Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-02-02
Local News

Mrs. George Beavers died at her
home near Shrader Tuesday. She had
been i'll sometime.
RI. Adkins, manager of the v ir-
ginia-Tennessee Coal Company, at
Raven, was here on business Monday.
1. X. Yost and jesse Mundy, sr
well known citizens of Adria, were
here on business last Saturday.
Sam Lambert and E. S. Crockett,
two Tazewell boys, who are making
good as merchants at Canebrake,
were here on business last Saturday.
Preaching in the Tazewell Baptist
church Sunday morning at IL O'Clock
and at 7:30 p m, by the pastor,
Rev. Mr.. Campbell.
ii. j. Kelly, of Souix Falls, S. D.,
arrived here Tuesday, where he will
spend a few days before returning
with his wife, who has been a guest
of relatives here several months.
Sam Hoover, clerk in the jewerly
store of II. w. Pobst, will go to the
Johnston Willis hospital in Richmond
Sunday for an operation.
DR.. w. |. Painter has gotten back
from Richmond, where his son, Rus
sell, was operated upon for appendi-
citis. The little fellow is getting
along nicely now, and will soon return
to his home here.
Mr.. A. f. Hendricks, editor of the
Graham Banner, was here Wednesday.
The Banner is a good local paper. and
is growing in favor as it grows i'm
age.
A strike of the Virginian Railway
employees at Princeton occurred on
Wednesday, to the number, it is stat
ed of 400.
Mrs. Amanda Walk, of Thompson
Valley, has been seriously i'll the
past week at her home with pneu.
monia. Her family has been with
her for several days. A slight i'm
provement is reported in her condi-
ton.
The Tazewell Lodge, knights of
Ptyhias has taken on new life lately
and is furnishing. Several new
members have entered the Lodge re-
Gently. and everything is good shape
for bright and prosperous year.
Mrs. Polite Peery, wife of the late
Harve Peery, died at the home of her
sister, Mrs. L. A. Gillespie, at Cedar
Bluff Tuesday. The lady's death was
unexpected. She had been summoned
to the Gillespie home to be present
with her sister, who was ill. Mrs.
Peery had no children. The burial
occurred at Cedar Bluff yesterday.
Harvey Cline, we'll known citizen
of the west end of the county. died
suddenly near his home at Doran last
Monday afternoon. Deceased was re-
turning to his home about three miles
from Doran, when he suddenly fell
dead in the road. He is thought to
have had heart trouble. He leaves a
wife and several children.
George w. Lewis and Ed. Rosen-
baum, the well known horse and mule
dealers, made business trip to Gin
cinnati and other western markets
the first of the week.
Attorney Robert S. Graham. of
Norton, was here last week in con-
nection with the bankruptcy proceed
lngs of the Empire Coal Land Cor
poration. MIR. Graham has recently
returned from Florida, where he Wis
tied his father and sisters who are
spending the winter there.
IL their plans do not mscarry. quite
delegation of Masons from Tazewell
county will attend the meeting of the
grand Lodge in Richmond, which
will be held the middle of this month
The railroads will make special rates
to those who wish to attend.
jeff Ward, manager of the store of
j. 5. and a. P. Gillespie, will leave
next week for the northern markets
to buy spring and summre goods.
Mr. Ward will go from Tazewell to
Cleveland, Ohio, which he thinks is
one o. the leading and best markets
in the country.
Henry Neel, son of Howard Neel
OF Graham, was arrested and tried
before a Magistrate at that place
Tuesday, charged with serious
crime, preferred against him by Miss
Margfaet Blackwell. He was sent to
the Tazewell county grand jury. and
was given bail in the sum of 81. 600.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Albert Hapy had
scare the other night with burglar
who had gained entrance to their
home near town, and was on his wav
to the larder where brother Hapv