Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-03-29
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.

MIR. Shell Surface, deputy postmaster
at this place. has been laid up several
days with the grip.
Mr.. j. ID. HARRISON. of Liberty Hill,
was in town Tuesday to attend the funeral
of his aunt, Mrs. Graham.
Tuesday the merchants of our town had
a good trade. The weather Was favorable
and customers seemed anxious to buy.
Mrs. L. b. Scott, of Cedar Bluff, and
Mis-. Chas. Mcneil, of Maxwell, were in
town yesterday and today shopping.
Mr.. Geo. w. Gillespie declines to let his
name be used for councilman on the clti-
zens ticket nominated last Saturday.
Over 700 bushels of sheled corn for sale.
HARMAN BRos. & PEERY,
2t. North Tazewell, Va.
Miss Sallie May Gildersleeve is sick al
Mr. S. G. Peery's, near North Tazewell'
She has the measles, we are informed.
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Mr.. j. d. Alexander, who was confined
to biz home all last week with the grip, Is
out again and looking after his business.
Miss Kate Kelly came up from Maiden
Spring on Saturday and spent Saturday
and Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Preston.
Grass seed for sale at
HARTMAN Bros. & PEERY,
2t. North Tazewell, Va.
jackson in his advertisement this week
warns people of the danger Of neglecting
cough, and tells them how to stop cough
ing.
Mrs. Emaline Pierce, who had been
visiting relatives in Wythe county, is
now visiting her son, Dr. Isaac Pierce. at
this place.
The electric light company has put up
several new lights this week, one at the
jail, which was badly needed. The town
is noS splendidly lighted.
Next Monday the regular Spring term of
the circuit court for Tazewell county will
begin, with Judge Jackson presiding. The
docket is moderately good one.
Miss Martha B. Porterfeld, who has
been visiting Miss Ella Bowen for sever
al weeks, left for her home at Lewisburg,
West Va, on yesterday afternoon.
Messrs. H. G. Anderson and Peery
Britain went to the head Of Clear Fork
yesterday and ished short while for
trout. They caught about a dozen very
nice ones.
Judge Graham got down to his office on
Tuesday for the first time in about two
weeks. Mrs. Graham and the other mem
bers of his family who have been sick are
now convalescent.
A report came to town last week that
Mr.. James 3andy, sheriff of Tazewel coun-
ty, was very ill with pneumonia. 1t proved
to be mistake lie was in town Tues
day, and in good health.
Mrs. 4. p. Moore, of Holston Valley,
Tenn, mother of Mrs. John Britain, of
oar town, has been quite sick for some
time. The latest reports state that she
is greatly improved.
Bluegrass Lodge of Odd Fellows at
this place has been trying to secure the
services of General John b. Gordon to
deliver a lecture for their benefit, but
have failed to get him.
The "Bostonian" shoes for sale eXclu-
sivelv by HARTMAN d BoTTIMORE are the
very incest and most stylish on the mar
ket. You should see them before buying
black, tan, patent leather and cOrdovan.
II. w. Pobst in his regular space this
week calls attention to the superiority Of
the Utopia seIni-granite ware he is selling
The advantage of being able to replace any
piece of broken ware is a great one, as lie
suggests.
Miss Mamie Hoge, of Burke's Garden,
who has been at Richmond, visiting her
relative Governor Tyler, arrived at
Tazewell yesterday, and is the guest Of
her aunt, Mrs. A. z. Gillespie, while ID
our town.
Mr.. A. P. Gillespie's little son Willie,
who is just six years old, has been very
i'll for more than week with what is
supposed to be gastric fever. He is now
doing very well, and it is hoped he is out
of all danger.
We again urge our readers, who are
properly situated, to raise more fowls
this year. There seems to be no end TO
the demand for poultry and eggs. See if
you can't raise twice as many fowls this
year as you did last
We are now the only firm in town who
handle an exclusive line of Clothing Boots,
Shoes and gents furnishing goods and
think our line the best we have ever offer
ed. HARMAN q BoTTIMoRE.
There has never been a case Of smallpox
in this town, AMI the authorities are trying
70 prevent a case getting here. Our town
has been remarkably fortunate in escaping
the loathsome disease, in viewiof the fact
that it has been so near, SO frequently.
This has been poor year for making
maple sugar Nearly all the recent freezes
have gone away with rains, the flow of
water from the trees has been thereby
diminished, and the quality Of the water
injured by the minging of rain water
Wiki Stephenson has boy which he
says is five months old, weighs twenty
three pounds, and has one tooth. He
calls him by the name of George Allen
Britain Stephenson. A boy with as
nonderOns name as that ought TO be