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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1893
Page
5
The Comet reports on a busy week with visits from Judge Butler and D. W. People, local social plans, and multiple residents traveling to Bristol, Greeneville, and Washington. It notes a potential October wedding, a church social, a photographer opening a gallery, and discussions of rail and industrial activity in Big Stone Gap.
A mixed blot of house entry theft, a dramatic escape from Johnson City, a Shelby wedding near Elk Park, and local business moves. Promotions include T. C Blair moving to Johnson City and leasing plans for thirty eight tenements, plus remarks from Hon. All A Taylor on future congressional bids. A Missouri editor anecdote about newspaper graft and local favors closes the page.
Five hundred laboring men arrived by the Atlantic & Pacific road at Mojave on Wednesday claiming origin in the Cherokee Strip. They report extreme hunger and seek relief or assistance.
A promotional notice urges readers to try Stockton's Antiseptic Tonic at Bes Hive Drug Store as a fine tonic that invigorates and thoroughly cleanses the blood and system.
J C B Johnson, son of J C Johnson of Mosly Creek Tennessee and a student at Emory and Henry College, died at 8 30 this morning from an overdose of morphine taken Saturday night by mistake for quinine.
Kk of Ps Unaka Division No. 23 uniform rank have secured the old Austin factory as a drill room and drill weekly. They will meet at the armory and march to the factory for preparations ahead of the Nashville state encampment next spring.
Miss Katie Chester, long an invalid, died at her Jonesboro area home Saturday afternoon at 3:30. She was buried Monday morning in the Lyle cemetery.
Miss Chester, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Chester and niece of Capt. Henry Lyle, leaves a circle of relatives and friends in the city who extend sympathy to the bereaved family.
We express our gratitude to the people of Johnson City for their kindness and assistance during the fatal illness of our mother Mrs E B Matthews and for the many expressions of sympathy in our bereavement W J Marrhews for relatives
Chief Raider Charles M Taylor of the internal revenue department tracked a hidden still in Polk County last Saturday night. He moved in under cover in a tack and seized the copper vessel, after years of unsuccessful attempts by moonshiners to hide it from law enforcement.
Notice by Mrs. Mattie M. Brown announcing a new restaurant and oyster parlor opposite the post office on Spring Street. She invites friends and new customers to enjoy fruits confections groceries lunches meats oysters and steak in any style plus cigars and tobacco.
A Nashville resident praises the Stockton Medicine Co Antiseptic for curing muscular rheumatism and indigestion after years of ailment. W. E. Bateman of 310 Broad Street endorses the remedy and offers to answer inquiries, noting Bee Hive Drug Store as the sole agent.
Report from Watauga covers a Wednesday evening Sept 20 wedding of Miss Emma King to Dr J W Wallace at John J Lilly's residence with Rev K C Atkin officiating. Guests include Thomas Wallace and Henry Duncan. Protracted meetings at Brick Church baptize five parsons. Local notes mention travel, visits, a medical student, a fatal incident involving Butterworth and Erwin, and town developments including a new postmaster and a near-complete house construction.
Direct information confirms Ike T Jobe received his commission to head the Town-Site Trustees for public lands in Oklahoma Territory. He will be stationed in Wichita Kansas for now as government buildings are completed. The post pays $10 per day plus travel and $300 per day for subsistence. Barney and many friends in Tennessee celebrate his appointment and wish him a safe, successful trip.
Mrs. B. Matthews died last Wednesday night at the home of T. J. Cox in the city after a lengthy heart trouble. She was mother to Dr. W. J. Matthews and Mrs. T. J. Cox, both residents here, and had been visiting Tennessee recently. A devout Christian of 42 years, she bore her illness with patience. Remains were taken to Barbersville, Kentucky for interment, accompanied by Dr. Matthews, Mrs. Cox, and Ben Matthews of Kentucky.
Help wanted for a Wanrtep active man or lady to travel representing a reliable house. Salary $65 monthly plus traveling expenses with potential increase. Include references and self addressed stamped envelope. The Dominion, 317 Omaha Building, Chicago, 264.
The October issue showcases the Tull piano square by Edward Strives, the Vienna conductor, and the Daneng Waves Waltark. It includes Christine Nilson’s The Study of the Voice and a portrait by Lucy Hamilton Hooper. Fiction by Sosink Allen and Howell, essays on housework by Juliet Carson, child-rearing tips by Eliza beth Scovil, and a striking Fra nk Small cover illustration. Curtis Publishing Co, Philadelphia, ten cents per issue, one dollar yearly.
Ed ward Bok argues in Ladies Home Journal that women should guard speech over pen. He cites thoughtless talk as the chief fault harming a woman's reliability, progress, and confidences, contrasting it with the harmlessness of writing and urging self restraint among women.
A Humboldt special reports the Southern Spoke Company, the nation’s largest spoke factory, will reopen October 1 after a July shutdown caused by financial depression. The plant will operate full time once again.
S. B White will hereafter run business in his own. The name Johnson City Tin and Stove Co. has been dropped.
We urge immediate settlement of due accounts after selling stock to Lyle and Summers. We cannot pay our debts until funds are received. Conditions force us to enforce collections as far as possible. Former customers will be treated well by our successors, and patronage will be appreciated. 474 tf Seaver & Summers.
James W. Carson died last Tuesday at his Leesburg home after a several weeks battle with typhoid fever. He was 42, unmarried, and his remains were laid to rest in Leesburg cemetery. Carson was noted for his excellent character and wide circle of friends.
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