Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-07-13
TOWN AND COUNTY news.

Mr.. c. C. Long is having the foundation
built for his new residence on Mechanics
Avenue.
Miss Isabel Norwood, very attractive
young lady from Tennessee, is visiting
Miss Fanny Tynes.
Tazewell is to have two steam laundries.
Why can't it have wooden mill or two,
and wooden factories?
The present week has been very favor
able one for hay making, and the farmers
are busy with that work.
Miss Virginia Shelburne, one of Lee
county's most charming young ladies, is
visiting Miss Vivien Gillespie,
Look out for the kissing bugs. We are
told that one has kissed young lady in
Tazewel, and that she has suffered greatly
from the bite.
When you come to town on court day
come prepared to carry away some OF the
Racket Stores fruit jars-one-half gals. ~
CTS. dozen, quarts 80 cts. dozen.
Mr.. j. w. Spots, who had been on a
business and pleasure trip of two weeks
duration to Staunton, got back to Taze-
we'll on last Monday.
Mr.. J T. Hopkins is having well drill
ed on the old seminary lot, which will be
used in connection with the steam laun-
dry which he and Mr.. Walter Sneed are
preparing to erect.
The steam laundry company has con-
lracted for its machinery and it will be
shipped in a few days, Mr.. Henry
Kinser will begin to lay the foundation for
The building this week.
Doyou need glasses? Are your eyes
failing you? You can find that out by
consulting Dr. Pobst. Examination free,
and if glasses will DO you any good, he will
tell you so.
A number of ladies and gentlemen from
Tazewell and vicinity attended the District
Conference at Graham, which convened
last Thursday, and continued over Sunday.
The meeting was quite pleasant and USE
ful one.
Next Tuesday will be the day for hold
ing the regular July term of the county
court. We trust that all the patrons OF
the REPUBLICAN, who are in our debt, will
come to town that day and settle their &C.
counts.
Superintendent Of Public Schools, 2. II.
Williams, of this county, is attending the
Summer Normal School which is being
held at Pulaski. A good number of the
public school teachers of the county ere
also there.
The Racket Store on court day, next
Tuesday, will give you choice of hat
from their fine line of hats for $l.25.
Some of these hats cost $3.50,
Miss Mary Snidow, of Pearisburg, Va,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. DR.. st. Clair.
Miss Snidow is an intelligent and attractive
young lady. She is the daughter of Capt.
James Snidow, one of the gallant ex-Con-
federates of Giles county.
Miss Lyde Thompson, of Thompson
Valley, is visiting Miss Gillette Harman.
Miss Thompson is very pretty and intel
ligent young lady, and Madam Rumor
says she will soon be we'd led to a very
successful young business man of the
county.
Captain and Mrs. A. J. Tynes enter
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. II. E. Hartman at a
fashionable tea on Tuesday evening. a
number of the lady and gentlemen friends
of Mr.. and Mrs, Hartman were present as
guests, and an elegant supper was served.
Among the applicants who successfully
passed the examination before the
Court of Appeals, held on July 9TH, at
WyIheville, we see the name of MIR.
John Henry Smith, OF Tazewell We con-
graduate him on his success in passing
what is pronounced very difficult exam
ination.
Miss Amanda i. Payne, the pretty and
accomplished daughter of Mr.. w. 2. Payne,
of Doak, in this county, was married at 4
O'Clock p. IN. yesterday, to Mr.. w. B..
Young, son of Charles Young, Esq. Mr..
Young is one Of the prominent farmers
an& grazers of the county, and lives near
Maxwell.
On Monday night Miss Viyien Gillespie
gave delightful party, which was largely
attended by her young friends in the town.
The lawn in front of and around the beau
tiful residence of her father, DR.. r. B.
Gillespie, was brilliantly illuminated with
Chinese lanterns. Delicious refreshments,
consisting of MELONS, ices and cake, were
served.
In this issue of the REPUBLICAN we pub
fish an advertisement of the celebrated
Look and Lincoln wagons, that are manu-
featured at Marion, Va. The Look &
Lincoln Company has been manufacturing
these wagons for years, thousands of them
have been sold in Southwest Va, and we
have never heard of complaint against
them on the score of durability or excel
lence of pattern. We believe in patroniz-
ing home industries, especially when they
furnish as good or better articles.
Mr.. II. Bane Hartman was at Princeton,
w. Va, last week, and while there was
presented very interesting relic by Mr..