Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-05-26
local News

=" i"~e"eii oaturuay, ana called a
the News office.
w. l.. Compton, of Falls Mills
was here Monday ON business connect
ed with the Clerk office. MIR. Comp.
ton has recently bought an addition I,
his place at Falls Mills.
j. Kelley Groseclose, of Blacks.
burg, passed through town on Satur.
day enroute to Burke's Garden to see
his mother, who has been ill for sew.
eral weeks. Mr.. Groseclose has been
in business at Blacksburg for several
years.
Thomas Worsham, of the Medical
College of Virginia, has finished his
first year, and is at in the county the
guest of relatives. He will soon re-
sumo his position for the summer at
Gary.
WI. Atwell. of Thompson Valley,
was over Monday. Brother Atwell
says he takes things as they come ;
the dry weather is for purpose-is
best for us; that the Wise Providence
always does for us what is best.
j. w. Whitley, representing the
North Tazewell Lodge of Pythians,
and Chas, G. Hiltzheimer, represent
ing the Tazewell Lodge, have gone to
Harrissonburg, Va, to attend the an
nual meeting of the grand lodge of
Virginia. They are delegates from
the lodges mentioned.
Albert Hopkins, with the big lum-
Der company at Blacky, in Buchanan
county, came to town last Saturday
to renew his acquaintance with his
friends. He has been in the wilds of
Buchanan so long that he hardly
knows how to act, lie says, when he
comes to an up to date town like
Tazewell.
Mr.. j. N. Hartman, who advertised
COW for sale in this paper last
week, has been worried great deal
by persons answering the advertise
ment He could have sold barn lot
full of cows, he says, if he had had
them. We hereby give warning to
those who have things for sale, to
keep them out of this paper if you
don't want to sell them.
MIR. jeff Ward had chicken hatch
cd recently that had claws, finger
nails, or some similar unnecessary ad-
junct, fastened to it's wings. This
freak of nature cannot be accounted
for unless it be an omen that the
next President of the United States
is to be Democrat.
The Graham Town Council arc at
loggerheads over the location of the
High School soon to be built in that
town from the proceeds from the re-
cent bond issue. Graham will doubt
less profit by Tazewell's mistake in
building n fine school house for the
improvement of the childrens minds,
but no opportunities for improving
their bodies.
Anthony Janus, the aviator, who
was injured in Bristol Monday, by
ditching his machine to prevent the
probable death or severe injury of
several people who had crowded the
landing place for the flying machine,
should be given a medal of honor by
the people of Bristol for his self sac
rifice. He was taken to the hospital
after his machine crushed to the
ground, and an examination showed
that he was severely injured.
Mrs. M. j. Painter and her sun,
who recently moved to Wythe county,
near Rural Retreat, were here on
business this week, in connection with
the sale of their farm here. They are
well satisfied with their new home.
Besides nice farm, including the
more substantial products young MIR.
Painter has bright prospect for a
large quantity of Strawberries this
season. If the season is favorable he
expects to gather six to seven thou
sand quarts.
Thomas II. Michel, demonstration
for the Dupont Powder CO., had
charge of the exhibitions of the pow
der company in the county the past
week, showing the farmers the best
and easiest way of removing stumps
from their land. Mr.. Michel will
sail about the middle of June for
London, where he will visit his moth
err, who he has not seen for seven
years. He has been with the Dupont
people for several years, and talks
Interestingly of the different process
es of making powder, dynamite, gun
cotton, nitro glyrcerine, etc.
No W., J,.o M Dit. r..