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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-11-26
Epidemic Of MatrImony.

Our town has experienced an epidemic
of matrimony.
On Tuesday night at Z o'clock Mr..
John w. McClintock and Miss Pearl
Lockhart, daughter of Mr.. Edgar E.
Lockhart, were married at the Par
sonage on the Pike" Rev. W. w. Pat
ty performing the ceremony.
On last night at the residence of Mrs.
Josie Peck, there was double wedding.
The contracting parties were, respect
lively, Mr.. Stephen Peck and Miss Halle
Peck, and Mr.. E. Lane Ireson and Miss
Lettie Lowder. The ceremonies were
performed by Rev. E. L. Richie, pastor
of the Lutheran church.
All the parties to these three mar
riages are among the well known and
most popular young people of the town.
We extend to all our hearty congratu-
lations and well-wishes for their voyage
through life.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-11-26
The School Building.

MR.. EDITOR
The editor of the Clinch Valley News
seems greatly disturbed because the
old school building has not fallen down
and the new one has not risen in a night
to take its place. He implies that
there is something rather shady
about the School Board or the Town
Council, or both, in that none of them
has volunteered to publish all the pro-
ceedings of these bodies in their Joint
efforts to build a school house which
will be an ornament to the town as we'll
as a blessing to the children. There
are several reasons why these matters
have not been given out for publication.
First and principally, because there
has been nothing tangible to report.
Secondly, because there was, and is.
so far as we are informed, no obliga-
ton resting upon any one to report to
the News the doings of the Council or
School Board until such time as seems
good to those having the matter in
charge. 1t has been the aim and effort
of the Council and School Board to use
all diligence and precaution in the ex-
penditure of the money entrusted to
them for the benefit of the children of
the town, and it is the experience of
most successful men in any undertaking
that undue haste is not conducive to
permanence or to satisfactory issue.
The men who have this school business
in hand are honest men, sensible men,
and business men, who are not disposed
to jump at conclusions, or to invest
$50, 900 of the public money in a build
ing that will not meet the necessities of
the school.
The News complains that consider
able money has been spent in advertis-
ing for bids, etc., but SO far as we are
informed the most of said money,
which amounts to less than IS. 90, has
been paid to the News, and he ought
not to grumble.
We are, however, reliably informed
that the Council and School Board have
not been entirely idle, but that very
desirable plans and specifications have
been procured and have been adopted,
and an advertisement fer bus will an.
pear possibly in the Republican and
also in the News this week.
CITIZEN.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-11-26
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

The Jacksonville School Board will
receive bids for the erection of a school
building at Tazewen, Va, to be erected
upon the lot on which the present build
ing stands.
The successful bidder will remove the
old brick building and will state in his
bid the amount which he will allow for
the material in the old building. He
will be required to give bond for the
amount of his bid. Plans and specifca-
lions may be had by applying to ]. H.
Lewis. Clerk of School Board, Taze-
well, Va, application to be accompanied
with check for SIS. 90 which will be re-
turned to applicant when plans and
specifications are returned.
Bids will be received until IL o'clock
December 10, 1908.
The Board reserves the right to re-
ject any and all bids.
]. H. LEWIS, Clerk,
Tazewell, Va.
Nov. 25th, 1908.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-11-26
seaIIoped Apples.


This pudding is a prime favorite
with the younger members of the fam
lily. To each cup of finely chopped
sour apples, add cupful of fine bread
crumbs, two tablespoons sugar, a little
cinnamon, grated lemon rind or nut
meg and tablespoon of butter. Spread
the apples upon the bottom of a but
tered pudding dish, then a little sugar
and favoring and few bits of butter,
then bread crumbs, then apples again
and so on, until all is used, crumbs be-
ing placed on top. If the apples are
not juicy add three tablespoons of
water. Cover the dish and bake three
fourths of an hour, then uncover and
bake Is minutes longer, and send to
table in the same dish.
His Work.
"A good, hearty meal will help me
at my work, ma'am," said the wander
er, tapping at the kitchen door.
What is your work." demanded the
kind housewife.
'Lookin' for work, ma'am." said
Weary, politely.
And suppose / should give Won a
job?" asked the lady.
Il couldn't take it, ma'am." said
Weary, with a pathetic smile. 1T
would interfere with my work."-Har.
per's Weekly.
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Christmas Benefit.

The regular Christmas entertainment
for the benefit of the cemetery work
will be given by the children of town
Saturday, December 18th, in the brick
house on Main Street recently occupied
by Mrs. Chapman.
The children will have on sale all
kinds of needle work, fancy and plain,
turkeys, chickens, cakes, apples, eggs,
butter and many other good things for
your Christmas dinner.
Oysters will be served at noon and
then again at night.
1t is hoped that every one interested
in the work will contribute something
to this bazaar.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-11-26

FOR SALE-I have three nice Black
Langshan hens and one cock for sale,
cheap. All in first-class condition.
Reason for selling want to introduce
other stock. Inquire quick.
F. W. Pendleton.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-11-26
TRIMMED HATS

81 Ladies Trimmed Hats, for
s %ss . piIss $500 to $3.50. S2.l9
Is Ladies Trimmed Hats, for
mer price $500 to $3.50, CO no
this sale. ......... VO'OO
16 Ladies Trimmed Hats, for
mer price $3.50 to $1,000, cE OF
Friday and Saturday, Nov. q and %.
CHAPMAN'S.
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TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.

DR.. J. H. Thompson, of Boisseyaine
was at Tazewell on yesterday.
j. Kyle Montague, Of Christiansburg.
was visitor to .Tszewell on yesterday.
Black is making more Xmas Photos
done yet?
d. p. Eagle, ESQ.,, of Burkes Garden.
was business visitor to Tszewell ON
yesterday.
The greatest line of Shoes in town at
The Big Store
HARRISON & Gillespie Bros.
Col. ]. S. Browning was here from
Pocahontas on yesterday looking after
business matters.
Your Photos will be finished before
Christmas if you have the negative
made at once.
Miss Eva Dickinson, of Castlewood,
Va, is at Tazewell, the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. A. S. Higginbotham.
The Crossett Shoes for men. None
like them.
Harrison & Gillespie Bros.
Miss Nan Crockett and her mother,
Mrs. M. E. Crockett, who have been
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Will Ed.
Peery for several weeks, have returned
to their home in Graham.
We are showing a very fine line of
Suit Cases, Trunks and Grips.
HARRISON & Gillespie Bros.
The little two year old child of Mr..
and Mrs. James d. Peery, who live
several miles west of Tazewell, died on
Thursday of last week from an attack
OF diphtheria and membraneous Group.
We are offering some great bargains
In Rugs and Druggetts.
Harrison & Gillespie Bros.
DIR. Marguerite Bowen left Monday for
Richmond, Va, where she will locate
for the practice of her profession. Her
numerous friends in Tazewell wish her
every possible success in her new field
of labor.
See our line of Wilton, Vilret and
Crex Rugs and Druggetts before buy
ing.
HARRISON & Gillespie Bros.
Mr.. Samuel T. Litz, of Graham, has
almost completely recovered from his
recent severe illness, and is now able
to be going about. His many friends
will be glad to learn that he is improv-
ing so nicely.
LADIES'
We carry the largest stock of Rugs
ana Druggets In the town. Don't buy
till you see our line.
Harrison & Gillespie Bros.
Mr.. M. M. Hawkins, wko has recently
returned from visit to Oklahoma,
Texas and other Southwestern States.
expresses himself as greatly pleased
with Oklahoma and the Southwestern
States generally.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-11-26
NEW BOOKS

BY popular authors at Jackson's:
Together" by Robert Herrick.
That Man From Wall Street."
by Ruth Everett.
1.-THE Devil
by Molnar Won Westrum.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine"
by John Fox, Jr.
paid In Full" by Eugene Walter.
Tom Steele, of Cedar Bluff, met with
a painful accident one day last week
while at work on a motor in the mines
at Raven. He had lacked the motor
up for repairs, and was at work on it,
when the jack slipped and let the motor
down on him, breaking his arm and leg.
he was removed to his home at Cedar
Bluff, where he received every possible
attention. While his injuries are very
painful they are not dangerous, and he
is getting along nicely.
Mrs. A. S. Higginbotham came I'D
from Castlewood on Sunday afternoon
and joined Mr.. HHigginbotham at the
Jacksonville Hotel, where they are
now at home. On Tuesday afternoon
Mrs. w. G. HARRISON gave a reception
in honor of Mrs. Higginbotham to
which number of ladies were invited.
And that night Mrs. HARRISON enter
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. Higginbotham at a
six o'clock dinner at which few young
friends were also guests.
In our last issue we made notice of an
accident to George Harris in lower Poor
Valley, and that his leg had been am
putated by Drs. S. C. Bowen and C. w.
Greever. The injury which necessi-
tated the operation was incurred by at
tempting to jump on the dummy engine
used on the tramway of the Quigley
Furniture Company. Harris fell and
had his leg crushed from the knee to
the hip by the wheels of the engine.
The leg had to be taken off at the hip
joint. On yesterday DIR. Bowen returned
from visit to Harris and says he is
getting along all right and will get well.
On Monday afternoon Mr.. Geo. w.
Gillespie and Mr.. A. G. Russell re-
ceived kilograms from Denver, Col.
announcing that very serious opera
ton had been performed on DIR. R. r.
Gillespie on the morning of that day.
The kilograms stated that the opera
ton was quite successful. On Tuesday
night Mr.. Russell received another tele-
gram which informed him that DR.. Gil
lespie was getting along nicely since the
operation. We most sincerely hope
that it will give him permanent relief
and restoration of perfect health. The
Doctors many relatives and friends in
Tazewell will anxiously await further
news from him.
Yesterday Messrs. T. J. Heldreth,
X. ID. Lockart and v. l.. Stephenson
started out from town in buggy drawn
by a mule. When they arrived at the
forks of the road west of town the mule
became frightened at the door of the
cattle scales and ran down the road
towards the fair grounds. Mr.. Lock-
hart jumped from the buggy, but be-
fore the other two could get out the
buggy turned over, throwing both the
occupants to the ground with such force
as to severely stun them. Both were
considerably bruised, but not seriously
hurt. The buggy was smashed up COM
pletely. Mules very rarely run off, but
when they do they make complete job.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-15
"Thc Pecpul." Springfield Republican.


 In national conventions, where the speakers have to study to send their voices out over great spaces, the effect produced Is to translate the word peo- pie into 'peepul." When this word has been so shouted q hundred or so times during a convention session, the news paper men are forced to smile. Ii be- comes trick word in the play. the sport of more or less political preten- sion. The peepul" are the fetish ot the speakers whatever their claims 10 soberness and honesty, and so the word takes on a grotesque significance. MT. Bryan asks repeatedly and oft in his speech of acceptance: shall the peD- pie rule?' He may be very sure of 1t. They have resolved to- That Is the commanding lesson of this campaign of 1908, and the things which have led up Co and shaped it.. Recent political events in the states and in the nation have demonstrated the deeply aroused purpose of the people to control ln politics for the common good--and that was the lesson of all the political conventions, To thls all the nominees--- Taft. Bryan and IIlsgen, not 10 mention others--arc committed, The people have decreed it-not the politicians or the candidates. Whether they are to call for Taft or Bryan remains to be seen. If Is no longer necessary to cal upon the "peepul" In a loud voice--theY have arrived, are in command of the situation, and will name the man whc is to serve them as chief magistrate ci tho nation.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-15

fall under the direct control of the powers,
 So far the Young Turks have con- ducted themselves with fitting proprie- ty and many have been the favorable comments everywhere upon their ad- mrabe organization. There certainly must be wide-awake brains behind the movement when the Young Turks can go peaceably to the Sultan, as they did the other day, and show him the logic of his surrenderlng half of his pri. vate fortune to aid in the rehabilitation of Turkey, "A short history of the Young Turks, which has hitherto been q chapter comparatively unknown in Turkish affairs, is presented by Munjl Bey in the article in the Independent referred to. Though, as a consul gen eral, he has every reason to side with the Sultan, he shows his great respect for the new party and his expectation of big things from It. He writes of the party's hope for united Turkey, both as regards the Turks and the Armeni- ans, and he quotes the president Of the Young Turks at their congress in Paris last December as saying: "We live at the dawn of a new era Our re. lations with the Armenians are changed, The grand movement fol freedom has made them our brothers our old and our new brothers"
 Turkeys salvation rests upon basis of brotherhood It will be the Youns Turks' great task to build up tha brotherhood and make it successful ant enduring Then, perhaps, Turkey wil experience again some of the grandeur she once had as the worlds third maya power and may truly be "a guardian o peace for Europe and forerunner O civilization for Asia"
The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-15
THE NEW OTTOMAN EMPIRE.

Whatever new developments have come within the week In the situation In Turkey, one fact has become more and more apparent. It is that re- turn to the former regime of an abso- lute monarchy in the hands of the Sultan, Abdul Hamid, Is now highly improbable There have been those who have persisted In the belief that the Sultan has been playing his time-hon- ored game of granting concessions to his subjects to ameliorate their condi- ton for the time being, but of having a well-formed intention of counter manding at a later date whatever he has conceded.
 There can be no doubt as to what the Turkish people want including the officials Let there be no more Tur- key on the map" says Munji Bey, the Turkish consul general here, in this weeks Independent, "but a strong Ot- toman Empire, young, energetic, pro- greseive, guardian of peace for Flu rope and forerunner of civilization for Asia" Says Salih Munir Pasha the Turkish ambassador to France just recalled Turkey reformed, will prosper more and be happier, taking high place in the European concert which she has never held But, re- form failing, Turkey is certain to fall into hideous nightmare Anarchy and foreign intervention will be inevitable and the power and prestige of Islam will be lost forever"
 It is quite certain that at the meet ings of King Edward with the German Emperor and with the beloved head of Austria, the Turkish situation was I gone over in great detail. we have the word of high British official that it was the unanimous opinion of all three that any demands for reform measures had better not be pressed until such a time as the new regime has had ann pie opportunity to get into working or der It was agreed that the only pos sible attitude for the powers of Europe toward the government at Constant. nople is one of sympathy with the re. forming Young Turks It has now come with Turkey to be matter o1 sink or swim, the sick man of Europe the Sultan, being of little consideration If the Young Turks, who are now in 6 position to enforce the most radical re. forms, succeed the possibilities oi Turkey are almost without limit; fl they fail, Turkey will quite probably
The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-15
The Farmers Boy.
(Boston Transcript

Perhaps the greatest thing that the farmers boy needs to learn is how Co weigh monetary returns. The. wages and salaries of the city expressed in dollars seem very alluring. He does not ordinarily know the financial bur. dens, in the renring of children ana the support of old age. which urban conditions impose by contrast with the easily obtained subsistence of the farm and its abundant space. Every year the city Is drawing thousands of young men who, if they only knew it, would be better off to stay at home; they come>to the city because they have not vet had sufficient life experience to measure the relative advantages of the two courses which are open before them. Thus the commissions study may become many-sided.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-15
THE NEW HAVEN ROAD.

The possible ironing out of plans for the Independent entrance of the New Haven Railroad company into the city of New York is fascinating in it's possibilities. A dozen years ago such a proposal would have startled the people of that city and of Con- neeticut, To-day so accustomed have they become to miracles in every de- partment of human endeavor that they are prepared for anything con- ceivable.
 President Mellen is essentially constructionist. He appears at least to have his hand nearer the railroad pulse as 1t beats for the accommo- dation of the public than any other eastern man and while his planning and plotting is calculated to make some of the former directors turn over in their graves, it all seems to tend towards the solution of the inev- itable. The suburban traffic of the New Haven railroad, already enorm- ous, Is steadily increasing and point has at last been reached where the problem of getting the patrons of the company from their homes to their places of business In the great city of New York as speedily and convcn- icntly as possible demands attention on this account the subway route suggests itself and while 1t apparently was not Mir. Mellen's intention to let the cat out of the bag at this time, for some reason or other he cut the string and out jumped the little ami mai and skipped about nightly
 President Mellen is an adroit gentle man and one of many resources. It may be, as the Interborough officials suggest, that he has other eggs to fry than 'his particular one, but if the Public Service commission should take him at his word and inquire into the proposal through their engineers. 1t Is entirely within credence that in a few years the terminal of the New Haven road will be the battery for certain traffic. The use of electricity and its rapid extension, the ultimate merging of the Boston and Maine and the joint use of the new Pennsylvania station In New York city, togethe, with this new subway scheme, all | point to a bewildering and fascinatine 1 development of the old New York and ! Hartford. At any rate one thing seems certain. The management of tho New Haven railroad company Is thor. oughly up to date in its view of tho possibilities of railroadlng in the flu. ture and 1t is not a bit scared at the prospect of balloon service between New York and Boston.
 When this view really sinks into
 the at present unsympathetlc minds 0,
 the good people of Massachusetts per
 haps they, too. will regard the futur,
 more hopefully.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-15
TASTY CAUCUsEs.

It is an interesting point Hart ford correspondent of The Journal Courier raises that the republican caucuses thus far held are illegal in that they did not await for the en- forcement of the state law providing for the enrolment of legal voters. According to the law, the legal repub' lican voters of the state had until 9 o'clock last evening to register themselves. which must carry with 1t the guarantee to later exercise the voters right to participate in party caucuses, If not, then the law is only
 theoretically interesting and of no practical value We do not intimate that any one of these caucuses was held in snap spirit. The one at Stamford was held in the spring and was open only to those who had been enrolled in February or in previous years. For illustration, suppose a legal voter of Stamford, who had been absent from the state for an in-
 definite time and who had never
 cared to enroll himself, demanded i now to be given an opportunity to ex-
 press his preference at the polls with l reference to his partys candidate for 1 governor or any other office. Upon
 what ground could his demand be refused? The law does not give a po-
 lltlcal party the right to disfranchisc | a legal voter and yet the refusal to
 permit him to vote in accordance with
 the terms of the law is an act of dis
 franchisement.
 There have been over twenty eau
 cuses held in the towns of the state and probably three or four times as
 many delegates have been elected 10
 go to the state convention. What will
 be the attitude of the committee on
 credentials towards them? It cannot
 admit them and obcy the law, if the
 view is the correct one which our
 Hartford correspondent advances,
 that the caucuses can only be legally
 held after the second Friday in either
 February or August, IL will proba- 
 bly, admit them if the point is not raised but that will not destroy the 4 significance of the lawless act. It is |, conceivable in theory, at least, that in
 event of the admission of these illeg- al delegations to the state convention
 and a campaign which left the out | come in doubt that tho courts might , pass upon the illegality of the 2on- ventons action and decide accord , ingly A great many things are pos 5 sible when the first step taken is in violation of the law.
 We wonder what would happen if : another caucus should be held in l Litchfleld where the proposed Woodruff
 delegation was defeated by the mar f now margin of three votes. It would l be amusing to follow tho squirmine 7 of the committee on contested seats t The republican Independents of Wa. = terbury have their chance as well tc I send to the convention a legal delega. l tion opposed to their "favorite son.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-15

lltical equilibrium which existed more than twelve years ago still existed the point might we'll be taken that only those should criticse who are enrolled republicans, In the meantime there are definite things connected with the in- vestigaton at Washington which should demand the serious attention Of Mir, Lllley and his friends without re- gard to the private views on any sub Jeot of the editor of this newspaper.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-15

The Hartford Courant editorially treats of the various railroad station structures now in use and draws some conclusions as to the best kind It makes this statement; "The only way to avoid these (dangers) seems to be by means of overhead or underground passage ways, as is done abroad, with prohibition of all k-crossing The Courant speaks of its station which has passages for passengers beneath the tracks ae Impossible" What would the good people of Hartford think did they have to endure such a "worse-than- impossible" station as New Haven has?
The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-15
More Vulnerable Than Woodruff.

To put the matter on it's lowest ground, Mir Liley Is at present n more vulnerable candidate than Governor Woodruff. Not only does he labor un- der the handicap Of of the nomination being promised to him in advance, but 1t is also impossible to deny that the investigation by congressional com mittee will expose him to many cam paign attacks which it would be dilll- cult to answer. No reasonable man doubts MT Lillcy's entire honesty and sincerity throughout that disastrous affair but it is possible for even his friends to impugn his judgment.