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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1925
Page
3
Voters in Kingsport head to City Hall for the biennial municipal election with two alderman seats at stake. Polls run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and residents must have paid 1924 poll tax and registered in last month’s municipal rolls to vote.
The article discusses Russian Soviet agitators and bolshevist influence amid a Chinese student movement in Shanghai and broader China. It details tensions between radical Sun Yat Sen followers and conservative southern leaders, with expected clashes around Canton over control and foreign life protections.
In Washington the speaker notes seven mountain school boys attend King College and rank among top students. Clark is named honorary member of Kiwanis and Rotary clubs in Bluefield. Chautauqua ticket sales fund tubercular hospital project. Bill Lord bids farewell. Craft reads a letter urging highway inclusion in federal system. Visitors include Felix Thacker and F. E. Clark.
The Rogersville Legion has provided its new rooms at Rogersville High School for the Eastern Star night school. The work has progressed rapidly, the school outgrew its former quarters, and the Legion’s generous offer was gratefully accepted.
Fragmentary ad text mentions Kingsport Tennessee Five Points and a cut rate savings offer with a group name Goons Co Sullivan. The readable bits imply a discounted sale or promotion advertised locally.
A large crowd attended Sunday school at Bethel and joined the decoration at Pyles cemetery. Guests included Mr and Mrs Arnold and R M McCray and families, with visits to Joe Snodgrass and family. Singing at Bethel drew many, with Virgil Roller and Hazel Roller guests of Miss Malinda Snodgrass. Thelma Good improves from pneumonia. Beulah and Bethel services announced. children’s day planned for Bethel in June.
A local gathering at the Green Shed was attended by several people with Mrs Will Phillips leading the event and John Millis conducting the prayer service Sunday night.
Mrs. Cox and family and Mrs Berry Hensley shopped in Jonesboro Thursday. Mrs N F Fincher visited Mrs T A Shipley last week. Rev and Mrs Ernest Hite attended the Hite cemetery decoration. Earl Copas dined with Erma Lee Steadman Sunday. Miss Tivis Gibson from Jonesboro spent Sunday with her parents. Miss Mae and Miss Calota Baskette visited Mrs Frank Donnon and Mrs HA Shipley who is improving. George White accepted a clerk position in the Army Store at Kingsport.
A large crowd attended the Vermont decoration sermons by Rev Grace and Rev Woodyard. Local families including the Hart, Browder, Devault, Lee, and Dickson clans visited relatives and planned to attend future decorations at Emory cemetery and Childress cemetery in June. Typhoid cases are reported in Highland Park as regular services are set for Harbours Chapel.
Miss Thelma Good improves from pneumonia as friends and relatives visit. Numerous entries detail Mrs. and Mr. Bargers, Browders, Hood, Devault, Lee and other families visiting in Blountville, Kingsport, Bristol and nearby towns, plus decorations and gatherings at local cemeteries and churches.
Joe Fields, recovering from a foot injury, improved as he visited Bristol with Depew and Glenna Depew. Nellie Hood stayed with Mr and Mrs Dotson and family. Columbus Hite and Rev Hood attended Hite graveyard services. Lillie and Minnie Hood spent Saturday night with relatives.
The note mentions dry weather at this time in Buffalo. Mrs. Thompson, whose illness was stated earlier, died Wednesday and was buried Thursday in Buffalo cemetery. Mr. Tom Cross and Mr. Herman Cross visited friends at Holston Sunday. Rev. Jones led services in Buffalo Sunday. Mrs Vermillion visited Mr. Robert Blizard. Mrs. A W Lindamood and Mrs. James Broyles from Bristol attended Mrs. Thompsons funeral Thursday.
Readers report social visits and relocations in Reedy Creek and Sulphur Well areas. Mr and Mrs J E Ramey host relatives. Dillow family moving to Cooks Valley. Dillon property sale and transfer noted. several residents listed as ill or improving. Rev J C Clark preached an excellent sermon Sunday afternoon.
An item notes old and faded photographs including tin types and daguerreotypes that have been copied and renewed.
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