The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-07

The Tennessee Central Railway MAJ
| be extended from Hartman through
Knoxville to the South Atlantic coast
in the event it is purchased by the II
linois Central railway. This deal may
be consummated by September s, the
last named date set by Judge E. T
Sanford of the federal court, at which
a sale of the property may be made
The Tennessee Central operates
through Nashville from Hopkinsville
KY, to Hartman.
Rapid settlement and greater agri
cultural and industrial development Of
/ large areas in Tennessee and neighbor
ing states are expected to result from
the discussions of experts at the semi
annual conference of the Southern
Alluvial Land Association held in Mem
phis. Hundreds of thousands of acres
of cutover and cleared lands were rep
resented at the conference by lumber
men, planters, farmers, merchants and
bankers.
Memphis is active in the fight for
the national guard mobilization camp
and the supporters of the Bluff City in
the Tennessee delegation seem opti.
mistic as to their chances as to landing
it. A board of inspection looked over
the Memphis site and no final action
will be taken on the Nashville site un.
til the Memphis recommendation Is
also before the war department. Sen.
ator Mcclellan is active for his home
city.
The needs of the soldiers will be
provided for by comfort kits furnish
ed and fitted out by the women of
Knoxville and East Tennessee, who are
members of the East Tennessee Com
fort Kit Association. The supplies for
these bags will be purchased both by
personal donations and by a sacriflce
sale. A sacrifice sale will be given
July by the members of the associa-
ton and promises to be big success,
Already carload of coal, an automo.
bile and a vacant lot has been donated.
All national guardsmen attending the
Fort Oglethorpe officers training camp
will be paid 500 a month. This in.
cudes those in federal service and out
of federal ,ervice. Capt. e. N. Wood
bury, adjutant, made this official an.
nouncement. Tennessee guardsmen
We're refused discharges by Adjutant.
General Rogan when they first applied
but later he announced he would issue
them if each guardsman's application
was approved by the commanding Off.
Ger of the camp.
The June crop report issued by the
state department of agriculture shows
that farm conditions in the state con.
tinue to be most encouraging and that
unless present signs fail the state is
going to do its full part in the food
preparedness program of the U. S.
Government The acreage to wheat
was considerably smaller in some sec.
tions than usual and in other places
many farmers replanted wheat land to
corn or beans The corn crop still
holds out promise of being Il bumper
yield.
Leading citizens generally have
united in Bristol in a move to inyesti.
gate the present high prices in food
stuffs. The campaign promises to be
the most extensive of thu kind even
conducted there and is attracting wide
interest. High prices in coal, flour,
meats and other food products will be
investigated in an effort to locate the
cause Of the increase. Local grocery
men have entered vigorously into the
campaign saying they would realize
larger profits under conditions that
existed year ago.
E. B. Phillips, of Fall Branch, Wash.
ington county, Tennessee, may not be
known outside his immediate COM
munlty, but he has to be tossed into
the spotlight in day by Senator Reed,
of Missouri. The Fall Branch man
wrote the senator and told him some
plain facts about the high cost of liv.
ing and the practical side of it, which
caused the senator to place him in a
class with patriot who is ready at
all times to speak out and demand his
right. The letter was read in the
United States Senate.
Tennc CO has I?ru t.~hter then a
drum since July l as far as whisky
sales and shipments are concerned, for
the bone dry law which was passed
at the last session of the legislature
conforming with the Webb Kenyon act
became effective on that date. Under
the new law, the sheriff of any county
will be permitted after due process
of law, to destroy all liquors which
may have been seized by him. Under
the present prohibition law the sheriff
cannot legally dispose of Intoxicating
liquors.
Men not subject to the selective
draft are especially desired by the gov.
eminent to enter the second training
camp for officers of the national army,
which will open at Fort Oglethorpe on
August a. Three hundred and sixty
one Tennesseans will be drawn for
the second camp, and each will receive
$500 per month during the three