The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-02-20

Q carloads best cement at Knoxville
prices G.. X. Lide K Co,

Q carloads best cement at Knoxville
prices G. X. Lide K Co,
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Gov. r. L. Taylor wasn the city this
week.
JAS P. Taylor was up from Conkling
this week.
1T. Essary was up from Nashville
Friday.
B. NJ. Hord, commissioner Of agri-
culture, was in the city last week look
ing at dirt
Mrs. E. Hoss and daughter, have
returned from an extended visit to
Kansas and New York.
Johnson City is playing in great
luck. 1t has drawn the capital prize
in the furnace lottery.
Mrs. j. T. Wilder and Mrs. James
A. Maher are at New Orleans attend
ing the Mardi Gras festivities
w. G. & ]. A. Mathes, the real estate
rustlers tipped the beam yesterday.
Their sales amounted to $l5, 900.
James NJ. Erwin has been appointed
timber inspector OH the Three C's and
entered upon his duties Monday.
Bristol had better watch her furna.
ces or they may go to the "tank"
whore they can get plenty of water.
When the people of Carter county
oppose the Three C's they are fight
ing their best prospects for railroad.
The Three C's carts passing through
Bristol did more to advertise the place
than anything it ever did for itself.
The latest improved purifyer and
water elevator on the market can he
had only at RheapSeehorn 4 Co.'S.
Middlesboro has a new bank. 1t
is the "Ceal and Iron Bank" and it is
believed that no Pattons can "touch'
it.
A drummer passed through the city
yesterday to Elizabethton with sam
Piles OF whiting wood and barlow
knives.
Chattanooga Chilled PIow can only
be found at Rhea, Seohorn 4 Co.'S II
is the cheapest and best plow on the
market.
Mrs. ]. w. Hoss, of Jonesboro, was
in the city last week visiting hel
cousin, Mrs Jno. A. Mongle on West
Market street.
Perhaps Bristol could get furnace
if"War" Robertson would advertise
for one in the want Column" of the
Courier p
Mrs. J. j. Hager, Misses Ada anC
Estelle Caldwell came down from
Bristol and spent Sunday with rela
tives. Miss Ada is still in the city.
Mrs. Jos. R. Anderson, of Bristol
spent Saturday OF last week in the cit!
visiting her niece, Mrs. Jno. A. Mon
gle on West Market street.
The Bluff City News has returned
to its former size, six column folio
and changed from Democratic to al
independent paper.
Miss Matte Harle charming
young lady of Morristown, returned
to her home last week after spending
flew days With Miss Fornie Barley
Mr. Walter faw, and sister, Mis-
Leona, left Tuesday Ter Florida. MI
Faw will be gone about three weeks
and Miss Leona will spend the bal
anoe Of the winter.
"War" Robertson advertises in tn
Bristol Courier for an "ass that ca
talk" He is in the right market an,
can have quite a variety to selec
from.
A Big Stone Gap man came dow
from Bristol Monday after seeing cor
tracts for furnaces, and hearing a
the tales they could tell and put hi
motley into Johnson City dirt.
We can't exactly make out whetht
Johnson City's new paper is The AC
vance or The Citizens Bank. TIL
first view ia certainly in favor OF th
latter.
There is a soap bubble contest {
Bristol. The real estate dealers Al
blowing hard and some nice bubble
are the result and they sail off NIGEL
but as soon as they strike somethin
solid like Johnson City they disaF