Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-05-24


days this week by slight illness.
Squire A. p. Brown, we'll known
citizen of Graham, is critically i'll.
1t is feared he will not recover.
George Hurt, of Pounding Mill.
was here this week to have n
troublesome growth removed from the
back of his neck.
The baseball business seems to be
all Ty-ed up this pretty weather.
Mr.. Tol Gearld was in town ON
yesterday, looking about as well as
usual after long and serious illness.
Mrs. Frank Bundy was in town
yesterday on shopping expedition.
The shingles for the new roof of
the Baptist church have been ordered
The Cortright shingle will be used.
and Brown Barnett will put them on.
Mr.. Hiltzheimer's motor cycle ar
rived last Monday, and is keepinp
the streets round about hot and dus-
ty. The wheel is guaranteed to out
run anything except flying machine
Presiding Elder Straley held quart
erly meeting In Burke's Garden last
Saturday and Sunday, and had fine
time. This was his first sight of
Burke's Garden, and he says he half
had not been told him. He goes this
week to Belfast Mills.
Joseph Blackwell, of Graham, who
was recently adjudged insane and
taken to the hospital at Marion, was
drowned near Marion last Monday.
lie escaped from the guards and
jumped in mill pond, and was
dead before he could be rescued. The
remains were brought to Graham and
inferred yesterday.
Elizabeth. the five year old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. v. l.. Sexton.
was bitten by mad dog in Graham
Wednesday, but not seriously injured.
, Graham's dogs are giving lots of
trouble, as this is the second child
bitten within the week.
Ten members of the graduating
f class of the Graham High School
= have been suspended by the faculty
n Tor bean shooting. 1t seems that the
y ten unfortunates loaded their pockets
e with shelled beans, and at a given
signal all began throwing beans, re.
CARELESS of the warning of the teach
n er The ten were to graduate next
d week, and will probably be reinstated
o by the faculty.
Mr. Baker, the agent of the N
Il and w. at North Tazewell, hns one
G OF the most efficient and accommodate
q ing forces of men, we dare say. of
, any office on The N. and w. system.
f There's Dickinson and Garst, who
will almost sell you railroad ticket
on credit and Whitehead, the tele-
graph generator, who is the best of
: the kind on the job. The railroad
. company is fortunate in having such
e men in charge of it's affairs.
No information from the Norfolk
convention has been received at this
e writing further than the appointment
e of a new district committee. The
j committee is composed entirely of
new men. The names of the old COM
mittee were as follows: P. F. st.
!. Clair, B. F. Buchanan, T. A. Lynch
M. c. Clark, Frank Wysor. The
: names of the new committee are:
q. w. Bondurant, John H. Gose.
DIR. Buchanan, Bert Wilson, ]. B.
| Boyer, Frank Wysor, Secretary.
VIII the young people. old people,
boys, men, women and children, who
take part in the closing exercises of
the High School next week, please
suffer little word of exhortation-
speak out so as to be heard The
acoustic properties of the Chanel
are bad at best, and usually not more
than half the audience can hear half
that is said from the PLATFORM.
Speak out and 'spress YOURSELF. I"
so as to be heard!
The moving pictures are suspended
this week in Difference to the musical
tonight and the carnival. which leads
US to say, that the picture shows
have been specially fine for some
time past, and so long as the mana
cement is scrupulous in the selections
: the shosw will be popular and well
attended But, if cheap, vulgar vau
deville, or immoral pictures are nut
up the people should see to it that
the seats are kept vacant. This will
not be the case. The standard is high
now. The pictures are fine and we'll