The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-12

the United States, lying along thu
banks, are being put in cultivation
! Three weeks ago it was feared higl
water would continue until SO late ii
the season that crops could not BIZ
planted.
Twenty years after he is alleged tt
have committed the crime, FloyG
Vickers has been arrested at Rogers
vile, charged with the murder OF
James Blizzard in Scott county, vir
ginia. A lawsuit over some timber in
which Vickers became involved recen.
ly led to him being suspected and to
his arrest.
Justice Watson, Hamilton County
who heard the case against Fred Shep-
herd president; kid" Elberfeld, man.
ager, and w. G. Foster, secretary of
the Chattanooga Baseball club, ar
rested recently on the charge of violat.
ing the Sunday law, announced his
decision of fine of SO and costs
against each of the defendants.
Thirty thousand catalogs of the
Summer School of the South are be-
ing mailed out from the office of the
administration at the University of
Tennessee. They are being sent to
all southern states. A large attend
ance at the session this summer is
expected. A great many requests for
reservations of rooms have already
been received The sixteenth session
will be held the six weeks beginning
June 10 and ending July II.
John M. Smith, Superintendent of
the Chattanooga Iron and Coal Cor
poration's mines, shot and instantly
killed William Davis, % years old,
Justice of the Peace Immediately
after the tragedy Smith was arrested
and given preliminary hearing. He
was released on bond of $4,000.
Smith is married and has three daugh-
ters and two sons. 1t is alleged that
Davis had made remarks concerning
one of Smiths daughters.
The mangled and bullet ridden body
of Sam Best was found near Ale
phaney Springs after search for
more than week. Best disappeared
from home recently and a short time
later mysterious firing was heard in
the woods. A searching party has
been securing the mountains until the
body was found. 1t is believed by
some that makers of Illicit liquor, be-
lieving Best had turned them up to
the revenue officers, had killed him.
To encourage men of more mature
age to seek admission to the reserve
officers training camp at Fort Ogle-
thorpe, a recruiting campaign among
business men has been started in Chat
tanooga. The men admitted to date,
with few exceptions, are college stu
dents and young athletes, and it isl
said the camp enrolment soon will be
filled with applicants for admission of
Inadequate experience unless elder
men can be induced to apply
"The Farmers Duty in Time of
War" is the idea which the authorities
Of the University extension division
will carry at the East Tennessee Far
mers' convention to be held in Knox
vile May 1917 AS this is a time in
the history of farming when they must
put forth their most strenuous efforts
to feed not only the people of this
country, but help the allies, the farm
ers are not going to be behind in the
patriotic drive for more and better
food products.
The department of agriculture fears
a seed famine" in the United States.
The farming and gardening campaign
that is being conducted over the coun-
try by newspapers has about depleted
the seed supply in many sections.
Seedsmen complain that they cannot
supply the local demands. To meet
this situation, Secretary Houston has
appointed a committee on seed stocks
to secure full information in regard
to the available supplies of seed for
staple crops outside of the truck grow
Ing line, to report at once.
The shortage in drilling material in
the Kentucky and Tennessee petrol
cum fields is being relieved to great
extent by secondhand pipe and casing
from the old Trenton rock fields of
Ohio and Indiana Lately hundreds of
wells producing less than one barrel
daily have been pulled and casing sent
10 Kentucky The Ohio Oil Company,
one of the big producing concerns, has
shipped large amount of secondhand
into Kentucky and Tennessee
from it's abandoned wells in Ohio and
Indiana many other operators having
interests doing the same thing.
Antoinette Rappal, Is, extremely
pretty, heard the Presidents call to
arms and desired to do her bit. With
he consent of her parents, she started
,ut to join the Red Cross. She did
1ot come home that night. Her par
snts thought she had found friends
who would aid her in joining the or
yanization. The headless body of
foung girl was found 200 yards from
he Macon road, in the marshes.
Sheriff Tate and scores of deputies,