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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1911
Page
2
Published weekly in Johnson City Tennessee the notice warns that if the parachute does not spread soon the soldiers face a fatal outcome. The fragment cites Poxtomer mailing and a second class matter designation dated July 20, 1951.
The Memphis Scimitar imagines Andrew Jackson’s reaction to Memphis election officers and statewide talks by Crump, Lea, Hooper, and others. It warns against party bosses controlling ballots, urging Tennesseans to govern election machinery themselves and condemning absentee lawmaking.
A midweek party was held on Wednesday July 12 at Lee Harrs home on Watauga avenue with Japanese lanterns and ice cream refreshments. Guests included Eleanor Exum Mayme Bryan Benor Grading Mary Gertrude Lyle Hamma Slaughter Marion Bowman Mary Hart Daisy Harr Elberta Cox Grace Boring Elizabeth Hwsworth Annie Hunt Pauline Crumley Mary Taylor Melvin Taylor Wallie Hall Lucy Lee Mary Dean reas Honnie Butler Mae Butler Pell Vance Burr Harrison Joe Brownlow John Edward Pierce Bruce Preas Chandler Exum Karl Redfoot Byron Rixeman Frank Baxter Gunnar J Teilman Joe Ellsworth George Lee Worley Harr.
Rev. D. M. Phillips of Dayton delivered the dedicatory sermon as repairs costing 1600 were completed at the United Brethren chapel. The first church, twenty years ago, was modernized with furnace, new pews, pulpit alcove and other improvements. Rev. W. Paul and Bishop T. C. Carter attended. Services began Sunday morning with a 2 pm event and a 7 pm sermon by Bishop Carter. A strong musical program accompanied the day’s events.
A lively crowd from the city paraded to Jonesboro on Tuesday evening, visiting the ice cream parlor on Main Street before returning tired but happy. Participants included Mary Dean Preas, Mamie Bryan, Elenor Brading, Elenor Exum, Elizabeth Tellman, and others with chaperones. the event was organized by Earl Miller. An unrelated ad promotes Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for children.
Boston dispatch notes Pitcher Burleson, once with Johnson City, is courted by the St. Louis Cardinals via a 7500 offer to Mobile. His strikeout record in the Southern League is stellar, with 14 in Atlanta and 17 against New Orleans. If the deal goes through, Mobile could lose a second pitcher to the majors this season after Frank Alten to Brooklyn for 5100.
In Greeneville Tennessee July 6 1 1 the Holston Orphanage board reelected Mrs Wiley as manager with enthusiasm and appointed committees to assist her. The board fully exonerates Mrs Wiley from prior accusations praising her economy and efficiency. Public support poured in from across the country as the jury verdict of acquittal was confirmed.
Philadelphia soprano Dorris Williams for several days visits Miss Mary Lyle on Hast Watauga avenue and will stay in the city. She solos at St Luke's Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia and recently delighted a local congregation with Kan sdegger's Rave Me O Goi. A small music circle heard her with the Chopin Male Quartette at Mrs Jon P Lyle's home.
Chicago July 15 Mise Rose Boers known as the typhoid girl is guarded by a city detective on a dairy farm south of Chicago and may be quarantined for life. Health department officials say she is a carrier responsible for three deaths and fifty fever cases in the south division. She has been under quarantine for more than a month.
Nashville July 12 A brief meeting of the state board of trustees for the state reformatory for days was held at 10 o clock Monday morning at the governor's office. No business was done and the board will meet at the same hour Tuesday morning. Composing the board are Chairman James Palmer Secretary John H DeWitt Judge Bennett D Bell W C Rivington and Manville Williams.
Nashville July 18 The state canvassing board adopted a resolution and elected a full three member board to supervise elections. W T Blackard of Jackson succeeds Tigrett D Hancock of Murfreesboro succeeds Young W W Taylor of Nashville succeeds Maynard both parties represented by the appointments.
Mrs Lea, wife of Senator Lea, arrived in Denver on Friday night and has been steadily improving since. Doctors say her condition remains serious but better, with prospects of riding out within ten days. Cool, cloudy, showery weather aids her recovery as Senator Lea expresses relief at her wife’s improvement.
Mrs. Atinie E. Dinkle of Jolson City Tenn testifies that Dean's Kidney Pills cured her persistent backaches and kidney issues after trying other remedies. She notes dizziness headaches and nervousness subsided and permanent improvement followed a short course of the pills bought from Whitehouse Drug Co Buffalo NY.
A Sunday morning service at 10 30 am July 23 features Rev L B Stivers of First Baptist Church and renowned musician Prof Frederic Martin of New York City with soprano Miss Rhea Hunter and organist Miss Mary Lyle. Hunter has studied under Martin this season and Lyle is well known locally, promising a rare musical opportunity for Johnson City residents.
The Court House committee met at the Jonesboro courthouse with Hon E B Hensley presiding. Members from districts answered roll call, most absent, fourteen present. A. L Shipley elected secretary. A sub committee of three architects was appointed to inspect the Jonesboro court house and report separately. Reports due September first and October term presentation planned.
A Knoxville judge and county clerk are urged to name a city architect from Knoxville as part of a plan to select a pod architect. Chancellor Haynes and Mayor Gummon of Bristol would name one from their city, with another architect chosen from the county. Shipley believes this method will yield good honest men.
County Board of Education elected a large slate of teachers for multiple schools including Villadolpha J M Weight Suster Copp Grace Cloyd and Carmel L Bailey Liberty Tul Garland Phente Ruble Claston W M Painter Hannah Anderson Welcome ars Hall Huehwawns Mae Northington Mayburry J G Bailey Cherokees Sem Mary Lilian Carson Embreeville Edna Butler New Era Mary Shields Mitsu and many others with contracts to be signed in Jonesboro on Saturday July 28 Schools will open September 18 with unfilled positions after July 25.
The Mooney School for Boys in Harriman Tennessee stands among the oldest best known in the south. It marks twenty-five years of operation and will begin its twenty-sixth year on September first with principal W D Mooney leading the school.
A fragment advertising a boys program offers each boy who sells to ten friends a standard five cent article weekly this summer with a regular income. It urges making a list of ten names and addresses and bringing it with a parent, at 219 Main Street Johnson City Tennessee.
One of the South’s best known figures in education and athletics, author of Mooney’s Latin Grammar, led the Mooney School for decades and declined the Tennessee Military Institute headmastership at Sweetwater to remain at his current location. Bishops from the Methodist and Episcopal churches praise the Mooney school as a premier southern institution.
A humorous cartoon caption contrasts Kipling paid a dollar a word with a poet bargaining for short verse. The editor offers a dollar for four lines, prompting the poet to return with a concise verse that ends with the editor conceding, You win.
Ottawa reports the cabinet commuted the death sentence of Angelino Neapolitano, an Italian woman, for the murder of her husband at Sault Ste Marie. She claimed he forced her toward an immoral life for his financial gain, but she was convicted and sentenced to hang on August 8, now reduced to life imprisonment.
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