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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1900
Page
3
Fragmented random notices from Johnson City area papers include shop promotions at Jacksons and Hol Webb Co, local births marriages and visits, plus political letters about school board nominees. Mentions of groceries, seeds, gasoline, medicines, and personal health ads fill the page with many names and places.
W T Plummoer, traveling salesman for the Lynch Hong Mow company, visited his father Rev Ferguson of the O B church and preached Sunday at 11. No ice cream supper at the Watauga SOMBMY next Saturday May 26 hosted by the Odd Fellows. Miss Mabel Johnson of Elizabethton visits cousin Miss Ethel Noose. Messages note visitors from Johnson City and Knoxville.
W. R. Keys of Mountain City is among inspectors assigned to Havana. Fire destroyed Doe River Woolen Mills in Elizabethton with partial salvage and estimated losses. Charity strawberry supper planned by First Methodist Church ladies. Obituary recalls long service by Mrs. Tr. Cramley with funeral at M C Church South. Local reports cover gatherings, new homes, lime kilns, and business moves in the region.
A jumbled collection reports various local items: a demo convention call for Washington County for sheriff and trustee nominations, a chancery suit over about 310000 and political repercussions, corporate officer re-elections at Virginia Coal and Coke with Carter and Shichin in leadership, Cranberry mining operations under Col Firmstone with 300 miners and a blast furnace, and rail line leadership changes including James E Lawton replacing Col Nimson, plus notes on local families and business activity in Johnson City and Knoxville.
Our Mr Bruner will leave for New York Saturday to buy the second stock of Summer woods. On his return we will show you many nice things for the warm days of June. Remember our stock is all new now and though some lines are broken we intend to repay you with this trade which has sent us back to New York for the second stock.
Johnson City shoppers see Hanon & Sons, Geo E Keith, and Heywood Shoe lines with prices 2.00 to 5.50 as a local retailer markets children and men’s footwear under a guarantee. The piece also lists a long county election slate with dozens of judges and clerks for many districts and polling sites including Oak Dollath, Seminary, Princeton, and Washington College with Prof W Murray as superintendent.
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