June 6, 1889: According to The Comet, “A week or two ago the Johnson City Furniture Company advertised in the Comet for a good turner. The secretary, Mr. Hoppel, told
June 5, 1868: Reporting on a recent marriage, the East Tennessee Union Flag shared, âOn Thursday, the 28th of May, at the residence of the brideâs mother, near this place, by Rev. John Rubush, Mr. H.C. Grimm, of Greene county (sic), to Miss Harriet Millard, of this County.â
The East Tennessee Union Flag was a newspaper published in Jonesborough, which was spelled that way on the masthead.
June 5, 1890: The Comet opined words that we would be wise to remember and practice more than 130 years later. âIt is always well to remember that in saying things against any religion you are not only guilty of bad taste, but you do not know whose feelings you may hurt.â
June 4, 1845: The Jonesborough Whig and Independent Journal reported, “We are authorized and requested to announce JONATHAN HARTMAN as a candidate to represent the citizens of Washington County in
June 3, 1886: The Comet readers learned of the death of an area resident. âMary A. Andis, died at her residence, six miles south of Jonesboro, May 4, 1886, in the seventy-second year of her age. Mrs. Andis was twice married, first to Mr. Nathaniel H. Willis in Harrisonburg, Va., Oct. 2, 1837, and then to Mr. Adam Andis in Jonesboro, Tenn., June 18, 1860.â
More details revealed, âShe was a member of the Baptist Church and had been for forty-one years. Her last illness was marked by great sufferings of body. Though she was unable to talk to her friends and relatives while crossing the âlast river,â yet they derive comfort from the record of a long life of professed christian (sic) consecration and union with the people of God. It would have given her children and friends so much comfort to receive her dying testimony to her interest in the Saviour, but they were denied this happy privilege. Dying in the faith of Jesus, all christians (sic) have the presence of