Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-02-27
Local News

S. S. Golfer, of Blucfild, was a bust
ness visitor here on Tuesday.
Little Miss Martha Thompson is
quite ill with whooping cough at the
home of Mr.. ii. p. Britain.
Mrs. G. A. Worsham, of Twin
Branch, w. Va, is in town the guest
of relatives.
John Ellis, son of DIR. and Mrs. j.
f.. Jackson, has been confined TO his
home for several days with sickness.
Attorney A. S. Higginbotham was
a business visitor to Richmond this
week.
w. l.. Spracher, who has been crit
ically ill ut his home in Hickman
with pneumonia, is reported as much
better.
Miss Lula Jones, who has been
teaching at Unaka the past winter,
has taken position in the High
School ut this place.
The editors hearing has not be-
come so heavy that he cannot hear
a "B' buzz. The hum of the sub
scription "B" sounds like music in
his ears.
A meeting of Baptist laymen of
the state will be held in Richmond,
beginning next Tuesday night. A
large attendance is expected of the
leading Baptist men of the state.
Mrs. Sallie Litz, who has been a
resident of this town for the past
year, has purchased the T. l.. Lyons
property in Graham, and will move
there in short time
William Greever, who is undergo
ing treatment in New York hos
pital for an injured eye, is reported
doing well. He is expected home
in Il few days.
Miss Mcpherson, teacher of the
sixth grade in the High School, has
the measles. No other case has de
velopcd in the school. During her ill
4 ness, Miss Stella Muncy is filling
her place.
Our friend. NJ. II. Burnett, Pound
ing Mill, called in the other day and
squared up. He belongs in the b"
column, and is not drone either. He
works hard, has good wife and nine
fine, healthy children.
Mrs. J. c. Cooper and sister, Mrs.
Onward Baldwin, who have been
turned to their home at Five Oaks
Saturday.
Henry Howell, who has been I'M
dergoing treatment in Richmond
hospital, is reported to be we'll on the
road to recovery, and is expected to
return to his home here in Il short
time.
Mrs. Jasper Kinzer, sister of At
torney j. w. Hicks, of Graham, and
Rev, w. w. Hicks, of this place, died
at her home in Radford last Friday
morning in her iifty-eighth year.
The Woman's Home Mission So
d cety of the Methodist church will
> meet next Thursday, March 5th, with
Mrs. a. st. Clair.
William +. Mccall, who has been
in Arizona and other western states
for the past year., arrived here on
Saturday to visit homefolks.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. p. Williams and
j. r., il, are visiting the formers
sister, Mrs. a. Cummins, in South
Carolina.
Mrs. Bessie Hopkins is arranging
to move with her son and daughter to
Davy, w. Va, where she will take
charge of II club house for one of the
coal companies at that place.
Miss Mayola Gillespie is spending
several months with friends in Flori
da. She was joined in Roanoke by
Mrs. a. ID. w. Walton, who will also
spend several weeks in the land of
sunshine and flowers.
Mr.. b. w. Stras returned Tuesday
to Baltimore, where Mrs. Stras has
been under treatment for several
weeks. Late reports are favorable to
Mrs. Stras' early recovery.
In this issue of this paper will be
found an itemized statement of the
Clear Fork district road work. show
ing expenditures, etc, which will be
of interest to the people generally.
The reports of the other two districts
OF the county will be published next
week.
DR.. G. w. Brewster, who, with his
family was resident of Tazewell
up TIL about year ago, has pur-
chased a drug store at Davy, w. Va,
where he expects to move. He has
been living at Welch for the past
year.
Special attention is directed to the
advertisement of The Goodell Com
pany, Antrim, Mass. The Cahoon
Seed Sewer is a popular little ma
chine all over the country, and as
handy as 4 pocket in a shirt. Read
the ad, write the company about it,
mentioning the Clinch Valley News.
Passenger train No. was DELAYED
five hours Saturday night by small
freight wrecl, at Burkcs Garden sid
ing. The train didn't reach Bluiield
until after midnight, and all passen-
gers from the Ciinch, going east and
west, missed their connections and
had to spend the night in the Sum
nit City.
Early last Monday morning John
Asbury, who lives on the mountain
not far from Grafton, lost his barn