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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1908
Page
2
A Tennessee clipping recounts Taft’s limited speaking chances in doubtful states and notes a booster edition of a local paper. It mentions editorials by Carmack, Gov. Patterson’s stand against night riders, W R Reeves’ campaign visit, Taft’s ten minute speech in Johnson City, and a Ven dome Theater address by E W Carmack with dated references.
Sullins College girls under Mrs Baskerville and faculty spent Thursday at the Soldiers Home. They were entertained by the urbane governor and other officers in charge at the home.
A son named Briscoe Burrow is born to Mr. Kemp Hyatt and Mrs. Hyatt of Jonesville Virginia. The birth occurred at the home of Mrs Hyatt's parents Mr and Mrs Robert Burrow on Holston Heights Grey Stone Bristol on Wednesday October 1st.
The new De Mille play Classmates stars Norman Hackett at Memorial Hall this Saturday October 24. In a jungle scene Duncan Irving pursues Bert Stafford through the Amazon as a tense struggle over a dying man and a final knife fight ends with a woman in the audience fainting after a personal tragedy echoes through the theatre.
WM. L. MORGAN writes from Fall Branch Tenn describing thirteen orphans cared for in Limestone and distributed to East Tennessee institutions. He thanks friends in Johnson City and C. C. OT BR for aid and asks for quilts blankets shoes and clothing for El Kanan Orphanage Marion North Carolina and Elhanan. He notes four children in Lincoln Memorial Hospital Knoxville with weekly expenses and appeals merchants for Red Band Pure Scotch Snuff.
Bristol October 18 W H Oliver resigned as treasurer of the Virginia Iron Coal and Coke Company after offices moved to Roanoke Va John W Cure assistant general manager was elected treasurer He will relocate his family to Roanoke while Oliver remains treasurer of the Virginia and Southwestern railway.
A private 6 o'clock wedding was held at the Tucker home on Gay Street with Miss Gertrude Tucker becoming Mrs. R M Barry of Unicoi. Officiating was Rev. John A Davis of the Baptist church. The bride, Erwin's popular young lady, wed a prominent Unicoi businessman.
Hyder Bart Barr of Bristol, a pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics, returns home to Bristol to visit his parents before resuming studies at Davidson College. He has signed with the Athletics for next year and played in many key games this season, then was sold to the Athletics by the South Atlantic League.
Nashville American lauds Gov. Patterson as a man of deep convictions and rare courage who seeks peace over controversy. The piece notes his forgiveness of enemies, generosity, and refusal to be swayed by politics, praising his reign and urging a successor of similar breadth.
An old advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures constitutional catarrh by acting on blood and mucous membranes. It offers a $100 reward for any failure to cure, asserts nationwide availability through F. J. Cusmy & Co., and mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Thomas J. Deane formerly of this city and now resident of Rome Georgia has been awarded a 250000 contract to build a portion of the Carolina Clinchfield and Ohio railroad near Spartanburg South Carolina. He will construct about three and a half miles with bridges grading outfits and employ hundreds of workers. Work starts next week and headquarters remain in Rome with supplies sent from there.
Voters are notified an election will be held on November 8 1908 at all regular voting places in Washington County for presidential electors congressmen governor and state officials. Named officers and district election judges clerks are listed by district with opening hours from 9 am to 4 pm. This Sept. 30 1908.
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