Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-09
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MIR. ]. Y. Crawford ok i'm the
Holston Conference in s,ttanooga.
DR.. james O'Keetfe h this morn
ing for Marion OH Mass matters.
Mr.. a. G. SPOTS, of tas Bros. &
eSFotts, Salem, is in tot this week.
Several ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
going to the LynchbJ Fair, the
Goth.
AIr. j. Y, Crawford having re-
modelled his undertake Z establish
meet.
aIr. G. Newman, whspent some
months here last spri,s is again in
Tazewell.
Mrs. A. j. May, Jr., ntertaius a
number of her friends lis evening
at u cobweb party.
Messrs. Il. II. Hunte1A. P. Pan
nill and w. X. LaBar, dRichlapds
were i'll town during thlweek.
Gen. w. II. Il. Lee, \e of yir
ginia's Congressman, iss,opeiessly
ill and his death hourlyxpected.
DIR. j. r. Gildersleeviwas elect.
ed LIST vice Dresiflent ofha AIad;o,I
Snciety OF Virginia, at ynchburg.
Chas. S. Parnell, til one time
leader f tue Home RE party of
the British goveiumet, died at
Brighton OIL the 7th.
Rev. 1'hco. Brittain,d New York,
brother Of county trasurer Brit.
tain, on a visit here, preached in
the Presbyterian churh on Sunday
last.
DIR. j. M. Estill, 1,o has been
heretofore honored bJ the Virginia
Medical Society. whit down to
Lynchhuig to attetl it's aunual
meeting. E
DR.. j. r. GildersEeve and wife
left Monday for L 4nchhurg where
the Medical society I Virginia is in
session. From ther they will go to
visit the eastern citis.
Cool weather nj lie it's appear
ance early lii tho w@k and though
the heavy clonds prevented FROST
people were reminded Of the stove
that had to be brought out.
The Richlands News of last week
had some very nice things to say OF
Drs. O'Keeffe and Gi.lerslceyo i'm
the management Of tie Fair, which
were deIerved.
Messrs. Buchanan and HARRISON,
late merchants, again and finally
Call the attention Of their debtors
to the fact that their accounts are
to be collected and that right soon
Tazeweli College opened Oh Mon
day, the 9th. Some forty or fifty
pupils are in attendalice, a number
of whom are boardefs. we under.
stand that the prospects are flatter
ing.
The absence from the Fair
grounds of the wheel of fortune and
other contrivanGes fol the quick
parting of fools and their money
was a noted feature this year. The
would nor let them in.
Drs. Isaac and Dave Peirce, Miss
Martha and Mr.. james Peirce left
home Monday evening, the three
first fof New York and the latter
for school at Petersburg. The Drs.
Peirce will attend lectures in New
York.
Messrs. Forman and Anderson,
engineers, have the contract to 10.
cate tue new race track at the Fair
grounds and are lengthening it to Il
full half mile. Additional land on
the east side Of the grounds will be
added.
Monday there were 1,13S con
victs within the walls of the .peni
tentiary, the largest number ever
known. To accommodate these
were just 100 cells, in some ofwhich
as many:as twenty-five men are
locked.
The Methodist EcuminicaI Con.
ference, which met at Washington
OH the 18th, is one Of the most re.
religious bodies ever con,
vened in this country. 1t is com.
posed of the Representatives of all
the various branches of Metbotlisin
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