Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-11
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.

Major R. R. Henry is looking after
business matters in Richmond and New
York this week.
Attorney Robert Graham, of Norton.
spent Sunday at Tszewen with his sis
ter, Miss Jessie.
Will E. Mccall came home from the
" P. l. last week right i'll, and is still
confined to his room.
Farmers should read what the Vir-
GINA Csrolina Chemical Company have
to say about fertilizers.
Mr.. W. G. Harrison is now in the
Eastern markets buying Spring and
Summer gooos for The Big Store"
Circuit court will begin at this place
on next Monday, with Judge Fulton
Kegley, the newly appointed judge, pre-
siding.
Miss Charlotte Henry, who has been
visiting in Staunton and Washington for
several weeks, has returned to her home
at this pace.
Mr.. and Mrs A. S. Higginbotham are
spending the week with Mr.. Higgin-
botham's mother, about three miles
west of Tazewell.
Miss Name st. Clair, who had been
the guest of friends in Graham for two
weeks, has returned to her home three
miles west of Tazewen.
Capt. A J. Tynes and C. C. Long are
building good roads in Richmond this
week. as delegates to the good roads
congress from Tazewell county.
Mrs. c. F. Tynes and children have
returned to their home in Bluefeld.
They were accompanied by Miss Ruth
Pendleton, who will spend a month in
Bluefeld.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. O'Keeffe
have returned 20 Williamson, w. Va,
where Mr.. O'Keeffe will resume his
duties as yardmaster for the Norfolk
and Western.
Mr.. John Graham, of Graham. is re-
ported seriously ill at his home with
pneumonia His son, Walter, who is
also quite i'll with the same trouble. is
slowly improving.
Miss Freidline, of Cuba, who is visit
ing in Pocahontas, spent Sunday at
Tazewell as the guest of Miss SaIlie
Pendleton- She was accompanied to
Tazewell by Mr.. Sidney Bloch.
Judge R. C. McClaugherty is reported
critically i'll at his home in Bluefield, w.
Va. A specialist who visited him few
days ago and diagnosed his case, con-
sidered the Judge a dangerously sick
man.
Miss Lillian McCray, late of the Fer
rell Mercantile Company, of Bluefeld,
W. Va, has accepted a position in the
store of Mr.. R. c. Chapman, at this
place, and has entered upon her duties
as saleslady.
II. Claude Pobst and Roy S. Thomp-
son left on Monday afternoon for Rich
mond to ettend the meeting of the
} Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, which is holding forth
in that city this week.
Mr.. B. R. Harrison, general State
agent of the American National Life
Assurance Co, of Lyncbburg, Va, has
been at Tazewe ell for several days this
week in the interest of his company.
Mr.. James E. Laird is agent for tins
company at Tazewell.
When in need of calling cards, wed
ding invitations, ct home cards, etc,
call on o. A. Bennett at the Republican
Office, agent for VIM. Freund & Sons
Stationers and Engravers. This is the
prettiest line ever shown in Tazewell
and the prices are reasonable. Cal
and see them.
Fast freight No. IS crashed inte {
huge boulder which had rolled onto the
track about o'clock on Tuesday morn
ing, near Wittens Mills, derailing the
engine and one car and injuring the fire
man, VIII Kensinger, 80 seriously thai
he died IL a short time after being taker
to hospital at Bluefeld. Traffic wal
delayed for several hours by the acct
dent.
A joint debate between the student.
I of Tazewen and Graham High School,
! will be pulled off in the High Schoo
chapel at this place on the evening O.
March 5th. The question to be debated
Resolved, That the Naval Policy O.
President Roosevelt Should be Adopt
ed, is an interesting one, and will, n.
y doubt, provoke much enthusiasm amons
the students of the respective schools.
Vance and Robert Sidney Neal wer,
tried before Squire Newman, at Ora
ham, on last Monday changed with hav
ing cut up Charlie Fox, young man o.
the Cove Creek neighborhood. som.
time during the holidays. Justice New
man thinking the evidence sufficient Il
!, hold the two men put them under bono
. of $500 each to appear before the next
term of circuit court for Tazewell coun.
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