Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-08-17
TJW.a AND COUNTY EEWS.

Don't fai to see the Minstrel Monday
and Tuesday nights.
j. N. Hartman has gone on a business
trip TO Pulaski.
The walls of the huston building are
going up rapidly.
Mrs. Dr. w. E. Baylor, of Cedar Bluff,
is visiting in town.
If YOU Want to laugh, wait till you see
the Minstrel on Monday and Tuesday
nights.
We are requested to announce that there
will be preaching in the Presbyterian
church Sunday morning
The local coal dealers inform us that
coal will be higher the coming year.
Miss L. Katie Groseclose, of Marion, Va,
is visiting at Mr.. Henry Preston's.
The public schools Of the county will
he opened on the first Monday in Septem-
Der.
Miss Harriet Henry, of Washington, d.
c., is visiting her brother, Major r. r.
Henry at Tazewell.
Atkins, the Buefeld photographer, in
forms the public that he is tenting at
North Tazewell.
The j. F. Hurt Insurance Agency i'm
presses our readers with the fact that this
agency studies insurance.
HARRISON & Gillespie Brothers have
something to say this week about ''The
Last Rows of Summer"
Mrs. Henry Preston is spending few
days at Peery's Healing Springs, -four miles
northwest Of town.
Miss Bessie Renwick, from Baltimore, is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. DR.. j. T. Cooley,
and other relatives in Tazewel.
Col. May, who had been confined 10 mis-
home for several days by indisposition
was at his office again on yesterday.
Miss Susie P. Quinn, of Radford, Va, is
visiting her brother Mr.. j. Watson Quinn
and while here is stopping at Maj. Bowens
Jackson, the druggist, adveriises in this
issue bis superior line of cameras and
Photographic supplies. If you have 6
taste for photography try his goods.
II. w. Pobst INDUCES in some usefu
talk in his advertising space to "Just
Married Folks" Persons of that class
should not fail to read what he says.
Mr.. L. ]. Miles, the accommodating
agent of the Norfolk and Western at Taze
well, went to Russell the first of the week
and attended court at Lebanon OH Tues
day.
The Racket Store of j. b. Hawkins &
Co. have put their entire line of ladies OK,
iords on the bargain counter at cost
Prices from 40c. to 81 so.
On Monday and Tuesday nights in con-
nection with the Minstrel will he given an
excellent accrobatic performance and
many Slereoptical views on the Spanish
American War;
Dodd & Co. want our readers to know
that they have a large supply of school
books, which they will sell to their custom
ers at the lowest prices. Read what
they nave to say in their regular advertis-
ing space.
Mrs. Gibson and Mrs. Hardin
came up from Russell county on MonIay,
to razewell for the purpose of having DR..
j. T. Cooley do some dental work for
them. They received the necessary treat
ment and returned to Russell yesterday.
The meetings at the Christian church
continue to be held each night. Rev. De
Vol is attracting large crowds, and is
making deep impression on some of the
unconverted. On Tuesday night the ordi-
nance of baptism WAS administered to one
candidate.
1t is rumored that the street car COM
pany is about to make arrangements with
the electric power company to have its
cars run by electricity. If this be true
there will have to be a new track and new
cars. We hope the arrangement will be
made, and this will put Tazewell ahead of
any town of its size in Virginia.
Mrs. J. G. SPOTS became i'll on Tuesday
of last week, and grew steadily worse I'M
til yesterday, when her friends became
seriously alarmed about her condition.
She is suffering from that dread disease,
hux. She was doing very we'll this morn
ing land her friends are hopeful that she'will
recover.
This is the season of the year when
every body in Tazewell should be special
ly careful about the sanitary condition of
their premises. The hot sun shining upon
filth of any kind is calculated to make the
atmosphere unhealthy. Keep lime sprink-
led in the drains and other unclean places,
and use proper disinfectants about the
house.
Mr.. r. A. Mills, who for some months
has filled most acceptably the position of
operator for the Western Union at Taze-
well, left Sunday night for East St. Louis,
Mo-, where he has obtained q more lucra-
tive position. Mr.. Mills is nice gentle
man, and great many persons regretted
to see him leaye Tazewell.