Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-06-15

no sickness in the corporate limits.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. A. Leece and Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph A. Crockett, of Plum
Creek, were at Tazewell on Monday.
Otis St. Clair, who had been a stu
dent the past year at the University OF
Virginia, returned home on Tuesday.
Mrs. John D. Daley and her daugh-
tiers, Misses Orrie and Maggie, were in
town Monday on shopping expedition.
Miss Dollie May went to Salem, Va.
last week to attend german given by
the Roanoke College and Salem German
Clubs.
Mrs. C. F. Tynes and her two child
rem, of Gary, w. Va, are visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs, VIM. c. Pend
Teton.
Mrs. T. J. Eskridge and children, who
had been at Jonesboro, Tenn. for sew
eral weeks, got back to Tazewell last
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. w. Aston, of Leba-
non, Va, were in Tazewell the first OF
the week, visiting Mrs. Aston's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Alexander,
Mr.. B. F. Ginther, publisher of the
Graham Banner, and Miss Nora Eta
Ports, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. W,
Ports, were married at Graham on yes
tesday.
Mr.. E. H. Witten, who was shot at
Grundy last week was not much injured.
| He received two wounds but they were
merely flesh wounds, and he is recover
ing rapidly.
Mrs. A. ]. Tynes went to Blacksburg,
Va, to attend the commencement ex-
ercises Of the v. P. !. Her son, Buford,
is one of the graduates at that institu-
ton this year.
The Ratliff Hotel is now crowded all
the time, and the hotel accommodations
of the town will have to be increased to
care for the large numbers of people
who come here.
Mrs. Joseph G. Barns, Of the Cove,
who had been visiting her parents, Judge
and Mrs. P. W. Strother, in Giles coun-
ty, was in town Monday after
noon en- route for home.
Judge Henson has appointed E. B.
Scott commissioner of revenue for
Maiden Spring District to fill the va
cancy occasioned by the death Of the
late T. w. Hawkins.
Mr., W. T. Hufford has sold his store
house, dwelling and warehouse at Tip
top to Mr., j. G. Gillespie. This is the
property which Mr.. Hufford recently
acquired from T. R. Smoot.
Miss Reba Browning, of Pocahontas,
and Misses Julia and Ruth Pendleton, Of
Tazewell, attended the commencement
exercises Of Roanoke College which
were concluded yesterday,
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society of the Hol-
ston Conference will convene at Taze-
well June % to July 2. Delegates and
visitors will please send their names at
once to Mrs. Jas. O'Keefe, Tazewell.
Misses Rachel and Mary Bowen,
daughters of Mr.. and Mrs, R, T. Bowen,
Of Maiden Spring, were among the list
of graduates at Stonewall Jackson Ins
stitute this year. They arrived at Taze-
well on Tuesday, en- route for their home
in the west end of the county.
Messrs. A. P. Gillespie and w. H.
Werth are at Wytheville attending the
Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.
They went there to argue the case of
Watts vs., Watts, one of the most in
teresting cases ever taken from this
county to the Court of Appeals,
Mr.. Jno. E. Jackson has gone to
Charlotte, N. c., having been summons
ed as witness by the United States to
testify in the case of the U. S. VS. D. L.
Arey Distilling Company. Mr.. Jackson
has purchased some alcohol from the
Arey DistiIIing Co., which for many
years has been engaged In the business,
to use in his drug store.
On the 9th inst. Mr.. John w. Crock
EFT shipped car load of lambs from
Pounding Mill, which he says was the
best car load of lambs he has ever ham
died and sent to the markets. There
were 236 in the lot and of that number
200 were raised by Mr.. Henry Ascue, of
Midway, in this county. The lambs av-
eraged 90 lbs and were all of beautiful
form and color. Mr.. Aseue has nearly
400 more Of the same quality.
Tuesday morning telegram was re-
ceiyed at Tazewell announcing the fact
that Mr.. j. Powell Royal and Miss Jen-
ME Bowen had been married on Monday
evening at Radford, Va. 1t was ALSO
announced that the happy couple had
gone to Washington and other Eastern
points on bridal tour. Mr., Royal
is one of the young and rising lawyers
Of Tazewell, and is universally esteem
ed for his high character and excellent
qualities. The bride is the daughter of
Nv, and Mrs. r. 7. Bowen, of Maiden
Spring, and sister Of Mr.. 7. c. Bowen,