Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-08-07
WASHINGTON COLLEGE,.

Our farmers are generally elated at
the fiatterlng outlook for a good corn
and fruit crop. Most of the whooping
cough patients are convalescent. An
infant child of T. j. Upton died the
night of the 30th. AT a recent meeting
OF the Salem Church committee with
Samuel Stone all the necessary
ments were made for the speedy COM
pletion of the work on said church.
Messrs. McCracken, Bolton and Argen.
bright are making great efforts towards
the finishing of the three cottages thew
are engaged in building. Messrs. viii.
loughby and Chase have about COM
pleted a very spacious and convenient
house at Clark Spring; | suggest that
this edifice be called the Chattanooga
house, as it is designed to be a place of
rest. Miss Matte M. Rankin, the fac
totum member of this institution, has
returned from an extensive canvassing
tour In the interest of the school here.
winch will open on the Goth. Miss
Rankin says the prospects for some
new students are very 1attering. If
this institution had a half dozen IAN
vassers with the same amount of pluck
and get up and go that Miss Rankin
has there would have to be more now
buildings erected here to accommodate
the new students that would gather
here about the 1st of September, as it
is the board of trustees and faculty
Will have to be content with the fitting
up of all the available space now on
hands. There has been forty five new
school desks ordered from Prof. Watts
for the primary and secondary depart.
ments of the school; these two depart.
ments will be absolutely free for the
entire nine months term to all pupils
OF these grades who reside within the
bounds OF this, the Washington Col
lege public school district; what a boon
to the patrons and pupils of this vi.
cinity, would be glad if every school
the land was SO fortunately situated.
We are expecting a good report from
Prot. j.. A. Gains, of Sullivan County,
and also from Miss Louise Thomas,
who has been elected as directress of
the music department of the school.
She is to be assisted by Miss Bacon, of
Hawkins, or some other efficient vocal
list. Taking all things into the count
our centennial prospects for a good
school are indeed very flattering and
the friends who have worked up the
primary and secondary departments to
full nine months term of free tuition,
should feel well satisfied with their
efforts; this is really something new
under the sun. John F. Bolton, u
all round good citizen recently bought
his brothers and sisters interest in the
old David Bolton homestead; John
paid $25 per acre for the four interests
purchased and did not have to hunt
the money to foot the bill. One of u
best young men, Sam Anderson, re-
Gently tuined to this his native heath
from johnson County, Missouri, where
he moved last spring with his young
wife prospectively to make the west
their home, but a few short months
satisfied Samuel and wife that East
Tennessee was the better place to make
an honest living. Sam el is a tiller of
the soil of the progressive kind. Sam,
we now welcome you and yours to
your old home. Jas. w. Deaderick has
purchased David II. Ruble's share of
the FL. H. Ruble farm; the interest pur-
chased by Mr.. Deaderick includes the
brick house and sixteen and one half
acres of land. Henry Huffman, former
ly of Ruble's mill, has taken charge of
Isaac Broyles' mill, put in new bolt
ing cloths, redressed the burrs and is
to my knowledge by sight and taste
making strictly No. l burr flour, and
gives you forty pounds to each bushel
of good wheat and the usual amount
of bran and shorts; try him with just
five bushels of good wheat and you
won't regret the effort. Prof. Jas. T.
Cooter and lady have the sympathy of
a large circle of friends at the loss by
death of ther infantson at Terre Haute,
Indiana. DR.. ]. Bond, late of Balti-
more, has decided to make this place
his home, where he will practice his
profession of dentistry; the Doctor is an
expert in the art of tooth extracting
and filling and with all is a very nice
Christian gentleman. Kin Tackahashi,
the nice little Jap, who graduated from
Maryville College, has been with us
and made a talk on the present and
future of his native country. Go on,
Kin, you will get there and help others
along. Wanted-an expert to help
Ben Rankin find and distinguish from
the weeds the vegetables he thinks
should be in his garden; Ben is good to
old mother earth, he never disturbs
her soil only to press it down with his
No. IL or less shoe. We are daily ex-
pecting Hon. Walter Brownlow with
his force, poles, wire and phones to put
us in connection with the world by tele-
phone. Our mail service under the
contract with A. E. Payne is perfect;
daily he makes connection with both
the east and west bound mail trains.
AS q College we are an hundred years
old and we have been doing very we'll
for old folks and our future ia bright.