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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1925
Page
7
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The Ruff Nex from Eastman Plant defeated a mixed Maintenance Department squad in a lively Friday game at the Y. Captain Moorehouse says the team is ready for all challengers as future fixtures against Cement Plant and Ink Slingers loom this week.
Scores show St. Louis 6 Chicago 2 and Cincinnati 6 Pittsburgh 1. Boston 6 New York 2 and Philadelphia 7 Brooklyn 9 to 6. Today Philadelphia at New York with league games Macon at Knoxville Augusta at Asheville Charlotte at Spartanburg Columbia at Greenville.
Teams listed with records and percentages. Mobile beat Birmingham 4 3. Atlanta defeated New Orleans 6 1. Nashville led 8. Little Rock beat Memphis 4. Memphis defeated Chattanooga 9 2. Schedule shows Atlanta at New Orleans. Little Rock at Nashville. Birmingham at Mobile. Memphis at Chattanooga.
The police docket shows eight cases entered all involving liquor or intoxication. Seven individuals were arraigned on drunkenness charges and one driver was fined $52.50, totaling $65 including other dissipation costs. Officers frequently take in suspects to Judge Smith at the police HQ as liquor offenses remain predominant.
Markets report from Louisville August 17 shows cattle at 2500 head steady, hogs 1400 prospects steady to 15 cents lower, sheep 2800 steady, lambs 14, ewes and wethers 14.50, sheep five at 5.50, bucks 3 down.
The court scheduled trial of Kinnie Wagner in Sullivan county circuit court at Blountville today collapsed after his dramatic jail escape on Friday July 10. Wagner faced murder charges in the April 13 Holston river shooting of Policeman John F. Smith and was wanted for killing Deputy Sheriff H. O. Webb and wounding Policeman George Frazier. Three escapees have been recaptured, but Wagner and three others remain at large as searches continue.
L. T. Anderson has resigned his position as traffic officer for the city of Kingsport to take up other work. He was on day shift when he left. Several applicants are in order for the vacancy, but it has not yet been filled.
Vienna romance unfolds after a workingmen's council protected Princess Elizabeth Windischgraetz from eviction from Schoenbrunn Castle. She, divorced, will wed Petzneck a social democratic member of the Austrian diet who helped raise her children. the princess, granddaughter of Franz Joseph, lives in Vienna with a son in auto factory apprenticeship and a daughter at a girls’ high school.
Scott R. Roller, manager of the Kingsport Coal and Ice plant, regains his hearing after temporary deafness from a glass gauge tube explosion. He could talk and move about town for days, with hearing returning as he spoke with neighbors. The Kingsport Times reported the incident, noting his recovery by the following Saturday night.
Dublin city commissioners completed 248 houses for the working classes and received 4400 applications. They will allot based on family size, with 21 families of 12 or more, 40 of 11, and 76 of 10 living in single room tenements slated for priority allocation.
Munich reports the death of Lothar Meggendorfer, founder of Meggendorfer Blaetter, aged 77. The Austrian judge commented on claqueurs amid coverage of the passing.
In Kingsport Tennessee before E D Smith city judge the affidavit shows Claude Taylor is indebted to Allen's Garage and is a non resident so law service cannot be made and any attachment levied on his property has been returned.
The 11th civil district registers for general registration from August 10 for ten days. Hours run 9 am to 4 pm daily, with extended hours 9 am to 9 pm on the last three days. All electors in or out of the county must register. previous certificates are invalid. W P Flora and H M McNeil Registrars with assistant registrar Miss Clara Murrell.
In Sulllivan County Tennessee Lacie H Webb vs Robert Reed Webb et al a sworn non resident defendant is ordered to appear after four weekly notices in the Kingsport Times by October 1925 to defend the complaint or it will be confessed and set for ex parte hearing.
J E Miller announces sale of his interest in Service Lunch Room of Kingsport Tennessee and states he will not be responsible for any accounts or debts of the firm from July 27, 1925. The notice is dated July 27, 1925.
In the District Court of the United States for the Northeastern Division of the Eastern District of Tennessee notice to creditors of William Thomas Vickers of Bluff City Sullivan County that he was adjudicated bankrupt on August 3 1925. The first meeting of creditors will be at the Referee's office Johnson City Tennessee at nine o'clock in the morning on August 13 1925 to prove claims elect a trustee examine the bankrupt and transact business. The sale of the bankrupt's property will be discussed at the meeting and no further notice will be given. Dated Johnson City Tenn August 17 1925.
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