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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1903
Page
3
The column lists various local visits, travel, and errands including Mrs Jos Eckman visiting relatives in Pulanki Virginia, Dr S A Bowman in Nashville, and J E Lawton moving to Chattanooga. It notes business moves, restaurant offerings, hunts for green hides, new cinder walk on Second Avenue, and local store updates with brief social mentions and advertisements.
Special Chancellor J L Rogers ruled in favor of defendants in the Watauga Bank case with the appeal moving to the supreme court. In Johnson City a district election elected R M Galloway as justice of the peace to fill the Hale term. tax notices warn March penalty and 1908 district collection. Also reported are law court verdicts including damages against Southern Railway and Johnson City Veneer Mills. East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad stockholders to meet March 11 to elect directors in Johnson City.
Henry Ray native of Carter county and early Narrow Gauge conductor dies after months with consumption. Funeral at Poplar Street residence conducted by Rev. A N Jackson and S H Johnson. burial at Shell Creek in family ground. Survived by widow and two brothers.
The partnership of Joe P. Lyle Tom A. Young and Chas McNeil known as J P Lyle Co dissolves by mutual consent McNeil retiring Business will be run by J P Lyle and T A Young under Lyle & Young initials dated January 31 1903 A dubious insert about Lightup Christopher Columbus Colling and Cripple Creek gold figures appear in the same text with unclear provenance
The Hart and Houston Store announces spring stock cleanout to simplify buying. Ladies' suits drop from 11.00 to 7.00, skirts from 6.00 7.00 to 4.75, 7.50 8.50 to 5.75, and 9.00 10.00 to 6.75. Wool waist patterns fall from 3.00 to 1.98 and velvet items from 6.00 to 3.00.
Fashion preview highlights mohair as a spring staple with embroidery in vogue. Voints decorate skirts with lasting appeal, Lonse jackets remain in style, and pale gray to cafe au lait lace gowns trend. Skirts drape hips with flare, novelty suitings appear, shirtwaist ensembles rise in popularity, wash fabrics diversify, and decorative sleeve slashing with silk lacing adds a finishing touch.
In Elizabethton Tennessee more than nine hundred residential and business lots will be offered along with 250 acres of unplatted town-site lands subdivided into fifty small farms truck patches and residence sites.
The sale is held under the peremptory order of the United States Circuit Court in the case The American Security and Trust Company et al. vs The Watauga Land Company et al. with receivers appointed to conduct the proceedings.
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