Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-03-10
POUNDING MILL NEWS.
Items Of Interest to Our Readers Here
And Elsewhere.

Pounding Mill, Va, March 8, 1910.
Farmers are very busy ploughing.
2. Shamblin visited homefolks here
Monday.
j.. b. Hurt paid Tazewell business
visit today.
Mrs. II. W. Christian was taken i'll
with grippe last week.
John Gillespie visited his brother.
William Gillespie, at Kuob Sunday.
Mabel, the three-year-old daughter of
Mr- and Mrs. Alex Riley, is very i'll with
Group.
Fred Gillespie attended the examina-
ton for census enumerators at Taze-
well today.
c. p. Williams has bought land in Ok
lahoma, and will return in few days
for his family.
Mrs. James Osborne, who has been
very sick for three weeks with grippe,
is somewhat improved.
Mrs. Henry Phipps, who lives on
Pounding Mill Branch, 10 very i'll with
grippe, but is cOnvalescing.
Mrs. Rachel Laird, of Tazewsll, visit
ed tbs Williams families, relatives of
hers, here Saturday and Sunday.
7. W. Heninger, who went Friday to
visit his aunt, Mrs. J. Marion Mcclure,
at Cedar Bluff, is suffering from rosa
ola.
Miss Jessie O'Keeffe, who spent last
week with her sister, Mrs r. K. Giles
pie, has returned to her home at Taze-
well.
r. M. Sparks, ]. b.. Hurt and Mrs.
w. B. Steele attended the funeral of
Mr.. r. F. Cecil at Cedar Bluff on last
Wednesday.
DR.. and Mrs. Robert Graham moved
Saturday to Sinking Waters. We un-
derstand that Mrs. Graham is very
much dissatisfied.
Rex Steele, who is at the V.P.I at
Blacksburg, has taken Il relapse of the
pink eye, which is again retarding his
progress as a student.
Mrs. Mary O'Keeffe. of Tazewell.
came up from Honaker Yesterday and
spent last night and today with her
daughter, Mrs. r. K. Gillespie.
Fred Gillespie, Jim Bob and Miss
Barbara Hurt attended the minstrel
show at Indian on Saturday night, and
report having had lots of fun. The show
was given by Richlands talent.
Miss Margie Lee Harris, grand daugh-
ter of the late Julius Williams, arrived
here Sunday from Richmond, accompa-
MED by her brother and two sisters, to
spend the spring and summer with her
grandmother and mother, Mrs. w. B.
Harris.
Mrs. w. B. Steele and Miss Buford
pninAaNy fpr affardal kr t. 8
ing of Maiden Spring District at Cedar
Bluff on last Saturday. Both were on
the program and read papers. Mrs.
Steele remained until Sunday afternoon
visiting relatives.
County Surveyor John r. Gildersleeye
was here from Tazewell on yesterday
and ran boundary line between James
Pack and Fernandus loves farms. He
expects to run line between the hold
ings of w. B. Steele and the Robinett
heirs on tomorrow.
r. K. Gillespie was called to Blacks
burg on last Friday by telegram to see
his son, Harvey George, who was strick-
en- with appendicitis. The operation
was performed on Saturday night at
Roanoke Sanitarium by DR.. Trout. Mr..
Gillespie returned home today and re-
ports his son doing well.
Mrs. Lee Hutchinson was here Satur-
day buying supplies for Mrs M. J Stur-
gills boarding house on Bluefield Ave
nue., Bluefeld, W. Va. Meat and other
'eatlns" are reported to be somewhat
lower than was the COW when she Jump
ed over the moon. Mrs. Sturgill moved
from her home here to Bluefield recent
ly. Her son, Hunter, has charge of a
news stand in Knoxville, Tenn, while
her other son, John, still has charge of
one at Jacksonville, Fla, where he has
been for few years.