The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1904-09-15
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lock-iaw few days ago.
Farmers generally are done plowing
for wheat. Some who have not finished
will be ''in the soup" if the dry wealth
er continues.
This section seems to be overstocked ID
with horses, mules and cattle with but
little demand for them at prices farm.
ers are willing to take.
The sacramental meetings of the
Church of the Brethren at Pleasant
View, last Saturday evening and Sun
day, was we'll attended.
r. NJ. Young and Mrs. Young are
seriously indisposed and the chances
for their recovery are not so good as
their friends would desire.
The Banner Mill Company has pur-
chased an engine to use during the low
water season, which is q great conven-
fence and benefit to customers.
Rev. DeVault of Buffalo Ridge was
recently called to take charge of the
Baptist church here in place of Rev.
Cox, who resigned the pastorate some
time ago, to become effective Oct. /.
j. J. Jones, our hustling lumbermaD,
will visit st. Louis the latter part Of
this month. He has not yet informed
us who will accompany and look after
him.
John A. Crosswhite and Robt. Ray
and their better halves, who have been
spending few weeks with relatives
and friends here, left for their homes
in Kansas City, Mo-, Monday. They
will, en- route, step over in st. Louis
and visit the Fair.
The schools in this district are all
supplied with teachers. Our secondary
school at Lamar opens on the 10th and
the others October I'd. An effort was
made to abandon the Cash Hill school
and transfer portion to the Fifth dis
trict, but our directors rejected the
effort.
The threshing outfit of Miller Bros,
known as the "bugle band, will COM
plete the season this weee. They have
had fine run and given general satis-
faction wherever they have been. The
yield has been remarkably good in this
section and the quality the best for
several years.
Our good, amiable friend, Gus Bow
ers, seems to be ont of party. He
told me the other day he would vote
for anyone who opposes the Adams law.
If Gus means what he says he will
have to take up the cudgel in behalf of
Nat Hyder. Perhaps Nat will take him
in "on suspicion" il no other way.
Many of our young people attended
the Sunday School picnic at Mt. Wesley
in the Fifth district Saturday last. We
used to enjoy affairs of that kind eat
ing dinner in the woods among the
tree-frogs, ants, chiggers, grasshop-
pers, Lizards, and other pestiferous
insects and reptiles, but we called 0
halt in that direction several years ago.
DR.. Royston, republican aspirant, IL
getting a mighty "hump" on himself
and is rallying his friends and urging
them TO be in Jonesboro on the 10th
If the day is fair large crowd of oul
country soverelgns will be on hand, b,
says, and that the little town clique
and fence-corner politicians will 'no
be in it," The country republicans ar
unquestionably Royston men, and an.
"chenanigan" that may be attempte'
will be sat down upon with thud.
Many republicans here are surprise
and disgusted with the position take
by Candidate Littleton against th
Adams law. If correctly reported, b
will lose many more temperance repul
licans than he will gain from th
(. liquor element. A great many mel
: even large per centaae of those WI
Q drink, are strong adherents of the la
: now on the statute books, even fav'
n an extension, and any man opposir
n the same stands no more show of su
g cess at the polls than powder -hou
e would of being safely intrenched m
J. the flames of the lower regions.
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