Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-04-11
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.

If you haven't Jap-a-Lac color card
send for one. jackson.
Mr.. John B. Hurt, of Pounding Mill.
was visitor to Tazewell on Tuesday.
Services at North TazeweT next Sun
day at IL a m. and with Main St.
Church at 7:3O p. m.
Get your candies at Jackson's. Nun
nally's, Fenway's and Lowney's-al-
ways fresh.
Messrs. Geo. w. Mays and William
Danhauser, of Pocahontas, were at
Tazewell Monday on business.
Handsome line of latest patterns in
leather belts-25c to S1.OO
J. S Bottimore.
Mr.. Geo. Shafer. superintendent of
the Radford Brick Company at Tiptop,
attended the horsemarket on Tuesday.
Just received another nice assortment
OF silverware, suitable for presents.
II. W. Pobst
Mr.. Deskins Green, farmer and mer-
chant from Midway, was at Tazewell
yesterday and made us pleasant call.
% dozen ties and four-in-hands-ius
from the factory choice designs.
J. S. Bottimore.
Mr.. R. L. Gillespie, the popular post
master at Graham, Va, was at Taze-
well on Monday and paid us a pleasant
call.
Remember l get fresh candies every
~ days, both in bulk goods and box can
dies. H. w. Pobst.
Have you paid your poll tax for 1906?
II you have not, do so at once. and get
ready to vote. The other fellow is
ready.
c. H. Steele, constable for Maiden
Spring District, was at Tazewell yester-
day looking after some important bust
ness matters.
We have a lot of fresh tube rose
bulbs for sale.
HARRISON Barns & Co.
Have you paid your subscription to
the Republican," If not, why not?
You like the paper, we need the money.
Send it along.
MIR. j. +. Hurt, who had been in east
ern cities for some DAYS in connection
with important matters connected with
his insurance agency, is at home again.
The bad weather which prevailed on
Tuesday made the crowd which attended
the horse market a very small one.
There were but few animals here for
sale.
Mr.. j. K. Laird was kicked by a mule
yesterday and right painfully injured.
The blow struck him in the side of the
throat, just under the chin. He is now
getting along all right.
Mr.. John T. Barns, of the Cove. who
had been in Memorial Hospital, Rich
mond, Va, for treatment, got back to
Tazewell on Monday afternoon, and
Is greatly improved in health.
Marvin E. Eagle, who has been ap-
pointed carrier for the rural route in
Burkes Garden. was in town Tuesday
perfecting his bond as said carrier. He
will begin carrier service on the 10th
inst.
Most of the applicants for carriers
positions on the rural routes to be es-
tablished from Tazewell and Burkes
Garden received very high grades on
their examinations. Some of them got
grade of nearly 100.
J. R. Laird has resigned as secretary
of the j. F. Hurt Insurance Agency
with which he has been identified for
some years past. He still holds his
stock in the agency. We hear that Mr..
Laird is contemplating starting another
agency at Tazewell
Our old friend Abram Ascue, from
Midway, was at Tazewell Tuesday. He
came here to attend the sale of the
lands belonging to the estate of his
deceased son, Andrew, and he purchas-
ed the lands for the heirs of his son,
paying therefor 81, 900.
Madison S. Pendleton, who was gen
eral manager of the Prudential Fire In
surance Company when that company
was located at Tazewell, will take the
place of secretary of the ]. F. Hurt
Insurance Agency, made vacant by the
resignation of j. r. Laird.
The committee, composed of H. P.
Britain, S. M. Graham and H. G.. Nc
Call, appointed by the Board of Super
visors to have the courthouse square
fenced and otherwise improved, will
proceed with that work without delay.
And they announce their purpose to
have the work we'll done.
The weather has been very inclement
and variable during the present week.
On Sunday night we had thunderstorm
and on Monday night heavy snow
storm. Late Monday afternoon snow
fell for half an hour with the LARGEST