Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-05

electric power plant IN operation within
the next two weeks.
Trunks Trunks All sizes and all prices
from 81 80 to $500.
Harrison & Gillespie Bros.
Miss Mamie Peery, who was pupil at
Centenary College, Cleveland, Tenn, the
past scholastic year, is at home again.
| The Celebrated Keith Konquerer Shoes
for men. $3.50 per pair, none better,
HARRISON & Gillespie Bros.
Ex-Governor Bob Taylor, of Tennessee,
lectured at Pocahontas on last Monday
night to an audience which crowded the
opera house.
Mems black suits for $3.50, $3.50 and
IS 50-special bargains.
Harrison d Gillespie Bros.
The case of George and John Jones vs..
The Commonwealth, Will not be argued in
the Court of Appeals at Wythevile until
next Tuesday.
If you will examine the beautiful de
signs in sterling siverware and cut glass
at Boyer q Co.'S you will not 60 elsewhere
to purchase such articles.
Hon. A. p. Gillespie has been at home
a week and will not return to Richmond
to be present at the adjournment of the
Constitutional Convention.
Boyer & Co. have a splendid line of fine
Cut Glass and Sterling Silverware, suita-
Die for Wedding Gifts or for your own use.
Boyer & Co.
Mr.. D. II. Smith, who had been for
several weeks at Hot Springs, Bath coun-
ty, Va, has gotten back to Tazewell very
greatly improved in health.
AT a special communication of Tazewell
Lodge, No. 81, A. f. & A. NJ, held on
last Friday night, the masters degree was
conferred on two candidates.
Spots Bros. are having the excavation
made for the foundation of their ice plant.
1t will be located just west of their electric
power house, in the rear of the Kelly
property.
Mr.. D. G. Gillespie, who for the past
year had been a student at Johns Hop.
kins University, got back to his home at
Tazewell last Friday, and will spend the
vactiOn here.
Job work has been flowing into the
Republican office during the last week.
Our customers know they will always
have their work done right when they
send it to US.
A number of young men and youths Of
our town are employed on the engineer
corps that are now engaged in surveying
coal lands and locating railroad lines on
Dry Fork in Tazewell and Nc Dowell
counties.
Very few of the creditors of J. B.
Crabtree, bankrupt, attended the first
meeting of creditors and proved their
claims on the 30th ult. They found the
liabilities heavy and the assets very
limited.
Weare requested to give notice that
Rev. r. A. Kelly will preach in the
Methodist church at Tazewell on next
Sunday night at s: 80 o'clock. During the
Summer months all the night services in
that church will be held at that hour.
Miss Josie Shaver, of Shaver Mill,
passed through town on Monday en- route
for Graham. There she was joined by
her friends Misses Maud Peery and Agile
Gillespie, and together they went to
Salem to attend the commencement ex.
ercises of Roanoke College.
George Ward, the twelve year old son
of Mr.. Samuel B. Ward, died at his faith
er's home in Wards Cove, in Tazewell
county, yesterday morning. He had been
ill for some time with infamatory rheu.
matism and his heart became affected, his
death being due to heart trouble.
A number of friends and relatives of the
contracting parties attended the Alexan.
der-Alen wedding yesterday. Among
them were Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Bowen,
Mr.. and Mrs. S. j. Thompson, DIR. and
Mrs. w. E. Baylor, Mr.. and Mrs. w. A.
Ward and Mr.. and Mrs. N. +. Adams.
Tazewell Steam Granite and Marble Co.
have just received car load of the fam.
Gus unfading blue marble, of which every
piece is guaranteed not to fade. They
have also a car load each of Vermont
white marble and dark Quincy granite,
which is the finest granite in the world.
We have the handsomest assortment Of
Sterling Silverware ever shown in Taze-
well-all in new and artistic designs-fur-
nished by one of the largest establishments
in the country. You will agree with us
when you see these beautiful goods. We
shall sell them at ten per cent. on first
cost.
Boyer & Co.
Mrs. T. w. Ratlitf has made a contract
with a firm at Charleston, w. Va, for
putting in frst-class heating apparatus
in her hotel. 1t will be of sufficient ca
pacity to heat both the old and new
buildings. This will, with the other
modern arrangements contemplated, make
the Ratliff Hotel thoroughly up-to-date.
Mr.. James Sluss, who lives on Mud
Fork, near Tptop, In this county, is
seventy.one years old and has ninety.two
living descendants. They are made up
Of thirteen children, seventy grand chill