The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-04-07
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passed by the House and seat to
Governor Rye for his signature
Governor Rye signed a bill aunder
which the convict labor lease ystem
in Tennessee will be abolisheds 0cto-
Der l, 1918.
A military company is to be sorgan-
lied from the T. M. l. students at
Sweetwater. Col. HulYery AND Prof.
Dunlap will officer the company
The signatures. of fifty residents of
Johnson City, have been recei1Aed at
the white house rendering seggices
to President Wilson in evident o. war
with Germany
Two persons were drowned ana ten
are known to have been injured when
tornado swept a portion of Memphis
Sunday. The property loss IFS esti-
mated at 100000
For the 81 weeks OF the eggElaying
contest in Lexington, Ky. the pen of
white Leghorns owned by Tholna IT..
Price, Rogersville, Tenn, is leadANg
with Ats eggs.
A. S. Wilson, so, prominent travel
ing salesman of Nashville, committed
suicide in a Chattanooga hotel by
drinking poison. No cause has been
assigned for the act.
Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson,
daughter of President Wilson, viii APP
pear in concert in Chattanooga April
10, and will tour the south in cobcert
during the month.
All athletics at the University of
Chattanooga have beer discontinued
pending the settlement of the inter.
national situation, and students are
indrilling daily under army officers in.
struction.
The legislature voted an approplia.
ton of $500 for the purchase Of
bronze medals for the Tennessee
guardsmen who served on the Mexican
border. The appropriation was voted
in response to a message from Cover.
nor Rye containing the suggestion.
A large number Of young ladies have
applied to the Chattanooga naval re-
cruiting Office for enlistment in the
navy in case of war with Germany,
Miss Margaret Erwin has rendered her
law Office as a recruiting place. for
women.
About $4,000 GROSS ties belonging to
st. Louis, Paducah and Chicago com
panies have been swept way by the
high water in the Tennessee fiyer
which was the highest that had been
at Clifton since 1897 when tiha tIage
was little more Tha1f fffty ~ vi q n
The Tennessee Military institute
Of Sweetwater, was in second place
at the end of the eighth week Of the
rifle shoot under the auspices of the
National Rifle association. The New
York Military academy led the schools
with 1883, while Tennessee's score
was 1888.
Enthusiastic over the dawn of a new
day for Russia, his fatherland, j L..
Levine, of Chattanooga, former rep
representive from Hamilton county in
the legislature, has sent lengthy
cablegram to Foreign Minister Paul
Milukoff at Petrograd congratulating
DR.. Milukoff and rejoicing with all
America in Russia's emancipation"
The 1888 sailors, FIT. Oglethorpe's
quota of the interned Germans rom
the German warship at Philadelphia,
arrived at Chattanooga, and were
taken to the fort. The special train
was not brought in the station, but
the transfer was made in suburban
yard and the sailors detrained at the
fort.
Work on the central building for the
new Sullins College at Bristol, to take
the place of the girls school that was
destroyed by fire eighteen months ago,
is already in progress. The founda-
ton is now being constructed and the
100000 building is to be ready or the
first session of the new school next
fall. DR.. w. e. Martin Of Nashville,
will be at the head Of this school
Owing to the rapidity with which, in
vestments are being made in the hos
iery industries in East Tennessee,
that section appears to be nearing the
state of being one of the greatest hos
iery production sections of the south.
In recent months long list Of con
Germs have been announced ready to
enter into the hosiery manufacturing
business in East Tennessee.
| e. B. Goodman, the 10-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. w. T. Goodmar, OF
Concord, was very seriously injured
The boys father is accustomed 70 us.
ing dynamite in his work and lad a
supply of the explosive on hand Ac..
tuated by curiosity, the little fellow
slipped away from the house with a
dynamite cap and matches and pro-
ceeded to touch 1t off, with the Fesult
that his right arm was torn to Fieces.
! The Federal Farm Loan BaRk at
I Louisville is placing itself in Feadi-
ness to save the farmers of Kentucky
and Tennessee an enormous sun A
Director Of the institution is Quoted
ts having estimated that 100000 600
Is loaned on farms in Kentucky and
| Tennessee ut an average interest rate
of IL per cent. Replaced by Federal
loans at per cent, the interest bur
don would ho rndunnd hv 41 eaQ nm