Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-09-30
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
Gathered in And Around Town By Our
Resident And County
reporters.

< There is very lii tie sickness now in town,
and those who ar, sick are all doing well.
Job work is pom ng into the REPUBLICAN
lob Office. Merit will tell. We do the
work right.
The indications ire that w. B. Spratt
will have no oppus ton for the House of
Delegates.
Miss Maggie Re aerts, of Lynch5urg Va,
is visiting her sis;-r, Mrs. ~. A. Ferguson
at Tazewell Coles.
Hon. a. St. CIR informs us that his
on,who has been eryill with typoid fever,
is now convalesee.t.
The Moss 4 Gre yer building is rapidly
approaching con- ietion, and will be
very handsome So Icture.
We are informo another general mer-
chandise store vii be opened in town
about the lst of n ,vember.
Owing to the Pr ssure of getting off our
daily paper the weekly REPUBLICAN comes
out two days laLe iss week.
Mrs. T. w. Rat # has gone to Grundy,
to look after busiress matters connected
with the estate OF ,er late husband.
The town auth. tiles have cleaned up
Main street nicey and the court house
green has also beel thoroughly cleaned.
Rev. l. P. Mari |, pastor of the Metho-
dist church, will ave next Tuesday to
attend Annual Conference, which meets at
Bristol this year.
Miss Bessie Prince, of Bluefeld, and
Miss Janet Prince, Of Huntington, VIVA,
are visited Mise Narcissa and Louise
Pendleton this we k.
4 Christian En- avor Society was organ
lied at the VI stan church on last
Saturday night, ith membership of
nineteen to start l.
The heavy fros.; last week did great
damage to the foe er where corn had not
been cut, and tiit continued drouth is
making pasturage hort.
Mr.. NJ. ]. Han ms, who has been at
Cedar Bluff, wit2 the Virginia Folding
Mattress Company is at home for few
days and to attend he Fair.
Prayer meeting are now being held at
Tazeweu College on Sunday night
of each week and ronise to be very
interesting and i structive.
Mr.. H. o. Tho,n son, who was nom
mated last Satud,.. by the Democrats of
Tazewell county fo the House of Delegates,
has declined the nomination.
Oar farmer frjen Is are becoming very
seriously alarmed ! the protracted drouth.
If it continues ma longer they will have
to commence feed.ag their stock.
Tazewell College has already enrolled
197 students and hey still continue to
come in. A you gentleman by the
name of Price can , i'll last Friday from
LeaksvilIe, n. G.
Mrs B. w Pawn, of Radford, Va, and
Mrs. L. G. French of Bluefeld, w. Va,
sisters of Mr.. L. O Wingo. ARE visiting that
gentleman. Mrs. :. w. Payne, of Rad
ford, a niece of NJ Wingo, is also visiting
him.
Messrs Chapmsa & Gillespie have
moved into their w law Offices next door
10 the masonic hlilding, opposite their
old office on the cl lrt house green. Their
new offices are mu-l more commodlous
and comfortablet; an their old one.
Col Thomas G. itten who was SO pain
fully injured by his horse falling with him
about two weeks go, is in his store again
greeting his frienGg with his usual warmth.
He has to walk wit crutches as one of his
feet is still sore az swollen.
Merchants and farmers in Tazewell
county who have rm produce to dispose
of would do well t. write to Harris & VII.
lianls, Bluefeld, W Va, or call on them
when in town. 7 ey are next door above
city post office auG prepared to handle al
kinds of country foducc.
j. N. Harman, So, and several other
gentlemen annoui ce their intention of at
tending the Re- ,blican convention at
Lynchburg. on tie 5th prox. Mr.. Har-
man was appoints delegate to the State
convention Gf one should be held) by the
mass meeting at :. gust court of the Re-
publicans Of Tazeo ii county.
About three hundT d and fifty export cat
tie were shipped fl IN this point Wednes-
day. They are pa of the cattle sold by
the pool to Nelson Jorriss, of Chicago, and
will go to Liverpoo' The cattle men are
very anxious to gei Ill their exports shipped
as they are losing eight on account ofthe
pastures being 50 ~ and short.
In addition to considerable amount of
Job work done in this Office during the
present week, the presses of the REPUBLI-
CAN Office will tu'n out this week four
issues of the Daily REPUBLICAN, the reg
ular weekly RErUBL1cAN and two other
weeklies that are printed on our press.
>5yhat newspaper Office in virginia Can
equal this record il one week?
Mr. oh. PeeTy md DR., J.D. Carnahan,
of fOgden, Utah, no mad been visiting
their old friends N Tazewell for several
weeks, left for tl.ei homes in the fal West
last week. These Gentlemen gave express