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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1902
Page
3
The Comet advertises wool buyers paying top cash prices. Hotel Piedmont seeks four dining room girls who are nice and respectable. W A Thexixses offers a sale of cheap housebolt and office furniture at Blair residence Watunga Avenue Johnson City. W B Paton listed.
A storm of notes from Morristown, Johnson City and nearby areas lists visitors, relocations, and local goings on. Mentions Rev T P Summera, Berney Burleson, Miss Mannie Nugent, Ada Pon, Goo KR Browns restaurant, railroad updates, new jail finishing touches, and election results in Washington County. Also notes preachers, train masters, hotel openings, and community visits to Austin Springs and Unaka.
An item notes Cox's Army leaving the 8th District and mentions related notices about local business and public works. It includes an advertisement for syrups and a call to merchants in Washington and nearby counties to join a purchasing effort for roots and barks, plus a line about the Waianae Lighting and Power Co preparing to overhaul street lines and supply home lighting.
The furnace at the Roanoke region was banked after coke shortages, with engineer from Roanoke boosting pressure and seating. John W. Hunter takes charge of a new department store offering cash purchases and prompt delivery. Local election results list many officials with margins and majorities. Uncle Charlie Hodge dies at 67 in Morristown, praised for charity and church work, formerly tied to Johnson City Foundry and the old railroad.
Returns from across the state give large Democratic majorities for supreme court and court of chancery appeals. Justices McAlister Neil Shields Beard lead the supreme court slate while Barton Taylor Wilkow head the chancery slate. Congressional districts list Fitzpatrick Gaines Padgett Sims Pearce as incumbents and re-nominations, with Davidson county noting 29 opposing county candidates. Johnson City reports Days of Prosperity with attorney Harr visiting for depositions and praising growth, rail connections, and new housing and hotel construction, per Knoxville Sentinel.
The article notes Butler and Tyler in the lumber trade with Mr. Beaver overseeing the A. Martin yard. Daily, twenty to thirty loads leave for Green Mountain depot and many teams haul from Pensacola to Burnaville, illustrating active local lumber business in Burnsville.
Mrs Mathes, an expert gardener, grew a 2 pound 8 ounce Nameless Tomato, reportedly among the largest ever raised by a lone woman in Washington County. She bought Burpee seeds early and later tried to locate the garden where the extraordinary tomato was found.
Greeneville August 8 Complete returns except four districts show Democratic majorities averaging 14. Harmon wins county judge by small margin, Kerbaugh elected constable. State ticket carried county for first time since Civil War. War horse James Allen says Greene County permanently Democratic. Morristown reports eye specialist Dr Reeves to practice locally. Caldwell reappointed as bankruptcy referee. Cox division ends. Knoxville Sentinel notes Hawkins and Rogersville counties vote Democratic with majorities 150 to 400 and a 400 county judicial majority. Brownlow unveils plan for federal reform school and new circuit court, backed by Congress members.
City Drug Store offers Chamberlain's Stom ach and Liver Tablets described as pleasant in effect and easy to take. A compact health aid for digestion and liver support is advertised for sale at the drug store.
Sixteen inmates led by Gus Hyatt seized freedom last night by blasting a wall at the eastern wing of the state penitentiary. Guards fired on the escaping mob. Ed Carney was shot and killed near the breach while Joe Tass and James Ward were recaptured by bloodhounds within an hour as authorities from across the region hunted for the others.
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