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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1914
Page
5
An advertisement from Fountain Square announces a shoe repair shop at the second door from the corner of Railroad and Market streets offering the same work as before. The note guarantees satisfaction and asks patrons to remember the location near the Dixie Theatre and promises best materials and hand sewing of half sol es as a specialty.
Major Henry Fonde general agent for the Southern railway headquartered in Knoxville is seriously ill with pneumonia at his Temple avenue home. His brother Dr George H Fonde of Mobile is at his bedside. Also noted are political announcements from Nashville about William P Cooper for Speaker and L D Hill for state comptroller with J D Green named for chief clerk.
Miss Nell Anderson hosts Iber cousin Mrs Taylor Wolfe in Bristol. Mrs David Soneker visits Bristol from Bristol. Abram and Bradley Fulkerson visit Johnson City with Col Sam Y Fulker son family. C T Cadieu moves Quality Shoe Repair to Fountain Square near Dixie Theatre. Rosa Hughes and Clyde Sutherland visit Johnson City. Mr and Mrs J C Mumpower called to Columbia S C due to granddaughter Edith Long illness. Dr George Green and Geo T Wofford return from Jackson Tenn where they represented Central Baptist church at Southern Baptist convention. Mrs W Hagan of Nashville to organize a Johnson City W C T U Friday at 2:30 pm in Munsey Memorial Methodist church. Johnson City Plumbing Co opens in O Donnell store room on Spring St led by Moxley. Monday Club endorses Bills for girls reform school and women on Tennessee school boards. Mrs Oliva Thurman to visit Saltville and West trip with Miss Emily Alison, leaving Dec 1 for Los Angeles and the southwest. Bristol Courier.
The Atlanta Journal urges building now with Keith ́s guidance. A $5,000 house costs $6,000 in a year. 7 percent money now beats higher future rates. Builders gain material savings and skilled labor, boosting circulation and helping idle workers.
Governor Ben W. Hooper designates Thursday November 26, 1914 as a day of prayer thanksgiving and charity in Tennessee. The order cites divine blessings on the people and national peace, with the proclamation dated November 16, 1914 and affixed with the state seal.
Rev J L Shinn, pastor of the Baptist church in Jonesboro, will conduct a week long revival at Washington College station starting Monday. Mary Gresham, recently quarantined for diphtheria, has been released and returned to her schoolroom duties. Local students Blanche Ferguson and Cornelia Keks spent Sunday with family in Sulphur Springs.
Mr. J. F. Jett of Carrollton Kentucky and James M. Gaunt have acquired a half interest in the Hice Manufacturing woodworking plant in the city and are overseeing extensive additions. A motor trip with a party including A. B. Crouch and Cy H. Lyle took them from Blountville to Kingsport, with lunch at Old Min and views from Chestnut Ridge.
Newport Tenn November fifteenth Hon W J McSween a leading East Tennessee attorney died tonight at his home aged sixty six He was a prominent Newport bar member and active in politics survived by his widow and three daughters born in this region he once served in the legislature and was a trusted figure in Cocke and Sevier counties
Lutz Hall of Bluff City hunting with Ttonald Hall Robert Bachman and Earl Hunter Monday. Hall climbed a fence with his gun cocked and fired causing him to fall striking his head on a rock. Injuries described as very dangerous though expected to recover.
A large crowd attended Tuesday performances of The Winning of Barbara Worth at Memorial Hall presented by the Barbara Worth company. Harold Bell Wright’s story was staged by James W. Castle and well received despite negative previews. Knoxville papers note violent sentiment content but report no direct links to the local event. Mr. and Mrs. Will Boring of Swain County, NC traveled on foot to Knoxville, illustrating the era’s travel to cultural events.
Involving a missing family of three from Swain County who reached Knoxville penniless last night as authorities recovered one of the three unidentified bodies identified by Mrs. Boring as her 9-year-old brother. Tomorrow exhumations will confirm the others. Separately near Poplar North Carolina Zack Bennett killed Mat Gouge 65 and son Will Gouge and wounded Garrett Gouge after an ambush on the C C and O railway amid a family feud claim.
A vivid reminiscence of Thanksgiving rituals centers on a yearly gathering at a relative’s home. Families recount mercies of the year, share apple strings cider and popcorn, and recite a sobering pledge to remember forefathers and the founding of the nation. The piece highlights Dickenson McCain and Brannon families and a stable label near Yard at Dickenson and McChinn Stables.
A reflective poem about imagining swapping roles with a mother and daughter. The speaker muses on sharing chores and treats, then concludes it is better to remain herself while honoring her mother’s role, ending with the sense of being "mother dear" in spirit.
Local friends say Governor Ben W. Hooper will move to Knoxville after leaving office and make the city his home, instead of Newport. They also suggest he may enter the congressional race two years hence, though Hooper has issued no statements.
Bristol Tennessee reports a bright hunting season with an abundance of quail as the open season begins. Hunters will roam fields within fifty miles this week as dogs and guns prepare for the outing.
Old St. Nick nears his joyride as shoppers eye chimneys and adults feel the Christmas chill. The Comet urges early buying with Johnson City merchants offering best attention and low prices in ads from now till Christmas. Shop early, shop in Johnson City, and tell merchants you read The Comet.
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