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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1896
Page
3
Fragmentary items show shops like Jackson’s and Brunner advertising groceries, millinery, coal, heaters, and stoves. The community features sales cues, weather, personal notices, a fire loss at Elizabethton furniture works, and local arrivals and illnesses.
Editorial leadership shifts at The Stuff with J B Mesnra and 8 1 Brading. Browning retires from the legislature. Obituary notes for Mr J T Yoonm of New York. Election described as peaceful with a strong county turnout and Republican gains. church events in Johnson City and McKendree noted along with a postponed Tennessee State Sunday School convention. A quiet wedding announces R H Doak and Cleo White. Esther Keys and John Key wed by J Mat Martin.
Miss Frank Mitch ell celebrated her birthday Friday night hosted by aunt Mrs E B Wolfe on Spring street. Attendees included numerous Misses Kathlean Simcox Nannie Martin Nena Painter Leola Martin Lizzie Carr Sanna Biddle Carrie Eva Carr Iva Johnson Mamie Grant Belle Miller Ada Wood Gertrude Wailer Mae Seaver Mary Miller Lydia Boucher Beatrice Reeves Gertrude Frank Mitchell and many Messrs L W Wood Frank Taylor Lawrence Snapp Sam O'Dell Chas Kloman Frank Miller Will Johnson Andrew Rieman John Lunk Chas Biddle Sam Miller Robert Martin Will Ponder Will King Chas Cargillo Frank Gildersleeve Rayman Reeves Walter Cargillo Lewis Fuqua and S Wolfe plus Sam Millard Jas Hodges and John Snapp. Refreshments were served.
A Democratic parade in honor of Gov. Bob Taylor featured an elaborate float and over six hundred torches as more than twelve hundred people lined the route. Taylor delivered a warm speech while 15 to 18 young women and other locals posed in the procession. Despite Republican reports of three hundred, the turnout exceeded twelve hundred, with over two thousand present to hear the governor.
Rev Paul of Johnson City preached at Bell's Saturday night. Miss Dollie Bayless visited Jonesboro. Rev George Cox preached his first Bell's sermon Sunday afternoon. Mrs T E Lancaster of Knoxville visited relatives nearby. Miss Noelia Leonard and J Leonard visited Miss Florence and Miss Ida Carr. Miss Virgie Oliver returned from extended visit to Knox ville. Miss Matilda Morris wed James Huffine with Rev George Cox officiating. Rev J B Stone of Hosaville visited Antioch. Rev E P White of Flourville preached funeral of Sister Rosanna Vines at Antioch. Sister Vines remembered as a steadfast member.
The undersigned seek to attract well heeled farmers from the U S northwest and northern Europe burdened with debt or owning too much land. Selling parts of farms could ease burdens and improve the country with capital and settlers. Interested parties should send descriptions and terms to Caupwear DotA in Bristol Tennessee.
Advertises a cure for deafness claiming ear canal infection via mucous membrane inflammation as only curable by constitutional treatment. Offers $1000 for cases of deafness from catarrh not cured by Dr. Ht. Catarrh Cure and urges sending for free circulars from F. J. Bney in Toledo Ohio. Sold by druggists.
Robert O'Connor aged 18 son of a Louisville, Kentucky, man escaped from the Battle Creek sanitarium where he was being treated for insanity and bought a Detroit bound ticket. Jackson officers recaptured him and returned him to Battle Creek. The case notes his alleged insanity caused by cigarette making as a contributing factor.
The University Scientific Magazine by the Engineering Society of the University of Tennessee Knoxville is praised as a good sample of student scholarly work. It includes Hertz experiments on electromagnetic light, titanium distribution in vegetable ash, silver oxidation by lead oxide, a biographical sketch of Dr. Perkins, and notes on zinc deposits and gas engine lighting.
Atwood of St. Pauls A M E church Cambridgeport announces in a letter that he can no longer back McKinley and endorses William Jennings Bryan, praising the "marvelous man" and his appeal to the masses.
The daughter of John M Sullivan living four miles north of Bouton Kentucky was found shot at her father's gate with a bullet wound to the head. The killer is unknown but believed to be a rejected suitor. Bloodhounds are on the trail and a lynching is feared if caught. The victim is about 18 and from a prominent family.
A Cowden man reports his wife, struck by Li Grippe and near consumption, improved after using Dr. King’s New Discovery he bought from McParland Bolton’s drug store. The tale claims rapid recovery after the first dose and urges trial.
Pursuant to a 1895 decree revived in 1896 the court will sell at the courthouse in Johnson City on Tuesday December 8 1896 under the decree terms. The land includes Lots 1 2 8 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 18 14 15 22 23 24 25 26 as on file to satisfy a clerk and master judgment on a purchase money note of 278481 with interest from December 3 1895 and costs unless statutory interest is paid.
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