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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1894
Page
4
The downtown office for Tue Comer opens in the Lyle and Co bookstore next to the post office. Advertisements orders for job work and subscriptions may be left there and will receive prompt attention.
Tun Comer arranges cash in advance sales for various newspapers and periodicals including The North American Boylew Wire Porm The New Pers son The American Farmer and Fis The Cosmopolitan LeClare's Magazine omanicured Wort and Works Demorest's Family Magazine Courier-Journal Weekly Philadelphia Times Weekly New York World Weekly New York Herald Weekly New York there Ladies' Home Journal World Almanac Word and Works Almanac.
The item laments Republican control and praises Pat Walsh as successor to Senator Colquitt from Georgia. It notes a birth announcement dated April 9, 1894, and ends with a Bristol Postmaster appointment telegram for John H. Caldwell and A. Harkleroad, detailing civil service implications and appointment powers.
Henry Robertson, about 50, a respected lumberman who came from Asheville two years ago, died suddenly last Monday night. Officials say sudden heart failure likely caused by fatigue or a tying accident. He leaves a wife and two young children and was buried at Monte Vista Cemetery.
Visitors packed into Brownsville on April 9 to watch Camp Chicago depart for Uniontown after a day of clear weather. The army enjoyed a hearty supper, two recruits appeared, and authorities warned Coxeyites to seek work or leave the city within a week while labeling emigrants as subject to strict action.
The Johnson City Star recalls Corporal Whiteley returning Stonewall Jacksons Bible to Mrs. Jackson after it was taken from a Lexington Virginia home set ablaze in 1864. The piece condemns vandals who burned the Virginia Military Institute and Jacksons home, praising the bible’s return but judging the attackers as coarse, cellar-dwellers.
Rain halts corm planting preparations as farmers adapt. Hale's Chapel closes with twenty seven joining the Christian church. Baptism in Spurgin's Ford River last Sunday adds four converts. Mail service and shopping trips feature local residents Mies Allie DeVault and Inez Martin. A young man in the community writes a letter. local figures attend the Democratic convention in Jonesboro. Boon's Creek correspondent praises public schools and the town looks ahead to Decoration Day with monument orders urged.
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