Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-05-30
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.

r. G. Chapman advertises new additions
to his muslin underwear department.
Ladies are requested not to wear their
hats to the Taylor lecture on Saturday
night.
Jackson, the druggist, has some inter
esting reading in his advertising space this
week.
James French Strother, prominent at
t0rney from WEIGH, was in town profes-
sionally Monday
Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Hartman, of Key
stone, w. Va, were at Tazewell Tuesday
visiting relatives and friends.
w. l.. Draper 4 Co. notify the public
that they are pushing along in the manu-
facture of all kinds of harness.
Mr.. f. j. GRAPHICAL, fGreenbrier county,
w. Va, is paying visit to his father, Mr.
S. GRAPHICAL, at Maxwell in this county.
V. i. Sexton, Mayor. publishes in this
issue of the REPUBLICAN, very important
notice to persons who take water from the
town.
Mr.. A, P. Kelly, who has been acting as
Principal of a school at Berryville, Va,
for the past year, got back to Tazewell on
last Monday.
The ladies are requested to not wear
their hats to the Taylor lecture on Satur-
day night, or to remove them if they wear
them after reaching the hall.
If you will read the advertisement of
the Racket Store you will see they are
offering some exceptionally fine bargains
in window curtains, shades and poles.
Capt. Reese T. Bowen, of the Norfolk
and Western, has been promoted to the
position of passenger conductor, and is nov
running between Bluefeld and Kenova.
We are informed that many persons who
live along the river i'll the west end of the
county will have to plant their corn again,
as the recent floods destroyed the first
planting.
The rain which began to fall on Satur-
dav continued, with slight intermissions,
until Monday afternoon. This has been
the rainiest May that has been seen for
many years.
Mrs. Henry Preston, who was called to
Oxford, N. c., by the illness and SUBJ
stquent death of her sister, Mrs. Wool,
returned to her home at Tazewell last
Monday.
We are showing the biggest variety of
young mems suits ever shown by us.
Bought direct from the factory in New
York Stylish and up.to-date suits Of
newest shades and patterns.
Hartman & Bottimore.
If the rainy weather continues much
longer it will cause great damage to corn
fields. The cut worms have been getting
in their work pretty heavily during the
past week.
J. N. Hartman, after an absence from
Tazewell of about ten days, is back at
home again. He was travelling in the in
terest of the South Atlantic Life Insurance
Company.
One of the heaviest rains that has ever
fallen in Burke's Garden fell on last Fri.
day night 1t rained in such quantities
and so rapidly that some of the flat lands
were covered with sheets of water.
Mr.. j. NJ. Black, the photographer, ar
rived at 1azewel last Monday and is now
busly occupied getting his gallery in shape
for work He is looking well, and express
es great pleasure in being at Tazewell
again.
Mr.. John d. Barns, of Broad Ford, Va,
with his two daughters, Misses Sadie and
Bee, passed through Tazewell on Tuesday.
The young ladies have been pupils at
Bnkes Garden Academy for the past
year and were returning home.
Mr.. G. A. Steele has been promoted to
the position of assistant agent of the Nor.
folk & Western at Tazewel station Al. is
thoroughly capable of dischargng the du.
ties of his new position and his many
friends will be pleased to hear of his de-
served promotion.
Cards are out for the marriage of Mr..
Barnes Gillespie to Miss Ruth Pepper,
daughter of DR.. Charles Taylor Pepper, of
Rural Retreat, Va. The marriage will
take place in the Presbyterian Church at
Rural Retreat, on Wednesday morning,
June the 9TH.
Rev. 6. b. Stricken, ID, of the Union
Theological Seminary, at Richmond, Va,
will preach in the Presbyterian church at
this place on the nights of the 4th, 5tb and
VIu vi Juhe' Last Meeh VIC annOunCeu'
he would preach on the 4th, 9Th and
9Th Of July. That announcement was
mistake.
Miss Sailie Beaufort English, who had
been a student at Tazewell College the last
year, left for her home at Rocky Mount,
Va, on Tuesday afternoon. She will
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