The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-05-01

from VISIT 10 hn01vIile.
Several car loads OF FIRE brick ha,
arrived for the furnace.
John Slack and Bert McDowe
we're down from Bristol Saturday.
IA. Carr and J. N. billiard cam
down from Bristol to view the cit
Monday.
Two new dwellings are being erecte
in the Land and Improvement Co..
addition.
! Mrs. W. P. Hamilton came dow
from Bristol Monday to visit Mrs. W
J. Thomas
| j. Scott left Tuesday for Craw
louisville, Ind, to spend few week
with home folks.
1t will hereafter be considered tn
proper thing for johnson City peopl
to go over the CCC during the sum
mer.
The Proctor Land Company have
secured the services of.W. f. Duffy
a civil engineer, and will plat theil
land at once.
Col. W. P. DUNCAN and L. III
Rhudy, Esq, of Watauga, were in til.
city Monday. Col. DUNCAN had just
returned from trip to Marion, Va.
w. w. Faw will commence work
~ovE .x,oo1~ ~, /, ,,,o4ob e. he atoro
house on Market street. The build
ing will adjoin it and will be 25x11C
feet.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. III. Shields and lit
tie daughter passed through the city
Monday enroute from Norfolk to Wa.
tauga, where Mrs. Shields will spend
few weeks with relatives.
Ben Dulaney has again telegrapEed
from New York that the steel plant
was all right. His action was imme-
diately ratified by the Bristol people.
Those who knew him best cried
"ratsi"
johnson City is to have fourth
bank. The building nov being erect
ed on the corner of Spring and Main
streets by Harr and Burrow has been
leased by the new company for five
years.
Mrs. ]. E. Gran iall and Miss Net
tie Shortridge sit yesterday on the
noon train for Sheldon, Illinois,
to visit their old home. They will
spend several weeks with their parents
and friends.
The San Marco restaurant has ar
ranged to deliver ice cream to any
part of the city and in any quantity
desired. Leave your orders and have
the best of cream sent to your house
for dinner or evening.
Col. s. II. Yocum and son, John,
are in the city. Col. expects to make
his home in California for few years
for his health. He has a number of
friends here who are glad to see him
and would like him to come back to
Johnson City.
Judge FL. III. Ingersoll, of Knox
vile, will deliver the literary address
before the societies of Sullins College
on Tuesday, june Sd, and DIR. ]. III.
Keith, of Cleveland, Tenn, will
preach the baccaIaureate sermon on
Sunday, June 1st. Both gentlemen
are able speakers.-Brlstol News.
That was an awfully funny thing
the Bristol Courier said about natural
gas in Johnson City. We didn't claim
TO have natural gas but we do claim
natural advantages and that Johnson
City is just naturally ahead of any
town in East Tennessee. Morristown
Gazette please copy.
The Gazette in recent issue spoke
Of Johnson City as being only half as
large as Morristown. Last week an
was held in Morristown and
416 votes were polled and the Gazette
says that it is 16 more than were ever
polled before. johnson City has poll
ed $50 and then did not have a full
vote.
Some of the stone foundations have
been finished on the Carnegie Hotel
and the brick masons have been
themselves this week. The
contractors say they will lay 10000
brick week. Some idea of the size |
Of the building can be had when it is
known that it will require three |
months to complete the brick work
even at that rate.
The ground has been staked off for |
the passenger station at the junction |
Of Main streets and the Three C's
road The depot will be about CEN
traly located between Main street and
the Narrow Gauge road and will have
vide streets on all sides oft. It will be
! model in neatness and convenience
and will cost about $1,000. Work on
she building will be. commenced in
thirty days.
From the State Sentinel Dover,
Del.
Mr.. Charles Harris, of Hotel
received from his friend I
w. w. Wing, who now resides at
Johnson City, Tennessee, steel
nail with four cuts in it similar to a
barbed wire, made with an ordinary
pocket-knife, the blade of which
was made of steel taken from the
Mine in Western North
Carolina. The cuts are as clean as