The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-09-14
TENNESSEE
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ty-two young men, 157 white and rs
negroes, who have become II years old
since June o. registered for selective
military service in Knox county
| Memphis Nearly $1,000 worth OF
whisky was seized and four alleged
bootleggers arrested by Memphis pa
trolmen. The accused were arraigned
in police court on charges of violating
| the liquor law.
Manchester-Mis Rena Bailey II
] the first Manchester girl to volunteer
in the department of Red Cross nurs-
ing. The first volunteer for this de.
partment in Coffee county was Miss
Rosa Havron of Tullahoma.
Chattanooga.-Th second batch of
German alien prisoners, numbering
500, arrived at Fort Oglethorpe from
Hot Springs, N. G. OF the 1900 pris-
oners to be transferred to the post at
Chickamauga, 900 have safely reached
| here.
|
| Memphis-M. B. Webster, %, forme.
assistant entry clerk at the National
City bank here, who pleaded guilty to
making false entry in the banks books.
has been taken to the federal peniten.
tiary at Atlanta, Ca, where he mug.
serve out five-year sentence
/ az 10
utive committee of the Wilson county
| chapter of the Red Cross, Gen. w. S.
Faulkner was unanimously elected
county chairman to succeed ]. T. Odum
whose resignation was reluctantly ac.
| copied Gen. Faulkner has long been
especially interested in the work Of
the Red Cross.
Fayetteville.-A party of sixteen
| railroad men returning to Coldwater
had narrow escape when the car
| jumped the track. Silus Lavender, Jr.,
| of Smyrna had his left arm broken. He
| was brought to Fayetteville for surgi-
| cal attention. The rest of the party
were unhurt. The men we're making
the trip ON flat car run by gas motor.
Gallatin.-Capt. Thomas r. Barry,
former Vanderbilt man, in command Of
the Vanderbilt hospital unit in France.
has been mentioned in dispatches from
the front for conspicuous bravery In
the fighting north of Chateau Thierry
! Cart ca Barry is the son Of Mrs: Mary
II Laura Barry of this place and brother
2 of Lieut. Col John A. Barry OF the req
ular army.
q Jackson. Following wholesale ar
$ rests in Crockett county a few days
t ago, of alleged bootleggers by the Fed
s eral authorities, Deputy Marshal Kins
8 brought in Ed Craig Of that county.
He was given preliminary hearing
+ before Commissioner Robert |. Chester
and was held under a $1,000 bond to
Il appear before the federal grand jury
4 to meet here in October
I. Chattanooga NJ M. Allison.
president of the Dixie highway assc'
citation, will probably accept the ap-
pointment OF regional director of the
highway transport zone, comprising
the states of Tennessee, Alabama.
4 Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, North
u and South Carolina. The directorship
has been offered Judge Allison by tho
10 highway transport committee Of the
ar Council of National Defense.
Fayetteville-One of the active agen-
re cies for war work, in Middle Tennessee
le Ia this Lincoln county woman's com.
he mittee Council OF National Defense,
ne which was organized early in the
IN spring at public war conference. The
n womans committee has CHAIRMAN in
r each of the twenty-five civil districts
~ Of the county and each chairman has a
g. committee of local helpers who assist
OIL her in the various forms of war work
20 sssss
Washington. department Off
Gals make two announcements of in
4 terest to Tennesseans Contractors
will be asked to submit bids for i'm
ed provements on the Lotus building |,
Memphis, which has been selected BY
government agents for convalescen
hospital,
X The government has also approved
en- the West Tennessee State Norma
er school, near Memphis, for an arm.
De training corps. The only condition
90 precedent to establishing this corps il
ne the enrolment of 100 students for mil
y. itary training. These proposed gov
al eminent activities in Memphis are i'm
III portant. The convalescent hospita
90 will provide for the accommodation .
pe 1000 beds, which means permanen
~ employment to force of approximate
ly 1000 nurses, attendants (who Wi
- be enlisted mem, and surgeons,
Gallatin-Mrs. Mary Sharp, '35 years
'os and little son, Calvert Mcmahon Sharl
years, were burned to death at thei
home on the Nashville turnpike. Ear
:. husband of Mrs. Sharp, had gone int
~ cellar in the yard for some hous'
~ hold articles and his wife followe
IN with "a lighted candle. Mr.. Shar
- emeJling gas in the cellar, called to HI