The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-06-16
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nooga Gas Company struck for higher
wages when the company Reused
their request for an increase.
Governor Rye called out the State
Rangers to preserve order in the strike
Of 5000 textile workers in IL mills
in Chattanooga. Union officials pre-
dicted general sympathetic strike as
result.
Lon Smith, who is superintendent
of large farm for w. T. Burnett at
Palmyra, Miss, while in Columbia
bought ten head of mules and zone
mare, for which he paid $685. an
average of $241.36 per head
Food conservation and economy
along all lines will be stressed at the
summer school for colered teachers
to be conducted at the Agricultural
| and Industrial State Normal School
beginning June II and lasting until
July Is.
Thought to have been seized with
cramps while bathing in McCallie
Lake, near Chattanooga, Henry Mitch
ell, 17-year-old lad, was drowned
Efforts to revive him by means OF
artificial respiration were without
avail.
Senator K. D. Mcclellan, OF this
state, is pronounced in his attitude with
reference to taxation on liquor. lie
says if this government must depend
upon the revenue derived from wis
ky to uphold it, 1--WE ought to chalgC
our methods and subjects of taxation
An attempt was made to wreck the
train which took Major General Lepn
ard Wood from Chattanooga to Biim
ingham last week. Passengers on The
train confirmed a report that a log
was tied across the track about fur
miles south of Chattanooga.
L. Sawyer, negro, who in desIfr.
ate attempt to escape from the Shelby
County Jail, hung, while the off 3rs
were looking for him, by the tipsAof
his fingers, seventy feet above 9n.
crete floor, was acquitted by Jury
in Memphis.
Crop conditions in Washington
County at this time are fine With
splendid rains falling at intervals pf
every two or three days. indications
are good for record-breaking potfo
crops, as we'll as for corn, spring obs
and all kinds of vegetables.
The Junior Baraca class of the Gu
trail Baptist Church, Johnson City, lbs
completed arrangements for the PR
chase Of Liberty bond. This isIa
class of small boys, thirty or more IN
number, ranging in age from IA TO
IL years.
Not one of the $50 meS.asasSid
at the State Penitentiary entered a
claim of exemption from military sew
ice. All Of them seemed to be kelly
interested in the proceeding. PHc-
tically fifty per cent of the prisoners
in the institution, it was found WIRE
between the draft ages.
Many things that were blown away
from South Dyersburg during the by
J clone are being found in different sec
lions of the country. A road sign was
found near Sardwell, KY. An insur
ance policy belonging to Claude Bla
lock, of South Dyersburg, was found
near the Kentucky line.
During the month of May the United
States army recruiting officer Mai
Hughes, Nashville has accepted ant
= sent to Fort Oglethorpe, 151 recruit
> for the army. They are distributed
i as follows: Nashville II, Clarksvillt
, II, Columbia IS, Tullahoma %, Cooke
I | vile %.
+ The completion of interstate high
}, ways routed through Knoxville ant
: East Tennessee, and the adjustment
= OF finances to aid Union and Cock
Counties in the completion of unim
! proved roads is being urged by TIL
recently recognized Knoxville Auto
mobile Club.
Many Chattanooga car owners hav
i, volunteered the use Of their machine
to 10y ride" convalescent student
who have been confined to the hosp
tai at the officers training camp. Fac
days hospital report shows a numbe
OF men disabled, but little trouble D
} a serious nature
Students at Vanderbilt University
n Nashville, have just organized for til
,. purpose Of getting work this summe
4 and also at the opening Of the fa
A. session About fifty students are avail
ss able for work this summer, and mos
Is OF these must earn goodly sum dul
e ing the next three months to insur
: their getting back
G Complaints coming from large MAJ
70 ufacturing interests in Tennessee,
It charging that persons representa-
4 themselves as agents of the goverl
~ mont are enticing their labor ava
~ has caused Senator Shields to max
strong protest to the Department {
Justice and request an immediate Ii
yestigation.
The continued damp weather he
enabled farmers to handle tobacco {
as to get it down, finish strippin
~ and deliver a considerable quantit
according to GAINESVILLE dispatches
+. Felix Webster, one of the mo,
prospectus negroes of Columbia. hi
set fne example for the either
OF his color, having purchased s5(
worth OF Liberty bonds