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Newspaper

Kingsport Times

Location

Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America

Date

May 06, 1925

Page

11

Bristol Eyes Final Decision On 1925 Season

Bristol nears a decisive meeting to determine if it will field a team this year as the Appalachian League debates survival. With about 2200 owed and 1000 due for Teeneva Field use, the club contends funds may turn conditional notes into cash. Kingsport’s season opener and a mysterious “financial aid” rumor hover over Bristols chances.

Bristol Tenneva James Gannon Bristol Club Kingsport

Plans Adopted for Kingsport High School Building

Kingsport approves the plans and specifications for a modern colonial style high school to be built on an eight acre site between Wateree and Catawba streets. The two story building will house over 500 students with a gym auditorium clinics and libraries. Bids due May 19 and city work progresses on the foundation.

Wateree Catawba Linville Watereo Linville Street Catawba Street

Orphan Musicians Shine at Strand Theatre Performance

Hundreds attend the Strand Theatre as the Daddy Draper orphan troupe The Jolly Entertainers present songs recitations dances and choruses. Draper explains caring for the children at Des Moines Washington and their plan to tour to New England before returning home.

Strand Theatre Des Moines Washington Tennessee South Dixie Nellie Lee Baby Edna Kingsport New England Bristol

Want Ads in The Times Bring Sellers and Bargain Seekers Together

Classified notices in The Times connect buyers with sellers across multiple categories. Readers browse listings for used goods, services, and local opportunities, matching everyday needs with available offerings in a bustling marketplace.

Times

City Registration Opens For Voters Through May 14

Registration at City Hall runs daily 9 AM to 9 PM through Wednesday May 14. Eligible voters must register to vote in the upcoming biennial city election on June 6 when two aldermen are to be chosen. Those who register now may vote in city elections held before April 1927 if residence, taxes, and requirements remain unchanged.

Markets Report cattle steady hogs rise notes

Markets from Louisville on May 6 show cattle at two hundred steady unchanged. Hogs steady to ten higher with values around seven to eleven seventy. Sheep at fifty steady unchanged.

Associated Press Louisville

News Notes From Movieland

Hollywood gossip outlines Carmelita Geraghty versatile film roles and family ties. Doris Kenyon’s return to The Half Way Girl with Lloyd Hughes, Colleen Moore and John McCormick vacationing abroad for We Moderns, Irene, and more. DeMille signs Vienna Medley project with star list. Olaf Fonss critiques American tempo. April fires report three calls with $260,000 in damages and $30,000 property risk.

Doris Kenyon Lloyd Hughes Colleen Moore John McCormick First National Colleen Irene Connie Talmadge Ronald Colman Ronald Edith O’shaughnessy Vienna Anna Dale Street Kingsport Electric Company Market Street Federal Dye and Chemical Plant

City Board OKs High School Project and Street Deeds

The Board of Mayor and Aldermen met in regular session at City Hall and adopted plans for a new high school. Officials authorized bid advertising. deeds were accepted for Sullivan boulevard widening and the high school site. April arrests totaled 79 with $1,507.80 in fines. health and dairy reports noted charity calls and inspections including condemned meat and hams.

Board OF Mayor and Aldermen City Hall William Oller Aleck Poston J. E. Fisher Sullivan Sevier Terrace Kingsport Improvement Corporation

For Rent Eight or Ten Cheap Houses See J. E. Gibson Dye Plant

Rental notices list two items: eight or ten affordable houses available near the Dye Plant via J. E. Gibson and an inquiry for two or three unfurnished rooms by phone number 330-35-5-31- p.

J. E. Gibson

Shepherds Wife in Court Depicts Dark Tale of Schemes

The recounting describes motive and deceit around the Shepherds with Judge Olson labeling the couple strong willed and masochistic. references a Romeo and Juliet pair and a fortune, plus bid procedures and work exclusions for a Tennessee contract.

Chicago Shepherd Willie Billy

Polka Dots Fashionable Neckwear Return in London

Polka dots are the rage again in men's neckwear in London. Many exclusive designs are handmade with dots applied by artisans on fine silk. The smaller the polka dots the higher the price of the ties.

London

Kingsport Tennessee Sealed Bid for High School Building

Sealed proposals due 8:00 p m Eastern Standard Time Tuesday May 19 1925 for furnishing all materials labor and construction of a two story 115 by 42 foot high school building in Kingsport Tennessee. Drawings by Dryden Mackenzie Brady Architects 558 Main Street Kingsport Tennessee. Deposit $25 to obtain drawings and specifications. Bids to F L Cloud City Manager Kingsport Tennessee.

Kingsport Board of Education Board of Mayor and Aldermen Alen N. Dryden Clinton Mackenzie A. L Brady Tennessee Dryden, Mackenzie and Brady Main Street F. L. Cloud

Tax Notice on Delinquent Taxes and Penalty

After May 1 unpaid taxes incur interest and a monthly penalty of one half of one percent. Payments may be made at my office until June 1, after which lists are delivered to officers for collection at the taxpayer’s cost. T. G. McCHESNEY. Trustee. 5-Gand 3

T. G. McChesney

Notice to Creditors in Morison Estate Case

John B. Nall as administrator of D. S. Morison's estate directs creditors and other persons to file claims and join the bill in the Chancery Court at Kingsport Tennessee by May 16 1925 or be barred. The order appears in the Kingsport Times for four weeks starting April 29 1925. H M McNeil Clerk and Master signs the notice.

John B. Nall D. S. Morison Malcolm J. Morison Chancery Court Kingsport Tennessee Ted Kingsport Times H. M. McNeil Wede

Non-Resident Notice in Cox vs Cox Case Kingsport

In Chancey Court Kingsport Rosa Ford Argile Ford Lil lie Cornwell John Cornwell Nora Hamilton Glen Hamilton Ovcar Cox are non residents of Tennessee they must appear by the third Monday in May 1929 before the clerk and master to defend the bill brought by Richard Gilbert Cox or the bill will be confessed Notice published four weeks in Kingsport Times April 21 1925 Clerk and Master.

Richard Gilbert Cox Jonathan B. Cox Chancey Court Kingsport Tennessee Rosa Ford Argile Ford Lillie Cornwell John Cornwell Nora Hamilton Glen Hamilton Ovcar Cox State of H. M. McNeil

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