Southern Cities Power asks PSC to suspend new rate schedule
The Southern Cities Power Company filed with the Public Utilities Commission to suspend a proposed rate schedule from the Tennessee Electric Power Company. If approved, the rates would take effect November 5, 1925, and be argued to be unjust and discriminatory. The petition cites losses in Columbia Fayetteville Pikeville and others and lists served towns including Rockwood Spring City Kingston Jasper South Pittsburg Richard City Tracy City Monteagle Sewanee Cowan Winchester Dechord Estill Springs Manchester Normand y Wartrace Shelbyville and Unionville.
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Nashville, Tenn
Southern Cities Power Company
Public Utilities Commission
Tennessee Electric Power Company
Southern Cities Powe Company
Murfressboro Light and
Pikeville
Rockwood
Spring City
Kingston
Jasper
South Pittsburg
Richard City
Tracy City
Monteagle
Sewanee
Cowan
Winchester
Dechord
Estill Springs
Manchester
Normandy
Wartrace
Shelbyville
Lewisburg
Cornersville
Farmington
Spring Hill
Governors and aides attend Dixie Highway meeting in Chattanooga
Governor Austin Peay and Mrs. Peay traveled with J. G. Creveling Jr and C. N. Bass to Chattanooga for the Dixie Highway Association directors annual meeting. The party motored through the country.
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Austin Peay
Tennessee Gasoline Tax Collected Over Eight Months
State comptroller records show eight month gasoline tax collections totaling 2 035 443 dollars. Average monthly take stood at 254 443 dollars.
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Tennessee
State Comptroller’s Office
Governor Peay Grants Pardons For Local Offenders
Pardons issued by Governor Peay relieve John Ervin of Monroe County who faced nine months for petit larceny and Charlie Goins of Johnson County who received ninety days and 250 dollars on liquor manufacturing charges.
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Peay
John Ervin
Monroe County
Charlie Goins
Johnson County
Tennessee Advances on Hookworm Control Survey
Tennessee becomes the first state to utilize an IHB offer for an intensive hookworm control survey. Dr. E. R. Rickard and Dr. J. M. Kerr, IHB field men, lead the effort to assess and map infection in the state.
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East
Tennessee
E. L. Bishop
Alabama
Union
International Health Board
E. R. Rickard
J. M. Kerr
The
Ringing Appeal Urges Confederate Memorial Half Dollar Sales
General W B Freeman of Richmond urges United Daughters of the Confederacy to buy Confederate Memorial half dollars and aid in the harvest campaign to complete the south’s sale. Freeman’s message, read at the Georgia Division reunion in Albany, touts enduring Confederate devotion and commemorates Stone Mountain as a monumental memory of heroes.
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Associated Press
Albany
W. B. Freeman
Richmond
United Confederate Veterans
United Daughters of the Confederacy
South
United Confederate Veterans of the Georgia Division
D. B. Morgan
Savannah
Georgia
Freeman
Stone Mountain
Notable group honors Confederacy soldiers in erect tribute
A distinguished assembly of men and women conducts a formal ceremony to honor Confederate soldiers, presenting an elaborate erection of a commemorative monument and paying tribute to their service. The event highlights civic pride and historical remembrance in the community.
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The
Confederacy
Fourth of July Stone Mountain coin drive urged
A brief plea calls on citizens and the United Daughters of the Confederacy to support a government authorized five million souvenir coins benefiting Stone Mountain. The message promises that sales premiums will fund the monument project and urges active participation in the harvest campaign.
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Stone Mountain
United States
Congress
South
United Daughters of the Confederacy
West Grows Majority in Coolidge Cabinet
Washington reports that with Dwight F. Davis of Missouri named secretary of War the West holds six of ten cabinet posts. Kellogg from Minnesota Jardine from Kansas Davis from Missouri Wilbur from California Work from Colorado and Hoover from California are Western members. The remaining four come from the Middle West east and New England.
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Washington
Dwight F. Davis
Missouri
West
President Coolidge
Mr. Coolidge
Mississippi River
Kellogg
Minnesota
Agriculture
Jardine
Kansas
Davis
Navy
Wilbur
California
Interior
Work
Colorado
Commerce
Hoover
Prohibition Chief Tenders Resignation to Florida Office
P Green Miller former prohibition chief in Louisville announced he sent his badge and commission to the prohibition commissioner of Florida. He asks to be dropped automatically after serving as an agent there since September 1.
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Louisville
P. Green Miller
Prohibition
Florida
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Augustus Lukeman
America
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Kingsport
Tenn
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H. M. McNeil
Sullivan County
S. E. Miller
Indian Springs
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