Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-05-17
NOTES OF NORTON.
NORTON, Va, May 10. =


easy about the way the good roads
money is being spent. My, but they
ought to come down to Wise and see
how "they are kicking our dog
around. :"
The Clinch Valley News is Away
looked for with interest. Its patrons
expect something good from the old
est weekly in the county, and are
rarely disappointed.
Never in the history of politics ha.
here bsea cloiet attention gwen to
seeing that every voter in Wise couns
ty is duly registered and ready fol
the coming battle. In this cou 'ty the
Democrats claim decided increase.
E cry mans poll tag seems tn have
been paid and tue Democrats CLAIM,
tine Town of Norton Jy at least II.
Some two or three years ago it went
Republican by 1875.
The fruit prospect was never more
promising in Wise county.
The coal operators all report ga t.
isfactory business.
The leading groceryn.an of Norton
is 7 2 well boy james B. PIERCE,
who hid for several years RESPONSE :
BILE position with the Stonega Coal
Company. While with .his company
he gained n wide experience and won
the favor of its management by
close application to business. 1t is
therefore but natural that he is start
ing off so we'll for himself in Norton.
He carries the incest line of fancy
groceries in the town, as we'll as all
the staples. The best trade in the
town has been won by his popular
turn and fair treatment.
The critical condition of Henry C.
Stuart announc ed the past week has
cast gloom over this entire section.
There is not mother man in Virginia
today nearer the hearts of the people
than Henry C. Stuart.
"Unc lie Harvey" Garden, as he is
known by most everyone, met with a
very serious accident few days
since, while doing some repair work
nn one of the Norton Coal Co.'S. cars
some careless person turned several
mining cars loose on the track above
when he was working, and owing to
so much noise about the tipple lie did
not hear them coming. he jumped
when the cars were almost on him
but his right leg was terribly crush
ed. In few days gangrene set in,
which necessitated amputation above
the knee joint. The operate was
very successfully done by DR.. Carr,
but at this writing he is in critical
coLditio
Capt. A. j. Tnyes was in Norton
the past week as a delegate to the
Abingdon Presbytery, which was in
session. Captain, as usual, made one
or two good speeches.
With the completion of new rail
roads in the next twelve months, will
come number of new industries to
this section. The q. c.. and o. will
soon connect with the Chesapeake and
Ohio. The Lexington and Eastern and
another branch of the l.. and N. will
soon penetrate the coal fields near
Pound Gap. The Southern, which is
at present under the assumed name of
Interstate, having secured the right
of way through the town of Norton,
will extend this line into the coal
fields of the Cumberland mountains,
chief of which is the Great Black
Mountain, noted for it's ten foot seam
of coal.
Within the past month Norton has
secured another large wholesale COM
pany, known as the Cohron Broker
age, which is bran CHI of the Stuart S
Draft Milling Co., operating one OF
the largest and best known flour nj lis
in the south. The company will han
die in car lots, hay, corn, chop,
flour. etc, besides doing big business
in other lines