The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-09-15

cludeQ IN KNOXVILLE. FOLLOWING are
the officers elected: Parke P. Swan
! Knoxville, President, reelected; DR.
Edward Roy, Secretary-Treasurer; s
! H. Horner, President. The Elk
ecutive Committee IS composed Of the
! following: DR.. G. T. Roy, chairman
I Memphis; DR.. e. H. hurry, Pulaski
DR.. H. w. Liggett Memphis.
Physical examination of applicants
to the second officers training camp
was completed and approximately ten
men from each company, or total OF
$50 were rejected. When the rejected
men are discharged, the quota Of each
State will again be tabulated and a
| call issued to alternates to fill the
vacancies. If all alternates in any
particular State have already been
called, vacancies for the State will
be filled by applicants selected by
proper authorities.
In honor of the national guard units
and men drafted into the national
army, a farewell was rendered in
/ Nashville, in which thousands of citi-
zens of Nashville participated. The
principal speaker was Governor Tom
C. Rye. The program, which was
under the direction of the council of
national defense consisted of music,
patriotic addresses and the presenta-
ton of comfort kits and war maps
to each soldier present. The COM
fort kits are the gift of the women of
the city.
The Democratic state convention to
be held at the state capitol Wednes-
day, Dec. II, to nominate five candi-
dates for the supreme court and five
candidates for the court of civil ap-
peals, will consist of 1888 delegates.
Delegates to this convention are to be
selected at mass conventions in all
counties on Monday, Dec. 8. The
basis of representation in this con-
vention will be one delegate for every
100 votes cast for Democratic presi-
Dental electors in 1916 and an addi-
tional delegate for every fraction of
so votes and over.
Memphis, once the widest open
town in the South, once the rendez-
vous Of horsemen, their followers, lib
eral "spenders" and members of the
sporting fraternity of all classes,
passed the quietest Sunday in her
history. Under the so-called "blue
laws" invoked by Mayor Harry H.
Litty, recently appointed, following a
serious of custer suits, poolrooms,
which for years have run all day and
far into the night Sunday, were closed
at midnight Saturday night and were
ordered not to reopen until Monday
morning.
Following one of the most SEN
sational trials ever held in the eastern
section of the state, Capt. Tom Brown,
charged with the murder of Frank
Gambill, contractor in the office Of
Tie Ia en- y
promptly acquitted at Kingston
Brown had employed a brilliant array
Of COUNSEL including Mayor Jesse M.
Littleton of Chattanooga, while for
mer Mayor Sam Heiskell Of Knoxville
! assisted in the prosecution. The jury
returned verdict in 20 minutes. The
outcome was a great surprise to the
prosecution, it is reported.
The outstanding features in the reg
| istratiOn of students at Lincoln Mem
orial university, at Harrogate on the
opening of the fall term are the de-
pletion of the upper college classes,
due to the many volunteers and draft
enlistments among the old students,
| and the tremendous influx of new
students in the preparatory. One lady
who came from Big Stone Gap Va,
| and has had five years training in
some OF the best art schools of the
country wished to enroll in a special
course to train stenographers, in order
that she might do her bit for her
country.
The general decline in building OPP
erations which has spread throughout
the nation since the outbreak of the
war is reflected in Memphis, where
: construction work during August
shows loss of $4,000 as compared
/ with the same month of last year.
| Business men before commencing
building operations have been ap-
pealed to by the country's leaders to
ask themselves whether or not the
proposed work will help America win
the war. This is given as one of the
reasons for the falling off in construc
ton of new buildings during August
by Building Inspector Dan G. Newton
Another cause is the high price oil
building materials.
At conference held in Washing
ton, by leading members of the Muscle
Shoals Nitrate Plant association {
definite program was decided upon
which is to the effect that the associa
ton should continue actively in the in
terest of Muscle Shoals for the loca
ton of the large nitrate plant The
conference was attended by G. Fl
Houston, of Chattanooga, and Majol
q. B. Stahlman, of Nashville, ant
members of the senate and the house
from Tennessee. 1t was learned tb /
tha povernment now has aynarte n.