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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-10-03
The Rape Of The Book CTuSher.

Almost ever since the construction Of
the macadsm roads were started, under
the bond issue, in this county, there has
been conflict as to the authority of the
supervisors and road engineers. The
latest manifestation of this occurred
this week in regard to the moving Of
plant number of Jeffersonville dis
trict, which has been working the road
specified in the courts. order as ''the
road from Tazeweli to the district line
east"
The work at the point where the plant
has been located since spring being
about completed, Road Engineer W. 1.
Lee, instructed the foreman, w. E. Gil
lespie, to move the plant to the VIM.
Peery quarry near George Martins s
place. In the meanwhile Supervisor D.
B. Daniels decided to move it to the
road specified in the courts order as
from Mrs Kate Peery's to Witten's
Mills" and gave orders to have the
plant moved to Dry Tawn. Early Mon
day morning some of the prominent cit
izens interested in the Witten's Mill
road, to make sure the plant went the
way they wanted it to go, met and
moved it to its present location at Dry
Town. When Engineer Lee learned of
what had been done he at once took the
matter up by phone with Assistant State
Highway Commissioner Coleman, who
instructed him to o. K. no bills for work
done by this plant until it was placed
at the point where he had ordered it
and the question of authority had been
settled. This will effectually tie up the
work of the plant until this question is
settled.
In the above we have eadeavored to
give fair and unbiased account of the
transaction, as CLEANED from the many
conflicting stories of what led up to the
trouble and what happened on Monday,
reserving comment until after the meet
ing of the Board of Supervisors on next
Tuesday, when it is to be hoped the
matter will be amicably adjusted and
the question of authority finally and
definitely settled.
Road building in this county is too inn
portant matter to be stopped by ques-
tons of authority or the rights of any
certain neighborhood to have its roads
built first. AS it looks now, it would
have been better to have contracted a
part of the roads so that number of
plants could have been working in each
district, instead of endeavoring to build
them under local supervision.
AS a tentative suggestion of salts
factory solution of the present wrangle,
the Republican begs to suggest the fol-
lowing: Under the prorating of the
road funds there remains about 81, 100
to DC expended on the old Fincastle road
from Tazewell east, and this will about
complete the work from the corporation
llne 20 end of the preeent maeadam and
can be done in q month or six weeks.
10 the meanwhile, there is some heavy
grading to be done on the Witten's
Mill road and it will take about as long
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-10-03
INTERURBAN LINE
TO CONNECT TOWNS.
laleWell and Graham to Be Brought Closer
Together By Continental Development
And improvement COMPANY.

"Au abosrdl This car through for
Graham, Bluefeld, Princeton and all
points east. Next car will be the local
for Five Oaks, Springville and Hook
man."
This will be the cheerful sound that
will greet the citizens of TazewelI soon
II the plans of A, w. Slower, represent
ing the Continental Development and
Investment Company. of Dayton, Ohio.
become a reality.
On last Saturday the Board of Super
vlsors in called session granted the
above named company, chartered and
organized under the laws of the state
OF Ohio, for the purpose of construct
ing, maintaining and operating electric
railways franchise for the construc-
ton of an interurban line between the
towns of Tazewell and Graham.
The route as described in the grant
reads:
Beginning at the western CORPORA
ton limits of the town of Graham, and
running thence in westerly direction
through West Graham and in a south
westerly direction to the waters of main
bluestone creek; and thence westerly
across the divide between Bluestone
and the waters of Clinch and down one
OF the head streams of Clinch to Five
oaks, by Dry Town and the residence
OF Mrs. Kate Pesry to the eastern cor
poration limits of the town of Taze-
well.'
The grant of the franchise provides
for the protection of the present roads,
which will be used by the company.
most of the provisions following CLOSELY
section 1294i of the Virginia statute.
made and provided for the use of pub
lie highways by interurban lines, with
some especial provisions inserted by the
board as to damage, present and pros
pective, and the further provision that
the inside rail of the road is to be To-
Gated eight feet from the outside line of
the right of way of the highways. y
There is rumor that the Continental
Company is part of the Appalachian
Power Company which is making ex-
tensive developments in this section. If
this be true, there is little room to doubt
that the line will eventually be extend
ed to and down the Tug and Dry Forks
of Sandy to reach the growing coal
fields along these streams.
The local management of the Taze-
we'll Street Railway Company state that
no negotiations are under way for the
purchase of their plant here, but it is
likely that some arrangements to either
buy or lease the same will be made. as
two lines in the town would hardly paw.
The new company's franchise pro-
vides that the work must start within
one Year and be completed within three,
and that the company must establish
and maintain a passenger service of not
less than one car each way per hour
during the hours of each day from six
a. m. to II p. M, and shall establish
and maintain sufficient freight service
to handle the freight offered for trans
portation.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-10-03
European News

told by people in touch with foreign
courts is one of the most informing
branches of the Sunday Philadelphia
Press. The foibles, troubles and honors
of the dignitaries across the seas are
related in an easy, communicative man
ner by busy correspondents, the inter-
est magnified by exact Illustrations.
To be well informed, one must be yera-
ed in the activities of all countries. IL
is this knowledge that your newsdealer
can supply you with in copy of next
Sundays issue. "
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-10-03
The October American Magazine.

A few months ago The American
Magazine published an article entitled
''0ld Age at Forty" which was an &C.
count of the various hard conditions un-
der which laborers work in the steel in
dustry. The United States Steel Cor
poration appointed committee to in
vestigate the truth of the article, and it's
truth was we'll substsntiated. As a re-
suit the Steele Corporation has taken
steps to remedy some of those hard
conditions and an account of what it is
doing appears in the October number of
The American Magazine.
In the same number appears the story
Of Charles B. Towns, a great expert in
the treatment of drug and alcohol fiends.
The article is entitled Fighting the
Deadly Habits" and 1t is full Of practi-
cal suggestions of interest.
Another notable article is entitled
The Physics of Baseball" in which
Hugh S. Fullerton records many Of the
remarkable phenomena of the game; as
for an example, the fact that the differ
ences in the atmospheric pressure be-
tween Denver and New York makes it
possible for baseball player to throw a
baseball much further in Denver than
in New York.
Where Stage Villains are Real'' is
an account of a remarkable theatrical
production given twice year by con-
victs in the State Penitentiary in Cali
fornia. Funny Face is an account of
an interesting monkey by Stewart Ed
ward White. "What Makes a Bad
Play" is Walter Prichard Eaton's con-
tribution to The theatrical department
"Our Predecessors" is an article on
women by Ida M. Tarbell
Fiction of unusual vitality and inter
est is contributed by DR.. Henry Van
Dyke, Inez Haynes Gilmore, Edwin
Balmer, Zona Gale, and H. G. Wells.
The departments in the Interpreters
House, " Interesting People" and "The
Pilgrims Script" are full of good read
ing and valuable ideas.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-10-03
POUNDING MILL NEWS.
Items 6atheTed by Our Correspondent About
People Down the GIinch.
Pounding Mill. Va. Oct. l.

Pounding Mill, Va, Oct. l.
Mrs. VIM. Asbury is visiting relatives
IN Tazewell and BluefieId.
Prof. j. ]. Hoback made a business
trip to Cedar Bluff yesterday.
VIM. Robinett came home this morn
ing to get ready to move to Coaldale.
W. Va.
Miss Lettie RinGstaff, relief clerk
this place relieved w. R. Sparks for two
weeks.
Miss Bessie Brown was the week
end guest of Mrs. Wyrene Maxwell. at
Maxwell.
Rev. Paugle preached his last sermon
which exceedingly good, here last Sun
day at $3.50.
Mrs. T. ID. Trayer, Misses Cora and
Gussie Christian spent Friday with Mrs.
Grinstead.
Mrs. James johnson and two children
spent several days with her parents AZ
Red Ash, Va.
Mr.. HastOn White, of Reed Springs.
Mo, is the guest of his brother. Isard
White, of this place.
Mr.. Mclean is here ana will beo;n
work on houses preparatory 10 opening
the stone quarry for the N. & W.
John B. Elswick and daughter. Mrs.
robert Crabtree, of Belfast Mills. are
the guests of Mrs. Lou Robin.stt.
W. X. Sparks and sister Mrs. Charles
Griffith has returned, after two weeI,s
trip to points in eastern Virginia.
Joseph Smith had the misfortune Of
getting two of his toes mashed off LAST
Saturday while operating the Rinrstaff
crusher.
MRS. Susan Ringstaff and Mrs. Dock
Altlzer and baby are visiting Mrs. VIM.
Mulkey in Graham, and friends in Davv
w. Va. -
Dr. Baylor, of Cedar Bluff, Joseph
Gillespie, of Tazewen Reese T. BowsD
Sam and George Ward, Sam Thomnaon
and others of the Cove loaded nine cxro>
OF fine export cattle Saturday and four
teeu cars Monday.
Mrs. W. B. Steele and daughter.
MISS iva, attended the funeral and
burinal of their relative, Mr.. William
Floyd Mcclure, on Sunday at Cedar
Bluff, funeral took place at p. m,
from his old home now occupied by his
nephew, j. Ed. MCGUIRE, the burial took
place in the Claypool Cemetary.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-10-03
TanneTSVille News Briefs.
Tannersville. V,

Tannersville, Va, Sept. 30.
Will Hit visited w. NJ. Kirk on last
Sunday.
w. A. Crabtree, of Graham, visited
home folks here last week.
Rube Kiester and Edward Taylor
went to SaltvilIe Sunday.
A. S. Osborn, of Broadford, spent
Sunday with Isaac Patrick.
Mrs. Mollie Asburry was the guest
of Mrs. WINNER last Friday.
Reese Asbury, who has been working
at Ivanho for some time has returned
home.
Mrs. Will Kirk and Mrs. John Rector
were Sunday guests of Mrs. Ryburn
Patrick.
Messrs. Joe and George Holmes were
the guests Of DIR. E. A. Holmes last
Sunday.
William Atkins, of Marion, has been
the guest of j. P. and G. 2. Holmes for
few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Fowler, of
North Holston, spent Sunday with Mr.
Mrs. II. j. Whithead.
Auther Harris, of Thompson Valley,
was the guest of his sister, Mrs. Den
WINNER, last Thursday.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-10-03
An Interesting Report.

Five years ago the TazewelI district.
Of the Holston Conference was divided
and the part lying in West Virginia call
ed the Bluefield district.
"A most encouraging report of the
work Of this district will be present ed
oy Presiding Elder E. H. Cassiday at
the session of the Holston Conference Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
which began yesterday at Abingdon.
Ihls is the end of the quadrennium of
kev. Cassiday, as its presiding elder.
Within this period great strides have
been made by the district. From q
humble beginning, a way down in the
list, the district has grown so rapidly
that 1t is now at the top and is a banner
district of the Holston Conference.
Great credit is due the presiding elder
for his work here. With this, the end
OF his service at Bluefield, the members
and friends of the church have a right
to feel proud of the work accomplished
and he will leave behind him many visi-
bic evidence of the great work accomp-
lished at Bluefeld. In all of the many
different departments of the church
work has great improvement has been
shown and the reports show a mark ed
gam all along the line. Every collection
and assessment will be met in full and
the work in missions, Sunday schools,
memberships, buildings and parsonages
erected is most gratifying.
The district has now twenty-five pas.
toral charges. There have been more
than seventeen hundred conventions in
the district during the present year and
more than one thousand additions to the
church Four years ago the church
boast membership of only $500 while
they now have $3.50 members within
the district. The Sunday schools of
the Bluefield district have now a men,
bership of eight Thousand and a rapid
increase in Sunday school work will be
shown for the past year.
About seventy-fve thousands dollars
have been raised for all purposes with
In the present year in the twenty five
pastoral charges of the district and
about fifteen new churches have been
erected within the past four years.
-Four new churches have been built this
year and there are others in course of
construction. In building departments,
the work of the quadrennium shows up
especially we'll. Four new parsonaees
have been built and one district parson-
age has also been purchased.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-10-03
Paint and Not.

Paint was never before so high as last
year and this: about 81 25 a gallon Devoe
and half-dollar less for trash.
What is trash?
1t looks like paint and pretends to be
paint, but isn't worth painting. 1t
costs painters day's-work to put on
gallon of paint good or bad; and a paint
er's day's-work is So or $4
Add that to the price of gallon. That
is the cost of a gallon. Devoe is S5 or
Sc gallon; and trash half dollar less.
But Devoe is all paint and more too;
you add oil to it; gallon is 5 or quarts
of perfect paint for the painters pot.
But trash is three-quarters two-thirds
or half paint; you pay a half dollar less
for nobody knows what it is.
10 gallons DeYoe is enough for the
average job; it takes 10 to 20 gallons of
trash. And the wear same way. Un-
fortunately, the look alike when first
put-On.
DEVOE
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Rock Items
Rock. w Va s

Rock, w. Va, Sept. 80, 1912.
G. P. Robinett, of Black Oak, is on
the sick list this week.
Smith Davis, of Kegley, still very
low with typhoid fever.
Miss Alice Bailey, of Matoaka, is WIS.,
iting her parents at this place.
A. A. George is here from Bluefield
spending the week with home-foIks.
P. G. Bailey has gone to Florida and
his family will leave in few days to
join him there. They will reside in
Florida in the future.
Mrs. ]. S. DAVIS, of Bluestone, under
went a serious operation at the hospital
here last week. But little hope is en-
tertained for her recovery.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-10-03
The Towns Water Supply.

Twenty years ago the town of Taze-
well leased spring, now known as the
Whitman spring, from w. o. Whitman,
and with the lease went an option to
to purchase the same for the sum of
$80e.00 before the expiration of the
twenty year period. Subsequent to the
expiration of the lease Mr.. Whitman
sold the property to James G.. and
Harry L. Buston.
The town council has discussed the
desirability of purchasing the spring a
number of times during the past year,
but no action has been taken in defin-
lite way until at called meeting on last
Saturday nigt, when it was decided to
close the option before its expiration
yesterday and ]. G. Buston was notified
to this effect. He, however, objected
to the provision in the option calling for
the right to make ga ditch or bitches"
necessary for the proper conveyance Of
the water, and on Tuesday appeared
before called meeting of the council
with his attorney, J. Powell Royal, and
informed them he would have to have
81, ,250 before he would execute deed
to the spring unless the article provid-
ing for the ditch or bitches was cut out
of the deed. The council after some
discussion decided not to accept Mr..
Buston's offer, but insist on the execu-
tion of the deed in accordance with the
option as given by Mr.. Whitman and
taken over by the Messrs. Buston when
they purchased the property, and le-
gal notice to this effect was served on
all interested parties late Tuesday eve-
ming. 1t may possibly require a law
suit to determine the legal rights of the
parties in the controversy.
LATER-Ata called meeting of the
council late yesterday afternoon COM
promise was effected with the Messrs.
Buston by taking over the spring and
rights at 81 900.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-10-03
The Riley Celebration,

Next week James Whitcomb Riley,
the beloved Hoosier poet, will be the
center of the greatest ovation ever
rendered an American writer. October
9TH, Is the poets birthday, but owing to
the fact that the celebration in his honor
Will be of such proportions that it will
be impossible to confine 1t to one day. it
has been decided to extend it over per-
iod of six days, beginning next Monday,
and ending Saturday, Indianapolis, Mr.
Riley's home town, has taken the lead
In this event, but the movement has
spread like wildfre and it is doubtful
whether there is a city or town in the
United States which will not have one
or more events scheduled in honor Of
the poet who through the medium of his
verses has struck q responsive chord in
every breast and has succeeded in bring
ing poetry home to the people.
Riley programs have long been popu-
lar with literary clubs and during Riley
week these programs will take on an
added interest. Mr.. Riley is widely
known for his love of children. Like
his great predecessor, Longfellow, he
has been able to fathom the beauties of
the child nature better than most men,
and many of his best poems have been
written for, or about, children. For
this reason ''Riley Week" will be gen.
orally observed in the schools with
special exercises.
Mr.. Riley is now enjoying excellent
health. The paralysis which manifest
ed itself in his right arm q little more
than year ago is rapidly disappearing
and he says he feels as we'll as ever he
did in his life. Every day he takes a
long ride about Indianapolis and the
surrounding country in his big touring
car and is known as an enthusiastic
mortorist. He is always happy and is
usually surrounded by a group of close
friends.
No man in America has more friends
than James Whitcomb Riley. During
the years he travelled as a lecturer he
met thousands of people, who attracted
by his magnetic personality, became
warmly attached to him. There are
hundreds of thousands more who have
never met him personally, but who are
his friends nevertheless. They are the
ones who have been reached by bis
verses, for so sympathetic is this great
man that it would be hard, indeed, to
find man, woman or child who does
not appreciate Riley.
Although Mr.. Riley is recognized as
a great poet by critics of the sternest
school ne prefers to be known as hum
BILE singer who raises his voice that hu-
manIty may be benefited by a little of
life's sunshine. He has found the good
elements of everything and so optimistic
in his philosophy that he has never found
it necessary even to hint at the sordid
things Of life. This is one of the rea-
sons why he has won so large an audi
ence and why, when he was simply
writing a daily column of verse for an
Indianapolis newspaper, long before his
name was well known, he attracted the
attention of Henry Wardsworth Long
fellow.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-10-03
TOWN And COUNTY news

DR.. Henry White, of Buchanan. Va.
is here visiting his parents, MIR. and
Mrs. A. b. White, and attended the
Scott-White wedding at North Taze-
well on yesterday.
Mrs. o. NJ. Brown and daughter. Miss
Mary, of the Cove, spent Monday in
Bluefield as guests of Mrs. S. C. Barns
and left there Monday night for Kan
sas City to visit Mrs. Browns daughter,
Mrs. Job.
The management of the Picture The
ater have connected the heater in the
basement of Hankins' store with the
theater building, and the patrons will
find the room cozy and comfortable
these chilly evenings.
Mrs. Jennie Lewis returned Tuesday
from Coal Creek, Tenn, where she was
called recently by the illness of her
aunt, Mrs. Margaret Blackburn. She
was accompanied home by her aunt.
who will make an extended stay here.
Peery Cecil, of Hamlin, Texas, who
has been visiting his mother, Mrs.
Ches Cecil, of Pisgah, returned to his
home in the Lone Star State on Monday.
His mother AND sister, Miss Marie.
accompanied him and will spend the
winter in Texas.
Ma Dusenberry, her eight daughters
and one young lady visitor will be at the
HACIlIr9 IhanTaE of xs..I.A
Don miss seeing them, as it will be
the most amusing entertainment to be
seen IN Tazewell this season, and it will
be helping a worthy cause. A special
stage will be erected in the theater for
the accommodation of the performance.
Don't fail to attend.
John T. barns and family left yester-
day for Salem, Va, where they will
spend the winter in order to have the
advantages of the colleges in that vi
cinity. MIR. Barns has not yet definite
ly decided where he will locate, but it
is safe guess he will, next spring, be
looking for a place back in old Taze-
well.
1t is expected that the next session of
Holston conference, now in session at
Abingdon, will be held at Bluefield, w.
Va. 1t has been some ten years since
the conference last met in this section.
and it will be good thing to get the
good brethren of the church here and
take them on a trip through the two
coalfields of this great section.
The Board of Supervisors, in a called
meeting on last Saturday, opened bids
for the improvement of about sixty-five
miles of highway in Clear Fork magis-
terial district. All bids but one were
rejected. This one, for the road from
Hickman TO Mrs. Elvira Davis on the
Fincastle road, was taken under advise
ment and will be accepted or rejected
at the meeting of the board on next
Tuesday.
One of the prettiest church weddings
OF the season occurred yesterday after
noon at the North Tazewell Methodist
church, when Miss Rosemary, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. b. White, became
the bride of Mr.. Walter Carr Scott, of
Norfolk. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. E. A. Rich, rector of the Epis-
copal church. After a trip to eastern
cities the young couple will be at home
in Norfolk.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-10-03

Colonel VIM. C. Pendleton returned
Tuesday from visit to Big Stone Gap.
While there he met Hon. C. b. Slemp,
candidate for reelection to Congress on
the republican ticket, and reports Mr..
Slemp sanguine of reelection by a
larger majority than has ever been CIV
en- to q candidate In the old Ninth.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-10-03

G. w. Doak, was a business visitor
in Bluefield on Tuesday.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-10-03

VIII address the people of Tazewell County
at the Picture Theater, in Tazeweu
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-10-03
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Geographical SYMPOSIUM.

John E. Jackson sells it