Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-08-27
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.

School Books at wholesale and retail
at Jackson's.
Rev. S. o. Hall will preach at Mays
Chapel next Sunday at $3.50 p. m.
Order your School Books and School
Supplies from Jackson's.
Judge John W. Owens. of Pocahontas
was attending court here the first of
the week.
J. d. Billups, of Tiptop, Va, was at
Tazewell Monday and paid our Office a
pleasant business call.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard McClaugherty.
OF Blueield, w. Va, were visitors to
Tazewell Saturday last.
J. B. Hawkins, of Bluedeld. was at
Iazewell Monday visiting homefolks
and mingling with his friends.
Judge j. Frank Maynard, of Blue
held, W. Va, was at Tazewen Monday
to attend the Republican speaking.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. G. O'Brien. of Will
coe, West Virginia, are visiting Major
and Mrs. T. P. Bowen, at this place.
We are requested to give notice that
Miss Ella Bowen will not open her
school until Monday, September 21st.
The Misses Tabs, of Bluefield W.
Va, were visiting here this week. the
guest of their schoolmate and friend
Miss Ella Bowen.
McMullin Bros, of Springville, this
county. are now busily engaged placing
poles on the streets of Tazewell for the
Bluefield Telephone Co.
Mr.. Henry Preston, who has been so
seriously ill for the past several weeks.
continues to improve, much to the de-
light of his many friends.
Mr.. H. Claude Pobst. who had been in
Richmond and New York for the past
three weeks, returned to his home at
Tazewell on last Sunday.
Thomas Cole, formerly of this place.
but now of Elkhorn, W. Va, was the
guest of Col. H. C. Anderson this week,
en- route to Smyth county on business.
Miss nellie George, who had been
spending the Summer at Tazewell with
relatives and friends, left the latter
part OF last week for her home in AL
bany, Missouri.
Mrs. T. J. Muncey, of Bland, accom-
panied her husband to TazewelI on last
Sunday and remained here until Tues
day. the guest of her cousin, Mrs. T. A.
Lynch, at the Jeffersonville Hotel.
Mr.. E. B. Wade, of this place, attend
ed the meeting of the Shriner's at Salt
vile, Smyth county, on Friday last
Twenty-one candidates were initiated
into the mysteries of the order on that
occasion.
Miss Elizabeth Hufford, of Pocahon-
tas, has been selected as musical in
structor in Houston College. at Blount-
vile, Tenn. Miss Hufford graduated
with high honors at Stonewall jackson
Institute last year.
M. M. Pruitt, one of our veteran sub
scribers and loyal friend, of Shraders.
paid our Office pleasant call the latter
part OF last week. He is enthusiastic
over the political situation and thinks
the Republicans will win in a walk.
The Tazewell baseball team will cross
bats with the Keystone, W. Va, team
at the Iron Lithia Springs at Tiptop on
next Saturday afternoon at l O'Clock.
AS the teams will be pretty evenly
matched a good game may be expected.
Mr.. W. G. HARRISON, who had been
in New York and Baltimore for the past
three weeks, got back to Tazewell Sun
day. Re returned by way of Hot
Springs, Va, and heard Judge Taft
deliver his opening campaign speech at
that place on last Friday.
Thompson S. Crockett, who had been
superintendent of the Boissevain plant
OF the Pocahontas Galleries Company.
has resigned his position and gone to
Knoxville, Tenn, where he will enter
the brokerage business as a partner
with E. ]. Ware, formerly buyer for
the Galleries Company.
Miss Elenor Meeks, of Nashville.
Tennessee, will arrive at Tazewell this
afternoon on a visit to her schoolmate
and friend, Miss Allie Grey Buchanan
Miss Meeks is one of Tennessee's most
Charming daughters, and her coming is
looked forward to with pleasure by Mis-
Buchanan and her friends.
The many friends at Tazewell and
throughout the county of Mr.. Robert K
Gillispie, who met with such severe in
jury short time ago, rejoice to know
that he has so far recovered as to be
able to go about on crutches. He was
at Tazewell on Monday, and many ex
pressed their qualification at seeing him
able to mingle with our people again.
DIR. Stuart L. Craig, who had been as
slstant surgeon for the Pocahontas Col
ieries Company, has resigned his posi-