Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-31
J. N. HARTMAN & SONS,
General Agents,
TaZeWell, Virginia.
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS

Mr.. w. L. Burton, of Graham, was in
town yesterday as a witness in a case in
the county court.
The J. F. Hurt Insurance Agency gives
some timely advice in the insurance line
to certain class of citizens.
This weather is the kind that generally
brings pneumonia. Persons ought to be
careful about exposing themselves.
Senator A. st. Clair has introduced a
bill in the State Senate to amend the
charter of the Doran Coal and Railway
Company.
There have been very few people in
town from the country this week. The
weather has been too disagreeable and the
roads too bad.
We are requested to announce that Rev.
J. H. Wise will preach in the Episcopal
church, at this place. Sunday morning at
eleven o'clock
George Watts Daily, the n-year.old
son of Mr.. John D. Daily, is very ill at his
fathers home in Baptist Valley. We hear
he has heart trouble.
The students of Tazewel College will
have an oratorical contest for a medal on
the 22nd of February. The contest will
take place in the Christian church.
We have been informed that the barn
which was burned on the farm in Wash
ington county recently purchased by Mr.
k. D. Brown, was insured. For what
amount we are not informed.
Rev. j. S. French, who had been abb
sent from Tazewell for about two weeks,
got back home yesterday. He brought
Mrs. French and their little son, Allen,
who had been at Bristol, home with him.
Last week we mentioned the fact that
the county court had appointed Mr..
Fielding ?. Rutherford a constable for
Clear Fork District. We should have
said Jacksonville District, as Mr.. Ruiher-
ford lives in this district,
Tazewell High School started the Sec
ond term this year with better enroll
ment than it did the second term last
year, having enrolled the first day four
more pupils than were enrolled the first
day of the second term last year.
Last November the Baptist church at
this town granted license to J. A. Golihew
to exercise his talent in preaching the
gospel. We are requested to announce
that he will preach at the Baptist church
on tie second Sunday in February, and
that all friends are cordially invited to be
present.
Standard Granulated Sugar
64c. h.; Arbuckles Coffee 12c.
h.; Billiards. Oblisk Flour per
barrel $4.35; New White Corn,
bag lots, 55c. per bushel; New
White Corn Meal, bag lots, 55c.
per bushel; Salt, 3 bushelsacks,
90c.-Tazewell Supply Go.
We accomplished in the REPUBLICAN
job Office last week feat which we con.
slider a remarkable one for a country
printing Office. On Friday, at II o'clock,
we commenced work on lawyers brief
which made twenty.six pages and in twen-
ty.six hours had completed it. Then we
were given thirteen page brief and COM
pleted it in eleven hours. These we're rush
Jobs al we rushed them.
The ]. F. Hurt Insurance Agency
(Incor) District Manager for the Mutual
Life Insurance Co., of New York, has
done magnificent work for the company
during the present month. This agency
has written $75,O00.0O of insurance for
said company in the month of January.
Mr.. w. V. Thompson, manager of the
Life Department of the Hurt Agency,
has just returned from Lee, Scott and
Wise counties, where he wrote on the one
trip $4,000 life insurance. We doubt if
any agency in Virginia has equalled this
record for the month of January.