Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-03-01
TOWN AND COUNTY news.

street car line today.
Rev. ]. S. French has gone to Bristol,
and will return to Tazewell the last OF
the week
Angle Lamps, best and most economical
light on earth at BOyers.
The heavy rain last night was slight
improvement to Main street. 1t washed
off some of the mud.
r. G. Chapman invites you to come
and inspect his new daily arrivals OF
goods, both ladies' and geutlemen's wear
Fred Pendleton, who had been for the
past five months at Newberry College, S.
C got back to Tazawel on Monday, and
is now assisting us in our Office work.
Some good things on our Bargain
Counter" BE sure to see them. at
Boyer's.
Black the photographer, calls attention
to the Carbonette photos he is now max
ing at bis gallery They are very fine.
Mrs. Jennie Ratliff, who has been quite
sick for some weeks at the santarium of
Drs. Gillespie & Painter, is. now GONZALES
cent.
There will be mass meeting in the
cause of temperance at the court house on
tomorrow night. We published a call for
the meeting last week.
Mr. Aubrey Watkins, who is now rap
idly recovering his health, went to Blue
field last Monday to spend some time with
his brother and sister, who live at that
place.
During the wind storm yesterday the
west end gable of the planning mill and
sash factory of Geo. P. Hall & Co, at
North Tazewell, was blown out.
II. w. Pobst tells you this week what
cash buying OF paper and envelopes will
enable him to do in the way Of selling for
cash. 1t is an interesting statement.
Read it.
Handsome line of Jardinaire's, flower
pots, umbreaistands, pedestals-to arrive
this week at Boyer's.
Miss Alverta Moss left yesterday after
noon for Richmond, where she will remain
with her father, Mr.. JOS S. Moss until
the close of the session of the Legislature.
We call attention to the advertisement
of the Geo. A. Sweet Nursery Co., in
another column. 1t is one of the most
reliable in the country.
John E. Jackson tells you of the sweet
little Buttercups he has to exchange for
your money. They are not like the
Sweet Little Buttercup," of Plnafore
fame, but more toothsOme.
Don't forget our Grocery Department.
Full line of Heinz's celebrated Pickles,
| Dressings, Salads, etc. Only the "best OF
everything" at Boyer's.
Messrs. Will Henry Anderson, William
10. Whitman and William G. Young will
assist in furnishing music at the young
ladies' entertainment on Saturday. The
three Williams know how to draw the
bow.
The protracted winter and severe
weather is making forage for cattle and
horses very scarce in this community.
1t may be that our farmers are livestock
ed with cattle, or that they shipped too
much hay the first of the season.
There was preachers meeting of the
Methodist preachers of Tazewell District
held at Graham on Tuesday. All the
} preachers of the district were expected to
be present, and most of them were there.
Cosmopolitan, Strand, Frank Lesle's,
Home Journal Quaker, Muncey's Ansies'
Argosy, and "best of everything" in books
and stationery at Boyer's.
Mr. +. II. Bobbitt, who was for a short
time with the REPUBLICAN Office, but
VINO went to Brenham, Texas, last No
vember got back to Tazewell on yester-
day, and viii work in the job Office Of
w. N. Surface & Co.
The services that were to have been in
the Methodist church at North Tazewe
on last Sunday night, and which were to
be conducted by DR.. w. S. Neighbors,
were not held on account of the bitterly
cold weather. DR.. Neighbors will visit
the church in the future to present to it
the momentous question of the Twentieth
Century Educational Movement.
The young ladies of Tazewell High
School will give an entertainment at the
chapel of the school on Saturday night,
the 3rd inst. The entertainment will con-
sist of a play entitled "ReDecca's
Triumph" and music. We understand
the entertainment is for the benefit of
the library of the school, most worthy
object, and it should be literally patron
lied. The price of admission will be
twenty-five cents.
On last Sunday afternoon Houston
Brown, alias Houston Hodge, shot and
killed Bony Davis at Pocahontas.
Brown found Davisin room with his
wife, and shot him through the heart.
Davis turned to run after he was shot and
Brown shot himfour times in the back
Death resulted Immediately. Brown is now
Confined in the Jail at Pocahontas,a and will
have a preliminary trial on Saturday.
Mr.. j. B. Boyer has moved his large