Local notes and business updates from the city
Tate Ty Burnent returns from New York. Barton Nichols Hardware advertises fruit jars sections. The colored Masons build near the King Street tract. Star Restaurant invites patrons after renovations. Sam Lyle visits before Panama work on the ditch. Jackson’s offers fresh meat and steaka orders by phone. W W Fan leaves for Franklin after assisting his mother. A G Bowers and family move to the city. Mrs J W Boring visits from Lerleyins N. with relatives. The Butterfly features and Box Bay Silks upcoming.
Johnson City updates note local industry and public works
Gov John T Smith enjoys a diet vacation while Lo visits Soldiers Home on inspection tour. Lt Col Charles W Wadsworth leaves the Home after service as Adjutant. J M Buck Lumber Co moves offices to Hotel Carnegie with Haskett Wood gaining control. company owns timber along South & Western and runs a private rail spur. Unaka Handle Co opens plant to produce hickory handles. Sells building leased. plant to start soon. General St A Ayers discusses municipal water ownership and potential transfer or sale terms with city leaders. Ayers represents Watauga Water Co. He plans to attend a meeting next Thursday Sept 21. Obituary notice extends thanks for sympathy in death of Mrs A E Claiborne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Buck Lumber Co
Carnegie
Haskett Wood
J. M. Buck
South & Western
Tt. A. Ayers
St. A. Ayers
Big Stone Jap
Comet
Johnson City
Ayres
Watauga Water Company
General Ayers
Thorsday
Board and Commercial Club
Water Franchise Proposal for Johnson City Tennessee
Citizens propose granting a twenty year exclusive water franchise to a new corporation after the Watauga Water Co. expiry. In return the town would receive water for municipal buildings offices and educational facilities without charge. The plan aims to supply Trobuson City inhabitants and other town properties beginning at the end of the current twenty year franchise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Water Proposition
Johnson City
Tennessee
Tenn
Watauga Water Co
Trobuson City
Marital Happenings and Local Notices in Johnson City
City couple James Britton and Miss Smith wed with Bakersville ties and a dinner in their honor. Obituary details follow for Mrs Carrie Paw, widow of T A Faw, with funeral at Oak Hill after long illness. Also notes on City Transfer Company launch and a water franchise bid to Johnson City authorities dated September 1905.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Britton
Miss Smith
Bakersville
N. C
Tennessue
Mr. Britton
F. B. Britton
Soldiers
A. E. Claiborne
W. T. Hill
Judge Claiborne
Virginia
J. Edmunda Brown
Oak Hill
Carrie Paw
Jobnson City
T. A. Faw
Carrie Wagner
Jahmson County
M. P. Carico
J. Edmonda Brown
Thoroughbreds Por Sale and Southern Railway Contracts
The item notes horses for sale and lists orders to G. Fred Artz in Johnson City Tennessee, alongside a report that Sands & Oliver of Roanoke, Virginia won a major railroad contract. The Roanoke firm will double track the Southern from Morristown to Knoxville and build a line from Chattanooga to Stevenson Alabama, with new Tennessee river routes and extensive line work planned along the Southern system. It cites a total of about two million dollars in contracts over six months and mentions related railroad race for breaks and trolley expansions with lines through Kentucky and Tennessee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Railway
The
Sands & Oliver
Roanoke
Southern
Morristown
Knoxville
Tenn
Chattanooga
Stevenson
Ala
Lennnesses River
Memphis
Tennessee
Ohia
Knoxvilleo Chattanooga
Talo and
Tennessee River
St. Louis Republic of the 11Th
Cairo and
Wickfifte
Bristol
Kentuck
Toonessee
Mayfield
Hopkinsville
Franklin
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Atlas Portland Cement
Brading & Marshall
Watacs
Hrabsan Huila Kistrane
Poxt Omice
Wialing Broshorn
Besse
Mus. C. W
Sranpany
Angi
Noxvill
George Houston
Market Street
Portland
Oregon
Dicketa
San Francisco
Tos Angeles
Cal
W. H. Tayloe
G. Pix
Washington
D. C
C. A
A. Martin
M. Hexoran
Wannin
D. Gear
Star
Nichols Hardware
Jackson
Jackson's
DeWitt
Tate Ty
Burnent
New York
Barton-Nichols Hardware
Colored Masons
Aall
King S Tract
Colored Presbyterian Church
Sam Lyle
City
Panama
Tracy City
W. W. Fan
Loring
A. G. Bowers
Boone's Creek
J. W. Boring
Lerleyins N
Searle B. Gillespie
Nashville
Lawrence Snapp
Pittsburg & Lake Vine
Jast
Chicago
South Haven
Mich
Box Bay
John T. Smith
Col. Brownlow
Chas. W. Wadsworth
Unaka
Unaka Handle Company
Jobo Straot
Egon
BR. Sells
Benton— Smith
Dr. Smith
Tohnson
D.C. Holl
W.T. Hill
City Transfer Company
Mar
City Hotel
Warren
Greeneville and Tusculum College
Sam LA
Coile, D. D
Pres
Greeneville, Tenn
Fannie
H. C. Miller’s Drug Store
Tennessee Furniture & Supply Company
South
Gaffney
Cleveland
United States
White Sewing Machine Company
America
Tennessee Furniture & Supply Co
Main Street
Johnson City, Tenn
Mrs. Claiborne Meal
Han
Tt Ia
Embreeville
Erwin
Kingeport
Chamberlain
Jas
A. Manin
Q. Wieviaats
Sae Hann
W. J. Exo
F. Ben Fouts
Beanow
Gur Gerke Sarr
Crewung
M. 1
Grur
Dale
City Drug Store
Plymouth Rock Lockerela
G. Fred Artz
Norton
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
South & Weatern
Kentucky
Pikeville
Elkhorn City
Chesapeake and Ohio
Morrowbone
Brevons
Granny Creek
Patterson
Sunmers-Parrott Hardware CO
Johnson City Coal and Lumber Go
Jobe &T
H. F. Webb
W. W. Remine
Home Ice CO
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