Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-05-29
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS
Moss e. reever want your wool.

W;l6Asin & Fletcher advertise machin-
erv rer,airs in another column.
Buston & Sons are advertising evapora-
ted fl uits at closing out prices.
Pead what Pobst has to say about we'd
dino Ipresents in Sterling Silver and Cut
Glass.
The Tazewell Millinery Co. advertise
+h;a week reduction in Sailors and Street
hats.
The f. D. Kits Insurance Agency
wants YOU to call on them for insurance
| Information
[ TteJ.F. Hurt Insurance Agency adj
Uses YOU to think hard before you place
Your insurance.
4 re. Chapman is advertising this week
\ ladies' walking skirts. Read what he has
to say about them.
Spotls Bros. announce that they have
lust received large stock of Stone Ware
vessels of different measures.
DIR. and Mrs c. I. st. Clair entertained
number of lady and gentlemen friends
at an cat Home" last night.
Harman Bros. & Peery, the North Taze-
well merchants, are specially advertising
this week their large stock Of shoes.
Miss Julia Pendleton, who had been
visiting friends in Petersburg and Rich
mond, got back home last Friday.
Rev. r. A. Kelly preached the annual
sermon to the students of Russell College
al Lebanon, Va, on last Sunday.
Messrs. ]. r. billiard and q. w. Crock
EFT, Bluefeld lawyers, were in Tazewell
yesterday on professional business.
Mr. and Mrs. S w. Aston, Jr.. of Leba-
non, Va, are visiting Mrs. Aston's par
enls, Mr.. and Mrs. j. D. Alexander.
We are glad to hear that Mr. James
Bandy, the popular sheriff of Tazewell
county, continues to improve in health.
The case of George and John Jones We.
| The Commonwealth will be heard in the
Court of Appeals at Wytheville next week.
c. r. Brown publishes notice to tres
passers in another column of this paper
1t will be well to pay heed to the notice.
Misses Belle and Victoria Davidson, of
Prestonsburg, KY, and Miss Ethel Cobb,
of Viroqua, Wis, are visiting Colonel A.
]. May.
TIE Tazewell Steam Granite and Marble
Company tell you why they can sell you
monuments for less than other men
charge you.
Rev. J. A. TAYLOR preached at North
Tazewell last Sunday at II o'clock and al
Tazewell at night for Rev, R. A. Kelly,
who was absent.
Mrs. A. F. dargrave, of West Point,
Va, is at Tazewell, having been called
here by the serious illness of her sister,
Mrs. Isaac PIERCE.
The fruit crop in Tazewell county will
be a very light one this year. The trees
did not bloom well and those that did
bloom fail to show much evidence of fruit.
The clerk of the county court during the
month OF May, 1902, issued twenty-five
marriage licenses. OF this number twenty
were for whites aud five for colored per.
sons.
A regular conclave of Clinch Valley
Commandery, No. 20, K. t., will be held
next Monday night. There will be sever
al candidates for the Orders of Knight
hood on hand.
Harry NJ. Smythe, formerly editor Of
the Clinch Valley News, is in town this
week. He is now a resident of Russell
county and devoting bis attention to agrl'
cultural pursuits.
There will be a special communication
of Tazewell Lodge, No. 81, A. F. & A. NJ,
on Saturday night the 9th inst, wher
the Masters degree will be conferred OF
two candidates
Col. A. j. May is speaking of building
handsome brick building where his Law
offices now stand. He will build right
one if he decides to make the improve
10 ent.
The machinery for the electric plant o
Buston & Sons has nearly all arrived anC
the fifty horse power boiler is now being
put in position. 1t is expected that thu
plant will be in operation within the mex
sixty days.
There were slight froets in this neighbor
hood both on Tuesday night and last
night. Most persons protected thei
delicate garden plants by covering them
Those who failed to do this have suffered
a loss of their tender vegetables.
A meeting of the creditors of ]. B
Crabtree, bankrupt, will be held at Taze
well on next Saturday, the 3Oth inst. Tit
assets are very limited and the amount Of
the debts large There will be compare
| lively nothing to pay the creditors.
Last week Mrs. PIERCE, wife of DR.
Isaac PIERCE, was considered so ill tina
her friends had about despaired of be-
life. We are glad to hear that her condi
ton is so greatly improved that her re
covery is now confidently expected.
Mr. w. H. Tomney, representing the
Roanoke Times, was in town yesterday
looking after the interests of that paper