Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-02-09
POUNDING MILL NEWS.
Items Gathered by Our Correspondent
About People Down the ClinCh.
Pounding Mill. Va. Jan. g.

Pounding Mill, Va, Jan. 8.
Mrs. M. j. Sturgill visited the sick at
Cedar Bluff on yesterday.
Rev. Psngle, of Maxwell, will preach
here Sunday at $3.50 p. m.
Will Rees Sparks was home from
Wardell Saturday night and Sunday.
Jim Bob Hurt returned Sunday to v.
P. l., at Blacksburg, and Miss Barbara
to Tazewell High School.
w. B. Steele now has over 100 fine
lambs, having only lost two Let others
here report to your scribe"
Mrs. William Mulkey was up from
Honaker Sunday and Monday to visit
her sick sister, Miss Lettie Ringstaf.
John Lowell has moved his family
from the Cove into the house near the
tank, formerly known as the C P. Will
liams property.
Mrs. Joseph Smith and children left
yesterday morning for Whitewood to
visit Mrs. Ward, sister of Mss. Smith.
who is in very poor health.
Messrs. Sanders, Will, Sam and John
Gillespie and Phelps and Marvin Nc
Cure and others are taking inventory
of Steele, Hurt & Co.'S. store this week.
Mrs A. H. Griffith and daughter.
Miss Cora, were visiting Mrs Tom
Ringstaf from Saturday to Monday and
circulating among old neighbors and
| friends.
DIR. r. B. Gillespie, of Tazewell, was
called here yesterday to see his niece,
Mrs. Ollie Hurt, whose health is very
poor. He was accompanied here by
Mrs. W. T. Gillespie.
Misses Grace and Lucille Williams.
teachers at this place and Steelesburg
respectively, went to Bluefield Friday
afternoon to interview the dentist.
They returned home Sunday on No. IL
Mrs Bird Brewster, after a nine
weeks sickness, was able to be at church
Sunday night to the delight of her MANY
friends. She was guest of her sister.
Mrs. George Brewster, until yesterday.
John Hoops, jr., of Maxwell, was
here Tuesday shipping his household eff
fects to Bluefeld. His bride (uiss
Lizzie MsxwelD of three months re-
turned with him from Richmond last
week, fully recovered from an opera
tion which her friends feared would
prove fatal.
DIR. M. b. Crockett, of TazeweU.
made professional visit here Sunday.
and during the time was called to reset
the dislocated elbow of Ernest Hoops. |
IL years old. So painful was the opera
ton it was found necessary to put the
little fellow to sleep. His arm, how
ever, is doing nicely.
Mrs. Mary Maxwell and children. of
Maxwell, and Mrs. Raymond Ellis and
daughter, of Norton. are spending a
few days here with Mrs R. M. Sparks.
The former is moving to Bluefield the |
latter to Whitewood, where Mr.. Ellis
has charge of the big lumber plant of
the Ritter Company.
Louie Crewey, eight years old. came
very near losing her eyesight one day |
last week while on her way home from
school, the result of one boy pushing
another against her. causing her to fall. |
A lead pencil which she had in her hand
penetrated the right eye and also pain
fully affected the other, causing grave |
concern on the part of her physician, |
family and friends lest she lose her
sight. She is improving nicely, how
ever.
Mr.. Gehili Phillips died at the home
of his brother, Mr.. Marion Phillips, on i
Pounding Mill Branch Monday night at |
l O'Clock. He came up from his home
in Kentucky last fall on account of bad
health, spending the time alternately |
with his brothers and sister, Mrs. Floyd
Mcclure. he was stricken suddenly |
Sunday with chills, the end coming at
the hour mentioned above. He was
about fifty-two years of age, and will
be buried by the side of his parents near
the old home on tho Branch at IL o'clock
today.
The sad news reached US last night of |
the death of Miss Bertha Harris, of this
place, which occurred at Tazewell about |
z o'clock yesterday afternoon. She was
stricken with appendicitis on Thursday
last, and her case was hopeless from
the first. An operation was performed
on Sunday night, but only temporary
relief was obtained. She leaves a father
and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Har-
ris six sistera and fonr hrofbaro ha
sides many other relatives and friends
to mourn her demise. She was about
twenty-five years of age. Her remains
will be brought here on No. this a. m.
and interment will be in the Thomas
cemetery. Her mother and sister, Mrs.