Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-03-25
A GOOD SCHOOL
AT HIGHLANDS
Things Personal and Other
wise About Her Citizens.
Coal Operation Nearby.


points east, to Richlands, who is i'm
hurry to get away should travel in
an airship, automobile, or some
other conveyance other than n rail-
road train unless he wishes TO con-
tinue his journey west then he can
get a train after several hours
wait-just long enough perhaps,
to do" the town. He arrives at
about 10 80 and can leave at about
4 p IN for the west. If he wishes TO
return east he must wait until about
5 40, and, unless he has considerable
business, time may hang heavy on
his hands. Not so, however, if he is
socially inclined and is acquainted
with the residents of that little city
for some can always be found who
seem to have time TO burn, and will
ing, if not anxious, TO talk. One can
select his own company, too. He is
not shut up TO one class. III he wants
To talk finance-coal, timber, etc.,
Mr.. NJ. &. McCorkle, former presi-
dent of the bank, can be scared up
easily, unless he is in the woods
looking after tract of timber. He
knows all about coal, too, as well as
other things Failing here, the gen.
ial, efficient cashier, Orr, or his
handsome assistant, McElroid, can
be found "behind the bars" in the
bank, and a com Portable seat waiting
ready for you. If you wish to talk
law and politics, the well known
attorney of the town, Spratt, every
body calls him Squire" can gen.
orally. be found, with his heels OH
his desk, a cigar between his ruby
lips, and another in his vest pocket
for his company. He knows all
about the postal business, having
been uncle Sans most obedient SER
want for several years. If you want
TO talk about various things, on al
most any subject, there is Boggess,
the merchant. Mayor CrabtTee and
also merchants, will take time TO
chat. DR. Williams, the physician,
and his handsome druggist, Hun
ter, Mat Hankins, Graham Robin
son, ct ais, adj infinitum, all Of them
good fellows. And SO visitor found
it one day this week. The editor of
this paper always enjoys Richlands.
The most interesting thing in Rich
lands at this time is Professor Lewis
school. | happened TO be next door,
at McCorkle's when noon recess
came, and it was a great sight to
see the pupils pour out OF the build
ing. There was host of them, all
sizes, ages and classes, from the pref
growth of hair neatly arranged on
the back of her shapely head, TO
the little trundle bed crowd-all of
them the pride and hope of the
town and the world. If Richlands
had nothing else than this school it
would still be an interesting town.
About eighteen years ago the editor
of this paper, With Miss Lucy Stu
art, taught the first school in that
town, in the days of its infancy.
New streets, booms and barrooms.
The booms and bar rooms are gone
but the children have increased in
numbtr amazingly, and they say
still increasing
A. A. Wysor, son of b. j. of
Swords Creek, is building large
stock sales stables in town, and will
move his family to town sometime
soon. This work helps to break the
monotony and affords the unemploy-
ed and leisure loving citizens OF the
town SON. ething to do in the way of
looking on, and offering suggestions
of how it ought to be done, and how
they would do it if they were build
ing it.
Just north of the town is the EN-
pire Coal Land Corporation works.
President Esser is moving things.
Zeigler, who married one of o. E,
Hokpins fine daughters. and her
brother, Albert, are superintendent
and assistant, respectively. Just be-
low is the Raven Red Ash Coal
Company, with Charlie Neel, Sec
retary and treasurer, and hard by is
the brick factory, with the genial
Graham Robinson in charge. Rich
lands now has electric lights. Ted
dy" Clark and Mr.. Davy are the
light and water men, and Richlands
is proud of its lights as a boy with
his first pair of red top boots.
In all this more or less bright pic
ture, it is sad to record the death of
one OF RichIands best young women.
Mrs. Dalto, wife of Bird Dalton,
died on Monday morning, the day
was there. She leaves a baby eight
days old, and another child of sever
al years. One of the citizens said
that she-was one of the finest women
he ever knew. She was a niece OF
Mrs. II. M. Smythe, wife of the