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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1925
Page
4
The Times invites reader letters signed with full names and notes that on request names may be withheld from publication. The policy emphasizes transparency and accountability for published correspondence.
The writer contrasts current age attitudes with older romantic appreciation for nature and moonlight. It notes youths once delighted in mere existence and beauty, while today attention shifts to practical aims like football, risking loss of poetic perception and wonder. The piece laments diminishing natural sensibility yet urges balance.
The piece questions honesty and transparency in daily life urging readers to answer honestly about their actions. It contrasts secrecy with accountability to family, neighbors, creditors, and authorities, and notes a push in Johnson City for Eastern Time to reduce schedule confusion and extend evening hours.
The Nashville Tennessean states that the plan is not an oppression but a measure to protect the public from a rising danger, aiming to restore mortality records to normal. The piece emphasizes public safety and the need for action to curb the threat.
A chaotic mix of courtroom jottings and light columnettes recounts vague crimes and odd anecdotes. Names like William Ireland and Charles Marshall surface among scattered vignettes, plus a Taft and Harding reference in a travel cafe anecdote.
Mazin the chlorine sneers at Irene as she enters the dressing room. Irene retorts she would not wash anyone else's handkerchiefs.
A collage of quips and adage snippets quotes on topics from ginger sales to currency and industry. The brief items mention Uncle Sam taxation prices coal and anthracite markets and odd editorial jabs about the press and crime news.
A Nashville safety survey cites faulty brakes as a leading highway danger. The Chamber of Commerce safety committee, cooperating with civic authorities, plans a concentrated brake alert to aid the community.
Morrisons Chapel notes report regular appointment by Rev dW and local social visits. The Odd Fellows picnic at Indian Springs drew Mr and Mrs R L Hickman Miss Ora Frazier Mrs GW Galloway W F Larkin and Ernest Galloway. Nearby families hosted relatives and friends during the weekend and school opens at Bell Ridge next Monday.
The Mt Lebanon notes celebrate a rainy day gathering at Indian Springs with numerous attendees and visitors from local towns. Residents report good health and list relatives and friends visiting or staying with families, with mentions of Mr. and Mrs. Slaughter, Georgia Poore, Marie Whaley, and others. The piece also notes camp meeting plans at Ross and local employment changes.
The first Memorial Sunday school session of the era held on Sunday August 28 featured a decorated chapel with plants and flowers. Musicians Me Beaty and Mr Dryden played for the school, and Dr G M Peavier of Bristol, who donated the ground for the building, delivered an eloquent address praising progress and urging youths to pursue knowledge of God.
Community notes from the area recount visits and guests at homes in Indian Springs and Beulah. Residents attend picnics, camp meetings, and church events while relatives and travelers move through Kingsport Bristol and Johnson City. A local wedding surprise, health updates, and multiple family gatherings mark the season.
A series of brief visits and calls in Kingsport and nearby families recounts Mrs. W. B. Shipley visiting Mrs. Werton Dean, Miss Ganell Gennings staying with Grace and Magdalene Dean, and Mrs. Horton Dean hosting or visiting relatives. Several Jennings households, Horton Dean, and local residents are noted in Sunday and Saturday gatherings with children and kin.
Long Branch residents report Mr Nie Taunt and Mrs PB Vaney making mentions of business trips. Mayne and Gladys Bowery joined Sunday dinner with Martin Dsenberg and family. Barns, Bowery siblings, and other locals were seen at events in Indian Springs and Bristol.
Mrs J W Fleenor hosted a dinner Monday for a group including Mr and Mrs Bige Cartwright and son Charles Mr and Mrs John Shipley and son Iona Mrs Jess Holt Mrs W S Barnes and daughter Bessie Miss Mable Holt Miss Ida and Mrs Myrtle Morton and son Clyde of Johnson City with Bill Fleenor and Dale Marion heading to Spruce Pine N C Miss Fay and Mattilene Cartwright Ruby Shipley and Allen Cartwright visited J S B Smith Sunday Mrs Morton and son returned to Johnson City after a short visit with her parents
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