Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-02-16

lrO0 Driu{6 put III nj Ncual Olubj J"0'
west of the Blue Sulpher Inn.
We have just ordered new dress for
the Republican which we hope to be able
to put on within the next two weeks.
Mrs. l. Z. Chpaman, who was go dam
gerou4ly ill, continues to improve and her
friends hope to see her out again soon.
MIR G. Chapman left on Friday for
New York and other eastern cities to buy
the spring aud summer stock for his store.
Anthony Vandyke, who had his leg
badly mashed while cutting down a tree
in Thompson Valley last week, is getting
along nicely.
Mr.. W. G. HARRISON left Saturday for
the eastern markets to buy the spring and
summer stock of the firm of Harrison &
Gillespie Bros.
Mre. E. ]. Miles was desperately ill at
her home at North Tazewell last week, bit
she is now greatly improved and on the
road to recovery.
For the past six weeks the farmers have
been unable to do anything in the way of
farm work. This will put them in rush
when Spring opens up.
There are several cases of small pox In
the neighborhood of Pounding Mill, but
they are all strictly quaraDuned. DIR. q.
I. Stellar, of Tazewell, has charge of the
patients.
The thermomometer registered II de-
grees below zero at this place and Is below
ia Burkes Garden on last Monday night.
That was the coolest snap we have had
this winter.
Next Monday will be the first day Of our
regular February court. We hope that as
many of our delinquent subscribers as can
possibly do go will call and settle their sub
scription accounts.
Mr. H B. Kits, of Blue6eld, came up
Tuesday to attend the funeral of his klns-
man, Mr.. J. M. Kits, but arrived here
TOO late, on account of being misled as to
the hour of the funeral.
The Cedar Bluff Wooden Company is
making some improvements in its lower
mill, preparatory to the coming season.
The company did large business last
year and expects to do a larger one in 1908.
We have received communication from
Pocahontas, but as the writer is extremely
personal we will not publish it. We never
publish such matter unless the writer con-
sents to our signing his name to the ar
tlcle.
We regret to hear that Mr.. T. w. Wit
ten is very ill at his nome near Dial Rock.
He has been sick for several weeks and
was reported to be improving; but on
Monday there was change for the worse
in his condition.
A meeting of the stockholders of the
Dominion Fire Insurance Corporation was
called for last Tuesday, but owing to the
inclemency of the weather very few of the
stockholders were present and the meet
ing was postponed.
Mr.. Dulaney Kits, the venerable father
of James M. Kits, attended the funeral
of bis con on Tuesday. lie is eighty-one
years old, and is wonderfully we'll preserv'
ed. His wife is still living and they reside
at Richards in this county.
The mail carrier who brings the mail
from Snapp to Tazewell had his face frost
bitten Tuesday morning while crossing the
ridge called Hogback, between Snapp and
Liberty Hill. He came on to Tazewell
and returned with bis mail that afternoon
to Liberty Hill.
On Monday there came near being
serious fife at the court house. Smoke was
discovered coming through the floor in the
treasurers Office and had it not been for
the timely actions of the ''court house
gang" it would have resulted more seri-
ously. AS it was only, email part of the
floor was torn up.
The latest reports as to the condition of
Col. Geo. w. Miles, who is i'll at the
Memorial Hospital at Richmond, are more
favorable. The X ray treatment was used
on him at first for prolonginG his life for
few days; but it checked the progress of
the supposed fatal disease to such an ex
tent that the physicians express some
hope for his recovery.
Mr.. g. w. Mays, Chief of Police of Po'
cahontas, brought negro by the name of
Mathews over from Pocahontas Monday
and lodged him in Jail. Mathews 1t seems
had stolen number of railroad tickets
from the station and was stamping them
when Agent Ward discovered bin. He
made his escape, but Mays caught him in
an old coke oven where he was hiding,
The Wanego Medicine Company con-
tinues its performances at the opera house
nightly. This company carries the best
perfo mere of any similar company that
we have ever seen. They are having
large SALES of their medicines, which is
strong evidence of tie merits of their diff
ferent remedies, Wanego is a medicine
that has been sold by all druggista, and is
an extraordinarily fine blood purifier.