Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-02-11

HARRISON, Surface q Co.. request us 4t
say that they are pressed for money te
meet their bills and are com PEELED to collet
what is due them at once-"A word to the
wise is sufficient"
A message was sent to town on Tuesday
| for DIR. Pierce to go to see Mr.. Harold
Buchanan, who lives in Thompson Valley
and was supposed to have the pneumonia
MIR. V. L. Sexton has made a contract
for the erection of handsome residence
on lot adjoining the Episcopal Church.
Mr.. Jno. B. Crawford prepared the plan
and Specifications.
The Hon. S. G. Graham has gone to
Richmond to attend to some cases pending
in the U. S. Circuit Court Of Appeals, in
which Henry & Graham are counsel,
Rev. w. D. Buckner was sufficiently re-
covered from his recent illness to fill the
pulpit at stras Memorial Church on last
Sunday, where he held services both
morning and night.
The highest salaried preacher in Rich
mond. and in the State, is Rev. DR.. Hart
lev Carmichael, rector of st. Pauls Epls'
copal Church He is said to receive about
S4, 500 per year.
DIR. R. D. HufTord was crossing Ciinch
Mountain last Friday night near Mr. Ed
Buchanan's and when on top of the noun
tain tine wind was so violent that it blew
him off his horse.
We are informed, that Mr.. ]. B. Pierce
has purchased the interestof Mr.. Charlton
Long in the Tazewel Hardware Company
Mr.. Long will continue to conduct the
the plumbing business.
DR.. r. B. Gillespie moved into his new
residence in the cas-. end of town on yes
terdav, and DR.. Hall moved from North
Tazewell to the house vacated on Main
Street by DR., Gillespie.
James A. Cousins, a worthy coloreo
man of this place, received a telegram
Yesterday morning announcing that his
mother mad died in Dinwiddie county.
She was eighty-six years old.
| DR.. w. ]. Painter, of Pennington Gap,
and Miss Ida Russell, of the same place,
were married at Bristol last week. Dr.
Painter is the son of Dr...L I. Painter, OF
Liberty Hill, this County.
Last Friday was about the windiest day
ever known in this county by persons now
living. For over fifteen hours a regular
gale blew, and fences and trees were iald
low in many parts of the county
Rev. w. D. Buckner will preach a SER
mon to Odd Fellows at stras Memorial
church, on Saturday night, the 2lst inst''
at 7:3O o'clock. Bluegrass Lodge, No.
142, will attend in body.
Mr.. Lee Haynes, who has been filing
the position of day clerk at Hotel Graham
has been promoted by Mr.. Sloane TO the
place of manager of the Bramwell Inn
recently leased by Mr.. Sloane.
Mr.. A. c. Lilly, late foreman of the
REPUBLICAN, went to Bramwell, WA
on Monday afternoon and played in a
Concert at that place on Tuesday night.
Mr.. Lilly played the slide trombone,
Messrs. II. G. Anderson, Jno. I. Barns,
w. G. Young and Lewis Britain went rab-
bit hunting Tuesday afternoon and sue
ceeded in baggingfve rabbits, one and one
fourth for each sportsman of the party.
The Farm belonging to the estate OF the
late Howe sayers, in Abbs Valley was
rented last Saturday to w. T. Poole, of
Pocahontas, for $4,000, the lease to ex-
pire the last of September. 1897.
On the 9Th inst. Robert Lord Cave, Of
Nashville, Tenn, was married to Miss Sallle
Overton Bullock, at Lexington, Va. The
groom was very nervous, and tainted twice
while the Ger enaony was being performed
Mrs, Sally Harman, the venerable moth
er of Mr.. H. Bane Harman, whose serious
illness we announced last week, is doing
quite well; and her friends and relatives
are hopeful that she will be fully restored
to health.
Mrs. R.G. Campbell, mother of Mrs. w.
w. Ruff, of this place, died at her home at
Oakdale, Rockbridge County Va, on last
Friday. The intelligence was received by
telegram too late for Mrs. Ruff to take the
train east for Rockbridge.
H. Bane Harman clerk of the Circuit