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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1887
Page
3
Bristol readies electric lights while Knoxville builds the Grand hotel. Local notices mention hootlas, moving residents, new ads, and planned street extensions. Notables like W H Henry and J W Ball visit, with typhoid recovery, farm plans, and Prohibition votes in Atlanta cited. Community chatter notes sales by Kirkpatrick Co. and Gump & Co. offerings.
A collage of local ads and notices outlines merchants in Bristol and surrounding towns selling hardware, coal scuttles, nails, paints, sewing machines, linseed oil, and furniture. It notes a rail line halt, plans for a third passenger train, real estate changes, building reports, and a curious discovery of a human skeleton with an ancient deer horn amid limestone rock.
A garbled local page reports G I Side and Go locating in Johnson City, a December lecture for the Y M C A likely in Jolson City, and the infant death of the Miller child. It notes Capt Harris buying Main Street property to house a First National Bank, plus a Knoxville homicide where Burn Flenniken killed John Allen. A graphic misprint defense and ads for Hart’s remedies appear amid a fatal train accident near Midway where Sam Ashby was killed by a caboose on the tracks.
Advertisement notes ready mixed paints priced at one dollar per gallon weight measure, offered by K. hide & Gn.
Johnson City seeks a capable architect as locals face frequent need to source plans and supervision locally. The town reports more building last year than similar towns in Tennessee and expects to surpass that record. Comer firm invites responsible parties to correspond about locating and purchasing construction supplies at low prices. Arthur Love Comedy Company performs next Thursday at Jobe's Opera House with George Burtch. due to a billing error only one show, so advance seat reservations are advised. FL Crumley & Co offers popular pricing and ticket details.
A mixed town page notes Patton's antics over the boy question, Gritman to open November 15 with holiday stock of watches clocks and jewelry. Reports mention Carter’s road, Wilder and Rosser comments to Springfield businessmen, and a college lecture on Getting Married. Also covered are organist Pearl Barnes resignation, lumber shipments, a Knox county shooting case, Willow ware storefronts, brick work on Bowman's store, a robbed traveler, new railroad bridges, local foundry castings, and a Chattanooga fire injuring printer F N Haines. A Comet reporter may feature a wife allowance joke, and Annie Deaderick dies in Jonesboro from clothes catching fire.
By order of sale from the Circuit Court of Washington County Tennessee an auction will be held Saturday December 17 1887 at the Jonesboro Court House for cash to liquidate a Stein Marshall judgment against Ella H Simpson and S T Booker. The property lies in Suh Civil District adjoining Jas H Dosser E G McClure Larkin Ford Nick Reed and others and consists of 350 acres owned by Adaline Simpson at her death. Proceeds cover debt 234 and cost 365 with 20 credit, plus all suit costs notices and sale expenses. Sheriff Gro W Witert. November 8 1887.
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