The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-05-24
TENNESSEE
NEWS
Happenings Over Common
wealth Cleaned From
Various Places


Knoxville The Knoxville city com.
mission will fight the new telephone
rates put into effect May by the
Cumberland company.
Nashville The supreme court is in
session at the state capitol The great
er part of the docket consists of term
cases from Shelby county
Huntingdon.-Th members of the
Woman's club Of Huntingdon have re
organized, after being disbanded dur
ing the war for war work.
Knoxville.-Mrs. Rhoda England
and Mrs. Esta Braden, of oliver
Springs, both aged about IS, were
killed by a freight train near Oliver
Springs.
Union City.-The movement on foot
in this county to build hospital as
memorial to the Obion county boys
who fought in the world war is grow
ing rapidly
Nashville, -Forty-seyen out of sixty.
four hotels inspected in the state dur.
ing tho month Of April were found to
be in bad condition, according to the
report of Harry L. Eskew.
Chattanooga.-Dr Walter w. Young
of Atlanta attempted to commit sui
eide at local hotel here by severing
the arteries in his ankles and slashing
his wrist with a safety razor.
Chattanooga.-The Tennessee osteo-
pathic association will meet here Fri
day and Saturday, ana several emf,
nent practitioners from other states
are to appear on the program.
Nashville first equal suffrage
state convention since the women
were given the vote in city and presi-
Dental elections is called for June 4
ard 5, to be held in Nashville.
Centreville.-Tom Holland, farm
er living at Graham, this county, was
found dead in a mudhole where it is
supposed he fell from his horse in an
attack of illness and was drowned
Ripley. News has been received
here of the killing of Warner Peacock
at his home at Ashport, is miles west
Of here on the Mississippi river, and
nix .R5snn ia charged with the crime,
RipleyA representative meeting
of the physicians and business men OF
Ripley was held at the courthouse to
discuss plans for the erection of a
county hospital at Ripley.
Nashville.-The dead body of John
H. King, 70, widower, and member OF
one of the most prominent families in
Rutherford county, was found under
q brush pile near his home at King
wood.
Knoxville--A dangerous maniac en-
tering the homes of Knoxville resi-
residents night after night, is terror
izing the women of this city and is
battling all efforts of the police to cap
tllre him.
Nashville-Goy Roberts has COM
missioned three of Nashvilles young
ladies to play an important part in the
pageant to be staged in Memphis on
May 1924 to celebrate that city's one
hundredth anniversary.
Walter Irwin young
farmer employed on Moss Bros farm
five miles south Of this city, was
killed and Irwin Talbert, restaurant
employe of this city, is in the county
Jail charged with murder.
Nashville Nashville Rotary
club has launched a campaign for $50,
600 to buy a good farm for Sergeant
Alvin G. York, 32Sth Infantry, the
Tennessean hailed as 'the greatest in
dividual hero of the war"
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Chattanooga. - Instructions have
been received here from the genera
Y. w. C. A. headquarters in New York
directing Miss Bessie Urquhart, hos
tess, to close the hostess house al
Fort Oglethorpe on June /.
Nashville. -Provision for the grea
educational campaign Of the Southern
Methodist church for $23,000000 fol
the various schools, colleges and uni
versities of the church was made a.
meeting of the education board
Nashville.--An interesting program
was rendered at st. AIMS church a
the unwilling Of bronze tablet by thu
affiliating chapters Of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy of Nash
vile in memory Of Mrs. Kate LittoI
Hickman.
Humboldt Cumberland Pres
byterian church of this city is being
improved and remodeled.
Nashville A. G. Buckner, for
merly Acknowledgement of the state
was unanimously elected by the STATE
board of health to the position of di
rector Of dental hygiene.