Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-11-27
FOR SALE -KINDLING
Heater Wood. j. G. Buston.

The Daughters of the Confederacy
will meet in the reading room of the
Ladies' Club on next Tuesday, Deem
Der /.
The statement was made here yes
/ terday that Stonewall jackson Insti-
tute will be rebuilt at once. The
school will be resumed next week in a
vacant hotel at Abingdon.
Miss Virginia Alexander, of Ora
ham, is the guest of Miss Elizabeth
| Ward.
Misses Miriam and Mamie Rose
Buchanan spent yesterday at their
homes in Thompson Valley.
Mr.. Oscar Barns, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
Ward, Miss Marguerite Ward, Mr.. and
Mrs. Sam Thompson and others from
the Cove, were here yesterday.
Geo. w. Keister, who has been ill
several weeks at his home at North
Tazewell, was reported better yester-
day.
1t is regrettable thatn either Mrs.
Geo. Buston nor Mrs. II. G.. Peery, of
North Tazewell, cannot be reported as
getting any better.
EARLY shopping" for Christmas is
all right. How about early advertis-
ing? Get in your copy early in the
week, and avoid the rush.
Sam Hoover went to Radford yes
terday for short visit to friends.
|
Miss Tot Mccall took Thanksgiving
dinner in Biueiield yesterday.
1t is said that over two dozen car
loads of turkeys have gone out of this
section in the past two weeks.
\ \ new lodge Of Odd Fellows was es-
| tablished at Bandy this week by a
team from the lodge at Richards.
Mrs. A. II. Reynolds, who has been
I'll at her home at Richards several
weeks, died Thursday. The burial took
place Saturday at Big Creek She
leaves Il husband and four children.
Fred r. Steele is on a business trip
70 New York City.
Mrs. II. c. Vawter, who has been
visiting her mother, Mrs. Cosby
Whitley, at North Tazewell, has re-
turned to her home at Elkhorn, w.
Va.
Mrs. J. B. Pcirce, of Norton, arrived
Wednesday night to be the guest of
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo r. Sur
face.
A report reaches this office that
Robert kincer killed three hogs yes
terday that netted thirteen hundred
pounds. Who can beat it?
Mrs. Garst, wife of L. r. Garst, the
express agent at North Tazewell, is
reported very i'll. She lost her baby
a. night or two ago, and her condi-
ton is said to be serious.
Col. Jas. A. Browning brought to
this office one day this week a sample
of his Abs Valley corn. 1t is n yell
low Dent, medium sized, nice looking,
good, sound corn. The Colonel has al
lowed 1t to become mixed with white
corn Just little, which no doubt di-
minished the yield.
! iiOliy, COlOTeu, was arrested
yesterday upon complaint of Martha
klng upon charge of taking &C ON
fort and table cloth from the King
woman. Acting Mayor Repass heard
all the evidence, and gave Miss Holly
the table cloth and Mrs. King thee ON
Tort, and assessed each of them $3.50.
Mr.. Biddison, the representative of
the United Wooden Mills Co., tailors
of Blucield, was here on Tuesday, and
seemed to do "a land office business"
His $500 suits, made to order, are
popular. lie was very busy taking
orders all day. His house advertises
occasionally in the Clinch Valley
News.
Rev. Mr. Hurley, the Presiding
Elder, had another attack of his trou-
| bic last Friday morning, and has been
confined to his room since. He was
able to sit up a while on yesterday.
lie has decided to go to Richmond for
treatment SO soon as his condition will
admit of the journey. His many
friends are anxious but feel assured
that his condition is not at all seri-
Gus, and that he will soon be well
again.
p: +. Gregory, white, and George
Hollinsworth, colored, who escaped
from the convict camp at Liberty Hill
several months ago, were caught this
week, Gregory in Russell county and
Hollinsworth at Pounding Mill. Eol-
linsworth was tried yesterday and Civ
en- one year additional to his unexpired
term. Gregory will be tried next week,
III 1t is said that this is the fifth finn,
Gregory has escaped from the clutch
es of the law.
"Uncle" Davy Church, who moved
from Tazewell to Smythe county a
short time ago, has been in town this
week on business and pleasure bent.