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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1894
Page
3
In a note from THE COMET, correspondents are urged to sign their communications for internal faith, with true names not published if enclosed as an assurance. The item emphasizes discretion and responsibility in contributions while preserving reader trust and editorial standards.
The column lists numerous brief notices of local residents: A B Gump from Bristol. Rev Hyder Crouch’s death. Hon A H Pettibone at a county event. Minnie Patton visiting relatives at Telford. W P Brownlow from Jonesboro. Maj Thuger from the Transersre at city. Mrs Stor and son Brien visiting. Taylor Bros brickwork completed on Spring Street. various people returning from visits to Mountville, Texaa, and Nashville. local deaths of John Hilbert and Will F Broyles. social event by Episcopal Mission. J J Adams family returning from Dallas. Miss Noralie Brown to McMinnville. R Hurlbut visiting and considering a cordsaw business. and brief notes on law and ads.
John Ford, a West Side resident and Civil War veteran with a pension, appeared to die after a sudden trance at about one o clock Sunday. He revived two hours later and described visions of the afterlife. doctors and friends say a twenty three year extension of life was granted by a higher power to settle pension matters.
An advertising blurb promotes a quit-tobacco book Notobes by J. Bl, Preas offered at local stores and by mail from Sterling Kemedy Co. Readers in Indians Mineral Springs, Ind. are told the cost is trifling with no risk to quitters. Also notes the Johnson City excursion plans with a three band, a trip to Chi round trip priced sixty five ule, leaving Market at 7 a.m.
Fragmented local item notes births deaths and marriages among Embreville residents. Mentions Mrs Dora Bell Crouch Fitzsimmons’s death in Elizabethhton and funeral plans, Col Prescott and London visitors aiding the furnace company, and various community small events.
A rural letter notes weekly tax visits and regular Sabbath services at Bell's schoolhouse and Antioch Baptist church with young people taking the lead. It mentions Rev. Wilcox preaching in Buffalo, visits by Edmund Miller and Miss Lyte, and local residents recovering from illness and rough events. The writer asks for future space to write again.
In Mountain City a moonshine operation was disrupted when officers stormed a house where a large supply was stored. Nine five gallon kegs remained after gunpowder and liquor were hid and the robbers fled into darkness. Deputy Taylor and local officers recovered the still and wagon, while noted moonshiner J Hayes faced renewed legal troubles after prior clashes with authorities.
The item extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a blood purifier and tonic for digestion and liver vigor. It also mentions a temperance concert by the American Temperance University quartet at a Baptist Church, with talks by Dr J F Spence and Prof John A Hicks, plus local notices of picnics and community events in Johnson City and Greeneville.
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