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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1925
Page
12
Readers are invited to send social items to The Times Society Editor with name address and contact details. Notices should include plans to visit, depart, return or any other social happenings and will be considered during morning and afternoon hours on weekdays.
A poetic dedication opens with mentions of faith and sea imagery before noting a Country Club Bridge party tonight at 8 for members and out of town guests. A quiet marriage occurs October 14 at the Lutheran parsonage with Grace Showalter and George Arnold. A surprise birthday for J E Bach at Idlewild is described along with a Young Women’s Missionary Society meeting at First Christian church focusing on The Highway of Friendship and the Slavic People.
Miss Clara Hamlett opened a program with a leaflet titled In the Land of Coal and Coke. Afterward the hostess escorted guests to the Clinchfield where refreshments were served. Guests included Mrs. J. M. Hamlett Mrs. Benton and Mrs. H. O. Bunn.
Mr Strater Hanks of Johnson City and Mr Paul Cross of Gate City Va are in town today and yesterday. Mr L H Tigue of Asheville NC visits while Mr L D Hill from Johnson City stays businessweek. Miss Nina Ketron returns from Bristol. Mr Stanley Nesbit leaves for Roanoke after visiting. Mr and Mrs John Cox and son move to 498 Wanda St Kingsport after a year in Knoxville. The Meredith family thanks friends for floral offerings during Sherman Meredith illness and death.
A Wester Express train bound for Chicago sped westward with engineer William Van Bergen found dead at the throttle after a girder strike near Syracuse. Fireman Charles Foreman discovered the engineer dead with head injuries as the fiver passed through the yards.
London plans a revival of the Middle Temple moots in November a mock trial for junior lawyers and women to argue legal problems based on established facts two counsels per side a judge delivers the decision Justice Sankey to preside.
Classified notices in The Times connect sellers with buyers seeking bargains. The column features diverse postings including items for sale and requests for services, reflecting a lively local market.
Assistant Attorney General Weston filed a demurrer and answer in the supreme court challenging Mrs Ida Blankenburg of Tulsa Okla in her petition for a writ of review of Judge William M Prest Suffolk county Probate Court ruling. Judge Prest ruled she was not Lotta Crabtree's daughter and sentenced her to six months in the House of Correction for contempt in contesting the will.
U S exports totaled 422 million dollars while imports reached 349 million, yielding a favorable trade balance of 73 million for September. The import figure exceeded all months this year except March, according to the commerce department release.
Ottawa reports the opening of Aklabik station at the mouth of the McKenzie river as the most northerly commercial radio outlet in Canada. The station lies 1,300 miles north of Edmonton and 125 miles beyond the Arctic Circle.
Markets from Louisville on October 15 report three hundred cattle steady, five hundred hogs steady, and one hundred sheep steady with no price changes noted.
Harry S S Firestone announces a 99 year lease to Liberia for 1,000,000 acres of rubber land on the west coast of Africa and a 2,000 acre ready plantation. He plans $100,000,000 in development.
Zurich report by Dr Rudolph Brun describes a demented ant found in a Swiss laboratory nest. The ant rushed continually, shunned by peers, and after six days was dissected revealing a tumor in the left brain lobe destroying key centers.
Dr. S. E. Oliver, chemist at the Hawaiian Homes settlement on Molokai, reports successful syrup extraction from Hawaiian fruits. Experiments show pineapple juice with about 14 percent sugar yields syrups of varying concentration via a freezing process, including a syrup three times strength of the base juice.
Moscow authorities announce 72 artists will tour the Soviet Union to paint local revolutionary events portraits of leaders scenes of labor processes and other social life of the era. The expedition aims to capture present day life through the artists lenses.
A group of noted artists will visit the Crimea the Urals the Ukraine and the northern provinces. A number of artists are to be sent abroad for the same purpose.
Kathleen Britter at 24 becomes London's first woman conveyancer after leaving stenography. She pursued real property, persuaded a firm to hire a female conveyancer, and cites lack of range as a reason for changing careers. Her mother once served as housekeeper for the late Lord Leverhulme who supported her legal aims.
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