The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-08-14

1t is reported that the Southern Rail
way will extend the South Carolina &
Georgia Extension Railway from Mari
on to johnson City.
w. o. Dyer is at Clarksville with the
Tennessee Central railroad as civil en-
gineer on the extension from GAINESVILLE
to Hopkinsville, Ky,
Go to the garden party Thursday at
the residence of w. T. Harris. Spend
the afternoon or evening, meet your
and have a pleasant time.
Misses Ruth and Mary Gertrude
Lyle are visiting Miss Blanche Hyder
on the Watauga river this week and
studying watermelon culture.
G.. A. Rudenshiold and family left
hast Friday for Johnson City, where he
will engage in the merchant tailoring
business. -Greeneville Sun.
Miss Ponie Cook, of Athens, and Mrs.
W. May Brevard, of Huntington, are
stopping at the Weller Inn. They are
here for the purpose of organizing
Hive Of Maccabees.
Hon. Nat Harris of Macon, Ga. was
in the city this week enroute from Una
ka to his home in his private car. Mrs
Harris and his children are spending
the summer at Elk Park.
You ought to have electric lights in
your residence. The Watauga Light
ing and Power Co. will make you some
interesting figures and convince you
that good light is cheapest.
A variety of aprons and other useful
articles for sale by the sewing class at
the residence of w. P. Harris, Thurs
day, August 2lst. Kern's ice cream
and cake will be served.
Rev. Jere A. Moore, pastor of the
Second Presbyterian church, has been
granted q months leave of absence and
is spending his vacation in Indiana and
Illinois. Rev. j. G. Day will fill his
pulpit Sunday morning.
Miss Sue Rogan, after an extended
visit to Knoxville, where she attended
a summer school, has returned home,
and she and Miss Lynn are getting
ready to open kindergarten and pri.
mary school September 1st.
p. S. Mcclure, the optician from
Knoxville, is back in Johnson City and
will be at the Drummers' Home Hotel
for the next five days. Call on him
and have your eyeglasses or spectacles
scientifically fitted to your eyes.
Mrs. Il. Z. Ellsworth and children,
who have been spending the summer
at her fathers, DIR. J. +. Kennedy, of
Des Moines, Iowa, returned home this
week, bringing as guests Mrs. j. w.
Dean and Miss Name Mcnamara, of
Upton, Iowa.
There will be a garden party at the
residence of W. p. Harris Thursday,
August 2lst, from 3 to 10 p. m. The
sewing class, composed of twenty-three
girls, will exhibit and sell the work
made by them during the past year.
Ice cream and cake will be served at
the usual price.
A large crowd of colored people came
down from Bristol last Tuesday and
picniced in the city. They filled the
town but were an orderly lot of people
and gave the police no trouble whatev-
er. Charlie Longley looked after their
comfort while in the city and enjoyed
their visit very much.
Last Wednesday Unaka Springs en-
joyed visit from q party of Johnson
City's smart set-in fact honors were
easy. Those in the party were Misses
Lula and Iillia Burbage, Matte and
Gordon Henderson, Ethel and Annie
Barlow. James Summers, Will John
son, Martin Gump, Andrew Spencer,
Frank Taylor and Charlie Cargille.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the First
Presbyterian church will entertain in
honor of their pastor and his wife, Rev.
and Mrs. j. Edmond Brown, on Thurs
day evening, August 21st, from to II
o'clock, at the residence of j. +. Lyle,
on Watauga avenue. All members OF
the church and congregation are cCfdl'
ally invited to attend. Refreshments
will be served.
Miss BrentIey and Miss Lucas, two
very delightful young ladies from th,
Land of Flowers, were pleasant guests
of Miss Sauna Biddle last Sunday a
Austin Springs. The young ladies are
snendino the summer at Unaka Springs
Miss Brentley is handicapped with {
large fortune, but Will johnson ant
Martin Gump say that she has so man.
redeeming features that you lose sigh
of that defect when in her presence,