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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1899
Page
3
A sprawling column of local items notes editor Tutt W. 2 at Bell Bristol visits, family movements, trips to Philadelphia and Bristol, and a string of social calls. It reports typhoid fever cases, a drowning at Austin’s Springs, and civic events including an Odd Fellows picnic. Also covers railway progress, business moves, and church events with brief mentions of residents and guests.
Athenian Quartette of Maryville College entertained a select audience at Jobe's Opera House last Monday. The column also advertises a seven-room house for sale at Myrtle Avenue with garden and barn for 1150 dollars, half cash. Reports recount a river gorge excursion with lunch and snapshots, plus social events hosted by Miss Lannie Riddle and Miss Belle Miller with Miss Wallis from Bristol winning a prize. Notes on community events reference Fourth of July festivities, a fatal death of Bessie Poole Mitchell, funeral at Riverside Cemetery, and local remarks on city jail conditions, with Mrs. Fulton’s health improving and Mrs. Palton visiting from Virginia.
The Bristol News reports general registration begins on the second Monday in August and lasts ten days, with ten days’ advance notice required. Pettibone named special attorney to prosecute depreciation of western public lands, earning about 2500 dollars annually. Local industry expands as Uptegrove & Bro add machinery. several accidents and social events noted, including a boy injured by a saw, a brakeman hurt, and community picnics and sermons at local churches.
Mrs Bessie Poole Mitchell died Thursday morning June 20 after a short violent illness in Agheville NC. She had left the marriage altar eighteen months earlier as the wife of Frank Clifton Mitchell. Surrounded by home and friends, she faced her untimely death with a devoted husband by her side. The community mourns the loss of a bright, loving life.
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