Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-01-22
TOWN AND COUNTY news.

10 not u1lrc Tue dOOiCco VI ~ N'S'6H
bors at the Methodist church tonight.
r. G. Chapman notifies you that it will
pay you to visit the Big Store this week.
Buston & Sons are offering some extra
bargains in Prunes, and evaporated fruits.
Mr.. ]. F. Hurt has been very much in
disposed and is confined to his home this
week.
There was large crowd in town on
Tuesday (court day though the weather
was rather inclement.
Read the advertisement of The j. f.
Hurt Insurance Agency, under the head
Take Your Medicine"
A number of our subscribers have
settled their accounts during tie present
week. Now let many Others do likewise.
Preachlng'm the Methodist Church at
North Tazewell next Sunday at i a. M,
and Main Street, Tazewell, at 7 p. M by
the pastor.
The Big Store will have some rare bar
gains in Ladies waists and skirts Tor the
next 80 days.
Harrison & Gillespie Bros.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Cummins arrived at
Tazewell on Sunday and are stopping at
the Ratlf Hotel. They will remain here
a few weeks.
Now is the time, only 80 days in which
to secure some of the special bargains
offered by The Big Store.
Harrison & Gillespie Bros.
We are turning out great quantities Of
lob work from the Republican" office,
and our patrons express great satisfaction
with the work.
Major f. K. Henry went to Charleston,
w. Va, last Saturday to argue a case in
the Supreme Court of Appeals of that
State. He returned to Tazewell yester-
day.
Mr.. Lipscombe, of Charlottesville, Va,
who was here on Monday for the purpose
of buying horses made no purchase. He
said he found the market here too
high.
Special sale of Ladies wooden shirt
waists at the Big Store for the next 81
DAYS, any waist in the stock at actual cost,
not one cent profit, and there are some
pretty styles left.
HARRISON & Gillespie Bros.
Will Henry Anderson, who had been in
New York for the past four months, got
back to Tazewsll on last Monday. He
was cordially greeted by his friends and
relatives.
Ladies, we mean to clear out all winter
STYLES in dress fabrics, and ready made
wear, if prices will do it, Many of the gar
ments are marked down to cost, and some
below. This offer only lasts 80 days.
Harrison q Gillespie Bros.
The Big Store.
Stuart & Watts, OF Richards, Green
brier county, w. Va, advertise fine blue
grass farms for sale. That's what Taze'
we'll people like. See the advertisement
on this page.
Mr.. Wm. Kell has sold out his merCan'
tile business at Hickman, in West Ora
ham, to Mr.. J. G. Harris, recently OF
Richards. Mr.. Kell will 60 in a few days
10 Bud, N. c., where he will remain until
Spring and then go to Oklahoma.
Mr.. Geo. Sbafer, superintendent Of the
Radford Brick Company, at Tptop, was
in town Tuesday. He is expecting bis
family, consisting of bis wife, son and
daughter, to arrive from Philadelphia to-
morrow. They will make their residence
at Tiptop.
Hannibal Smith, colored, died on the
10th inst. at the home of his mother on
Clinch River, about four miles west OF
town. He was fifty five years lold and was
the oldest son of James and Susan Smith
two of the most respectable colored persons
of the county. They were all before the
days of freedom the slaves of the late Col.
Robert Smith; and we have played many
a day with Hannibal when we were boys.
The cause of his death was cancer of the
face. He was buried on the 18th inst.
The Christian Education Convention for
Tazewell District will begin at the Metho
dist church at this place today at IL
O'Clock, a. M. We are unable to say now
how many ministers and delegates are in
attendance. An interesting programme
will be furnished today and tomorrow.
The address of DR.. w. S. Neighbors on
"The Local Church Ideally Organized for
Christian Education and Culture" will be
delivered tonight and will be the feature
of the meeting. The convention will
close its deliberations at the session to-
morrow morning.
We have Just received letter from
Mr.. A. NJ. Black, written from In
dianapolis, Ind. in which he says" Will
you kindly announce through the next
issue of your paper that since leaving
Tazewell 1 have been held in this city by
the critical illness of relative, and have
not been able to attend to mailing work
from Greencastle studio. If there are any
of our customers in Tazewell who are ex-
pecting work and have not received same
l will ask them, through your paper, to
kindly bear with me little longer.
hope to go to Greencastle in few days,
and will then personally attend to for
warding the work"
On Wednesday morning, the 14th inst,
a very sad accident happened at the Hook
man siding at West Graham, which caused