Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1905-03-03
The Inn to ChangeHands;
Mine Explosions
Pocahontas, Va, Feb. 27.

The Inn at PoCahontas will change
hands April LIST. Mr. w. NJ. Delp,
proprietor Of the West End Hotel,
Radford, who has had charge here
for the past II months, will not re-
new his lease. Just who will take his
place has not been determined. One
thing certain, the Inn has won an
enviaDle reputation during the pre-
sent management, and Mr.. Delp's
Successor will have TO "stir his
stumps" if he maintains the high
place the hotel has attained in the
esteem Of the public. Manager John
son and his efficient helpers, Messrs
Turner and Miller, are fine a lot Of
BOYS, and as efficient hotel men as
ever came along, will be missed in
Pocahontas, and 1t Seems TO this
scribe ;hat the new proprietor. who
service if possible. 1t is rumOred
that Mr.. j. Walton Thomas, until
recently general manager of the An
tier Coal and Coke Company, is neg
otiating for the hotel when Mr. Delp
leaves. Mr.. Thomas is popular, with
wide acquaintance with the travel
ing public, and no doubt would sue
ceed as hotel proprietor as he did as
manager of large coal company.
Pocahontas is an important point,
and the Inn should be not only open
but well kept, and will be, if the
company is not too exacting in it's
demands in the way of rent, etc.
BRIEF HISTORY.
The Inn was built by stock com
pany in 1889, and opened to the
public in April or May of that Year.
The late Col. A. J. May, Judge S. C.
Graham, and other prominent Taze-
well men were among the stockhol-
ders. A Mr.. Caldiss was the first pro-
prietOr and l. Gibbon, well known
merchant here now, was the frst
clerk. Messrs Wickham. and NJ.
GibbOn succeeded Caldiss. Then fol-
lowed Messrs LaBarr, Nowling, NJ.
Glbbon, the late lamented Mrs. Nc.
Gee, and the present proprietor, Mr..
Delp, who was also the successful
manager for Mrs. MCGEE.
The hotel at present is owned by
the Galleries Company. who bought
the interests OF thesoutside stockhol-
ders some years ago.
Ev,rY body regl cts that
Mr.. Delp Will give up the manage
ment. During his prcprietorship the
hosiery has given entire satisfae-
ton in all respects.
THE MINE DISASTER OF 1884.
The recent dreadful NINE disaster
near Birmingham, IN which 100 men
lost their lives, recalls the fearful
explosion which occurred in the
mines here just 2 years ago the 18Th
of next month, March, in which more
than 200 men were killed. Just how
many miners and employees lost their
lives In this frightful catastrophe is
not, and Perhaps meyer will he,
known. About $50 bodies We're re
covered, and a large NUM- Der of
others killed We're buried beneath The
mountain forever. With the excep-
ton OF this, the Birmingham disaster
Is the worst on record IN this coun
try.
EXPLOSION AT WILCOE.
A mine explosion occur, i at Will
cOe Saturday night, or early Monday
morning, reports differ as 10 date)
In which number of miners were
killed. A number of bodies were
brought here TO day for burial. Par
ticulars are not obtainable at this
wriung.
Mr.. j. A Leslie, editor OF the
News, and also repres, niing the
Tazeweli Insurance Agency Is stop.
ping al the Inn.
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