The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-02-27

Ter MS SAND contract.
Miss Leonora Wilcox is visiting
friends at Roanoke, Va,
! T.V. McCown is receiving congratu-
tions this morning, It's boy.
Rev. II. s. Booth, of Cooper, West
Virginia, is visiting friends in the city.
Mrs, j. Range, who has been i'll for
several weeks, is reported to be recov-
ering
DIR. j. II. PreNs is now ofliced on
Main street over the store of W. b.
Crouch,
r. l.. Bruner has been confined to
his room for several days with rheuma-
tism.
DIR. H. w. Brown came up from
Knoxville Monday and spent the week
in the city.
Mrs. Jack Gillespie was over from
Watauga Monday to see relatives and
do some shopping.
Gus Broderick, of Limestone, is in
the city looking as pleased as newly
married man ought to-
Miss Mamie Bradley, of Birming-
ham, Ala, is the guest Of Mrs. S. A.
Byrd, on Watauga avenue,
Rev. John Wilds, of New York, will
preach at the First Presbyterian church
Sunday morning at 1870.
Mrs. w. NJ. Bolton left Sunday for
Louisville, Ky. She will travel sew
eral weeks with her husband.
w, H. Yates has gone to his old
home in Michigan, on account of the
serious illness of his mother
J. Washington Crumley attends
court in Bristol, Judge or no Judge.
lie has case that must be heard.
F. Firnstone, general manager of the
G, G. H. CO., and E. Il. & w. N. G.
Il. X. Co., was in the city this week.
We have a few high grade second
hand pianos to be sold at bargains.
Write us. RosenAeet & Co., Greene
vile, Tenn. GIG
II. G. Jackson, trustee, and Romeo
Russell, assistant, were up from Jones'
bOro Monday to see the Georgia Min
strels.
Go to the johnson City Feed Co.'S, in
the Evans block, to buy all your hay,
grain, flour, bran, potatoes, &c. No. 1
western timothy. Prices guaranteed
on everything.
p. G. Hoss has moved his family
from Erwin toJohnson City. Mr.. Hoss
is foreman of bricklayer for the con-
tractor on the hospital buildings at the
Soldiers Home.
W. o. Phillips was down from Fish
Spring Monday to look after his inter
ests in this city. His new block is now
nearing completion and will be the
handsomest building in the city.
J. NJ. Gaunt, of Carrollton, KY, has
been in the city this week on business.
He will be remembered by many of
our boom time residents, and is a
pleasant visitor at this time
While going home last Saturday
evening Isaac Morrell and Bob Ander-
son, relatives, and both living on
Buffalo, got into a difficulty and Nor
rell was badly cut. 1t was reported
here that he was killed, but there were
no very serious wounds.
Three hundred and thTty-two fami-
lies are buying coal and wood from us,
for which we are grateful, and so are
they. Come along the rest of you and
make it unanimous, and you, too, will
find that 1900 pounds make ton at
City Coal Cos.
Miss Gertrude Irvine, a rare and
radient maiden from the Valley of
Virginia, has returned to her home af-
ter pleasant visit to Miss Belle Miller
and other relatives in this city. She
is one of the most delightful young
ladies that visits here and is a general
favorite with the society young folks.
P. S. Mcclure, the Optician from
Knoxville, is now at the Drummers
Hotel in Johnson City, and will be here
for one week. Call on him at his office
at the old Greenwood Hotel and have
; Spectacles or Eye Glasses scientifically
E fitted to your eyes while he is here.
/, WANTED Young men and young
ladies to qualify for the Signal Railway
and Commercial Telegraph Service,
who can give good recommendations
to write to the Western Telegraph Uni
versity, Gleason, Tenn, at once. Te-
, legraphy learned here in 5 months.
Good board for 81 per month. Tuition
free to the right ones. Eight sent to
$45 positions on last month. Write
quick, if you mean buriness. 919-4t
Sam Simcox has returned from a
trip to Michigan, where he went to
look at some locomotives for the Gran
berry Coal and Iron Co. The compa-
ny will purchase another narrow gauge
engine and broad gauge switch en-
CINE to be used at the furnace. Supt.
Simccx thinks it will be at least thirty
days before the furnace can go into
s blast and maybe longer. There was q
I great deal of repairing to do about the
S boilers and other machinery and this
is slow work, especially so on account
of the severe weather. The brick work
has been completed.
Account Confederate Veterans Reun-
ion, Dallas, April 90 to 20, 1909, Queen
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