Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-07-07
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TOWN :AND COUNTY NEWS.

ping expedition.
The Tazewell Supply Company has
hay rake for sale that has been used one
season. Will sell cheap.
Preaching at Concord church on next
Sunday afternoon at half past three
o clock by Rev. S. o. Hall.
A party of young ladies and gentlemen
from town went to Cedar Bluff on a pic
mic excursion on the Fourth.
Miss Nanola Gillespie, who had been
visiting Miss Slemp at Big Stone Gap, Va,
returned to Tazewell on yesterday.
Mr.. l. G. Dodd advertises for sale his
nice residence property on West Main
Street. See advertisement in this issue.
Mr.. Joseph G. Kelly, lately of Tazewell,
but now OF Bristol, Tenn, is visiting his
parents at Unaka, FIVE miles east of Taze-
well.
The lawyers here are beginning to bring
suits for the August term of the circuit
court, which will begin on the fourth Mon
day in August.
Miss Margie Harrison gave party on
Tuesday night, haying for her guests
number of young ladies and gentleman of
the town and vicinity.
Mr.. ]. A. Leslie, editor of the Clinch
Valley News, and his two daughters,
Misses Susie and Isabel, are at st. Louis
taking in the Exposition.
Some of the export cattle in the county
have been sold. We hear tie price paid
was FIVE cents. This is good price and
should be satisfactory to the grsziers.
We have been informed that Hon.
Claude Swanson's 4th of July Grafton at
Pocahontss was full of partisan politics.
If this be true it was IN very poor taste.
Mr.. Geo. Echols, we'll known Pharma-
cist of Lynchburg, Va, is in town for the
summer assisting in Jackson's drug store.
Mr.. Echols is fine druggist and pleasant
gentleman.
A game of base ball was played here on
the Fourth by colored team from Bran
well, w. Va, and the Tazewell colored
team. The game was won by the Taze-
we'll team by a score of 6 to2.
DR.. A. L. Tynes, who had been visiting
bis parents here for two weeks, left on last
Monday for bis home at FisDersville, Va.
Mrs. Tynes and their three little girls will
remain here some time longer.
The gardens in an about town have been
little late this year, but they are very
fine, and are DOW yielding an abundant
supply of nice vegetables for all persons
who have given them the proper atten-
tion.
Wheat harvesting has begun in the
county and some of the crops that have
been harvested are very fine. The crop
will be an average one in the county,
which is much better than was expected a
short while back.
The Tazewell Supply Co. publishes some
very fattering testimonials about Swift's
Superphospate fertilizer, which that
Company has been and is now selling.
The Tazewell farmers who have been
using it pronounce it the best fertilizer
they have ever used.
Rev. w. II. Greever, of Columbia, S.
G., arrived at Tazewell on Tuesday en-
route for Burkes Garden, where he will
spend three weeks visiting his parents and
other relatives. Mr.. Greever is looking
unusually well, the climate of South
Carolina seeming to agree well with him.
On Monday Mr.. Samuel V. Kelly, of
Tazewell, and Miss Mcdonald, of Ash
land, Pa, were married at Bluefeld, w.
Va. The marriage took place at the
rectory of the Church Of the Sacred Heart,
Rev. Father Oliyier officiating. Mr.. and
Mrs. Kelly are to be at Tazewell in a few
days.
DR.. Geo. Ben Johnston, of Richmond,
Va, came to Tazewell last Saturday to Zee
Mr.. Kiah Hartman, of Crockett's Cove.
Mr.. Hartman had been for more than a
week at DR.. Gillespie's Sanatorium. Drs.
Johnston and Gillespie decided that the
case was one in which an operation would
be useless. Mr.. Hartman has been taken
back to bis home and is in very precarious
health.
The Fourth of July was observed in a
very quiet way at Tazewell. Nearly every
body made it holiday, but there was no
excitement and no disorder in the town
either during the day or at night. The
boys had and used a quantity of fire
works. None of these however were of
noisy or dangerous character. There
were more national flags floating in the
town than we're ever seen before, and in
the way of decorations the place pre-
sented nice appearance.
The Lutherans at Tazewell have deter
mined to have church building erected,
and will proceed with the work without
delay. They own the lot in front of the Pres
byterian church and the building will be
placed on that lot. 1t will be neat frame
structure with capacity for seating about
two hundred persons. The congregation
for several years past has been using the
Episcopal church as a place Of worship.
We are glad that they are to have church
of their own.
On last Friday DR.. G. w. Greeyer, as
sisted by DR.. johnson, performed very