The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-02-24

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aged Tennessee's wheat crop so per
cent in the opinion Of Prof. G. A.
Moores, Of the University Of Tennessee
/ College of Agriculture, following an
Examination of conditions at the uni
versity farm and the consideration OF
| see. Wheat foliage that Is dead give
loft decaying odor, an entirely new
condition. Prof. Moores declared.
Retail merchants of Tennessee and
adjoining states will form an organ
ization at the short course for their
benefit in Knoxville, March and Z.
Meetings of the organization will be
held once each year. At these meet
ings will be considered topics which
will enable the merchant to increase
! his business and thus rake in more,
1 shekels. Fully 500 merchants are ex-
pected to attend the short course.
The armor plate commission declined
to change its iteniary upon request Of
Chattanooga and Knoxville committee
and return via those places In order
to give such committees the "last say"
as to the location of the eleven million
dollar plant. The commission stated
that 1t would be guided chiefly by the
briefs on file in fact and when it had
! completed it's work at Rome February
81 it would return directly to Wash
| ington.
Although plans have been on foot
for some time to make the University
| Of Tennessee an institution having
training corps for reserve officers, it
was only definitely decided that this
was to go into effect when the war de-
partment at Washington authorized
President Brown Ayres, Of the univers-
| ity, to establish such a unit in &C.
cordance with the various and numer-
GUS preparedness movements in cir
| culation throughout the country.
The government trachoma hospital
is now open at Tazewell for the treat
ment Of trachoma, commonly known
| as graduated eyelids or red sore eyes.
This hospital is branch of the United
| States public health service and Is
established for the purpose of furnish
| ing free treatment and aid in eradicat-
ing trachoma. Patients from any
county or state will be admitted to
the hospital If afflicted with the
| disease
The consolidation of the two tele.
phone companies operating in Bristol,
johnson City, Abingdon, Jonesboro and
other points in East Tennessee and
Southwest Virginia now only await
the formal approval of the Interstate
Commerce Commission. The CONSOLE
dation will be brought about by the
purchase on the part of the Bristol
Telephone company, of all properties
of the Southern Bell Telephone COM
pany. 1t will connect with the univer-
sal toll system of the Bell company
To induce the N. G. & st. l.. railroad
to extend the Centreville branch Of
| the n, G. & St. 1, from, Aliens Greek to
| Waynesboro, distance of fourteen
miles, committee of the most prom
inent business men of Waynesboro
called upon John Howe Peyton, presi-
dent and laid before him the amount
of tonnage that he could safely count
on hauling over the road in the event
that he should decide to build it to
Waynesboro Favorable action is ex-
pected.
Through the cooperation of the en-
! cheering department with the agri-
cultural department of the University
OF Tennessee, Students of agriculture
| get training in blacksmithing, survey
ing farm areas, drainage, terracing and
In woodwork and building design. They
are also trained in the use of power
machinery, such as the steam and
gear engine and water power. Water,
lighting and heating systems for the
farm, as well as for the school and
church, are studied.
| Subscriptions to the capital stock of
the Louisville Farm Loan Bank, which
is to serve Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky
and Tennessee, have proved almost a
travesty. The books have been closed.
The total subscriptions were for 1858
shares of SIS each, or total of $28,29O.
> The bank will start on or about March
l, with capital of $750,000 The
balance of $721,710 above the amount
subscribed will be supplied by the
Government on a nondividend paying
basis.
Rural mail carriers out in Tonnes
see will soon receive the back pay
which was provided for them in an act
of 1914, passed by Congress providing
that rural carriers of the county, should
get more money for their services.
The advanced rate of pay has been in
effect since July l, 1915, and the pay
which the rural carriers will get is
the back pay for services. The several
carriers who will be effected by the
raise will receive individually differ.
ent sums ranging from So to 500.
| Farmers in Middle Tennessee work.
ing in cooperation with the division
Of extension, University of Tennessee,
In farm demonstration, had in corn
last year almost 5,400 acres. On this
land there were $50 corn demonstra.
items, with an average yield of 44.21
( bushels to the acre. The corn club
boys, who also followed the instruc.
tions of the county agents for only one