The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-08-08
People Talked OF.

Dfistol flluay.
Thos. Gouge, of Hampton was in the
city Tuesday.
Misses Emma and Edith Hout2 are
at Roam Mountain for a month.
Gov Taylor passed through the city
Saturday on his way to Nashville
Col. A. ]. Patterson and Mr.. Land
street, Of Alton, were in the city satur-
day.
Mrs. DR.. Slower, of Richmond, is Wis
ting her friend, Miss Constance Tins
ley.
Miss Lucy Smith, Of Ebeneaer, was
the guest Of Mrs. G. w. Hardin last
week.
Mrs. J. G. McFerin and daugher, OF
Morristown, are visiting Mrs. Geo. W.
Hardin.
Frank Gillian is back home for a
few days, and real estate is beginning
to creep.
Mrs. l.. G. Berry went up to Bristol
Monday to attend the funeral OF Miss
Lizzie Hobson.
Miss Joe Cameron, of Elizabethton,
was in the city last week visiting her
sister, Mrs. G. w. Hardin.
Misses Lena St. John, Fannie and
Lucy Blair came up from Carriers yes
terday on shopping expedition.
Frank Evans, expert book keeper,
has Just been making out the duplicate
tax book for Washington County
Rev. N. Kelf Smith delighted fair
: audience with sacred songs at the Pres
byterian Church last Tuesday night.
, DR.. NJ. B. Culver, of Philadelphia
/. was in the city last week looking after
his real estate interest and buying
more dirt
t Mrs. A. Tadlock and Mrs. W. X
Vance came down from Bristol Tues
day and spent the day with Mrs. j. A
Caldwell.
r w. r. King and j. D. Thomas, o
Bristol, passed through the city Mon
day, returning from Blowing Rock
North Carolina.
r. w. L. CrumIey has moved his fami
IS ly back to Blountville, He only live
in johnson City short time, but wa
II a good citizen, and we hate to Civ
- him up.
e. Capt. w. H. Nelson came dowr fror
Roam Mountain Monday and spent
:, few days in the city. He says the re
=. cent rains have about ruined the oat
and hay crops in his part of the count,
Ike T. Jobe, the enterprising livery
man, has added carriage to his pa
:, ace stable turnouts. 1t arrived Tue
day from Chattanooga. Ike makes
special feature of keeping up with I'll
times.
H. @. Boyd, IA prominent lawyer
Elizabethson, and we'll known her
IN died at his home last Saturday NOR
Is ing of heart disease. He was abol
aV 40 wears old and leaves a wife and OF
y child.
Mai. George Taylor was in the CT
Vi Yesterday He says the oats and HI
yes crops are almost entirely ruined
ne the excessive rains, and that the co
0, crop will be light, and Irish potato
cal are rotting in the ground.
A Brownsville special to the Bris
cK Courier announces the death OF M
la Cora Deaderick Brown on the Goth
lte' July near Rock Hill, S. G. The
ceased was daughter Of the late JUG
1ed WV. Deaderick and has many irier
in in Washington county who will re
Who of her death with sorrow.
tne Lie. White gave THE COMET tn
'ca' very fine specimens of the Mamm
variety Of tomatoes last Tuesday. ]
ent thrrp weighed five and one-fou
ran pounds, the largest one weighing
ON pounds, and the other two Ia and
d to respectively. Mr. White says his Vi
lent are very full, and that he has gathe
Ten some even larger than those brou
ia. Mr.. White has, by the way, on
lroe the finest farms in Washington co
lrm. ty and grows nothing small upo
mail except weeds.
that Miss Lizzie Allen Hobson, daugl
: OF, Of Mr.. and hrs A. A. Hobson, died
ting the residence Of her parents Mon
MOI ming at ten o'clock, Of typhoid
segi, YER. Miss Hobson was taken Ill
/, arel the ninth day of June and has
{ they confined to her bed ever since.
49, Her illness has been a painful
'aYy and the stream Of life ebbed and flo
18th. causing the patient watchers arc
veral Aher many thrill Of hope and par
/ few despair as they watched tne sIrut
Adju- OF nature 10 conquer '
onts Istroyer.
CON- ture and refinement, and to-day t
,se.- is many heavy heart, who mourn
Vloss.-Courier.