Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-03-05


turned home.
MIR. and Mrs. Geo. r. Mccall, of Ra-
ven, attended the Stuart lecture on
Tuesday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. W. Crockett came
over from Crockett's Cove on Tuesday
to attend the Stuart lecture.
W. P. Boggess, of Richards, has
been at Tazewell this week. attending
circuit court as a witness in a case.
Mr.. R. c. Chapman has returned
from New York, where he went to buv
his spring and summer stock of goods.
Preaching at the Christian church
next Sunday at II a. m. Subject: "A
Priest-ridden and a Prescribing
church.
Mr.. W. P. Hall, Jr., left Monday for
Richmond where he will stand an ex-
animation before the State Board of
Pharmacy.
Miss Eta Hawkins, who had been to
the Eastern markets to buy her spring
and summer stock of millinery, is back
home again.
Bring your horses and mules to the
market on next Tuesday. If YOU have
any such animals for sale an opportun-
ity will be furnished to make disposition
of them.
A provisional Past Masters Lodge
was held in the Lodge room of Tazewell
Lodge, No. 81, A. F. and A. M, on last
Monday night, and the Past Master
degree was conferred on one candidate.
Joseph w. Moss has purchased the
grocery business of SPOTS Bros, and
will take charge of the same on the 1st
of April. He has announced his pur-
pose to conduct the business on a thirty
days or cash basis.
Mrs. Margaret Hager, an elderly
lady who lives with her son-in-law, Jno.
5. Thompson, fell one day last week
and hurt herself very severely. She is
said to be now improving some, but is
still painfully injured.
Mr.. Henry Ascue. the great sheen
man from Midway, this county, was at
Tazewen on yesterday. He told US he
now has over one thousand lambs from
eight hundred ewes, and they are the
fines the has ever owned.
The spring uniform examination for
public school teachers will be held at
Tazewell April 30th and Nav 1st.
White and colOred teachers will pass ex-
, animation in separate buildings.
P. H. Williams, Supt.
EGGS FOR Thoroughbred
White Leghorn eggs for sale. White
Leghorns are the greatest egg produc-
ers. 10 eggs $3.50.
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Mrs. L. G. S. Compton died at her
home in Thompson Valley on Monday
morning. She had been an invalid for
several months. Her burial took place
on Tuesday, at the graveyard in the
neighborhood. She is survived by her
husband.
The town council ought to be making
pr parations to put the streets in
thorough order the coming summer.
The citizens want the streets improved
and they are willing to be taxed to paw
for the work. Some of the streets are
now in disgraceful condition.
Mr.. Jno. d. Barns, of Broadford.
Smyth county, Va, was at Tazewell
yesterday, and called around to settle
up his subscription account. Mr.. Barns
has recently made a sale of his valuable
plaster or gypsum interests on the
North Fork of Holston River, a few
miles east of Broadford.
The Republicans of Tazewell county
will hold a mass meeting at the court
house on next Saturday, the 4th inst. 1t
Is expected that large number of the
people will attend the meeting. Dele
gates to district convention to be held
at Wytheville on the 18th inst, and del
egates to State convention to be held
at Lynchburg on the 9Th of April will
be elected.
On Monday the case of the Common
wealth VS.. David Tackett was tried. He
was charged with smuggling hack saws
into the county Jail last November, and
that his son, Mid Tackett, had used
these saws to saw the bars of the cage
| in the Jail for his liheration and 4a, 9th
err prisoners who escaped at the same
time. David Tackett was acquitted by
the jury that tried him. He was de-
Tended by Major R. R. Henry and w.
H. Werth.
Mr.. H. ]. Kelly, of Mitchell, S. D.,
who is now visiting his father, Rev. w.
II. Kelly, received notice on Tuesday
that the warehouses of the Sioux CITY