Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-02-03
Town AND COUNTY NEWS


business trip to Pocahontas.
Miss May -Harkins spent the latter
part of last week in Graham.
Mrs. l. C. Dodd is reported to be Sc
riously i'll at her home in Graham,
I. II. Short was over from Burkes
Garden on Monday for a few hours.
Can't A. ]. Tynes is attending the
farmers convention in Richmond this
week
The grounding surely saw his shadow
yesterday. Be we prepared for more
cold weather.
Messrs. A. p. Gillespie and ]. w.
Chapman are in Richmond on profes.
sionsl business.
DR.. COpenhaver was in Graham Mon
day, on account OF The illness of Mrs.
John Copenhaver.
Mrs. Lillian Sutton, of Princeton. w.
Va, is the guest this week of her friend
Miss Eta Hankins.
Mrs r. W. Embry, of Graham. is
visiting the family of her brother. John
r McGraw, three miles east of town.
Miss Narcie Steele, who has been on
two weeks visit to her brother. Walt
er, at EckmaD, returned last Saturday.
Miss rOll May left for Graham on
Monday spend several days with her
sister, Mrs. j. II. Hardy, while Mr..
Hardy goes TO North Carolina on busj-
ness trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hagy, of Free
mans, w. Va, were at Tazewell Satur-
day and Sunday last, having been called
here by the death of Mrs. Hagy's sis
ter, Miss Ocie Gillespie.
MISS Alton Williams, of Hot Springs.
Arkansas, who has been a student at
Hollins Institute, near Roanoke. for
several months, is visiting friends at
Tazewell for short time.
Mrs. j. II. Stuart met with a painful
accident at her home on Monday. In
moving box from the upstairs she
slipped on the top step, falling the en-
tire length of the stairs, breaking two
ribs.
There will be stated communication
of Tazewell Lodge, No. 62, A. F. and
A. M, on next Monday night, March
9th. There will be work in the several
degrees. All Master Masons ere re-
quested to be present.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. ]. Moss have been
absent from their home here for several
days, the former on a business trip to
Bland and Smyth counties while the
latter is visiting her parents, Mr.. John
ID. Greever, in Burkes Garden.
We call attention to the advertise
ment of the well known real estate firm
of ii. w. Hilleary & Co., Charlottes-
vile, Va. They are advertising three
valuable farms for sale. If you are
thinking buying a farm write them.
DIR. c. w. Greever was called Monday
to Ceres, in Bland county, to assist in
performing an operation for appendi-
tbs upon SIR. Samuel Neal of that place.
bu; owirg to the rapidity with which
the disease worked the operation could
not be performed, death ensuing within
an hour after the physicians arrived at
the bedside Of the sick m2n.
Notice of an examination to fill the
vacancy on Rural Route No. 2 from this
place to Thompson Valley has been
posted in the pOstofiice at this place.
The examination will be held on the
10th of this month in the postofice at
North Tazewell, and we und arstand
there are several who will apply for the
position.
We have just learned of the death of
Mr.. James Brooks which occurred one
day last week at his home in Poor Val
ley at the venerable age of seventy-six.
He had been i'll for some weeks with an
attack of pneumonia, and owing to his
advanced age his recovery was not ex-
pected, and when death came was no
surprise to his family and friends. Mr..
Brooks, who was thrifty and econom-
icai farmer, had amassed a considerable
fortune, which he divided equally be-
tween his two children, William Brooks,
Of Klamath Falls, Oregon, and Mrs.
Whitten Hit, of Asberry, this county.
The Tazewell Chapter U. D. C. met
at the residence of Mrs. William Doak
on Tuesday afternoon. In the absence
of the President, Mrs. E. w. Spots pre-
sided. There was a large attendance,
and feature of the meeting was
copy of a Lynchburg paper, published
during the war, containing an account
of Stonewall Jackson's death. The
question of having this paper republish-
ed as a souvenir was discussed, but ac-
ton was deferred until taken up with