Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-10-03

blHuSCy mC0ulIc lclC LIllS week
for Blacksburg, where he will
take the course in Agriculture.
Preaching at Bundy's chapel
Sunday at 3 p. m. b y Rev. Mr..
Campbell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. w. st. Clair
have as their guest, Mrs. Stuart,
of Kentucky, sister of Mr.. st.
Clair.
The State Fair meets next
Monday and Tazewell will be
represented by several of her
prominent citizens and farmers.
Rev. E. E. Wiley, Rev. c. R.
Brown, Presiding elder Hurley
and Rev. J. R. King are absent
attending conference in Cleve-
land, Tenn.
Miss Helen Lipford has been
confined to her room at the
Clinch Valley House for some
time by illness.
Big stock Swifts Red Steer
Blood and Bone Fertilizer on
hands. Get'the best, its cheapest
The Tazewell Supply Company.
There will be preaching in
the Tazewell Baptist church
Sunday at IL a. M, and Tbs p.
M, by the pastor T. H. Camp
bell.
Mr.. r. M. Lawson, of Burke's
Garden, returned Wednesday
from Boston, where he has been
under the care of a physician.
Miss Gladys Adams, a relative,
returned with him.
There will be a box party
given at the Lower Poor Valley
School on Saturday October II,
at 1870 p. M, for the benefit of
a school library. All are cordial
ly invited to be present, and
ladies will please bring boxes
Martha Drumeller.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. Pruett, of
Sayersville, returned to their
home on Monday after a pleasant
visit to relatives and friends in
Thompson Valley. Mrs Pruett is
a neice of Mrs. Amanda Walk.
in the Valley.
G.. H. Reynolds won the blue
ribbon at the Russell Fair as
best driver in single buggy
contest. 1t is said that he has
been wearing his ribbon con-
spicuously since his return, and
wants it understood that it was
he himself and not the horse,
that won the prize.
Willie Neal Hurley lost last
Saturday gold medal, which
he won in a defamation contest
at Saltville in May, 1911. The
words "Saltville," "declama-
tion," and the date mentioned
are engraved on the medal,
which was lost between this
town and the Fair Grounds.
Finder will please return to Mr..
Hurley or this Office.
Mr.. w. o. Whitman, of Pur-
cellvllle, was here several days
this week visiting relatives and
friends. Mr.. Whitman has sold
his cattle at a good profit, has
fine crops and is well satisfied
with his new home. His son,
William, is in the west, where
he went several months ago and
bought a claim.
Dan Angus and his son-in-law,
Dillow, cut the last of the edi.
tors corn and dug potatoes on
the Experimental farm" We'd
nesday. Dan is known as one of
the very best workers in the
county. He does it right and is
not always at it, and young Dill
low is just as good. He can keep
up his row with Dan all day.
They make an ideal team, and
have jobs waiting for them all
the time.
The editors experience proves
that potatoes bitten down by the
frost will come again, but will
not make a full crop. Five rows
on "The Farm" were in fine
shape, worked out and hilled up
and flourishing. The big frost in
May cut them to the ground.
They came again, but made only
about half a crop. 1t would have
paid to have planted them over
again.
The Wittens Mill school team
went up against the Tazewell
Hige School boys a few days
ago, and will remember the ex-
perience. They are still wonder