Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-07-25
POUNDING MILL NEWS.
Items Gathered by Our Correspondent About
People Down the CIinch.

Pounding Mill, Va, July 23rd.
W. R. Sparks. is visiting his aunt.
Mrs. Ellis, at Whitewood.
Mrs. George Brewster and children
visited relatives at Maxwell last week.
C. H. Trayer left Saturday for a visit
to relatives in Roanoke and Cincinnati.
Alex Beavers will move his family
from Big Creek to Pounding Mill this
week.
Miss Marybelle Altlzer is spending
some time with relatives near Bear
wallow
DR.. Bundy and Charles Linkous. of
Indian, were the guests Sunday of R.
NJ. Sparks.
Il. M. Sturgill, of Jacksonville, Fla,
is home for three weeks visit to his
mother, Mrs. NJ. ]. Sturgill.
Mrs. Will Grinstead, of Indian, and
Mrs. John White, of Davy, W. Va,
were guests of Mrs. C. H. Trayer Sat
urday.
Mrs. Louis George and children and
Miss Chaffee George, of BluefieId, came
down today for a visit to Mrs. NJ. ].
Sturgill
Rev. Manuel will begin a series of
meetings at Richlands tonight. You
should hear him and witness the "old
time power"
The Young Folks Mission Board. an
auxiliary of the C. w. B. M, will give
an ice cream supper at the Union
church Saturday night. Every one is
invited.
Rex Steele and John Gillespie spent
Sunday and Monday at Dante and Bond
town, visiting the formers uncle, P. NJ.
Alder, the we'll known merchant, at the
latter place.
Mesdames Mary O'Keeffee and John
st. Clair, of Tazewell, and Mesdames
Mary Peery and c. H. Peery, of In
dian, were guests of Mrs. R. K. Giles
pie yesterday.
Misses Gussie Christian and Lettie
Ringstaff, who were sent as delegates
to the Sunday school convention at Gra-
ham, are visiting friends there and in
Bluefeld for few days
Mrs. L. Harris continues very i'll at
her home here. Her sister, Mrs. Joe
Elswick, who has been with her for sew
eral days, returned yesterday to her
home at Paint Lick.
Rev. Isaac Wright, of Bluefeld, de-
livered an excellent sermon in the Chris
tain church here Sunday morning. and
the c. w. B. NJ. met in the afternoon.
This society is doing nicely under the
leadership of Miss Cora B. Christian.
Mrs. Eliza Lester, of the Cove. was
here today en- route home from Taze-
well. She has rented the Kits proper
ty in Tazewell, and will move her fam
lily there the latter part of August in
order to give them the advantages of
the excellent schools at that place.
The protracted meeting which the
Rev. Manuel, of Bristol, has been con-
Quoting at the Church of God for sever
al days, closed last night with eight
persons at the alter. Twenty-three
conversions resulted from the meeting
ard almost that number were baptisec
IN the Clinch. The church was entirely
too small to hold the congregation OF
Sunday, and there is much talk of sell
ing the building and erecting larger
one near the switch.
The following members of the w. C.
T. U. of this place attended the picnic
given by the Richlands Union on last
Wednesday: Mesdames C. H. Trayer
r. M. Sparks, j. T. Altizer, w. B
Steele, John Pruett; Misses Cora anC
Gussie Christian and Marybelle Altizer
Mrs. Parrott, state organizer, gave ar
interesting talk; the Little Temperance
Legion entertained with songs and reci
tatiops in the afternoon. Raven, Taze.
well, Graham and Pounding Mill unions
were invited and all were represented
except Graham. On Thursday night
|. Mrs. Parrot addressed the Union here,
at which time six new names were add
ed to its membership, bringing the en-
rollment up to twenty-three. She was
the guest of Mrs. w. B. Harris anc
Mrs. w. b. Steele while here.