Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-07-27
RICHLANDS NEWS.
Items Of Interest From The Prosperous
Little Town Down the CliDCh
Richlands, Va. July 25th.


Miss Mabel Steele, of Steelesburg,
was visiting here Sunday.
There are several cases of typhoid in
our community at present.
Mrs. George Mccall, of Raven, was
shopping here on last Saturday.
J. T. Altizer, of Pounding Mill, was
business visitor here this week.
Miss Maggie Cater, of Lynchburg, is
visiting Miss Margaret Boggess.
Mrs. Msude Griffey was here Sunday
to meet her sister, Mrs. P. P. Witt.
Charlie West, engineer for the Ho-
maker Lumber Company, was here Sun
day.
Mercer Thomas, of Pounding Mill,
was in town between trains one day last
week.
Mrs. Matte Stevenson, who has had
typhoid fever, we are glad to say is out
again.
Miss Lula Hankins left Thursday for
Matoka, w. Va, where she will visit
friends.
Mrs. Will Cecil and several others
from Cedar Bluff were shopping here
Saturday.
Miss Stella Crabtree, of Maxwell, is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. James Crabtree,
of this place.
Miss Kathleen Dickenson, of Castle
wood, is visiting Miss Margaret Sprstt
of this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Kits, of Blue
field, were visiting the latter's parents
here last week
A little child of Robert Crawford's
died Thursday afternoon and burial was
made on Friday.
Mrs. w. P. Fisher has typhoid fever
and is at the home of her mother, Mrs.
Charles Crockett.
R. L. Kits has moved into the house
where M. Greenberg used to live on
Railroad avenue.
Messrs. Hurt. Gillespie and Perkins,
of Cedar Bluff, were business visitors to
our town last week.
Charles johnson, of Russell, was Wis
iting at the home of John Warner Thurs
day and Friday last.
B. B. Hunt, of New Hope, w. Va,
was here Monday for a visit to his sis
ter, Mrs. A. H. Griffith.
Mrs. Geo. w. Hurt and two children,
of near Salem, Va, are visiting at the
home of George c. Bailey.
A nice fence is being erected around
the school house here and the building
is being otherwise improved.
MIR. and Mrs. W. B. F. White and
family left Saturday for Burkes Garden
where they will spend some time.
Miss Susie Kincannon, who went to
Saltville recently to visit friends, we
understand has been taken i'll with fe-
yer.
Arthur Dickenson, fireman on the
shifter here, was among the hundreds
to visit Carterton on Saturday of last
week.
Miss Jessie McCorkle and brother,
Hunter, have returned home after
spending some time with friends in Coal
wood, w. Va.
Mrs. A. H Griffith and little daughter,
Pansy, with Mrs. K. F. Hunt, went up
and spent the day in Pounding Mill on
Thursday of last week.
Mrs. DIR. Couch and Mrs. Spigler, of
Seaboard, and Mrs. Peery, of Cedar
Bluff, all spent the day with Mrs. w. r.
Williams on Tuesday last.
The Richlands Tigers crossed bats
with the Lebanon Pikers on the latter's
grounds Thursday and Friday last. Both
games were hotly contested and won by
Richlands, the score being to and 10
to 6.
An interesting game of baseball be-
tween the married men and the Tigers
was played at the park here on last Sat-
urday. The game went eleven innings
before the Tigers were able to nose out
victory over their opponents by the
score of Is to IA.
Blaine, the little fve-year-old son of
Clinton Brown, of Matoka, w. Va, was
burned to death by dropping q lighted
match into keg of powder, causing it
to explode and ignite his clothing. The
little fellow lived only five hours after
being burned. Burial was made in the
Hankins cemetery near here.