Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-14

Inc OF goods this season and see
how cheap they are.
|. Frank & Co.
Pulaski City had on morning last
a disastrous fire, which destroyed
tho Bertha Hotel and the store of
the Bertha Zinc Go. Loss, about
$4,000.
The management of the Taze
well Fair is HOW making the neces.
sary preparation for the twentieth
annual exhibition. The catalogue
of premiums will be issued in a
few days.
Rev. Henry King, of the East
Tazewell circuit, und who WAS takon
i'll at the late session Of District
Conference in the Cove, died last
night at tho residence of MIR. Jos
S. Gillespie.
Much Of the pleasant sleeping
hereabOuts just now Is attributed
by those who have tried it to the
perfect adjustment of Turner's Bed
Spring. They arc selling all over
tho county.
The Southwest Virginia Synod of
tho Evangelical Lutheran church
convened in st. Johns church,
Wytheville, OH Wednesday, the
18th inst, and will remain in scs.
sion several days.
S. III. Turner, manufacturer and
patcntcc of the celebrated Horse
Shoe Bed Spring, is turning cut
an increasing number of springs
daily and selling them as they be
come better known.
Mr.. L. NJ. p. Moore and Miss
Doakie Moore, of Holston Valley,
Tenn, father and sister of Mrs.
John Britain, returned home YES.
terday after visit hero. Mrs.
Erittain went back with them.
Because OF money stringcncy
Mr.. S. ii. Turner is receiving coun.
try produce in exchange for his
bed springs. He has arrange
mcnts for disposing Of this and is
shipping, as reccivcd,to Richmond.
Messrs. Dave Preston, of Abing.
dor, and Dave ST Clair, of Wythe
vile. have been for some days Wis
itiug their brothers here, Henry
Preston, cashier of the Clinch Val.
ley Bank aud Geo. ST Clair, attor
ney.
Miss Matte Ready, sister of Mrs.
r.. X. Wright and late of Tazcwell
Female Seminary, is in town for u
while whero many of her old
friends and admirers will give her
greeting. She is accompanied by
her sister, Miss Clara.
Hon. G. G. Watts, late Attorney
General and now State Senator of
West Va, was on Il visit to his
Tazcwell relatives Il few days since.
Mr.. Watts has a very strong back
ing that will perhaps make him the
next Governor of his State.
The apple crop having been an
utter failure in the immediate viciI.
ity, farmers from more favored see
tons of the county are doing quite
Il business on the streets in the sale
OF the fruit. In the eastern mar
kets apples are drug, the best
bringing 75c. per barrel.
The through freight business over
the Clinch Valley division seems to
be increasing daily. 1t is said that
arrangements are making to handle
300 cars daily. These cars are from
all points in the West. The fresh
meat cars from Chicago are re iced
at Graham by the Graham Trans
parent Ice Co.
A dispatch was received by Sen.
ator Farwell from Prof. Dryen.
fnrth, at Midland, Texas, where he
went to produce rainfall by the
firing Of dynamite in balloons sent
up for that purpose. The dispatch
says the experiment was tried and
proved a complete success, rain
falling c0piously for several hours.
The annual examination Of can.
didates for positions as teachers in
the public schools of the comfy
was held on Wednesday by Super