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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1909
Page
8
The Johnson City community pledges strong support for the public schools, aiming to fund buildings, equipment, and improved facilities. Enrollment stood at 1,676 pupils after three weeks, with future plans for a modern high school to relieve crowding and move grammar grades into a new building, aiding continued growth.
Johnson City’s Watauga Electric Co advertises modern facilities including 4650 kW bi cycle and 240 kW railway generators. It touts 24 hour single and three phase service with rates of 10 cents per kilowatt hour for domestic use and industrial rates from 5 to 3 cents. Company leaders include Hon. W. P. Brownlow as president, S. C. Williams as VP and treasurer, and Amzi Smith as secretary.
The state board of education will visit twenty two towns across Tennessee to select three sites for state normal schools, one in each grand division. The tour begins in Athens and continues through Dayton Winchester Tullahoma Murfreesboro Shelbyville Fayetteville and Columbia, covering five East Tennessee towns nine in Middle Tennessee and eight in West Tennessee. The board plans to finalize a list of towns within about two weeks.
The citizens commission formed to oversee the city water project met Friday and elected Isaac Harr as chairman J Wred Johnson as secretary and M Curtis as treasurer. They will work with the board of mayor and aldermen to advance the construction of the new waterworks system.
G Mitchell architect of this city has closed a contract with Hawkins county jail commissioner to furnish plans for a jailer's residence and jail combined. The structure will be fire proof with up to date hardened cells and patent lever and combination locks.
Charles T. Mandel reports seventy two of seventy six veterans to be transported from Dayton to Johnson City as the state board of education tours for normal school bids in Middle and West Tennessee. A special coach will depart Dayton today, with the group arriving Saturday. The board aims to finalize loan decisions and site selections by October 1, and contracts for buildings to start early next year. Prof T. Croweh, principal of Columbus Power School, is ill with appendicitis and plans to travel to Minnesota for surgery when able.
A movement forms to unite jobbers and retailers into an association to offer inducements to nearby merchants and residents to trade in Johnson City. The plan will be discussed at the Commercial Club meeting on October 4. Sample Dr Fahrney Teething Syrup offered.
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