The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-10-19
TENNESSEE
Interesting Events
From all Parts
of the State

presbyterian cnurcn met IN annuAl SEES
sion at Gum Springs church in this
county
Paris-J F. Russell, a prominent
farmer of the Elkhorn section, killed
an owl which measured 81 inches from
tip to tip.
Mt. Pleasant an allotment OF
$4,000, Mt Pleasant, of the seventh
district, has gone handsomely over the
top in the Liberty Loan drive by over
subscribing total of $172,160.
Fayetteville is believed that Lin
coin county has raised her quota for
the Liberty Loan drive. The county's
quota is 1862 $50, and with ten dis
tricts to hear from the pledges on hand
aggregate s$3Oo,Ooo.
Milligan College. The students OF
iNfilligan college Of required age were
formally Indicted into the s. A. T. G.
on Oct /. This date had a peculiar
significance for more than 500 colleges
and universities throughout the United
States
Jackson.--A. e. Griffin and wife left
for Grand Rapids, Mich, to attend the
annual convention of the National Flu.
neral Directors association and also
the conference of the embalming
boards of North America. Mr.. Griffin
is treasurer of the National Funeral
Directors association and is president
OF the embalming boards.
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Knoxville. Mrs. Samuel Phillips Of
Memphis, formerly of Knoxville, state
chairman OF the woman's department
of loan activities in Tennessee, made
one OF the-addresses at the great LIB.
srty Loan mass meeting held here
Then Knoxvillians packed Staub's The
ater In eagerness to hear in full the
messages OF several distinguished
speakers.
Selmer -Lieuts. HI. G. G.. Smith and
H. r. Minehan OF Park Field, Mem.
phis, landed here In Curtiss training
plane No. 33951. They approached
from the north and we're sighted at a
height of 1890 feet The town was en-.
circled several times and the pilot en-.
tertained with some fancy diving. loop.
ing the loop, and gave a splendid exit.
bition Of driving before landing
s4-ia A vohharxx ~ fha r,,a -.
deEmaster's department at Fort Ogle-
tlieSrse. "a ar was unearthed with the
afGrst OF Sergt. ]. Follow. according to
pYHce authorities. Thousand II dol.
WIS worth of leather and dncoats
Ne reported missing from the quarter
hasters warehouse. According to the
Apolice, the stolen goods were shipped
81 to Chattanooga in Red Cross boxes and
"A then reconsigned to Philadelphia.
Covington. Carl Boshers, farmer
Of District No, IL, aged "a, son OF T. P.
Boshers, shot and killed Curtis Var
bro A negro, aged So. on the public
square in Covington. 1t appears that
Yarbro owed Boshers an account for
hauling hay and refused to pay it, and
when Boshers demonstrated with him
witnesses state that Yarbro advanced
on Boshers with a drawn knife, when
the latter drew a pistol and and shot
arbro, the ball taking effect just be
iow his heart Boshers surrendered to
officers, and after executing a $4,000
bond before Justice ]. L. Richardson
was released.
Huntingdon Lieut.. Robert H. Car.
ter, a former Huntingdon boy, has
been awarded a captains commission
at Camp Perry, o., where he has been
stationed the past six weeks at tho
rifle range. He made such fine rec
.rd as marksman he was selected t.
shoot in the international shoot when
he qualified as an expert rifleman.
Capt. Carter received his commission
as first lieutenant at the second Off.
GERS training camp at Fort Oglethorpe
and made record Of so out of so as a
sharpshooter. Capt. Carter will be
LTduSI6ITcu SuOTtly W lamp OuoAtAnu,
Chillicothe, O., to become member OF
the Ninety-fifth division.
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Washington. United States de.
partment OF agriculture has announced
the appointment of the following men
. act with the district draft boards
If Tennessee as advisers regarding az
icultural needs:
H. X. Bryson, Nashville, agricultural
ldviser to district board for middle
district, with headquarters at Nash
1ille..
A. N. jackson, Louisville, agricuitu-
raj adviser to district board for East
ern Tennessee, with headquarters at
Knoxville.
]. P. Matthews, Oakland, agricultu-
raj adviser to district board for the
Western district, with headquarters at
Memphis.
The agricultural advisers are not to
be members of the district boards, but
are to furnish to the boards facts rela-
tive to farm labor requirements, not