Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-08-01
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.

Judge Geo. W. Richardson, of Marion,
Va, was in town Yesterday.
r. c. Chapmsn's ad this week shonld
receive special attention from the ladies.
Mrs. John Cooper, of Cooper, w. Va,
is at Tazewell visiting her daughter, Mrs.
c. K. Brown.
The teachers of the Methodist Sunday
school will have meeting at Mis-.
O'Keeffe's tonight.
A splendid rain came yesterday and
broke up what threatened to be very
serious drouth.
Mrs. Chapman Anderson will start today
for New York, but will stop few DAYS at
Salem, Va, to visit relatives.
Messrs. S. ]. and A. E. Richie, of
Akron, Ohio, are in town, and are STOP
ping at the Central Hotel.
A good deal of wool is being shipped
from this place now. Prices are not as
good as they were last year.
Prof. A. S. Greever, of Burke's Garden
Academy, was in town Tuesday and paid
our Office pleasant call.
DIR. and Mrs. Walker, of Staunton, Va,
arrived at Tazewell on Tuesday to visit
their daughter, Mrs. Geo. w. St. Clair.
Mrs. R. P. Holland and Mrs. Geo. P.
Oromer, of Newberry, S. c., are visiting
their sister, Mrs. VIM. G. Pendleton at
Tazewell.
1t is stated by observant farmers that
the wheat crop in Tazewell county this
year is twenty-five per cent. better than it
was last year.
Miss Kate Russell, who had been visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. II. C. Anderson for some
weeks past, left last Friday for her home
at Farmville, Va.
Mr.. E. V. Taylor, of Barnett, Russell
county, Va, called at our Office on Mon
day and had his name entered as a SUBJ
scrlber to the Republican.
Col. VIM. G. w. Jaeger arrived at Taze'
well Tuesday and is still here. He has not
been in our town for several years, and is
looking unusually well.
Brother j. N. Hartman is at it again.
He is publishing monthly four page paper,
1.-THE Tazewell Collegian." It's published
in the interests Tazewell College.
Rev. Philip Johnson, pastor of the
Christian church, who had been doing
ministerial work in Smyth county for the
past two weeks, has returned to Tazewell.
Mr.. l. G. Dodd, who is in the employ of
Walton & Co., is now located on the top Of
Big Bull Mountain, Wise county. Walton
& Co. are filling in the large trestle at that
point.
UNION COOPERATIVE SCHOOL, Bedford
City, Va, boards students at COST, (av-
erage $3.50 per month"; Academic a
years course), Schools Of Commerce, Mu.
sic, Art and Elocution. Ten teachers.
Write for catalogue.
An infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. g. r.
Brown died on last Sunday and was buried
on Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The
child had been in delicate health nearly
ever since its birth and death was not I'm.
expected.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Patton, of WEIGH,
w. Va, visited relatives at this place
from last Friday until Tuesday. They
have gone to Peterstown, w. Va, to visit.
Mr.. Patton is just recovering from Sc
we're spell of typhoid fever.
In the County Court on last Saturday
Charles Jones, colored, was tried upon a
charge of malicious cutting and there was
an agreed verdict of one year IN the peni-
tenitary. The accused was defended by
Bowen & Royal.
Hon. S. L. Flournoy, OF Charleston, w.
Va, has been at Tazewell since Tuesday.
He is here as attorney for Mr.. s. ]. Ritch-
lie, of Akron, Ohio, who is claiming large
boundary OF valuable coal lands in Nc
Dowell and Tazewell counties.
Miss May Hawkins, who had been visit
ing friends at Lynchburg and Martinsville
for the past month, has returned to Taze-
well. She was accompanied home by
Miss Mary Alice Heard, of Lynchburg, who
will spend some weeks visiting here.
Hon. A. P. Gillespie came up from Rich.
mond and spent all last week in the de-
fence of Marion Phillips, and that of Eli
Hawkins. He left Sunday afternoon for
Richmond to resume his duties as mem.
Der of the Constitutional Convention.
Mrs. D. P. Valley, of Raven, is at the
sanitarium of Drs. Gillespie and Painter.
On Tuesday morning DR.. Gillespie per-
formed very difficult operation on Mrs.
Valley, assisted by DR.. Painter. We are
glad to note that Mrs. Valley stood the
operation we'll and is doing nicely.
Hon. Edgar P. Rucker, of WEIGH, and
Hon. David K. Johnston, of Bluefeld, w.
Va, were at Tazewell Tuesday. They
came here to act as counsel for D. 6. Say |
ers and others in the taking of dispositions
in litigation between Sayers and Richie.
The depositions were continued until the
18th inst, and will be taken at WEIGH.
The health of the town has been so good |
during the past twelve months that we
fear the people have become careless about
sanitary conditions This will not do.
There should be immediate attention to
back lots, cellars, pig stys and all out
houses. The season has been of such a
character that disease is bound to come
unless every precaution, known to sanitary
avs, Is not taken.
We are informed that there was a very
service at Chestnut Grove
Christian Church, at Shaver Mills, on
he 3rd Sunday in July. There was one
,onfeeaion. and ON Wednesday of last week