Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-01-06
TOWN and COUNTY NEWS.
Gathered in And Around Town By Our
Resident And County
REPORTERS.

Reporters.
1t is very difficult to quit dating letter
1897.
The editor went to Marion
business trip.
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REPUBLICAN? If not, why not?
The skating on the mill ponds at
North Tazewell was very good on Monday.
Mr.. E. L. Greever spent Christmas day
under the parental roof in Burke's Gar
den.
Capt. Rees Bowen, of the N, & w. Ry.,
spent the holidays with his parents at this
place,
Miss Narcissa Pendleton spent last week
at Bluefeld, visiting her friend, Miss Bessie
Prince.
A Masquerade Social" will be given at
the residence of Hon. Jas. R. Witten
tonight.
Mrs. G. A. Worsham, of Maiden Spring,
visited relatives in and about town during
the holidays.
Mr.. Lacy A. Tynes spent the holidays
visiting friends in Roanoke and other
eastern points.
Barns Gillespie, ESQ, is still confined by
sickness, but we are glad to hear he is
progressing well.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chapman Anderson spent
the holidays in Tazewell with Mr.. and
Mrs. H. c. Anderson.
The Sunday School of the Methodist
church had a bundle party at the town
hall on last Friday night.
Nearly all the boys and girls who came
home to spend Christmas have returned
t. their respective schools.
The merchants are all busy this week
balancing up their accounts and seeing the
result Of last years business.
Miss Kate Kelly, who teaches in the
Cedar Bluff High School, spent the holi-
DAYS with her relatives in Tazewell.
Misses Alice and Lizzie Hopkins spent
several days in town last week visiting
their cousins tie Misses Pendeton.
Mr. Conrad Tynes, who has been kept
from his store for about one week by sick
ness has gotten well and is at work again.
The chidrens Missionary Society of the
Presbyterian church gave an entertain
n.ent on Thursday night before Christmas.
We shall try to give our patrons a bet
ter paper in 1898 than we did in 1897.
Help us to do so by paying your subscrip-
ton.
Mr.. Geo. w. ST. Clair has gotten beck
to his office again, after being confined to
his home for more than a month by
sickness.
Misses Polly Peery and Tillie Witten,
who have been teaching in the public
school at Graham, spent the holidays with
the home folks.
Commence your good work for the new
year by paying your subscription to the
REPUBLICAN. You will feel great deal
be ter if you do.
MIR. and Mrs. Geo. A. Martin have
gotten back from a visit to Norfolk, where
they spent about three weeks visiting Mr..
Martins parents.
The production of pig iron in the State
Of Virginia in 1897 amounted to 3S6, 277
tons a very considerable increase over the
production Of 1897.
sunday morning the thermometer
registered several degrees below zero in
Ii.is vicinity, if the instruments registered
t temperature correctly.
The money value of the turkeys shipped
from Tazewell county during the fall and
winter was considerable. 1t will pay the
people to raise more fowls and fewer
huses.
There were 217 marriage licenses issued
from the county court clerks Office of
TaZewell county during the year 1897. Of
that number 191 were for white persons
and 26 for colored.
Mr. o. L. Hopkins will leave today for
Florida, where he will spend the balance
Of the winter. We hope he may spend
pleasant time in the Gland OF Flowers"
and lie greatly benefited in health
We feel like apologizing to our readers
for The length of the editorial "a Pess-
mislic Governor" When we started to
write we found it impossible to say what
was necessary in less space.
Miss Alice Hopkins while going home
from town last Friday afternoon met with
painful accident. Her horse stumbled
and fell throwing her to the ground. Her
ftce was painfully bruised, but no serious
wounds were made.
Mothers whose children are troubled
with bad colds, Group Or whooping-cough
will do we'll to read what DR.. r. E. Robey,
of Olney, Mo-, saws on this subject. He