The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-23
TENNESSEE:
Epitome of Interest.
ing Events That Are
Transpiring Over
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cially are watching with interest the
progress of the million dollar endow-
ment fund campaign for the Univers-
ity of the South at Sewanee. Sewa-
nee is owned by % dioceses in the
states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missis-
sippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Okla
homa, South Carolina, Tennessee and
Texas.
Nashville. r. Campbell and
Judge Joseph Higgins, attorneys for
creditors, and John H. Dewitt, receiver
of the Tennessee Valley Iron & Rail-
road Co., will attend the hearing in
Washington before the board of con-
tract adjustment of the war depart
ment, with reference to settlement Of
unpaid accounts due from the govern
ment on the construction of the wood
distillation plant at Collinwood
sssss
Memphis Standard Oil Com
pany has closed lease for tract of
road and the river on which to erect
giant receiving and storage tanks for
fuel oil It has been announced that
the company is going to contest the
reign of coal as fuel for large num-
Der of plants here, due in measure to
the rising cost of COAL
Nashville.-In their deep interest in
the women from other localities who
are giving them valuable service, the
Life G Casualty Insurance Company
has inaugurated praiseworthy move
ment. Two floors of the building &C.
cupied by the company have been fit
ted up as rooming house and will be
rented to them at the small sum of
50 per week per room.
Nashville Holding that there was
nothing in the proof to sustain the
charge Of alienation, Judge Harry A.
Luck set aside the verdict for $40, 1000
damages rendered by a jury in the
Second Circuit Court last week in ia.
vor of Mrs. Thelma Rolen Robertson
and against Mrs. Kate Campbell Rob-
ertson.
Jackson.-Bishop Isaac Lane OF this
city attended the dedication of the
Lane Metropolitan Church in Cleve.
land, Ohio, named in honor of the
ve2ST bishop of the G. NJ E.
@ We bishop preached at the
vice
Columbia In addition to the ex-
pressing opposition to the Kenyon,
Kendrick bill, the Middle Tennessee
Farmers Institute gave hearty in
dorsement Of the dog law and pledged
the efforts of the members to aid in
its enforcement.
Nashville. - Department heads of
the state administration were organ
lied for the purpose of cooperation at
> a meeting held in the offices Of Walter
Bell, state fire prevention commits
sioner.
Hoheiwald. -Sheriff Christian and
Revenue Officers Scruggs, Davidson
and Grain made a successful raid, cap
turing wildcat still about seven miles
from this place on Trace creek
Memphis. plans are being laid for
a big reunion of the Chickasaw
Guards, which will include those who
during the past generation were mem
bers of the famou sorganization.
Chattanooga S. Newbill, former
financial secretary of the Chattanooga
BARRIERS Union, was convicted in the
criminal court on the charge of EN-
bezzlement of $500 of union funds.
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Memphis. -Nineteen nuns at st. Jo-
seph Hospital of the Order Of st. Fran
els have renounced allegiance to Ger
many and filed applications to become
citizens of the United States.
Savannah. - The pastor of the
Methodist church here held special
service Sunday morning in honor Of
the boys whose names appear on the
service flag of the church.
Dayton.-The most successful teach
ers institute in the history of Rhea
county has just closed There were
eighty teachers enrolled during the
two weeks period
Jackson.-T hundred employees
OF the Southern Engine & Boiler Man
ufacturing Company were given az
outing at Felsenthal Springs, four
miles east of here.
Chattanooga William Avery Nc
Avoy, aged 16 years, was struck by a
passing train at Annadel and died while
being taken to hospital
Jackson. 1.-The Jackson Enterprise
Co, capitalized at $4,000, has beer or
ganized here with both Jackson and
Memphis capital interested. The com
pany will take over the management
and operation of the motion picture
show of the Lyric Theater and the
road shows of the Marlowe Theater.