Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-07-01
NORTH TAzEWELL NEWS.


The quietest thing in town is trade.
The loudest thing in town is Joe Peery's
"Britches."
Farmers near town are in the midst Of
wheat harvest.
w. n. Whitley of the n. &'Ay. Bridge
force was in the city Sunday.
Jessie Mccall, the hustling cattle and
hog man of Elkhorn, came up Monday
to see the wife and babies
COL John g. Watts, one of the very best
farmersin Tazewell County, weighed at this
place on Monday the finest bunch oflambs
ever shipped from this county. They
averaged 11Ol lbs. several weighing $50.
A large crowd of the old married folks
of our town will celebrate the glorious 4th
by trip to Burke's Garden. They will carry
dinner and other neccesaries with them and
celebrate in great style.
Mr.. s. &. Thompson, the farmer king
of Thompson Valley was over to visit the
old folks at home last week. He says
crops are fine, an / the old gander will be
fat by fall.
Capt c. a. Fudge started a Mccormick
binder in his large field of wheat on last
Saturday. The wheat is as fine as could be-,
and the work done by the Mccormick
machine is simply perfection, not leaving
enough wheat on the ground to fatten a
chicken.
1t does look as if the forests Of Tazewell
would never be exhausted. We thought
all the lumber from near this point had
been shipped long ago, but logs of the very
higest grade are being hauled in and ship
ped out every day.
The new order of paying on the n. & w.
went into effect this month, They now
pay off with checks through agents,
We shot off our month loo soon about
those weddings. They came of, but the
wrong way.
H. G. Peery has charge Of the coal
bins for the next year, and can now spout
poetry and dance jig 10 his hearts
content.
The Matrass factory is in full operation
once ore, and big fat feather beds are
going into the mill and coming ont q
mattress.
J.F. Ireson, the miller man, is ship.
ping large !ots of his ce'erated corn meal
to the Elk. Horn market every day.
1t wont be Lut few days now until the
fish liar can get in his work along the
river banks, and on the crowd in town
when he returns.
A large crowd of North Tazewe!lites took
in the show at Tazewell on Monday night,
and all were well pleased with the perfor'
nance.
w. c. Hal has returned from the
University of Virginia full file lged NJ. D.
Connor was always one Of the lest and
most popular boys in our town, and we
predict for him in mis- chosen profession a
glorious success.
These are the days when the small boy
gets in his work with the green apple,-if
the apple don't happen to work first,-he
also goes swimming and swears he wasn't
near the river.
Mr.. C. 3. Nailor, machnist for the Nc
Cormick Company, has been in the county
several days assisting agent A. q. Kiser
putting up the reapers and binders sold in
the county this season.
Samuel Gillenwaters. one of our nearby
farmers, who has been quite sick for some
weeks, is, we>are glad to say, able to walk
down to town, and will soon be his own
self again.
Miss Blanche Wilkes, who has been
manager for the Western Union Telegr aph
Co. at this place for several years, left
Sunday to accept aposition in the Auditors
office of the Southern Railroad, at Atlanta,
Georgia. Miss Blanche had endeared her.
self to all the people of our town, and the
best wishes of every one will follow her to
new home, where we sincerely hope she
will be contented and happy.
ASH FIELDS
North Tazewell. June 80, 1897