Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-09-03
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.

fancy for shirt waists and suits at TIL
Big Store, is attracting great deal of al
tention.
Harrison & Gillespie Bros.
The colored public school opened las
Monday.
The handsomest line of Mems and Boy
hats ever shown in this section are bein
opened up at K. @. Chapmans. The Ne
Fall styles are very swell.
See the new advertisement of Moss
Greeyer.
K. G. Chapman has returned from New
York and in very few days The Big Stor'
will look like he brought good deal o
New York to Tazewell.
Circuit court is still in session end som
important cases have been tried.
r. G. Chapman of The Big Store, afte
a month of wrestling with New York man
ufacturers and importers, has returned an,
reports decided changes IN styles for Fa
and Winter.
Spots Bros. have received the repair
for their engine and hope to be able t.
turn on the electric lights tomorrow night
r. G. Chapman is having made line o
trunks and hand bags especially for hi
trade. These goods will be in in feV
days, and you will then see some move
things in this line.
At the registration for this precinct, hell
last Tuesday, seven honest white working
men were rejected. We will have some
thing to say about it later.
The annex to The Big Store of r. q
Chapman is nearing completion and wher
ready for occupancy will not only be the
largest but the handsomest Dry Good:
House in Southwest Virginia. 1t will pay
you to drop in and look at it.
Mr.. ]. n. Johnson, who for some years
has been Commissioner of Revenue for
Jacksonville District, announces himself
candidate for reelection. He has made
an efficient officer.
Miss Client, who has for two season so
successfully managed the Millinerys De.
partment of the Big Store, has returned to
razewell and taken charge of that depart
ment again. Mr. Chapman is exceedingly
fortunate in the selection of his assistants.
Mr.. K. S. Gillespie announces himself
in this issue of the Republican candidate
for sheriff of Tazewel county. For the
past four years he has been deputy sheriff
of the county, and has made a most eff
cieDt officer.
The appearance of the presbyterian
church has been greatly improved by a
new coat of paint un the outside. The
ceiling and the side walls of inside have
also been tastefully painted. Porter
Brothers did the work.
A good many of the novelties of the
season are already being shown by K. Z.
Chapman. The reputation this store has
made for high class Merchandise at fair
prices has justly placed it in the lead in the
Mercantile world of Southwest Virginia.
The Republican delegates from Tazewell
aid Buchanan counties will meet in con-
venti on at Richlands on Sept -, to nomi-
nate candidate for the House of
Delegates. This became necessary because
of the declination of Mr.. Jno. W. Crockett
to accept the nomination. The committee
appointed to notify Mr.. Crockett perform
ed that duty on last Saturday. He In
formed the committee that 1t had been his
purpose aud desire to accept the honor
and make the race; but on accout Of his
domestic and business affairs he had, at
the last moment, found it necessary to de-
cline, which he did reluctantly. Of course
much regret was expressed by the commit
tee and the friends of Mr.. Crockett, but
On the 18th inst. the Republicans of the
TWO counties will place another good man
in the field, and on the 3rd, of Novem-
Der will triumphantly elect him.
1t will be remembered by many persons
It Tazewel that Modoc Mckenzie came to
his place in 1896, and opened jewelry |
md watch.repairing establishment here.
lie remained here several years and then |
moved to Pocahontas. After the war
)roke out between the United States and |
spain he enlisted in the U. s. Marines,
nd was subsequently sent to the Philip
zines. He died there on Feb. LIST, 1902.
His remains were brought back to this
ountry and were buried on Wednesday
f last week at Princeton, w. Va. The
ause of his death had not been known
ere until the remains reached this
ountry. A certificate attached to the
called metallic case stated: "Cause Of death
II is supposed that while on
ome expedition with the marines he got
,st and starved to death, as other soldiers
i'd at different times in the Philippines.
The indications are that coal operations [
1 a very large scale will be begun before
great while on Big Creek, near Richlands,
the west end of this county. Large
,undaries of coal-bearing lands we're re-
ntly purchased in that locality by Gen.
A. Ayers and others; and we are in {
rmed that leases have been made to per- =
ns who will shortly begin TO develop and
crate the mines. These lands formerly y
longed to the Clinch Valley Iron and
'al Company, and during the boom 3
les had been abandoned as unprofita- &
for mining purposes. Now we learn 4
It examinations have been made which !
we that they have upon them the larg- Y
and most valuable seams of coal to be '
nd anywhere in the Clinch Valley. If Y
) be so Tazewell county will soon have z
he west end an operation as extensive &
valuable as the one at Pocahontas. w