knoxville. Democrat of Sullivan
cdalty, in largely attended mass
m Ming, having gone on record as en-
Officially opposing woman suffrage.
Athens. The custer proceedings
aginst Horace Kimbrough, finance
ctTbnissioner of the town of Etowah,
CHA recently, are being held up pend
III an adjustment.
Nh
Nashville Gov. Tom G. Rye APP
p3Yted Laurent Brown to act as spe-
FL Judge of the First circuit court in
tV.8ouster trial of Sheriff Joe Wright,
i1alace of Judge 7. E. Matthews.
In
Remington. Word has been re-
cAWed here by relatives of the death
d mysterious manner in Kansas
Cil of c. Ben Scott, aged 40, who for
mkly resided at Wildersville, this
co6nty
# Erezeyant. mass meeting was
hEd here in the interest of demon
& Eation farm for the Trezevant high
s 4ool. Subscriptions were secured
gltTanteeing the purchase of the
OF about 100 acres.
Union City-Leaving word that his
cfAtry needed his services more than
'ha county, Prof. A. B. Vaughn, Obion
cfnty. school superintendent, left his
Once and boarded train for Mem
p where he enlisted as seaman in
gAvy So.
!, v rs While out rabbit hunting
] syesua, a5 4aars OF age acci.
al Tally shot himself in the foot His
coEnpanion, Butch Wheeler, bound up
tilE wound with a piece Of suspenders
cub from his overalls, probably saving
thb boys life.
Knoxville. conference Of state,
county and several national road Of
fidials will be held February IA and
Isl at the University of Tennessee. 1t
will be under the supervision Of the
highway department and
the university.
Nashville. plans of the Southern
Baptist commission on ministerial re-
lief propose 100000 as the first goal
to be aimed at. Two million dollars
Of this will be used as a general en-
s.owment fund to provide relief for
ministers Of any age who are sick
broken down or in need.
IA Knoxville. Convicted at the last
term of federal court of failing to
register for selective military service
James M. Newport of Robbins, Scott
county, a minister, who is said to be
opposed to army duty, was sentenced
to one month in the Scott county jail
and to pay the costs of the case.
reenville.-Camp Sewer is putting
out with mumps, and no less than oO0
boys are nursing swollen jaws, while
reports indicated that the epidemic is
spreading and threatens to seize many
more soldiers from the thinly popu
lated districts who never came i'll con
Tact with the disease in their child
hood
(sallatin The Naive-Spillers com
nary will hold their fourth annua
Dorltry show for Sumner county Sat
urday, March 2.
Selmer. Sheriff A. H. Jopling re
norts the incarceration of two in the
McNairy county Jail, the first since
November IA, 1917 The inmates arc
negroes.
Nashville. bay In the nalf
flooded basement Of an unoccupiet
trpding, to which he had previously
set fire, welldressed white man, II
an apparently demented condition
and supposed to be Frank F, i. Bes
Of Chicago Heights, ILL.,, was shot t.
death by Officer S. p, Morrill, while
resisting an attempt to effect his res
cue from the flames.
Dyersburg. lone Of the largest sales
81 real estate in the history of thu
county was consummated in Dyers0url
when Bose Pillow sold tract of lanC
ii the fourth civil district for $4,000
The tract contained more than LOO
acres.
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