Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-04-01
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.

Oruer your Easter Flowers from
Jackson's.
Preaching in the Lutheran church
next Sunday morning and evening at
the usual hours.
DR.. and Mrs. 7. II. johnson and
children, of Radford, Va, are at Taze-
well this week, the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs A. j. May. DR.. johnson has re-
Gently been appointed a surgeon in the
U. s. Army, with headquarters at Fort
ress Monroe, and expects to receive his
assignment to duty within the next few
days.
Flour is steadily advancing, and the
Top mas not been reached. In order to
introduce our Flour we are offering for
the next ten days, beginning Apri1 ist,
our leading brand, Star Patent. &" at
so 70 per barrel, cash. allowing a credit
OF 25c. for every barrel returned in good
oroer with our brand on the head. Every
oarrei guaranteed or money returned.
Star Milling Company.
Work will be commenced within a few
days on the handsome new residence of
Judge j. M. Sanders, in South Blue
field The architects are Pedigo & Gar
~. The new home will be situated east
OF Geo. Strader's home, in a beautiful
grove, and will be one of the finest
homes in this section of the State. con-
tanning twenty rooms with every mod |
ern convenience Telegraph. !
Mrs. Sarah Chapman, wife of TT
Chapman, a well known and highly re-
spected colored resident of Bluefeld, |
W. Va, died at her home in that city on
Monday last of dropsy. Her remains
were brought to Tazewell on Tuesday
and buried in the new cemetery north of
town by the True Reformers, of which
she was a member. The deceased was
slster-in-law to Allen Chapman, who
IS one Of Tazewell's most honorable and
upright colored citizens.
Major Albert Akers will give an en-
tertainment on Thursday evening, the
8th, in the Main Street Methodist
church. The first half of the program
will be devoted to impersonation and
Characterization, and the second half
VIII be an address on Lee and jackson
and Their Times" He comes highly
recommended by Senators Robt. l..
Taylor and John w. Daniel and others
Of equal note. General admission SOC.
children 25c., reserved seats, 75c. Tick
cts on sale at Jackson's next Tuesday.
A message was received here on Tues
day afternoon announcing that Don
D1ckerson, young colored man of this
place, had been shot and instantly kill.
ed at the Black Wolf Coal and Coke
Company's works in Mcdowell county.
West Virginia. His brothers, Robert
and Alex, went to Pageton and return
ed with the corpse today to Tazewell.
we nave been unable to ascertain any
particulars regarding his death other
than that he was shot by a woman
named VIiams, who w2s enamored of
him.
On last Friday at Bluefield, Inspector
ID. w. Robinson arrested Guy Bostick.
known also as Georgia Guy, and Al B.
Neal, on charge of robbing the post
office at Russellville, Tenn, on the 18th
OF March. AS soon as the two crooks
found the jig was up with them thew
confessed, duplicating a man named
halston, whose real name is N. C. Tom
my, and who was recently in the Taze-
well Jail on a charge of completely in
the postofice robbery at North Taze-
well under the name of Thomas Wynan.
Wynan is now in the tolls at Mindless
boro, KY, awaiting trial on the charge
to which his pals have just confessed.
George Anderson and John Williams.
who were convicted on misdemeanor
charges at the last term of the Taze-
well circuit court, were on Monday TAX
en- to Meadowview, in Washington
county, where they will be put to work
of the public highways. The former
VIII serve a term of nine months for
striking fellow-workman with shovel
In an alteration near Tiptop several
months ago; while the latter will serve
SIX months for carving his opponent
with big knife in a fight at Poca-
hontas. Harve Parker, who assisted
Williams in doing the carving act. has
been taken to the States big bad house
at Richmond to spend a wear.