Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-08-23
GENERAL MIXTURE
OF NORTON NEWS
Lynch Death Mourned-Lime
Question Discussed-Demo-
cratic Club.

Norton. Aug. 20. The sudden and
unexpected death of Thomas A. Lynch
was received with sorrow by n host of
friends along the Clinch Valley. as
far as Norton and Big Stone Gap. He
was one of the best known democratic
workers in the Southwest. Everyone
who ever knew Tom Lynch thought
great deal of him.
good many people here are talk
lng about taking in the big Tazewell
Fair.
The lime question is being discuss
ed quite freely now by land owners
In Wisc county. They are awakening
To the fact Mt last that their county is
not tho poorest in the State. Truth in.
they have always had good land and
didn't know it. An entcrprisiny man
bought few acres of Wise county
land some five or six years ago, pay
Ing $S per acre for it. The man he
got IL from gathered about 10 bushels
of nubbins to the acre the year he
bought it. Not very encouraging pros
poets. even ut So per acre, but tho
purchaser saw that it was fairly good
white oak land mt ono time, within
clay subsoil and some sand. lie used
lime pretty freely sown on green
crops. and plowed deep. Today that
man has one of the best little farms
to he seen anywhere. Last year he
gathered 75 bushels of corn per acre
plenty of meadow and as pretty
herd of Jersey cows and Berkshire
pigs ns you would wish to look at.
Besides this. all kinds of fruit, ber-
RIGS. etc.
DIR. james Carr who graduated
with high honors from the medical
department of the Tennessee Univer-
sity, has located in Norton, assisting
his brother. DR.. Robert =. Carr. He
is said to he very bright young
surgeon. having already performed
some difficult operations.
The great interest in Sunday School
work now going on in the Tazewell
district is one of the best signs of tho
times in this busy. money mad age.
Wise county il about to catch tho in
spiration from Tazewell and you may
look for good reports down this way.
We note that one of your cnterpris-
ing firms, tho Tazewell Supply Co.,
ship goods all along down the Clinch
Valley. BY tho way, tho Tazewell
Supply Co., advertise pretty freely,
do they not? AT any rate they are
busy people and with right prices and
printers ink much can be accomplished.
The Daughters of the Confederacy
are now strongly organized and en-
campcd in Notion, if that s the proper
way to state it. The camp is known
as tho Salyer-Lee, named for Col.
Salyer and Robert Il. Lee. Col. Salyer
organized the immortal 1O1 that went
out under him the first year of tho
war. They were in the thickest of
the hard battles fought by Stonewall
Jackson and others. Not many of the
brave 101 returned, and their gallant
leader. Col. Salyer, was shot several
times. There are now in the county
only about 100 of the old veterans,
but the u. ID. G. will see to their
wants from this time forward. On the
18th of September they will have the
veterans gather at Norton when each
will receive his cross of honor. A
good dinner will be served free to
every veteran present, including the
edit of the News, if he will come.
The address will be made by T. F.
Suthers.
Norton has already fine working
Wilson Marshall-Ayers club. Norton
has given Republican majority of
over 100. Look out for at least rs to
100 Democratic this fall.
Business in the Clinch Valley and
Wise county coalfields Is good, due to
railroad building, opening new mines,
and the completion of the Panama
canal.