Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-01-12
Rev. s. o. Hail returned on wed. |

Abingdon, who has accepted call tc
a prominent church in Missouri. He
will leave for his new field of labor
next week.
Rev. Mr.. Wiley returned on We'd
nesday from visit to his mother. at
Greenville, Tenn. He has n, >urther
particulars of the death IF his bro
her, DR.. Wiley. which occurred in
Brazil, as mentioned in the last issue
of the News. The body will not be
brought home.
The Burke's Garden correspondent
was mistaken in saying Rev. Richie
had gone away. He is at home and
will fill his regular appointments dur
ing January.
Mr.. j. II. Hurt. of the Gardner
Milling Company, of Gardner, Va.
was in Tazewell on business Wednes-
day, and called at this office.
G.. B. Neel, of Raven, was here in
the storm Monday morning. returning
to his home.
Rev. Mr.. Carson, who has been on
a visit to Florida for the past two
weeks. returned to Tazewell Wednes-
day night Herbert V. Carson, who
has been teaching in his fathe~'s alb
sence, left yesterday for Lexington
to resume his studies in Washington
and Lee.
Sergeant Thompson is having some
difficulty in stopping the snowballing
on the street. A penalty has been
fixed for throwing snowballs. so you
had better look out
Mr.. F. l.. Eaton, connected with
The Montray Realty Company, of
New York City, who was here seve-
raj days this week, slipped and fell
on the sidewalk Wednesday afternoon
and was painfully bruised and shaken
up. He is a large. heavy man, with
only one arm, and the accident was
just such one as may befall any
citizen these slick times This is reg
ular skidding weather.
Mail carriers Wall and Barrett,
working out of the Tazewel office,
have had some thrilling experiences
the past week in snow drifts and
slick, slippery roads. One or two
days the roads in some places, were
! impossible, and part of the routes
had to be given up. In the Cove the
snow was drifted so high in some
places that the fences had to be lei
down and routes established through
the fields.
Mrs. Elizabeth HARRISON was ser
iously burned and otherwise injured
ut her home at North Tazewell las
Saturday morning by the explosion OF
the water tank in her kitchen range
The cold weather had frozen Tn,
water in the tank, and few minute.
after the lady had started the fire il
the stove Saturday morning the ex
plosion occurred. Her right wris
was badly lacerated, and it was fear
ed ut first that she had received in
etnral injuries, but she has recovered
from the shock and is on the way t,
recovery
Vangcl Georgiff, Greek, wa
killed by premature explosion o
dynamite on Beech Fork, near Ceda
Bluff, last Friday afternoon. He wa
employed by the Associated Engi
neering Company, and was at worl
by himself, getting rock out of
quarry. Georgiff was the banker 70
the other Greeks, and when his bod,
was searched several hundred dollars
belonging to various laborers, wa
found.
An employee of the engineern,
company was here Saturday arrangin;
to distribute the money to whom i
belongs.
Wise Horton, the young colore
man. who was recently arrested o
the street here for using abusive Ian
guage, was arrested again Tuesda
night for stealing money from Ray
mond Sheets, who lives in "Shake
rag" Sergeant Thompson arreste
, the negro in Shakerag, and manacle
him securely, not wishing a repettio
r of the recent occurrence, wherein h
was forced to use his night stick t
subdue the prisoner. Horton has bee
in the penitentiary, having been OF
only short time, and if he is con
victed and sent there for the last of
D ense, an additional five years will b
added to the sentence, according t
the law.
=. Elias Lassey, colored, was arreste
u at Cedar Bluff last Saturday night b
; special officer Russell, at the insliga
= tion of the West Virginia authorize:
Il who charge the merge with murder
said to have been committed at Kin
, ball last October. The negro was see
q :, in the Jail here, and admitted stall