Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-12-23

1NSOHh'oOA spent last Saturday and
Sunday with relatives and friends at
Graham and Bluefield.
Miss Maggie Rose Hartman. who is a
student at Virginia Christian College at
Lynchburg, Va, is expected home to-
day to spend Christmas with homefolks.
Michael Moujalis, the young Greek.
Fho about two weeks ago stabbed to
death one of his fellow-countryuen in a
Roanoke barber shop, was captured on
Sunday last at Pocahontas by officers of
! that place, and returned to Roanoke.
l have many calls for timber and
ss .rS Ianos OF large acreage. Give
full description and lowest price.
E. w. Church,
Strickland Building,
Roanoke, Va.
Miss Flora May, while shopping in
town on last Friday, had the misfortune
to lose her pocketbook and purse. con-
tanning about S11 in bills. Finder viii
confer a favor and be rewarded bv leav-
ing same at.the postoffice.
The Orphean Musical Club gave q
nightly satisfactory entertainment here
last evening. Their singing was most
exceient-unsurpassed by that of any
quartet which has appeared here for
YEARS.. S. Parker, Sec'y Lecture
CON-, Pennington, N. II.
The Bachelor Maids German Club of
this place will give a german on Nor
day AightzRthe 9th, in honor of the
young gentlemen of the town who are
at home for the holidays. Music will be
furnished by the Columbia Orchestra
of Keystone, W. Va, and the affair
will be participated in by about thirty
five couples.
The Orphean Musical Club is the best
quartet ever heard in jackson. and
scored repeated successes in their con-
certs yesterday afternoon and last
night They received encore after en-
core, and the audience was loath to see
them leave the stage.-Jackson Daily
Wing, jackson, Tenn.
We find We have OYeTbOught in Holiday
Goods and have entirely too much stock SO
near Christmas. WE MUST SELL. No
reasonable offer will be refused. We are
absolutely going to GIOsa out every dollars
worth OF Fancy Goods by Christmas. Come
II you want bargains.
J. B. BOYER & CO.
On last Saturday night Mr. w. o.
whitman lost valuable barn from FIRE.
Two valuable cows and a considerable
amount of forage were burned. but Mr..
Whitman's horses in some way had
made their escape from the building, or
been turned out before the fire was dis
covered. The loss was considerable but
we have not heard whether there was
any insurance.
MISS 4. +. Sinner, who has for more
than a year been teaching a select
music class at Tazewell, eft on Monday
ror her home at Tafrytown, N. Y.
Miss Sinner who is a verv cultured
lady and splendid teacher. was
compelled to give up her work on &C
count OF very serious i'll health. She
had made many friends here. who
deeply sympathise with her in her af-
fiction.
detectives are now investigating the
death Of Mr.. T. ]. Brewster, of Doran.
this county, whose dead body was found
under railroad bridge over Big Sandy
river in West Virginia, about two weeks
ago, and, whom at that time it was
thought had been killed by train. De-
veiopments since then have led to the ar
rest of man named John Kerts. who
was last seen with Brewster, and he is
now IN Jail pending the investigation.
A letter received by Mr.. John W.
Laird on Saturday last from Mr.. J.H.
b. McNees, of Winchester, Ind, father
OF j. Frank McNees, the man who took
his own life in the public room at the
Old Inn on the afternoon of the 18th in
slant, reveals the fact that for the past
three years McNees has, at intervals.
laoored under the impression that he
was suspected of some wrongful act
and, at times, became very despoudent
from brooding over his imaginary troub.
les. That this was the state of McNees'
mind for several days prior to and at the
time he fired the shot that ended his life,
was manifestly evident to all who came
In contact with him the week ending
in his death.
"A large number of boys and girls from
Iazeweil and the surrounding country
who are attending college at the various
institutions throughout the State, are at
home for the holidays. Among the num-
Der we note: Robert Moore, Willie May
and b. W. Stras, jr., University of Viz
glnia; J. N. Hartman, jr., VIM. Werth,
Herbert Carson and Doak Davidson.
Washington and Lee University; Alex. !
st. Clair, jr., and Archie Buchanan.