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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-03-09
Money In Chickens.

The old question, els there money in
chickens?" has had many answers, from
the cheerful advertiser who saws YOU
can make living on a city lot to the
sour-faced pessimist who will assure
you that the only time you can get
money out of a chicken is when you find
penny in the gizzard of a defunct
fowl
j. b. F Gillespie, OF North Tazewell.
says, however, that there is money in
game chickens, at least. He has quite
reputation as breeder of game fowls
and has calls for his chickens from all
over the country. Since last Thanks
giving he has sold to one man, E X.
acKeon, of Ironton, Ohio, over 500
worth of game roosters.
Mr.. McKeon is an enthusiastic patron
of the pit, and has one cock raised by
Mr.. Gillespie which he values at 500.
This cock in his first fight downed the
eight-time winner of the prize Dit.
Jesse James," and for this reason
was named on the spot bob Ford"
Mr.. Gillespie received an average
price of ten dollars a cock for the un-
trained birds.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-03-09
W. H. TOmney Dead.

William H. Tomney died at the CITY
hospital in Roanoke on last Thursday
morning of complication of diseases at
the age of fifty years.
He had been in failing health long
time, but his condition was not regard
ed as at all serious until about six weeks
ago. A native of Wytheville, Mr..
Tomney learned the trade of a printer
and worked at the case many years in
Wytheville, Tazewell and other places.
He established the Glade Spring Citizen.
In recent years he had been travelling
representative of the Roanoke Times
and Lynchburg News, being with the
latter paper when taken ill. While he
was editing the Citizen in Glade Springs
he was elected to the legislature and
made good record during his term of
office.
He is survived by his wife and two
children, four brothers and one sister.
Thirty years ago Mr.. Tomney worked
for time on the Clinch Valley News,
edited by H. M. Smythe. He was, as
representative of the Roanoke Times
and Lynchburg News, a frequent visi-
tor to this place, and was well thought
of by all with whom he came in contact.
He was an enterprising, pushing gen.
tleman, fluent writer, and had host
of friends throughout the entire South
west.
The funeral eervices were held at st.
Andrews Catholic church in Roanoke
on Saturday morning, conducted by
Rev. Father Collins, and interment was
at his boyhood home in Wytheville.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-03-09
WARLIKE ARE
ARMY MOVEMENTS
Twenty Thousand Soldiers Rushed 10 Merl-
can Border While Formidable Warships
Patrol Shore Line off the Texas Coast

Mystery surrounds the sudden Issu-
ance Tuesday night of orders to various
army posts throughout the country to
mobilize cavalry and infantry for i'm
mediate service along the Mexican bor-
der. At least thirty-five hundred coast
artillerymen have been ordered to Gal
weston, Texas, while twenty thousand
men all told will be rushed to the vicin-
ity of Mexico.
A fleet of warships, comprising the
flagship Tennessee, the Montana, North
Carolina and Washington, all powerful
armored cruisers of IA, 500 tons displace-
ment, under Rear-Admiral Staunton's g
command, have ordered to cruise off
the Texas coast, close to the Mexican
line.
In addition to the Tennessee, Mon
tana, North Carolina and Washington.
ordered from Hampton Roads, the ships
of the Pacific fleet are being concen-
trated at San Diego and San Pedro,
California, to cooperate with the army
on the southwestern coast of the United
States.
This is said by government officials to
be preparatory to maneuvers on a grand
scale in answer to the charge that the
United States army and navy are not
prepared for actual warfare and are
lacking in every essential in making up
a defensive force. The mobilizing of
this vast army and fleet on a scale
greater than ever before attempted in
this country in time of peace, notwith-
standing what the government officials
say, has caused a general impression
that matters in Mexico are fast nearing
a crisis.
The military force will establish head
quarters at San Antonio, under COM
mand of General VIM. H. Carter, as
sisted by several brigadier-generals who
will command brigades into which the
grand division will he divided. These
brigades will be placed at strategic
points throughout the Department of
Texas.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-03-09
To Honor 6iIdeTSIesVe.

Johns Hopkins University and the
people of Baltimore contemplate the
founding of a classical library to bear
the name of Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
in appreciation Of that celebrated schol-
ar's services at the University. The
Baltimore Sun says:
''The average man knows little of
this great master of the ancient Ian
guages, but in the society of schol-
ars DR.. Gildersleeve occupies place
of eminence that no other living
man has reached. His contributions
to classical scholarship entitle him
to any honor the people of Baltimore
could give him."
Virginia also has an interest in this
movement, for while DR.. Gildersleeve
is not native of the State, he spent
many years at the University of Vir-
ginia as Professor of Ancient Langu-
ages.
Tazewell county will also feel q great
interest in the movement to honor SO
great scholar, as DIR. Gildersleeve is
closely akin to many of our citizens.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-03-09
FREESTONE ITEMS,
Items Of Interest to Our Readers Briefly
Told by Our Correspondent.

Asberry, Va, March z.
Mrs. S. P. Goodman is very i'll at her
home here.
The roads are in a bad condition in
this section.
Rev. Dame preached an excellent
sermon here Sunday.
Mrs. Matte Brooks spent Sunday at
the home of S. P. Goodman.
VIM. Goodman visited relatives at
Broadford Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. VIM. Goodman spent Sunday
afternoon with Mrs. D. C. Church.
Mrs. P. S. Ellis returned from a visit
to her daughter at Big Creek Friday.
Misses Mollie and May Vanhoozier
spent Saturday night with Miss Fannie
Edmonds.
Misses Mollie and May Vanhoozier
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. James
Vanhoozier.
d. c. Church has sold his farm here
to Brit Boyd. Mr.. Church will locate
at Tazewell.
Misses Maggie Shrader and Della As
berry spent Sunday afternoon at the
home Of w. T. Cregger.
DR.. and Mrs. w. o. Neal were the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Van
hoozier Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Neal and daugh-
ter. Miss Leola, were the guests of
Misses Lena aud May CorrelI Sunday.
Miss Pearl Asberry went to Farmville
Friday to spend a few days with her
cousin, Mrs. Will Taylor, who is very
sick.
Sam Sutherland, of the Quigley Fur
nlture Co., was looking after their in
terest at North Holston Friday and
Saturday.
On Sunday as Robt. Neal was return
ing from church his horse became
frightened and started to run and fell
into one of our largest mudholes.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-03-09
What Congress ACCOMPLISHED.

Out of the smoke of the closing battle
in congress emerge these results of large
interest:
POSITIVE RESULS: Provision of
5000, 600 for the fortifcation of the
Panama canal.
Provision for two new battleships.
Recodifcstion of the judicial code.
Creation of forest preserves in the
Southern Appalachian and White Noun
tains.
Providing for the construction of en-
bassy and legation buildings abroad.
Requiring the inspection of locomotive
boilers.
NEGATIVE RESULTS: Failure of
of the Canadian recipocity agreement
and consequently an extra session, be-
ginning April 4th.
Failure of the permanent tariff board
bill, which passed the senate but was
killed by a filibuster in the house.
Failure of the resolution to admit to
statehood Arizona and New Mexico, kill
ed by filibuster in the senate.
Failure of the proposal to increase the
rate of postage an the advertising sec
tions of the large magazines; but COM
mission provided for to investigate the
subject.
Failure of the resolution providing for
the direct election of United States
senators.
Failure of the general age pension bill.
Failure of act on Ballinger- Pinchot
investigation report.
Failure to enact the ocean mail sub
sidy. passed by the senate alone.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-03-09
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.


Mrs. j. H. Crockett and daughter.
Miss Georgia, left Tuesday for their
new home in marlborough, KY. The
best wishes of a host of friends go with
them.
Mrs. B. w. Stras and Miss Mavola
Gillespie returned Monday from an ex-
tended trip to Baltimore and other east
ern cities. Mr.. Stras, who had been
visiting his son, Beverly, at Winston
Salem, N. c., Joined them at Roanoke.
This weather makes you think of rain
protection. We have rain coats. slick
ers, capes, etc. Call and get one to keen
out the rain.
w. T. Witten & Co.
through an amendment to the post
Office appropriation bill, offered by Sen
ator Swanson and adopted, rural letter
carriers throughout the country will
hereafter be entitled to thirty days
leave of absence each year, with full
pay. At present they are entitled to
but fifteen days.
Wild geese have been heard by sever
al of our people in the past few days on
their way to the Northland-an almost
sure presage of early spring, for sell
dom is it that there is heavy flight of
geese northward before the end of Sc
we're weather. They are supposed to
know instinctively when the worst of
winter is over.
P. W. Early, of Cedar Bluff. spent
several days in Roanoke the latter part
OF last week. MIR. Early is the engineer
IN charge of construction en- the Cedar
bluif cutoff of the Norfolk and West
ern Railway now building between C.
dar Bluff and Canebrake, W. Va. The
bad weather has somewhat interfered
with the work for the last few weeks
but with the opening of spring the work
will be pushed
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-03-09
News Of Cove Greek.
Cove Creek, Va, March

OOVc Oreek, Va., MarCn Z.
Miss Rolly Fox was visiting here Sun
day last.
S. w. Good made a business trip to
Tazewell last week.
Miss Bessie Daugherty began school
at Stowersville last Monday.
Miss Ida Waldron, of Roanoke, Va,
is visiting friends at this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Gregory visited
Mr.. and Mrs. M. F. Neel recently.
Miss Octava Massey, of Maxwell, is
visiting Mrs. Gose near this place.
Rev. S. w. Good filed his regular
appointment at the Baptist church last
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Crabtree were the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Fox
last Sunday.
Misses Barns and Stella Neel and
Mary Gregory were the guests of Miss
Dott Gregory last Friday.
Miss Maggie Walker, who had been
visiting relatives here, returned to her
home at Hicksville Saturday.
Misses Dott Gregory, Ida Waldron
and Mary Gregory spent Friday night
with Misses Stella and Barns Neel.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-03-09
State Constitution No Protection.

In the corporation court of L7nchburg
Monday, Judge Frank P. Christian
handed down his decision in favor of the
"wets" in the local option election con-
test. In his decision, which was quite
a lengthy one, Judge Christian takes
the ground that there was no proof ad-
duced or charge made that there was
any fraud in the recent election. He
admits that there was gross ignorance
and negligence" on the part of the reg
istrars, but that there was nothing TO
show that the will of the people, ex-
cept in two instances, where two ne
groes had been improperly registered,
had not been fairly and fully expressed.
1t is not probable that the saloons will
open before May l.
No appeal will be taken by the "drys"
from Judge Christians decision. AS a
result of the decision, however, How
ard d. Johnson, one of the registrars,
under fire during the contest and who
was severely criticised by Judge Chris
tian. has resigned from the position and
J. R. Tucker, son of Bishop Tucker,
has been appointed in his place. 1t is
expected other designations will follow
Comment now IN Lynchburg is chiefly
on the situation which the decision pre-
sents with regard to suffrage.
The fact that registrars confessedly
violated the Constitution and that judges
were employed directly against the ex-
press provisions of that instrument has,
it is believed by many, swept aside the
force of the whole suffrage restrictions
of the fundamental law, while the deci-
sion in holding that the acts of regis
trars cannot be reviewed by either the
court or the election judges is believed
to open the way not only to innocent
negligence of the law, but to fraud.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-03-09
6OOd Roads and a Gentle Hint.

In the course of two or three years
we Will have macadam roads all over
this and adjacent counties. Then a
family without "benzine buggy" or a
good road horse will be q fit subject for
ridIcule. Auto agents will be as thick
as bees around hive-but a good road
horse it takes time to produce. The
surest plan is to breed nor to DIRECT
LY BOY, 2:l54, at the nominal fee
OF $40 to insure safe in foal. This
strong standard bred cross will surely
produce horse that is a necessity as
well as a luxury. DIRECTLY BOY
VIII parade horse day, the 14th. His
SIRE sun holds the champion pacing
year old colt record of the world.
5-S-zW. ]. A. HAGY.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-03-09
Big Greek Items.

E. L. Baldwin was a pleasant visitor
at the home of Geo. Joyce Sunday.
Miss Jettie Burke and brother, James,
of Raven, visited friends here last
week.
J. II. White has just completed the
erection of new store house at this
place.
Frank White, who has been on the
sick list for several days, is very much
improved.
James Owl Smith has returned from
Seaboard, where he had employment,
and gone hack to his old trade-fox
hunting.
We regret to chronicle the death of
Mrs. V. P. Elswick, of this place. She
was a warm-hearted, generous Chris
tian woman, and her passing will be
mourned by a lsrgs. circle of friends.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-03-09
POUNDING MILL NEWS.
Items Gathered by Our Correspondent
About People Down the ClinCh.

Pounding Mill, Va, March 9Th.
]. L. Gass, of Laurel Fork, is visiting
relatives here.
Leonard Spratt, of Richlands. was
visiting here Sunday.
A protracted prayer meeting is being
held at the church of God here.
Miss Effie Williams spent Saturday
and Sunday here with homefolks.
Mrs. Robert Graham, of Bandy, visit
ed friends here Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. John Asbury attended the enter
tainment at Cedar Bluff on last Satur-
day night.
Miss Sayers, of Springville, spent the
weekend with her sister, Miss Grace.
at this place.
John Asbury has returned from a bus
mess trip to various points in Tennessee
and elsewhere.
Miss Barbara Hurt made her usual
trip home from the Tazewell High
School Saturday.
Mrs. Gus Hoops, Misses Georgia Har-
ris and Cora Wilson were shopping in
Tazewell Friday.
Miss Cora Christian visited homefolks
last week. She was accompanied by
Miss Myrtle Neil.
Mrs. Frank Wilson has gone to Coe-
burn to join her husband, who is night
operator at Toms Creek.
Mrs. Mary O'Keeffe, of Tazewel.
was here last week visiting her daugh-
ter, Mrs. R. X. Gillespie
Miss Lettie Ringstaf has returned
from pleasant visit to her sister, Mrs
VIM. Mulkey, at Honaker.
F. M. Hurt, one of the clerks for
Steele, Hurt & Co here, spent the week.
end with homefolks at Witten's Mills.
Misses Pearl Mcclure and Grace Will
liams spent from Friday till Monday at
Cedar Bluff and Steelesburg respec-
lively.
Miss Lyde Mccall and Mrs. George
Mccall and baby, of Raven, spent Sun
day with Mr.. and Mrs. R. K. Gillespie
at this place.
Tom and Charles Robinett, Tom Ring
staff, Bird Brewster and others of the
N. & W. bridge force, spent Sunday at
their homes here.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Ringstaff and VIM.
Cook, of this place, and Mrs. Kate Pru-
EFT, of Graham, have returned from a
visit to Mrs. Jane Conley at Marytown.
w. Va.
VIM. Robinett, of the we'll drilling
force of the Norfolk and Western at
Lambert's Point, has returned to that
point after short visit to relatives at
this place.
Rev. G. R. Thomas, Mrs. Joseph
smith, Mrs. M. J. Sturgill and Clint
Young attended the burial of Mrs. KATY
Phipps at Jones Chapel on Friday. She
was the mother of w. L. C. Burke, of
Big Creek, and past eighty years of
age.
The following were visitors at the
home of w. B. Steele the past week:
Mrs. c. T. Fields, Mrs. ]. E. Mcclure.
Cedar Bluff, Mrs. c. S. Faulkner, Tip
top; Misses Mayme and Hazel WYNN.
Baptist Valley, and Mrs. R. H. McGraw,
of Steelesburg.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-03-09
TAzEWELL HORSE AND
MULE MARKET

Next Tuesday is Stallion
Day. We have written a
number of good buyers for all
kinds of horses and we are
looking forward to a big day.
We want to have a big parade
and an old fashion sale day.
G. j. Moss, Sec'y.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-03-09
n. & ". Coal Rates Under Fire.

The Norfolk and Western was the
first Of the West Virginia coal rate
cases to be taken up by the Interstate
Commerce Commission sitting in Wash
ington on last Monday. All roads car
rying West Virginia coal to the lakes
have advanced the freight rates nine
cents ton. Complaint by the West
Virginia operators caused the suspen-
sion of this rate by the Interstate Com
merce Commission pending an investi-
cation of the increased charges which,
if allowed to stand. the operators claim,
will practically prohibit them shipping
to the lakes. All the cases will be heard
in turn by the Commission, which will
probably require several weeks.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-03-09
NO.IO
WILL CONTEST
THE BOND ISSUE.
Opposition At Last Organize 10 Oppose the
Issuing Of Bonds For Road Improvement
Means Lively Fight All Over County

For some time there has been rumors
on the street that there would be active
opposition to the bond issue for the DUR
pose of building good roads in Tazewell
county, and on Saturday last the oppo-
sition assumed aggressive shape, when
a small number met at the Office of At
torney A. S. Higginbotham and plans
made to place their program before the
people of the county. This they decided
to do by means of a pamphlet which
was issued over the signature of some
of the participants in the meeting.
This pamphlet was given out on Tues
day. and sets forth the merits and de-
merits of the two plans for securing
better roads that are now before the
citizens of Tazewell county.
The entire plan is too long to publish.
but as the pamphlet has been generally
circulated, everyone will have an op-
portunity to see and pass upon the
merits of what the opposition calls the
pay plan"
The opposition to the bond plan also
call for meeting of the citizens of the
county who desire to secure good roads
on the most economical plan to meet ct
the courthouse on Tuesday, March 18th.
at IL a. m, to consider the advisabilitv
of the pay plan" and of organizing to
carry out that plan.
The opposition to the proposed bond
issue has been an intangible affair here
tofore, but now they have organized
and give a frank expression to the
views held by those who oppose this
method of building roads. The issue is.
therefore, squsrely before the citizens
for action.
The call for the meeting of next Tues
day is for ''citizens of the county who
desire to get good roads on the most
economical plan. This, of course, means
every citizen of the county, for the de-
sire for better roads on the cheapest
plan is now unanimous. Let everyone
then attend the meeting and express
or show the way they stand ON how to
get the better roads.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-03-09
Seven Counties Failed to Apply.

Only seven of the hundred counties in
Virginia failed to make application for
State money aid for good roads for the
year beginning March l. That day was
the last on which applications could be
considered by the State highway COM
mission, and these seven counties will
get no money this year. Their part of
the appropriation of 5000, 900, with the
revenue from automobile taxes added,
will be divided among the other ninety
three.
The seven who did not want the
money were: Gloucester, Middlesex.
Mathews, Prince George, Greene, Buch-
anan and Nelson. The last named coun-
ty had its reasons for not applying.
They were caught in the receivership of
the Virginia Safe Deposit and Trust
Corporation, of Alexandria, and its
branches. The county had about S11S,-
700 of its funds with this concern, and
to make matters worse the treasurer
was bonded with it.
This leaves but six counties apparent
ly Indifferent to State aid for good road
building. Four of these-Gloucester
Prince George, Greene and Buchanan
have never used this fund. Gloucester
and Mathews wrote the commission
that they would not apply for aid.
One county more will get State aid
this year than last, when ninety-two
counties applied The fund is larger,
under the appropriation bill, by $50, 900
than for the year 1910.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-03-09

Senator Joseph W Bailey added to the
excitement and to extraordinary episodes
surrounding the adjournment of Il e
Sixty-first Congress Saturday by resign
ing his Office as senator from the State
of Texas and few hours later with
drawing his resignation. Angered by
the attitude of his Democratic colleagues
in favoring the resolution approving the
new constitution of Arizona, to whose
radical features Mr.. Bailey had asserted
his undying opposition, he wrote his res
ignation and took it to the vice-president
with the request that he announce it to
the Senate. Mr.. Sherman declined to
have anything to do with it; Senator
Bacon, importuned in like manner to
announce it, took a similar position.
Thereupon the Texan telegraphed it to
Governor Colquitt, of Texas, who
promptly refused to accept it.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-03-09
Teachers Meeting at POcahuntas.
Pocahontas. Va. March 6


Inc Clear Fork District Teachers
Meeting was held in the auditorium OF
Pocahontas High School March 4th.
The program for the day began with
devotional exercises by Rev. Chas. w.
Sydnor, rector of the Episcopal church.
Then followed one of the most enjoy
able features of the day-two violin
selections by Father Anthony, of St.
Elizabeth Catholic church, accompanied
on the piano by Miss SalIie Fitzgerald.
OF the Pocahontas High School. After
which the following topics were very
creditably discussed:
School Management and Discipline.
Their Value to School,
How Discipline Concerns the Indi-
vidual Pupil"
How Discipline Concerns the Par
ent."
"Class Room Management for Pri-
mary Grades"
discipline in the High School,"
Things a Teacher Ought to Do for a
Community"
The Advantages of the Department
al System from the Fifth Grade Through
the High School,"
"How to Present Language in the
Third and Fourth Grades "
How to Conduct a Pupils Literary
Society Under the Supervision of the
Teachers
Effective Ways of Keeping School
Yard Neat and Clean"
The Necessity of Proper Ventilation
in the School Room and How Obtained. -
All of the papers were good and
showed professional as we'll as educa-
tional spirit.
Besides the teachers present were the
members of the town school board.
The social hour was very much en-
Joyed by all who attended the meeting.
This was the first teachers meeting
held in Pocahontss and was pronounced
a success both socially and education
ally.