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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1912
Page
3
Morristown visitors and residents are listed with relatives and friends across Knoxville Wytheville Jellico and Nashville. Notable names include J A Grahl J A Cargile M R Slack and Miss Margret Jones as well as university travel and social gatherings at homes and churches. Teething syrup advertisement closes the column.
Monday session at 2 o'clock began at State Normal with Prof. W. J. Bowder presiding. Speakers included R A Lankford of Jonesboro High School Rev John Ritter of Washington College student body, F C Dougherty of Johnson County, M Woodward of Jefferson County, S G Berkey of Sullivan board. Principal address by Virginia Moore state organizer of improvement leagues and girls tomato clubs.
Mrs J A Muse travels to Johnson City to visit her son John A Muse and daughter in law Mrs John Bradshaw of Ann Arbor Michigan. They will be joined by Mr Bradshaw from Ann Arbor to accompany Mrs Bradshaw to Ashville North Carolina for the summer months.
About 100 Tennesseans, including delegates and alternates, passed through Johnson City en route to Baltimore. The party traveled in luxury Pullman cars with Tennessee streamers along the coaches, declaring the delegation united after factional tensions. HL Lyle and Join 1. Cox boarded the train here.
Bristol signs pitcher Bremerhoff formerly with Johnson City after his release last week. He will likely pitch for Bristol in Knoxville games later this week as the club had been watching him since the season opened.
Knoxville dispatch states Monroe Monday, retiring Tennessee Republican, claims to be the only Roosevelt member to submit a motion at Chicago that carried. The motion seating the Sam R. Sells delegation over Dr. D Massey’s First district slate supported Taft, with Monday voting in favor.
Mr. Monday arrived in Knoxville after filing objections to about 200 contests and Roosevelt forces in more than sixty. He condemns the steamroller tactics of the national committee and predicts harm to the party. He denounces recognizing the Sella delegation to legitimize the First district faction amid jubilant adherents.
Bristol June 24 The Carolina Clinchfield railway extension from Danie Virginia through Russell and Dickenson counties to Elkhorn City Kentucky is rushed to completion. Pinas hart & Dennis supervise a forty two mile project with sub contracts and heavy prep work. Completion is targeted for January 1914 and the line promises to unlock rich coal deposits and timber in a long railroadless region.
The document lists capital paid in 100000.00 and deposits 915003.11. It shows surplus and profits 63187.31 and circulation 98300.00 with Hills Payabla 0.000.00.
The boards of election in Washington County Tennessee announce supplemental registration for the 9th and 11th civil districts. Registration will be on July 9, 10, and 11 for residents who have not registered or recently moved, and for those who turned 21 since the last election or will by August 1, 2012. Precinct sites include the court house, the White Elephant Building, and Jonesboro location.
In Tennessee the first senatorial district mass meeting shows Senator Edward B. Butler of Mountain City confident of renomination as Republican candidate. Delegates from Johnson Carter Washington Greene and Unicoi counties ready to back him. A factional convention for Washington Greene and Unicoi is planned. Butler tours Bristol expressing pleasure with district unity and concern over Chicago convention.
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