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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30
CONVENTION MONTH.

The month of June is the month of
conventions. The great International
Sunday School convention has just
closed in San Francisco. Laymen's
Missionary Conventions, Chatauquas,
Sunday School conventions, etc, are
being held in different states. Fifty
thousand Sunday school conventions
will be held this year, in the United
States, many of them during this
month.
Tazewell is to have two important
conventions this month. The County
Sunday School Convention meets at
Cedar Bluff, tomorrow and Sun
day. The Laymen's Missionary con-
vention meets here early in July
Both these meetings will be well at
tended, and, if successfully carried out
will prove of great moral and spirit
ual benefit to the county. Tazewell
must not lose the opportunity afford
ed by these conventions.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30
MORNING VIRGINlAN.

The Richmond Virginian, after to-
day, Friday Both, becomes "A morning
paper. This gives the capital city
two morning dailies, leaving the af-
tefnom field to the Journal and News
Leader. The Virginian has been
force in Richmond and in the, state.
from the first. 1t has made itself
felt, and always on the side of the
right so far as we could see. AS the
paper becomes known its influence
for good will be still more widely
recognized. There are few people
left who turn up their noses when a
paper which refuses liquor advertise
ments is named in their presence, and
which stands for prohibition of the
liquor traffic, but these gentlemen of
the upturned probossis are growing
beautifully less in numbers, and
weaker in influence as the years 90
by. The Virginian believes that the
liquor traffic is an evil which should
be bluttcd out. and. right or wrong,
stands to it's guns, day and night.
Good men differ as to the question,
and are honest in their convictions,
and the Vlrginian is one daily in the
state honest in its conviction that
the liquor traffic has no excuse or rea-
son to offer for it's existence as at
present conducted. Besides this dis
tinctive feature, the Virginian is n
fine newspaper, local and general,
and it's editorials on political and
other questions of the day, are GER
tainly the equal of any of its contem
porarics in the state. The Virginian
is one of the states very best Demo-
cratic, fearless, clean papers, and we
commend it most heartily to the
readers of the Clinch Valley News.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30
Better Service

With change of schedule June
18th double daily service was cstab.
lished via the Shenandoah Valley be.
tween Bristol and Southwest Virgin.
ia, Winston Salem, Martinsville,
Bluefield and the coalfield districts.
Hagerstown, Harrisburg, Philadel.
phia and New York. Through Pull
man sleepers and dining cars on
trains Nos. l. 2, 10 and ID. Parties
this trip now have the oppor-
tunity to do so in the most comfort
able and satisfactory manner. Map.
time tables, resort books, giving full
description of this rout mailed upon
application. Luray Caverns, Grottoes.
Natural Bridge and the resort places
in Virginia are most conveniently
reached. Stop-overs allowed within
limit of tickets.
w. B. BEVILL,
Gen. Pass. Agent.
Roanoke, Va.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30

dug. To honey comb this town, or any
other town, with cesspools must prove
some day, to have been costly mis-
take. Now, what shall be done? We
repeat the statement made sometime
ago, viz: Tazewell must go to Clinch
River for its water supply, sooner or
later, and just as well first as last.
This plan would also allow sewerage
system. The main ditch for the sewer
we already have in the big ditch and
branch down Tazewel avenue. Lay
sewer pipe lin this ditch, utilizing
the water of the branch, and turn
more water in as may be necessary.
If this were done scores of homes
would be able to install bath rooms,
and make life worth living. The mon
ey for the work should be raised by a
bnod issue. The amount necessary to
do this work would be insignificant,
when divided amongst all the tapxay-
ers, payable through a number of
years. We do not expect to see this
work done ut once. 1t will require
time for our people to get the idea.
We don't see things quickly. 1t took
the people ten years to make up their
m inds to erect a new school building,
and several times as long to decide to
build good roads in the county, but
all the same, the time came, and the
water supply and sewerage system,
OH some good, feasible plan, will
be built. too, like the rest.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30
TAZEWELL'S WATER SUPPLY
AND SEWERAGE

The Town of Norton has issud bonds
to the amouont of $25,OOO we be-
lieve, for installing an adequate water
supply and sewerage system for that
growing little municipality.
1t is only matter of few years
when Tazewell must take some stems
in this matter. This paper has re-
peatedly called attention to this need
in former issues. Every drought or
scarcity of rain all, whether in winter
or summer, emphasizes the need of
more ample supply of water than we
now have. Besides, what we have is
not what it should be as to cleanli-
ness, etc. Equally important for the
comfort and health of the town, is the
reed of a sewerage system. Cesspools
are makeshift, and a menace to the
ealth of the community, even if they
ou'd be sunk just anywhere needs d.
here are only certain localities in
Q community where they can be {
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30
SHALL WE HAVE THEMp

Fellow citizens of Wise county. LET
us all determine to have sober off
Gals for the next four years. Our
county has been grievously shamed
in the past, by disorderly, drinking
officers, sworn to preserve the peace
in the county. yet cursing, swearing,
lighting and violating openly the laws
they are under oath bound to enforce.
Recently Il stanger on a train, OBJ
serving the conduct. and hearing the
foul oaths of high county official,
said: what kind of people have you
out here who will elect and tolerate
in office such men?''
Fo one, the writer has determined
and dozens of our best people have
expressed themselves to the same
effect. not to vote for any man. anv
more. known to be in the habit of
getting drunk, or habitually drinking
Intoxicating liquors.
They will ignore party, if necessa.
ry, to get sober men for their public
servants.
Can both parties give us such can
dldates? The party that cannot fur
nish them, deserves to be defeated.
Will not the other papers of our
county join us i'll this demand p
Norton Free Press.
Wise is not the only county, by a
long shot, that is talking this way.
The time is here now when public
men, in all walks, must be clear-head-
ed and straight The time was when
quart or two of red liquor was con-
sldered necessary campaign material,
and may be still in some quarters.
'ut in the end such campaigning will
each against the candidate, and il
hould- The cases of defaulting coun-
y officers, clerks, bank cashiers and
Their men holding office of public
rust and responsibility, are attribut
BILE in most instances to brain befud
led and rendered incompetents by too
UGH booze. From cold business s
INT OF view, if from no higher con-
Iteration, we must have sober off,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30
OH! MARYLAND,
MY maryland!

From Mrs. Burton Harrisson's
A." Recollection Grave and Cay" in
Scribner's:
Alas it was wartime, had al
ready tasted the sweets of emancipa-
ton, the woods were full of handsome
and delightful officers and privates,
eager to be entertained and heartened
for the fray. LIKE all the other girls
OF my acquaintance thereabout,
grew up in Il night and soon there
was plenty of women's work for us.
Even now, writing it after so
many, many years, seem to feel
again the pulse of that thrilling time.
And it was here that there came in
timately into my life one of its
strongest influences, in the radiant
person of my cousin, Hetty Cary,
daughter of my uncle, Wilson Miles
Cary, of Balatimore, my fathers elder
and only brother. She with her young
err sister, Jennie, had taken the lead
in the secessionist movement among
the younger girls in Baltimore, who
having seen all their best men across
the border to enlist with the Confder-
ates for the war, relieved their
strained feelings by overt resentment
of the Union officers and troops
placed in possession of their city.
1t was Jennie Cary who set Ran
dall's stirring poem of maryland
to the air of Lauriger Horatius'
brought to her by Burton Harrison
when n student at Yale College, -and
first sang it with a chorus of hei
friends in drawing room in Balti.
more. She tells me that the refrain
as originally printed in the copy Of
verses cut by them out of newspa
per was simply "Marylandr' ant
that she added the word "My" il
obedience to the EFFICIENCY of til,
music.
AS the song thus boldly chanted b,
young Confederate sympathizers, in
city occupied by their enemy and un
der strict martial rule, was to drift
over the border, to be caught eagerl,
by the troops of Maryland, and t.
echo down the ages as the most ia
nous battle song of the Confederacy
it is fitting that to Miss Jennie Car
should be awarded all the honor O
this achievement. We both sang i
amid little group of visitors il
September, 1861, standing in tn
doorway of Captain Sterrett's ten
at Manassas, the men of the Mary
land line facing us in the dusk of tn
evening. This was in answer to tn
l request sent in from the soldiers t
their friend. Captain Sterrett, "tha
they might hear woman's vote
again
D | can hear now the swing of tina
? grand chorus, as the men gradual
caught up the refrain, and echoed it
and by the next day, to my cousin
( JOY and pride, the whole camp a
Manassas was resounding with an
Maryland -
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30
An Editors Appeal

My friend, help the editor in his
wild-eyed search for news. When
your friend comes to see you, if YOU
are not ashamed of it, tell him; when
your wife gives a tea party, if you
have recovered from the effects of
the gossip. drop in with the news
when baby arrives fill your pocket
with cigars and call if you go to a
party steal some of the good things
and leave 'em with the item sane
tum; if your wife licks you come in
and let us see your scars and tender
sympathy through the paper; if your
mother-in-law has died don't be bash
full about it; give it all the common
place news. In short, whatever
makes you feel proud, sad, lonesome
or glad, submit it to our 24-karat
wisdom and see our matted locks part
and stand on end with gratitude
which will pour from every pore like
moisture from the dew besprinkled
notwithstanding Tribune.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30
SOUTHWEST CUT OFF.

A loyal frie ID drops in to say. that
Southwest Virginia is, geographically
considered. cut off from the rest of
the State, and, on this account suffers
loss in more ways than one Asked to
explain, he said, "take the matter of
state meetings and conventions, for
nstan &C, we never get one, either
political, religious or otherwise. The
big speakers do not reach us. The big
shows give us the go-by, and in other
ways, we are isolated" He was re-
minded that the big conventions must
necessarily meet in the big cities in
crder to be cared for, and that when
we had Il noted speaker or lecturer to
come amongst us that we gave him u
/ small hearing, and asked him if he
had any suggestions to offer. He went
on to say, that the Southwest should
organize it's own conventions and
meetings, and not depend upon East
Virginia. For instance, he said, we
should have Southwest Press Asso-
citation, a Southwest Sunday School
Association, Southwest Annual Fair
and stock shows, etc, and not be de-
pendent upon Eastern Virginia for
these things. All the big fairs, con-
ventions, etc, are held east of the
mountains, necessitating long travel
and big expense, in order to reach
them, and he was in favor, he said
of having our own things at home,
or near enough for our people to have
the benefit of them. He was asked
if he thought the capital of the State
should be moved out here, or if we
should get together and organize
another State, as was suggested some
years ago? He said he thought we
might move the penitentiary out here
but did not recommend removal of the
capitol, ut this time, but might
change his mind later 1t is fact
that situated geographically, as W,
are, we lose many of the things h,
suggests, but there are compensations
This isolation is hard upon East Vir
glnia, as the people of that sandy
iicoIuilO SOULFUL are usDTlN'
ed of the pleasure and benefits an in
innate association and closer connec
ton with this great section would afr
ord, and if they can stand it w
should be able to do So There is, how
ever, 81 food for thought, in wha
our friend says. This great section
should not have any thought or ide
of division of the forces of tn,
state into sections, for the State is
unit, but at the same time the grea
| Southwest might organize her he
forces along all lines, and by coon
Grafton. and systematic, well under
stood plans, do a hundred times NOR
for the development of this sectio
of great possibilities than is no,
being done. along all lines, -fnar
cial, social, educational and religious
What is needed is a leader--a man t
plan and direct. Followers there ar
a plenty. Leaders are scarce.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30

There seems to be no probability
at this time but that Mr.. Taft will be
the Republican nominee for the Presi-
dcncy next year. AS everybody knows,
nom nation doesn't mean election.
His trouble will come afterwards.
The &. o. +. has "busted'' world
without end The revolution is not
through revolutin by long shot. 1t
has just fairly begun. 1t Will gather
strength as it goes on until it will
finally reach every nook and corner of
oflicedom in this great office ridden
commonwealth. The old"hench warm
ers, - who have sucked the public
teat these many years, are trembling
in their boots.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30

Judging by the long list of an
nouncements appearing in the Clinch
Valley News and the Tazewell Re
publican, all of the men and bows
and half of the women and girls of
Tazewell county, want to serve the
dear people in some sort of an official
capacity. Wise News.
Yes. and every mothers son of
them are bond issue, good roads men
now, always were and always intend
to be, of course.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30

We haven't. up to this writing.
heard of any Republican enthusiast
charging the Democrats with the
drought which has prevailed this sum
mer, or claiming credit for his party
for the recent fine rains. There
doesn't seem life enough left in the
u. .. +. to wiggle it's tail, even.
The absolute silence which has per-
vaded the atmosphere for sometime.
is wonderful.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30

Automobiles look a great deal nicer
upon the streets of tony Tazewell
than they do upon the streets of eth
err Bilious Blueielu or Riprorious
Roanoke.
In default of being able to incu
bate anything original by way of de-
nunciation of the fool that rocks the
boat we endorse every denunciation of
him formulated by Others since the
season opened-News Leader.
The above ought to make him duck
mis- head at least.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30
Bids Wanted

Bids will be received by the School
Board of Clear Fork District until
Monday, July 9Th. 1911. for the cree
tion and completion of the school
building at Boissevain, Va, in ac
cordance with plans and specifications
which may be seen in my Office at
Graham, Va. or in the office of Dist.
Supt of Schools at Tazewell, Va.
j. w. HICKS,
Clerk of Clear Fork Dist. School
Board.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30

The recent rains have soaked the
corn ground, and given the already
thriving plants another push. 1t is
very important now that the ground
be stirred often. The best authorities
emphasize the necessity of running
through with weeder after every
rain. If the ground is kept finely
puiveriZed on top corn will seldom
suffer from dry weather, but if n
crust is allowed to form on the sur
face and remain any length of time
nearly all the moisture will be sucked
up and cvaporated. The best farmers
keep the weeder going until the corn
tassels, if the season demands it. A
good, steady horse, Il weeder with a
half dozen or more teeth or feet.
blowing about two inches deep, and
once in row, will do
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30
Entered at The Tazewell Va post
Office as second class matter.
VA, JUNE 30, 1911.
MAIL ORDER LIQUOR HOUSES

According to the Richmond Virgin
ian, the Inter- State Commerce Com
mission estimates, after investiga-
tion, that 20, 1000, 900 gallons of in
atoxicating liquors are shipped yearly
into prohibition territory, chiefly in
the south. These figures, says the
>Virginian, are. startling. - The ter
ritory in which this booze is shipped,
is under local optish or prohibition
The people in these Estates have de-
clared by majority vote that they
do not want liquor made OK sold in
their territory. This they had'a right
to declare and enforce, but their will
and wish is no good. If outside dis
tilleries and dealers are allowed, to
ship liquors into the dry territ8Iy,.
where is he gain! What is the good
of local option OF even prohibition?
There is this gain. viz the absence of
the local, open saloon, with it's at
tendant evils, shame and danger. We
mean the average, usual saloon. The
people of these districts. the Anti
Saloon League and all the forces of
the temperance movement, ought to
secure the abolition of the saloon
from their midst. and this they have
accomplished. 1t was not sought or
hoped. to cure men of the liquor hab-
it, or make men temperate by legis-
lation.' The abolition of the sale of
liquor was, ard is still, the declared
purpose, and this only, land wisely =,
of the anti-saloon people. A man has
right to drink, or do any other fool
ish thing, so long as he does not in
terfere with the rights or privileges
of anyone else. The right to steal
and murder no man has, because it is
q violation of law and interfeles with
the rights of other people. Supreme
courts have over and over again de-
cided that no man has right to sell
liquor, and hence the people have the
right to say that he shall not sell it
in their towns if they SO choose. and
when they have run the booze shops
out of town they have done all they
have any legal right to do, or try to
do. The people of any town or com
munity have the right to say who
shall or shall not have business privi-
leges within their corporate limits.
but they have no right to say, nor do
they undertake to say so far as we
know, what any citizen shall eat,
drink or wear, except that. in the
exercise of these privileges, he shall
not interfere with his neighbor. So.
when the people have driven out the
traffic they have gone about as far as
they have any right to 60 The only
hope seems to be, national prohibi-
ton, absolute national and interna-
tional prohibition is the only hope,
so far as we can see. Remove entire
ly the opportunity to drink liquor,
and then turn over TO the public
schools, the Sunday schools and the
churches the task of eradicating the
thirst or desire for drink, and within
few generations we will, be rid
practically, of drunkenness.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30

The dam water at the Hurt mill
east of town was turned loose last
week and Rev. j. w. w. Shuler and
others say they caught some of the
hnest dam fish you nearly ever saw.
Some of the largest carp measured %
inches. Lebanon News.
You have got brother Sbuler
mighty closely connected with that
dam fish story.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30

VIRGINIA: In the Clerks Office
OF the Circuiat Court of the County ot
Iazewell on the LIST day of June
1911.
Edward Gillespie, Complainant
against
Mary Gillespie, Defendant
The object of this suit is to obtain
for the complainant an absolute di-
Vorce from the defendant.
And an affidavit having been mad.
and filed that the defendant Mary Gil
lespie not resident of the State of
Virginia, it is ordered that she do
appear here within Is days after due
publication hereof, and do what NAV
be necessary to protect her interest in
this suit. And it is further ordered
that copy hereof be published once
week. for four successive weeks in
the Clinch Valley News, a newspaper
published in the county of TazewelI
and that copy be posted at the front
door of the Courthouse of this coun-
ty as prescribed by law.
A copy-Teste
S. M. GRAHAM, Clerk.
H. C. Anderson. %. O..
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30

Son in-law Nick Longworth SAYS
Sometimes | wish | were a COW in
stead of congressman. All the
same, we doubt whether he would
take kinely to retirement to the
field of private life. News Leader
Such punning is uncomfortable.
Somebody ought to take the bull bv
the horns, and put stop to it.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30
cials.

Gals.
1t seems to be almost an impossi-
bility for the average man to take
even an occasional drink without
making fool of himself, lowering
his own self respect, and losing at the
same time, the respect of his friends,
even those who drink with him. We
, must all cut it out.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30

The road engineer for Clear Fork
District, j. r. Wright, and the Taze-
well boys on his force, spent Sunday
in town with homefolks. The work is
progressing nicely, and incidentally
everybody is trying to do Wright.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30
A Peek Into His Pocket

Would show the box of Bucklens Ami.
ca Salve that T.. S. Lopez, Il carpenter
OF Marilla, N. Y. always carries. 81
have never had cut, wound. bruise.
or sore it would not soon heal. he
writes. greatest healer of burns, boils.
scalds, chapped hands and lips, fever
sores. skin eruptions, eczema, corns
and piles. Csc. a. j. e. Jackson.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30

g a slick duck named Keiirer stole
an automobile, and was captured in
Staunton, Va, where he got two
checks on the machine, one for $50
and one for $100."
He got a pear of them. as it were.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30
'The Company You
Keep"
We Represent

Company Assets
Aetns Insurance Co., 800. 1902, 10
Liverpool 81 Londsn Il
Globe ms. Co., U.s.. 1885, S03
Springfield Fire ~ Marine
Insurance Co. 9,761,167
Queen ms. Company, go. S,662,543
Home ms. Co. ............ 2T,301 ,672
Hartford Fire Ins. Co. 49,. 23,355,701
Royal Insurance Co, US. II, 1913. 56S
German American Ins. Co., 1G, lG2, 900
Fidelity Underwriters, ... 3f,414.17f
National Fire ms. Co., ... S,3G5,Ta'
We also represent thirty-one
other fire companies with total
assets of S125, 100000.
The companies represented ~
this agency have paid thousCr6s
of dollars to policy holders il
Southwest Virginia and furnis..
absolute indemnity against less
by fire.
We write all classes OF insur-
ance and furnish "Protectior
that Protects. -
cIinch Valley |nS. Agency,
incorporated J
Succe. eors to J. f Hurt Insuranc,
Agen 2 /, Inc. and Tazcwell ms. Agency
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30

Blue laws properly enforced at
night Will keep you from feeling that
way in the morning.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-30

A news item states that "several
over fat Mexican steers died in the
Chicago stockyards during the heated
term. - Must have been regular
greaserS.