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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-02-01
I'm Memory of o. e. Gregory.
Cove Creek. Yn- LaI

Cove Creek, Va, Jan. 90.
Obediah f.. Gregory, 80 well and
favorably known, and beloved among
a wide circle OF friends and relatives,
died Nov. IL, 1906, at the nome OF his
sisters, Mrs. Ella Fox's in Blueneld.
The remains were buried in the family
grave yard here, Nov. 13.
"Obe," as he was called was the son
Of Thomas and Martha George. He
was born near Stowersville June 26
1880. He died OF typhoid fever.
He leaves an aged father, three
sisters and three brothers, and many
relatives and friends In deep sorrow.
May the sod rest lightly upon his
grave.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-02-01
The Commissioners, Bradstreet
and the Merchants.

Mr. Editor:
You asked me to furnish you for
publication al abstract of my 1906
business. 1 thought Of doing 80, but
did not.
Don't you think 1t would be a good
idea for Judge Henson to associate
you with the Commissioner Of Revenue?
I would like to see the merchants as
buoyant aboutMay 1st,as at off periods.
The LIST Of May though seems O hard
time for them to know as to what they
have done. Wouldn't 1t be nice to have
our Commissioner visit the merchants
in company with Bradstreets or Dunn's
representative? OF to so arrange that
the Commissioner could inquire Of
these agencies when he has reason to
believe merchant fails to furnish a
fair report.
Yours truly,
Merchant
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-02-01
HoW's This 2

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
+. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
We the undersigned, have known f.
]. Cheney for the last 15years, and be-
lieve him perfectly honorable In all
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by his firm.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken inter-
nally. acting upon the blood and
mucous surfaces Of the system. Sold
by all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-02-01
lessee Boys oh Bail.
Castlerun, Va.

Castlerun, Va, JAN %.
Rev. Troy has just closed a weeks
meeting here, resulting in about ten
conversions and three additions to the
Southern Methodist church.
Henry and Robert Jessee, supposed
murderers of II. II. Johnson, were
bonded out of the Lebanon Jail the 10.
80, 900 each being their bond.
Russell people sympathize with Taze-
well county people in the loss Of their
efficient Clerk, t: E. George.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-02-01
Burke's Garden and Outside
Towns.
Buake's Garden, Va, Jan. 81.

Buake's Garden, Va, Jan. 81.
c. V. News:
1t is gratifying that we are not only
Interested our selves in the scheme 20
secure Burke's Garden satisfactory
communication with the railroads for
passengers and freight, but that we
are so strongly situated with reference
to the interests involved, that the
building OF such a line is not IA propo-
sition that we must impose upon u
generation still unborn.
The. multiplication Of the "inter-
urbans" has gone on at q marvellous
rate in the last Ave years, and as they
serve the purposes OF their patrons
satisfactorily and at less expense than
steam roads. even where they parallel
them, why, in this section, may We not
harness our streams and compel them
to do our bidding? Surely the mud
scows, and struggling horses are poor
representations OF 20th century pro-
gress.
The railroads recognized as the most
enterprising, meet their patrons half
way. The wagon brings only what
must come-the trolley what may
come. Great trunk lines cannot be fed
homepathically.
But TO come more directly To our
own case; il Bluefield be recognized as
"our logical tIade center" there is a
hill town only half as far way To which
we may get for less than half the cost,
that every sentiment OF local and state
pride inclines us TO favor with our
trade and social attachments, rather
than anywhere across state lines.
Whether these towns bs regarded as
rivals for our favor or not, it Is certain
that neither can afford. for all time. TO
allow the other to enter and possess
80 goodly land.
So, as to the dividends direct there
might be some variance OF opinion, but
the indirect advantages to either OF
these places which has the foresight to
make this line, hardly admits OF debate
1t may be observed that the busi.
ness to be done by such lines is never
fully In sight in advance of their con-
struction, and that it is OF necessity
in most cases, incidental TO construc-
ton, the use Of opportunity, the de-
velopment of latent possibilities.
Let me say, we are out for local ad-
vantage, and our natural allies may
not coquet with the situation by i'm
posing conditions that are impossible
We want the road, and will welcome il
wherever it may come from.
Yours truly,
X. M. Lawson.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-02-01
Wants Better
Mail Service

AhOhiPoOh y 'aiSy, va, Jtn. oU.
The mercury touched zero Monday
morning.
Will Clayton went to Big Stone Gap
Sunday, where he had been summoned
to attend federal court.
Mrs. Matte Thompson returned last
week from four weeks visit to Pen
nington Gap. Mrs. Gibson and little
daughter came with her to spend some
at home before locating at Bristol.
Complaints are frequent respecting
phone service. The system does not
seem to be working well at all, and
not infrequently the attempt to use
ones phone results in annoyanc, but
nothing more. Expert attention should
be given the line just as early as pos.
sible. Thompson Valley folks are not
inclined to kick, but when they do, like
the proverbial mule, they kick straight
and hard.
Efforts are being made to have the
Thompson Valley mail held Mt Taze-
well so AS TO include what comes by
the morning train. Under the present
arrangement our carrier leaves lust
about the time that mail reaches town.
Consequently n letter is actually longer
in travelling from Tazewell to Benbow
and Thompson Valley than 1t is in
travelling from New York to Tazewell.
A paper from Roanoke or Lynchburg
is not delivered until noon of the day
following publication.
(Since the above was put in type it is
announced that the Thompson Valley
mail, beginning today, will leave this
Office at p. m.-ED.)
A reading circle has been organized
to hold weekly meetings, with the fol-
lowing officers: President, Rev. J. J.
Loux; Superintendent, Miss Mary
Thompson; Secretary, Miss Luana
Thompson; Treasurer, Archie Thomp-
son. Reading will be along the line of
current religious problems.
Mrs. w. p. Thompson entertained at
dinner last Friday.
There will be preaching services next
Sunday at Pleasant Hill in the morn
ing and Benbow in the afternoon.
Mrs. A. j. Larimer entertained at
dinner on Saturday.
Mr.. q. o. Thompson and Miss Annie
Smith were united in marriage this
morning at 10 o'clock at the home OF
the bride. After their wedding tour
the happy couple will make their home
for the remainder Of the winter with
the brides mother.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-02-01
SLOO per Year
Cedar Bluff News.
Cedar Blufr, Va. Jan.

CEDAR Blum, Va, Jan. 30.
Mrs. w. j. Hatcher has been sick
for the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Day, who have
been visiting at Mr. L. A. Gillespie's.
returned TO their home near Seaboard
on Tuesday.
Miss Estelle Repass celebrated her
nineteenth birthday at her nome on
Friday evening oflast week.
Mr. Grover Ford, an employee OF
MI. L. A. Mcclure, is critically III at
the home OF Mr.. John Tate.
Mr. Wade II. Peery, OF North Taze-
well, spent Sunday with his mother.
Mr. Charlie Watkins, ofGrundy, was
visitor TO our town a few days ago.
Armon Brown, who has been sick
for several days, is improving.
Mrs. Lou Kendrick and son, George,
who, for the past few menths have
been visiting Mrs. Hendricks sister,
Mrs. Nj. l.. Peery, left Cedar Bluff last
week, To the regret OF their many
friends in the community. They will
spend few weeks In Lynchburg be-
fore returning TO their home In Kansas
City, Mo.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-02-01
St. Paul the Center--LOSt Fine
Horse.
w. b. DoAK.

The wintry blasts have begun to
sing sad requiems. The beautiful days
OF January have past and gone, and
we are now entering upon the duties
of an expectedly severe winter month
Many of the good farmers of this sec
tion took advantage of the beautiful
weather to prepare for the spring sea-
son. The early fruit trees put forth
their leaves, flowers began to bloom
but now they are shut out from the
world until spring does come.
The st. Paul Coal & Coke Co. now
have a narrow gague engine in opera
ton on a one mile track, hauling coal
from the mines to the tipple. The
Hardy mines are estimated to be one
Of the best in the country.
Messrs j. l.. Kimmerer, Scranton,
Va; DR.. J. w. Greear, st. Paul, and
Emmett Duff. Castlewood, "the COM
pany land owners Of st. Paul." have
recently put on sale 200 town lots at
reasonable prices. Real estate is calcu-
lated to be goo1 investment. In our
little town. The prospect for town,
and good one, is very encouraging
at this writing, first, because the loca-
ton is one of the best, and the Clinch
Valley division; secondly, the water
f0N ic ho In,
ginia for manufacturing purposes;
thirdly, the vast coal regions which lie
between Clinch River and the Cumber-
land mountains Of Kentucky, are the
richest in the state; fourthly, st. Paul
will no doubt be the railroad point for
the Copper Ridge Iron Ore, and above
all, the South s. Western railroad,
which will be the greatest out let from
the Great Lakes to the South, crosses
the N. & w. In our little town, and by
doing so affords the trade and indus
try for different shipping points.
DR.. W. s. Gray was down from
Dante first of the week.
J. l.. Dingus, our town builder, had
! the misfortune to lose fine saddle
horse recently.
Miss Lizzie Johnson, who has beer
confined TO her room for week with
rheumatism, is improving slowly.
E. S. Hurt was at Castlewood frs,
Of the week transacting business.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-02-01
"The Register"--Twins.

Among the best OF our colored sub
scribsrs, is VIM. Nash, of Tazewell,
well known here, and beliked by all
white people. He will move around
with an air OF increased importance
now since the arrival Of twin babies
a boy and girl-at his house. Last
Tuesday night was the time OF their
arrival.
Tho price Of paragoric is increasing
In this town.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-02-01
B. G. Exhibit at
jamestown
Burke's Garden, Va, Jan. 81.

Burke's Garden, Va, Jan. 81.
Lest the good friends, whom L hope
TO have made in Tazewel be laboring
under some misapprehension as TO my
attitude on a route of the proposed
electric car line, / take this, the earliest
opportunity, by courtesy of the News
to explain.
/ stated in discussion, speaking not
for myself so much as for the Burke's
Garden Cattle Co., whose interests /
had the honor to represent, that we
could not hope to have that quick and
efficient service in the transportation
OF light freight, express, mail and pas
sengers which would be necessary for
the complete success of our business
until we were brought In direct con-
tact with the main line of the Norfolk
& Western at Graham or Bluefield.
Lack Of time prevented a full exposi-
tion of how we thought the line should
be built and operated, however sche-
ing how some inter-urban electric rail
ways were used during business trips
up North, had paralleled well equipped
steam roads, had cut their Iates in all
classes of traffic from 25 to 90 per cent,
and had practically secured the bulk
OF each sections business in all lines,
unless we should except the movement
Of heavy tonnage. such as coal. Now
this Is just what a Bluefield- -Tazewell
inter-urban would do for the Norfolk
& Western. Let these three places
unite on the construction and equip
ment Of a line from Graham down to,
and around the mountain to Capt.
Peery's place, thence through Clear
Fork and Crabtree's Gap into Burke's
Garden. The Tazewell car line would
be made to intersect at or near the
Martin place. Advantage should be
taken Of successful experience, to
which the inter-urban service has been
attained up North, and our line model
ed and maintained upon similar meth
oes. To degree at least Tazewell
and the rest of it's county in touch
with the proposed road, will be benefit
ted the same as Burke's Garden. Your
mall, passenger, and express South
and East in the morning is now being
held up at Bluefield and much busi-
ness diverted. You need a competitor
in the business of furnishing transpor-
tation. All business men realize what
it means to have but one way and one
rate, dictated to them by one corpora
ton,
OF the application Of electricity in
traffic and touring has proven so uni
formly successful up North, it will pay
here.
A Burke's Garden Country Club is
being organized this week for the ex-
press purpose of settling forth to the
world the peculiar excellence and
beauty OF the Garden and it's products.
Application for space in the agricultu-
raj department OF jamestown has al
ready been made, and horses, cattle.
sheep and poultry win be shown In
their respective places, This Is but the
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-02-01
MOnOlO8ue
Entertainment

A Lincoln Kirk will give one of his
famous monologue entertainments at
the Cedar Bluff High School on Satur-
day night, February 8, 1907. Admis-
sion 25c and 15c.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-02-01
MRS. LINNIE GILLESPIE
DEAD.

The remains OF Mrs. Linnie Giles
PIE were brought here from Marion for
interment last Saturday. Mrs. Gillespie
was the widow of the late Reese B.
Gillespie, and sister TO Col Il. G.. Wit
ten OF this town, X. b. Andrew and
Jack Witten, prominent citizens OF the
county. She was about IA years of age
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-02-01
VIII Cut off the Water.

In every case where taxes and water
rents have not been paid by Feb. 10Th
next, levy for taxes will be made and
water will be cut off, This gives ample
time and will be rigidly enforced.
BY Order Of Town Council.
Jan. II, '07.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-02-01
For Rheumatic Sufferers

The quick relief from pain afforded
by applying Chamberlain's Plain Balm
makes II favorite with sufferers from
rheumatism, lame back. lumbago, and
deep seated and muscular paius. For
sale by John Il. Jackson.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-02-01
Grazing Land for Rent.

On the first day of Circuit Court,
FEB. 18, 1907, i will offer for rent, to
the highest bidder, the lands on Blue
stone, known as the E. H. Harman
land. Terms 70 be announced at that
time.
G. p. MCMULLIN, Guardian.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-02-01
How to Beautify Your Skin

The principle ingredients in Laxako-
la tablets are cascarin and dandelion,
vegetable laxatives known TO have a
beneficial action upon the skin and
complexion. Mild, safe, sure, 40 chooo-
late coated tablets, % cents at John
T.. Jackeon
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-02-01
Regular as the Sun"

is an expression as old as the race. No
doubt the rising and setting OF the sun
is the most regular performance in the
universe. unless it is the action OF the
liver and bowels when regulated with
DR.. Kings New Life Pills. Guaranteed
by jackson, druggist. 25c
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-02-01

Boyer guarantees Enders Dollar
Safety Razor to give satisfaction or
your dollar back.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-28
Good, IF True,

Has a cure for cancer actually been
found? If SO, fear of one of the most
dreaded enemies of mankind will be
greatly diminished. Discussion has
been aroused in Europe by the appear
ance in Berlin medical journal of
high order of an article testifying to
the merits of recently tested remedy,
and in which this is said: Zone of the
foremost authorities on cancer in the
world, Prof. Won Leydon, has expressed
opinions which do not appear to err
on the side of optimism when the
work of Prof. Morton of New York
and other students of cancer is con
sidered.' The article goes on to speci-
fy what has been shown by various
experiments to prove the effectiveness
OF the remedy in destroying cancer
germs, and concludes with the declara-
tion that what has been learned is
Sufficient to excite hopes of the great
est results in the minds of all study
ing the problem of cancer" Of course
1t would be unwise to be over-san-
gulne, even in the face of testimony
such as this. But, remarks Troy Times,
the facts so to show what progress
the medical world is making in get
ting control of ailments once thought
beyond cure.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-28

SUMMER CAPITAL AGAIN.
LOCATED AT OYSTER BAY

w ASHINGTON.-The summer cap
w ital" of the United States has
once more been transferred to Oyster
Bay, where the president has gone for
a long and much-needed rest. The
summer capital' will be located as
usual on the second floor of Moore's
provision store building, at the corner
Of Main and South streets. Secretary
Loeb's home this year is the pretty
E. N. Townsend cottage, up the Cove
road, near Christ Episcopal church,
where the president and his family at
tend weekly worship.
The presidents home, Sycamore
Hill, is some three miles and a half
from the village offices, and in order
TO keep the executive in touch with
the work of his administration, as we'll
as to secure the very necessary presi-
dental signature to commissions, or
ders, and important letters, the secre-
tary makes daily trips to and from the
Roosevelt residence. Mr.. Loeb makes
most of these journeys on horseback,
carrying the official documents and
correspondence in saddle bags slung
over Ephraim's back. "Eph" is the
western saddler that Secretary Loeb
got from Congressman Cocks about a
year ago, and he has proven a worthy
successor to Skoot, the fine saddle
horse the secretary formerly rode, but
which unfortunately went wild" one
day and came within an ace of Gre
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-28
Kaiser as Art Critic.

Kaiser William adds to his many
other accomplishments skill as an
artist and art critic. In a book just
published in Berlin, Prof. Seidel,
curator of art in the royal palaces,
praises the sovereign's activity in
church architecture, forestry, land
scape gardening, genre painting, stage
decoration and the applied arts" If
ne indeed is proficient in all those
branches, it can readily be understood
that he has no time, even if he had
the inclination, to disturb the peace of
Europe. AS critic, his taste is
catholic, although at times he is severe
In his judgments. While he has no
prejudice against impressionists, he
hates still life and unipteresting sub
jects which lack movement" His
opinions are given at random, some
times in the form of marginal notes.
When some South German amateurs
undertook to decide what kind of
monument should be erected for Wag-
ner in Berlin, the kaiser signified his
displeasure by writing nonsense at
the end of one of the articles. Not
even a Winckelmann could have ex-
pressed an aesthetic opinion more con-
clsely and forcibly.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-28
Washington Day BY Day
News Gathered Here and There Il H.
at the National Capital
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ating vacancy In the secretarial job.
! According to Secretary Loeb the
president will spend very quiet sum-
mer at Oyster Bay this year, Visitors
at Sycamore Hill will be few and far
between, and unless they are close
friends of the family they will be re-
quired to give a pretty good reason for
their coming if they are allowed to in
trude upon the presidents vacation
rest.
The only out-of-town engagement
the president has made thus far for
the entire summer is that of Aug. 20,
when he will speak at Provincetown,
Mass, on the occasion of the Pilgrim
Fathers celebration. The president
will make the journey by boat. The
Mayf1ower will probably be selected
for this voyage. The rest of the sum-
mer will be devoted to recreation, rest
and work with pen and brain. The
president and Mrs. Roosevelt and
their children will take long horse
back rides and will make many excur-
s1ons on foot, and by rowboat ~within
a radius OF 20 miles of Sycamore Hill.
BY Sept. 20, when he plans to end
his vacation and proceed to- Canton,
O., to help dedicate the Mckinley Me-
mortal monument, the chief magistrate
expects to- be in splendid physical con-
dition and ready to plunge into any
legislative tussles the winter may
bring forth.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-28

unused portion of the appropriation.
The trip which the president made
to indianapolis cost about 81 1000 and
his other trips have brought the total
up SO that his travelling expenses for
the present fiscal year will not exceed
$4,000.
There has been a material change
in the style in which the president
travels. When the railroads furnished
the transportation all arrangements
were lavish in the extreme, the rail-
roads vying with each other in the en-
tertainment provided. Special trains
were not uncommon, and special
schedules were frequently prepared
for the president. Now it is different.
The president, paying his own way,
travels quietly. His Pullman bills are
not large, his car is hitched to regular
trains, the service is simple, the meals
plain, and the president enjoys him
self just as much.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-28
Round About New York
Gossip Of People and Things
in the Great Metropolis
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81. II G~S' =

Geraniums still survive as the stock
flower, and Mrs. R. T. Wilson, Jr., has
mixed them with white daisies and
ivy on the facade of her new Adam
house in Fifty-seventh street. Mrs.
Philip Lydig, on her house in East
Fifty-second street, has rows of coral
colored geraniums and daisies. The
facade of Mrs. James Stillman's house,
in East Seventy-second street, has a
line of flaming scarlet geraniums over
the main entrance.
Mrs. Burial Hoffmann's house on
Fifth avenue has coral geraniums.
Mrs. Victor Sorchon's windows are
filled with pansies and ivy; and Mrs.
M. T. Pyne, whose house adjoins, has
used geraniums and daisies.
One feature of the floral decorations
is the preponderance of the flowers
below Fifty-ninth street. There are
few houses further up that show any
decoration. The Astor houses never
we're adorned with flowers and the
same thing is true of the houses OF
Mrs. Fish and Mrs. Mills and the J. H.
Smith house. OF all the handsome
homes on Seventy-second street, be-
tween Fifth and Madison avenues, only
the Stillman house shows a flower dis
play.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-28
RICH CANINE IS DEAD
HIGH LIVING THE CAUSE

HE exactions of high living have
L claimed another victim. Dandy
Jim,' sybarite of the canine race and
the only dog in the world that pos
sessed personal fortune of $4,000
and that wore diamonds, died the
other day in his home, 322 East Forty
second street, having succumbed to an
attempt to live up to his exalted posi-
ton.
AS to the precise cause of his death,
unhappily there is no doubt. Got too
fat to BREATHE" is the verdict of the
physicians who attended him in a sud-
den seizure of apoplHexy that followed
light luncheon of chicken and may
onnaise of salmon, topped off with q
pound of chocolate creams.
The daily programme of luxurious
living which proved too heavy for his
advanced years was part of the pro-
gramme laid down by his late mis-
tress, Miss Ellen Ann Griffin, spin
ster who for many years was known
as ''the hermit Of Union square" She