Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-07-11
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.

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Preaching at the Christian churcI
next Sunday at IL a. m.
Rev. S. o. Hall will preach at Con
cord church next Sunday at $3.50 D. m.
U. S. Commissioner T. A. Gillespie
of Cedar Bluff. was at Tazewell las
Monday on business.
MIR. and Mrs. w. W. Kelly. of Poca
hontas. have been at Tazeweu thi,
week visiting relatives.
Mr.. S. H. wingo, of Tiptop. Va
was at Tazewell on Monday and paid
our office pleasant business call.
There will be a stated communication
Of Tazewell Lodge. No. So. A. F. and
A M on next Monday night, July Is.
The Tazewell Band went to Norton
on the 3rd inst, and furnished music at
that place for the Glorious Fourth cele-
bration.
Or. and Mrs. Wade St. Clair. from
Bluetield, came to Tazewell on Sunday
and spent part of the day visiting the
Doctor parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. St
Clair
Rev. J. R. Stewart, of Nashville
Tenn, will preach here next Sunday. in
the morning at North Tazewell and at
the Main Street Methodist church at
night
Allen T. Buchanan, rural delivery car
rler on Route No. 2, has been sick this
week, and the work on the route has
been done by his substitute. Eddie
Thompson.
Dr' Margaret Bowen was in town the
hrst Of the week visiting relatives. She
has recently returned from Kirksville
Mo-, where she took a postgraduate
course in her profession.
Farmers are being kept very busy
now. They are beginning to cut their
early meadows, wheat harvest is upon
them, and the corn, on account of the
late season, needs attention.
Mrs. X. J. Ward and her infant daueb-
Ter went to Chatham Hill, Smyth coun-
~ Va, on yesterday to visit relatives.
MIR. Ward left yesterday afternoon for
visit to the jamestown Exposition.
A party of youngsters had hav ride
on Tuesday and picnic at the cave or
Dig spring at Unaka. They were chap
eroned by Mrs. Farr and Miss Lena
Nelly, and had splendid time they saw.
There was game of baseball at Taze-
well on the Fourth, played by a colored
team here and one from Elkhorn. The
score stood 9 to in favor of Tazewen. A
large crowd witnessed the game. and
good order prevailed.
The annual RED Tag Sale" at Chap
man has been in progress this week
and the ladies have been making if an
interesting and successful sale. Large
crowds have been attending and the
sales have been large.
Harry P. Rees, of Pocahontas Va
died at the hospital at Welch. w. Va.
on last Monday morning. He had been
IN Ill health for several years. For a
number of years he had been one of the
most prominent men of Pocahontas.
DR.. c. w. Greever is announcing to
his patrons that he will abandon the
practice of medicine. He has been en-
Joylng large and lucrative practice.
but on account of other business enter.
prises finds it necessary to discontinue
work in his profession.
Three of the substantial citizens Of
the Shaver Mill neighborhood. Messrs
VIM. Pruitt, A. B. Leffel and S. ]. Cum
dill were visitors to Tazeweu on last
Monday evening. They came here to
attend a meeting of the Royal Arch
Chapter, of which they are members.
Yesterday was the first day of Dog
Days, and it started in with rain. Ac-
cordlng to an old and pretty well sus-
tanned tradition this means that we will
nave a wet season, and good corn crop.
Unfortunately the wheat harvesting is
unusually late, and people may have
some trouble saving their crops,
On last Sunday some of the fruits of
the Wakefield meeting held in the Ban
list church were gathered. Two per-
sons were received into the Methodist
church, and at night the ordinance of
baptism was administered to eight per-
sons at the Baptist church, these last
becoming members of that church.
The firm of Crockett & Thomson
composed of Messrs. Jno. W. Crockett
and S. j. Thompson, went to Pulaski
last week and bought 1865 fine export
cattle from one firm, Crockett g. Sim.
norman. The firm of Crockett g.
thompson has purchased this season
about six thousand head of export cattle
DR.. S. c. Bowen, who has been Wis
ltIng his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. r. r.
Bowen, and other relatives in the conn