Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-28
BRISTOL POLITICS.
RACE FOR CONGRESS IN TENNEs-
SEE AND VIRGINIA DISTRICTS.
WATAUGA PROPERTY FOR SALE
A Number of Fine Farms to Go TO
The Hirhe.t Bidder. on the goth
of Novcmbcr-Ncw Liquer-seH Or
dinances.
WATAUGA PROPERTY FOR SALE
A Number of Fine Farm. to Go to

BRISTOL. VA, October 27.-fSpecial>-
The race for Congress in the First rem
ncssnc District is between Representative
w p Brown,ow and Mr. Cy II. Lyle. the
latter editor of the Johnson City Comet
Ordinarily Mr.. Brownlow would win III
The race by 10000 majority. but TINS year
he finds his party seriously diVided. on ao-
count of the disafrection engcndcred in the
recent judicial race In the district Inc
candidacy Of Mr.. Lyle was laughed at as
q Joke in the onset, but he has been gam
ing steadily In public favor and there are
many who think that he may be apie 10
defeat the Congressman. Mr.. BEoWf!o" il,
af any rate. not taking any chances. put
Is doing what he has not had to do mere
,ofcrc and that is make thorough can
rass OF the district. The contest Is warm
Ing UP and Will be lively from now unul
the polls close.
The contest between Representative
Rhea and Colonel Slelnp. in the Ninth
District. has become rather interesting.
Tho CONGRESSMAN is confident, but finds
Colonel Slemp claiming as much. The
general opinion is that the new reglstra-
ton is favorable to Congressman Rhea.
The vote all over the district is going TO
be reduced by at least one-half Of what 1t
has been heretofore.
SEk1OJS RCS1i'iI4N1
Marion Stone, who conducts a wood
ward in Bristol. had the misfortune to
get his right hand caught in a buzz saw.
The fingers of the hand were all cut off
close up to the hand.
The receivers recently appointed by the
Federal Court TO wind UP the affairs OF
he Watauga Land Company. at Eliza
bethton. East Tenn. will offer all the
property Of the said company for sale
pm the Goth day of November. The salo
Uill embrace a number of fine farms
In the Watauga Valley that were purchas-
ed by the Cooperative Town Company,
some ten years ago. when it was under
taken by Hon. John G. Carlisle. the late
Senator Ishau1 G. Harris, Benjamin But
serworth. Robert ?. Porter. and other men
of national note. to build city in the
-.FatauEa Valley. The town company
failed, and now its successor he Wa
iausa Land Company. has virtually be-
come a thing Of the past. while the town
of Elizabethfon. with a population of
about 1850. moves along on the even tenor
pf its way
SUNDAY LIQUOR LAWS
John @. Perrigen. a Bristol saloon man,
has just been forced to pay a fine Of $3.50
for violating the law against Sunday sell
ing In three instances. The case of Peril
gen is typical of incidents that have led
UP to the early closing ordinances which
go into effect in Bristol. Va, and Bristol,
Tenn, respectively, on the 10th day of
November. Chief-of-Police Caldwell says
that the new ordinances, requiring all
saloons to close at P. NJ. each day. will
be rigidly enforced. The ordinance re-
curing the removal OF all screens or OBJ
structions to the views from the outside,
having been defeated in Bristol Va, when
Ii came TO passing it over the Mayors
veto. will now not be effective in either
Of the two cities.