Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-05-20
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
Croquet sets at Pobst's.

MIS- w. w. Below, of johnson CITY,
Tenn, is the guest Of Mesdames Johns
s. Bottimore and J. F. Hurt this week.
Some handsome China Dinner Sats
just received at Pobst's.
John Gildersleeve, Dock Steele and
Victor Lewis are in Buchanan county
where they will be engaged in engineer
ing work for the next month or six
weeks.
Pobst has q beautiful lot of Ham
mocks this season and the prices are
right.
Mrs. 81. J. Kelly, Of Mitchell, South
Dakota, arrived at Tazewell on yester-
day and will pay an extended visit to
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George w.
Gillespie.
Judging from the handsome line Of
Gut Glass in PobSt's windows, there
must be some weddings on hand.
Mr.. J. B. Altizer, of Hartman. Va,
wss business visitor to Tazewell TODAY
and while here called at The Republican
Office and added his name to our sub
scription list.
Mr.. James w. Bailey, buyer and gen.
erai store manager for the Pocahontas
Consolidated Galleries Company, at Po-
cahontas, was visitor to Tazewen on
yesterday.
TOMATO PLANTS-SI.00 per 100.
sweet Potato Plants % cents per 100.
Prompt shipments.
Fallon, Florist,
Roanoke, Va.
Mrs. E. S. Jones and little daughter.
sophia, of Radford, Va, who have been
attending the Missionary meeting here
tins week, will remain at Tazewell for a
few days as the guests Of Mrs. II. w.
Pobst.
Mr. James E. Jones, Of Switchback.
W. Va, has been appointed member
OF the Governors staff with the rank
OF Colonel by Governor VIM. E. Glass
COCK, Of West Virginia. Mr.. Jones'
many warm friends at Tazewell are
pleased to learn that he has been thus
highly honored.
The regular spring term of the cir
cunt court for Tazewell county will be-
gin on next Monday, with Judge Fulton
Kegley presiding. The Commonwealth
docket is pretty full, but there are no
cases of much Importance EXCEPT the
case Of the Commonwealth VS.. James
Lawson.
DIR. David C. Gillespie, who for the
past three years has been q member
OF the faculty of Cornell Univer-
sity, sailed on Tuesday last for Ger
many, where he will take post gradu-
ate course at Gottingen University. DIR.
Gillespie was student at that Univer-
sity Tor four years previous to his con-
nection with Cornell.
The municipal ticket, as suggested bv
some OF our citizens and published in our
issue of last week, was ratified without
change or opposition on last Friday ev-
enlng by called mass-meetinp of the
citizens. The election will be held on
Tuesday, June 8th, and following is the
ticket to be voted for:
Mayor-Judge ]. H. Stuart.
Recorder-T. A. Repass, Jr.,
Councilmen-Barns Gillespie, WI.
Moore, J. Powell Royal, G. M. st.
Clair, r. d. Lockhart and n. F. Har.
man.
The Bluefeld Tigers, forocious ag-
gregation of baseball players, as their
name would imply, came to TazewelI on
last Saturday and took the home team
, to the grounds South of town, where
they proceeded to administer the fourth
consecutive defeat of the season to the
Tazewellites, by the score of Ia to Is.
Possibly, had the game gone the full
nine innings, victory would have perch.
, ed ON the banner of the home team, but
the game was called at the end of the
seventh in order to give the visitors am.
pie time to catch the east bound train.
thus ending the game as above stated in
favor of the Tigers.