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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1911
Page
2
A Newcastle Pennsylvania youth, after discovering a Missouri girl's name on an egg, has married her. The odd match follows the egg discovery with hopes that the union proves as fortunate as the omen.
Commercial Appeal notes a prolonged struggle over election commissioners as Dibrell and Taylor act on vacant offices until the next legislative session. It traces 1909 acts, vetoes, court rulings, and the question of valid selection by the legislature versus executive appointments, with outcomes uncertain and ongoing factional power plays.
The Boring lodge 1 O. C. F. at Boring will host a July 29 celebration with a welcome by Dr. D. H. Youkley and a response by Prof. James P. Gray of Gray. Hon. J. Rh. Gardner and Rev. J. C. Hawk will also speak. Singing contests, a chorus, a cake walk, and dinner are planned.
Wataugas Tenn July 2 locals and visitors noted. Names include W D Johnson Carsicana Texas and Miss Callie Blair London visiting Mrs Mathie B St John and James T St John. James Hendrix Knoxville seen with family. Emma Hendrix and kin plan visit to Judson North Carolina. Threshers race to thresh wheat in favorable weather.
Edwin Madden, former third assistant postmaster general, accused former Postmaster General Cortelyou of crimes as he testified before the House committee on expenditures in the postoffice department. Madden said Cortelyou wrote a villainous letter and carried official correspondence with the Lewis Publishing Company of St. Louis to defend himself. He is representing Lewis interests before the committee.
Findlay Ohio residents report a rare July snowfall with genuine snow likely driven by heavy air. In Bay City Michigan a brief snow flurry occurred five miles southeast of town, marking the only snow recorded in July in that area.
Dallas reports show anti prohibitionists winning the statewide vote by a narrow margin with counts from 6000 to 7000 in favor. A state wide campaign meeting in Fort Worth may decide if a legal challenge will follow. No new submission election can occur before the next legislative session in January. Dallas County surprised by going wet by about 200 votes.
Bristol reports Washington Americans offered 1500 for center fielder Cochrane. Bristol wired holding at 2000. Cochrane, Clemson alumnus, has seven homers this season in Knoxville Morristown and Bristol. He is the team’s heaviest hitter with sensational fielding. Several major leagues seek him. price to release is 5000.
In Columbus Ohio Gov Harmon and Gov Woodrow Wilson will not meet at the Jefferson club picnic on August 1. Harmon returns from Michigan August 1 for a week and plans stops in Cincinnati before Charlevoix, not expected to attend. Woodrow Wilson’s cousin Guy H Woodrow and Dr Henry W Miller went to Trenton to urge a speech in Columbus but he said he could not come to the barbecue.
Evansville Ind July 24 John Steller a 67 year old man stated in his dying remarks that no women should attend his funeral He blamed his wife for deserting him in Louisville and induced him to deed half his property He willed all his estate including watches and savings to Joe Hans a grocer who befriended him in his loneliness The funeral will be held tomorrow
Nashville July 25 The Hon Edmund Cooper secretary of President Andrew Johnson is dead at age 90 at his Shelbyville home. He was half-brother of Col Duncan B Cooper of the Carmack Cooper case and brother of former New York Chief Justice William Cooper and former U S Senator Henry Cooper of Tennessee.
Nashville July 25 Contracts totaling 60000 for printing machinery and composing room gear for the Democrat the new Nashville morning paper have been signed. Equipment will be shipped so the first issue appears not later than September 15. Staff assembling includes editorial local business and state news expertise.
A fragmentary plea urges boys at Treasure City to come early with cash and help fund a road sale scheme. It promises easy money and encourages participation for those who want to earn.
The Bandserme project will start at an early date with construction on a four story building. In the interim the Democrat will be issued from a temporary location, running on its own machinery.
A committee decided to proceed at once to rebuild the dormitory at Washington College that was recently burned. The work will not affect the ongoing divorce suit between Washington and Tusculum colleges.
In Stiaron Pennsylvania on July 2 a Justice of the Peace, Burnside, after heated testimony from two neighbors over hen ownership, released the bird midway between the houses. The hen escaped through a fence hole into Mary Romantek’s yard as spectators watched. Justice Burnside charged Micha Fisher with the case.
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