The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-07-26
. FROM ALL PARTS
. OF TENNESSEE
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Reports of interesting
Events Boiled Down
for Hasty Perusal.

Nashville. All ten of the ordi-
nances for increasing the salary of
| city employees, which Commissioner
Treanor introduced in the commission
meeting were killed by Major Cup
ton with the vote of Commissioners
Tankard and Tompkms
| Dyersburg. Miss Meta McFee,
home demonstration agent for Dyer
county, has prepared program for
the camp for members of the home
demonstration clubs of the county to
be held at Wilma Glenn, near Tigrett,
July 22-25. i
Nashville.-D. II. Crenshaw, for the
| past eight months in ATLANTA for the
| placement of discharged disabled sol.
diers In work or vocational training,
has come to Nashville TO succeed w.
j. Murphy, who has had charge here.
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Springfield. Capt. S. o. Murphey,
editor of the Springfield Herald, and
one of the most prominent men of
Springfield and Robertson county,
died at his home here, after an ILL
ness OF only a few days.
Nashville. - Capt. C. M. Baker, who
was associated with Capt R. c. Deri-
yaux i'll the public health service, Is
now assigned to the state board of
health and will direct the sanitary
work of the loard
Memphis. - The cornerstone of the
| Chelsea Avenue Methodist church was
laid here, the dedication ceremony be-
ing conducted by Bishop w. B. Muir
rah, the Rev r. H. Cumming and the
Rev d. c. Covington.
1 Chattanooga. A committee from
the Georgia legislature has been des.
| ignated to come here and value the
holdings of the state of Georgia in
this city with view Of disposing of
the property.
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Nashville. T. W. Peace, of Madi-
sonville, encouragement of the
Fourth district, has been appointed to
succeed M. H. Gambill, of Maryville,
as a. member of the state board of
education,
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| Nashville. After hearing several
l Interested persons with respect to the
site for the memorial to the women
OF the Confederacy, which group has
been executed by Miss Belle Kinney,
a Nashville woman, the commission
to select the site voted to postpone
TIE question Of location until after
the proposed state memorial plans.
now under consideration, have been
disposed of.
Nashville. One hundred and five
members of the faculty and student
body of George Peabody College for
Teachers left Saturday morning for
the annual trip to Mammoth Cave.
Ovoca. - Friday night the ten-days
conference for Christian workers was
brought to close with an impressive
meeting in the CASTLE" fitting eli
max to the ten days of play and work.
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Huntingdon. = The annual reunion
of the Stonewall Jackson bivouac, of
McKenzie, will be held at Shiloh Sat.
nrday, July IS, the blue, the gray and
the khaki all being invited to attend.
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| Lexington. - This village was Wis
tied by terrific electrical and wind
storm which resulted in a sand storm
that was akin to those of California
and Oklahoma.
Nashville Recently the state high
way commission was allotted $50
trucks from surplus army equipment,
to be used in Federal aid highway
projects. -
4 The Y. M. G. A. gymnasium, which
has been closed for the past three
weeks undergoing repairs, has been
reopened and classes will be re-
sumed.
Huntingdon.--Th protrscted meett
ing which has been conducted at the
Christian church of this place during
the past two weeks, closed Sunday
| night
Trezevant. - The Carroll county
Farmers union will mold its annual
picnic with the Palmers' shelter on
Friday and Saturday, July 18 and 49,
Dyersburg. Prof. R. M. Gulls, coun-
4 ty superintendent of education, will
conduct an examination for teachers
here.
Memphis. The first commercial
airplane flight to be made from Mem
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