The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-26
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sum OF Sl36.S5. There were 40l
bushels. making the wheat bring SIS a,
per bushel. The wheat was sold to
firm in Morristown.
confederate veterans attenAinl
the reunion in Washington this YEA
must bring their own blankets, 1.-the
government will be unable to supply
them because OF the present demand
for army purposes
Loans to farmers by the Federal
land banks have passed the 81 ,006,0OG
mark. and are being made at the rate
OF $15oOO0 day. If the present rate
OF increase keeps up the Farm Loan
Board estimates the total loans DURING
May will be $3,0O0,000.
The public safety committee of Over
county received reports from the men
who went into all the communities of
the county to take the census Of food
production. According to preliminary
report there will be 800 per cent in.
crease in foodstuff in that county.
There is widespread hope that the
government will soon proceed with the
construction of the $2O,0o0,OO0 nitrate
plant at Muscle Shoals on the Tenn.
essee river. In this connection, aide
cision from the government initiate
| board is expected soon.
John Morrow, of Harrison, has Sc
cured a contract for furnishing rhil-
adelphia company twenty million feet
OF yellow pine lumber, to be used in
building large number of merchant
ships designed to be constructed in
the Philadelphia navy yard
The summer institute of the Ep.
worth leagues of the Holston confer
ence and adjoining territory, win be
held June Is to July l, at Chilhowee
park. The institute will be conducted
by the central Office Of the Epwqrth
league Of the NJ E. denomination,
Chicago, Ill.
Voters of Carter county defeated the
road bond issue for $1S0,000 This
will cause the State Line road tx be
unfinished. 1t was generally under
stood that it will take $4,000 to com
plete this work, and it is believed that
an issue Of $4,000 to finish the State
Line road would have carried.
Nearly hundred young men, stu
dents of King college, Bristol, are
undergoing military training on the
college campus. Drilling is conducted
for an hour or more each day, ANA
the boys are being taught the tactics
OF army formation, marching and man
euver.
The completion of the double-trAck-
ing Of the Southern railway from MI
Knoxville to Asheville, N. c., may be
delayed somewhat on account of the
war with Germany, but 1t is stated
positively by Geo. R. Loyal, assistant
Vice-president of the Southern railway
that this route will be double-tracked
before great while.
Plans adopted by the board of trade
of Bristol and the county food cdm- /
mittee to provide peas and beans Tor
farmers to plant the same to be paid
for after the crops are harvested, have
aroused wide interest Applications
are coming in daily for seed, and indi- !
cations point to a largely increased
acreage
Otficers made trip through the
mountains of Campbell county from
Jellico by way of Pine mountain and
Snort mountain on foot and destroyed
! three distilleries. The operators win
be prosecuted The officers state that
they will eliminate moonshining IN
Campbell county if they have to camp
among the mountains.
Labor shortage and not war nee
esslty, has caused Mrs. w. H. Burk
bride of the owner of an auto repair /,
shop in Chattanooga, to don overalls
and become first-rate mechanic. Be
lore her marriage she was Miss Mabel |
/ Bollnger, a nurse, Now she is taking
the place of man who was paid sl750 |
week for his work.
TOTAL increase of 100000 bushels |
in the corn acreage in East Tennessee
In 1917 over 1916 will result if other
counties in that section, which employ
county agents, show the same ratio |
OF greater crops planted as that dis.
covered in Knox county by SURVEYORS
VINO estimated the prospective harvest
yield at meeting in Knoxville
Herbert Quick, member of the feder-
al tarm loan board delivered an ad |
dress TO the Tennessee Bankers as.
soclatlon' which met in Chattanooga.
explaining the operations of the fed. |
efai farm loan act He declared that /
thls was time of activities for both |
agflculturists and bankers. I'VE must
grow enough foodstuff to keep the
enemies Of Germany fat" he said |
The subscription of $1,000 each by
tWenty-foHr Knoxville men who are
wiling to advance that amount At Xix
per cent interest for the purpose 81
making the East Tennessee diyision
falF ar unqualified success. is urged |
by President J C Sterchi for the pur. /
pose OF purchasing the Johnson race
| tack The acquisition of this traok
at a prize Of $4,000 is recommended
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