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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1899
Page
3
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From Watauga Tennessee dated November 7 1809 reports visits to Union Temple for United Brethren conference with Rev W E Morrell and J Bray traveling by train to Greene county. Notables J H Campbell and Dana Harman pass through en route to Mountain City while W T Johnson visits his elderly mother in Elizabethton. Dr Range selling stock of Dr A L Campbell Co under Deputy Sheriff C M Hinkle with M S Bennett building a tenant house on Fourth Avenue. Watauga Academy reports eighty scholars with Miss Jennie Massengill teaching. Miss Ethel Reese and Mrs E S Albertson dine with Mrs N J Johnson. Rev D D Baldwin expected to preach next Sunday.
A mixed page item section shows recruitment notices from The Bell Company offering agent positions with weekly pay and no experience required, plus local manager opportunities in various towns. It also reports the engagement and upcoming marriage of J. H. Burrow to Miss Amanda Thomas, noting family ties to local pastors.
Notice states election on November 3 1900 in Johnson City for five aldermen and a $6000 courthouse bond. Also mentions potential vote on a Public and Free Library if petition requirements met. Indicates authority under acts and dates.
A letter to the county superintendent urges November observance of Arbor Day in all Tennessee public schools. The author suggests Friday November 17 as the plant trees day, noting it will enhance school surroundings and reflect refinement. Poultry promoter TH O Austin reports strong Georgia state fair poultry, praising Tennessee progress in poultry and noting Jolivon City as a poultry center with orders from Central America and across the U.S.
The article notes 66 students enrolled with strong attendance. It lists many students who never miss a day including Katia Hammit John Philipps Will Hammit Daisy Leach Bonnie Leach Ida Philipps and others. It records a first month ending November and a teachers debate on co education with a public debate planned. It mentions the Teachers Institute to be held at Erwin November 10 and notes a political endorsement for James Armitage for Rail Road Commissioner from the Chattanonira News.
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