Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-07
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.

MT. ". H. IdHuoll Wac UP HUN AoNN
hontas yesterday.
For school supplies of all kinds call on
Dodd & Co.
Tazewell College will open its Fall ses-
sion next Monday.
Tazewell Steam Laundly received
large order from Norton this week.
The advertisement of James f. Hurt
issuance Agency should receive your at
tention this week.
If your child needs school book the
place to get it is at Dodd Il Co. g.
Mr.. Ii. NJ. Smylhe announces himself
; a candidate for the House of Delegates.
Read his card in another column.
Frank Below. the young son of Mr..
Charles Below, is ill with mild case OF
fever. This is the first case of fever that
has been in TazewelI this year.
There is no use hunting for better
place than Dndd x Co.'S to get school
books or school supplies for your children.
They have everything in those lines:
Call on them.
We are requested TO give notice that
Tazewell Lodge, No. 81, A. F. q A. NJ. will
meet tomorrow night at 7:30 o clock.
All the members Of the lodge are request
I'd to be present.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. G. Harrison arrived
at Tazeweli to-day. They have just re-
turned from a visit TO Europe, and will be
welcomed by the many friends and rela-
tives of Mr.. HARRISON in Tazewell.
Mr.. w. T. Watkins, who travels for
Henry C. Werner Boot and Shoe Com
pany, of Columbus, Ohio, unloaded at
Tazewel Station, yesterday, lib cases Of
boots and shoes, sold to merchants Of the
town and county.
Mr.. w. T. Watkins, formerly mayor of
Blueiield, W. Va, has moved with his
family to Tazewell, and las taken up bis
residence on Tazeweil avenue. Mr.. Wat
kins is now travelling salesman for whole
sale shoe house.
Clinch Valley Roller Mills. at Cedar
Bluff, of which Messrs. HiggiAbotham L
Kirby are proprietors, are kept busy filling
their orders. They have one Of the best
mills in the country and the quality Of
their flou is unexceled.
Dodd & Co. have supply Of all kinds
of school books which they will sell you at
regular, bottom prices.
The fall term of the session 1S99-l90) of
Tazewel High School began on last Mon
day and up to this time 200 pupils have
been enrolled. This is splendid begin
ming for the school, and Prot. Byrom's
face is wreethed in smiles.
The Bluefeld Lodge of Elks,at Blue6eld,
will give a picnic today at Egyleston's
Springs, in Giles county. Messrs. c. ].
Barns, ]. P. Hartman and R. NJ Baldwin
went from Tazewell yesterday afternoon to
Buefield to 20 to the picnic. "Tige" and
Clint will have as good time as any Of
the boys.
Mr.. Chas Smith, of Abb's Valley, accom-
panied by his wife, daughter and two sons,
boarded the Bluefeld train yesterday
morning for California, where they will
make Their home in the future. Mr. and
Mrs. Smith resided in California several
wears, and were SO we'll pleased that they
wanted to return.
Mrs. J. B. Pierce and her little son,
who have been spending the summer with
Mrs. Pierce's father, Mr.. Geo. r. Surface,
will leave this afternoon for their home,
at Ridgeway, S. G. They will be accom-
panied by Miss Hattie Surface, who will
spend several months at Ridgeway.
A number of gunners in our town have
recently been having some fine sport at
bat shooting. Several evenings lately the
bats have been very numerous and reg
ular fusillade WAS kept up on the hills
about town. On yesterday afternoon we
suppose thousand shots were fired, but
we doubt if over O hundred birds were
killed.
Mrs. Lizzie Warren, wife of John War
rem, colored, died at her home yesterday,
about noon, very suddenly. She was sit.
ting in chair and dropped from it, dying
instantly. She had been suffering some
time from dropsy and G complication of
heart trouble. The deceased is spoken Of
by her neighbors and those who knew her
as an excellent woman. Her funeral will
take place this afternoon.
Hiram Steel colored, who was sent to
the penitentiary from this county about
two years ago for killing colored woman,
on last Monday was sent to the insane
asylum at Petersburg He has been sent
to the ASYLUM several times for treatment
since his incarceration, and there is no
doubt that he is periodically insane. 1t
was during one of these periods of insanity
that he committed the brutal deed for
which he was sent to the penitentiary.