Johnson City Comet notes local events and notices
The Comet reports candidates for county and state offices, visits by Bristol and Johnson City figures, social events, temperance plans, business openings, a fatality and memorials, railway and store developments, a temperance picnic, and community concerns including water supplies and a college expansion, all reflecting a bustling summer in Johnson City.
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Scott
Union
J. F. Cramley
T. P. Summers
Asheville
A. E. Deaderick
Johnson City
Elizabethton
Bicnic
Bristol
Blountville
Tonesboro
Limestone
Bone
Burson Joy
Baron Comer
Sulling College
Bnck
King College
JW Ets
Adress A.B
Wiliteaker
Saltville
Tilly
Tenn
Chicago
Thilen
Columbia Town
Washington
Bristol IM
Sons of Temperance
Jamison City
Joseph W. Dinwiddie
On, & Worr
Bertha Smithwon
Brixtol
Glade Springs
Salem
Bees and Beekeeping Ad Offer in Tenn County
An 1870s style notice touts Bees and Bees a hive product, offering premiums for honey produced on improved hives at a county fair. Includes a sales pitch for Electric Bitters with claims of health benefits and urging readers to buy from Dr J B Hawk & Rom.
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Rogan Briscoe
Tenneawe
J. T. McTeer& Co
Knoxville
Tenn
Henry Joane
California
Don Taylor
Golden Land
Carter County
Loonie
Ponty
Evot Tortueer
Trajan Beos
Washington County
Averix
Austin Springs
Pia
Dr. J, B, Hawk
Reminiscences and Local Happenings from Piney Finix Et Al
The report recounts a quarrel between W. C. Colbaugh and A. B. Sullars ending with Colbaugh victorious and a property dispute leaving Sullars receiving $1200. It notes a bear sighting near church services, improvements by Jom. King on his property, a sick child of Chas Burr improving, Isaac Miller and wife recovering health, and harvest time with corn and tobacco crops thriving while Colorado bugs threaten potatoes. Jim Taylor of Carters Depot praises Oak Well’s shade and water.
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W. C. Colbaugh
Colhaugh
Ewing Bay
Chatore
King
Chas Burr
Tate
Isaac Miller
Tennessee
Colorado
Public Works Plan for Johnson City Proposes Big City Improvements
Citizens urge broad depot platform and expanded public works. They call for a grind union depot, extended sidewalks, wider avenues, and new alleys from John Hunters residence to Narrow Gange Road. They want streets straightened, better crossings, and new street lighting along rail lines.
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Johnson City
City Hotel
Main Street
John Hunters
Gange Road
Dry
King
Mr. Crowdey
Church Street
Clark
Mr. Nifreth
Ed. Hare
Sina
East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad Time Table
In effect June 1 1864 the timetable details connections across lines and towns. It notes routes and junctions including Cleveland Knoxville Nashville and several southern and western connections. The fragmentary text mentions other line links and station points but is garbled.
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East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
East Tennessee and Western North
Carolina Railroad
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