Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-01-02
To Our Subscribers.

year 1914 will be better in many
respects than any one of its
predecessors. If you do not find
it so it will be your fault. Try
to be happy. If you are not
happy you will not be prosperous
sure thing.
Just about 80 of you COM
municated with this office dur
ing The month of December,
sending money in amounts rang
ing from one batwing or chuck"
upwards. Wish we could
publish the names of all of you!
AT the very last came a letter
from Judge Alex Beavers, in
time, however, to move his
figures up before his time was
quite out. "Alex" is living the
simple life, on his farm in
Loudon county. The first re-
mittance of the new year was
from our old friend, Capt. II.
A. Caudill, who left us for Mary
land some years ago. He SAYS:
May you live long and continue
to talk good roads, better schools,
bigger hogs, taller corn and more
alfalfa" and so we will. Speak
ing of Beavers-the "B. "list is
the largest of our entire list.
There are a number of these
" BIS" we are anxious to hear
from Some of them havn't said
a word for a long time-we
hope they are not dead Does
your name begin witha b? If |
so, for mercy's sake say some
thing If you don't we may con
clude you are dead The month |
of January will be "B" month. |
We hope to hear from every
subscriber whose name begins
with b, during January. And
then we will let you be for some
time-we want to clear up the
b box. OF course all others will
be heard, as well, but specially
the BIS this month.
Our friend, w. C Witten. of
Steelsburg, sends the paper as
a Christmas present a to relative
in Nebraska Judge Graham
drops card from Florida:
Bob" Johnson, the machinery |
man, card with his photo on it |
"a face once seen never for
gotten: Speaking of Witten-
Will Witten was here this week
on the sad occasion of the death
of his sister, Mrs. Laird. He
lives in Jenkins, Ky, and is
doing well as lumberman and
farmer in that rich, moonshine
section-about 20 miles North |
of Norton on the Big Elkhorn.
The B and o railway comes in
there somewhere. and that is a
growing section. Will was once
deputy Marshall here under the
late John Watts, and always
rode good horse and carried a
good gun in every pocket.
Along in those days there
lived, moved and hid sometimes
in the wild woods about Raven,
an INDEPENDENT, good natured,
but sometimes troublesome scjt-
izen, popular in his section,
named--well. his name need not |
be given. Marshall Watts sent |
his men to that section to locate,
capture and bring in said cit
izen, who had charges filed
against him on the Marshall's
records. Witten. along with
about a dozen, more or less
mounted and heavily armored
cavalrymen after a long ride
and tedious hunt finally had
their quarry surrounded in a |
dense thicket in a denser dark
ness, and in whispers were de-
batting the next move when
bang! bang! rang their mans
Winchester lighting up the dark
ness in streaks, tearing and
scattering splinters from the
fence rails and bark from the
trees. Boys" somebody said,
hes got our range" and the
sound of Gathering horse hoofs
were heard nearly to Richlands.
Speaking of the matter the next |
day, Will said he couldn't hold |
his horse to save his life. The
entire party drew rein away |
along up about Cedar Bluff Will |
said the other day that he still
remembered that night, and
always will.
10. Jones, always on time;
Miss Gertrude Howell, who sends
the paper as present for a year
to her sister in Georgia; John
Daley, Mont Clark at Honaker;
Mrs. John Carnahan, who with |
her splendid daughter, paid the