Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-11-04
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS
Bring your hides to Greever's.

Bring your hides to Growers.
Mrs. Sue Kendrick, nee Miss Sue
Steele. Of Paris, KY, is visiting friends
ut Tszewell.
Messrs. Kincer & vermillion have
Just completed splendid concrete stems
from the sidewalk in front of the
High School building. They also con-
structed broad concrete walk from the
steps to the front of the building.
The street committee of the town
council is having all the streets put in
good order. This is money well spent,
and the tax payers will always gladly
endorse such work. Keep at it gentle
men, and you will find this paper back
ing you up all the time.
Mrs. Janet Ramsay, of Greensburp.
Pa, has sent out cards for the marriage
OF her daughter. Miss Janet, to Mr..
Marvin Kelsey Kelly. The marriage is
to take place on November 18th, 1909.
at Greensburg, Pa. Mr. Kelly is a ma
tive of Tazewell, being a son of the late
Judge James P. Kelly.
165 acre farm on Clear Fork. 16 miles
east OF Tazewell, will be sold on Nov.
18th. 1909, at front door of Tazewell
courthouse. per cent. of purchase
price to be paid in cash, balance on
credit Of 8, Is and "a months. On this
farm is saw mill, roller mill, planer,
etc., dwellings, tenements and good
orchard
Mrs. w. G. Harrison gave a Linen
shower" party on Tuesday afternoon in
honor of Miss Nanola Gillespie, who on
yesterday became the bride of Mr.
Thomas Richie Peery. Many pieces of
beautiful and useful linen were given
the bride, and delightful luncheon was
served to the invited guests.
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph Of last
Sunday is authority for the statement
that the Norfolk and Western Railroad
will within short time let to contract
the building Of a line of road running
from Berwind, w. Va, down Cavitt's
Greek, In this county, intersecting with
the Clinch Valley road at a point near
the home Of Mr.. ]. ed. Peery. Shoul
this road be built it will prove of i'm
mense benefit to a large number Of our
people, as all the coal now hauled from
the Berwind field will be shipped over
this new road, thus making Tazewen an
important distributing point, and will
greatly enhance the value of property
along its entire route.
A dispatch sent out from Morran-
town, w. Va, on Monday announces
that the Board Of Regents Of the West
Virginia University have issued an or
der confirming its action of some months
ago Diminishing DR.. Henry M. Payne, pro-
fessor of mining engineering, from that
institution; the board refusing to disclose
the grounds upon which his dismsssal
was based DR.. Payne, it will be re-
membered, spent several days at Taze-
well recently and appeared as an expert
witness in the trial of one of the dam
age suits growing out of the explosion
In the mines of the Pocahontas Galleries
Company in 1906; and was considered
by those who heard him testify to be
the ablest witness that ever appeared
In similar capacity in the courts Of
Tazewell. The various coal companies
OF the State, recognizing the ability and
worth of Dr. Payne as an instructor,
made strenuous effort to have him
retained as head of the mining an
engineering department, but the board
remained firm, and after sixty days he
will be dropped from the payroll of the
institution.