The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-09-08


water. mistaking shadow of trees for
land.
When the provisions Of the food bill
prohibiting the manufacture OF whisky
becomes effective, September 9Th, 70
storekeeper-gaugers employed under
Collector T. Scott Mayes in the Fifth
Kentucky Revenue District will lose
their places. Some of these men have,
spent a lifetime, practically, at their
employment. OF the 259 men in the
district, 40 of them are more than
70 years old.
The question whether the moving
picture theatres can be run on Sun
day will be settled at this term OF
the Court of Appeals, as the question
is involved in the case of the Capital
Theater Company against the Com
monwealth. A penal action was
brought by Commonwealth Attorney
Victor Bradley in the Franklin Cir
cult Court at the request of the Mems
Federation of Frankfort.
Garbage from Camp Taylor, where
1000 troops will be quartered, is ex-'
pected to be enough to feed 5000 hogs
a day, according to Bailey Price, of
w, B. Price & Co., of Louisville, which
firm secured the contract for offal dis
posal at the cantonment. 1t is pro-
posed by the company to erect a big
reduction plant two miles south of
the cantonment and to feed hogs at a
large pen nearby.
Maude Ross, II, living on a farm
; near Winchester, has two brothers in
the army and she dressed as boy and
planned to join them. II can shoot
as straight as they can" she said.
The girl went to Cincinnati to be
married and intended to become sol
der, with her husband. But her
. husband-to-be left her and she was
taken in charge by the Juvenile Court
+ and was held for her relatives.
According to census figures, 261,656
) colored people are in Kentucky, form
ing II per cent. of the total popula-
ton. 1t is pointed out that per cent.
: of all persons engaged in agricultural
pursuits in the state are colored and
: that the number of farms cultivated
> by negroes increased per cent. be-
tween 1900 and 1910. AS farmers
, renting and owning land, they have
charge of almost $4,000 acres of Ken
] lucky soil.
Spectators are beginning to pur-
chase some of the 1917 tobacco crop
at Carlisle Some sales from SIG to
SIS per 100 lbs. are reported at Car.
Isle, and many offers of SIS to SIT
reported declined; these are for the
best crops. The prospects are not the
best for quality, as dry weather has
injured the tobacco which is now be
ing cut and housed 1t is believed the
I crop in that section will be one of the
shortest in several years.
+ A case of unusual interest to be
4 heard at this session of the Court Of
is-t Aat, -og4the- Democrat Pub
4 fishing Co., of Padueah, against w. B
a Harvey, Of Webster County. While
d Harvey, a Baptist preacher, was In
|
: ated by the Democratic Publishing Co.
a reprinted from another paper certain
statements about Harvey's conduct
!. which caused the jury to give Harvey
h $4,000 damages.
g Walter Stuart, %, son of a wealth!
=. farmer living near Winchester, wa!
!. arrested by the police and operatives
q. of private detective agency in st
~ Louis, Mo-, on warrant charging hin
o with obtaining $4,000 by forgery
=. Stuart according to the police, als'
N admitted that he had evaded the draft
having registered but failed to shoy
:. up for examination. He said that h
q. was married and has wife and thre
N children living at the home of hi
: father.
:, Seven hundred men in the Thir
. Exemption Board District have faile
- to appear before local boards for
. hearing, the Third District Board 8
:. stated. Its territory covers GO cour
~ ties east of Louisville. Some of tn
missing are already in the army an
OIhOlc NCIC at Ilc lI6L lldlhlhS Scli
ID at FIT. Benjamin Harrison, but thes
st include only small number of tn
al whole. Federal officers are busy rul
w. ming down reports of alleged slacl
es ers.
he Medals are offered by the Kentuck
tn Illiteracy Commission to the teacher
Is who teach the largest number of me
n registered for army service to rea
ut and write. A handsome gold meoi
will be given to the teacher In til
M state who teaches the largest numbt
tie and a handsome bronze medal to til
mt teacher in each Congressional Di
ok trict who leads with the largest nur
or, Der. These medals will be made
ad the semblance of the state capitc
as having a center with faces of fol
he heroic Kentuckians grouped around
re. Many important cases have bee
as filed in the Court of Appeals for IL
he fall term, which begins Monday, Sc
TENDER 18th. One case of unusu
sb. interest Is that of lobe Mart
ar against the Commonwealth, appeal,
ed from Galloway County Martin h
ar. been sentenced to death on the char
M. Of killing a policeman in Murray, al
:. is the negro whose life was saved