Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-09-23
S. W. VIRGINIA
NEWS ITEMS.
WHAT hAS RECENTLY TRANSFERRED
IN THE COUNTIES OF THIS
SECTION.


SECTION.
The Republicans of Scott county on
last Saturday renominated Charles S.
Pendleton for the House of Delegates.
He has already served two terms in the
Legislature, and has made an excellent
representative.
Walton & Company, of Falls Mills,
have been awarded the contract for the
construction of fourteen of the thirty
miles of railroad to be built from Ho-
maker up Lewis Creek into Buchanan
county. Two hundred and fifty men
are now employed in grading the road
bed, and it is proposed by the contrac-
tors to finish the work by April next.
Mrs. Ellen B. Stuart, widow of w.
A. Stuart, died at the home of her SON
in-law, Mr.. A. A. Campbell, at Wythe-
vile, on Saturday of last week. She
is survived by two sons and one daugh-
ter; also three stepsons, one of whom is
the Hon. Henry C. Stuart, of Elk Gar
den, Russell county, Va. Her remains
were buried in the Stuart burial grounds
at Saltville.
The important news is given out that
the Keokee Consolidated Coke Com
pany, successor to the Imboden Coal
and Coke Company. is resuming its ex-
tensive operations at Imboden, in Wise
county. This is one of the best known
concerns operating in Southwest Vir-
ginia, and the news of its resumption
vii be welcomed as another sign of re-
turning prosperity. The company is
now employing all the men it can get.
1t is announced that the receipts of
the Norfolk and Western Railway for
the first two weeks of September are
$50, 900 more than for the same period
in October. 1907, which was the best
month in the history of the road. 1t is
also stated that orders have been given
for building at once twenty-five cabin
cars, and that plans are being contem-
plated for the building of twenty-five
locomotives in the Roanoke shops each
year.
The Democratic Executive Commit
tee of the Ninth district met at Bristol
on last Saturday for the purpose of lay
ing plans for the campaign in this dis
trict and determining whether or not
legislative nominations should be made
in all the counties of the district. The
question was discussed at length by rep
resentative party men from each of the
counties and it was decided that nomi-
nations should be made and an active
campaign inaugurated throughout the
several counties.
The Government has just offered a
reward of $50 for the capture of Ray
Moneyhun, an alleged deserter from the
United States army, at Fort Des
Moines, Iowa. Moneyhun, who was 21
years old at the time of his enlistment,
in August, 1908, gave his home as Coe-
burn, Va, and the name and address of
the person to be notified in his behalf in
case of emergency as John Moneyhun,
ZIG Cumberland street, Bristol, Va, an
uncle. Moneyhun was a private in COM
pany K. of the Second cavalry.
A fight occurred at Dora furnace in
Pulaski county, on last Friday between
two workmen, Tom Gregory and Will
liam Keith. 1t seems that Gregory and
Keith became involved in a quarrel
while at work on the tipple, that Keith
called Gregory vile name and thereup-
on Gregory dealt him a blow with a
shovel, knocking him from the tipple
He fell to the ground distance of some
twenty feet, striking on his head on a
pile of lime stone, sustaining injuries
from which he died within few hours.
Gregory then fled to the mountains and
has so far eluded capture.