Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1902-07-18
COUNTY NEWS
Weekly Letters From the
Various PostofficeS.
Italy Leaks.
Especial Correspondence.l

Lutrel and Arthur Bailey OF Knoxville
Tenn, returned to their post Of duty
last Monday.
Miss Lucy Smith is visiting friends
and relatives in Tennessee.
Mr. Easily Cumby is quite sick with
typhoid at his home, near the camp.
C. A. Hawley, groceryman OF our
town, has just completed whitewashing
his farm He now has one OF the most
attractive places in the suburbs of the
city.
J. L. Smith, the potato grower has
been soliciting help and storage for his
crop of potatoes. He says they are In
greater abundance than Kansas wheat.
Mrs. S. Walton is visiting friends at
TaZewell this week.
The farmers in this location have be-
gun h lrve5ting tn eir hay and oats. The
song OF the mower is heard on all sides.
Miss Winnie Long, Of Bluefleld, was
visiting Miss Ella Johnson last week.
Mr. b. Young who lost a very val
liable grip satchel on his return from
Italy last March, after tracing it for
over three months, found it i'm France.
The satchel was forwarded to Mud
Fork, and from thence to Falls Mills.
Miss Nancy Smith, who has been Wis
iting for some time in Tennessee is ex-
pected home soon. Her arrival no
doubt will dive away the sad express
sion that has fingered SO long on Auth
ers face.
Mr.. and Mrs. /. c. Dodd served ice
cream last Thursday evening, celebrat-
ing the eleventh birthday of their dau-
ghter, Miss Nina.
ID. w. Dudley, from Crocketts Cove,
and J. C. Fink, of Mud Fork, were
taking in the Quarries last Tuesday.
We still catch the breath OF n pro-
posed picnic, ice cream supper or lawn
party from the young people of Falls
Mills. We hope they may surprise us
soon with one OF the above luxuries.
Quite jolly crowd from the celes.
trial city OF Falls Mills, passe through
Italy last Saturday, on hay ride ex-
cursion. Their peeling notes OF myrth
and jubilee was of an exciting charac-
ter, and on their return trip just as the
sun was sinking in western horizon their
shining faces were seen rejecting on
the clouds that seemed 20 be sus-
pended from the very windows OF
Heaven. No cases OF hay fever have
been reported as yet.
Italy does not boast Of its numerous
enterprises as does Graham and Tabor
vile. but her yearly out put OF stone
would be sufficient TO build a wall
around each OF these cities too strong
to be shaken down by any full grown
Kansas cyclone Her foundation is
secure because it is built upon rock
1t is a fact knowing to all surround.
ing citizens of Falls Mills, that the dis.
tillery at Flat Top Yard was closed 10y
an act passed in the senate OF Virgins
some three or four months ago. This
act was a great relief TO the good cit
izens of the community, and since thai
time we scarcely have seen a drunkeI
person in our locality, when previous t.
this time there scarcely was day
that we did not see some realing anC
staggering under the influence of Fla
Top liquor, as they called it i'm boast
ing manner. A petition is now being
circulated by the proprietor Of thi
wholesale slaughtering maching to dis
pose of one half thousand gallons O
dammable stuff Win the good citiz
! ems of our quiet little village allow sue
: an institute as this to resume its dis
tructive work othe young manhood {
our land? Will they sanction a move
: ment which they know means distruC
\ tlon to our free and highly civilize
n country. This is question Of vas
: importance and appeals to the tru
manhood Of our citizens. will we a
\ low this monster of deadly poison 1
= be awakened and fasten its poisono,
4 fangs upon the manhood Of this con
\ munity? or will we boldly enlist in thI
Y army who is ever ready TO declare W,
? against such gigantic evil.