Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-06-02
POUNDING MILL NEWS.
Items OF Interest to Our Readers Here
And Elsewhere.
Pounding Mill. June l.

rounding Mill, June 1.
Crockett Lambert, mail clerk, was a
visitor here today.
Misses Emma and Hazel Wynn were
visitors here Saturday.
Mrs. Zsck Shamblin made a business
trip to Tazewell Tuesday.
Mrs. NJ. ]. Sturgill made a business
trip here from Bluefield Thursday
Mrs. John Maxwell spent one day last
week with her sister, Mrs. r. NJ
Sparks.
Mrs. Taze Smith aud children visited
Mrs. Lou Robinett Saturday night and
Sunday.
Mr.. Wilson and family returned Tues
day from visiting relatives in Eastern
Virginia.
Mrs Henry Skeens visited friends at
Pisgah and attended quarterly meeting
on Sunday.
Alex Ryley has charge of the section
here for the present, Mr.. Skeens hav-
ing resigned.
Miss Lille Ringstaff returned Tues
day from Honaker accompanied by her
two little nieces.
Messrs. John Gillespie and r. E..
Mitchell dined with Mr.. and Mrs. R. K.
Gillespie Sunday.
Miss Pearl Mcclure, of Cedar Bluff,
spent last night and today with her
niece Miss IVA Steele.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Johnson and son,
Edwin, of Bluefeld, visited their uncle,
81. W. Christian, last week.
Miss IVA Steele returned yesterday
from Martha Washington College. She
will finish in music next year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Williams and
little son went to Richlands today. Mr..
Williams health is very poor.
DR.. and Mrs. Robert Graham and
Ada Skeens, Of Sinking Waters, were
pleasant visitors here Monday.
r NJ. Sparks returned from Ada, W.
Va, where he had been visiting his
daughter, Mrs. Norman Turner
Mr.. and Mrs. James johnson and
: children attended the marriage of Mrs.
Johnson's sister at Dorari Wednesday.
Miss Jessie O'Keeffe, of Tazewel,
who visited her sister, Mrs R. X. Gil
lespie, last week, returned home Satur-
day.
Mrs. c. H. Griffith and son, Blaine.
of Red Ash, are spending the week
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. R. M.
Sparks.
Henry Skeens has charge of the
Honaker branch road and will move his
family there. We regret to lose this
excellent family.
Mrs. Robert McGraw, of Steelsburg,
was here today to meet her daughter,
Miss Margaret, who had been teaching
at Berwind, w. Va.
j. A Pack returned Thursday from a
tour of the West. He will return to
the West in a short time where he ex-
poets to make his future home.
Miss Margaret Williams, Mrs. Gus
Hoops, Misses Ada Harris, Elsie Hoops
and others attended the commencement
exercises at Richlands last night.
Miss Burford Poindexter's school
closed last Thursday She left the
same day to take in commencement at
Virginia Christian College, Lynchburg.
We regret to lose Miss Burford
Thieves took from John Hoops Spring
house three gallons of butter, four gal
Ions of cream and several gallons of
milk one night last week, also from
Mrs. VIM. Ringstaff about a dozen
grown chickens, milk and butter.
Mrs. r. NJ. Sparks was called to Cedar
Bluff Monday on account of the death
of her cousin, Mrs. Ruth Maxwell,
which occurred that morning at 5
o'clock. Funeral services were held
Tuesday at 3 o'clock at Jones Chapel.
Rev. ]. H. Gillespie will not begin
his series of meetings here Saturday
night as was expected. on account of
the death of his son, T. R. Gillespie,
deputy sheriff of Raleigh county, W..
Va, who was shot Tuesday by q negro.
The following attended the decora-
tion of Thomas Brewster's grave by
the Odd Fellows at Lambert's grave
yard at Sinking Waters on last Sunday:
Mr.. and Mrs. R. M. Sparks, Mr.. and
Mrs. W. B. Steele, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. t.
Altizer, Misses Nellie Witt and Bertha
Robinett, Messrs. Will Caldwell, John
and Rees Ringstaff, F. Myers, Charles
and Henry Robinett, Tom Burnett and
James Brewster. Rev. j. E. Linkous
preached an excellent funeral and Odd
Fellow sermon, after which a double
abundance Of dinner was served on the
ground followed by some fine singing
and a good talk by James Altizer.
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