The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1904-09-08
Local and Personal.
Opera House Friday night.


Mrs. J. E, Crouch is threatened with
typhoid fever.
L. T. Duke was in Bristol on bust
ness Tuesday.
Miss Nell Wade has returned from a
visit to Virginia.
Rev. e. W. Akard, of Unicoi, was in
the city Tuesday.
"The Counterfeiters" at the opera
house Friday night.
Mrs. f. X. Cox and child are visit
ing relatives in the city.
Mrs. Murphy, of Jonesboro, is visit
ing Mrs. A. N. Jackson.
Miss Mary Lyle will attend Virginia
Institute at Bristol this year.
Mrs. r. N. Penland of Sweetwater is
visiting friends in this city.
John +. Lyle and daughter, Miss
Mary, werein Bristol this week.
Miss Beulah Lee Will attend South
west Virginia Institute this we ar.
Miss Lula Mitchell of Flourville is
keeping books at Pardue's grocery
store.
j. M. Buck and Mrs. Buck are visit
ing Washington, d. c., and other east
ern cities.
Mrs. w. G. Kirkland and children,
OF New Orleans, La, are visiting Mrs.
John II. Bowman.
Miss Kate Jarnigan and Miss nellie
Ellsworth of Jefferson City are guests
of Mrs. Blair Nafr.
]. B. Park and wife have returned to
Greeneville after pleasant visit to Mr..
and Mrs. s. B. White.
Miss Lucy Sells came down from
Bristol Tuesday to visit Mrs. S. r.
Sells and other relatives,
Mrs. 1. N. Beckner and Miss Flor
euce Beckner have returned from a Wis
1T to Whitesburg relatives.
Henry Davis and David Grindstaff,
of Limestone Cove, were transacting
business in the city Tuesday.
Misses Hattie Hunter and Marion
Johnson left Tuesday for Southwest
Virginia Institute to enter school.
Summer EGGPLANT is very danger
GUS disorder of babies. DIR. Fahrneys
Teething Syrup prevents and cures it.
Miss Roxie Slaughter and James
Parsons are among Johnson City's rep
resentatives at Tusculum College this
year.
Jas. L. Johnson and Miss Mary Shell
were married last Sunday at the home
OF the bride, Rev. j. Lem Keevil offici-
ating.
z. X. Campbell and daughters,
Misses Mary and Jean, of Birming-
ham, Ala, are visiting Mrs. Geo. H.
Berry.
r. L. Galloway returned Friday
from the st. Louis pike and is almost
well enough to go to his suburban
home.
DIR. Ferndon, Mrs. Ferndon and
baby, of New Orleans, came to the
city Thursday to visit relatives for a
short time.
Miss Helen Wood, charming little
girl from Boston, is here to spend the
winter with her uncle, Haskell Wood,
at Fairwood,
1t is amusinglS pitiful to see some of
the "soaks' ON Sundays, with noise
less ammunition, penetrating the jun
giles in search of the "tiger."
Hon. W. e. +. Milburn will remove
his family to johnson City Wednes-
day. Our citizens regret to loose this
excellent family from our midst. Sun.
Charlie Longley left his barber shop
long enough to go to Norfolk ON the
last seashore excursion of the season,
but it will probably be impossible for
| ulm 10 see buOFe.
Holston Presbytery will meet in the
Timber Ridge church, Greene county,
Tenn, on Wednesday evening. Sept.
81, 1904, at 1880 O'clock
JNo. s. EAKTN, Stated Clerk.
Miss Sarah Broyles is nursing bro
ken arm. While riding little pony
last week the saddle turned and she
was thrown to the ground in such {
position as to break her left forearm.
Mrs. M. L. Walsh passed through
the city Thursday enroute from Ell
Park to AsheYille in the interest of he
health, accompanied by her husband
She is suffering from nervous prostra
ton.
w. L. Jones, of tho Tennessee Fur
niture Co., will go to Cincinnati mex
week to look out novel things in furni
ture and will also see if anything nev
has been discovered in the embalmin,
process.
Jack Goodine and w. Il. Crawfor
left Tuesday for st. Louis. They hav
been here for several months on con
tract at the Soldiers Home and hav
made many friends who regret thei
departure.
w. G. Mckee will leave Friday moo
for Sault st Marie, Mich, with r. I
II. Sweetser. Will is one of the cleN
crest fellows imaginable and his d.
parture will be greatly regretted b
many friends here.
Sheriff Smith made his first officil
visit to Johnson City Wednesday. H
will appoint Gum" Byrd deputy IL
johnson City, but Mr.. Byrd is too sic
now to assume his duties and deput
Boring is still serving.
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