Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-02-09

IL you want to rent good house in
this town, call or write this office and
you can learn where to get one.
Miss Eva Steele is visiting few
weeks among her old school friends in
Washington city.
Mrs. John Corell, of Roanoke, and
Miss Jamison, of the same city, pass
ed through town Monday enroute to a
visit to relatives in Thompson Valley.
Report reaches us that Mrs. LESSEE
WINNER is very i'll at her home in
Thompson Valley, from Rheumatism.
She does not improve, and her family
and friends are very apprehensive.
Preaching in the Burke's Garden
Baptist church next Sunday IL a. m.
provided the weather is not too Sc
we're.
Il. II. Campbell, Pastor.
Postmaster Cawlay is arranging to
establish a postal savings bank in the
Graham postofIice. Arrangements are
being made for the venture.
r. l.. Gillespie, of Graham, will
leave next week for Denver, Colo
RADIO, where his daughter, Mrs. Wor-
ley has been for her health for sew
eral years.
Mr.C. Walter Steele, of the Clinch
Valley Insurance Agency, made a
profitable business trip down the
Clinch the first of the week.
We are informed that Walter Har.
grave, who lived here with his par
ents, DR.. and Mrs. Hargrave, many
years ago, recently under went a sue
cessful operation for the appendicitis
in the Richmond hospital
A large number of road contract ors
have been in the county this week
viewing the roads to be built, and
which will be let to contract next
Tuesay. State Highway Commissioner
Wilson, and other members of his
office, from Richmond, will be here
at that time.
G. w. Doak, DR.. C. a. Thompson
and Samuel b. Thompson, will attend
the Masonic meeting in Richmond
next week, and prolong their absence
from town by a visit to Maryland,
with view of making an investment
there.
Sam Hoover was operated upon for
appendicitis at the Johnson Willis
hospital in Richmond Wednesday,
and the information is that the opera
tion was entirely successful, and the
young man is doing nicely.
Mr.. A. G. Kiser returned to Taze
well Tuesday from Richmond, where
he had been with his daughter, Miss
Trula, who was operated upon last
week for appendicitis. Miss Kiser is
getting over the operation fast, and
will soon be ready to return to her
home here.
A delegation of Masons from Taze-
well county will go to Richmond this
week to attend the meeting of the
Grand Lodge of Virginia. T. A. Re-
pass, jr.. IL. Claude Pobst and Judge
S. M. b. Coulling will represent the
Masonic Lodge of Taz ewell.
r. II. Math ews, WHOM as fox chasing
in Thompson Valley last week, is
hunting his hounds. The PAIR went off
after a red fox on last Saturday and
have not been heard from by the own
er since. The trail went into the dir
ecion of Bear Town. The dogs are of
the old blue speckled stock.
L. L. Turner, who has moved back
to Thompson Valley from Cedar Bluff
with his family, was here last Sat-
urday. Mr.. Turner reported that he,
John Grlnstead, Jas. Buchanan and
others are arranging to start news
paper in upper Thompson Valley. MIR.
Turner expects to get a large circula-
ton at Cedar Bluff. where staff of
correspondents are being organized.
Rev. X. Y. Umberger, of Wythe
county, who recently accepted call
to the Lutheran church at Graham, Is
expected to arrive there within the
next few days to take the pastorate.
S. N. Hufford and R. II. Palmer,
of Graham, have gone to Florida to
spend the remainder of the winter.
They will locate at Tavares, where
the Tazewell colony live.
The weather prognosticating ground
hog saw his shadow on the End. That
is, if he looked for it. We may ex-
pect according to the old tradition or
superstition, forty days of bad
weather. However, the ground hog is
a prominent Annanias Clubman, and
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