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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1925
Page
2
Local residents share Sunday visits and dinners across Kingsport Bristol Johnson City Bluff City Orebank Erwin and related areas. Families including Jones Bond Bridwell Holt Leedy Gunning and Stanfield are seen with relatives and friends. illness updates note Emmaline Grubb and J C Wine improving slowly.
The Mt Lebanon area reports fine rain on Wednesday and Wednesday night. Farmers are gathering corn as the school year continues with 46 students enrolled under J. H. King. Mr and Mrs John Hite with children visited Ruth Poore and daughter Miss Georgia. Dorothy Lee Slaughter of Holston high school spent the weekend with relatives. G Strickler family shared Sunday dinner with A A Kidds. Georgia Poore visited Miss Mary Walton near Hemlock. Alice Light shopped in Kingsport. Charlie Moore traveled to Kingsport on business and bought two lots and a house there, planning to move soon. Mary Bond and Eugene visited daughter Mrs A J Watson and family Wednesday. Allen Booker and family of Fordtown called on Ruth Poore Tuesday.
Rev Lowry Brockus and Phillips from Erwin started a revival at Allegheny Sunday while the school there progresses under Prof Staten. Guests included Mrs Will Phillips and son Paul visiting John Baxter family. The group later spent Monday night with Mr and Mrs C J Steadman.
A long campaign appeal argues Major Divine's fitness for Chancellorship based on 31 years at the bar, broad court experience, a large law library, and service in the Spanish War. It praises his independence, self-financed campaigning, party loyalty, and records of defending the poor and labor, urging Republicans to nominate him.
Detroit Michigan October 17 The Chevrolet Motor company built 55 865 motor cars and trucks during September a new record for that month and only 878 fewer than the highest production month in its history. Domestic deliveries rose about 44 500 in September and August shipments to U S dealers reached 41 500 an August record. Charles F Barth vice president notes year round demand and loyal work force as factors behind the surge and revised schedule calling for 63 165 vehicles was nearly met with 55 865 produced.
The First Christian Church will hold morning and evening services with sermons by Pastor A. M. Fox. Morning topic is The Significance of the Cross and evening topic The Ladder that Reaches from Earth to Heaven. Sunday School contest begins with goals set at 150 and team captains Shelburn Ferguson and L. E. Summers. Midweek services are Wednesday at 7:45 led by Ferguson.
The conference heard Dr Stresemann urge peaceful neighborly life to secure development of states. M Briand praised the German people’s defense while critics debated Rhine pact ratification and occupation force reductions. Reports say Cologne could be evacuated before the pact, while Coolidge views the pact as a major step toward a new armament conference in Washington.
A prisoner in the county jail, believed to be Kennie Wagner, sought by Tennessee and Mississippi for murder, has resisted identification efforts. Officials report progress, with sufficient matches to transfer him to the calling states, though Green County Mississippi officials have yet to confirm arrival. Identification papers from Bristol Tennessee were inconclusive, even as the inmate closely resembles the wanted man.
Authorities report no fingerprint match in Bristol records. The arrested man gave the name J A Wyras dick and claimed to be from Alabama. He later denied visiting Tennessee or Mississippi and has not spoken since, showing no apparent worry about the inquiry.
Tularie 25 Mississippi A and M 2 Port Benning 27 Oglethorpe 7 Texas U 33 Auburn 10 Southern College 27 South Georgia A and M 0.
Weather indications show a chance of showers Monday except in Tennessee and again about Thursday or Friday. Otherwise expect generally fair weather and rising temperatures Monday, cooler conditions later in the week, with a turn to warmth around Thursday.
Dr. Richard and Dr. Kerr of the International Health Board began a field campaign to eradicate hookworm disease in Tennessee. They departed for Sevierville to start their study while livestock quotes in Louisville show cattle at three hundred, hogs around six hundred, and sheep steady.
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