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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-07-01
MARRIAGE AT
POCAHONTAS
President Thorne Visits Poca-
hontas- Rev. Mr.. Moore
Returned from Jerusa-
lem-Other News.

Pocahontas, Va, June 20, 1904.
Miss Mae Griffith, daughter Of MI.
s. B. Griffith, was quietly married
Tuesday, az the home Of her parents
on Merricks Lane, to Mr.. Jas. Hodges.
from Rocky Mount, Va. The Ceremony
was performed by Rev. Kennedy OF the
Baptist church.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Thom-
pson, boy.
Miss Gertie Gibbon, OF Roanoke. is
the guest OF Miss jamie Browning.
Mr.. H. NJ. Umbarger's condition is
much improved at this writing.
Miss BALDWIN voight, of Roanoke. is
visiting her mother.
Mr.. George A. Shirey, Of Bluefield
made an official call on "Wednesday
Mrs. H. d. Winters, Of Roanoke. is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Rachel voight
this week
Col and Mrs. JAS. S. Browning are
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-07-01
NEwSY ITEMS FROM BAILEY

Bailey, Va, June 2S,-We ars bav.
ing the finest season that has been
known for year.
Mr. Graf Bailey returned from
otaunton fast Wednesday and spent
few days with home folks.
Mr.. Bob Hethering and sister. Miss
Maggie, are visiting their sister
Mrs. Sacket.
Mrs Il. q. Wagner and Miss Marv
wagner are visiting in Bailey to dav
An enjoyable occasion was given
the young folks at the home of Mr.
o. H. wagner, on Saturday evening
IN honor of g. M. Bailey. Ice cream
ana cake We're served from 9 foil
Miss Ella Wagner rendered sweat
music.
g. A Wagner was called awav an
business the week.
Our Sunday School is progress;oc
nicely. We hope to have a picn;e
this summer for the children.
On last Sunday number of vouno
foiks We're at Mrs. Geo. Deatoos .n5
made Very fine music. We nraise
our young men and young ladies' ON
their singing.
Mrs. Saeket and her sister are v;s-
ltlns at Mr.. Karr's TO day.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-07-01
Haynes Buchanan I'm Town.

The many friends OF Mr.. II. T.
Buchanan were more than glad Ia see
him on our streets on Monday. II will
be recalled that he has had n long and
serious spell of sickness, and that his
llie was dispaired of several times. Mr..
Buchanan says that he has no rccol-
lection whatever of his illness. The
disease attacked his brain from the
first He is all right now, and seemed
10 be in the best Of spirits.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-07-01
Death of a Child Other News
Fails Mills Va Jnne Do Io1

Falls Mills, Va, June %, 1904.
Mrs. j. @. Fink, and son Rawley. are
visiting her sister, Mrs. Mamie Brown.
on Bluestone. They will return by
way of Graham ana spent night with
her brother, J. F. Dudley.
E. @. Buckland and w. d. Kirtner
left on No. ID this a. m. to take in the
Worlds Fair at St.Louis. Ed thinks of
visiting relatives in Mo. before he re-
turns.
j. G. Fink has gone to Radford on
business.
j. f. Dudley and wife and boys, of
Graham, were visiting his father OF this
place Saturday and Sunday.
C. C. Harman was gathering up
lambs from this neighborhood last
week. Lambs are not as good this
year as they were last.
j. q. Fink visited home folks Sun
day. He will come again next Sunday
and remain over the Fourth.
Miss Fannie Dudley, Of Shrader, who
has been visiting relatives in this
neighborhood for some time, returned
home last week, and her couisn. Miss
Nellie Dudley, went with her.
The infant child Of Mr.. and Mrs
Furgeson, Of Eckman, w. Va, died.
and will be buried at H. ID. Dudley's
to-day.
j. w. Fink, who has been traveline
for the Swifts Company for the last
few months, says he likes his Job fine.
Your former correspondent from
Italy having married and settled in
our Village has no time, suppose to
write, and the one at this place, when
not busy as Post Master, is counting
his best girl. This / suppose is the
reason yon don'' lear from here NOR,
often shah you do.
This Is my first attempt to write for
paper. and if 1t does not go to the
waste basket. / may write again.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-07-01
Ten Thousand Churches Painted
With l. 8z M

There Is not much money lost in
buying one pint of ready mixed paint.
Dut when quantity Is needed, then It's
big loss to buy any ready mixed paint
Ihe Longman 81 Martinez l.. & NJ.
Paint Is semi-mixed, and quickly made
ready for use as follows. TO four gal.
Ions OF the Il. & NJ. at 81 Go per gallon,
add 3 gallons Of Linseed Oil at 5Oc per
gallon, thus making gallons of paint
Tor $50 or $l.16 per gallon. Wears
ana covers like gold. Sold 10y Moss
q dreever, Tazewell; The Bloch Co..
Pocahontas.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-07-01
4OO Fine Lambs
Killed in Wreck

News reached town Yesterday
morning that train loaded w;u,
lambs wrecked near Salem. and near.
~ every one of four car loads was
Killed. Crockett and Moss had ,mo
car loads, Mccall and Daley one car
ioad' and Wythe Waddel, of Bland
one car. The lambs were all L;IIoa
IL is said, and the entire lot will be
n total loss.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-07-01
Lambcrt-Patton.

Miss Callie Patton and Mr.. S. NJ.
Lambert were quietly married at the
home OF the bride, on lower Tazewell
Avenue, on "Wednesday AT 2P.M. A
few invited guests and friends OF the
contracting parties were present. The
bride Is the young and attractive daugh-
ter OF Councilman G.. T. Patton, and a
grand daughter OF Mayor Geo. w.
Patton, and young lady Of fine quail
tiles OF head and heart. The groom is
connected with the Norfolk & Western.
and young man OF promising future.
Rev. Mr.. Elmore ofIiciated.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-07-01
THOS. LEEDY
HEARD FROM
visits his Family-Will be
Here at August Term
OF Court.

we received on Tuesday the follow
ing letter, which explains itself:
Graham, Va, June 2S, 'o4.
a young man living at Shawver 9
~ AZ III, E va. was. passing the home of J .
y. Shawver last Wednesday night,
at half after eleven O'Clock. when bo
was suddenly met by Thomas Leedy.
Oh the way to the house 10 visit his
wlIe anu children. who have been
Vlsiting there for the past week. The
young man spoke TO him, calling him
oy name, and he told him that he was
coming TO Court next August. With
mat nc told him good bye and dis.
aappeared toward the region of the
Cove. '"o
j. w. LEEDY.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-07-01
WANTED.
The COUNCIL.

On account Of falling health 60 -,
VIRGINIA. SoEbuRNs
lMs Is one OF the best towns .,
oe.as,, Suus,west virginia, and we have oood -
,sc1ao eesaolnsnea trade, and will certainlv
make an ofier that win be a bnsinass @
opportunity for some one. BUSINESS
Our STOCK is clean and nice and o,,x
store room is unquestionahIy ss uau our
Ia tne place, and any one conta,s.s,es Tsas'
,, ,ng 'ne mercantile business VIII St, do
well to write us TO-DAY VIII 40
~ CULRERTSON q co.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-07-01

IN Chicago attending the National
Republican Convention. While away
they will attend the Exposition at ST
Louis. James, Jr., went along also.
Mr.. Morgan Gibbon, of Roanoke was
visiting DIR. and Mrs. l.. P. Stump this
week.
Rev. s. W. Moore, who has been
abroad for the past three months re-
turned home yesterday. Mr.. Moore
attended the National Sunday School
Convention in Jerusalem. but took
quite a size line trip through Franco
Italy, Germany, England, Ireland and
Scotland.
MRS. William Leckie, and Mrs. T,
j. stump, left Tuesday for Richmond
where they will attend the grand Iodoe
of the Eastern Star. ee
DR.. John P. Haller, is in Wvtbev,ue
this week on business.
Mr.. Max Goodman. who attended
school In New York CITY the mas,
winter, Is home with his parents Mr
and Mrs. F. Goodman. for the snn,'
mer.
Mr.. j. Walton Thomas, OF Antler
spent Sunday with friends here.
Mr. Jas. Smith is home from the "
M. ].
Mrs. Jane McGee and sister. Mis-,
Malone, are home again after n few
weeks stay In New York City.
Mr.. Chas. s. Thornc, President q
(, his week. A't''
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-07-01
Mrs. Strickler Dead.

Many people in Tazewell as well as
elsewhere, will hear with profound sor-
row OF the death OF Mrs. Strickler. the
wife OF the great Presbyterian minister,
OF the Union Theological Seminary.
which occurred last Saturday morning
Her distinguished husband has made
several visits to TazeweIl, and hie
aiiliction will be shared by many who
hold him in high esteem.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-07-01
Local Items.
w. l.. Draper & Co.

Major and Mrs. Henry are vis,t,no
relatives at Culpepper Court House
Mr.. John StClair left yesterday for
hunters Alum Springs to rest and re-.
cuperate.
Seven prisoners were taken to the
penitentiary Wednesday. They were
sentenced at the last term of court.
Thos. Morehead was among the num-
ber
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-07-01
CEDAR BLUFF
NEWS LETTER
District Observation-Disclosures
Unlon-Out-of--town Wis
itors-Convalescent.
NN,l.

itors-Convalescent.
Locals.
Cedar Blufr, June 29.-Our fome,
townsman, Mr.. C.G. Hurt, OF Wise, Va.
Is visiting friends at Cdear Bluff.
nj IS Annie Rhudy, Of Thompson
Valley and Miss Matte Stephenson
OF Baptist Valley. were visiting friends
at Cedar Bluff on Tuesday.
Our people are now busy preparing
to entertain the large crowd of dele
gates and preachers to the District
Conferance which convenes here ON the
18th OF July.
Mr.. L. A. Repass, Sr. Is visiting
friends at Founding Mill.
We are glad to note the GONZALES
cense OF Mrs. DIR. Baylor and Mr.. II.
M. Cubine.
Mr.. &. Ii. Peery, OF Paint Lick. visi-
ted Cedar Bluff yesterday.
With the Distric Conference which
convenes on the 18th July, and the
Trainmen's Union, on their picnic ex-
cursion here on the 27 OF July. Cedar
Blum will enjoy quite n degree of noti-
riety.
Our Oldest inhabitant has never ex-
perienced better season for growing
crops and vegetation OF all kinds.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-07-01
SWANSON. WYSoR, SLEMP
wm Speak at Pocahontas JuIv ,hs
Fourth.

we are in receipt Of a letter from
Mr. " L. Sexton, of Pocahontas which
states that Congressman, Llaude a
swanson, Col. Slemp and Hon. J. q
Wysor' will be at Pocahontas ON the
fcur'h' and will address the voters at
night In the Opera House
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-07-01
RECEIVERS SALE
N~OF
U0Iu06Ie Lots in the Oown of OaxeweW. Wa.

Pursuant to decree of the Circuit Tazewe Comfy
IN the chancery cause of Lou Kroll The Tazewe
Iourt House Improvement Company the Nav term
1914 will offer for sao the highest bidder at public auction
on the 9TH day July 1904 forty O ots lying within the
corporate mts OF the town OF Tazewel Va, being of
the unsold lots belonging to The Tazewel Court House
Improvement Company ~
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-07-01
LADY DIES
ON TRAIN
aSsenger from Finney to
Johnson City Dies While
Travelling.

mrs. Weller, Trainmaster Weller,s
mosher' OF the V. & s. W. died on the
tram at Graham on Monday ofternoon
MRS. Weller was enroute TO her homo
IA IA Ienuessee from visit to Finney's
Siding
MIS-. Weller had been under treat
ment here some time ago.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-07-01
ICE AND
ICE MAKING

For years after the manufacture ~
Ice was begun 1t was made by what ia
known as the "can" method. In fact
great part OF the Ice used is still
made In this way. From the outset
however, 1t was discovered that ono
objection to this ''can" ice Is what ice
men call its score. This "core~ 90 =
white or Opaque streak running through
the center OF the block from end IN
END, and is composed partly OF FOREIGN
matter, such as oil. carried in by the
steam used for the distillation Of the
water, ammonia. etc. AS the result ~
this Introduction OF extraneous matter
the product of this system Is not recoo-
nized by dealers as "sweet" ice Tho
elimination of these Objectionable sinh
stances was, therefore, the problem IN
which American intelligence and skill
directed themselves. Success was
finally achieved by the introduction %
the plate system for its manufacture
The trouble was overcome. and ice
possessing every desirable quality was
produced. 1t Is free of foreign mat
ter, 1t Is transparent, 1t Is firm and
solid; 1t Is sweet and pure.
We use the plate method. and We
are the only producers in Southwest
Virginia who do. II you care for ice
which has all the qualities essential ~
the highest standard OF excellence nae
our plate Ice.
SpOTTS BROTHERS,
Proprietors Little Grocery Store
Around the Corner.
GA - II Hr
s,s Bear. the H'l@ Kind You Have l!wars Bought
''';'''' = &N2ZzZf
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-07-01
Notice.

All taxes due the town of Taza-
and unpaid by July 10Th will be col.
iected by levy, with costs addad
By order of
The COUNCIL.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-07-01

+ OR SAI.E-Frick engine, corn
saw. Hasn't been used but short time
good as new. Will sell for cash as ns.
on easy terms. For information call or
wfite' Il. Bowen Watts, Five Oaks Va
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-07-01
Terms Of Sale:

OF purchase animal
with Interest the vendors
Sale Will about
the courthouse and the depot at all are
This will be the last secure valuable LOT in tbo
town OF Tazewell, on the Electric Street Railway
Persons desrlngsa home in Tazewell or to
make good investment should not let this
opportunity pass. Standard size of lots 60 bv
$50 feet. ]. N. HARMAN. Receiver
June 9th, 1904
J N Harman, the of Kroll
well e. d. Improvement Co.,
= rEOprEs Gecree In
June 9th Oie'h
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-07-01

Pocahontas celebrates the 9TH July
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-15
copyright, 1902, by c. W. Dillingham; Go.

ston to the federais, and had betrayed Ladue, of the Eleventh Alabama, into their hands, even while Stanton and ready to swear the tall Virginian's life away to the charge of giving informa- tion to the rebels.
 Among the papers in poor Ladue's possession was the original draft of the report he had written the command ing officer of the Eleventh Alabama of his flight across the Potomac and capture by union cavalry near Matthias Point. Not until he reached certain farmhouse near Port Tobacco did he know who were the officers escaped from prison camp near Annapolis, and his joy was great when Jack Chiffon appeared among them. He and Chil- ton were ferried over on dark, wintry night, and landed(at fisherman's house three miles below the Point, and there, to his infinite concern, Paul found that he had lost his pocket mem orandum book, well nigh filled with notes concerning the troops, also sketch maps of field Notifications, all of which he felt confident would be of value to Gen. Lee. Then there were private papers in the book of vast inn portance to him if to no one else. A racking chill had come on as the re- suit of exposure to the raw night wind, and Jack and the fisherman secreted him in barn. Then Chiffon delibe- rately went back to Maryland in search of the missing property. Thereby he escaped capture by the cavalry piloted by Jennings. When searched, Ladue was found to have no discriminating papers about nina disappointment to his captors and obviously puzzle to Jennings-for Ladue heard him whis- pering with the officer in command. The last Paul had seen of Chiffon was that December night, but later he learned that he had been compelled to remain in hiding many weeks in Charles county before the vigilance of the Federals was again relaxed and he could finally effect his escape Then. there was letter, unfinished, for Eli nor, which Fred had sealed and sent to her. and it was through her. four
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weeks later, that he learned that Ia we'll knew he had not long to live, an s had really hoped to meet a soldier death in front of the charging line ' One longing he had. he owned, that would probably never be gratified-that of branding McKinnonl as liar and thief, for young Larry O'Toole, he that used to sweep out and sprinkle the store and had enlisted as drummer in the Montgomerys after PauIs ban ishment, had strayed in search of for bidden luxuries just before Chancellors- vile, and Stuarts men had nabbed him and run him off to Richmond where Ladue was favored with O'Toole's account of McKinnon's brib- ing him to purloin those St. Louis letters. With this confirmation of his theories burning within him, Paul had gone to Charlottesville, spending one day with the Chiltons and hearing from the doctor strange story of McKinnon's generosity to them and kindness to the imperiled son. Rosalie had listened in silent acquiescence un- til Paul burst in with vehement de-
 
 them of McKinnons treachery to him and his hatred of the Bentons,-told them of Freds devoted friendship, and then came a strange part of the letter. Elinor copied it verbatim:-
 Miss Chiffon grew more and more excited as talked, and finally whirled on me with How can you speak of devoted friendship on the part of a man who planned to capture you both and was only baked by-by Jacks going back for your old note bookH Then she rushed out of the room. and I had to go right on to Gordonsvills and could only write to her that, that too, was probably one of McKinnon's S islanders, and there wasn't word of truth in it--that no one was more amazed than Fred when they brought me in. I've not yet heard from her, but I shall. and Jack shall know the moment can find him.
 Was it not strange that that same old notebook, which she risked so much to send to me that night Fred caught her at the stone house, should later have been the means of saving Jack? She found it in the breast pock- ct of my new uniform coat at Henry's, and glancing through the pages saw the sketches and memoranda had sven then been making; supposed It was of vast importanee,- ee,-something that we ought to have and, fearing it would fall into the hands of the enemy, bethought her of Jennings and Judge Armistead; slipped into my uniform, and Fred has probably told you the rest.'
 So there it was at last:-the story of her daring and devotion and Benton, had he but opened his heart to Paul in the few days that thev were to-
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you my word! My brother is not

you my word! My brother is not here!"
 Then I am more than glad" said Benton, for it all seemed to flash over him in the instant, and, despite her clinging hands and almost frantic ap- peal, he sprang up the steps and into the open doorway. There on the bed. gaunt, fever-stricken, and gazing up at the startled, colored nanny, acting as nurse, and then into the face of the blue-uniformed intruder, lay the wreck of the one personal enemy Fred Benton was aware of in all Virginia all that was left of Scott Lounsberry.
 Maud Pelham sprang past the union officer and stood almost defiantly fac ing him.
 You. shall not take him-touch him!" she cried, in tones intense and low. He is terribly wounded. He has done you no wrong!"
 Benton looked upon her in blended wonderment and pity. If.what Wins ton said were true, what was she doing here? Instinctively he had removed headed. Almost in sadness Benton be- gan to speak.
 He tried hard to harm me and he made you the instrument" he said. Did you not know that note was meant to lure me into trap? Did you not know that his men were waiting there to seize or possibly kill me?"
 From the bed there came feeble cackle of laughter, and the girls wild, ailated eyes that at Benton's words were staring at him, turned in sud- len alarm to the fevered man, whose voice quavered in a sheer of mingled hate and triumph.
 You got away, thanks to her, and her meddling, but he won't-by God he won't! They've got Jack Chiffon hard and fast this time--a spy with hatful of information and they'll hang him within tse week."
 Cro Be ContinuedJ
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CHAPTER XVI.
WHAT A LETTER REVEALED.

WHAT LETTER REVEALED.
 Once again had Lees valiant army slowly retired to the Potomac and leis- frely Tecrossed. superb even in defeat. Just as after Antietam, the cabinet, the committee on the conduct of the war (that remarkable annex to our mili- tary system) and countless critics all over the north, stormed at the Army of the Potomac because it seemed to fol- low at respectful distance, content to let the erring brethren go in peace. The man who felt 1t most that the beaten enemy should again succeed in getting away was the one who said the Ieast-Lincoln had no rebuke for Meade who. smarting and sensitive under the lash of Halleck and Stan ton, asked in his turn to be relieved of that vexatious command, but could not be accommodated. "The plum was so zipe," was all that the patient president could say, "it seemed a pity not to seize it" But no one save those that { tried it knew the cost of seizing con- federate plums. Stern and defiant the disciplined ranks in gray turned and faced every essay to molest them, and another wt.ztsr closed in on the armies in Virginia, with the same old stream --the Rapidan-for their dividing line.
 Then came the final resolution of the great war president, that as he and Hallack and Stanton had long tried, without success, the business of boss ing" armies in the field, it was time to turn the whole thing over to a single stage manager. Then came Grant and the beginning of the end. At this time, Fred Benton, twice honorably men toned and recommended for the brevet of major, found himself again sum moned to Washington, this time wit ness before military commission for the trial of one Peter Jennings, civil ian, for whose apprehension with a whole skin the First Virginia cavalry stood ready to pay round sum and the
 Stonewall' to supplement it with an- other, each claiming prior right to per forate or scar that skin at sight. The .yirginians swore that he. sold informa-
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gether at the Chiltons, might have known it all! There then was McKin- non, furthermore, unmasked, and even more of blackguard than they had deemed him. Now, at least, must Ros- allie know how utterly she had wronged the man whose devotion to her she surely could not fail to realize, yet not a line from her had found it's way to Elinor. There was some comfort in the belief that now she knew, but how he longed to get at McKinnon for further comfort!
 And now that queer customer, Jen- nings, was also under the ban, was he? And they needed Benton's evil dence-Benton whose brevet hung fire for reasons he could not understand Benton who didn't love the war office and who well knew he had found no favor in the grim, deep-set eyes be- hind those comprehensive spectacles. There was little he could really tell Df Jennings, though he had never for gotten that story about the Indiana sergeant seeing Rosalie toss the packet to him in the rush and excitement at the stone house. If that story were true she must have thought him faith full at the time at least That fateful notebook, filled with Paul's clever topo- graphical sketches and his daily mem oranda-what had not Rosalie dared in her effort to send it to safe hands! What sacrifice had not Chiffon made In recrossing the Potomac that wintry night in hopes of recovering it.! Where was 1t now? thought Benton, as once again he caught sight of the unfinished dome of the great white capitol A very suitable bit of property the little volume might be to southern chief tain again invading Maryland with an army at his back-and very danger ous one for southern officer to be caught with-if alone!
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"JuSf M Time''

for the holiday dances will be the pu- pills who start now at Miss Reeds Dancing Academy. 1OS Bank street, second floor Jones &s Morgan building. Tuesday evening, advanced class; Thursday evening, beginners class. Strictly private lessons by appoint ment any hour.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-15

THEY'LL HANG HIM!' he moved as though to pass her by. Instantly, almost in terror. she grasped his arm.
 .Noi Oh mol. she cried. T give