Local Notes Highlight Community Travel and Visits
Robert Kilby travels to Bristol for a business trip while John J. Davis returns from Wise Virginia. Dozens of locals, including Miss Blanche Beard of Knoxville and Mrs. A T Dosser of Knoxville, visit relatives in Bristol, Unaka Springs, and nearby towns. Bank examiner Armstrong surveys local banks as Alfred C. Gaunt begins duties. figures from Weatherford to Chuckey feature in this week’s social roundup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armstrong
Jonesboro
Kate Dosser
Katheryn Wilson
Wildwood
John T. Wilds
Unicoi
Miss Grace Gilbreath Weds Dick Yearwood in Secret Ceremony
Miss Grace Gilbreath daughter of E. G. Gilbreath of the Johnson City normal school, marries Dick Yearwood son of a Knoxville railroad conductor. The couple eloped en route to Knoxville, planned by a justice of the peace, with rumors of later possible annulment. The bride, a Chattooga High graduate with top honors, is noted for local town work. Yearwood, Georgia Military Institute graduate, is preparing to start as a traveling salesman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga
Ave
Knoxville
Grace Gilbreath
G. Gilbreath
Johnson City Normal School
Dick Yearwood
Justice of the Peace
Yearwood
Chattanonga High School
Thi City
Georgia Military Institute
Davis Hostel
Gilbreath
Third musical program at Unaka Springs
The third weekly concert at the Unaka Springs Hotel featured Judge John A. Allison delivering a wit filled reminiscence of Tennessee pioneer history. Notable visiting artists included Fred J. King Bingham Cook Fred W. Hoss and Fred Peoples. The program mixed piano solos and vocal numbers and drew hearty applause. an advertising note cites a diarrhoea remedy sold by all dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Unaka Springs
John A. Allison
Nashville
Tennessee
Antoinnette, Dosser
Paine Brown
Fred J. King
Elk Park
N. C
Bingham Cook
Fred W. Hoss
Fred Peoples
Shadow
Carrie Jacobs Bond
Leslie Orr
Nevin
Carrie Jacob Bond
M. Hoss
Hawley
Miss Antoinnettee Dosser
Isses Gaz
Lucie Dosser
Tosti Rockin
Nedlinger
Fanne Brown
Sonata No 47
Beethoven
Soldiers Take Two From The Boosters In Bristol
Soldiers win two of three games at Bristol this week and a special train carried about one hundred fans to attend the games. Captain Burchfield and Engineer Collette led the train, which returned in forty minutes after three stops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
Bristol Rooters
Burchfield
Collette
Desperate Snake Attack Ends With Dead Stocking Trick
In a city scene a popular young baseball player and four druggists confront a large black snake near a friend’s home. The fight escalates as neighbors hear rattle like threats. A ratling gun is called for but the crowd finds a stuffed stocking as the snake, killed in fear, proves to be a prank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fife
General Registration Opens for Washington County Voters
The general registration books for the Ninth and Fifteenth civil districts of Washington County Tennessee open Monday August 1911 for ten days. Registrars named for the Ninth district are W H Fulton and G W Swingle from the First ward and Geo H Berry and J E Seven from the Second ward. For the Fifteenth district J John & Cochran are appointed registrars. Supplemental registration for Jonesboro for August 9 16 and 11 will be conducted by the named registrars. EC Reaves A B Bowman Commissioners of Election Washington County Tennessee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington County
Tenn
J. John
Cochran
Tre W. H. Fulton
G. W. Swingle
Johnson c
Geo. H. Berry
J. E
Farmers Institutes Over First District Begin September 26
Congressman Sam R. Sells arranges with the United States Department of Agriculture for a series of agriculture meetings in the first congressional district starting September 26. Three federal experts will attend, with possible participation by two Indiana agricultural officials to cooperate locally. Rallies may be held in several counties, possibly beginning in Jonesboro, to stimulate farming interests in the district. Also notes Chamberlain's Liniment promises faster healing for cuts and bruises and relief for sore muscles, sold by dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam R. Sells
United States Department of Agriculture
Sells
Agriculture Department of Ten- Inence
Jonesboro
Brakeman Saves Self From Death On Fright Train
George W. Cable of Erwin Tennessee a brakeman on the Carolina Clinchfield and Ohio railway escaped death by grabbing the track after an air hose burst a locomotive drew him forward near Bostic North Carolina The pilot passed over him bruising him but he held to the track and was carried fifty yards before the train stopped He was taken to a local hospital with a fractured left shoulder blade and internal injuries but expected to recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spartanburg
D. C
George W. Cable
Erwin
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Cardus
L&ase
Crest Bon Air
Rown Hill
J. M. Ayers
University of Tennessee Head of Public School System
J Brown Ayres
Chancery
Johnson City
Lily Burbage Thomas
John Baylor Thomas
John Taylor Thomas
Chancery Court
LHS
J. W. Cass
Clark
S. BE
Miller
Solleitor
van Hte
Robert Kilby
John J. Davis
Wise, Va
W. P. Cooper
Whitesburg
Misa Iabelle Wade
John Hobson
I. N. Beckner
Henry Burbage
Rogersville
Jax. A. Sammerk
Mooresburg
Blanche Beard
Mary Hardin
Nannie Fountan
le Marshall
Hickory
N.C
Mixe
Hilda Fields
Miss Moore
CL. Marshalls
Boonestreet
Misa Hattie Hunt
Mixx
Amy Ward
A.T. Dosser
Mixs Antoinette
ER. M. Dosser
Baxter Taylor
Atoka
Okkahoma
Chuckey
Capt
Mia
Jas, Harden
Kenova, W. Va
Geo. W. Harden
Watauga Avenue
Ike Fan
Henry Valley
Louisiana
Amber
Buchanan
The
Christian Church
Main Ind
Mixses
Nona
Annie Okard
Weatherford
Texas
Alfred C. Gaunt
Interstate Life Insurance Co
Elizabethton
Mountain City
Newport
James Taylor
Bedford County
Phil Taylor
James Ponder
Taylor
Holmes
Bedford ‘County
Geo. P. Crouch
Optician
Main Street
Sue Hill
Harry Cease
Lewisburg
Mrs Cease and
Baby
Capt. and
Mratha Hill
Hamblen County
Morristown
J. F. Goodson
R. F. Taylor
Sec
Maryville
Miss Grage Gilbreath
J.T. Carr
GB. Smith
Delle
John
Cox
Deaderick
Soldiers
of the
Hall
F. J. Chikamy & Co
Toledo
Ava
General Registration
Lion Buggies
Surreys
Summers
Parrott
Washington
Tusculum
Greeneville
Clinchfield Protland Gement
Knoxville, Tennessee
Appalachian
King's Mountain
South
Taft
Champ Clark
Woodrow Wilson
Judson Harmon
Ben W. Hooper
William J. Bryan
Stenzel’s
H. C. Miller
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