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CHARLIE MILLER'S EXPERIENCE
Popular Brakeman Marooned in GiddY
 and Exciting HawIeyviIe.

Popular Brakeman Marooned in GiddY
 and Exciting HawIeyvilIe.
 Charlie Miller, the popular brakeman on Conductor Woodruff's passenger train, running between New Haven and Pittsfield, had Saturday night experi ence, somewhat out of his ordinary routine, which he relates to sympathetic friends in manner that makes it inter- esting.
 When his train reached Hawleyville on it's southward trip Charlie went to the tail end of the parlor car, which was the last car on the train. to adjust the lantern markers or rear lights. AS the brakemen are not permitted to go through the parlor car with the lanterns, Charlie went back outside the car, and had no sooner fixed hls lights than the train started.
 He attempted to jump aboard the hind-end of the parlor car. but the con- ductor of the car had locked the side vestibule doors, and the brakeman could not chamber aboard. AS the trained was rapidly gaining head-way he was una ble to catch up with the car ahead, hence he was forced give up and see his train go away without him, and there he found himself, marooned in Merwins- vile, where there isn't, at it's liveliest, excitement enough to overstra1n the nerves of the ordinary human.
 How he. killed the time, he doesn't say, but the sequel was, that he caught passing freight train after many hours, which took him part of the way, and by transferring from one freight train to another several times, and travelling all night, he managed to reach New Haven at o'clock Sunday morning, too late to get ready for church, and in no mood to participate i'll church services, even if he had been in time.
Connecticut western news., 1911-02-23
ToOppose County Division

At meeting of the Seymour Business Mems association a committee was appointed to oppose any action that may be taken to divide New Haven into two counties that would tend to throw that place into another county.
Connecticut western news., 1911-02-23
Bottle Thrower Held

Paul Mark, of Bridgeport, the peddler, who threw a bottle which struck little girl Waldon Veronica Veron. on the head, fra3turjny her skull was held in $1. .0O0 bonds in the city court, to await | he outcome of the child's injuries.
Connecticut western news., 1911-02-23

Mrs. Gabeigh is getting a doutle chin.''
 "Too much work for one, suppose. :" Boston TranscriLt.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29
Raven Items.
Raven. vs.

Raven, Va, June 26th.
Miss Ida Bell Brown visited friends at
Big Lick Sunday.
K. B. Elswick, of this place, was yis-
iting friends on Pine Creek Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. j. Newberry are the
happy parents of fine girl baby, which
arrived first of the week.
John Murphy was struck with base
ball at the grounds near here on last
Saturday and was seriously hurt.
The funeral of the late Reverend w.
M. Hess will be preached the first Sun
day in July at the Baptist church on
Mill Creek. There will also be preach
ing on the Saturday previous.
The Raven Red Men will have cele-
bration at the baseball grounds here on
July 4th. The Raven and Dante ball
teams will also give an exhibition of
the national game on that date.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29
Auto Party.

A party consisting of Colonel and
Mrs. L. E. Tierney and two children, of
Powhatan, w. Va, and DIR. and Mrs.
L. h. Clark, of Kyle, W. Va, and Viii
liam Bowles, of Bluefield, chaffeur, ar
rived here last Monday evening. The
party took the train home from here
and the car went home across the coun-
try on Tuesday. They had made an ex-
tended trip, starting from Bluefield and
going around via Pulaski, Sweet Cha
lybeate Springs, Wytheville, Sharon
Springs and back through Burkes Gar
den. They report the road from Sharon
Springs to Burkes Garden the worst
ever, and that from appearances there
had been nothing passing over the road
for the past two months and that there
were rocks at many places in the road
fully as large as the average mans
body. The tires on the car showed the
result of hard usage, but beyond this
the car, seven passenger Speedwell,
stood the trip well.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29
A Gard From Mr.. AItizeT.
Raven, Va, June "a, 1911.

Raven, Va, June "a, 1911.
Editor Tazewell Republican:
There are some of the generation Of
Ananias still living and / think they
have improved on the work for which
he was struck dead as those now living
can stump lie and tell it without any
subject.
The person or persons referred to
above have started the report that
voted for H. C. Stuart last fall against
c. B. Slemp, being induced to do so by
Tazewen county school officials or by
my friend, G. R. Mccall, of Raven.
l want to say that this report is lie
from the beginning.
l am ready and willing any time to
make oath that the school officials of
Tazewell county, G. R. Mccall nor no
other man ever asked directly or indi-
rectly to vote for Mr.. Stuart.
l voted for Mr.. Slemp and did it
without being influenced in any way or
by any man.
would like to see the man that SAYS
that / ever said or intimated to him in
any way that had voted or would vote
differently from what have said.
Yours truly,
]. B. ALTIzER.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29
Obituary..

Little Roy Ired, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. B. Altizer, age fourteen months,
died on the 14th inst, after brief ILL
ness of only three days.
Faithful physicians, loving parents
and kind neighbors did all in their power
to relieve the little one of his suffer-
ings, but the Great Father of Love who
knoweth all things best called little
Roy to His home above.
Father and mother, weep not over
your babe, but think of him as at the
Golden Gate with outstretched hands
and smiling face, for papa and mama
he waits A FRIEND.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29
NO.26
WHITEWOOD ITEMS
News Of Interest Prem the Little
Buchanan County Town.

Whitewood, Va, June q.
Fullen Rstliff was on the sick list last
week.
B. NJ. Boggess was here Monday from
J Richlands.
Five houses were burned on Beech
Fork last week.
Martin Lawson was very much indis-
posed last week.
S. B. McCorkle visited his parents at
Richlands Sunday.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. T. M. Mabe
Saturday night-a girl.
The baby of Mr.. and Mrs. Martin
Lawson is much better.
C. G. Kits. of Richlands, spent sew
eral days at Whitewood last week.
Bart Colley, who has been very sick,
is, we are glad to say, able to be out
again.
Henry Hedrick has returned to White
wood and will resume his old position as
sawyer.
Rev. Clark, of Grundy, was here Sun
day and preached to a large and at
tentive audience.
w. Y. Davey and Robt. G. Duff. of
Richlands, are dong the plumbing on
Mr.. Ellis new house.
Hannibal Compton, Henry McClanahan
and others from this place are attend
ing the Summer Normal at Big Stone
Gap.
Raymond Ellis is having his new
house put in order and will move into it
soon. G. G. Harris is doing the decor
ating.
Walter Hoover, the engineer who got
his leg broken, has sufficiently recov-
cred as to be able to go to his home at
Bristol.
Mrs. Walter Presley and sister, Miss
Sissy Colley. Of Clintwood, were guests
OF Misses Willie and Ella Ratliff on
Strawberry Hill Sunday.
Chap Gillespie was home Saturday
from Big Cherry. He returned Mon
day to complete the job of taking down
the mill Of the Ritter company at that
place.
The dlnkey that runs between White
wood and Doran broke down about four
miles from this place on the return
trip from Doran and the passengers had
to foot it into Whitewood. Among
them we noticed the father of DR.. Rit-
ter, A. A. Wysor, DR.. Ritter, Miss
Katherine Ritter and G.. M. Brown.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29
Big Lick Items.

George Brown was the guest of Lin
den Hall here Saturday.
John Reedy and sister were the guests
of Miss Maude Robinson here on Sunday
last.
Misses Maude Robinson and Heston
Hall were visiting friends at Raven last
week.
w. E. Robinson and M. S. Tuggle
were guests of friends at Prane on Sat
urday and Sunday.
Mrs. Martha Qualls, of Knoxville,
Tenn, is visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. h. ]. Robinson, of this place.
George w. Robinson, who has been in
the West for some years, is home on q
visit to his mother, Mrs. C. W. Robin
son. George has been quite ill since he
came, but his many friends will be glad
to learn he is at present much improved.
He expects to spend a month or so in
the community before returning to his
home at Chehalis, Wash.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29
ST. Johns Day.

The observation of st. Johns Day by
Keystone Lodge. No. lis, of Tiptop, on
last Saturday was a "Reminiscences Of
the old days in Tszewell when hospital
ity ran riot, when every family in the
county felt that every other family was
neighbor, when neighborly visits
were the rule and laughter and content
ment held full sway.
The heavy rains of the early morning
deferred many from coming and those
VINO came were late so it was high
noon before the audience gathered to-
gether in the cosy little church. The
tirst speaker was Rev. J. N. Harman.
OF this city, who took for his subject.
Churches and Lodges" He spoke of
the early church and its looking after
the interests of it's members, intellect
ual, charitably, moral and spiritual, but
how by the many changes, that at pres
ent, the church looked after the spirit
uaI interests only and left the other
three to the Masons and other frater-
nal organizations.
The next speaker was Judge S. C..
Graham, who was visibly affected when
he related to his hearers that he was
amid the scenes of his happy childhood
and related how he and other descen-
dents of the clans of Highlands, the
tight little Isle" and the ever green
Emerald Island, who were the first set
tiers in this section, had in the days of
their youth, chased the fox, stalked the
deer and bearded the bear in its den
within sight of where the church we
were using now stood. He also wished
that some one would arise with the
ability to chronicle the stirring events
of the earlier history of this section
where there was more of romance and
OF interest than had ever happened in
the Highland home of their forefathers
as revealed in the writings of Sir Wal
ter Scott.
James w. Hsrman was called upon
but plainly showed he was telling the
truth when he said 'he had not expect
ed to be asked to speak" 1t is only
fair to him to say that like the late
Mark Twain, he can make an excellent
"extemporaneous" address if he has at
least days notice.
The Worshipful Master then called
the craft from labor to refreshment and
in small groups, laughing, joking, and
In leisurly manner of those who re-
member how their ancestors had al
ways found time to enjoy life they pro-
ceeded to the spacious lawn of DR..
Frunk Pyott where, what, the late
Bro. Sheffey would call, "Ah SPLEEN
did repast" was spread in the shade
and enjoyed to the strains of sweet
music furnished by the orchestra from
the Lithia Springs Hotel.
May the other lodges and orders of
the county emulate the worthy exam
pie of Keystone and invite their neigh
bors and their neighbors neighbor to
meet with them, to eat with them and
to be merry.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29
The Laymen's Movement.


mems Missionary Movement met in the
Office of the Clinch Valley Insurance
Agency on Tuesday night, Chairman G.
W. st. Clair presiding. After prayer
by Rev. c. w. Kelly the various sub
committees reported.
The finance committee reported no
active work done as yet, but stated that
they would raise, before the meeting.
one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
this being the amount estimated to be
needed to defray the expenses.
The committee on publicity reported
it was continuing its work along the
lines outlined last week.
The committee on arrangements re-
ported progress, and requested the pub
licity committee to correct an erroneous
impression that there would be collec-
ton taken at the banquet, also that the
special committee explain the aims and
objects of the movement and the reason
for the ffty-cent charge to the banquet.
Advice as to the best methods of hand
ling tickets to the banquet was asked
by the committee, and after discussing
the matter it was agreed that each de-
nomination arrange to secure what tick
cts they would need and distribute them
through the churches and Sunday school
superintendents. Arrangements were
also made to have the program and a
circular letter of the aims and objects
of the meeting printed to be sent out
with the tickets. The committee then
adjourned to meet on next Tuesday
night.
The report of the special committee
explaining the aims and objects of the
Laymen's Movement and appealing for
local support follows:
OBJECTS OF MOVEMENT.
The Laymen's Missionary Movement
began in a prayer meeting of business
men in New York, November Is, 1906.
1t is an organization of the business
men Of all Protestant churches to do
systematic work as Christians. Here
tofore the greater part of this work has
been done by the women of the church
es; the men have realized it is a mans
job and some of the men of the church
have determined to do their part of the
work. The conventions that are being
held are for the purpose of informing
other men and having all join in the
great work.
1t is not new missionary society, nor
Goes it send out missionaries. 1t col
lects no funds and administers none, but
is movement to enlist energies, pray
ers and services of the farmer, business
and professional man. Any who con-
tribute to the missionary work do so. as
heretofore, through the regular estab-
lished board of his own church, not
through the Laymen's Movement. No
collections of any kind are taken during
the convention or at any other time by
the Laymen's Missionary Movement; no
one who attends the convention will be
asked to contribute money for mission
ary work.
You will learn at the convention how
the work is to be done and how easily it
will be accomplished if all Christians
take an interest and do their part. 1t
Is all systematized, and each man can
see just what he accomplishes from year
to year. Business men have hold of the
work, and have planned it on business
principles.
II possible, attend the banquet; be
sure to attend the convention.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29
CALL TO A CONFERENCE.
Laymen's Missionary Movement at TazsWeII
Va., July 18th and 18th.

For the information of any that are
not informed as to the object and pur-
poses of this great movement, q COM
mittee has been appointed to briefly
outline few facts for the benefit of
the citizens of TazewelI county.
A convention will be held at Tazewell
July 18th and 10th, 1911, which will be
replete with information and helpful to
all Christians who may attend.
A banquet will be given Saturday
evening; all of the men of Tazewell
county are invited to be present at this
banquet; it is given to every Christian
OF the county, and each one is urged to
be present; inasmuch as all are included
In the invitation it is necessary to sell
tickets of admission at fifty cents each.
and notice given before the 10th of
July to ]. A. Greever, Tazewell, Va.
that you will attend.
The reason admission is charged is
that if few citizens of the town of
Tazewell should give the banquet the
number of invitations would necessarily
have to be limited, and in some in
stances would probably be sent to per-
sons who would not attend, it must be
known who will attend 80 that proper
preparation can be made.
On Sunday following the banquet q
number of interesting subjects will be
discussed by prominent speakers. Some
OF the speakers are Mr.. Chss. H. Pratt.
OF Richmond, Va; Mr. W. 6. MeClan-
ahan. of Roanoke. Va; Mr.. ]. T. Hem
derson, General Secretary Laymen's
Missionary Movement; Rev. j. Fairman
Preston; Mr.. E. C. Cronk and others.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29
Sunday School Association.


Tszewell County Sunday School Associ-
alton announce the following program
for the meeting to be held at Cedar
Bluff on July 1st and End:
SATURDAY.
IL a. m.-Call to Order-by the Presi-
dent.
Song. Devotional exercises.-1 min
utes.
HIS a. m.-Reports of Sunda v
Schools and Enrolment of Delegates.
11:30 a. m.-Address of Welcome-by
Pastor
HAS a. m.-Address: Advantages
and Needs of Organization"-by the
President, Geo. w. st. Clair.
Music.
12:l5 p. m--''Through Sunday School
to the Church"-T. A. Repass, jr.
12:30-Recess.
Up. m.-Completion of County Organ
ization.
2:3O-'The Sunday School and the
Great Commission"-Rev. S. o. Hall.
3:OO-"Through The Church to The
sunday SchooP-Rev. E. E. Wiley.
3:30-"The Best and Most Needed
Thing in Our SCHOOL, Minute
Speeches by Delegates and Superinten-
dents.
4p. m.-'Witb the Primary Glass;
Mrs. w. G. O'Brien.
4:30-"Music in the Sunday School,
J. A. Leslie.
4:45-"How to Stop the Leak"-J.
Brahe.
5:l5-"Is it Worth While, or Does the
Sunday School Pay?"-J. B. Crabtree.
Adjournment.
S:l5-Music and Devotional Exercises.
8:3O-"The Properly Organized and
Equipped Sunday School" by the State
Secretary.
9:O0-"The Home Department.
Rev. E. L. Richie.
SUNDAY.
$3.50 a. m.-Regular Sunday School
Exercises Conducted by Members of the
Convention.-Memory Verses Repeated
by Convention.
1O:3O-Five Minutes Recess.
u:OO-"Why the State Sunday School
Association?"-by the State Secretary.
l2:OO-"Temperance in the Sunday
School"-Mrs. w. B. F. White.
1215-Adjournment for Dinner.
Up. m.-''The Sunday School Teach
er"-J. N. Harman.
2:S0-Secretary's report.
2:45-Arrangements for Next Con-
vention and Miscellaneous Business.
Adjournment.
The committee having the matter in
charge is leaving no stone unturned to
make an attractive program, and the
citizens of Cedar Bluff will see that
ample provisions are made to make the
stay of the delegates and others attend
ing both pleasant and profitable. 1t is
now up to the various Sunday schools
to show by their actions whether the
association is to be a live one and Nor-
thy Of a county of the natural resources
such as Tazewell, or whether they will
let it drift along and never amount to
anything more than an association of a
few enthusiasts. In other words, we
will show whether we think the welfare
and training of the children as inpor-
tant as the raising of colts and calves.
Let each preacher, teacher and su-
perintendent then see their Sunday
school is well represented. by not less
than three. and by as many more as
will attend.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29
BURKES GARDEN NEWS
Items Of Interest From the Garden
Spot of VIRGINIA.

DpOt Ol YHglnla.
Burkes Garden, Va, June 26th.
George Fox is home from Emory and
Henry College.
Miss Lucretis E. Mahood is visiting
her brother in Rockbridge county.
Mr.. and Mrs. Steve Boiling have re-
turned from a visit to relatives on Clear
Fork.
Mrs. Sam Barns, of the Cove, visited
her sister, Mrs. Will Goodman, here
last week.
Litz Peery, of North TazeweIl, visited
his sister, Mrs. John Tanning, here Sat.
urday and Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Gillespie, of
Tazewell, were visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Meek Hoge here Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Peery and daugh-
ter, Mamie, have returned from a visit
to Henry Peery in Bluefeld.
Miss Garnet Lawson and Miss Mamie
Rose Moss spent the weekend visiting
Mrs. Beverly Stras in Tazewen.
Prof. Ewing Lawson, Oscar Moss and
Will Moss and Misses Sarah and Lettie
Moss attended the musical in Tazewell
Saturday night.
Rev. Benton Peery, of Denver, Colo
rado, and brother, DR.. Willis Peery, of
Lynchburg, visiting relatives here last
week. The returned to Tazewell Sun
day.
Rev. Benton Peery preached at Cen
trail church Sunday. Rev. Peery has
encircled the globe several times, but
he says that Burkes Garden, his old
home, is the most beautiful spot on the
continent.
Miss Margaret Howell, who has been
In Danville the past year, reports the
cyclone which struck the city June 18th,
as being terrific and the damages run
into the thousands. The Sutherlin place,
the Last Capitol of the Confederacy,
was converted by the storm into a tan
gled mass of trees and wreckage.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29
Double tip long silk gloves at 75c
Call at The Big Store.
Harrison & Gillespie Bros.
Southwest Medical Association.

The Southwest Virginia Medical AS
sociation closed their annual session al
Roanoke on the 21st by electing the
following officers for the coming year
President, DIR. W. w. Chaffin, Pu-
laski; first vice-president, DIR. E. C.
Watson, Roanoke; second vice-presi-
dent, DR.. w. H. Ribble, jr., Wytheville;
secretary and treasurer, DR.. A. B.
Greiner, Rural Retreat.
New members were elected as fol-
lows: Drs. A. M. Willis. Abingdon; j.
Wilton Thurman, Pizarro; W. w. S.
Butler, jr., Roanoke; George B. Law
son, Roanoke; R. L. Rhodes, Roanoke;
J. A. Noblin, East Radford; l. w. Sur
ratt, Sylvatus; James ]. Bishop, Rocky
Gap; v. M. Cox, Chlhowie; J. B. Dut-
ton, Floyd; Charles K. Burnett, Willis,
s. G. Young. haywood; o. W. Hacker,
Roanoke.
DIR. Chaffin, the new president, is a
cousin of DR.. Isaac Pierce. of this city.
No members of the local medical as
sociation were in attendance. In fact
the local organization seems to be suf-
fering from supiness of the vertebra
and needs to be galvanized into action.
The question of an adequate water sup
ply for our city should give them ample
opportunity for action, to prevent the
spread Of disease, due to an insufficient
supply of water and their advice and ac-
ton in the matter, would probably, spur
the town council to some action to re-
lieve the present serious situation.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29
hOnOrs Well Bestowed,

The daily papers of the State on last
Thursday announced that DR.. s. C.
Bowen, former resident of this city.
had been elected member of the resi-
dent staff of the Eye and Ear Infirmary
Of New York City, in which hospital he
has served the past eighteen months.
The news Of DR.. Bowen's success in
New York Will give much pleasure to
his many friends in Southwest Virginia.
DIR. Bowen is graduate of the Medical
College of Virginia, and because of bis
grade received the appointment of resi-
dent physician of the Memorial Hospit-
al in Richmond. After eighteen months
experience in that institution, he took a
post graduate course at Harvard Medi-
cal School, Boston, which, together with
his work IN New York, has eminently
qualified him for the position to which
he has been advanced.
DIR. Bowen, after his graduation from
the Richmond Medical School, was asso-
ciated with DR.. George Ben Johnston,
also former Tazewellite, in hospital
and clinical work in Richmond.
DR.. Bowen is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
z. I. Bowen, Of the Cove, and at one
time practiced in this city. While his
friends here are glad their joy is tinged
with the regret that it will probably
mean DIR. Bowen will make his home in
New York City, whereas we all had
hoped he would locate nearer home.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29

Miss Sarah E. Compton, of Pattons-
burg, Mo-, aged q years, died in Ems
worth Hospital, st. Joseph, Mo-, on
May 25th, after an operation for goiter.
The deceased was a niece of l.. G. S.
Compton, of Thompson Valley; G. S.
Compton, of Shswver Mill, and C. P.
Compton and Mrs. T. d. Showers, of
Cove Creek, and has many other rela-
tives in the county. Miss Compton was
sister to Misses Maude and Chloe
Compton, who visited relatives in Taze-
well for several months about four years
ago.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-29

Miss May Hankins, who has been
taking course in music in Berlin, Ger
many, during the past winter, returned
home on last Friday. Miss Hankins,
while enjoying her trip abroad and has
much to tell of the customs differing
from ours, says there is after all nc
place like Virginia and TazewelI.