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âLive up to your engagements.â âEarn money before you spend it.â âNever play at any games of chance.â âDrink no kind of intoxicating liquor.â âGood character is above all things else.â âKeep your own secrets, if you have any.â âNever borrow, if you can possibly avoid it.â âAlways speak the truth. Make few promises.â âKeep good company or none. Never be idle.â âDo not marry until you are able to support a wife.â âKeep yourself innocent if you would be happy.â âEver live [misfortune excepted] within your income.â âWhen you speak to a person, look him in the face.â âMake no haste to be rich if you would prosper.â ....
May 27, 1886: The Comet regaled readers with the news of a recent elopement. “Quiet a romantic marriage occurred on Roan Hill, ‘neath the overspreading cedars, on Tuesday, the 9th ....
Dec. 17, 1891: Readers of The Comet learned the results of the 1890 census. According to the report, Johnson City had a population of 4,161. In 1880, the population was 685. Dec. 17, 1903: The Clay Center Dispatch, a newspaper in Clay Center, Kansas, carried an interesting story with a Johnson City dateline. âMaj. William H. Garland, aged 94 years, is dead at the national soldierâs home here. He had shaken hands with every president of the United States except Washington. He was in the naval cadet company that accompanied Lafayette on the second visit to America in 1822 and he at one time conversed with Napoleon on the island of St. Helena. Maj. Garlandâs wife and children were drowned in the Evansville, Ind. flood in 1884. He was for many years a Baptist minister.â ....