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The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-07-06
TROOP TRAINS PASS
THROUGH THE CITY

Two troop trains passed through
Johnson City Wednesday e route 10
the border, these troops were part Of
the District of Columbia National
Guard, consisting of the Signal Corps
and the Cepate Battalion Colored In
fairy.
The District of Columbia's National
Guard consists of two Regiments of
Infantry, one Company Signal Corps,
one Battery Field Artillery, one Troop
of Cavalry and one Separate Battalion
Colored Infantry.
The trooy train that passed through
Wednesday carried the Signal Corps.
The men consisted of a fine body of
men, they had the appearances of reg
ular troops. The District has a good
National Guard and receive good sup
port from the business people of the
District.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-07-06
CLINCHFIELD CLUB BOYS
ENTERTAIN CENTENARY
COLLEGE GIRLS

One of the notable events of Kings
port society last week was the mid
day luncheon at the Clinchfield Club
House on Holston Heights in honor
of a crowd of Centenary College girls
attendig house party at the home of
Il c. H. Margraves at Rogersville.
Messrs. James Holston, Ludwig
Aull Conrad C. Miller and E. J. Boyl-
son attended dance given for the
visiting girls in Rogersville Saturday
night and were royalty entertained by
the Margraves over Sunday and Mon
day.
Accompanied by Mrs. Margraves the
visiting girls were Miss Willie Helen
Roberts, clever and popular member
of the younger set of Athens, Tenn,
Miss Mary Bewley, one of the pretti-
est girls of Centenary college from
Morristown, Tenn, Miss Louise Can
non, one of Knoxville. Tenn, most
popular smart set and an accomplish
ed musician, Miss Marion Fitzpatrick,
very attractive girl of Sweetwater,
Miss Lois Nichols, of Philadelphia,
Tenn, who delighted the boys by the
beautiful rendering of number Of
songs and Mary and Helen, the de-
lightful ad attractive daughters of
Mrs. Margraves.
Mrs. w. E, Law and her charming
sister, Miss Willie Hartzog, acted as
hostesses for the boys and the sue
cess of the affair was largely due to
their efforts. The visitors were all
charmed with the beautiful situation
of the club house. commanding as it
does a wonderful view of many miles
of the surrounding country. After
the luncheon an impromptu dance was
held in tn eclub rooms, which was
enjoyed by all.
At the coy home of Mrs. Al Wilson
on the Heights the entire crowd were
again shown a delightful example of
Kingsport hospitality. About eight
thirty, after enthusiastically voting
the day as one of the best of the sea-
son, the visitors left for Rogersville,
the boys accompanying them as far
as Rotherwood
The boys from the club attending
the luncheon were w. Grant Conley,
w. NJ. Bennett, Jr., W. Dupuy McLain,
James Rhea, Ludwig A. Aull, Conrad
C. Miller, James Holston and E. J.
Boylson.
Knoxville papers please copy.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-07-06
DO YOU KNOW THAT

Better wages make better health
Better health makes better citizens?
Better citizens make better ma
ton?
The U. S. Public Health Service
fund IS per cent of the rural homes
in a certain county unprovided with
sanitary conyeniences of any kind?
Cholera is spread in the same man
ner as typhoid fever?
Scarlet fever kills over 10000 AMI
orleans each year?
Hookworm enters through the skin?
He who builds up health lays up
treasure in the Bank of Nature?
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-07-06
at Rogersvile this week.

at Rogersvile this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Z. Burbage have
been the guests of friends in Greene
vile the past several days.
Atty. Guy S. Chase was the guest
of his father Rev. j. B. Chase, and
family at Conkling on Saturday.
D. B. Hill, of the Oliyer-Hill Con-
struction Co, of Knoxville, passed
through here Monday en- route to
Elizabethton.
The latest arrival at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Foy w. Dulaney was
Miss Sallie Geraldine Dulaney, who
arrived on last Sunday; weight Is
pounds.
J. H. Pitts, local manager of the
Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph
company, was looking after business
interests at Kingsport on Monday Of
this week.
-
Mrs. Mamie A. Taylor, of Knoxville,
who was called to Johnson City on
account of the death of Mrs. Ed King.
is the guest of Mrs. Ellen Hodges on
King street.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-07-06
BEAUTIFUL MUSIC
RENDERED AT FUNERAL
OF MRS. KIM

In addition to the impressive funeral
service conducted by DR.. John NJ.
Grove at the funeral of Mrs. Isabel
Wade King on Tuesday morning, the
music rendered was beautiful and fit
composed of Mrs. J. j. Ferguson, Mrs.
w. j. Barton, Mrs. John P. Lamb and
Mrs. Glennie Pence Barker rendered
Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" and
MY Father Knows" Mrs. Ferguson
rendered a solo, Come Ye Disconso-
late" Mrs. J. A. Cargille was accom-
PIANIST.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-07-06
3,OOO,o 900 RAISED TO
PENSION CLERGY

New York, July 2.-Bishop Law
renee, of Massachusetts,, head of the
movement in the Protestant Episco-
pal church to provide a thorough sys
tenn of pensions for it's clergymen
announced that $4,000 900 of the nee
essary 100000 fund had been pledg
ed as a result of a four months cam
paign. The plan will not be put
under way until the full fund as a re-
serve is on hand.
All of the sixty-eight diocesses oil
the Protestant Episcopal church in
the United States have now formally
adopted the pension plan and pledged
it their support.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-07-06
DOES SLOAN'S LINIMENT HELP
RHEUMATISM? i

Ask the man who uses it. he
knows. ITO think | suffered all
these years when one 25 cent bottle
ofof Sloan's Liniment cured me- y
writes one grateful user. If you have
rheumatism or suffer from Neural
gia, Backache, Soreness and Stiff
ness, don't put off getting a bottle of
Sloan's. 1t will give you such well
come relief. 1t warns and soothes
the sore, stiff painful places and you
feel so much better Buy it at any
Drug Store, only rs cents.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-07-06
BAD TO HAVE A COLD HANG ON

Don't let your cold hang on, rack
your system and become chronic
when DR.. Bells Pine-Tar-Honey will
help you. 1t heals the inflammation
soothes the cough and loosens the
phlegm. You breathe easier at once.
Dr.. Bells Pine-Tar-Honey is a laxa-
tive Tar Syrup, the pine tar balsam
heals the raw spots, loosens the mu-
cous and prevents irritation of the
bronchial tubes. Just get bottle of
DR.. Bells Pine-Tar-Honey today, it's
guaranteed to help you. At drug
gists.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-07-06
WILL MY CHILD TAKE
DR. KINGS NEW DISCOVERY?

This best answer is Dr. Kings New
Discovery itself, 1t is a pleasant
sweet syrup, easy to take. 1t con
tains the medicines which years of
experience have proven best for
Coughs and Colds. Those who ahve
used DR.. Kings New Discovery long
est are its best friends. Besides ev-
cry bottle is guaranteed. If you
don't get satisfaction you get your
money back. Buy a bottle, use as
directed. Keep what is left for Cough
and Cold insurance.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-07-06
HEAVY WINDS DAMAGE
THE GROWING CROPS

The heavy winds and rains the past
several days have done considerable
damage to early corn in this section.
The winds of late have been from
the northeast aud the rains have been
very hard and in some places the land
has been washed to a considerable eX
tent
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-07-06
PERSONALS

WANTED FOR U. S. ARMY: Able
bodied unmarried men under age Of
So; citizens of United States, of good
character and temperate habits, who
can speak, read and write the English
language For information apply tc
Recruiting Officer, Sedgwick Bldg.
Corner Market ST., and Union Ave.
Knoxville; 20 East Sth St., Chatta-
nooga; 122 Buffalo ST., Johnson City
Harrima, Tenn, Scarrett Bldg, Mid
dlesboro or Corbin, KY
Atty. Geo. N. Barnes spent the 18th
in Bristol.
H. H. Cloyd was down from Bristol
yesterday.
Frann Smith, of Limestone, was in
the city Tuesday.
Miss Callie McCorkle is visiting
friends in Bristol
Atty. ], Ralph Worley celebrated
the Fouth in Kingsport.
Rev. f. d. Watson, of Fall Branch
was here Wednesday,
Frank Shell, of Roam Mountain, was
here over Sunday
%***
John T. Keys, of Jonesboro, was
in tn Getty Monday.
**s*
Rev. j. X. Haynes. of Erwin, was
in the city Wednesday,
Faw Leach, of the Sth district, was
here on business yesterday.
$3.50
Sam Perry, of Shell Creek, was in
the city the first of the week.
F. NJ. Hyder, of Elizabethton, was
a business visitor here yesterday
Mr.. w. P. Taylor, of Knoxville, MS
tied friends in the city on the 4th.
Earl Hurst is looking after business
interests in North Carolina this week.
w. C. Toney of Erwin, was a
visitor here on Tuesday of this week.
Mrs. d. NJ. Junkin, of Roanoke, Va,
attended the funeral of Mrs. Ed King.
Col. H. H. Dyer was looking after
business in Bluff City the first of the
week.
e. L. McLoud and family have rs
their guest j. c. McLoud, of Knox
Vile.
II. ,. lay lOl, VI Mol ISIO"h II, ""o g
business visitor in the city Wednes-
day.
Earl Thomas, of Rheatown, was in
the city Wednesday on business
mission.
Gunner Teilman, the florist, is at
tending a convention of the florists in
Koxville this week.
50
Hon. Thad A. Cox was looking after
legal business in Blountville on Mon
day of this week.
Prof. D. S. Burleson delivered an
address at Newbern, Tenn, on Tues
day of this week.
Mrs. Chas. 3. Collette, of KoXville,
has been the guest of friends here
the past several days.
Gen. D. A. Vines is looking after
the states interest in circuit court
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-07-06
TO BYRD HAMMETT.
George w. Hammett
VS..
Jane Chandler, ct al.

Jane Chandler, ct al.
In the Chancery Court at Johnson
City, Tennessee.
In this cause it appearing from
the bill, which is sworn to, that
Byrd Hammett one of the defend
ants, is nonresident of the State
he is, therefore, hereby required to
appear before the Clerk and Master
of said Court at his office and make
defense to the bill filed against him
on or before the first Monday in
August, next, otherwise the cause
will be taken for confessed. as to
him, and the cause proceeded with
ex parte.
1t is ordered that this publication
be made in The Comet for four con-
secutiye weeks.
]. w. CASS,
Clerk and Master.
J. R. GARDNER, Sol. At
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-07-06
DEMOCRATIC CLUB
WILL ORGANIZE ON NEXT
TUESDAY MIGHT

After a conference of Democratic
leaders in Johnson City today, it was
decided to postpone the permanent
organization until Tuesday night of
next week. Several hundred have
signed up as members and a large
attendance is expected at the meeting
on Tuesday night.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-07-06
OUR COUNTY COURT
TO INSPECT COUNTY
FARM MONDAY

We are glad to note that our jail
and county farm are to be inspected
on Monday. If half of what has beer
said concerning the conditions exist
ing at the county farm is true it is
shameful, if on the other hand the
half has not been told it is doubiy
shameful. 1t is hard to believe that
our county having SO many things
to be proud of would allow such con
ditions to exist. We anXiously await
the action of the committee.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-07-06
SHORT HORN CALVES.

FOR REGISTERED SHORT HORN
BULL AND HEIFER CALVES, OF
THE DUAL PURPOSE KIND, FROM
SIX TO EIGHTEEN MONTHS OLD,
WRITE J. G. ALLEN & son,
NEWPORT, TENN.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-07-06
DETECTIVES WANTED

We will consider applications for
membership in this Agency, from GER
tain localities in Tennessee. We look
after criminals, collect names and adj
and furnish commercial reports to
business concerns. Salary and fees.
For full particulars write
VA. & TENN. DETECTIVE AGENCY.
Qnc)
Mahoney Bldg, Bristol, Tenn.-Va.
dresses of farmers, ETC., collect debts
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-07-06
GEN. POWELL'S CONDITION
MICH INPROYED

The many friends OF Gen. ]. Nor
mant Powell, who has been very i'll
in hospital at Richmond Va, will
be glad to know that he is rapidly
improving and a tthe present rate of
Improvement he will soon regain his
former strength.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-07-06
REV. CLEMENS UNITES
COUPLE IN MARRIAGE

Tuesday afternoon at the office of
Clerk NJ. B. Martin, Rev Clemens
united in marriage David A. Baker
and Miss Ada Elma Durham, both OF
Boones Greek.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-07-06

Don't think that the work of the
county agent is easy Do you have
one? Is he or she working for YOU?
Perhaps you think that work is not
difficult There are trials, however.
Here is what one woman agent wrote
to friend:
81 planned to go to another place
this afternoon, but yesterday / rode
horse with one comfortable gait-a
walk-and as a result I am unable to
move to-day with any degree of COM
fort have ridden donkeys, mules.
and, will admit, calves, but without
doubt this was the worst yet MY
fingers are the only joints that are not
stiff"
Dasy, isn't 1t! AAkAfs. {.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-07-06
MARKED SUCCESS OF
AN ILLINOIS FARMER
Worth Of Young Cattle Each Year
From 200 Acres?

(By C. D. Lowe, Division of Extension
University of Tennessee)
Tennessee farmers who came to the
Aberdeen-Angus sale which followed
the East Tennessee Farmers Con.
vention commented upon the splendid
animals. Several spoke of the profits
that come from raising pure-bred
stock.
Did not the 10 head, ranging in age
from IL to Is months, all belonging to
one man sell for more than $500 each"
someone remarked.
A business that brings in a gross
income of 5000 yearly per COW is in
teresting to any cattleman Hand.
some profits are observable.
The man who made this record sale
is plain Illinois farmer with no more
ability and opportunity than hundreds
of Tennessee farmers. He has a farm
of less than 200 acres in southern
Illinois "a part of the state known for
its poor lands) and maintains a herd
of from IS to 40 head of pure-bred
cows with the assistance of two sons,
sixteen and nine. The three do all
the work The sale of from $500 to
$4,000 worth of young cattle from his
farm each year savors of much profit.
The secret of his success is close
attention to business and the proper
foundation stock.
The American Aberdeen-Angus
Breeders Association should be given
credit for the success of the sale.
Forty-three head were distributed.
The cattle were on exhibition four
days.
The forty-three head sold for an
average of $24750 and the majority
of them were yearlings-a good SAFE.
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EXCURSION
TO
ASHEVILLE, n. {.
VIA
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
(SRCUT)
SATURDAY. JULY Sth
$3.50 ROUND TRIP $3.50
EXCU RSI0N
-E'ROM-
JOHNSON CITY, TENN.

Tickets will be sold for regular
train No. /, leaving Johnson City at
6:55 a. M, July Sth, connecting at
Morristown with train No. II, and ar
irving Asheville at lis p. M; tickets
will be good returning on all regular
trains July Sth, 9th, 10th and 11th
1916, excepting Carolina Special train
No. 81.
Accommodation for white and col
ored.
G. NJ. ELLIS, ID. 2. A.
knoxville, .......-...............-.. Tennessee
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-07-06

Clerk and Master.
J. R. GARDNER, Sol. A
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-07-15
CLEAN UP RENO
COUNTERF[ITfRS

With the arrest Thursday of Her
bert Williams, Frank Sullivan, Clyde
Weyman and Mrs. Frank Sullivan.
Chief of Police Hillhouse and J. Cue
tanza, secret service agent, believe
they have gathered in every member
of a gang of counterfeiters who have
been flooding Reno with bogus quar-
ters for the last five or six days.
Three members of the gang, Sullivan,
Williams and Weyman. have confess
ed to their share in the crime and il
is not believed that Mrs. Sullivan took
any part in the counterfeiting, al
though the officers believe that she
had guilty knowledge of what was
being done, says the Gazette.
About $12 worth of bogus quarters
were found by the officers. Most of
them were taken from slot machines
in different saloons and some were
passed in cigar stores. The quarters
are about the worst counterfeits
imaginable, have absolutely no metal
lie ring, and the composition is prob
ably pewter and white metal. They
purport to represent the vintage of
1912.
None of the molds were found de-
spite the fact that the headquarters
of the gang on Seventh street between
Center and North Virginia, was ran
sacked. 1t is believed that the molds
were destroyed by Weyman. who was
the last member of the gang to be ar
rested. He was taken in custody about
eight o'clock Thursday evening, Chief
Hillhouse locating him in Reno after
hurried trip had been made to Verdi
to which place it was believed he had
fed.
Williams and Sullivan were arrest
ed about three o'clock by Patrolmen
Carter and KirKley and they picked
upu Mrs. Sullivan a short time later
The Sullivans and Weyman came here
two weeks ago with a carnival COM
pany. Williams has been in Reno for
some time.
The local police department had
been working on the case for some
time and sent for the secret service
man early this week. He arrived
Wednesday.
The three men probably will be
given a preliminary examination to-
morrow before a United States COM
missioner Secret Service Agent Gus
tanZa conferred today with United
States Attorney Woodburn, who will
handle the cases.
Custanza late last night arrested
Robert Burns who admitted trying to
make bogus half dollars and he also
probably will be held on a charge of
counterfeiting.
Secret Service Agent Custanza or
dered the dismissal of Mrs. Sullivan
yesterday after consulting with Unit
ed States Attorney Woodburn Two
charges were placed against Weyman
who was charged jointly with Sulli-
van and Williams and also jointly
with Burns
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-07-15
100000 to DE-
VELOP UNDERGROUND WATER

There is strong probability that
part of the 100000 voted for expert
ments in underground water deposits
by Congress last week will be devoted
for use in Utah and Nevada, accord
ing to information received from an
authoritative source here, says the
Salt Lake ald-Republican. The
100000 is included in the civil sun
dry appropriation bill, which carries
millions of dollars for agricultural
development and other purposes
The fact that Senator Reed Smoot
offered the amendment to the bill pro-
viding 100000 for tapping possible
water supplies leads to the belief that
he had in mind the desirability of
turning desert wastes in Utah and
Nevada into productive regions.
1t is claimed by authorities here
that there are fair prospects of locat-
ing artesian wells. In Riverside coun-
ty, Cal, the rich orange crops are
result of irrigation by artesian wells.
The wells will be sunk in certain
localities. If water is struck in suf-
ficient quantity it will mean that prob
ably thousands of acres at present
idle land will be turned into produc-
tive areas. providing an, ever increas-
ing source of wealth for Utah and Ne
yada
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-07-15
HIMANITARIANISM BEING
OVERCOME AT STATE PRISON

The Appeal up to this time has re-
Trained from commenting on the So
called Humanitarian" methods that
have prevailed at the Nevada state
prison, but the appearance yesterday
without guard among the convicts
working about the state capitol
grounds, of Fred Skinner, under SEN
tence of fifty years from Nye county
for one of the most brutal. cowardly
murders ever committed in the state.
was a forcible reminder that the sys-
TEN in practice is being extended to
too great lengths and the rights of
society are being encroached upon. 1t
has got to a stage where a halt should
be called and called at once or a
change demanded by the people of the
state in the prisons methods.
Who is responsible for permitting
convicts of SINNERS reputation to
work without the prison walls. there
by giving them an opportunity to lay
plans for escape. which they will not
be slow in taking advantage of, the
Appeal does not pretend to say,
though it is probably the warden, as
it is in accord with several perform
ances of a similar nature that have
been accredited to him in the past few
months.
And if he is responsible for ii he
should be made to realize that society
has some rights, and one of those
rights is that when a man has been
sent to the penitentiary for term of
years for the commission of an afro
cious crime he shall serve his time
within closed walls and pay the debt
that the people have imposed on him.
He should be granted no especial fa-
vors at the whim or impulse of those
in command
The Appeal believes in showing as
much leniency as possible to those
whose misfortune it is to be confined
in penal institution. but there are
limits to the extent to which it should
go. 1t should not be allowed to be-
come maudlin. nor carried so far that
it will menace the safety of human
life, as will be the result if the sys-
tenn now in vogue at the Nevada
prison is permitted to continue.-Car-
son Appeal.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-07-15
COUNTY BOARD
IN SESSION TODAY

The board OF county commissioners
met in adjourned session this morn
ing, with Chairman Byrnes, and Com
missioners Cooper and Hoskins pres
ent.
l.. o. Alberson was granted IL
cense to sell liquors at DEMO.
The application of w. S. Crumley
for license to sell liquors at Roch-
ester was denied.
The bond of II. L. Bonnifield. the
newly appointed game warden, with
Frank German and c. +. Haviland as
sureties, was approved.
Bids were opened at o'clock this
afternoon for the construction of a
distributing reservoir and distribut-
ing pipe system for the Loveloek wa
terworks. The Standard Portland Ce-
ment Corporation of San Francisco
bid 81, ,920 for 500 barrels of cement.
with a rebate of 715 cents each for
the sacks and l per cent discount for
prompt payment of bill, which was ac-
cepted.
The only bid for the construction
work was received from ]. T. Marker.
T.. NJ. Davis and C.. o. Davis, of Love-
lock, in the sum of $500. This bid
was rejected and Engineer l.. H. Tay-
Tor was authorized TO proceed with
the work, assisted by the advisory
committee, composed of J. T. Goodin,
Leland Young. w. c. Pitt Paul Quig-
ley. John G. Taylor. II. ]. Murrish and
j. H. Bible.