The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1904-03-03

MRS. Jno. ThornDurg Is improving
slowly.
d. F. Leach was the guest of Pleas
Leach Sunday.
Rev. Robert Hilbert preached q very
interesting sermon at Bells School
House Sunday.
Sheriff J. II. Goodman aud Miss
Mollie Leach we're visiting Miss vir-
gle Taylor Sunday.
Mrs. Alfred Hise, who reported as
being very i'll, died last Thursday, and
was buried the following day in the
Hice cemetery.
Married, on last Sunday at the resi-
dence of Esquire Dave Fine, Wallace
Feathers and Miss Jessie Maud Leon
ard were united in the holy bonds of
matrimony, Esquire Fine officiating.
May peace and happiness follow them
through life is the wish of the writer.
A. NJ. Carr says covering houses
does not suit him very much. oh yes,
Arthur, don't study so much about
your better half (three-fourths 1 would
think and perhaps you'll not get your
foot fastened and have to knock off so
many boards.
The school taught by Prof. ]. P.
Gray and Miss Lena Peters ct Green
wood closed last Friday with an excel
lent entertainment. Messrs. Shipley,
Dyer and the Hale Brothers, of Boone's
Greek, composed the band. There was
a large crowd present and ell report q
nice time and the music was very fine.
J. H. Goodman says if it had not
been for Bro. Johns dreadful head
ache that those three scratches would
not now be adjoining his handsome
face. Now say, John, we know you
love that baby (P-) better than any
thing else on earth, but do you really
believe that God would call her baby ?
I don't
A certain married man while at neigh
boris house playing iack-rock came
very near losing a fine calf as it got
fast in wagon wheel, and when sent
for the man came running home but
could not see his calf, so he knocked
out some spokes, and 10 and behold
there lay his calf cuddled up in worm
hole.
The school at Waterloo closed Fri.
day, February 10, with appropriate ex-
ercises. OF course there was some few
students who were corrected but it is
not so much the students fault as il
was their parents for the fact is very
we'll known that some parents did up
hold their children in being rude to
their teacher. Miss Maud is to be con-
graduated on selecting such a fine
band OF musicians as she did-the HUFF
fine which rendered some excel
lent music. Notwithstanding the rainy
weather there was large crowd pres
ent.
Esq. Elias Vines informs us that he
is too busy now to attend to his gnats
and grasshoppers as he is preparing to
erect new house, bat says just wait
until he gets that house built, his wife
stationed therein (to attend the farm
of courSe) and then he'll have time to
attend to his Jumpers" and "Ayers.'
Me thinks that little wife when ht
gets herr would be more pleasant
companion than any gnat or grasshop'
per. Oh! now Esquire, what say you
Jesse says this is what Miss MI
father said to him when he called OF
her and stayed until after their regular
bedtime:
"Now get up, You ugly curr,
And make lively stir,
For if you do not run
I'll shoot you just for fun.
With you I'm hot in love,
But as harmless as dove.
Still, if you try trick,
I'll shoot you mighty quick.
You hadn't better stop,
For you see I've got the drop,
So take lively scoOt
Before you feel my boot.
Jesse says after that he faded away
SUSAN.
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