The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-06-05
J.B. Cox is building cottage on

], b. Cox is building cottage on
Boone street.
Attention is called to the statement
Of the city recorder in this issue
W. P. Artz commenced his new
dwelling on lnaka avenue last Mon.
day.
Census enumerator II b. Crunley
began counting noses and discounting
(girPs) ages last Monday.
The Johnson City Reds are getting
in fine condition and have arranged
game with the st. Clair team for.the
Fourth Of July,
Mitchell & Sjoberg are about ready
to begin work on their new planning
mill. They run a little this week to
test he machinery.
The section hands on the East
Tenn, Va, & Ga. railroad have struck
for 10 hours and 81 % per day, instead
OF from daylight till dark at $100 per
day.
The members of the Longfellow
Literary Circle are picnicing to-day at
Austin Springs. They went out on a
special train on the Three C's road,
1t rained MS usual.
Prof. ]. Hopwood, of Milligan col
lege, bought $50 acres OF land south
of Bristol last week, from Adam Hunt,
and will establish an educational in,
stitution thereon
The wooden buildings ON Main
street between the National and Wa
tauga banks are being torn away to
give way to massive brick buildings,
Thus we grow.
w. j. Graham & Co. are preparing
to conducts retail department in con-
nection with their wholesale grocery
store. They will make it first class in
every particular.
Joe Caldwell lost fine Jersey COW
yesterday. She died as ten or twelve
others have in the last week, and no
one has been able to tell the cause Of
or find a remedy for the disease.
Mr. Foley, the Nashville gentle
men that has the contract for laying
the pipe for the water works company,
wrote Mayor Jobe to-day that he
would be in the city in a few days to
commence work.
Jonesboro dies hard. II has given
up all hope of getting the Embree'
vile road, but is doing all it can to
keep the company from building the
road at all That's enterprise With
a vengeance.
Remine's marble yard is being re.
moved from East to West Market
street near the creek. The yard va
Gated is to be occupied by a handsome
blsck of storehouses to be built by
Kinchelo Hale.
R. L. Gregory, city editor of the
Roanoke daily Herald, was in the city
this week He was very much sur
prised to see how much more RAPIDLY
Johnson City was growing than any
other town between Roanoke an(
Knoxville.
The Bristol News of Monday say
"there was a prohibition meeting a
Papersville Saturday night. Rev. J
O. Straley and ]. w. Crumley wer
present and made speeches. A prohi
bition club was organized with TWEEN
ty seven members"
The East Tennessee and Western
North Carolina Railroad Co. is prepal
ing to put a third and regular passer
ger train on some time this month.
is scheduled to leave here at u 80 I
m. and will arrive at 10 AS a. m. !
will be a great accommodation to tn
travelling public, especially the tour
lists going to and from the summer n
sorts along the road.
Mr. w. M. McCabe, of Sidney, Ohic
has been in the city several days thi
week getting up an advertising d
rectory. He has placed three larg
, pictures Of the U. s. Capitol with bus
ness cards around it, all elegant
\ framed, in the depot, postoflice an
: hotel. The card is attractive and
good advertising medium. The prin
ing was done in the COMET Job room
Every man who comes from JOIN
son City increases the number
:, houses that are under process of ere
: tion there now. Last week it was 15(
now it is $50 Bristol News.
The News shoIld bear in mind th
week interviewed between the tv
statements, and that Johnson Gil
does not stand still. You can't ke6r
growing town down.
The announcement ofD. M. Sion
l. ker for trustee, appears in this issu
l. Mr.. Slonaker is a Democrat all ov
3 and is frst-class man in every I