The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1913-01-15

lue Ouiteu daughters or the
Confederacy desire to announce
that the Arlington stamps win
be on sale at Kelly's Drug
Store by the 10Th of this month
Lees birthday. The money
derived from the sale of these
stamps will be used towards
the erection of a monument to
the memory of General Lee in
the National cemetery at Arl-
ington.
There will he no preaching
in the Baptist Church next
Sunday, as the pastor, Rev. j.
b. Craft, will fill the pulpit in
the Melrose Baptist Church in
Roanoke on that day.
The January term of United
States Court will be held here.
commencing on Monday, Jan
uary 9th, with Judge Henry
{. Mcdowell, of Lynchburg,
judge for the Western District
of Virginia, presiding. Unless
the furniture for the new court
room arrives in time to be i'm.
stalled, it is likely that this
term of court will not be held
in the new building. The furni-
ture for the court room and
offices has been shipped and it
is hoped that it will reach here
in time for this term of the
court.
The people of Big Stone Gap
who have been attending the
series of meetings at the Bap-
fist church which have been in
progress for the past ten days.
have had the privilege of hear
ing some of the best preaching
that has been heard here in a
long time Rev. ID. Garland of
Richmond, who has been doing
the preaching each night is a
wonderful man and Is one of
the ablest preachers the writer
has ever had the pleasure Of
hearing, an d those of our
friends who have not been at.
tending these meetings have
been missing some rare treats.
The meetings have been well
attended and much good has
been accomplished They will
close with tonight's services.
and every body is urged to come
out and make the final meeting
one of the best ever held i'm
this beautiful mountain town.
An order was entered at the
session of the Board of Super.
visors held last Monday desig-
mating February nth as the
date TO receive bids on the
| $3.50, 900 90 in bonds voted by
The Gludeville and Richmond
Alagisterial Districts ON Decem
Der 3lst The bonds will be
30-year, D per cent, with the
privilege OF paying them oil at
the end of 20 years. Bids will
be received up to noon on Feb
ruary nth. Wise Virginian. ss=-,
\ rather peculiar accident
happened in Siouega this week
I-one of those warm, slushy
/ days.A tree fell on top of moun-
tain IN the rear offs C.Durham IS
barber shop, and a log about
thirty feet long and two feet in
/ diameter slid down the noun
tain side at great speed 1t
crashed through the rear end
of the barber shop, tearing a
large hole in IA e building,
breaking the floor and demol.
ishing clothes cleaning ma
chine. Great crowds of Stone
ga folks visited the barber shop
to see this curiosity -Stonega
Correspondent AppalOchia Pro
gressive.
@. Bascomb Slemp, represent
alive of the Ninth Virginia
Congressional District, stopped
over at the Middlesboro Hotel.
the guest of his brother-in-law
DR.. j + Edmonds, and went to
Harlan Monday morning ac-
companied by DR.. Edmonds.
| Congressman Slemp has been
inspecting his coal land hold
ings on the Kentucky and Big
Sandy Rivers, for the past two
/ weeks, i'm the cOmDonV of a