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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1894
Page
5
Local notices list residents in and out of town, including Dr. Peoples from Marbleton, Mrs. Martin sick, and various visits from Bristol and Abingdon. Tax due reminders, W C T U meeting, travel notes on governors and congressmen, and a warning about a colored youth group seeking self defense or violence appear among community updates and advertisements.
The text notes several post Christmas attempts at rockthrowing by white residents. Rock throws failed as rocks were too soft or the headway too hard and the danger rivaled that of knives. It calls for a rigid law to enforce safety.
Capt Dickinson piloted the benefit show at Jobe's Opera House last Thursday to aid Jobnecn City's needy. Despite many empty seats, performers delivered well with songs like Way Down Upon the Swanee River and The Old Log Cabin. Local artists Nannie and Hassie Lusk, Ed Duncan, Carrie Ball, Lucy Hardin, and Grace Reeves featured, with piano and duets enhancing the program. Proceeds supported the poor, though the reporter notes no printed programmes and comments on audience attendance and minor onstage antics.
Dickinson and Duke seek ten thousand bushels of wheat and offer cash at the highest market price. After January 1st, 184, they will collect all accounts due and urge settlement during January. They will not extend credit to anyone who fails to pay at month end, and McFantann & Co endorses the rule.
Rev George R Stuart lectures on temperance and announces a statewide drive to elect lawmakers favoring the cause. He forms a local society with Col. E C Reeves as president and plans a summer tour with Rev Sim Small and the Silver Lake Quartette of New York. The piece satirically recalls Jasper M Phillips returning from a Democratic Mecca as an abstainer, praising abstinence and the movement’s aims.
The Sick J D Akard family remains gravely ill Mr Akard shows slight improvement yet weakens daily Mrs Akard feared to recover Miss Lydia Boucher from pneumonia at a benefit is very low though hopeful for improvement Ruth Lyle daughter of the editor is improving
A promotional note compares Vick's New Branching Aster to the chrysanthemum, noting its early bloom and temptation for florists to mislabel. It describes easy outdoor growth, seeds at 25 cents per packet, and offers a free Floral Guide from James Vick's Sons of Rochester New York, with the 10 cent deduction on first order.
Mrs Akard aged about seventy five, long distressed by grippe, died at eight this morning. Burial details not yet decided. Mr Akard remains very low but not without hope.
The three year old daughter of Hon. A. B. Bowman died last Friday at her father's home near the city from membranous croup and was buried in the family graveyard on Saturday. The community offers sympathy to Mr and Mrs Bowman as they mourn their loss. Pierce and Myler display attractive signs in front of their shop showing a miniature house with spouting and a large trumpet.
Conductor and engineer WiAM Boyd escaped serious harm when a wheel vehicle toppled on a sloped turn near Mr Enos Kindrelo in Marmony. Boyd endured bruises and leg injuries from a kick while tightly trapped. he was freed by Mr John Lady and taken to Kinchelo residence for care. Horse team was secured. topper of the spring wagon torn. Boyd wore a derby Christmas gift, damaged in the accident.
Mrs J H Brunner has moved from her Main street stand to the corner of Main and Spring streets in the building now occupied by Messrs Hart and Smith. She invites friends and customers to call, 498 41.
Ex Governor Taylor delivered his lecture The Paradise of Fools for the second time in Johnson City on a December evening. The pastor Here praises the talk as improved and believes it should demand a larger building for listeners. The piece blends humor and sublime folly in a vivid artistic description of paradise and leaves the audience moved and amused.
Orrice or Lint and Onow Wienngare and Revain Hannwarn. Jouxsos Orry Tess. January 4, 1894. On January 1 1804 four co partner ship formed by C. K. Lide and C. L. Odom as Lide and Odom successors to C K Lide. Mr. Odom will travel for W. W. Woodruff Co. The new firm under OC K Lide. Greetings for the new year Yours Truly True and Onom 4017-3t.
Stop buying cheap tinware and switch to handmade mal lyn tin from Pierce and Myler's. Their riveted sturdy stock is priced the same as the shoddy, with improved quality and durability. Call and inspect their selection before you buy.
The Johnson City Goer editor Cy H Lyle has been appointed postmaster at Johnson City Tennessee. The Greeneville Republican notes Lyle also edits The Coner and comments on his selection, calling him a deserving figure despite Democratic ties. The Tennessee Democrat Tomherwk expresses approval.
A Cleveland, Ohio correspondent requests pamphlets and data on Tennessee resources to form a colony. He seeks several thousand acres of land at low prices with good climate and shipping access for colonization. The Chicago Interurban Immigration Bureau also seeks information for settlers and Nashville may host a land agency to connect Northern buyers.
Dove and Co advertises fresh groceries of all kinds including produce pork and beef at the Blue Flag No 5 Evang Block West Main street Goods bought with gold and exchangeable for gold silver or greenbacks emphasizing value and price in gold backed currency.
R. L. Boyd and Dr. H. Press purchased the Penland stock of general merchandise from Dougherty and Rhea. They plan to operate at the old Penland stand under the firm name Boyd and Preas, continuing the general merchandise business.
A first class second hand organ can be obtained on reasonable terms by applying to Mrs. Moore, 48 tf.
Stockholders met for the annual session at the fourth inst hour. The bank’s business was satisfactory and 11 officers were reelected. Directors were the only changes noted. An advertisement urges buying boots and shoes cheaper at Bee Hive.
At the Firat National Bank annual meeting, stockholders found business to be satisfactory. Officers were re elected. Lyle and Summers announced a new full line of building materials including sash doors piers and nails. The ad touts heat and cheapest market and urges getting prices before purchasing elsewhere, featuring a fine line of four in hand shades and colors at Ware's.
Judge Jne P. Smith of Jonesboro attends Bristol chancery court in Bristol Tennessee as receivers petition to issue 50000 in certificates to improve the Bristol Elizabethton and North Carolina railroad and add rolling stock. Bristol News and Philadelphia Bakery ad copy flank the report.
The Congressional Democratic Convention passed resolutions urging the nation to nominate Senator Voorhees for President in 1806. Also noted are coal supply from L. C. Cartright & Co at Cherry street, and a violent lynching of Alf Davis, a black hog thief, at Lonoke Arkansas.
On day two of the Coroner s inquest into the Louisville and Jeffersonville bridge collapse a large number of witnesses testified asserting faulty material in the fake work. The printed volume of official Hawaiian correspondence had been issued and includes dispatches from Minister Willis and other communications not previously made public.
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