The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-03-22
!. TENN, THURSDAY. MARCH %. 1913.
~sn.e news.

Col JAS Sweeney, Of Sewer ia dead.
DR. j. D. Shanks, of Knox connty,
is dead, "a
Jonesville will have new bank by
April lst.
A cannery is to be started at
Brownsville
Wild cats are becoming numerous
in Crockett county.
An Episcopal church is to be erect
ei in Dickson this spring
Oats are being planted in large
quantities all over the State.
Morristown will he illuminated by
electric light about April lat.
The spoke and handle factory at
Manchester :s nearly completed.
Two hundred persons were convert
Ell at n revival at Jackson last week.
VIM Gates accidentally shGt his ais
ter, in Granger county last Tuesday
Reports Of the peach crop from sew
eral n ighboring counties is discour-
aging.
Thirteen converts left Weakley
county Thursday with two Mormon
elders for Utah
The barn and stables of VIM. Shaw,
IN Sullivan county, were destroyed by
fire Wednesday.
Hamilton Shoun, OF Rheatown,
father rf A, N. Shoun, Of Greenville,
died last Wednesday.
The stage factory at MrMinnville
was burned Wednesday night. Loss
$1,000; no insurance.
A Baltimore gentleman bought sew
rral lots in West Bristol this week at
advanced figures.-Courier.
Bill Arp is on lecturing tour
through East Tennessee, and ia head.
ing towards johnson City.
A man killed another in West TIE l.
ness' e and was found guilty Of assault
aad battery and fined $50 and costs.
| There is not person a confined in the
Hickman county Jail. and the county
has not paid Jail fee for twelve
months.
Rev. W w BMs, a cousin of the
n ted divine Munsey, will begin se-
ri,s "f lectures at Mnrristown next
Tuesday evening.
The entire two hundred thousand
dollars wanted for the Midland rail-
road has been raised and there is n
general feeling If jolliIy at Nashville
The pnpnlarian of Dayton has in
creased ten-foId during the past four
wears. In 1884 there we're 400 people
in Dayton; the census taken this
week -howf 1000 population.
Now that Messy Greek has her new
creamery in full blast, another good
movement has has been put on foot
81 the effort to establish stock breed
rrs association. We hope it will sue
coed.
A man near Gallatin last week
killed n number Of dogs that had been
devouring his sheep Some person to
whom the dogs il supposed to have
belonged set fire to his house and
burned it down.
Will Slemens, the colored brakeman
who had his leg broken near Morris
town rnme time since in freight train
wreck. and afterwards had the limt
amputated, is ah0nt to die at his home
near Clark's foundry, in Knoxville.
Four fisherman at Knoxville repor
while that crossing the ennesse,
river in H small boat a fish like a ser
pent, and fully ten feet long, capsizet
the boat and broke it into pieces, th,
men barely getting ashore with thei
lives.
Creameries and dairies seem to agi
tate the minds Of East Tennesseans a
present. Enterprises like that direct
~ benefit the farmer, and should b
encouraged by him. He can do thi
by having pastures, keeping 3 large
number Of milk cows, and thus, b,
> producing a supply create a demand
From three to five hundred cows wi
: run creamery. The air and climat
| Of East Tennessee is pre-eminently aC
+ vantageous-Smeptwater NetUs.