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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1925
Page
2
The region reports neighbors remodeling and dwelling projects while residents visit relatives and travel to towns on social and business trips. Various families such as Moody Weaver Durham Hayes and Pollon are noted in visits, with haying underway and multiple hospital and shopping trips around Holston Kingsport Hemlock Piney Flats and Arcardia.
Rev Te El Goodman to preach Saturday night at Patee and Sunday morning at Emory. Grover Let and family visit. Miss Lyne Cox visiting her brother N W Cox and family. Miss Oc ie Moody returns home after visiting Mrs Jesse Isley. Mrs Sallie Moody and Myrtle Moody as Sunday dinner guests. Roy Moody and family of Fall Creek visit W E Moody and family. Myrtle Moody, Charles Cox and Edgar Isley visit Edgar Isley. C G A Dickson visiting friends in Bristol. Willie Cox visits N W Cox. Miss Grace Thomas visiting grandparents C L Dickson. Sunday school progress noted.
Mrs John Larky dies at home after illness leaving husband and three children. Relatives Miss Connie Coxl Ethel Hart attend funeral and burial. Rev Newland holds revival at Arcadia Presbyterian Church. Residents take part in local visits, travel to Bristol, and hospital care noted for Stoffel and others.
Fordtown hosts a revival with locals J W Hawk C Chase L Kitzmiller W A Coffman D Fitts Virgil Roller and Sam Mc Cray noted. Mrs Catherine Coffman is ill. Visitors include Mrs Mary Brown of Etowah and Ellen Kitzmiller. Families share meals and attend events. others travel to Padulus for Children's Day and to Rockingham and Johnson City for trips.
Mrs H G Wallace of Appalachia and son Elmo visited Mrs T W Stitt. Ruth and Branch Stitt with Elmo Bentley returned from relatives near Rogersville. Helen and Garnet Clifton visited grandparents at Church Hill. Jack Whitamore to Hunting W Va. Mrs Gee Mauk returned from Church Hill. Mrs J P Bandy visiting Mrs Geo E Jones ill. Helen and Ralph Stitt to Buren Tenn for vacation. T W Stitt went to Glen Ferris W Va. Mrs Monroe slightly injured in car crash.
Rain showers brighten the day as Rev. Barker preaches at Pressey Home. Weddings, new births, travels, and visits thread through community life with names like Wagner, Jennings, Hutson, and Pratt. Residents attend, marry, and recover from illness across Kingsport and nearby towns.
Attendees at Greeneville court included Messors Brownlow White T A Shipley and Roy Baskelle G Steadman and families. Visits to Mr and Mrs Orville Cox noted. Mrs G T Geox and children stayed with Will Phillips family. Miss Pearl Copas visited Mrs G J Steadman and led a prayer meeting at Alleghany. Mrs Hunter Steadman and grandson Robert from Kingsport planned a short stay with OG Steadman family.
The former crown prince defends Germany against war guilt in a new book I Seek the Truth. He questions Allied expectations of guilt, cites imperial policies of Britain France and Russia, and argues conservatism opposed colonial expansion. The work calls for overturning Versailles era judgments to bring peace.
A thirsty tourist in Oregon drank from a roadside spring between Mosier and Hood River. A sign warning water contamination was repaired after the traveler asked what mineral water it was, and the sign was replaced with a harsher warning about rotten water.
Preparations are under way in Santiago for the Prince of Wales visit in September. He will review the Chilean fleet at Valparaiso, attend a gala day at the races for the Prince of Wales trophy, watch polo in Valparaiso, and witness a native rodeo and Chilean horsemen. The visit includes jewel exhibitions, bells donated by government and British residents, and a display of Aubanian pre colonial jewels. 115 bonfires will burn along the foothills on arrival night.
A terse fragment notes a scene or landmark described as within easy visibility of Santiago, framing a geographic relation to the Andes. No additional proper names or dates are readable to expand the item. The line suggests a landscape vantage point or travel descriptor tied to Chilean geography.
Father J. J. Hartman, chaplain of St. Anthony's orphanage, identifies a life size Christ painting in the Isleta mission church near Albuquerque as a possible Byzantine era work older than European schools. The piece is partly in relief with remarkable color harmony and may have been brought by early padres with Spanish explorers. The 300 year old church has temporarily removed the painting for safekeeping until permanent arrangements are made.
The U S Ortolan minesweeper, on temporary duty with the California Academy of Sciences, returns from a West Coast Mexico trip with rare birds plants fishes reptiles fossils and insects. Led by Dr G Dallas Hanna the party explored Revillagigedo islands 400 miles west of the Mexican mainland and noted reef fish and a unique fruit feeding parrots. A fresh water spring on Socorro island saved the expedition as colonel Grayson’s party missed it earlier.
Reports from Loden indicate steps toward the prewar economic system in Russia as the Spassky Copper Mine Limited resumes private operation after double nationalizations. A new capital issue to be offered pro rata to shareholders is planned, following Lena Company’s reassertion of control over vast mining lands with American involvement.
A regaled Swedish dig led by archaeologist Marten Stenberger uncovers an Iron Age fort on Ismantorp island near Kalmar. The circular limestone wall, about 1,200 feet long, 12 feet high and 18 feet thick, suggests a major fortified retreat with nine gates and foundations for nine houses. The Swedish Tourist Association funds the project to reveal what ruins conceal.
The Third Army Division can mobilize and be ready to entrain in one hour and 45 minutes. Major General William A Johnson ordered the exercise, with mobilization kept secret until formal orders. Every unit at camp moved to the railroad station within the allotted time.
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