The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-02-01
STATE NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS

opening day 100 pounds OF cheese was
manufactured from the same number
of gallons Of milk,
Covington.- Tipton county quarterly
court elected Prof. Eugene Younger,
county superintendent of public in
struction. Prof. Younger has been
identified with school work in Upton
county for many years.
noxville.-Frederick Meyer, civil
war veteran and a member of the
Mountain Branch Of Soldiers Home at
Johnson City, committed suicide in
hotel at johnson City. He fired bull
let into his right temple.
Chattanooga.-Th funeral of Amos
Rank, the S0-year-old hermit of Wal
dens Ridge, whose dead body was
found in his cabin home on the Ridge,
was held and the body sent to Salem,
Ohio, the home of his daughter.
Selmer-Recent statements of the
seven banks in McNairy county show
an unusual prosperity in this section.
Deposits are more than on any former
statement period. Substantial divi,
dends have been paid shareholders
Dyersburg r. M. Grills, the incum-
bent, was reelected superintendent OF
I'D, Of
Tigrett. G. r. McCorkle, of Newbern,
was elected bridge and levee commits.
sioner, defeating the incumbent, Will
McAfee.
Chattanooga.-ln compliance of Or
ders from the war department Camp
Greenleaf and Camp Forest, in Chick
amauga Park, have been obliterated
as separate military camps, Brig. Gen.
VIM. S. Scott having assumed COM
mand of Fort Oglethorpe and the en-
tire reservation as one entity.
Knoxville-Dr. Brown Ayres, presi.
dent of the University of Tennessee.
went to Baltimore to attend meeting
of presidents of the 48 land grant uni
yersities of the United States. The
chief topic of discussion there being
! the establishment of reserve officers
training corps in state universities
| Knoxville-A new phase developed
| in the long litigation over the estate
of the late Col B. Rush Strong, valued
at 100000, when Circuit Judge HUFF
faker ordered the case held open and
the hearing continued until such time
as Maj. Joseph Erwin Borches, now
with the American army in Belgium,
may return to Knoxville. Borches is a
nephew Of Strong and is suing for a
one-fifth interest of the estate.
Nashville. News of the death OF
former President Theodore Roosevelt
was a great shock to his acquaintances
| in this city. Col Roosevelt paid two
visits to Nashville, both Of which were
notable for different reasons: AS an
author securing material for his win
ming of the West" he came first in
1888. Col. Roosevelt came again in
1907, being a guest at the. Hermitage,
the old home of Andrew Jackson. AS
result of that visit he wrote in his
next annual message recommending
an appropriation to aid in preserving
the home of "Old Hickory" The ap'
preparation was made and added mate.
rally in the Identification of the Her.
mitage.
Jackson.-Capt. John Y. Keith, mem
Der of the state senate in 1882 and
1884, first president of the West Ten
nessee fair association and captain
in Tie Confederate army. died at his
home here, 81 years of age.
/ He practiced law In Corinth, Miss,
before the civil war, being in partner
ship with the late Col Inge. Capt.
Keith came to Jackson in 1865 and has
been prominently identified here for
half century. 1t was he who pre-
pared and introduced bill for the re-
vision of the state constitution, but
| withdrew it at the instigation of Mem.
phis and Jackson lawyers because its
passage would have meant the removal
of the supreme court sessions from
this section of the state.
| Nashville.-The Tennessee capitol
association, organized and chartered
in 1916, laid aside its work for more
overwhelming duties when this coun
try joined the allies in the great world
war. Now that the cause Of humanity
and civilization is won, the association
comes again to the loyal people OF Ten
nessee and asks their interest and
help In furthering a patriotic work.
The objects of the association, as sci
forth in it's charter, are: The preserva
ton of the state capitol in its dignity
and beauty; the extension and proper
treatment of it's grounds; the acquisi
ton by the state of the adjoining prop
erty for state purposes; the erection
by the state of state buildings on sale
property of such construction archi
4 techturally as will harmonic with the
present capitol building; the creation
of public sentiment throughout the