Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-02-12
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.

Mrs. VIM. @. Pendleton is visiting
friends in Petersburg, Va.
r. C. Chapman is advertising white
goods, styles Of 1908.
Next Tuesday the regular term, for Feb
luary, of Tazewell county court will begin
MIR. c.. X. Brown has let the contra ct
for his new residence. Mr.. Dolph Kizer is
the contractor.
We are indebted to Senator John W.
Daniel for several packages of garden seed
sent us recently.
Mrs. Clarence McClaugherty, Of Blue
field, W. Va, is visi ting her parents, Dr.
and Mrs. ], T. Cooley.
The Board of Directors of the Pruden-
tla Fire Insurance Company had a bust
ness meeting on last Tuesday.
Vending will give our people a great
intellectual treat on Saturday night, the
Dist inst. Do not fail to hear him.
Travel on the Clinch Valley Division OF
the Norfolk and Western Railway is now
heavier than it has ever been.
Mr.. E. V. Spots, who had been on
business trip to Baltimore, Md, and
Staunton, Va, got back home last Satur-
day.
clamps and Children" constitute an
interesting theme for H. W. Pobst in this
issue of the Republican"
Tickets for the Vending Lecture will
be on sale at Jackson's drug store on FIJI
day, the Goth inst.
Farmers are very busy this week plow'
ing land for corn. The indications are tn
a large crop will be planted in the county
this year.
Fred and James Pendleton went to
Richmond, Va, last Saturday, and went
from that place with the Virginia Press
Association to Florida.
Spots Bros are having the building
for their ice factory erected. 1t is just
west of the electric power house.
w. B. Leslie and his mother, Mrs. j. A.
Leslie, left for Richmond, Va, on last
Saturday, and from that city went on the
Virginia Press Association excursion to
Florida.
Mrs. Sabra Young has been a great SUI
ferer for several weeks with bone felOn
on the III umb of her right hand. 1t is
feared the thumb will have to be amputs'
ted.
Messrs. J. F. Hurt and ]. r. Lai I'd, OF
theJ. f. Hurt Insurance Agency, have
both been suffering with severe attacks Of
the grip.
The second term of Tazewell High
School for the present school year began
last Monday. As the present term is one
at which all the pupils will have to pay
tuition, the number of pupils has been
greatly reduced.
Rev. P. P. Brooks, pastor of the colored
Methodist church has been conducting a
very successful revival at his church for
more than a week. Several visiting
preachers have been assisting him at the
meeting.
Mr. ]. Sanders Gillespie has fen ewes
that have dropped twenty lambs this
month. The lambs are all alive and grow
ing finely.
Rev. S. o. Hall will be in his pulpit at
the Presbyterian church next Sunday,
after an absence of two months. He will
preach in the morning and at night.
A revival is now in progress at Concord
church, five miles east of Tazewell. 1t is
being conducted by Rev. Duvall and Rev.
j. A. Taylor.
Mr.. J. NJ. Coffee has purchased the
hotel business at Graham, Va, her etofore
conducted by O. E. Metcalf, and he will
take charge of the hotel about the Goth
| inst.
The St. Louis Globe Democrat Gays:
"Mr. Vending Is easily at the head of the
popular lecturers of the country at the
present time, and his lectHre on Stonewall
Jackson is his best effort"
Mr.. w. G. Harrison left last Thursday
for New York to purchase the Spring
stock of goods for Harrison & Gillespie
Bros. He was accompanied by Mrs. Har-
risson and Miss Nanola Gillespie.
Can't some of our Tazewel capitalists
get together and start a few small indus
trial enterprises? There is much idle
capital in the town and county that could,
no doubt, be proftaby employed in manu-.
features of some kind, and the business
interests of the county thereby be greatly
enlarged
r. L. Hopkins, of Tazewell Steam Gran.
ite and Marble Company, went out on the
road two days last week and took orders
for 1858 worth of work. This is pretty
good for Tazewell enterprise. The COM
pany now has over two thousand dollars
of orders on hand and they contin ne to
come in.
There will be missionary rally in the |