The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-08-25

appointed commissioner of the state
department of fire prevention. Mr.
Gillenwaters has arranged for an in
spection of buildings containing foods
Not drop of whisky will be manu-
featured in the United States after
IL o'clock on the night of September
s. All other distilled spirits for use
as beverages will cease to be manu-
featured at the same time. This ruling
was made by the food administration
In Washington.
Because every male employee of the
store joined the army, the Jetton Dry
Goods Co., Of Dyersburg, firm of
more than 10 years standing has been
forced to sell it's stock and close In,
ability to get employees to take the
places of those joining Uncle, Sam left
the firm without help.
Millingtons dream is at last real.
lied in the completion of what able
| educators pronounce perhaps the finest
rural high school in America The
building was dedicated with com
munity gathering. The building cost
$65,000, of which $1,000 was raised
by the citizenship of Millington and
the remainder by Shelby County.
The First Ambulance company, Of
j Tennessee, which is included in the
| units that comprise the new Forty.
second division that is to be sent to
France at once, is the only unit of
the Tennessee guard that is expected
to see immediate overseas service. 1t
| will be part of the sanitary train
| of the Forty-second division.
B. E. Seibert, nephew of General
w. l.. Seibert, who is with General
Pershing in France, has pust, been
drafted into the national army in
| Nashville. Young Seibert also has a
great uncle in the German army. In
spite of this fact he is anxious to get
to France and join his American
uncle with the Pershing expedition
Those manufacturers of Tennessee
who have not thoroughly studied and
prepared to comply with the federal
child labor law, which takes effect
September l, should bestir themselves
at once lest they find themselves
In an embarrassing position when they
try to dispose of their products after
| the end of the present month
ITS shame man can't get in If
he wants to-" So George R. Lamb
characterized his rejection by the Dis
triet exemption board in Louisville,
when he was physically disqualified
because Of defective vision of one eye.
Otherwise he was in good condition.
Lamb was registered for the sele0tive
draft at Rockville, Tenn, and was
transferred to Louisville.
The Battelle Iron Furnace, about 40
miles from Chattanooga, on the A.,
G. and S. Branch of the Southern
Railway, have been purchased by Ohio
capitalists. The furnace property in
cludes about $4,000 acres of land, with
an eighty-five-foot blast furnace, $50
coke ovens and many other valuable
ls.aThe property has heen idle.
for some time.
Sanford Green, 7-yearold son of Mr..
and Mrs, W. T. Green, of West Nash
Vile, had all of the toes on one foot
cut off when he stepped in front of an
outbound West Nashville car.
The whole Of Lincoln county gives
promise Of the most abundant corn
crop it has ever known, the greatest
amount of acreage, and the most.
prodigal yield.
, Former Senator Luke Lea is being
considered by the war department for
colonel of the First Tennessee artillery
regiment of which he is the lieutenant
colonel. Numerous letters in his be-
half have been filed with the depart
! ment, and it may be that when the
name of the new commanding officer
of the regiment goes to the senate
! that 1t will be that of the former SEN
ator.
! All candidates discharged from the
| Fort Ogleth0rpe training camp on July
| 81 will have the privilege of enlisting
In the national army. as sergeants.
They will be first in line for subse-
quent commissions, since all promo.
lions to commissioned rank will be
made from within the organizations
! of the national army once it is formed.
Each candidate eliminated on that day
| will in short time receive a letter
! stating the procedure required and
| containing the regulation oath of en-
! listment required for the national
army.
The Louisville and Nashville Rail.
road has started five-mile extension
from near Benham, Harlan County.
Kentucky, near the Tennessee line,
to property recently acquired by the
United States Steel Corporation. The
Steel Corporation is planning to install
one of the largest coal and coke oper-
ations in the South in the edge of
Harlan County. Benham Is the in.
dustrial city established by the Inter.
national Harvester Company in con.
hection with the development Of 10000
tcres of coking coal The new town to
be established by tn Steel Corpor.
alton will be modelc after Gary, it is
said.
shoemakers Pledge Loyalty.
The following resolution was adopt
! ed at the recent convention o. the Boot
and Shoe Workers union
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