Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-01-21
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.


Owing to sickness Rev. G. C. Rector
was not able to preach Sunday.
Mrs c. J. Moss, who has been quite
IL recently, is now convalescent.
Col. ]. S. Browning, of Pocahontas,
was visitor to Tazewell on last Mon
day.
Mr.. M. F. Neel. of Cove Creek, was
business visitor to Tazewell the first
of the week.
Miss Ida Greever, of Burkes Garden,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. C. J. Moss,
at Tazewell.
Preaching at North Tazewell Sunday
morning and in Main Street Methodist
church at night.
Roy S. Thompson has returned from
a business trip to Middlesboro, KY, and
Lee county, Va.
Miss Nettie Witten is recovering rap
IDLY from the operation which she I'M
derwent last week.
Mrs. R. Clarence McClaugherty, of
Biuefeld, attended the Cooley Sampson
wedding here on Monday.
Paul Britts, son of Mr.. VIM. Britts,
o. North Tazewell, is confined to his
bed with an attack of typhoid fever.
Misses Dell and Matte Cooley, of
E'uefeld, were at Tszewell on Monday
to attend the COoley-Sampson nuptials
Mr.. ]. Kyle Montague, Jr., of Chris
tiansburg, Va, will locate at Tazewell
AID has taken rooms with Mrs. j. T.
Cooley.
Mrs. A. G. Russell and children left
last Monday afternoon for Denver,
{ dorado, to visit DIR. and Mrs. r. B.
c Gillespie.
Mrs. w. G. Harrison left on last
h ondsy for st. Louis, Mo-. where she
" Il spend some time visiting relatives
d friends.
Daniel Nj. Thompson, of Thompson
y Hey, has gone to Jacksonville, Cal. =,
" here he will visit his brother, Walter
+ Thompson.
Nr. and Mrs. E. C. Mays, of Finney.
Va, are the happy parents of twin
b Lies, boy and girl, which arrived on
7 esday last.
Mrs. Lucy May has returned to her
h ne at Tazewell after spending a week
Y h her daughter, Mrs. T. H. Johnston,
= &adford.
Yrs. W. P. Buckwalter and son, Win
e y, of Chattaroy, W. Va, are the
\ ,ssts OF Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. c. Pen
ton and family.
Hrs. T. Blair Hawkins and little son
: mes Blair, have returned to theiI
Il, me in Roanoke after several week,
s. mt with relatives at this place.
We learn that Mr.. c. H. Peery, O.
nth Tazawell, Is contemplating dis
J. sing of his property at that place an,
Il wing to Princeton, W. Va, where h.
V Il engage in business.
Mr.. w. w. Kelly, who has been con
nActed with the Stag Store at Pocahon
is. has accepted a position with tn
Pucahontas Consolidated Galleries Com
psny, at Switchback, W. Va.
We regret to chronicle the death o
Mr.. Augustus Griffith, which occurre,
q his home at Richlands last week
Mr.. Griffith was a well known and high
i respected citizen, and had larg
crcle of friends throughout the county
lie was sixty-nine years of age and wa
= brave soldier throughout the Civ
war.
Deputy Collector John D. Daley j
az Galax, Va, this week, where he wi
dispose of big lot of property whic
was recently seized at that place b
agents of the government. The prop
erty formerly belonged to a gang @
North Carolina moonshiners who wer
captured at Galax while disposing Q
their dope.
Miss Eta Hawkins will leave thi
afternoon for New York City, wher
she will spend several weeks with he
sister, Mae, who is studying music an
voice culture under Madame Rano an
Miss Mcclure. Before returning HON
Miss Hawkins will purchase the sprin
aud summer stock of millinery for tn
Tazewell Millinery Company.
Mr.. John W. Cassell, who has been q
the sGnitarium at Ironville, Va, fc
several months past, arrived at Tazt
we'll on yesterday, en- route to Asberry
vhere ne will resume his duties wit
the Quigley Furniture Company. "
e e glad to hear that Mr.. Cassell
ealth was greatly benefited by h
st and sojourn at the sanitarium.
That Mr.. ]. Albert Hagy hes the bes
pack of fox hounds to be found in SoutI
v est Virginia will hardly be dispute
ter their feat of Tuesday morning
Tie pack was taken to the peak south {
t, wn on that morning by Messrs. job
+ awkins and George Whit, and in les
& IN four hours they had started an
r. uphf two foxea nv aiunlv oufclassin