Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-01-20
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
Gathered in And Around Town By Our
Resident And County
Reporters.

We regret to hear that Mr., Barns Gil
lespie still continues painfully i'll,
The road between town and the station
is in its usual frightful condition.
Judge G. ]. Holbrook, of Bluefeld, at
tended county court on Tuesday.
Mr.. F. c. Smith, the horse buyer from
Staunton, was in town the first of the week.
The lumber trade is getting very active
in this section, better than it has been for
years,
Mrs. Betsy Bowman, of Tennessee, is
visiting her niece, Mrs. 1. P. Martin, at
this place.
We are informed there will be several
new mercantile firms in our town before
great while.
Mr.. j. c. Franklin, representing the
Lynchburg News, was in town Monday
and Tuesday.
The Presbyterian church has purchased
pipe organ which is expected to arrive
some time this week.
The cottage prayer meeting will be held
tomorrow night at Z O'Clock at the resi-
dence of Rev. Geo. Buston.
Be certain to send your job work to the
REPUBLICAN office, if you want it done
cheaply, neatly and promptly.
We have blank deeds at the REPUBLICAN
office, printed on fine paper, which we
will sell you in any number you may
want.
We regret to hear that Mr.. Charles
Young is quite sick at his home, near
Maxwell We hope he will speedily re-
cover.
Among the visitors in town Tuesday
from Pocahontas were Messrs. E. Good
man, D. ]. Whitaker, ]. l. Weinberger
and Squire P. P. Dillon.
A small yoke of scrub oxen was sold on
the street Tuesday at auction, and brought
nearly $4,000. In 1896 they would not
have brought half the money.
Our constant appeals to our subscribers
to pay their subscriptions may be getting
monotonous, but their failure to pay is
much more monotonous to us.
Mr.. ]. Marion Mcclure has been
addinga number of Improvements to his
Touring mill at Cedar Bluff, and is prepar-
ing to manufacture flour on a large scale.
There is some talk of Buston & Sons
building large brick store house on their
lot on corner of Main street and Marion
avenue. There present store room is not
large enough for their trade.
The management of the Pocahontas
Branch of the Pabst Brewing Co., has
been transferred to A. Goodman. Your
orders for Blue Ribbon, Export, Bohemian
Standard, Malt Tonic or other beers will
be promptly filled by him.
Messrs. ]. B. Hawkins and Jos. Glen
have formed a partnership, we are in
formed, and on the 1st of March will open
up a general merchandise business in the
store room in the Masonic Building.
Col. ]. S. Browning was in town Mon
day and Tuesday. On Tuesday he bought
at public outcry valuable body OF coal
land on Laurel Creek, which adjoins the
lands on which he is now mining. The
purchase price was s., 800.
The citizens failed to respond to the call
for meeting at the, court house on last
Saturday afternoon for the purpose Of or
ganizing fire companies. They ought not
to wait until another fire occurs in town.
1t might prove more disastrous than the
last one.
We are reliably informed that the orders
made through Messrs Cashier, Curran e.
Builitt for coal from the Flat Top coal
fields have been so heavy that they are
over 1000 cars behind in filling their
orders. This looks very much like pros
perity has struck the coal fields.
Messrs James w. and E, V. Spots have
rented the east store room in the Moss &.
Greever building, and will open full
stock of fancy and staple groceries just as
soon as shelves and counters can be placed
in the room. These gentlemen have been
in the business before and understand it
thoroughly.
One day last week Capt. ]. B. Fuller,
of Russell county,was in town. 1t was the
first time he had been here since 1862,
when he was stationed at this point as a
Confederate soldier. He was a good sol
der and is clever man, but from his
talk we would pronounce him the meanest
Democrat in Russell county.
Jordan Jones, colored man, entered
the smoke-house Of Mr.. R. T. Bowen,
at Maiden Spring, on last Thursday night
and took therefrom IS pieces of bacon,
and on another night he stole six more
pieces. Jones was in the employment of
Mr.. Bowen, and lived on his farm. He
was arrested on Monday and brought to
town and placed in Jail, after prelimi-
nary hearing before Squire w. L. Moore
at Liberty Hill The value of all the meat
stolen is estimated at $4,000. On Tuesday
special grand jury Of the county court
indicted Jones, and he is now in the
county Jail awaiting trial.
my daughter, when recovering from an
attack of fever, was a great sufferer from
pain in the back and hips" writes Louden
Grover. of Sardis, KY. CATER using quite