Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-01-01
TOWN and COUNTY NEWS.


ing sale on Holiday Goods
The last day of the old year was very
beautiful one at Tazewell.
Ii. w. Pobst extends the compliments
of the season to his patrons.
Buston & Sons publish lin their regular
space card to their patrons.
Miss Louise Pendleton, who has been
i'll for several weeks with fever, is now con-
valescent.
Read perhaps" which you will find in
the space of the ]. f. Hurt Insurance
Agency.
Messrs. J. w. Chapman and A. z
Gillespie are in Philadelphia this week on
professional business.
The F. ID. Kits Insurance Agency tells
you the point to aim at when you spend
money for insurance.
MIR. and Mrs. l. G. Dodd, of Falls Mill,
spent Christmas in Tazewell visiting re-
latives and friends.
Mr.. ]. S Bennett, of Cooper's, w. Va,
spent last Sunday at Tazewell as the guest
of the editor of the Republican"
We have received nice lot of new job
type and other material. Send us your
Job work if you want it done right.
James w. Hartman who is taking the
law course at Washington-Lee University,
spent the Christmas holidays at home.
Harrison & Gillespie Bros. give some
very good reasons why the best dressed
men deal with them. Read those reasons.
The merchants who advertise get the
trade. The merchant who fails to adver'
tise takes his stand among the back num-
bers.
There will be preaching at Main Street
Methodist church on next Sunday morn
ing at IL o'clock, and at North Tazewell
at night.
Mr.. r. B. Brown, of Argentina, Kansas,
is in the county, having been called here
by the death of his father-in-law, the late
0. M. Brown.
The Big Store sends its greeting to pat
rons and friends, wishing them happy
and prosperous new year. See what Chap
man has to say.
Judge and Mrs. S. G.. Graham and their
little daughter, Katie, and s. c., Jr., left
for Florida last Friday, and will remain
there the balance of the winter.
The holiday trade of the Tazewell mer-
chants was the best they ever had. They
not only sold more than ever before but
the sales were practically all for cash.
DR.. VIM. Pendleton, Of Flovd, Va.
spent Tuesday and Wednesday at Taze-
we'll. He has been in the drug business
for the past twenty-five years at Floyd.
Hapkins & Son announce the result Uf
the contest for the silk dress which they
gave away, and return thanks for their
patrons for the best trade they ever had.
Misses Maggie and Dollie May, of
Woman's College at Lynchburg, and Miss
Mamie Gillespie, of Mary Baldwin Insti'
tute at Stanton, spent the holidays at
Tazewell.
On Monday and Tuesday Mr.. w. A.
Barns rad number of wagons hauling
from Tazewel depot the machinery for
his new Touring mill at Maiden Spring.
1t will be one of the best equipped mills in
Southwest Virginia.
Mr.. r. S. Gillespie has rented the hotel
at the east end of Main Street heretofore
known as the Coffee House" Mr..
Gillespie has moved in and will conduct a
boarding house for the present. Later he
may use it as hotel.
On Monday night there will be regu-
lar conclave of Clinch Valley Command
cry, No. 20, K. T. There will be several
candidates present and work will be done.
All the members of the Commandery are
urged to be present.
We have received the first number of
the "Banner" a newspaper published at
Graham, Va, by Mr.. A. T. Ginther 1t
is to be an independent paper and the
first issue is gotten up in very creditable
style. We hope he may make the "Bar-
ner" a success
All persons indebted to us are requested
to settle their accounts in full, either by
cash or note, by the first week in January.
Those who settle by note will be expected
to give a bank note with necessary en-
dorsers.
Respectfully,
Buston & Sons.
On yesterday the clerk of the county
court issued licenses for a double edding.
The wedding will take place today. Two
brothers will marry two sisters. D. j.