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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1930
Page
10
News notes report numerous weekend visits across nearby towns. Guests include Mrs. Mack Hicks in Arcadia, Miss Myrtle Poore with Mrs. Vance Poore in Kingsport, and Mr. and Mrs. Ww. Tt. Lambirth hosting kin. Illnesses are listed for Mrs. Geo. Anderson and Mr. J. D. Hooven amid ordinary social visits and travel to Kingsport and Gate City.
Blountville School closed here Tuesday May the twentieth. Many people from out of town attended each program given here. Miss Ruth Moser entertained the senior class of Blountville high school on Tuesday evening at Johnson City with a theatre party. Dehart O'Dell is now at home and improving nicely. Helen Jones, daughter of Mr and Mrs D P Jones, has returned home after visiting her grandparents Mr and Mrs Jim Campbell of a week. Lawrence Walling of Bristol was in town Thursday. Eva Neal was visiting relatives near Blountville Monday. Evelyn O'Dell, a teacher, left for her home yesterday. School will close at Millpoint Friday and Saturday night. Mr and Mrs Paul Phillips of Piney Flats were visiting relatives here Sunday.
Surgoinsville reports Monday funeral for Mrs Richard Armstrong. Stoney Point pastor Rev J G Be McLaughlin conducted the service. Faculty plans include Thelma Hughes and Joe Looney returning. Roller sisters shopping in Kingsport. Baccalaureate by Rev Frank Jackson of Kingsport at Baptist Church. Julia Farvin visiting nieces in Rogersville then Virginia. Carl Starnes and family attended services. S H H S commencements May 14 to 16 featured juniors plays and seniors’ performance of The Eighteen Carat Book. Eleven graduates listed including Viva Williams valedictorian and Kenneth Culbertson salutatorian. Howard Howard leaves for Knoxville post. Gladys Nelms plans Carson Newman College attendance.
In Nickelsville Virginia families including the Wampler and Cox households spent Sunday with relatives in Ma. Wampler's and Mrs. Cox's families. The region reports favorable farming conditions despite a very light hay crop due to a drought spanning through April and part of May. Local farmers say work is progressing, though yields may be reduced.
A clerical list records numerous family visits and social calls in the Bristol and Blountville region. Mentions include Gunnings with daughter Mrs J M Ford of Woodrow, Hart and son visiting daughter Mrs Bob Netherland, and Sam Rennioeier visiting his brother Rosenbaum in Bristol hospital after surgery. Additional notes mention Mrs W S Barnes and daughters in Bristol, Joy Dressell with sister Mrs John Shipley in Rocky Point, Alley Ford as Sunday dinner guest of uncle J L Ford of Blountville, and other relatives.
Revivalist Reverend W D Wilkerson of Bristol will preach the Mordorial sermon at Reedy Creek cemetery this Saturday. Funeral services for Mr W P Johnson of Kingsport were held at Reedy Creek cemetery Sunday afternoon. Eleven month old James Hermon Brown, son of Will Brown, died Sunday and was buried at Reedy Creek Monday. Jack Dishner, son of Kyle and Mrs Dishner, buried at Reedy Creek Tuesday morning at eleven. Mrs Virginia Paylor of Johnson City visits relatives here next week.
Rev E G Gillespie preached a very able sermon Sunday night at Morrisons Chapel. Grover Lane of Coder Grove spent a week with Alfred Strong. Marvel Cloud and Mack Kotron of Kingsport visited for Sunday dinner. Rosque and daughter Rhogene called on Mr and Mrs G L Rosque. TM Galloway and relatives visited Wise county. Richards spent the weekend with relatives in Wise county. Mrs J Richards and Georgie and Bernice Freeman motored to Bristol Thursday for a day with Mr and Mrs Freeman in Kingsport. Henry Sweeney Edith Ketron and Robert Smith attended the funeral of W P Johnson at Avegdia Sunday afternoon. Mrs Kellie Gann was a childless?
A collage of church schedules and social notes lists Sunday schools and services at Kingsport Presbyterian First Methodist Episcopal and other nearby churches. It records visits among residents including Mr and Mrs C E Strong and families, and mentions Rev G C Geldron and Rev W Luke Pickering. Social mentions include Holston Institute prizes and Ford Town high contest results.
Snowflake Rey and S. M. McCarter of Jefferson City filled their regular appoint ment at the church here Saturday night, Sunday and Sunday night. Miss Flora Hicks, Miss Johnnie Hicks, and Miss Alice Hicks of Bristol are visiting home folks. Mr. LF Smith of Stuart Va visited Sunday. Ma Blod Cavin of Kingsport was a visitor Monday. Mrs Delia Bailey and children spent Thursday night with Mrs Roy Bernard. Mrs Hack Bailey and infant Marion spent Friday with Mrs Dolin Grays. Winifred Arnold and children from Kingsport have been visiting. Mrs Frank Smith of Louisville Tenn has been guest of her daughter Mrs E E Kincheloe here. Sallie Britton visited her daughter Sunday. John Ratliff visited Monday. Roy Bernard and wife hosted Rev S M McCarter Saturday night. Carl Cavins hosted Sunday guests Clarice Pontinson and Sadie Horner Whitesburg and Tay Hileman of Lenoir City. Mrs Roy Bernard and son Roy Jr spent Friday with Mrs C D Gray. Hady Hays hosted brother from Polk County for a weekend visit. Arthur Smith owns shopping lot Kingsport. Jim Hicks continues to improve after appendicitis.
Shopping visitors from Fordtown and Mr and Mrs HM Spencers called on Nes Hickant who is ill in Kingsport. The scene includes Mr and Mrs EL M Baeve and various local residents seen in the lingering, fragmentary notes of a Saturday visit and calls.
The article urges readers to avoid aimless life drift by adopting a definite life plan. It argues a plan enables meaningful obligations among equals and enhances commitment to community and Church attendance for the benefit of friends and self.
A public notice lists participating local businesses and sponsors in the Kingsport area. Names include Mead Fibre Company Borden Mills Becks Best Bread J.C. Penney Dobyns-Taylor Economy Store and others such as Kingsport Drug Store Sterchi Bros. The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. and H. G. Hill Company.
A collection of church notices invites the public to morning and evening services across multiple parishes. The messages list Sunday schools at various times, preachings by named pastors, and midweek prayer meetings, with remarks of a warm welcome to all worshippers.
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