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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1900
Page
3
The article notes the marriage of Baker with Chas Leonard and Mins Vernie and their plan to settle permanently in Alabama. It mentions job opportunities for a good nurse and signals employment details via a lock box in Johnson City and a local office.
The store showcases a large variety of dress goods including 600 Dress Goods Freize and Novelty Mixtits. New assortments arrive Monday with more to follow, plus campus green and yale blue yarns and fall style shoes noted for durability and shape retention.
Prizes totaling many dollars were posted for carnival awards including best float best private two horse trap and best decorated fire department with gold awards by J M T Gump Hon A A Taylor BR H Cates and E F Smith Also Southern Railway half rates Bristol to Knoxville tickets selling dates and a long list of parade superintendents chief marshal and assistants named for the event plus local civic leaders and officials highlighted by Geo F Campbell and Sheriff J J Hawkins.
Miksel Grace and Nora Boyd visit the Migse family in Greeneville while Mrs Dickinson of Bickley Mills Va visits her brother T L Earnest. W B Bhen is ill in Knoxville with relatives at his bedside. Dr W J Sproles travels to North Carolina on business and to advertise. The Johnson City Carnival is announced. Mive Anna Wheeler departs for college. Services at First Baptist Church are noted for the morning. Evening subject discusses Uses of Triad and Trouble.
In Washington county plans are under way to implement the rural free delivery system. Some carriers have already been appointed at 500 dollars annually. Once the system begins all rural post offices will close. Farmers and merchants will receive daily door delivery and mail letters with registered packages via carriers. postage supplies will be available through them. Only four post offices remain: Johanan City Te Limestone. Card of Thanks from Men Win Miller and family thanks friends for kindness after a loss.
1900 Fall and Winter Season 1901 E returns from markets with mammoth stock of dry goods notions boots shoes carpets mattings. Store boasts newest creations across departments and unprecedented dress goods assortment including Gunvels hair Podplins Venetians broadcloths plaid backs Febble Cheviots and new silk department items. Special lot waist patterns valued at 4 to 4.50 priced at 2.25 or 2.50, urging shoppers to inspect dress goods and silks.
Big stock of new Percale in latest patterns 10 and 12-2 at Carpets Mattings and Rugs Ingrain Carpets and Brussels rugs on fall display Prices include Ingrain CSE and Par sian Flannel New Brussels designs and China and Japan mattings Moquetts and Smyrna rugs showcased for shoppers
Gen John T Wilder, visiting here, openly favors Evans for the Brownlow-Evans contest and urges Republicans statewide to respect his choice. Knoxville and Johnson City arrivals boost local demographics as new residents settle, with Dr La McCollum and family planning to oversee timber lands and join fall fair horse events. Multiple horsemen arrive for autumn races, predicting a record season with several Knoxville stables entering trotters and pacers.
Minnie Lee Kaupp, 36, died September 11 at home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. D N Reese after malaria chills and fever contracted in Alabama. Revival added fourteen converts. funeral held at 10 a.m. by Rev. Robert Shules and burial beside her three infant brothers. Born March 4, 1866 in Elizabethton she arrived home from Quinata Ala six days before death. John B Stith and family plan Bristol move. Residents and relatives mentioned include D N Reese Florenice Englebert and J M Martin among others.
The Enon Baptist church in the valley near Clark's Creek hosted Hon. A A Taylor delivering Life's Poetry and Pearls to a large appreciative audience. Gov Bob Taylor spoke a month earlier on Love Laughter and Song for the church debt, with both lectures given for free.
A crowded social page highlights Gov. Taylor and Gen. James P. Taylor's relatives. Loretta Katheryn and Mikson Boilty Taylor visit Tampson City with Hon. A. A. Taylor before returning to Knoxville. Gov. Bob Taylor lecturing in Washington Valley and Embroville to aid church funds. Other mentions include A. A. Taylor and Nat Taylor with De Long Rico at Rattlesnake Lodge and families visiting Cincinnati.
The Southern Railway promotes summer travel to sea and mountain retreats including Ashville Hot Springs Hale Springs Roan Mountain Lookout Mountain Monte Sano and many Virginia resorts. A folder titled Summer Homes and Resorts lists about a thousand options with rates and schedules. Inquiries to C A Benscoter A G P A Chattanooga Tenn.
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