The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-04-02
KoDAKs.

Easter made its eggsit and has gone
hens.
Dr. T, Kiucanon was in the city
Sunday.
Courtney Bayless was down from
Bristol Sunday.
H. G, Remine the tombstone man,
was in town last Friday.
Yesterday was all FOOLS day were
you equal to the occasion?
The heavens owes the earth debt
and is trying to liquidate it.
Mrs. A. j. Patterson, OF Jonesboro,
is visiting her aunt Mrs. W Il Harr.
Real estate Misunderstanding your
feet on your neighbours doot mat.
Just as the Courier predicted, the
foolkiller didn't go to Bristol-too big
a job.
B. ID. McCracken, OF Matuta, Tenn,
was seeing the sights OF johnson City
this week.
w. ]. Graham & Co., manufacturers
oil ice, shipped car load OF ice to
Bristol Tuesday.
VIM. Bowman, "the tall mountain
pine" was in town Tuesday shaking
up his constituency.
Charlie Seehorn was the first wit
ness summoned in the newly estab
ished la Y court ut johnson City.
]. E, Oliver, a store-keeper in tia
revenue department ct Nashville wa
with us the latter part of last week.
The New York 400 are doing tn
high'kicking act because a relative Q
Ward McAllister has married bale
girl.
We asked our devil to parse one o
the proposed Republican papers an
y this is how he did it; "Peters, Peter
Il Petered."
' A. T. Hice, one of o Jones & CO..
y drivers, was married Monday night I
Miss Litha Pilkerton Of Elk Park, \
@. Judge Hart officiated.
j. Brother Phillips, the colored Ba,
4 tiSt preacher, induckted several brotl
a. ers and sisters into his church lal
Sunday through Brush creek.
al A chestnut: Work will be con
le menced in thirty DAYS, and vigorousl
" pushed to completion Bristol Cou
Ter.
IN Concentrated Lye: The line wi
IS, sublet and 500 men put to work in
es days.
g. We think that the American Gag
can scar on without a colored JUDI
er on the United States circuit benc
ut II he cannot we had better employ q
IT. air ship to carry him in.-MorristoW
a Record.
'e- Let US gently press that right for
NJ paw Of yours, Brother Price, while '
re-. wait for the ship.
III One of our exchanges reached
lai in pitisble condition this week.
looked like gust Of English sparro'
" had roasted on it. The editor mu
:. ave been drunk or trying to expla
the Tariff We gather from the gre
II blank valleys and the dark hea
l. ridges that he either had plenty
- type and no matter or plenty OF m,
y, ter and no type.
II The Chattanooga Evening Ne
and the Bristol Courier seem inclin
to "kid" us because our women ha
~ taken the matter of population in
their own hands. They may be pl,
GO ing the deuce, but that is no reas
lu' they should be be (tray) ed. 7
News says:
we Johnson City is rapidly increasi
'ho in population. The Bristol Cour
'@u says they now have twins or tripl
Gov in every other house up there.
-. Illinois capitalists are making
- vestments at ana near Jonesbn
~ Tenn. Among others who have
vested there is mentioned Gov. Fl
lid and Corporal Tanner.-The (Fayet
rti- vile, Tenn,) Sun.
ue The Sun should let the tail of T
ere COMET sweep across her benign
as disk, and clear away the gatheri
ter mist from her radiant face. g
DC Fifer and Corporal Tanner bou,
property in johnson City. The S
= might as we'll say that site for /
Worlds Fair had been selected n
Pullman.
Jonesboro is near johnson City
Johnson City is not near JonesbC
A planet may have a moon br
moon never has planet.