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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1925
Page
12
Readers urged to send social items to The Times Society Editor with names addresses and telephone numbers. Items accepted daily except Sunday during posted hours 8 30 to 12 and 2 30 to 5 P M and by phone 136 for publication in the column.
A column features a lyric tribute to Amy Lowell praising her beauty and poetic reach. It then lists St Paul’s Auxiliary plans meeting Mrs S K Lindsay on Yadkin Street, White City at 3 pm Wednesday, followed by Presbyterian Auxiliary circles meeting tomorrow at 3 pm in listed homes around Wanola and Watauga streets and nearby areas. It closes with a fashion note on Parisian style and a Methodist church circle schedule for tomorrow with five circles hosted around Charlemont, Sevier Terrace, Watauga, the Fifties, and Lovedale.
Baptist circles of the First Baptist church plan Wednesday gatherings at 3pm in five homes with Circle leaders named Chadwell Woody Shoun Coleman Brown. Camp Fire Girls sold $42 in tickets and candy for the Public Library, plus $30 from poppy sales for the Legion Auxiliary, then disbanded for summer until August 22 departure for Camp Hammond. Leader Miss Hope Brown reports an overnight hike at Shipp's Springs. Messages note local illnesses and visits including Floyd Nunley, Nina Ketron, J. E. Ramey, Georgia Crum, R. S. Fields, Rev. T. P. Johnston, Baxwell Jayne, Mrs. George Burbage, and others in Johnson City and nearby areas.
Miss Sue Kinser and Mrs Bloomingdale hosts. Visitors include Miss Zollie Banes from Blountville visiting aunt Mrs Nail, and Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Smith from La Follette arranging Sullivan Street home. Mrs. G. W. Woody heads to Appalachia Va for a month visiting daughter Mrs C. O. Thomas.
Hilton Rev J W Necessary preached at Webers Chapel. Attendance at singing convention in Gate City. Numerous visits and travels among locals including Lane, King, Cox, Sims, Agee, Nottingham and Hart families. A quiet wedding at Gate City joined Ethyl Agee and J H Hicks. Families share illness, trips, and hospitality across Tennessee and Virginia locales.
J. H. Hicks wed Miss Ethel Agee in Gate City last Wednesday June 3 and the couple plan to settle in Burem Tennessee. Friends extend good wishes for a long, happy life and a quiet future together.
Regular appointment filled by Rev J C Clark at Mountain View on Sunday night. Local residents from Lee Highway and Gate City attended singing. Visits noted include Mr and Mrs W D Barger with the Waterman family and Mr and Mrs Nat Shipley of Highland Park visiting Shipley and Shipley relatives. Lochiel Shipley visited Mary Lee Barger for Sunday dinner as W I Shipley and family were also callers.
A compact roundup of social and church going events in Chestnut Ridge and nearby Emory including visits to homes, Sunday services, new dinners guests, and local travel. Notable names include J A Ratliff R B DeVault Cordie Childress Carrie Moody Lillian DeVault George Moody Kathleen Fulkerson Bruce DeVault J W Fulkerson I T Childress Zara Pearler and others.
Social notes from nearby communities recount visits among residents, illness updates, and church events. Rev Eskridge presided at sermons, while several families traveled to see relatives and care for the sick. Kids shorten illness like chicken pox noted. census work and church activities also mentioned.
The record lists dry weather and good health in the community. It notes the annual decoration and cleaning of Childress and Emory cemeteries, a May 31 Natural Tunnel trip, local travels, and several residents’ social visits including Hattie Bowery in Kingsport, Flora Poore’s surgery, and numerous hostings and church attendance.
Mrs Daisy Taylor and Mrs G H Bates called on Mrs Hurst. Miss Maxie Moody visited her cousin Miss Hattie Moody near Fall Creek. Lee Moody and Elisha King hosted Sunday dinner with families. Paul Huddle of California visited his parents A R Huddle. J R Moody and family dined with E W Moody. Gladys and Dorothy Lee Hite visited Miss Lea Hite. Dave Hite visited his daughter Mrs Pearl Lite.
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