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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-12-12

Ell TO.
Every business that is proper
ly managed, necessarily has fix
ed charges, and the telephone
business is no exception to the
rule. The pole line of q tele-
phone company lasts ten to
twelve years. Where it is an
exceptionally good line, with the
proper repairs, it will last fifteen
years. Iron wires last from
three to eight years. There is
the expense of maintaining the
centrals, paying the operators
and line men. A metallic line is
more expensive to maintain than
a grounded line, for the reason
that there is twice the strain
on the poles. Metallic lines give
better service to the subscriber,
and necessarily cost the COM
pany more money. None of the
independent telephone COM
panies that know of, have
metallic lines. They are all
grounded lines, and give very
poor service.
The county of Tazewel!, from
telephone standpoint, is very
sparsely settled. There are a
great many miles of poles and
wire, which makes it very ex-
pensive to maintain system in
this county, and linemen TO
prepair phones, have to travel
great distances, and the expense
of horse hire and hotel bills is
considerable.
The proper method for the
parties interested in the indie
pendent system to pursue. is to
ascertain how many phones are
in the county. how many miles
of poles and wire, what it costs
to maintain and operate the
same, and what revenues are re-
ceived by the Bluefeld telephone
company, and when they get
this information, they will find,
in all probability, that the Blue
field telephone company is justi-
fled in charging toll rates from
Tazewell to Richlands. The citi-
zens of Tazewell county cannot
expect a local or foreign COM
pany to operate a telephone
system without making a rea-
sonable profit.
1t is stated in your article that
the charges are unreasonable. If
they are, there is plain remedy
for the people, and it is wholly
unnecessary for them to build
an independent line. All they
have to do is to make complaint
to the State Corporation Com
mission, and an order will be
entered making the charges rea-
sonable. Why not take it up with
the State Corporation Commits
sion, rather than impose on the
public the necessity of having
two phones instead of one.
A SUBSCRIBER.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-12-12

moved today in the property
near the tank.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Christian,
Mr.. and Mrs. Howell have moved
into the Rebekah Davis property
near the east bridg.
Mrs. G. M. Hunter returned
Sunday from a trip to NY, and
friends by the wayside, Mr..
Hunter returned a few days
earlier.
Mrs. Henry Shamblin was
quite sick a few days last week.
Mr.. Curtis Shamblin who has
typhoid is able to sit up little.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-12-12
Pounding Mill Notes


killing is the order Of the day,
some very fine ones have been
slaughtered today.
Will Rees Sparks, bookkeeper
for a big concern in McComas,
w. Va, who has been on the
sick list is spending a few days
with his parents Mr.. and Mrs.
K. M. Sparks. He visited his
siste, Mrs. Norman Turner ana
family at Ada, w. Va, on his
way home.
Mrs. M. j. Sturgill returned
Sunday from a few days visit to
Mrs. Mamie Billops and family
Gary, w. Va.
Mr.and Mrs. Morgan Tate and
two children left today for
Nemours, w. Va, to spend the
winter with his brother, VIM.
and George, Mr.. Tate is still
unable to work.
S. T. Sparks, bridgeman, re-
turned to Richlands, Sunday
after ten days sick spell.
We failed to note last week
that Messrs. Claude and Walter
Thomas have returned to their
respective business in William
son, w. Va, and Nd, respect
i've; they visited their brother,
Thomas in Roanoke and took in
the ball game between v. P. |.
and V. M. /.
Mr.. Albert Maxwell, bridge
man, was here from Richlands,
Sunday to visit his children,
Misses Marie, Mona and Orin,
who attend school here.
Mrs. Rees Howery, Pisgah,
Mrs. VIM. Yost, of Baptist Val
ley visited their cousin and
friends, respective Mrs. R. Nj.
Sparks.
Mrs. Steele and daughter,
Miss iva returned Saturday
night from Bondtown where
they spent the week with Mrs.
Steele's brother r. M. Alder and
family, one of the big depart
ment merchants. Miss Mable
Bourne returned Sunday night
they had a most enjoyable visit,
also visited friends in Coeburn,
Norton, motored to Wise and
Toms Creek and other points
those towns are full of automo-
biles, you can get a acr any
time; twas a pretty sight to see
a string of 13, one right after
the other going at fullest speed
from the west depot to N. and
W., to transport passengers
those roads are grand; the towns
are all booming every body
seems happy and getting along
well. Mr.. and Mrs. Smith Muir
ply formerly of this town own
five fine automobiles and are
coming the money, Mrs. Murphy
is a splendid chauffeur herself
and bosses the job while her hus-
band is boss of the N. and w.
depot at big salary; they have
rented their fine hot water heat.
ed residence and will board al
st. Charles Hotel; they say il
will be cheaper.
Mrs. Susan Ringstaff returned
the last of the week from Ora
ham, where she had been with
her daughter, Mrs. VIM. Mulkey
over two weeks. Mrs. Mulky has
typhoid and is some better, bu-
not setting up any.
Mrs. Milton Harris returned
from Bluefield recently where
she had been spending the weel
visiting her daughters, Misses
George and Addie, stenograph
eefs, and other relatives.
! Mr.. and Mrs. George Pett
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-12-12
$4,000 FOR LOSS
OF LEGS IN MINES
Heavy Damages to Former Employee.
Jeff Gullion Sent on His Way Re-
jO:cing--l'ury Couldn't Agree.

A verdict for $4,000 was re-
turned by the jury last Friday
afternoon against the Pocahon-
tas Consolidated Colleries Com
pany in favor of Manuel Hair
ston, a colored man, who lost
both legs in the company's s
m mes several months ago by
being run over by a motor. The
jury was about 80 minutes in
arriving at a verdict. 1t is stat
ed by counsel for the company
that the case will be appealed to
the Supreme Court. Hairston
was represented by Hairston and
Willitts, of Roanoke, and VIM.
H. Werth, of Tazewell.
In the course of his remarks
the fact was brought out by
Judge Hairston that the negro
Emanuel Hairston was born on
his fathers place in South Caro-
lima, and that his (Emanue's)
father belonged to the elder
Hairston during slavery days,
and was a faithful servant, hence
the Roanoke lawyers interest in
the case.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-12-12
THE HOG CONTEST
Is ABOUT over
Competition For Blue Ribbon Brings
Out Many Top-Notchers---Larg
Number of Entries Yesterday.

Up to goino to press the
heaviest hog killed inthe county,
reported to this Office are:
Geo. w. Lewis, q Berkshire.
$40, c. P. Beavers, White
York. IA months, 504, j. o.
Corell, Berkshire and p. China,
425, Nash Brothers. one 4l2,
one 382, John Peery. Pocahontas,
a 16 months old Berkshire, 4O4,
C. II. Peery. North Tazewell, ,4SS
Il. w. Tabor. Pocahontas, one
Poland China, 2l months old,
4S3 l-2.
Shawvers Mills, December 10.
DR., j. Il. Hicks killed a big
hog last Friday, weighed $50
pounds, his wife rendered IL
gallons of lard.
J. o. Corell butchered several
April pigs which weighed, each
263. The number weighing 300
and over in the county, is very
large.
The big Beavers hog at Max
well has not been butchered at
this writing.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-12-12

If you are troubled with chronic
constipation, the mild and gentle effect
Of Chamberlain Tablets makes them
especiallysuited to your case, For sale
by all Druggists
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-12-12

We have it! Sounds good at
this time of the year. Call
around at Pobst's and he will
prove it to you.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-12-12

John II. Thompson, of Burke's
Garden, has been here all week
serving as juror. Mr.. Thompson
has a hog story to submit. He
bought a hog about two months
ago, said hog having been on
mass for sometime, that weigh
ed 535 pounds, and that the hog
was put on corn and fed for a
month and half before it was
killed. He did not weigh it after
being killed, and was unwilling
to venture a guess as to the
weight, but seemed to think il
must have weighed around half
ton. Mr.. Thomp pson has not
put himself within the rules of
the court" and consequently
cannot compete for the blue rib
bon.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-12-12
Cortright Roofing

We hope our readers have
been noticing the advertising of
the Cortright Metal Roofing
Company, which has appeared in
our columns regularly since early
this year, and that any of those
interested in high grade, sub
stantial roofing, have gotten in
touch with the company.
Cortright Metal Shingles have
been in use for more than a
quarter of a century and are
giving splendid satisfaction
everywhere. Samples of these
shingles can be seen at this office.
Magazines and Reading Matter.
M agazine subscriptions,
either single or club offers, low
est prices. Send for catalogue.
Jacksons Drug Store.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-12-12

The case of Jeff Gullion charg-
ed with a serious crime against
his stepdaughter, Macy Stanley,
resulted in verdict of acquital
late Monday night, after an all
day trial in which much un-
printable evidence was introduc-
ed. Gullion was released imme-
diately after the trial and left
forthwith for the home of a rela-
tive. The crime with which
Gullion was charged was punish
able by death, and it looked very
much like a severe penalty
would result from the charge,
until it was proven that some
enemy of the man had attempt
ed to change the date of birth of
the Stanley girl by falsifying
the records in the family bible.
The jury was satisfied that the
birth records had been tampered
with, and concluded that the
party or parties guilty of such
a crime as committing a forgery
within the sacred pages of the
Holy Bible were not worthy of
belief.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-12-12

Deputy-Treasurer II. G. Nc
Call is a competitor for the blue
ribbon. having thrown his hat
in the ring yesterday afternoon.
He killed an eighteen months old
hog yesterday that weighed 481
pounds, and because of the age
of this hog he demands the blue
ribbon. A "hog committee" will
be announced soon to pass judg-
ment on who is due the ribbon.
A few precincts are yet missing.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-12-12

Henry Kincer and Bob and
other champion hog growers
have not reported. A full and
final report will be made next
issue. A motion has been made
to rule out Beavers old mule foot
hog at Maxwell from the contest.
The motion will have to go be-
fore the Board. 1t is not likely
to pass.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-12-12

The suit of WIG. Moss against
w. f. Harman, involving about
SD, 600, resulted yesterday in
favor of Moss. The suit resulted
from the sale of Mcdowell coun-
ty timber land, which formerly
belonged to Mrs. Moss father.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-12-12

The suit of Mrs. M. e. Taylor
against John G. Matney for
$4,000 for services rendered,
was concluded yesterday, re-
sulting in a hu g jury. tits said
all but one juryman favored a
verdict for the plaintiff.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-05
FOOD FOR SPORT FANS
sy ogoRoG q. pHAIR.

istan, no may some day have chance
to win a Worlds Series.
Willie Richie is said TO have taken
up golf. Looking up the files, we
find that Mr.. Richie was a pugilist
before he became lightweight cham
pion.
The expert who asks why more ball
players are not killed by bean balls
does not take into consideration the
resisting power of the average play
er's dome.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-05
RN j. W. HeiSnlan.


|J asst Saturday furnished its full
quota Of football surprises the
entire country over.
In the East Yale went down to in
glorious defeat at the hands of very
minor college, while Notre Dame was
showing West Point how the great
and only college game is worked out
and played out in the wild and woOlly.
In the West the way Michigan
"smeared" Syracuse was the big eye
opener while in the South the two big
surprises OF the day were the merci-
less manner in which Virginia ana
Tech butchered their respective oppo-
nentS to make holiday.
looked for Virginia to win, but not
by the score that was flashed in.
While Virginia may nave played bet
Ter than she did a week ago. never
theless the difference between the
score the Old Dominion players ran
up against Vanderbilt and that mark
ed UP against Georgia seems clearly
to Indicate that Vanderbilt is much
weaker than usual. Unless Tom Brown
gets back into the game by the time
The CommOdores meet Auburn they
are liable to prove as easy picking for
the Alabamans as they were for the
Nirginians.
SOME will suppose that because Au-
~ burn won from L. 5. U. by one
touchdown only that they are not as
strong as has been already surmised
by most football experts; but don't
you believe it! Auburn plays each
year the steadiest, most carefully con-
eeaed waiting game of any team in
the South While they did not run up
score, the accounts show that at all
events they were never IN danger of
losing, for L. S. U. never threatened
The others goal line. Auburn was
content to win, and gain experience
and seasoning, while showing nothing.
Ine AuburniteS have two old
srudses to settle this fall--one with
vanderbilt and the other with Geor-
gla-and nothing Is going to balk her
nom being in the best possible shape
% settle them this fall.
w HlLE not unanticipated, the fact
that Georgia was able to put 1t
over North Carolina in hearty fashion
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-05
Race for Bunting Is Narrowing
'Heisman Sizes Up the Situation

and not by fiules. indicates clearly
enough the fine consistency OF play to
which the Athenians have attained.
They now have only one game ahead
of them before locking horns with
Tech, and they will be In their prime
when that classic game comes off.
Georgia has a better team than she
had last year; in fact just about the
best team she ever had in her whole
career, in my estimation. And it
seems to me that the championship
lies between her and Auburn.
In passing, it is perhaps worth not
ing that North Carolina would appear
to have but little show with Virginia
for this year again, despite her five
coaches. The material at n. G. is not
to be so bad this year, and just what
can be the matter at this ancient and
honorable stronghold of the great
pastime it is hard to conjecture.
I T is always a rather sad thing when
a team finds itself definitely elm
mated from a championship round in
one brief afternoon, after a whole sea-
son of terrific toll and aging worry;
but so it goes. Sewanee is out OF
1t for this year, as she meets neither
Georgia nor Auburn, through whom
she might have chance to work
back into the beaten path. However,
her defeat at the hands of Tech was
so very thorough that 1t is much to be
doubted whether another crack at the
old thing through either of these lat
ter very strong teams would offer her
a real chance.
In this one game at least the
strength of the Tigers line was not In
evidence: and, personally, I doubt
whether the Sewanee line has been as
strong as was believed. In other
words, l am not 80 much inclined to
see unexpected strength in the Tech
team as am to believe that SeWanee
is rather weaker than even she herself
knew.
1t is a rude breaking OF precedents.
but for once it really appears as
though the Tennessee college teams
are to be badly distanced by the teams
from Georgia and Alabama. When
Sewanee meets Alabama we shall see
whether it is not true that SeWanee is
weaker than she looked.
For my part, | shall not be sur
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-05

AST Saturday furnished its full
quota of football surprises the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-05
Vandy Figuring On Next Season
Commodores Have Hard Luck
By Tad

gan. and the former and latter are
now out of the game for the rest of
the season. All the brains of the
quarterbacks have been corralled in
their toes, Boensch and Curtin having
both failed dismally in field general
ship.
OF course, It can be argued, and
justly so, that with T. Brown and
Morgan in the Virginia game, the
score would have been much closer,
but It is foolish to presume that the
Charlottesville team would not have
won. Tom Browns loss carried with
1t almost the last ray Of hope for a
Vanderbilt victory over either Au-
burn or Sewanee, and Morgans
cracked ankle settles the whole thing
beyond any doubt entertained by thu
most optimistic Commodore Cup
porter.
No team, since McGugin in 1904
lifted Vanderbilt from gridiron OBJ
security to champions, has suffered the
tough breaks of the luck encountered
by the 1918 eleven. There must be,
after all, something in that "13" jinx
First, Glenn Reams, one of the most
promising linesmen from last years
second string, went down with the
typhus germ and although he has at
tempted to get into few scrimmages.
he is unfit for hard game. Then the
S. l. A A. delivered a solar plexus by
ruling Josh Cody, the crack tackle,
ineligible. Tom Brown went out for
the season with a broken bone in his
ankle, and the same dose fell to Nor
gan.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-05
Clemson Expects to
Give Georgia Stiff
Struggle Tomorrow

AUGUSTA, GA, Nov. 1.-THE Uni
versity of Georgia eleven is going to
have the battle of its life here to-
morrow when they meet the Clemson
College team.
Local football students are of the
opinion that the game ls not going
to be in the nature Of any practice
romp for the Red and Black. as some
would lead one to believe.
Bob Williams, coach OF the Glenn
son College team, is reputed through
out the South as being a demon on
defensive tactics, and according to the
dope he has a headfuu of Georgia
plays that have been hammered into
the Clemson eleven this week.
Georgias offense is going to receive
a severe test in this game. While
even the most ardent Clemson sup
porters concede Georgia the victory,
they are of the opinion that 1t will
only be after the hardest kind OF a
fight and by the closest margin.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-05
prlsed if Alabama wins from the Tt

prised if Alabama wins from the IT.
gers.
THE week following her heavy de-
feat at the hands of Alabama
found the Clemson team in the depths
of despair. That was a hard blow to
weather, but with admirable courage
the whole college got behind the team
and pulled them out of the slough
Their game fight against Auburn a
week later was but the forerunner Of
genuine football upbuiIding; and
their great victory over South Caro-
lima last week shows that the Glenn
son team has not only real football
strength from the standpoint of the
physical requirements, but that IL also
has the gameness to come back"
From this time on Clemson will be a
hard team to defeat, and while CIeor-
gia will no doubt pin it on them"
down in Augusta this week, look for
the South Carolinans to give them a
fierce battle.
BY Thanksgiving Day the Palmet-
tos will have learned their full game
and will be at the top of their stride;
and those Atlantans who like hare,
grim struggle on Turkey Day will
be rewarded if they will go out and
watch what the Tigers have to show
against the Yellow Jackets on that
occasion.
Alabama made a very creditable
score against Mississippi, though the
redoubtable Hickman managed to
| force himself into the limelight again
with all ease.
| was mildly disappointed in the
failure of Tennessee to score more
than three touchdoWns on Chatta-
nooga, which makes me wonder in
| turn how 1t was that Tech hit the
| 'Noogans such rap.
was also surprised that MissiS-
| sippi A. & NJ. should have been able
| to journey all the way out to Texas
and then lick the strong Texas \, &
NJ. team. Inasmuch as Auburn had
defeated Mississippi A. e NJ. by the
| huge score of 81 to 0 but week be-
force, it looks as if Texas y. & M.
must be weaker than usual this year.
M ITH Sewanee L. s. u. and Texas
: w A. & NJ. squarely eliminated
from further consideration, the only
! teams now remaining that have any
thing to say about the 1918 drapery
are Vanderbilt Auburn, Georgia and
Tech. Just now It looks pretty sure
| that Auburn will wipe Vanderbilt off
| the map on November Is, and more
! certain still that she will do the same
| thing for another of this select quar-
| tet even before that date But the
| discussion of this fine little point l
shall leave for later edition.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-05
Riverside Fit for
Game With Georgia
Freshies Tomorrow

GAINESVILLE, GA, Nov. with
Captain Townsend and Page, the star
halfbacks Of the Riverside Military
Academy eleven. recovered fully from
their injuries sustained in the Fur
man College game three weeks ago,
Riverside viii present her strongest bat
tie front against the Georgia Fresh
men here tomorrow.
Riverside has only lost one game this
season. the one 10 Tech High School of
Atlanta. and this by only one point.
Riverside has three more games after
the Georgia Freshmen game. G. NJ c.
will be played at Atlanta the morning
OF the Tech Georgia game. Sewanee
Military Academy win be played No
vember 81 at Gainesville and "a Turkey
Day opponent Is being sought
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-05

NASHVILLE, TENN, Nov. o
N Now that they have begun to
sing requlems and swing the
incense pots over the PROSTATE body
of the poor old battered Commodores,
1t gives the post-mortem authorities
chance TO discover Just exactly what
caused the death Of the gridiron king
Of former years. There Is no use
beating around the bush, the Black
and Gold eleven has been toppled or
it's lofty perch simply because 1t Is
outclassed this season in the South.
The only astonishing thing about
the whole matter Is that the fall has
not come sooner than 1t has. But
even the hungry gridiron jackalS, who
have been starved through the long,
lean years, during which the Commo-
dores gobbled up everything in sight,
are forced to admit that the pickings
were mighty slim under the McGugin
regime Now that their inning has
arrived, they had best make well Of It,
for next year is something else again
and the spectacle of a Vanderbilt
eleven being slaughtered twice in sue
cession viii hardly be presented for
quite a stretch of moons.
If that were the end of 1.-THE routs
by Michigan and Virginia-the Com
modore supporters would not find the
cup so bitter. But with their backs
against the wall, nowhere is there an
| opening through which to escape,
with Tennessee, Auburn and Sewanee
stalking about the Vanderbilt camp.
There can be no alibis nor excuses
offered for the pitiful showing o. shis
seasons eleven, which has been out
Classed in every department OF the
game. They haven't had the punch to
their attack nor the stamina to resist
the onslaught of fiercely driving en-
envy The eleven has been poorly
equipped with gray matter in the
line with the exception of Tom
Brown, Captain +. Brown and Nor