April 19, 1884: The Comet published these health hints, some of which we would do well to heed today. âDonât shake a hornetâs nest to see if any of the family are at home.â
âDonât try to take the right of way from an express train at a railroad crossing.â
âDonât go near a draft. If a draft comes toward you, run away. A sight draft is the most dangerous.â
A sight draft is a medium of trade in the export-import business.
âDonât blow in the gun your grandfather carried in the war (sic) of 1812. It is more dangerous now than it was then.â
Clyde Robert Baker Thursday, April 15, 2021
Clyde Baker
Clyde Robert Baker, 90, entered the gates of heaven on April 14, 2021, at his Red Bank residence with his family and caregivers at his side.
Clyde Robert was born to the late Clyde C. and Edith (Keyt) Baker, of Spencer, Tn., on July 25, 1930. He began his school days at Hixson Elementary and graduated from Van Buren High School in 1948. After attending Tennessee Tech, he began his teaching career in rural two-room county schools, White Hill, Lonewood and New Martin. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1951 and served in Korea with the 1st Cavalry Division. During his overseas deployment, Clyde faithfully maintained the courtship of his 4H agent, Phyllis Nichols, by correspondence with over 700 love letters. After he safely returned from duty, they married on June 20, 1953, at Spencer Baptist Church. Clyde entered Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC on the GI bill and received his BS degree from the School of Educ
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Landmark Fort Oglethorpe Shoe Store Is Closing Its Doors Monday, April 5, 2021 - by Earl Freudenberg
Jerry Sear
A landmark store in Fort Oglethorpe is closing its doors. Sear’s Shoes will be having a liquidation sale.
His family, Solomon Sir, came to America in the early 1920’s and opened a shoe repair shop in Chattanooga. Sir legally changed his name to Sear in the 40’s.
The family had businesses located in Jack’s Alley on Market Street and in East Chattanooga on Glass Street. Their son, Jerry, worked at the stores doing just about everything.
The family decided in 1964 to open a business in LaFayette, Georgia. That was the same year Jerry got a business degree at the University of Chattanooga and married.
Jerry Summers: American Temperance University - Harriman, Tn. Monday, April 5, 2021 - by Jerry Summers
Jerry Summers
Eighty miles northeast from Chattanooga towards Knoxville in Roane County lies a village known as Harriman. It was incorporated in 1890 as a community created out of the temperance movement against the manufacture and consumption of the devil rum (alcohol) which became active in the 1870’s.
From the beginning Harriman was to be a major center of the nationwide effort of the anti-alcohol group to permanently outlaw drinking alcohol in America. Harriman was known as the “Prohibition City of the Nation.” In the title to each deed registered at the courthouse contained a clause which stated that in every foot of real estate that was transferred was written a clause “prohibiting the making, using, handling, storing, or selling of intoxicating liquors” under the penalty of revoking the real estate transfer.