Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-12-24
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
We will issue no p.per:next week.

Az P~PCAhuC4L week.
Archie Buchanan is home from Ham,
den-Sidney College for the holidays.
Miss Ella Shelbourne is spending the
holidays with her sister, Mrs. S. %.
May, at this place.
Mira. Howell Hardy, OF Graham. is Mt
Iazewell to spend the holidays with her
relatives and friends.
Mrs. John O'Keeffe has gone to South
Carolina to spend the Christmas holi-
days with her parents and other rela-
tives.
Miss Maybelle Greever, who is a STU
gent at Elizabeth College, Charlotte.
N: y, Is nome to spend the HOLIDAYS
Wlth her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. A.
Greever.
". Z. Mccall and Berkeley Gillespie.
who are students at the v. P.I., Blacks
burg, Va, arrived at Tsxewell yester-
day to spend the holidays with home
folks.
Among those who attended the debate
and german at Graham on last FRIDAY
evening were: Misses Doll Nav. Geor-
gia Crockett, Nanola Gillespie, Katie
Peery and Jean KnAppenberger.
Mrs. J. o. Gibson, of Pennington Gan.
Va, passed through Tazewell Monday
enroute to Thompson Valley, to spend
the holidays with her mother, Mrs. G
.. Thompson and other relatives.
Wharton O'Keeffe, mention of whose
illness was made last week, is improy-
ing nicely under the care of DR.. c. T.
st. Clair, and u speedy recovery is
now hoped for by his many friends.
Miss Ruth Pendleton, who had been
confined to her home for the past five
weeks with typhoid fever, has entirely
recovered, and is spending the week
with MIR. and Mrs. F. w. Pendleton.
Miss Margaret Greever, who is a
member of the faculty of Elizabeth
College, Charlotte, N. c., was at Taze-
wen yesterday enroute to Burkes Gar
den, where she will spend the HOLIDAYS
with her parents and other relatives.
Miss Annie Wingo, of Graham. and
Mr.. j. b. Jenkins, of Bluefield. w. Va.
were united IN marriage at Graham on
yesterday. Miss Wingo was for several
years a resident of Tazewell, and was
nelo IN highest esteem by all who knew
long and happy life.
AT a special convocation of O'Keeffe
Royal Arch Chapter, No. &c, held in
their hall at Tazewell, on last Saturday
afternoon and night, the several de-
grees were conferred upon the follow
ing gentlemen: c. L. Rice, C. C. Hud-
dieston, c. H. Rhodes, S. M. Lambert
and Z. 5. Crockett, all of Berwind, w.
Va. O'Keeffe Chapter is in a flourish
ing condition and has conferred the
Chapter degrees on many candidates
during the past year and bids fair to do
still better during 1909.
The regular term of the circuit court
for Tazewell county was adjourned on
last Saturday. after being in session for
four weeks. While here Judge Henson
announced his possible intention of re-
signing the judgship, and will deter
mine the matter fully between now and
the first of next February. Judge
Henson has developed considerable
ability on the bench, and has made an
excellent record for his prompt and ac-
curate rulings and decisions both as a
chancellor and trial judge.
Mr.. w. w. Brennaman, of Pocahon-
tas, who has been suffering for some
time with an abscess of the ear. has
grown alarmingly worse and has been
taken to the Bluefeld Sanatorium for
treatment. On Saturday night Mr.. Bren-
nAman was taken very i'll, and ON Sun
day morning he became unconscious.
and remained in a semi-conscious state
throughout the day. 1t is thought the
abscess has affected the brain. and but
slight hopes are entertained for his re-
coyery. Mr.. Brennaman is recorder for
the town of Pocahontas, and is also Sec
rotary Of the Long Pole Lumber Com
pany.