The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-08-18
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eastern Kentucky and Northeastern
Tennessee begun Saturday, and 50O
men have walked out.
Scott county holds the record. Gu
of the first 10S examined for the con
script army, 104 were accepted, ant
none claimed exemption.
Two whispering ducks we're amons
donations sold at the sacrifice sale
held in Knoxville. The ducks were
given by woman at Greeneville
She says these ducks can actually
whisper.
Arthur Bradbury, of Clarksville, was
seriously injured when his car went
over twenty-foot embankment neal
the bridge on Grants Hill, on the new
Government road The car was de
molished.
]. M. Elam age forty-fve, sales
manager of a Nashville manufacture
ing concern, shot and killed himself
at hotel in Hopkinsville, Ky. There
is no known cause. The body was
sent to his former home at Spring
field, Tenn, for burial
A wedding that has attracted con
siderable attention has been sol
emnized in the northwestern portion
OF McNairy County. Miss ROME
Moore was married to Henry Ingle
The bride is % years old and the
groom is rs.
Soldiers called into service for war
against Germany will be able to send
at least $25 a month home to depend.
ents. In case of death in line of duty
their dependents will receive from $3.50
up, according to the rank of the sol.
der. These things were made clear
by Provost Marshal General Crowder.
General Vladimir Roop, chief of the
Russian Mission, arrived in Chatta.
nooga from Atlanta. He was met at
the station by Major-General j. #.
Morrison, commander at Fort Ogle.
thorpe, his staff and special recep.
tion committee of citizens. The dis.
tinguished Russian reviewed the
troops at Chickamauga Park.
The tomato season has come to a
close at Milan. Two hundred and fifty.
four carloads of tomatoes have been
purchased from the growers and
truckers and shipped to Northern and
Eastern markets. The tomatoes
brought about $1,000 per car. This
was the largest crop ever grown in
that section
Miss Margaret Ann Reilly, 15-year.
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ]. P.
Reilly, of Birmingham, and Miss
Jessie Margaret Bush, 13-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. J. Bush, Of
Mascot, were drowned in the Holston
River at Mascot near Knoxville. and
the bodies were recovered from the
river.
An engineer force at Johnsonville
is removing wrecks of more than 20
vessels, gunboats and transports, cap.
tured or crippled when the Confeder.
ate cavalry leader, General D. B. For.
rest, made his attack there in 1864
Johnsonville was then a Federal del
pot for supplies. Phe wrecks for overI
so years have been an obstruction to|
navigation at low water.
Four regiments, a squadron of cav,l
airy, separate company of infantry
an ambulance company and field hos.
pital company, all, or the entire ma
tional guard of the state, have becomeI
part Of the national army of the
United States. Tennessee's contribu.
ton to the great army of the United
States is more than 1000 organized
men.
Six persons are dead and another
is not expected to live as the result
of an accident at railroad crossing
at Crossville when an automobile
driven by Jack Highfield, a merchant,
was struck by west-bound passenger
train No. l on the Tennessee Central
Railway The dead are Jack High
field, Mrs. Rosa Cox, Mrs. William
Hedgecough, Mrs. Philip Vanhoy, Miss
Mabel Dayton, Miss Dorothy Dayton.
The State Department of Highways
has directed the Davidson County
Highway Commission to prepare ap.
proximately fifty miles of county pixies
for surface treatment with liquid as.
phalt after which the state will apply
the carpet treatment which was begun
last year. The state will then call on
the city Of Nashville to pave or sur.
face treat the streets leading into
these pixies or state highways.
Indications are that the Madison
County Exemption Board will have to-
make a second call in order to get the
quota of 2S5 Out of the first forty
two men examined, II was found that
twenty were rejected for physical de-.
fects and nineteen out of the remain.
ing twenty-five filed claims for eXemp-
ton. Thus far only three out of the
torty-two expressed a willingness to-
go into the army
For a ten-day period, August IL to
August %, will be held the regular
biennial registration in all Of the other
counties of Tennessee Voters will be
registered on application between the
hours of s a. M and O'Clock p. M.
With this registration all registration
certlhcates issued during the past two
years become void and no person will
De permitted to vote during the ensu.
ing two years who fails to register
Evidences OF false sworn state,