Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-02-01
OUR BLUEFIgLD LETTER.
TUESDAY.

., Lewis .. b. Farley, Of Lashmeet, is IN
Col. John w. Watts. of Tazewen, is
In The city.
J. L. Corvin returned last night TO
! Williamson.
w. a. Lindsey, of Norwood. spept
Sunday in the city.
Miss Lottie HIgginbotham, of Giles,
IS visiting IN the city.
Edgar Spangler, of Zurich. Va.
was IN the city yesterday.
Miss Mary Anderson, of Graham.
was In the city yesterday.
Rev. John Il. Simpson. Of Sandlick.
Is the guest OF Nus. Sarah Bailey.
X. L. Morris, who has been visiting
at Bland returned home yesterday.
Miss Florence Monroe. Of Radford.
Va, is visiting relatives in the city.
Messrs. b. p. and h. e. White, of
Oakvale, were IN the city yesterday.
Mrs. G. a. Howard. of POeahpntas.
IS visiting her parents az Floyd, Va.
Hon. Wyndham II. Stokes. Of the
independent State of Mcdowell, is in
the city
Lewis Britain, one of TazewelPs
boys, passed here en- route TO Roanoke
on business.
We learn that W. S. Battle, of Roa.
noke has been appointed assistant
train master.
/ Editor Leslie, of the ADVERTISER
lett Yesterday evening on a business
trip 20 Richmond
G. p. Greever, the wide-awake anS
eilctentsurgeant of Grahrm, was in
The city on yesterday.
We are very glad to learn that the
condition of Miss Mae Baldwin who
IS seriously III with typhoid fever, is
! slightly improved.
NJ iss Mary Howard, who has been
visiting her brother, a. w. Howard.
VIII leave for her home at Danville.
Va, this morning.
The remains of Mrs. Geo. w. Thorn
as were taken TO Elliston, Va, her old
home, for interment. They were ae-
eompanied by the family and several
| friends.
ii. ii. Pruitt, of Bland. employed bv
the Keystone Coal Il Coke CO., return
cd to his home yesterday sick, DR..
Boyle pronounced ita genuine case of
smallpox he is under quarantine.
w. S Crockett, druggist and under
taker, Of this city, and VIM. Ed.
Peery, undertaken, OF Tazewel. re-
turned few days ago from Cincinnati
where they each took course of leo
lures In emDalming IN leading col
lege In that city. They express them
selves as not only highly pleased but
greatly benefited by the Instructions
which they received.
DR.. W. Il. Hall preached Sunday
night at the Christian Church, on the
subJectOf tic resurrection. NOtwith-
standing stormy weather the house was
nlled. For more than an hour the
speaGerheld the large audience SPELL
bound. The crowd was delighted with
the discussion, DR.. He'll lectures at
IaZewell tonight on the Fool Killer.''
Last night when No l. arrived q
stranger who looked TO be about 35
years of age got OF and went acrAss
70 Geilinger's restaurant for supper.
lie wore no coat and had his pants and
sleeves rolled up. After he had eaten
supper be offered in payment cheek
Tor Slo.OO ana requested Mrs. Geiliu-
ger To cash ii, which she declined To
90. lie then produced 4 handful OF
COINS and bills and tod her III had
plenty Of money but II she couldn't
would have TO whistle for her paw"
About that time a gentleman present
seized the stranger by the naDe OF the
neck and the ampler part of his
trousers and was going TO throw him
INTO the street VIXEN he agreed TO nav.
lie departed a wiser II not a happier
man.
Overdose of Morphine.
James Riley, a we'll known Young
man about % years of age, died about
. o'clock Sunday afternoon, at the
home Of Jessie Anderson, in the west
ern portion of the town, across the
overhead bridge. Whether or not the
morphine was taken with suicidal in
tent is not known. Riley went to the
Anderson wOman's house early Satur-
dav night, and the women say, took
the medicine about 4 o'clock Sunday
morning and sat down in a chair and |
told them not TO trouble him. He
went to sleep, and after remaining in
an unconscious condition nntll about |
l O'Clock Sunday afternoon, the women
becoming alarmed, sent for Squire
Brown, who went at once to the house. /
and sent for DR.. Martin. Riley was
about dead when thephYsician arrived. |
He died about 5p. m. DR.. Martin
thinks the mans life could have been
saved if medical aid had been sum-
moned at once. The inmates of the
house said they did not know what to
do about sending for a physician, sup
posing the man was only asleep. Ri
ley has a sister, Mrs. Monroe, living
here, and a mother and sister living in
Roanoke, where the body was shipped
for burial.
IJNIOITF ALEATD