The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-09-08
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the members of the University Of
Tennessee Ambulance Corps now sta
toned at Allentown, Penn, by Knox
vile friends.
At least so Tennessee lawyers are
in the contest for Judge advocate in
the army with the relative rank OF
major. Only one place will likely be
filled at present, though three places
will be Tennessee's quota later,
December IL was selected by the
state democratic executive committee
as the date for holding the convention
at Nashville in which candidates will
be nominated for judges of the SUI.
preme court and court of civil ap-
peals.
The Federal Child Labor Law be-
came effective September list, No
child under Ia may be employed in
any factory, mill, workshop or cannery
where products are shipped thru in
terstate commerce Children IA and
Is may not work longer than eight
hours day.
The little 9-year-old son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. q. T. Perry of Shackle Island,
near Gallatin, has consented to give
his fine purebred Shetland mare pony
for the benefit of the Red Cross. He
was offered not long since 5000 for this
pony. The pony will be put up at auc-
ton at the Sumner county fair.
The first two bales of the 1917 cot.
ton crop shipped to the Memphis mar
ket were sold at auction on the floor
OF the cotton exchange and brought
fifty cents pound. The cotton was
shipped by Washington county Mis-
sissippi, planter and the proceeds of
one of the bales we're donated to the
Greenville, Miss, Red Cross chapter.
G. Lindsey Harris, the new county
agent, has arrived in Cleveland to take
the place of w. J. Sanford, who re.
signed to accept a position with the
division of extension of Knoxville. Mr.
Harris, who is a graduate of U. T., has
been, with the county agent of Giles
county, at Pulaski, Tenn, for the past
two months learning the ropes.
Mrs. Josephine Robinson, aged IS
years, died in Chattanooga, as the re.
suit of pistol shot wound inflicted
by her husband, Roy T.. Robinson, a
private of the Seventeenth United
States infantry. Robinson, after shoot.
ing his wife, turned the weapon upon
himself but inflicted only slight
wound He will recover.
Luten Cherry met a tragic death at
Blooming Grove, near saamberland
| City, Mr.. Cherry visited ~ dynamifs
a well. He went down in the wen ant
placed charge of dynamite. He game
out and discharged the explosive ant
went again into the well to clear away
the dirt in order to release the water
and was overcome by gas before h,
could be pulled out
| Because the railroads of West Ten
nessee will be tied up this week witt
the transportation of troops, the date
for the West Tennessee Farmers In
stitute to be held in the city of Jack
son, have been changed to Wednes
day, Thursday and Friday, Septembe
y, 10 and A. The program is bein
revised by telegraph so that the e1
cellent discussions" which had bee
planned may still be anticipated
To demonstrate the work which ha
been accomplished in the food pre-
paredness campaign which has bee
vigorously Waged in Tennessee by O.
Gals of the extension division, Tn
versity of Tennessee, an elaborat
exhibit will be installed by the e,
tension division at the Tri-State fai
Memphis. An exhibit at the Eas
Tennessee Division fair is also plal
ned
B. K. Peck, T. NJ Morrison an
others of Walling, Tenn, have Jus
organized the Kingdom Come Co;
company, Whitesburg, KY, with $10(
600 for the development Of 1000 acre
of rich coal properties, carrying til
main Elkhorn seam, near the mout
of Kingdom Come, on the Loui
vile G. Nashville main line. 1t is u
derstood daily capacity of abol
1900 tons will be made.
An unknown man entered the Farr
: ers and Merchants Bank at Viii
Bluff, pointed pistol at the assistal
cashier, Miss Ellie Price, and toe
all the money from the cash drawe
amounting to $500. Miss Price hs
+ just returned from lunch and WI
alone at the bank at the time. II
: cashier, W. ]. Johnson, had not 7
, turned from his lunch. No trace hi
been found of the man committing Il
robbery.
Debate in the Senate on the publis
| er's taxes was begun by Senat
: Shields of Tennessee, who supports
, Senator McKellar's substitute and {
gued that magazines and other peric
icals, not newspapers; cause the defit
In carrying second-class mail. Il a
= satisfied" he said that the daily I
pers are paying practically all If n
the full amount for the service tn
receive. Rates on magazines a
other publications which cause t
losses should be increased"
Col Harry S. Berry. of the FIJI