The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-07-21


furnished more than her quota at the
camp. Only few have been com
PEELED to return on account of physical
disability. Some of those remaining
have been transferred to the Virginia
coast training camp in Virginia.
l While no definite announcement has
been made of the fact, 1t was conceded
at the capital that Gen. Charles B,
Rogan would receive the appointment
OF brigadier-general of the Tennessee
brigade of the national guard, and
Lieut.-Col. James A. Gleason, of Knox.
vile, will be colonel of the Second
/ Tennessee infantry. Major Walter H.
| Hyde will be lieutenant colonel.
Charges of having "willfully and
knowingly" failed to enforce the pro-
| hibition, gambling, lewdness and other
laws; of having made the police depart
] ment inefficient because of their inter-
4 ference; of having loaded the public
payroll in an effort to build up politi-
cal machine, and of having violated
the city charter, are among those in
an custer bill filed against Mayor Ash
croft and Police Commissioner Doug
lass Of Memphis.
John l.. Cobbs, of the United States
forest service, arrived at johnson CITY
| In the interest of securing recruits
, for the "Lumber Jack regiment" which
Is now being organized for service In
France. Mr.. Cobbs states that sew
eral hundred more men are needed
Tor this regiment, and he has gone
to this section to conduct a campaign
Tor number OF the men needed from
that territory. The American lumber
jack is recognized to be the best wood
worker in the world. Every member
of the regiment will be a picked man.
An important chapter in records of
Congress happened in Washington,
when a junk dealer brought to Jerry
South, chief clerk of the house, the
journal of the twenty-fourth congress,
the one which bears the record of the
election OF James X. Polk, Tennessee
speaker, and which contained a mes
sage from Andrew Jackson, signed
"Your obedient servant" Mr.. Polk'sl
signature is at the end of each days
proceedings. Mr.. South confiscated
the property, but how it left the ar.
chives of the house is a mystery.
Plans for expenditure of the $1,000.
600 bond issue, authorized by the re. |
cent legislature, were considered by |
the board of trustees of the Universityl
OF Tennessee at Its annual meeting
held In Knoxville President Brown
Ayres suggested the erection of the
following buildings: Large central ad.
ministration and academic building.
agricultural college building, auditor.
ium chapel building, physics laboratory
building, college of law building,
Womans building, educational depart.
ment building, and armory, gymnas.
ium and Summer school building.
= Il { children are on the
waiting list for enrolment in the
Knox County Industrial school. They
cannot now be Accommodated on &C.
count of the present income of the
institution being insufficient to cope
with the high cost of living and care
for all who might want to attend. The
per capita cost of feeding the children
Is approximately sixteen cents per
day; this is an increase of four cents J.
since this time last year, but it is still
splendid record The average cost
of meal for each child is little over
five cents.
In speech Of two hours duration in
the United States senate, Senator
Shields practically destroyed the
Smoot amendment recently adopted
providing that the government shall
take over all liquor in warehouses
upon payment of cost price plus m
percent. The contention of Senator
Shields was that the Smoot amend.
ment is so correlated with the re.
mainder of the conservation features
of the food conservation bill that it's
invalidity would destroy the entire
section and the country then would
be without any food conservation law.
A Moultrie physician did his very
best to soothe Miss Grace Rive, is,
when she appeared at his Office It'll
took coolies of lotion, for her body was
covered with punctures of hornets. The
girl had gone to Little river with
friends. In the woods she was chang.
ing her street wear for bathing suit.
and she stepped into a nest of the
insects. The young lady said that it'll
seemed to her as though a thousand
Jets OF live steam had been turned
on, each needle charged with carbolicI
acid, gun powder and tobasco sauce
IT Is hardly necessary to state thatl
Miss Rive didn't go into the water.
Members of the Southern Pine asso
citation will do their part regardless {
OF petty details or personal consider.
ations," in furnishing lumber for the
program of the govern.
ment. A resolution expressing this
sentiment was unanimously adopted
at meeting in Memphis, when ar.
rangements were made for compiling
complete schedules for ship-building
materials. Another patriotic move was .
the adoption OF a resolution, providing ,
that where 1t was necessary to emplov
l