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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1904
Page
3
A long string of largely unknown names and fragments from an OCR page appears. The text compiles numerous personal names, with scattered surnames and middle initials, but contains many garbled spellings and nonstandard punctuation, offering little discernible event or context.
Local notes mention visits, moves, and travel. Hugh Kirkpatrick went to Bristol. Jere Moore returned from St Louis trip. Robt Barrow on Bristol legal business. Mr and Mrs Sells visited Bristol relatives. Watauga and West Main streets feature new tenants and construction. W. Houts builds fence. Misses St. John and Taylor connected to Bristol. Pearce family moved to Fairview area. J K Elleworth at St. Louis then West in Erwin. Wampler recovering to resume work. Various mentions of St Louis trips, meat market opening, and entertainment by Barlow and Wilson. Rhodes scholarships preparations noted by Dr. Brown Ayres with exams set mid January.
Water rents are due by the 15th to avoid water shut off. Rogans Range in Johnson City Tenn is dissolved with Ed Rowan taking charge and collecting debts. Sunday Afternoon Lecture by A A Taylor at Watauga Point Methodist church next Sunday October 16 with special trains from Johnson City and Elizabethton at one fare round trip.
Brief notes describe Dr. Pakrnoy’s Teeth ing Syrup for teething troubles, a Washington visitor passing through Johnson City, guests at Bootawin, and a diverse Punch line bill. It covers a democrat mass meeting at Jobe’s Opera House, ticket sales in Johnson City and Elizabethton, and proceeds for a church. Proclaims a barber shop sale and a call for mayoral candidates, with a hint of local trading boosts and a medical remedy for seasickness and diarrhea.
The Soldiers Home project on Memorial Hall is awarded to Ankefor and Banven. The new opera house will seat 1200, cost $60,000, with ground broken Wednesday and rapid completion planned. The Home will guarantee road shows, funded by the Post Fund and canteen profits, keeping prices low for citizens.
Following the Holston conference close, Bishop Warren announces district by district assignments. Hazen Oake presiding elder, Bloomingdale A G Ketron, Bauer A E Brown, Chuckey City W Bandy, Elizabethton W Brackney, Pull Branch A Ketron, Johnson City H J Vanfossen, Johnson City Circuit Jas Osburn, Greeneville L Caldwall, Arooneville Circuit A B McKenzie, Jonesboro Z M Matnoy, Mountain City T D Bowe, Oakland D B Cox, Parrottevile T F M Praker.
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