Work on $10,000 Kingsport church begun
The Holston association missionary Trov R Cornm reports work started on a $10,000 House of Worship in Kingsport. The Cherokee Baptist Church, oldest association west of the Alleghenies, was organized 1789 about 42 miles southwest of Johnson City. Local residents and visitors attend social and church-related events, with several trips to Bristol and Unaka Springs noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trov. R. &. Cornm
Holston Association
Theological
Newton Center
Boston
Kingsport
Allegheny Mountains
Cherokee Baptist Church
Johnson City
Society Notes Highlight Local Travel and Business
Congressman Sam Rells motored to Fall Branch Saturday with mphreys of Tel- Drs. Patten and Ww day on profes sors here Wednesday regional business. Attorney Oscar Fair returned Tuesday from a professional visit. Miss Hardaway visited friends in the city then returned to Texas Monday. Miss Marion Johnson has returned home after Texas visits. Anra Rugene Gillespie of Knoxville spent a few hours Tuesday en route to Anaka Springs for a week. remodeling begun on Pete Taylor old stand for Mil pleted it for Bros store. Joe Frick and family depart for Greene county for a week’s rest. Prof. J P McConnell and party, en route to Milligan College, spent Monday in the city. Work on the acid plant has begun and will be completed, promising steady employment for Johnson City as a new large manufacturing plant rises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pere Ee
Mary Nell Dosser
Johnson ‘City
Eleanor Haxter
J. Hansel Peoples
Morrietown
Amelia Stuart
Johnson City
Georgia
Naif
Greeneville
Newton Hacker
May Spen
Clark Springs
Lillian Dosser
Unicoi
Geo
Lem Hilbert
Unaka Springs
Rogan
Deaderick
R. C. Thomas
Linville Falls
Anra Rugene Gillespie
Knoxville
Anaka Springs
Pete Taylor
Bros
East
Tennessee
Jonesboro Notes visitors and arrivals mix in town
Mrs Glenn of Winston-Salem hosts Dr Deaderick while Arlie Venable and children visit Eva Anderson. Miss Wofford and Stanley Barlow came from Johnson City. John D Cox returns from San Francisco Exposition and West cities. Mrs Niles Warlick returns from Bristol after a funeral. Bernadette Hacker visits grandparents, Judge and Mrs Newton Hacker. Mrs Geo Cook of Oklahoma City visits Panhorst family. A B Johnson and S W Price from Johnson City attend. Miss Stevenson guests Rev M A Stevenson. A W Byrd and family return after two weeks at Unaka Springs. Troma two weeks stay. Mr Font Smith and wife of Bristol visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenn
Winston-Salem
N. C
Deaderick
Arlie Venable
Knoxville
Eva Anderson
Miss Wofford
Stanley Barlow
Johnson City
John D. Cox
San Francisco
Cox
West
Niles N. Warlick
Bristol
M. A. Stevenson
A. W. Byrd
Troma
Unaka Springs
Font Smith
Cramp Smith
National Encampment Excursion to Washington DC Planned
Veterans and their families invited to join a Pullman car excursion to the 49th National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in Washington DC from September 27 to October 2 1914. Details include eligibility liquor restrictions and a mail-in reservation with Col. James Sample at the National Soldiers Home Tennessee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Army of the Republic
G. M.ellis
Knoxville
Tenn
Pullman
National Soldiers’ Home of
Tennessee
Pullman Car and Railroad Company
James Sample
National Soldiers’ Home
Washington, D. C
Sunday Journal and Tribune
Local notices and obituaries mix of Tennessee items
Fragmented death notices and legal matter items from Bristol and Knoxville Tennessee. Includes details of Solliers Home member Urban C Sheats found dead near a reservation gate, pension details for a Pennsylvania Cavalry veteran, and a Bristol jail suicide of Noah Dowell amid family misconduct allegations. Also W. E. Devault obituary and funeral arrangements with multiple relatives listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Urban C. Sheats
Solliers
South Gate
Deaderick
Co. A
16Th Régiment
Pennsylvania Cavalry
O'Neil
Howe
Pan American Road Congress Plans Major Highway Talks
New York July 10 Selections for leading places on the program have been made by the Pan American Road Congress committee. The advance program shows 27 subjects will be discussed over ten sessions covering road and street nutrition maintenance administration and financing. The congress opens September 13 1915 at the Municipal Auditorium Oakland Cal with opening addresses by Gov Gates Vermont and Gov Johnson California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Municipal Auditorium
Oakland
Cal
Charles W. Gates
Vermont
Congress
Johnson
California
Davis
Congresses Barr
George W. Tillson
American Road Builders Association
Fairfax Harrison
American Highway Association
Tri-State Good Roads Association
Oregon
Washington
Pacific Highway Association
Rateroade Line Timetable No 73 Release Note
The fragment outlines a timetable titled No 73 for the Eas Tennessee and Western North Carolina Rateroade Linville River Railway. It references a bisect at 7200 a.m. on Tuesday Tone 1st 1915, but the text is incomplete and lacks clear events or destinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EAS
Tennessee and Western North Carolina Rateroad CO
Linvilde River Railway
Nonresident Defendants Required to Appear in Chancery Court
In Johnson City Tennessee two defendants Julia Ann Edens and Deaderick Coffee are nonresidents. Both are ordered to appear by the first Monday in September before the Clerk and Master to defend the bills filed by Mandy Cordelia Coffee. Notices must be published for four consecutive weeks in The Comet. August 12, 1915.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MM. F Bilens
Julia Ann Edenh
Chancery Court
Johnson City
Tennessee
Julia Ann Rdeng
Edens
Mandy Cordelia
Dederick
Deaderick Coffee
Mandy Cordelia Coffee
Also Mentioned on This Page
Frank Taylor
ISIS
For
Eelcees
WEOM
Sam Rells
Fall Branch
Tel- Drs
Patten
Wwday
Oscar Fair
Burneaville
N.C
Miss Hardaway
Texas
A Vs. Chase
Misa Marion Johnson
Joseph A. Frick
J. P. McConnell
Jonesboro Notes
National
Jas. Sample
G. M. Ellis
Noah Dowell
Sullivan County
Dowell
Mountain District
Tal
W. EB
Devault
Locust Street
M. E. Shipley
Dallas
J. William Devault
Erwin
W. W. Broswell
J. W. Devault
R. HM. Devault
J. H. Broswell
Denver
Cole
Mack Devault
Dayton A. Dobbs
Aiken
Oak Hill Cemetery
Mia
Surieop
PAY American Congress
Buffalo Street
Harley-Davidson
H. M
Smith CO
Tom
Lee
Sfor
H. B. Crumley
Parrott
WII
Advi
IPM
Milligan College
Watauga Point
Sycamore
Elizabethton
Hampton
Pardse Point
White Rock
Roan Mountain
Shell Creek
Elk Park
Minneapolis
Tod Newland
Clana
Bundage
Geo. W. Harden
Tennwasce
Julia Ann Edens
Deaderson Coppee
J. M. Cass
Oscar M. Fair
Bible School
J. Hopwood
Arlington
Main St
Earl C, Campbell
Chestnut Street
Mary A. Ayres
Johnson City Ice Cream Co
G. PT. Maupin & Son, Props
Cox Brothers
West Main Street
Ww. P. Davis
Spring Street
Joan
Mrs
Spencer
Santa Claus
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