Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-30
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS

week with friends in the town and county.
Buston & Sons call your attention this
week to brooms; very necessary articles
for proper housekeeping.
MIR. A. P. Gillespie Is expected to ar
rive at Tazewell on Saturday next, being
called home on business.
Mrs. II. W. Steele, of Abingdon, Va,
has been visiting her father, Col. A. j.
May, during the past week.
re. Chapman gives notice that he is
invoicing this week, which he says will
mean big lot of remnants for sale next
week.
Most of the public schools in the county
will beclosed after this and next week, as
the five months term will then have been
completed.
w. T. Witten & Co. have moved their
stock of goods to the store-room in front
of the Central Hotel, formerly occupied
10y Dodd & Co.
We have decided to offer for the next
thirty days $l.25 shoes at Sl.OO, Sl.0O
shoes at 81. 10, $3.50 shoes at $500, S3OU
shoes at 1925. Hartman & Bottlmore'
Mr.. James D. Harrison, of Liberty
hili, has been at Hot Springs, Ark. for
the past two weeks, and will remain there
some time for his health.
The editor of the Republican spent last
Friday at Wytheville, where he met anun-
Der of his old time friends, by whom he
was most cordially and kindly received.
1t was a very great pleasure to meet them
again.
The Tazewell Woman's Club had an en-
eagement with Geo. r. Vending TO de-
liver his celebrated lecture on "Stonewall
jackson, at this place, on the 9TH OF Feb
ruarv; but OH account Of the smallpox
scare the engagement was called in. The
ladies have satisfactory assurance that they
will secure the lecture at later date.
We are going to increase our stock IN
all the lines usually carried in general
merchandise store, and propose to do
strictly up. date beslness.
W.T. Witten & Co.
Mr.. w. l. Boone, former publisher OF
the Tazewell Republican, arrived at Taze'
we'll last Sunday and spent the first part
of the week in our town. Mr.. Boone is
now publishing the Herald at Martins
vile, Va, and is making The paper sue
cess.
During the next thirty days we offer all
overcoats, mems, boys and children's
suits at cost to reduce stock. For those
who are looking for bargains this Is the
time to buy. Hartman & BottimOre.
On the 9th inst. the President sent to
the Senate the nomination of Mr.. w. u.
Young as postmaster at 1azewell The
friends of Mr.. Young are delighted to hear
of his disappointment 10 the position he
has filled so acceptably for the past four
years. Mr.. Young had no opposition for
the place.
Messrs. s. F. Watts, of Walton Furnace,
and A. L. Porter, of Speedwell, Wythe
county, are at Tazewell attending the
Jones trial. Mr.. Watts is the only broth
er of the late John q, Watts, and Mrs.
Porter is his only sister. These gentlemen
are deeply interested in the result of the
trial now in progress.
Marshall R. Black was killed by fall
of slate in the mines of the Pocahontas
Galleries Company last Friday, and was
buried at East Radford on Saturday. He
was a volunteer in the Spanish.American
war, and served as member Of Captain
Hugh q. Preston's company, Fourth
United States Immunes, land was stationed
at ManzilIa, Cuba.
We have moved our stock of goods from
our old stand to the storeroom formerly
occupied bv Dodd & Co., in front of Sur.
face & Whites hotel, where our customers
will find We are better prepared to serve
them than ever before.
w. I. Witten & Co.
Mr.. VIM. E. Peery, Jr., has just received
from ]. N. Barker & Son, owners of Sugar
Grove Herd, Thorntown, Indiana, very
fine Berkshire boar. He was sired by |
imported Lustre's Bachelor, one Of the
finest Berkshires ever brought to this
country, imported by George Vanderbilt
for Biltmore farm. Mr.. Peery's boar is a
pig of the celebrated SOW; Goldie.
At concert given at Sulins College on
Monday evening, the 9th inst, we notice
that among the young ladies who partici-
pated in the concert were the following
from Tazewell: Misses Helen Fudge,
Bessie Peery, Ella Ward and Carrie Nc.
CURE. The program of music was pro-
nounced of very high standard rejecting
great credit on the players and the college.
Mr.. w. S. Moore representing the well
known firm of Rankin & Ryland, the
Lynchburg jewellers, will be at Tazewell
on the 9th, 9TH and Sth OF February,
1902, with full line of Gold goods suita-
BILE for Golden wedding presents. He
will have the very handsomest line of
these goods ever shown in Tazewell, and
will have them exhibited at bis usual
place here. ,
The Rural Retreat Times of the oath {
inst. tells of a revival which was recently
held In theMethodist church at that place,
Of which Rev. w. E. Bailey is pastor. The
revival resulted in twenty seven access
ons to that church ana nine to the Pres
Dyterian church. The Times says that
lurinp the two years pastorate of Rev.W.