Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-07-04
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS

was in Tazewel yesterday.
Mr.. r. A. Crockett, of CITATION, was in
town yesterday on business.
Rev. John A. Taylor and bride have
gone to Wise, Va, to visit Judge Bond.
Are you wide awake business man ?
Then read our al IN this issue, -Harrisson
& Gillespie Bros.
Miss Anna Ingram, of Friendship,
Washington county, Va, is at Tazewell
visiting Miss Olette Hartman.
The new double tenement house which
Moss & Greever are having erected on the
lot opposite the Presbyterian church ID
going up rapidly.
From all accounts the Fourth of July
will be celebrated at Pocahontas today
with more vim than ever before. The
town will be crowded.
A large crowd will attend the 4th of
July celebration at Pocahontas. There
will be races, games and other amuse-
ments for the visitors.
Workmen are now engaged in tearing
down part of the Tazewell College build
ing, preparatory to making additional and
necessary changes in the building.
Hunters Pulaski Alum Springs are now
open for the Summer. For analysis and
general information as to rates etc. Adj
dress II. NJ. 7. Hunter, Sassin, Va.
There will be big Fourth of July Gel
ebrahon at Pocahontas. The committee
IN charge will make it the most interest
ing occasion of the kind ever held in the
town.
There was no house in Pocahontas large
enough to accommodate the crowd which
assembled to hear Mr.. Bryan speak and
he spoke on a hillside adjacent to the
town.
Mr.. John A. Taylor and bride, nee Miss
Mary CIaggett, who were married at the
home of the bride, at Gaithersburg, Md,
on Juue 10, arrived at Tazewell on last
Thursday.
DR.. J. r. Gildersleeve is at Marion att
tending a meeting of the Board of the
Southwestern Hospital. The Board is now
investigating the charges made against the
management of that institution.
Rev. q W. Finley, d. d., of Thinking
Spring, Augusta county, Va, will preach
in the Presbyterian church on next Sun
day morning at II o'clock. Dr. Finley
has been extended call to the church
here, but has not yet accepted.
On Tuesday evening Miss Grace Crock
cit gave delightful tea to a number Of her
young lady friends. Later in the evening
a number Of young gentlemen called, by
invitation, and refreshments were served
t. the assembled company.
Today is the l25th anniversary of the
Declaration of independence. The day
will not be celebrated in a special way at
Tazewel, but will generally be observed
as holiday. The bank will be closed all
day, and the postonice, except at the
usual he l'day hours.
Mrs. w. A. Scott was so i'll last week
that her mother, Mrs. Buston, who was
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Camack at
Greencaste, Ind, had to be telegraphed
for. We are glad to state that Mrs Scott
is now much better and rapidly recover
ing.
DR.. T. L. Painter is up from Liberty
Hill, and reports that the damage done at
that place by the recent flood is slowly
being repaired. He says the account OF
what happened at Liberty Hill was very
faithfully portrayed in the REPUBLICAN of
last week.
Very few persons went from Tazewell to
hear MIR. Bryan speak at Pocahontas. A
few years ago it would have been almost
impossible to have kept the faithful DEM
ocracy at this place from rushing to see
their champion if he came as close as Pc.
cahontas.
As matter of history the recent great
flood will be talked Of for years. Every
one should have few photographs taken
at the scenes of this great destruction.
They will be highly priced in after years.
A. NJ. Black has some very fine views
taken on the Ghnoh in and near Cedar
Bluff, and also several from Elkhorn, Kyle,
Moth Fork, Keystone and other places
of vast destruction in West Virginia. Call
at the stndio or address A. NJ. Black, the
photographer, Tazewell, Va.
The game of base ball played at this
place on last Friday between the Tazewell
and Graham teams, resulted in one-sided
victory for the Graham boys, the score at
the end of the sixth inning standing IS to
in their favor. The boys from Graham
showed by their playing, both in the
field and at bat, that they had had much
training; while the Tazewell boys showed
they had had none whatever, and this, no
doubt, contributed much to their defeat.
An immense sinkhole located on the
farm of Mr.. John Bundy, on the Liberty
Hill road,six miles west of town, was filed
up by the recent food that visited that
valley. At the bottom of the sinkhole
there vas an entrance to cave WHICH ex-
tends across the valley from Knob noun
tain to Paint Lick mountain. As that was