Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-10-29
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.

DR.. c. w. Greever was business
visitor to Bluefeld Saturday last.
Try some Fenway Chocolates at Jack
sons. Fresh stock and full line.
Mr.. t. A. Lynch, of Richmond. is the
guest or friends at Tazewell this week.
L. Blair Hawkins, of Roanoke. Va.
was at Tazewel Saturday visiting his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Hankins.
Come out and hear Capt. Jno. S. Wise
discuss the issues of the present cam
paign on next Saturday. October Slst.
The appearance of the Masonic Hall
has been greatly added to recently by
the application of several coats of
paint.
Miss Aylette Henry has gone to
Stanton, Va, where she will visit as
the guest of her sister, Mrs. W. B.
Walker.
Mrs. Glenn NJ. st. Clair visited her
sister. Mrs. C. F. Tynes, at Bluefeld.
W. Va, for several days the first of
the week.
Rev. G. c. Rector will preach next
Sunday morning in the Main Street
Methodist church and at North Taze-
well at night.
Rev. W. P. Evans, of Mosheim, Ten
nessee, is now helping Rev. W. M. Pat
ty IN revival meeting at Glemwood, in
lower Thompson Valley.
A stated communication of Tazewell
Lodge, No. 81, A. F. & A. NJ, will be
held on next Monday night, November
IND. All Master Masons are requested
to be present.
A letter received at Tazewell Monday
from James w. Hartman, who left about
two weeks ago for Hot Springs, Ark.
states that he is being greatly benefit
ted In health by his stay at that famous
resort.
Misses Mary and Rachel Bowen, of
the Cove, spent Saturday and Sunday
at'Tazewell, the guests of relatives.
Miss Mary has been selected as teach
er In the Coeburn High School. and has
entered upon her duties as such.
In Judge John w. Owens court at
Pocahontas, one day last week, a color
ed sportsman by the name of johnson
was fined $40. 90 and sentenced to twenty
days in Jail for having in his possession
game birds during the closed season.
Rev. S. W. Moore, the popular young
pastor of the Presbyterian church at
Graham and Pocahontas, has accented
call to the pastorate of a church at
Williamson, W. Va, and will leave
for his new field of labor about Novem-
Der the first.
MIR. John Hager, of the Cove. who
was so dangerously wounded by Sheffey
Brooks recently, by being shot in the
abdomen with pistol, died on Thurs
day of last week. Brooks has been
sent on to await the action of the next
grand jury, which meets on Monday.
the 23rd instant
Mrs. C. T. st. Clair. who went to
Richmond some three weeks ago for
medical treatment, underwent an oper-
alton at that place last week. and we
are informed that she is rapidly regain
ing her health. DR.. Geo. Ben Johnston.
the well-known surgeon, of Richmond,
performed the operation.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. O'Keeffe. who
were married at Pearisburg, Va. on
the 18th instant, and who since then.
have been on bridal tour of the North
ern and Eastern cities, arrived at Taze-
well on Monday, and are stopping at
the home of the groom's mother, Mrs.
Mary O'Keeffe, for few days.
Hon. c. Bascom Slemp was at Taze-
well for several hours last Thursday.
he was en- route to his home at Big
Stone Gap from a trip through Bland
county. We understand that Mr.. Slemp
and Tom MunceY made Mr.. Byars and
Lee Trinkle look like thirty cents" in
their recent joint debate at Bland court
house.
Mr.. F. H. Briggs, Jr., special agent
OF the German-American Insurance
Company, of Richmond, Va, was a
business visitor to Tazewell the latter
part of last week. Mr.. Briggs is a
member of the Taft Democratic Club of
his home city. and says there are many
hundreds of Democrats in Richmond
who will vote for Taft on November
the 3rd.
The Tazewell and Bluefeld Districts
Mnfhnda1N l.
last week at Graham for the purpose Of
holding joint meeting of the Woman's
Home Mission Society. Mrs. Alice
Chapman, of Knoxville, Tenn, who is
president of the Conference Society.
presided. The meeting was full of in
terest throughout and the fact was
reached that there was much mission
airy territory embraced by the two dis
tricts.