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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1903
Page
3
A long Johnson City column lists residents visiting from Bristol Elizabethton Knoxville and Steubenville. local clergy and professionals noted. Also covered are business ads for Wm Silver Co optical and watch services, a real estate and labor dispute at Soldiers Home, a pastor turned minister Rev H J Branner death, and upcoming church and temperance union meetings.
The Lyceum program announces Margaret Severance as the next performer at the opera house next Monday evening April 97. Severance is praised as an impersonator in humorous dialect selections from late classics and child recitations. Season ticket holders are asked to note the date. others may secure reserved seats at Miller’s drug store.
Adjutant General Hannah expects to muster five new National Guard companies in the coming weeks. Old-company consolidations will form three regiments, with an encampment for Georgia and Alabama troops at Chickamauga in Tyne. A Thursday city council vote approved a five year street light contract increasing lamps and lowering per-light price, plus future expansion. Also noted are the death of Mrs. Houston in Sullivan County and a baseball game where Milligan College defeated Washington College in Johnson City.
The legislature passed a bill creating salaries for city officials. The mayor would receive 150 dollars annually, aldermen 50 each with 100 more for the street committee chairman and 0 for the finance chair, plus 150 dollars raise for the recorder. Some aldermen oppose the measure and it may fail to be accepted.
John Burbage son of W E Burbage married Edith Went Sunday April 12 in Belle Ellen Presbyterian church in Alabama in presence of many friends Livery Stable Sold Tate L Earnest sold City Livery Stable to W T Givens and Pred Price of Milligan Monday ownership changed hands new proprietors take charge both young men with capital and experience to run a high class livery and feed stable
The Embreville furnace buyers plan a name change to Perrin and harness the Nolachucky water power to supply electricity for power and lighting to nearby cities. Experts estimate the project will develop 2,700 horsepower after channel straightening through the Shin Bone cut.
Delinquent taxpayers are notified to call at the office of J. K. R. Oc Lewin Deputy Tax Collector to settle 1908 taxes. The notice, dated April 20 1908, states settlement with the Trustee by the last of June 1908 and directs contact at the post office with Foy W. Dulaney.
Arthst Lloyd Brandon completed an oil life portrait of Col. James P. Brownlow, an ex colonel of the First Tennessee Cavalry. Gifted by John P. Brownlow of Washington DC, it will hang at the Soldier's Home. The piece is praised as an excellent likeness.
In a pending suit the complainant argues for dismissal which was withdrawn by defendant Cux before a judge’s ruling. The case centers on water use by Watauga Water Co and Johnson City Water Co regarding Sinking Creek. An article notes expenditures of 84,000 to lay a pipeline from upper Sinking Creek and a reservoir flood in Oct. 1902, with water drawn from Price’s Springs claimed never to have been used.
piano tuning orders may be left at the jewelry store of Wm ilver & Co Johnson City or written to Rosenblatt no Co Greeneville Teun.
A local shoe retailer announces a large shipment of Hamilton-Brown Shoes. The stock includes models with guaranteed quality and promise of reliable wear for customers seeking durable footwear.
Election commissioners announce a May 26 1903 ward election in Johnson City to decide whether to issue 25000 in public improvement bonds for twenty years at five percent interest. Voters will see ballots with Bonds or No Bonds and the bond proceeds aim to fund Buffalo Street work and related municipal improvements per a Board resolution and state act.
Public notice outlines a wide program for grading macadamizing and tiling streets in Johnson City. Projects include West Main Street, Summer and Lamont Streets, and tributaries with a total proposed expenditure of 6,000.00 plus 36,000.00 on various improvements. Surplus funds may repair existing macadamized streets. bonds issued for twenty years at 5 percent. The document also details sidewalk and curb plans and school building upgrades.
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