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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1912
Page
3
Dyer travels to Clarksville for the Grand Lodge of the IOOF in session Tuesday through Thursday to dedicate the Orphans Home erected by the Old Fellows of Tennessee. Dyer will deliver the dedicatory address during the ceremonies.
Wants notice offering modern conveniences for rent at 5 percent weekly rate. Apply to Mrs Agnes Guthrie 307 South Avenue. Also listing for a first class boilermaker with some blacksmithing skills at Carolina Machinery Company Asheville NC.
An ad touts Zemo as a clean soothing wash for itching skin and scalp eruptions. It claims immediate relief from itching burning and irritation and offers a money back guarantee if unsatisfied after the first bottle. Sold by City Drug Store in Johnson City.
The Columbus Powell school mothers' association met Tuesday with Mrs J A Denton presiding. They organized the year’s work focusing on seating the building with single seat desks and noted prior efforts including papering rooms installing drinking fountains and walks.
Mrs B Smith visited J W Houston and family last week. Worley Hurt goes to Middlesboro for business. Mrs George K and Allen Hintbert return from New York. A Belmont Collette returns from Tusculum. Mr and Mrs B D Akard go to Umatilla Florida for winter. Mrs Bert Ponder returns from New York trip. Miss Dell Crouch resumes teaching in city schools. Mrs Luna Min of Sullinx college visits Bundey with Missable. Mr and Mrs Frank Grosegrose visit relatives in Tom’s Creek. Mrs Luther Heeler visits Jefferson City parents. Mrs Walter Hunter and Mrs J M Ainge back from Bristol visit. Miss Katherine Dickinson visits Mr FR Jennings at Castlewood. Y Deaderick returns from visit to her mother in Bristol. Mr and Mrs C S Curtis and Hazel return from Hampton visit. Victor Kent and daughter Margaret back from Bristol relatives. Mrs D M Setzer leaves for Lynchburg to visit daughter. Misses Julia Southern and Ana Templin visit Laura White in Boone. Eva Crouch of Boone’s Creek attends state B Y P A meeting in Chattanooga. Mr and Mrs C B Hannah return to San Jose California after months here. Mrs James A Martin and Martha Allen Martin return from Chattanooga. Miss Fawn Bright, a normal student, spends Sunday at home near Knoxville with guest Miss Louise Cooper. Mrs J R Brown and daughter Mrs J Sloat with children visit G A Barlow family in Russellville. Mr J M Barker returns to Bristol after visiting daughter during infant death last week.
Spartanburg G G Get 5 Mark W Potter president of the Carolina Clinchfield and Ohio railroad tours the Clinchfield site. He cites record traffic in August and September and notes plans to double cement and brick plant capacity at Kingsport. Elkhorn extension progress is solid but Sanny Ridge tunnel entrance delays push back completion by about one month. Potter predicts Woodrow Wilson will be next president.
Saturday drew over 460 Democrats to welcome Guy McMillin in Johnson City. A lengthy reception followed at Pardue Hotel and Hippodrome speeches praised McMillin, attacked Gov. Hooper, and urged support for Wilkey and Matha. The tone favored temperance reform and criticized rival policies amid a broader Tennessee political clash. Local officials and Confederate veterans attended, with strong party unity and animated audience reactions throughout the event. A Chamberlain cough remedy ad concludes the text.
Prolong life by keeping the body open and clean from impurities. Constipation and liver troubles threaten health, and Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is advertised as a guaranteed cure. Send your address for a free sample bottle to Pepsin Syrup Co., 119 Caldwell Bridge, Monticello, MI. Available at sec and $1 a bottle.
Judge Joseph E. Jones withdraws from the Senate race, leaving Judge McAlister and Gov. Patterson as contenders. He claims the liquor plank was used to deter rivals and accuses political bosses of coercion, urging Tennesseans to vote for the man who best upholds principles and fairness in a contested primary, per the Mastinville Democrat.
Newly elected Menmphisto Bristol highway commission members J. S. Pritchett A. B. Bowman and J. Haunt met here suborganized J G Pritchett named chairman A B Bowman secretary Robt Dyer of this city chosen engineer Grading of the Washington county link nearly finished with several miles of gravel road laid down.
Hon H M Dyer traveled to Clarksville to attend the annual Grand Lodge of Tennessee meeting. The Odd Fellows revel as the Orphans' Home there is dedicated during the sessions, with Dyer set to speak at the dedicatory service.
Miss Goldie Swanner aged twenty two died at her parents home Tuesday October 15 at here. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs W T Swanner. The deceased possessed many excellent traits of character and had many friends in the community.
The Johnson City law court convened this week under Judge Harmon with over 100 cases on the docket, including several that were described as very important.
Bestol Tenn Oct 21 Rev J G Gowan BD former pastor Johnson City and later Nashville has accepted a call to two churches in Knoxville suburbs and will move there in November. He is currently in Augusta Ky where he has led a Presbyterian church for several years. It is expected the Rev W C Cochrane DJ formerly of Bristol now at Georgetown Ky will be called to the Augusta pulpit vacated by Dr Cowan.
Charles Harris a fireman at the Harris manufacturing plant suffered burns to face and eyes when a steel fragment penetrated an eye in an explosion. He was taken to Memorial hospital where doctors hope eyesight can be saved.
An advertisement from Henry, Tenn notes T. D. Peebles praising Electric Hitters for stomach and liver issues. It claims the remedy relieves appetite loss backache nervousness headache and tiredness from the first dose and urges purchase at H. C. Millers.
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