Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-04-10

Several interesting articles, one on
the question of dancing, were received
too late for this weeks issue. They
will be published next week.
Beverly Stras, who has been spend
returned to Winston-Salem, N. c.,
on yesterday, where he is engaged in
the practice of law.
Attorney E. L. Greever and Mr..
and Mrs. ]. w. Chapman were in
Charleston, w. Va, first of the week,
where Mr.. Greever and Mr.. Chapman
argued an important case before the
state Supreme Court.
Mr.. L. D. Ball, of the west end of
the county, was here one day this
week, and moved his subscription
| figures up notch. He reported that
| one or two parties had already
turned their cattle to grass in his
community. The same has been done
in several communities.
The article in the News of last
week, in which it was stated that the
| road work in Jacksonville district
had been stopped by an injunction,
was incorrect. The work will proceed
as usual pending the settlement of the
Il
| pervisors.
| Attorneys here for the Graham
anti-saloon people are preparing pa
pers to be presented to the state Su-
preme Court asking for an injunction
restraining the authorities there
from holding an election in Graham
On May the End for the purpose of
determining whether or not liquor
shall be sold there.
Mrs. M. l.. Peery and three of the
children of Jesse Peery are i'll at the
formers home at North Tazewell.
Two of the children have scarlet fe-
yer and the other one diphtheria. Mrs
Peery is suffering with blood poison
ing in her left thumb.
Rev. DIR. ]. R. Graham, the well
known Presbyterian minister of
Winchester, Va, died on Wednesday
morning at his home in that city,
lged sixty-five years. One son, H.
Fucker Graham, is president of Hamp
den Sidney College, and another, Rev.
Alfred Graham, is pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Lexington,
Va.
Revs. John A. Taylor, of Roanoke,
and j. ID. McAllister, of Richmond,
were here this week arranging for
circulating the petitions for the state
wide election to be held this fall, and
otherwise arranging for the prohibi-
ton campaign. Both these gentle
men spent some time in Graham
this week making speeches and work
| ing in the interest of the dry forces
in that city in the hope of helping
defeat the opening of saloons in that
! place.
The Hiland Club, which proposed
giving dance on tonight, have called
it off on account of the scarlet fever
. situation. Mayor Hartman is said to
have issued an order this week d.
, rected to the sergeant, in which the
5 officer was directed to stop the pro-
? posed dance, and, if necessary to do
: so, arrest the dancers. This order is
, said to have incensed several mem
r bers of the club, who threatened the
mayor with the recall. The board of
D health issued later order forbidding
) the dance, and the invitations have
r been recalled, and the arrangements
abandoned.
D Messrs. w. T. Witten and John c.
/ Hopkins are in Williamson, w. Va.
y this week preparatory to opening up
:, a general mercantile store in that
i. progressive little city. Recently they
3 in connection with Messrs. Arthur
S and Charles GRAPHICAL, of Maxwell
S purchased the entire stock of the Will
e Hanson Mercantile Co., paying there
1 for, it is understood, something like
S $4,000. This stock will be added to
f very materially, thus giving them the
S largest and most complete line of
: general merchandise carried by any
: concern in Williamson. Mr.. Hopkins
/ will, it is understood, be manager of
the new store.