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July 21, 1887: The Comet carried several interesting news accounts of various activities in Johnson City. âThe new wash room at the Piedmont House is a model of neatness and is a marked improvement. Two new marble basins have been received and the water is supplied by the water works, it looks real citified.â
âThe game of base ball (sic) between the Estersâ and the Highlanders last Saturday resulted in a victory for the home team by a score of 30 to 34. The game was played in four hours and thirty minutes.â
âThe register at the Piedmont House shows that 618 persons have been accommodated at that hotel in the first 18 days of July. This list does not include about 50 that took supper there Saturday night and did not register. This is a remarkable showing and serves to show that a larger number of people pass through Johnson City than even the citizens have any idea of. This is only one hotel â the Hoss House has also had a good run â but we do
1910 Western Electric Magneto Wall Phone. Photo by Evelyn Edson.
The phone rang in the middle of the night. Miss Edith had just taken off her heavy leg braces, gone to bed, and fallen asleep. But she was “Central,” Scottsville’s telephone exchange, and Edith took her responsibilities seriously, so she made her painful way over to the switchboard. It was a man, clearly drunk and mumbling. “Who are you calling?” she asked. “I want to call Heaven,” he replied. “And who do you want to speak to?” “Jesus,” said the drunk. Edith replied firmly, “Luther Baber, if you don’t get off that phone, I’m going to give you Hell!” And she hung up on him. The caller got so mad that he threw his phone out in the middle of the road, an act he surely regretted the next morning.