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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1885
Page
3
Local page notes subscriptions and medical fees, a school gathering in Blawntville Tennessee on August 10 1885 with educators and state officials. It also lists a flood of brief items: visits, shop advertisements, tobacco sales, a infant death, a chartered train excursion, musical hires, local trades, and farm notices with names such as Lide Smith W.G. Mathes Coffman Seaver and Rev W. M. Christian among others.
The annual meeting of the Deciples of Christ in East Tennessee and West Virginia will convene in Johnson City on Friday before the 4th Sunday in August 1885 and continue through that Sunday. Brethren R. L. Cave of Nashville J. D. Dillard Wytheville Ashly Johnson Knoxville and possibly other ministers may attend. The public is invited.
A Knoxville Tribune correspondent reports Johnson City’s growth via the Cranberry mine project led by Col. Thomas S. Matson and associates. The rail route, tanneries, iron works, and future furnace sites spur a new era, with Matson’s “gorge” road hailed as the key to prosperity and extended connections to Wise and Ohio River regions.
Holston Baptist Association plans its centennial gathering with Cherokee church near Jonesboro Tennessee on Thursday August 14 41885. Cherokee founded in 1783, a new spacious church has been built this past year. Expect large delegation with railroad access via Jonesboro and excursion rates four cents per mile one way, return by the 17th. BR H Desaas, Clerk.
Two graduates, Janet and Minnie, debate correct spellings in a playful exchange about words like solitude Sylvan mellifluous and beauteous. They tease each other over letters and pronunciations while preparing a note to Prim Girl Graduate. The dialogue captures light schoolroom humor and friendship.
A scattered 19th century notice sheet reports debts owed to Souter farm and others, conductor fare calls on East Tennessee and Western North Carolina rail line, and a court sale notice in Washington County Tennessee. It also advertises Shilohs Cure and Johnson health products, a change in business partners, and requests to settle debts with Mothier and Jacobs.
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