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Mr Wetchles will preach at Band Croft Memorial on Saturday night June 13 and Sunday morning the 14 at 11 o'clock. Everyone is invited and urged to bring dinner to be served after the morning service.
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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1925
Page
10
Mr Wetchles will preach at Band Croft Memorial on Saturday night June 13 and Sunday morning the 14 at 11 o'clock. Everyone is invited and urged to bring dinner to be served after the morning service.
Nashville governor Austin Peay appoints George Cole a colonel on his official staff succeeding the late Col. Thomas W. Wrenne. The report also notes pardons for Leslie Fowler of Louisville and Arthur Poindexter of Fayette county, plus field geology work in West Tennessee by Johns Hopkins and Vanderbilt teams for the US Geological Survey.
Big Stone Gap reports families planning homes in Miami Florida and visits from relatives in Dorchester Virginia. Teachers leaving for home include Mis ses Alice Mitchell Livingston Ala Drucilla McConnell Nickeleville Va Isabell Allen Provost Va Agnes MccDuffy Columbia Va Raby Heatwale Covington Va Pauline Bennett Chilhouse Va and B O Williams Gate City Va. Graduation exercises for county grammar grades and the graduating class were held with speeches prizes and a living room themed auditorium.
Rev. Dunn will fill his regular appointment at Pactolus Sunday. The Pactolus Sunday school is preparing to give a children's day in July with a well prepared program. There was no Sunday school here Sunday due to a decoration at the Hite graveyard. Mrs. J. E. Owens visits her brother J. P. McCulley. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Hamilton announce the birth of a girl named Littie.
The secretary of state issues charters to Mississippi Valley Gain Company in Shelby county with capital of 50000 dollars and to Knoxville Suburban Corporation with capital of 15000 dollars.
Leaders from several states and educational institutions will attend a religious education conference at Lake Junaluska North Carolina July 15 through 18 during Southern Methodist general assembly sessions. Program coordinators include Dr Stonewall Anderson Nashville Dr H H Sweets Louisville and Dr J W Camak Birmingham. Miss Louise Durham Memphis will supervise the children's playground at Junaluska sponsored by John R Pepper Memphis and J B Ivey Charlotte.
The commission will meet next Friday with publishers bidding for the 1925 adoption to discuss the distribution plan. Whether to use the depository route or direct shipments to merchants remains undecided. A tentative adoption is nearly complete with final details to be discussed with bidders. Nashville June 6. Tennessee health experts from Johns Hopkins arrive for a summer study of public health organization. Dr. Charles H. Benning and Dr. Tivadar Hevizy are among the first visitors.
Detroit realtors propose a wholesale development of Bagley avenue featuring a 510 foot 40 story tower as keystone. The plan, by Burton P. Porter, calls for 35 million dollars in development including a 5,000 seat motion picture theatre an eighteen story hotel and a recreation building with bowling alleys billiard parlors and indoor golf.
Capt. Guston af Fitzhugh of Memphis paid tribute at the Carmack memorial unveiling in the Tennessee State Capitol, praising Edward Ward Carmack as a selfless civic leader and inspiring symbol of courage. The statue depicts Carmack delivering an address atop an elaborate base inside the Capitol building.
The text notes a new office tower will rise on the former Ford factory site, a brick building long gone, highlighting Detroit's booming automobile industry as the source of its growth and prosperity.
Captain Fitzhugh lauds Senator Carmack in closing days of his term. He recalls Carmack’s rise from knowledge and virtue to lead a fight against the ship subsidy bill, calling him a girded gladiator with courage and fidelity to law, the Constitution, and prohibition.
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