The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-01-13

Sill on 1Idil . iAouAtoiu d0u uOntAVy0o
about 100 gallons of beer. Two men
were captured in the still room.
In discussing plans for the future Of
the University of Chattanooga, Presi
dent Hixson says that 1t is the inten
ton of the board OF trustees to estab
lish In the near future college Of
engineering and that the future pos
sibilities are good for department OF
liberal arts, medicine and law. DR.
Hixson says it Is his intention to put
the university on plane with the Uni.
versity Of Tennessee and Vanderbilt
university.
Only East Tennessee may this year
have entries in the fourth annual mid.
winter fat stock show to be held in
University Of Tennessee experiment
farm, in Knoxville, January % to rs.
For this reason there may be slightly
fewer entries than before, but larger
number of exhibits of stock raised ex'
clusively in that section of the state
The money for the show is generously
put up by enterprising bankers of
Knoxville.
Knoxville ministers Of both branches
of the Methodist Episcopal Church held
a largely attended meeting and unani.
mously decided that union of the two
divisions of the Church was desirable.
All ministers were agreed that so far
as this section is concerned, they can
see no reason for further division.
They expressed themselves as willing.
however, to leave the matter with ma.
tional commissioners now considering
the question.
Engineers Of experience who are
enrolled in the six weeks course in en-.
cheering at the University of Tenn.
essee are learning a great deal which
will help them in building roads and
meeting the requirements Of Uncle Sam
for federal appropriation. The course
is under the direction of the Tennessee
state department of highways and the
University Of Tennessee. Later rep.
resentative of the government will
come to assist in the course as will also
State Highway Engineer A. M. Nedson.
The presidential electors of Tennes.
see met in Nashville Monday, Jan. 8, at
the state capitol, and cast the electoral
votes of Tennessee for Woodrow Will.
son and Thomas A. Marshall for presi.
dent and vice-president. Under the
federal statutes governing the election
Of president every four years, the
electors must meet in the
capitols of tn various states of the
union the second Monday in January
and certify the votes of the states as
cast In the November election.
With the assembling of the Tenn.
essee legislature, the L. & N. and NJ, G.
G st. l.. railroads announced they
would not hereafter issue passesthrough
the legislators for their constituents.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
produced figures at the
rearing III NEgngf1t1fe, last Apr i show
ing the two roads had issued in one
year more than $4,000 passes, with a
cash value of s226,000, and most OF
them at the request of Tennessee and
Kentucky legislators.
AS the first step in the fight to put
the Cocker clubs" Of Tennessee out OF
business, four bills were introduced in
the Senate and passed on first reading.
They carried the following provisions:
To prohibit the storage of liquor by
lodges or associations. To make 1t un,
lawful for any firm or corporation to
keep liquor in stock In Tennessee. To
prohibit the receiving Of orders for the
purchase of alcoholic liquors. To amend
the nuisance act of 1913 to make 1t
more effective.
Circulars from the N, c. and st. l..
Railway, announce the appointment OF
W. l. Lightfoot as General Passenger
Agent of the system, vice Major W. l..
Danley, who becomes Passenger De.
oartment Assistant to the Traffic Man
ager. Mr.. Lightfoot began his railroad
career in 1895 as stenographer In the
Offices, and has been Assist
ant General Passenger Agent since
1907 Major Danley Is, in point of
service, the oldest General Passenger
Agent in the United States. He began
mis- railroad career In 1857.
A bill to amend the Knoxville city
charter of 1907 and those Of Park City,
Lonsdale and Mountain Viey
10 that the whole may be incorporated
into Greater Knoxville" is expected
10 be presented to the State Legislature
'or action Federal census estimates
Of the population Of Knoxville, not in
Guiding the suburbs named above.
which are really part of the one city,
give this city between $4,000 and 10000
whereas, II the suburbs
we're taken in, Knoxville would have
4 population of between $4,000 and
100000.
Vina G. Mullinax, postmistress at
Wilder, Tenn, was the army's best in
lividual recruiting agent during De-
,ember. Under the section of the ma.
tional defense act appointing post
masters recruiting agents, she OBJ
tanned six recruits for the regular
service from town Of 500 population.
The government pays SIS per man. IF
3ne-twelfth of the number of post.