Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-08-18
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.

IUWN ANU CUUNIY News.
Mr.. j. B. Boyer left on Tuesday for
Baltimore and New York, where he will
buy additions fT his present handsome
stock of goods.
We buy Chickens, Eggs, Apples, Pots-
toes etc. and pay highest cash price.
Tazewell Produce Co.,
North TazeWell, Va.
The next term of the circuit court for
Tazewell county will begin on next Mon
day morning. The docket is reasonably
large one and the lawyers are now getting
ready for the hearing of their cases.
The Prudential Fire Insurance Company
has moved its offices to the old Bank of
Clinch Valley building, where it has very
handsome offices with ample room for
trausacting its large and increasing busl-
nees.
The Imperial Fire Insurance Company
is now pr eparing to commence business,
and will begin about the lst of September.
The company will occupy three rooms
oyer the Bank of Clinch Valley and will
have its Offices fitted up in the most mod
ern style.
The crops in Burkes Garden this year
are pronounced the best that have ever
been raised in that fertile section within
the memory Of any person now living.
Many fields of oats will yield 100 bushels
per acre, and corn and timothy are CORES
pondingly good
The Iron Lithis Springs near Tiptop
have been doing an excellent business
this season. We understand that the pro-
prietor, Mr.. l.. @. Wingo, will make ex-
tensive improvements at the Springs be-
fore another season. The waters are pro-
nounced by those who have tried them to
be very fine.
Upon the petition of the County School
Board the Board of Supervisors of Taze-
well county has ordered an election to be
held at the general election in November,
1904 at which time the voters Of the
county are requested to vote upon the
question of increasing the county and dis
trct school levies from ten cents on the
hundred dollars worth of property to
twenty cents.
Tazewell High School announces its
Faculty for the next scholastic year, which
opens September 18th. There is no
change in the teachers of last year except
in the Music Department. Miss Ida
Barker, of Kentucky, and student of the
Cincinnati Conservatory, will haye charge
of the Music Department. Prof, Byron
says she comes highly recommended.
Miss Ida Greever has been added as one
Of the teachers in the Literary Depart
ment, and she is we'll equipped for that
work.
On lsst Friday night four colored
youths, Don Dickinson, Gordon Cousins,
Albert Bandy and Tom Hlgginbotham,
were shot by some person or persons in
the colored village between town and the
station. The gun used upon them was a
shot gun and the shot was bird shot. They
were all pretty well peppered, but sustained
no serious injury. On Monday afternoon
three young colored men, lobe Morris,
Will and Fred Dingus, were brought be-
fore Mayor Patton charged with doing the
shooting. He discharged the Dingus boys,
but sent Morris on for indictment by a
grand jury.
The record in the case of A. S. Higgin-
botham, admir-. of Anton Rukash, vs.
Pocahontas Galleries Co. is now being
made off by the clerk of the circuit court.
Council for the company will apply to the
Supreme Court of Appeals Of Virginia for
a writ of error in the case. 1t is a damage
suit and grew out of the death of Anton
Rukash-who was killed by the last explo-
sion in the mines at Pocahontas. At the
last term of the circuit court of TazeweH
county the case was tried by jury and
judgment for $1,000 given the plaintiff.
There are other suits of the same character
still pending in the circuit court here.
They may possibly be tried at the ap-
preaching term