Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-12-09
BUCHANAN IS
GETTING BETTER
Crime on Decrease-A Paper
Changes Hands-Election
Surprised Both Parties.
Bear Wallow, Dec. 3.

| Cullor NEWS. without the presence
of your paper the Roanoke Times
would be lonely here on the Ridge.
The postmaster informed me yester-
day that l would have to subscribe if
l read any more as he had stopped
his, so with this l send my check.
The recent snow was very severe
oil the mountain. The fierce wind
which accompanied it, drifted the
snow in several places to the depth Of
three and four feet, and made travel
ing very disagreeable.
While returning from church last
Sunday, the buggy in which Mr.. and
Mrs. J. w. Christian and baby were
riding come in contact with an elm
agination" and mysteriously turned
over. Luckily, however, no one was
seriously hurt, but Johns reputation
as driver is sadly injured.
The Sandy Valley News, the week
ly paper of Buchanan county, has
again changed hands. This time the
Tazewell man. The paper will hence
forth be Republican, but if it boasts
no more in the future than it has i'm
the past about its political connec-
tions the readers will think they are
readers of a social almanac.
The moral reputation of Buchanan
county is fast improving. The year
1910 will soon close and only one per
son in the county has been convicted
of felony-Millard Combs, young
boy who shot a small child while fir
ing at grown person. In the year
1909 no loss than ten persons were
murdered within the county. Some
were burned, others shot, while one
was lynched, his murderers going
free for thier heinous crimes.
The writer attended the State
Teachers Association, at Richmond
and heard the address Of big Bill
Taft. Being the first in his line to
even behold, / was extremely inter
ested. But now as / recall the scene
the most exciting act was the moment
that he chanced to utter the name Of
bob" Lee, when his audience Of six
thousand teachers and students arose
TO their feet and yelled themselves
hoarse.
The recent election in Buchanan
county surprised both Democrats and
Republicans. The Democrats only
claimed that they would have an
"even up" with the Republicans, but
the Republicans claimed 100 majority
and every precinct but three. They
lost every precinct but three and the
new county chairman who expected to
win glory enough to carry him to the
Commonwealth Attorneys chair, sad
ly witnessed a Republican majority
dwindle from 247 to eleven Demo-
cratic. The DEMOCRATS expect to put
a full ticket out next year and win
in the finish.
Wonder what has happened in Po-
cahontas by now? Are the boys dane
ing without the lady teachers? Have
the teachers resigned in order to
dance? Or has the board consented to
let them dance and teach both?
l don't know the boys but think
they went it one too many by trying
J to force the board to yield to their
foolish desires. l don't know the lady
; teachers, but if they had any desire
to dance while they held the response
BILE position of teaching little folks
the high ideals of citizenship, they
ought to have been allowed that plea
sure and their positions in school fill
ed by others. l don't know any of the
men who compose that board, but il
they are still firm in their first ruling
they deserve from their fellow towns.
ment the words "Well done, thou
good and faithful servants"
, The teacher must be sincere in hsl
, work; her mind must be on teaching
not dancing. If she can't give uI
dancing, then give up teaching. AS ;
teacher she cannot expect to be car
ried on flowery beds of ease at al
, times. / am a a teacher over in tn
, Kingdom of Buchanan. / have beel
in the profession for seven years.
have dreamed dreams, saw visions
heard mystic voices in the air, an
the end is not yet.
> w. M. G