Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-11-23
TOWN AND COUNTY news

A telegram from Richmond denies that
Young Tate killed Evan Bledsoe in Lee
county, as had been reported.
Mrs. Jack Ward, of Elkhorn, w. Va,
was in town the first of the week visiting
her sister, Mrs. j. S. French.
T. W1TTEN & Co. have just received
q lot of ladies capes, latest styles, at from
40 cents to $500.
Job work still continues to flow to the
REPUBLICAN office. Our work is of the
best quality, and that is why former pa
irons stick to us and new ones come in.
General Walker went down to Maiden
Spring this morning, and will spend sever
al days visiting friends in the west end OF
the county.
You will find at w. 7. WITrEN & Co.'S.
new line of ladies dress goods, flannels,
crepons, plaids, suitings, &c.
Tazewell county court is still in session.
No business OF importance has been trans
acted ON the civil side Of the court, and it
is now engaged in trying criminal causes.
Mr.. J. w. Pendleton, of the Chilhowie
Lumber Company, and who is now operat'
ing large saw mill in the head of Poor
Valley, was in town yesterday.
An alarm of fire was raised about sevel
O'Clock last night. The roof of the kitchen
at the residence of Mrs. Jennie Ratliff had
caught fire, from defective fue, it is sup
posed. The fire was extinguished by water
thrown from buckets before the hose got
there.
JACKETS and CAPEs are selling fast
better come early-good assortment vel
at J. D. ALExANDER'S
2-3t.
On last Sunday Henry Steele, the
eighteen year old son of Mr.. Samue
Steele, died at his fathers home near Cove
Creek, the cause of his death being blood
poison. On Monday afternoon the re
mains were buried in the graveyard or
the farm of Mr. j. Il. Higginbotham.
If you have any lumber tt
sell, write the JOHN ALEX.
AMBER LUMBER COMPA
NY, Clarksburg, West Virgin.
ia. State what you have and
price.
Mr.. J. P. Cameron, of the Thistle PloV
and Foundry Company, at Graham, Va.
was in town Tuesday, and was accompa
MED by his little daughter and his sister
in-law, Mrs. Melvin, of Scotland. Mrs
Melvin and little Miss Cameron dinet
that day with Mrs. DR.. J. H. Crockett.
Union Thanksgiving service this yea
will be held on next Thursday at thu
Christian church. All the churches vii
unite in the service, and it will be in orde
for the pastor Of the Baptist church tt
preach the sermon. This, we suppose
Rev. w. l.. Wayts will do, if he is a
home.
We have received q large line of White
clothing direct from the manufacturer
bought before the recent advance in prc,
Our customers get the benefit of these low
prices-we have never had better value
or better styles We can fit you-stout-
regular, or long and slim. They are here
for your inspection.
HARTMAN & BoTrIMoRE.
Mr.. r. G.. Chapman, successor to Rar
risson & Gillespie Bros, addresse. the pub
lie through the columns of the REPUBLICA,
this week, and gives much interesting in
formation on the subject of Dress Skirts
He is now in New York buying new good
that will begin to arrive in few days.
Judge S. G. Graham, who had been a
Richmond to argue the case of Sanders vs
Bluefeld Water Works Company, in the
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, returned
to Tazewell yesterday. The court which
sat in the case was composed of Chief JUS
tice Fuller, Judge Brawley, of South Caro-.
lima, and Judge Edmund Waddill, of the
Eastern District of Virginia. The case was
submitted and will be decided at the
February term, 1899, of the court. 1t is q
very interesting case, involving questions
of first impression.
1t will not be surprise to any who are
at all familiar with the good qualities of
Chamberlains Cough Remedy, to know
that people everywhere take pleasure in
relating their experience in the use OF that
splendid medicine and in telling of the
benefit they have received from it, of bad
colds it has cured, of the threatened at
tacks of pneumonia it has averted and of
the children it has saved from attacks of
Group and whooping cough. 1t is grand,
good medicine. For sale by JOHN E.
JACKSON.
On last Monday Mr.. Jim Ed Peery re-
ceived letter from his mother, Mrs. Sally
Peery, announcing that she, and the party
accompanying her, had reached California
safely the preceding Tuesday. The letter
also contained the information that on the
day after Mrs. Peery's arrival surgical
operation had been performed on her
father, Col. Robert Smith. The operation
was the removal of n malignant tumor
from under the left arm. Some time last
June it became necessary to amputate the
left hand of COL Smith, because of ma
llgnant sore that had been troubling him
for some time, and it was thought he
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