The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-12
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strongly advocated.
Community meetings are being hell
In all parts of Sullivan County TO EN-
courage larger production of foo(
crops.
Two hundred and sixty mdn have
been examined at the reserve iof1icers
training camp at Ft. OgletholPe and
accepted for officers commis4b ns.
Hartin Stayre, who residE| neal
Johnson City, while out huntfIg, kill
ed large size grey eagle, mdasuring
five feet and four inches FROM tip to
tip of its wings.
McMinn County defeated the pro.
posed road bond issue for $304000 by
small majority The interest in the
election was very light onlk 1900
votes being polled.
Farming and gardening inl Cooke
County is receiving more attention
than ever before in the history of the
county, and scarcely a vacant Not can
be found within the city OF Newport
that is not under cultivation
The annual meeting of TIP East
Tennessee Educational Association will
be held in Knoxville Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday, October 20, l26 and
~. Fully $500 persons are expected
to attend this meeting.
tractive
After comforting with Senatdr John
c. Houk, railroad commissioners have
set coal rate hearing at Knoxville for
May 10, The commission wiz later
name date for hearing at Chattk hSga.
The armory, postoffice and NRAs0n's
drug store at Benton, were dattroyed
by fire. The total loss is estimated at
about $4,000. The armory with all of
the equipment of Company I'll Third
Tennessee, was completely desApyed.
Sweetwater postoffice r. .sl the
free delivery of mail Ii enc b ,ness
districts the carrier makes TIL IL de-
liveries and in the residentH dis
tricts two deliveries. AS yet t out
skirts of the town are served ly by
the rural mail carrier.
At an election held in Month ,mery
county, to vote on 100000 DO. 1 issue
to build two bridges across amber
land River, one at Clarksville I'D the
other seven miles above the t1sy, the
issue was defeated by about 30l hajor
ity.
One of the most horrible asfdents
occurring at Tullahoma, haIpened
when little 7.year.old TrumaTss sssrlg
son or Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. ysdng,
was run down by an automobile and
instantly killed, his head being crush
ed by the wheels OF the heavy thr,
Mrs. Marian Jane Thompson, of
Memphis, who was born in 1871. has
offered her services to Presidelt Will
son as a knitter of soldiers sodzs. Il
knit them for the boys in the Mexican
war and for the southern beyslin the
civil war, and can knit them for our
boys now" she said.
Nearly 1000 miles of frst-rah roads
will be built this year Throughout
East Tennessee. These roads Mill be
distributed through sixteen Counties.
Nine Of these counties, Morgan, Scott,
Claiborne, Washington, JohnsSn, Uni
col, Greene, Jefferson and NcMinn,
have issued bonds.
Tennessee boys who are anticipating
a course of military study in ire off.
GERS training camp to be established
at Fort Oglethorpe May ID, win be
glad to know that in all probability
Congress will enact law requiring
the government to pay them 500 per
month.
A great many boys from Tennessee
Tech at Cookeville, have already
enlisted in the service of Unale Sam
to serve in the second line Trenches,
or the great army of the furrdws" for
which the nation is so eager for re-
cruits as for men to shoulder the mus
ket or fight behind the big guns.
Miss Margaret Ambrose, of the Uni
Versity of Tennessee, is making cam
paign in Johnson City in the interest
OF nome demonstration work and in
getting the women and girls of the
county interested in canning. etc. She
mas made number of addresses, and
Will make number of others.
Last week the State Agricultural
department reached high water mark
IN the matter of receipts for six days
from the sale of fertilizer and seed
tags, the total reaching $4,6g1. The
sale of fertilizer for the season this
year exceeds that Of last year flor thu
same period about 10000 tonsI
THOMAS Harris, Of James county, ar
rested on the charge of assa,5lting ].
H. Dicherson, an aged farmer. with
an axe, crushing his skull, twas ac-
quilted in preliminary trial ut Chat
tanooga. Harris established a com.
plete alibi by seven reputable wit
nesses.
The University Of Tennesbee law
library is in receipt Of a manificent
gift of 315 books from w. ri Turner.
The books treat of variousI phases
Of law ami include valuable state and
federal reports, digests, decisions and
other works, making ma anificent
addition to the law library.
Louis F. Christman, graduate of the
University of Tennessee, andApromin-
ent in athletipS and roiIita IL <sfroIoc |