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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1908-03-06
CAVATTS CREEK.

Cavatts Creek, Va, March 2.
Mr.. Il. @. Panley has been quite
Ill but is reported better now. He
was visiting his relatives at this
place where he was taken sick.
Mr.. /. G. Yates, from Gary, made
a flying trip to this place Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peel Harman visited
Mr.. John Keesee yesterday.
The roads are too mudy TO talk
about now.
Mr.. c. III. Reynolds has been get
ting his land ready for corn.
Misses Oracle and Bertha Simpson
visited Mrs. Peel Harman Sunday
night.
The saw mill firm has changed its
name from Moore and Patrick to
Wilson, Patrick and Moore.
B. b. Harman has been ON the
sick list, but is much better now.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1908-03-06
ABOUT TIME
FOR CONVENTION
Virgin Should Take Initiative
and Instruct Delegates to
Denver For Bryan.

Is it not about time the committee
was calling a convention To appoint
delegates to Denver? Virginia should
take her place among the first to
adopt resolutions and take the
iniative in the great contest to be
waged within the next few months.
As to delegates, we have expressed
our views heretofore-the views not
only of the paper but of large ma
Jority Of its readers-that only Bryan
delegates should be sent 10 Denver,
and these delegates should be chosen
from the rank and file of the citizens
on the state-not necessarily and
chiefly from the ranks of office
holders and machine politicians, con-
grcssmen and senators. Let those of
our congressman and senators and
public officials who have show
plain enough that they are against
Mr.. Bryan, be left off The list.
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AN ENJOYABLE DANCE AND
SOCIAL

Quite an enjoyable social and
dance was given last Monday evenin-
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. w. j.
Mitchell, on lower Tazewell avenue.
Quite number of young people
some not quie so young-were pres
ent and all had a good time. The
dancing and good cheer participated
in by number of the young people,
was kept up to late hour, or rather,
an early hour in the morning. Among
those present were: /: Mrs. Josie Peck,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Cregar, Misses
Halle Peck, Myrtle Hampton, Bena,
Mamie and Leo Burton, Josie Low
der, Bette Thompson and Miss John
son. Messrs Stephen Peck, John Hop
kins, A. Thompson, Jas. and Timo-
thy Patton, Messrs Howell and Bal
lingee, Harry Peery and Britts, and
perhaps Others, whose names were no,
reported. Mr.. and Mrs. Mitchell en-.
tertained the party handsomely,
There was music and dancing anc
games and all had fine time.
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SHAWNERS MILLS.
Shawvers Mills. Va. Ma

Shawvers Mills, Va, March 3.
Mrs. Millard Kinzer has been
quite sick, but is better.
Miss Virginia Britts, OF Graham.
daughter of Joseph Britts, is visiting
friends and relatives In this COM
munity.
A very interesting prayer meeting
was held Mt the Shawver Mill Christ
ian church last Sunday aftcrno n.
Miss Martha WaddelI conducted the
services,
VIM. Jones, son of w. ID. Jones,
has been quite sick for the past week
and his condition is not encourag-
ing.
4. B. Crabtree left on Monday for
his new home I'm Missouri.
There is n gratifying improvement
In the condition ol the sick of the
community.
The farmers are hoping for pretty
weather now, 80 that they can bcign
preparations for spring crops.
Quarterly meeting, which was APP
pointed for 7 and 8 OF March, has
been postponed To date I'm April.
Mr. Samuel Walker, whose Illness
wns reported In last weeks paper, is
able To bc out.
Mr.. John A. LeifeI has had
slight attack of grip, but has gotten
about we'll.
Born 10 Mrs. and B.P. Lefrel line
boy baby last Sunday night.
Mrs Lccdy. of Hicksville, is visit
ing her daughter, Mrs. j. w. Shuttle
barger and other relatives i'm this
community.
John Neal, Grafton Davis and
William Slade, attended meeting
OF the Odd Fellows in Burke's
Garden last Saturday night.
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Spotts Brothers Sold Out.

JOS. w. Moss, one of Tazewell's $
best known young business men, has
purchased the grocery business of
SPOTS Bros, and will take charge
April LIST, and continue The business
at the old stand. Mr.. Moss recently
sold his liver business TO his relative
Mr.. Clinton Moss, who takes charge
mt once.
Jo' Moss, rs he Is familarly
known here, has determined To run
the business strictly on a thirty day
basis, that Is, no accounts will be
run longer than 30 days. This will
oe best Mr.. Moss thinks, for both
customer and merchant. A strictly
cash basis-here's one and there's
the other, would be still better. The
time ought To come-ought to have
come long ago, where nothing is sold
on credit of more than 20 days.
Mr.. Moss will adhere strictly TO the
80 day basis, and hopes by fair treat
ment, reasonable prices and first
grade goods To build up large trade
for himself.
The retirement of Spots Bros. cal Is
to mind the fact that they gave TO
the town its first electric lights. They
began the grocery business here Feb.
|, 1898, just ten years ago. On Nov
ember |, 1899 the first electric light
ever seen In Tazewell, was turn ed ON.
The people OF the town were very
proud of their lights, and IL gave
Tazewell IA start. This was the fore
runner of the electric cars which we
now have and prize SO highly. So
SPOTS Bros. were pioneers i'm the
light business In this community,
and their plant, sold TO the Tazewell
Electric Light and Power Company
has been extended and has grown in
TO its present proportions. The mystic
current not only furnishes lights for
public and private uses, but drives
the street cars and quite number
of machines I'm business houses.
During the ten years SPOTS Bros.
have been i'm business they have
won an enviable reputation for fair
square dealing all around, OF which
any firm may bc proud.
They have no plans for the future.
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DAVE TACkETT
NOT GUILTY
Jury Says He Was Not An Ac-
cessory in Jail Delivery.
Two Other Cases.

The trial of Dave Tackett, charged
with smuggling saws into the jail,
thereby enabling his son, "Midd''
Tackett an d ten others TO saw the
bars and effect their escape, resulted
in verdict of not guilty. Tackett' S
home is in Kentucky, is 53 years old
and proved a good reputation. Grov-
er Shamblin and Jim Ed Asbury,
who were inmates of the jail at the
time the otfense charged was COM
mitted, were witnesses for the Com
monwealth, and testified that they
saw the elder Tackett bring the saws
into the Jail, and Shamblin stated
further that he counted the saws. 1t
was contend ed by the defense. that
this evidence was not sufficient To
prove Jackets guilt, as other people
besides Tackett had been I'm the Jail,
and might have, If they had been so
Inclined, smuggled i'm the tools, and
so thought the jury, and gave Tackett
the benefit of the doubt.
The trial of George Briggs, who
was indicted for assaulting G.. A.
Worsham, terminated in the Circuit
Ciourt here last Saturday by Briggs
being fined $50. The trial started Fri
day morning, and was full of interest
throughout. A large delegation OF
people from Graham, with whom
Briggs has been associated in "A bus
mess and social way were here as
witnesses TO testify TO his character
and standing in that community. G.
NJ. Galway, Chairman of the Order
of Railway Telegraphers OF the Poca-
hontas Division, and II. III. May,
Chief Train Dispatcher of this divis-
ion, were present throughout the trial
and took an active part In Briggs
defense. Briggs was represented by
Greever ~ Gillespie and Chapman
and Gillespie. The Commonwealth
WAS represented by,T. G. Bowen and
VIM. III. Werth and a. 5. Higgin-
boham.
The case against Collier, Horton
and Isom, for assaulting Thos. Els
wick, was partially disposed of.
Collier got one year in the pen, Hor-
ton 30 days in Jail, and the trial of
lsom was postponed. Elswick proved
a fine character and reputation by
some of the best citizens of Rich
lands and community.
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BOOKER ON BARS.

New Rochelle, n. Y, March g.
Before the largest audience that ever
assembled at the peoples forum,
Booker t. Washington, at the New
Rochelle Theater, delivered an ad-
dress on the race question in which
he expressed his qualification at the
progress made by the temperance
cause in the South, and declared that
the abolition of the bar room was IA
bessing to the nergo, second only
to the abolition of slavery.
Two-thirds of the mobs, lynchings
and burnings at the stake, he declar-
ed, were the result of bad whiskey
getting into the stomachs of bad
black men and bad white men.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1908-03-06

that our Nation, as a whole, was
never in more healthful condition,
either spiritually or financially, then
Mt present. However, the papers are
full of crime and sorrow, want and
woe. Still, we could be happy and
prosperous nation, indeed, il we
could keep before our minds and put
into practice continually:
That earth is rich and sweet,
And God looks outward from the
skies,
If man his fellow man would greet
With warmth of heart and loving
eyes,
Old want would fold her hands and
sleep,
And crime into dwarf would
shrink,
And Sorrows heart would cease to
weep,
And fell Despair hault on the brink.
1t is not what we have but are,
That makes us happy here on earth,
And up beyond the sun and star,
Our souls are reckoned as our
WORTH
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1908-03-06
Want to See the Hanging.

Ex-Deputy Sheriff III. +. Peery
informs us that NEARLY all the
people in the East end of the coun-
ty' have applied to him for a permit
to witness the execution of Walter
Rippy, which will occur i'm the Jail
yard here ON the 27th instant. Mr..
Peery having resigned the first of the
year, has no authority TO issue per-
mits. He also informs us that while
he was deputy sheriff several years
ago, when Woodward was executed,
that a well known Tazewell citizen
him and asked for per-
init for himself and wife To see the
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IN NJ IIMORIAM
Thos. T.. I.enel.

Thos. t.. Lenel, son OF MIR. and
Mrs. l.. Il. Lefrel, born Aug. IL,
1884, married To Miss Macy Wingo,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. =. II.
Wingo, Nov. IL, 1903, al OF Taze-
well county, united with the Christ
ian church and was baptized by
Isaac Wright, OF Blueiield, w. Va.
May the l6, 1906, fell asleep I'm Jesus
Feb. %, 1908, aged 23 years. Besides
large circle of relatives and friends
he leaves wife and son of tender
years, To face the realities of life
without his loving care. But i'm his
early manhood he embraced the
Savior, anG In his Savior's care he
leaves these he loved. A christian
gentleman has fallen with his sword
unsheathed, his face To the enemy,
his hands reaching toward his Cap
tain, and has conquered his last
enemy, and now sings the song of
redemption, shouts In the triumphs
OF living faith, and reioices i'm the
city OF the New Jerusalem, looking
on the face of Jesus in whose
strength he conquered.
You who loved him come with me
by an eye of faith lets pierce the
darkness, through the mists, we'll
hold the hand of the Savior, we'll
pdsh tie curtain aside, relying on
the promise--"all things work to-
gether for good unto those who fear
The Lord, " and thus we may see the
smile o. Jesus again. Yes we sorrow,
but not as those who have no hope
For we know In whom we have put
our trust, that he is able To keep that
which we have committed TO his
hands.
lover the heart OF the mourner
Shineth Gods golden day,
Waiting the songs of the angels,
Down from the far-away.'
A FRIEND.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1908-03-06
MOST REMARKABLE CASE ON
RECORD.


The following is taken from the
Bluefield Telegraph and Roanoke
Times, and we feel sure is one of the
most remarkable cases on record.
Here il is:
Granville Cook, a highly respect
ed and aged colored man of 40 years,
who has been employed as servant
in the Windsor hotel for several
years, died on Sunday. While in
the pool room Saturday while a
game was in prorgess cue ball
jumped from the table and struck
him i'm the abdomen. Cook complain
ed of pain all the afternoon, and at
O'Clock went home. Sunday night
he died.
One account states that the ball
was struck with great force by a
player. 1t bounced from the table,
striking the negro, who went home
and died.
We know nothing more of the case
than this, and give il as one of the
most remarkable eases of virility and
fatality of n billiard ball on record.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1908-03-06
THE GEORGE FARM DIVIDED

Special commissioners, Jos. s.
Gillespie, III. G.. NJ cCaii and III. i.
Britain have recently completed a
division Of the farm OF the late Il. K.
George. In all, there was 30S acres
divided as follows: Mrs. George gets
the home place, with all improve
ments and 80 acres; which is includ-
ed in the SO acres assigned TO Thos.
George. Oscar George gets 107, and
Miss Nellie, 100 acres. The entire
estate has not been valued or APP
praisd, but will be in the neighbor-
hood OF $50, 900, perhaps more.
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Burke'S Garden.

Burke's Garden, Va, March 4.
Again there is talk of hack line
between this place and Tazewell.
We hope it will materialize, in the
near future, as the hack has been
purchased.
''Spring is on the wing for Mr..
Burke's representing the Bluefield
Hardware Co., has been around fur
nishing the merchants few plow
points.
The Rev. S. o. Hall came
Marching along with the weather
and preached good sermon lastSun-
day-it was beautiful day.
Miss Richie says that all winter
Miss Stevens has been like a country
in South America-'C
Miss Garnet Lawson likes Mon
treal, Can, very much. This is her
second winter there and she has be-
come, to some extent, naturalized,
acclimated and domesticated. Miss
Garnet is one of the Gardens fairest
daughters and is greatly missed.
Mrs. ]. Robert Meek is still in
frail health.
The Rev. ID. II. Miles is not yet
able to leave the house on account oi
rheumatism.
J. NJ. Hoge went to Bland Mon
day.
Mrs. Joe Meek has gone to Salem
to see her son, Roy, who is at Roam
oke College.
Some of our people attende,
George Stuart's lecture. The Iiterar,
treat was much enjoyed.
The folks over here have not seem
ed TO feel the much-talked-of money
panic very greatly--at least no bod.
Is in a hole except the ground ho
and he has hopes of getting out soon
Some right thinking people sa
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1908-03-06
A STRANGE LIGHT-WHAT
WAS 1T?

On last Saturday night about S
o clock a strange and unaccountable
light was seen by Mr.. A. j. Steele,
which he does not attempt TO ex-
plain, or account for. He relates the
facts About O'Clock he happened
TO be standing in his front yard, a
few steps from his door. He saw on
top of the hill, in field half mile
west of his house, what he took to bea
light from n lantern carried by some
one-possibly a hunter. He watched
the light n moment. II seemed TO be
stationary for few seconds, and
start from the top OF the hill in a
direct line for the spot where he was
standing. 1t came on towards him in
seemingly perfectly straight
course, a Id kept coming. Mr.. Steele
concluded that it would strike the
window of his house, and concluded
IL was a kite with candle in il.
On it came across the fields, fences
and branches, until il reached with
in few feet of where Mr.. Steele was
standing, and stopped. He reached
out over the yard fence 10 grab il,
still thinking ii kite, but could
not quite reach il on account OF the
fence. 1t fingered minute as Mr..
Steele expressed ii looking right at
me" He says ii was about the size
of an ordinary candle light, and had
grown DINNER since il left the hill.
After n moment il turned square off
at right angles over the fences
and into cornfield near by, and
went out. Mr.. Steele went next
morning and made diligent search
for some trace of the strange visitor
where he last saw it, but without
result.
We give these facts as Mr.. Steele
recited them, without attempting 10
account for them. Everybody who
knows Mr.. Steele knows that he is
not excitable or superstitious, or AT
all given TO ''seeing sights" Will
some one please explain? Write us
what you think?
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1908-03-06
A BURKE'S GARDEN COON
DOG.

Speaking of dogs-always pro-
life subject of discussion, Mr.. Jas.
T. Peery, Burke's Garden, informs
the editor of the Canine Department
of this paper, that he has a dog-not
a long legged, slabsided hound, nor
a vicious stub nose bull dog, not yet
a bench-legged fice-but just plain,
every day dog, and that this fine
dog treed and caught IL coons the
past season, and that the coon season
W as nothing TO brag of, either. One
circumstance, however, he related,
which casts slight suspicion on the
good character of this remarkable
dog, and that was, that the dog
got a lot of poison somewhere, some
time ago, and came near dying from
the effects. We woulnd't slander q
good dog by even an insinuation, but
the question naturally arises, where
did he get the poison What business
had this noted coon dog prowling
around where poison had been lef
for some sheep stealing, NANCY cur
1t was all an accident, of course, bu
you can't help but think and ash
questions. We are aways glad 4
hear a good dog commended by s.
good and quiet citizen as Jas. T
Peery, of Burke's Garden. Dog
haven't half as many enemies a
they ought TO have.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1908-03-06
BAD ROADS AND WEATHER.
Baptist Valley, Va, March

Baptist Valley, Va, March 3.
We will ask the editor of the
NEWS TO allow us small space in
his columns that our friends may
see that we are still living, but cur
road is so mudy we are going to send
for boat so that we can go TO see
our neighbors.
John Farmer, who has been con-
fined TO the house for some time is
improving fast.
John ID. Daily is at home we
heard him whispering this morning.
III. +. Daily has been in all winter
as the snow and bleak winds were
too much for his grit.
Mrs. Jay Panye who has been quit.
i'll is improving.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1908-03-06
NEED NOT LOSE 500.

Under the provisions of bill just
passed the legislature, any party may
be fined and imprisoned for gamb-
ling if any thing, either money or of
any value whatsoever is wagered.
Heretofore, unless as much as $40
ed. Now, any amount wagered,
from n penny up, or any thing Of
value other than money, lays the
player liable TO arrest and punish
ment, provided the betting is else
where than at public place. So,
the small private 'card parties, " So
called had better take notice.
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TROUBLE IN DOGDOM

There was trouble in dogdom a few
days ago. Chas. Hagy, son of Albert,
the well known blacksmith, shot
the large bull dog belonging to Mr..
Mat Helmandollar, Rev. &. r.
Browns right hand man on the
farm, and a citizen of fine reputation.
Helmandoilar sued Hagy for $50. 90.
Hagy said, "Gee whiz,'' and told
Rutherford he would see him later.
Then criminal warrant followed,
charging Hagy with "cruelty to ami
mals'' or something of the kind, the
penalty of which was fine and inn
prisonment. The case was taken be-
fore Squire Peery, who settled the
matter, after all the evidence was
in, by dividing the cost between the
two, and there the matter dropped.
The evidence and facts, as detailed
before hiZzoner Squire Peery, was
about as follows: Said bull dog lived
or did live, near by Mr.. Hagy's long
legged hound-a noted fox dog OF
sonorous voice and like most hounds,
of rambling habits. In his preambu-
lations he frequently came in contact
with said bull dog, and then some
thing always happened. There was
either a scrap or foot race, or both.
Said hound being long of limb and
fleet OF foot generally succeeded in
reaching home, and shooting under
the bed or behind the stove eluded
his vicious pursuer. 1t seems that
said bull dog had the rambling habit
too, and frequently visited the pre-
misses of Mr.. Hagy, perhaps looking
for scrap or footrace, or for some
thing TO chew up. 1t was brought
out in the trial that Hagy's hound
had been known to go TO Helmandol-
lars and get in fight in the dining
room, and on such occasions there
was much moving of furniture and
other forms Of entertainment. On the
other hand ii was detailed that the
bull dog had gone TO Hagy's and
fought under the beds and in the
cook room, and any old place which
seemed convenient. So, when the
trial closed both combatants, the dead
as well as the living, had establish
ed regulations not entirely enviable.
Finally, said bull dog was given
to understand-politely at first-thal
his visits We're Objectionable, and
that he was an undesirable citizen,
and unless he stayed on his own
side of the fence something would
happen. The warning was unheeded,
and the dog made. one visit too
many. He carried away a load OF
shot pumped into his head and face
and now sleeps his last sleep, with a
well earned reputation as scrapper,
butwill be rememebered,i If at all, as {
fool dog, who didn't know just wher
and where to stop.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1908-03-06
NINE HOUR LAW GOES INTO
EFFECT.

on Wednesday on all the railroads
The law limits telegraphers and
others handling news pertaining to
the moving of trains, to nine hours a
day work, and provides heavy pen
atty for the road permitting or COM
pelIing any telegraph operator work
ing over nine hours per day. This
law gives employment to hundreds
of operators who had been laid off.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1908-03-06
THOUGHT HE SAW SOMETHING


Our FREUD Litz Peery will not grow
any more. The other night, as he was
going TO his home Mt North Tazewell
a little after dark, he thought he saw
something in the cut just below the
tank at the station. He took a second
look, and was positive he saw some
thing, and that the something was a
man hiding behind large rock,
ready To spring upon him as he
passed. He brought his "seige piece"
into action, aiming at the Things"
head, and, low and behold, poor
little rabbit, scared i'm an inch OF its
life, jumped from the rock, and fled.
The boys say that Litz 'hangs
around Bob Ireson's store now
until he can find somebody TO go
home with him.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1908-03-06
A FRIEND.
HORSE SALE NEXT TUESDAY

First horse and mule sale of the
season will be held next Tuesday,
the 10th, and promises TO be one OF,
If not the very best of them all.
Already over 40 head of horses and
mules have been listed with the sec
retary, at this writing, Tuesday
March 3, and a number of others
may be expected. Whether you want
TO buy or sell, this will be good
opportunity.
A large crowd of people are ex-
pected here on that day.
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MARRIAGE AT PISGAH.
Pisgah, Va. J

Pisgah, Va, March 2.
Mr.. Troy Johnson and Miss
Lucinda Hays were quietly married
at the home of the bride on Feb. %.
j. j. Johnson made flying trip
to Pounding Mill Sunday.
Everett Bowling of Cavatts Creek,
was visiting friends at Pisgah Sun
day.
Mr. Fillmore French is expecting
to move TO Richlands soon.
We are glad to learn that Mr..
Kale Bowling is soon To move to
Pisgah.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1908-03-06
Two Negroes Killed
and One Injured in
Wreck this Morning

a disastrous wreck occurred this a.
III. at Bailey's Switch, i'm which two
nergo hobos were xii ed and another
seriously injured. The East bound
freight train ran into slide, wreck
ing the engine and eight cars, besides
killing the negroes. The engineer and
fireman jumped and escaped. No. 3
was delayed several hours, on account
of the wreck.