Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-07-16
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.

completion.
Try a box of Fenway Cocktails at
Jackson's.
Mr.. w. A. Scott is in Ashville. N. C.
this week attending a meeting Of the
wholesale grocers.
DIR. R. P. Copenhaver has gone to
Baltimore to take a post graduate
course in dentistry.
A fresh lot of Saturday Candy at
Jackson's. 29c ID.
Miss Willie May Carr, of Falls Mills.
Va, is visiting Miss Lena Kelly at the
Jeffersonville Hotel.
Miss Callie De Jarnette. of Richmond
Virginia, is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. T. C.
Bowen, at Tszewell.
Miss Mamie Rose Moss. of Burkes
Garden, is at Tazewell. the guest of
Miss Maybelle Greever.
Steeres assorted Chocolates with crvs-
tailzed fruit. Nothing better made. At
Jackson's.
Sam and Harry Matt, of Pocahontas,
attended the Republican mass meeting
at Tazewell on last Tuesday.
Preaching in the Lutheran church
next Sunday morning at IL O'Clock. DR..
w. ID. Greever will fill the pulpit.
The National Business College. Roam
oke, Va, has an advertisement in this
issue of the Republican. Read it.
Messrs. R. L. Gillespie and H. c.
galloway, of Graham, Va, attended
the Republican mass meeting at Taze-
well on last Tuesday.
Services on Sunday morning. july
18th, at IL o'clock at Stras Memorial
Church. All are invited.
CHAs. w. SYDNoR, Rector.
The yield of the wheat crop which has
Just been harvested in Tazewell is I'D to
the average and of excellent quality.
The corn crop was never more promis-
ing.
A daughter was born unto DR.. and
Mrs. W. H. Greever on last SUNDAY.
DR.. and Mrs. Greever were visiting Mr..
and Mrs. c. ]. Moss, on Mechanics
Avenue.
Misses Louise Williams, of Wvthe-
vile, Rosalie Hicks and Nina Dodd. of
Graham, have been the guests of Mr..
and Mrs w. H. Werth and other rela-
tives and friends at Tazewell this week.
Mr.. John D. Barns, of Long Hollow.
Smyth county, Va, was at Tazewell on
Monday. He came here to give his
deposition in an important land suit now
pending in the circuit court of this
county.
The 2lst of this month will be the 47th
anniversary of the first battle of Ma
nassas. The day will call to mind the
memorable words of Gen. Bee. when he
said, Over there stands jackson like
a stonewall''
1t rumored that the Graham furnace.
which has been idle for several months.
VIII resume operation within a very
short time. Should this rumor prove
true, employment will be furnished to a
number of people at the furnace.
Madam Lillian Rano and Miss Mary
Lyle Mcclure, who have been Summer
ing at Tazewell for the past two months.
will leave next Saturday They are
both splendid artists, with charming per-
sonallties, and we sincerely trust thew
will visit cur town again.
Last year a disease, supposed to be
the blight, destroyed all the tomato
plants IN the gardens about town and
the adjacent country. The same dis
ease is affecting the plants again this
year, and we fear there will be another
failure of the crop. This is a verv
serious matter, as the tomatoe has be-
come the most popular of all vegetables
raised in the garden.
A notice has been posted in the post
Office at Tazewell asking for sealed pro-
possls to carry the mail from this place
to Grafton and return. The proposals
must be filed with the Second Assistant
Postmaster General, at Washington, by
the 18th of this month. Persons who
would like to make bids can secure the
proper blanks and information from the
postmaster at Tazewell.
Mrs. B. F. Lewis was called to Rich
mond on last Monday on account of the
death of the infant daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. c. W. Spracher, which occur
red in that city on Monday afternoon.
The remains were brought to Christ
iansburg, Va, and inferred on yester-
day. Mr.. and Mrs. Spracher have the
sympathy of the people of Tazewell in
this hour of their bereavement.
The Keys Planning Mill Company, at
Graham, Virginia, has resumed bust
ness after having been shut down for