Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-07-19
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.

Send your orders for all kinds of job
work to the REPUBLICAN Office. We will
satisfy you.
Mr.. Shell Surface and family left Tues
day for Wytheville, where they will visit
relatives of Mrs. Surface.
Miss Sallie English, of Rocky Mount,
Virginia, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Q. d.
NJ. Showater, at Highland Park"
Miss Maggie May, who had been visit
ing relatives in Kentucky for some weeks
past, got back to Tazewell last Monday.
Last week the weather was fine for stack
ing wheat and saving hay, but the farmers
would have preferred to have some rain.
We are having the finest run of job
work at the REPUBLICAN office this month
we have ever had in the month of July.
Mr.. A. p. Gillespie and family are now
at the Pulaski Alum Springs, which is
very popular health resort with Tazewell
people.
The case of the Commonwealth vs.. John
Peery has been continued until the next
term of the county court, on the motion OF
the defendant.
1t is rumored that Mrs. Jennie Ratlif
| Loo ,>,,.oboeo1 tha uuHord rroDortv now
occupied by ]. NJ. Coffee, and known as
the Coffee House.
Misses Mary Snidow and Alice Will
liams, of Pearlsburg, and Miss jamie Din
widdie, of Rosedale, Russell county, are
visiting Mrs. DR.. st. Clair.
An effort will be made to get the n. &
w. to run special train from Graham to
Norton on the 3lst to carry delegates and
visitors to the convention at Wise.
We are told that good many bass are
being caught in seins and nets at diff
ferent points on Clinch River. If this be
true it will seriously injure angling.
There was very email crowd in town
on Tuesday (court day. The farmers
were quite busy in the hay fields and did
not quit their work to come to town.
ID. Alexander advertises his large
stock of shirt waists at cost prices. These
warm days the ladies ought to avail them
selves of the rare opportunity he offers.
Hon. Harry NJ. Smythe, of North
Tazewell, and Mrs. Elizabeth Owens, of
Willow Springs, Russell county, were mar
ried yesterday at the home Of the bride.
Mr.. w. q. Young went down to Mont
gomery White Sulphur last Saturday to al
tend the Masonic School, which was being
held at that place. He returned on Mon
day.
Mr.. ]. n. Hartman, field agent for Taze'
we'll College, left Wednesday for the Nthia
Springs, near Tiptop. He was accompa-
MED by his family, and expects to be there
several days.
Col. May has decided to discontinue
grazing sheep on his farm, and will stock
it with fine herd of cattle. He has pur-
chased number of thoroughbred heifers
from Peery Bros.
Mrs. Isaac PIERCE was called to Pearls
burg, Va, on Tuesday to attend the burial
of brother, who died at Nashville, Tenn,
on last Sunday, of typhoid fever. The
young man was just nineteen years old.
Mrs. S. n. Barker, of Sullins College,
Bristol, Va, spent several days last week
and the first of this week in Tazewell,
working for Sullins. Mrs. Barker is
splendid teacher and excellent solicitor.
Mrs. G. w. St. Clair, with her three
children, got back from StauntOn, Va,
on Tuesday, the 18th inst. Mrs. st. Clair
had been visiting her father, DR.. Walker,
for several months. Mr.. St. Clair went
to Staunton and accompanied his family
home.
The ladies OF the Methodist church gave
a lawn party last Monday night on the
beautiful lawn of Mr.. Jos. S. Moss. a
large crowd attended, and elegant ices and
cake were served. More than $50 was
realized from the entertainment.
District Conference is now being held in
Mt. Cavalry church, at Cove Creek. A
large number of preachers, delegates and
visitors arrived at Tazewell on the trains
yesterday, and were taken to Cove Creek
by private conveyances to attend the con-
ference. The meeting will continue over
Sunday and will be largely attended by
Tazewep. and Bland people.
Miss Alice Hopkins gave a social, and
quite pleasantly entertained large gather.
ing of her young friends, at the beautiful
country home of her parents, MIR. and
Mrs. o. E. Hopkins, three miles west of
Tazewell, on last Friday night. A large
number of the young people of our town
were present, and they all unite in pro-
claiming the occasion one of the most en-
joyable of the season.
We are requested by Rev. 7. h. Han
dy, presiding elder of Tazewell District,
to announce that he has made change
in the time of holding quarterly meetings
in the district as follows: The meeting
will be held at Bramwell, W. Va, on the
18th and 18th of August, and at Mays
Chapel East Tazewel Circuit, on the 18th
and 10Th of August. These appointments
have been merely reversed as published
in the first list of appointments.