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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1896
Page
3
Saturday celebrates Flag Day with calls to display the flag. Advertisements and notices from Vines Reading Co and S. B. White highlight coal, lamps, heating. Social items include visits by Broyles Sitgreaves family, John Boyd the ventriloquist, and speeches by Josephus Hopwood and Pen Kittie Shell Massengill. Political activity centers on Bryan silver advocacy, public addresses, and planned Free Silver rallies.
Col. E C Reeves spoke to a large audience at the Greenwood schoolhouse on Uhurn day night urging the cause of Free Silver and condemning silver demonetization. The crowd cheered as thanks were tendered to Reeves for his efforts in Bryan’s cause. An outreach to farmers from the northwest U S and northern Europe was announced to bring capital and buyers to the area and ease debts by selling part of farms.
The regular Sabbath school mass meeting is set for 8 o clock next Sunday November 1 at the Southern Methodist church. Col Reeves opens the topic Our Young People in the Work of the World and all invited to attend for an evening described as pleasant and productive.
The weeping goldala tor Judge Hacker gave a four hour speech at Oak Hill Saturday night. Col Reeves attended but Hacker refused to divide time with Arganite Co. Reeves planned to speak there tonight before a large crowd.
Rev Sam Sherfy an 80 year old Dunkard church minister died at his Tenth district home Tuesday 27th from heart trouble He moved from Boutetourt County Virginia 75 years ago and left a large family mourn his loss He was remembered for acts of kindness to the poor
The town plans a Monday night parade and candle cannon signal to greet Hon. BR. L. Taylor, the next Virginia governor candidate, with a large turnout of supporters, horse and foot, from the South Carnegie area to the city hall for his final campaign speech.
The former New Yorker spoke to about three hundred in a vacant lot near Tae Comme office last Tuesday. His speech drew little applause, ended meekly, and critics said the national committees used him to help McKinley while local rivals dismissed his effort as futile. The piece notes local figures like Windy Owenby, W. W. DeVault, Theodore Hacker, and E. D. Duncan, arguing Washington county should back DeVanti for November 3.
Mrs. Faucette wife of Capt. KE Faucette died at home in Mountain City and was buried in Lenoir North Carolina. She left two children Mina Flora and Mary and three stepchildren John James Sophia. The text includes notices of a Republican Rally rail fare and a Christian obituary for Elton Campbell widow of Major James C Campbell.
Maury County Democrat from Mobile Alabama notes Hob Bob Taylor's stirring oratory and democratic commitment. The article then reports the death of Josephius Clemmons, the United States oldest pilot, aged about eighty, who died after an accident aboard the steamer Miaci near Mobile while piloting. Clemmons had served on the Mobile bar for sixty years.
Dr Miles claims pain pills cure neuralgia while General Lee delays the voyage timetable. Gen Jambuga, consul general at Havana, plans to stay at his post amid rumors of dissatisfaction with instructions. A home visit was proposed, with return seen as a potential sign of the reports.
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