The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-06-16
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! For every dollar paid to the South
ern Railway Company by the people
in the South during April, the South
ern Railway Company paid out in the
South $115. according to figures an
nounced by Comptroller A. Fl. Planut
The contract for the by-products
coke ovens at the plant of the Chat
| tanooga Gas and Coal Products Co.
has been let to the Semet-Solvey Co.,
of New York. and the actual work on
the ovens has begun. Over $500, 600
will be expended on the new ovens.
They will have capacity of 10000
| tons Of coke per month and will pro-
duce 100000 feet of gas
The men of Friendship and COM
munity have decided to organize and
/ drill at the school Fairgrounds under
the leadership of those who have some
knowledge of military tactics. All
men from the age Of II upwards have
been invited to join and no physical
examination is required. DR.. C. O..
Wilkes, former member of the State
Guards, will assist in the drilling.
A cow-testing association will be
organized in Knox County, the work
to begin June 20. Organization will
be under the supervision of County
Agent Vinegar and C. A. Hutton,
dairy specialist. Not more than
twenty-six members will be permitted
to join the association, for the reason
that the man who will be employed
to test the cows each month cannot
visit more than one herd each day,
and he will be required to test each
COW in each herd once each month
John B. Maxwell, night ticket agent,
Dyersburg, nearly lost his life in the
yards Of the Illinois Central Railway
He had been checking soma cars In
the northern part of the yards, when
he jumped on fast freight to return
to the depot AS he attempted to
alight he slipped, his feet going under
the car and he was horribly mangled.
Col O. G. Hulvey, of the Columbia
Military Academy, has gone to Chi
cago to arrange for the summer cam
pdlSH lOI INC
Richard Fitzgerald, for three years
telegraph editor of the Knoxville Sen
tinel, has resigned to enlist in the
u. of T. ambulance unit. He leaves
Immediately for mobilization camp
, at Allentown, Pa Other members of
this unit will also be sent to Allen
, town within few days. Members of
the corps will be put through short
training course and then sent to the
front in France.
AS an answer to charges recently
made in the wooden ships controversy
that lumbermen are seeking to hold
up the government, officers and mem.
bers of the Hardwood Manufacturers
Association of the United States, in
session in Memphis, agreed to furnish
hard woods for the frames of 100 ships
at figure below cost. Memphis lum-
bermen agreed to pool among them
RECEIVES 20 per cent of the order
Announcement has been made in
Washington that Capt, Allen ]. Greer,
Capt. w. N. Hughes, Jr. and Capt
Fay w. Brabson had been detailed for
duty with the general staff at Wash.
ington. Capt Greer has been stationed
+, in Nashville under orders from the
| War Department for some time as in.
/ structor inspector with the Tennessee
| National Guard and has also been
active in the organization of the field
!, artillery regiment which is now be.
ing formed in the State.
/ The next step following the regis
/ tration of eligibles for service in the
army will be the appointment Of ex.
/ emption officers. There will be two
/ boards. The first will be county
boards. The district boards, or appel
/ late boards, to which appeals may be
made, will be one board for each fed
4 eral judicial district, or there may be
| more, at the discretion of the Presi
dent. There is no compensation fol-
service on either boards and the work
i will be laborious and exceedingly deli
il cate. The law provides heavy penal
i ties Of fine and Imprisonment for any
II favoritism.
i Among the notable names of the
! students at Fort Oglethorpe officers
i reserve training camp besides Leon
4 ard Wood, Jr., son of the commander
I of the department of the southeast
8 there is a Nicholas Roosevelt from
& Oyster Bay and there was James
4 Woodrow, bot he has returned t.
Washington. Then there are three
brothers, Mcdonald, Merriwether an,
j Richard Lewis, of South Carolina, SON
of e. d. Lewis, private secretary o
Claude Kichins, Democratic leader o
the House, and nephews of Lieut.. Col
I w. f. Lewis, formerly on Gen. Perish
ing's staff.
A resolution recently adopted by tn
} Board of Education of Upton County
to be inserted in all teachers COZ
: tracts follows: THAT hereafter n
/, teacher will be employed to teach il
! any public school of this. county VIII
/ attends public dances, or participate
!, in such, and that this regulation shal
e constitute a part of the rules an
( regulations for the government of tn
i public schools of this county, and
to be incorporated in the contract @
s those employed to teach in the publ