July 6, 1892: Readers of The Comet learned about several items of local interest. âA little child of David and Harriet Baker died the latter part of last week aged 15 months.
âGeo C. Potts, Vice President of the Watauga Company, has been for some time at Hotel Fairmount where he is expecting his daughter to join him soon.â
âThe bricklayers will begin work on the Reece House in the morning and will push the work until the building is completed.â
âIn the presence of the workmen and several spectators, Mrs. A.M. Reece laid the first brick of the new building, which is to replace the one burned and deposited beneath it in Italian detail 1767, and one of our pennies dated 1892, and by her act declared that Phoenix-like the old building should rise from its ashes.â