The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-17
PERGONAE

DR.. t. J. Speck is professionally alb
sent at Athens, Tenn.
Mrs. Geo. A. McNutt returned home
last week from a visit to relatives in
Hawking county.
Messrs. Gregg, of Sullivan, McGahey,
OF Greene, and Trent, of Hancock,
members of the House of Representa-
tives, passed through on Monday en- route
for Nashville.
Hon. T. Cain left Cor Nashville last
Monday, to take his seat in the called
| session of the legislature as representa-
tive from Hamblen and Granger. He
hopes to return before Christmas.
Mr.. d. Pence was summoned by a tel
egram to the sick bed of his father, near
Limestone, Washington county, last
Thursday, and is still absent. His faith
er is an aged and estimable citizen, and
it is feared he will not survive his pre-
sept illness.
Rev. W. ID. Baldwin, assigned to the
MOrristown Circuit by the Hslston Con-
ference of the Methodist E. Church, has
reached this city, and, with his family,
is for the present stopping at Mrs. II /.
Loops. Mr.. Baldwin comes endorsed
as an able and impressive preacher, an
earnest worker in the Masters cause,
and in every respect an exemplary and
Christian man worthy of the confidence
and esteem of our people.
The ever pleasant and honest face of
our friend, Mr.. Frank GoOdson, Of the
enterprising firm of GOOdson s. Turley,
Turkeys Mills, was visible on our streets
last Saturday. He was en- route home
from Knoxville, where he had been to
purchase a stock of holiday goods. We
would say to our friends in the vicinity
of Turkeys Mills that if they wish any.
thing in the way of Christmas goods
they can be supplied at Goodson q Tur-
ley's, where large assortment will be
found TO select from.
Capt. w. T. Rogers, Of Chattanooga,
passenger agent of the Nashville and
Chattanooga and the st. Louis railway
companies, and editor of the Guide, a
paper devoted to the interest of the tray
cling public, gave our sanctum a call
one day last week. We regret we were
absent, as we desired to personally thank
him for kind attentions bestowed upon
friends very precious to US, without a
knowledge of whose relatives they were.
while travelling over his line Of road.
No more honest, polite, accommodating,
railroad official can travellers find than
Capt Rogers, and the roads for which
he is agent is the great route to the
West, Northwest and Southwest. See
advertisement on first page of the Nash
vile, Chattanooga aud st. Louis railway
company.
Mr.. A. H. Gregg, of the Morristown
branch of Gregg & Co., manufacturers
of agricultural machinery, Trumans.
burg, New York, left with his wife and
family on Tuesday night Of last week
for his former home in Farmer Village,
Seneca county, N. Y. While here,
both he and his estimable wife won the
highest regard of our citizens. Besides
being a thorough and practical agricul-
turist, Mr.. Gregg is master in know-
edge of agricultural machinery, and has
placed a variety of the most important
and superior constructed machines in
the country upon our lands to cultivate
them and to show our people to what
perfection their lands may come by the
proper use of them. We trust he and
his family arrived home safely and will
return to us again in the near future.