Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-10
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.

We will buy your beef hides.
w. l.. DRAPER & Co.
Mr.. j. Floyd Gillespie advertises a nice
little farm for sale in the REPUBLICAN.
We regret to hear that Mrs w. ii.
Kelly, of Unaka, is not in very good health
this winter.
Mr.. Eb. Witten, Of Unaka, this county,
will soon go to Bluefeld to engage in the
Gents Furnishing business.
We are informed that the ditch on the
east side of Tazewell Avenue is in very
bad condition, at some points.
Mr.. II. p. Dodge, a brother Of Prof. j.
II. Dodge, of Tazewell College, has been
appointed postmaster at Manassas, Va.
john +. JACKSON sells the paint that
wears twice as long as lead and oil-Devoe
lead and zinc, ground by machinery. If.
MIR. John G. Osborne, of Radford, Va,
was in Tazewell yesterday, attending a
meeting of the directors Of the Tazewell
Coal and Iron Company.
Messrs. Ii. +. Peery and Il. w. Witten
are now engaged in the retail grocery and
fresh meat business at Graham. They are
preparing to put in a cold storage.
Rob Henry has been detained at home
since the holidays 10y sickness, but will re-
turn in short tune to Hampden- Sidney
College, where he was a student before the
holidays.
We regret to announce that Mrs. I. W.
Ratliff is quite ill with what is pronounced
to be pneumonia. Mrs. Ratliff is an ex'
cellent lady, and we trust she will speedily
recover.
Judge and Mrs. S. G. Graham, with
their little daughter, Katie, left for City
Point, Florida, last Thursday afternoon.
They will spend about six weeks in the
Land of Flowers"
DIR. j. X. Gildersleeve left Tazewell on
Tuesday afternoon afternoon to be absent
several weeks. He went to Abingdon,
Va, where he will spend few days, and
will then 90 to Richmond.
We hear that the congregation of the
Baptist Church at this place have extend
ed call to Rev. D. A. Glenn to become
their pastor. Rev. Glenn was pastor OF
the Church for several years prior to 1897.
Last Thursday at the town election at
keystone, w. Va, Mr.. G. f. Hartman
was elected, for the sixth time, mayor OF
that town. His majority was 100. 1t Is
very hard to turn a Tazewel Republican
boy down.
The Radford Brick Company, at Tiptop,
has enough orders for brick to keep the
works occupied during the present year,
with their present facilities 1t is likely
that the facilities will be greatly enlarged
during the year.
Miss Maggie Maxwell, Of Maxwell, was
among those who came to Tazewell to
hear DR.. Wilson lecture. She remained at
this place for several days, the guest of her
friend, Miss Hattie Wingo, before return
ing to her home.
IN. Hartman, Esq, General Agent of
the South Atlantic Life Insurance COmpa'
py, went to Richmond last Monday to con-
fer with the management of his company
at headquarters. He will be in Richmond
three or four days.
Capt. Samuel Walton, of Falls Mill,
spent Monday and Tuesday at Tazewell.
He is making fine progress at the work of
filing in trestes on the Clinch Valley road
east of Wittens Mills, in this county, and
at Swords Greek, in Russell county.
The open winter has been very favor.
able to cattle men. So far they have not
been compelled to feed their stock heavily,
and the apprehension they had in the
early part of the season that they would
run short of rough feed is now removed.
Prof. P. R. Allen, of Cedar Bluff High
School, came up to Tazewell last Thursday
to attend the lecture of DR.. Wilson. Prof
!. lien was accompanied by Misses Alice
Alexander and Matte Peery, who are
also teachers at Cedar Bluff High School
The merchants and other business men
of the town are busy settling up their
business for the past year. A great many
persons in Tazewell are glad when this
new year, annual settlement time ar
rives, while others are not so well pleased.
Henry White, who had been clerking in
drug store at Covington, Va, for the
past four months, returned to Tazewell
few days ago. He will continue to pursue
his studies in pharmacy, and hopes to be
able to SION stand an examination before
the State Board.
Mrs. O'Keeffe, District Secretary of Mis-
sions for Tazewell District, of Holston
Conference, went to PocahOntas last Fri
day and organized missionary society.
She then went to Graham where she
orOanizpd another SocietV Mrs O'Kepfte
returned to Tazewell on yesterday.
The planning mill at the southside Of
town, which has been practically idle for
some time past, has been put in operation
again by Messrs. j. T. Heldreth and Jos.
S. and A. P Gillespie. The business will
be actively run and large supplies Of lum-
Der are being laid in for the purpose.
Mrs. S. ]. Thompson, of Liberty Hill,
went to Richmond last Friday to place