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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1904
Page
3
BP P Baxter offers excellent bargain furniture including Moe refrigerator at $5 flat cost $24 Melodian $15 and more. Pictures cheap Bedsteads Bed Springs Cook Stoves Tableware all at bargains. Visit stock before buying. Prof J B Sheriff and wife visited Jouerboro Wednesday to spend the day with Mr and Mrs F B Pate On.
Voters may cast weekly ballots in the Comnr piano contest with new candidates eligible each week. Each dollar spent at Wm. Silver & Co. or Tix Comer earns 100 votes. Balloting offices are Wm. Silver & Co Main Street and the Coan office. The list includes numerous candidate names such as Flora May Grant Daisy Heneerr and Josmaive Grant among others.
Buck Keys was arrested in Winston-Salem after authorities traced him from Bristol. Ex-chief Campbell and deputies followed the lead to Keys in North Carolina. Keys, wanted for selling whiskey and injuring a deputy, waived examination. bail set at 5000. Webb, injured in the confrontation, faces prosecution.
The Tohoson City Foundry and Machine Company will install a 20 horsepower motor supplied by Watauga Electric Company to run its machine shop replacing the boiler and engine. The motor has been ordered and will be installed at once. Captain Tilson Dies after fatal gunshot secondhand in Knoxville hospital. He was 37, survived by a widow and two children. Interment in Elizabethton with Union veterans honors. Funeral held with Rev. S. H. Johnson officiating. many floral tributes.
A rainy Thursday disrupted planned gatherings from the Soliers home to church societies and a Watauga Avenue presbyterian Sunday school picnic at Unaka Springs. Guests enjoyed a lawn party at W P Harris’ with an educated goose and a gipsy fortune teller drawing attention despite the storm.
Residents Edward Lockett and Herbert Cromley visit Bristol. Delia Bradley’s daughter Resvie dies after a long illness. social and religious appointments noted. An ice cream supper raises about forty dollars for a foot bridge fund. Alaska expedition plans of FU Bradley and T.T. Reeve are announced. Democratic convention in Greeneville picks Edward W. Bachman as attorney general candidate for the district amid proxy debate.
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