Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-12-11

In another column appears the ad.
CT the Hawkins Pharmacy. The ad.
is gotten up in such way that buy
ing is made easy. Read it.
Alex Dickinson, the clothes cleaner,
has recently secured large amount
of standardized benzine soap, which
he uses now in cleaning clothes. The
new soap does the work. Give him n
trial.
c. G. Hurt, the hustling young mer-
chant of Cedar Bluff, starts big
Christmas sale on the 18th of this
month. His customers at Cedar Bluff
and vicinity will do well to look into
the prices he is offering.
A singular fire at the home of Peel
Hartman occurred last Tuesday morn
ing. By some unknown means bed
caught fire in Mr.. Harman's home,
but was discovered in time to save the
bedstead and part of the feather bed.
The passenger trains on the Clinch
Valley were several hours late on
Tuesday, due to wreck near st. Paul
Of freight train No. 81. J. b. Spencer,
an extra brakeman, was killed in the
wreck, his body being crushed under
several cars of coal.
Little Jessamine Kendrick, the
adopted daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. j.
L Kendrick, is i'll at the home of her
parents in this town. Her condition
last night was said to have been some
what improved.
Prof. Gollehon is planning Patrons
Day, for an early date. He will invite
every patron to visit the school, and
see what is going on and how. The
school management seems to be meet
ing with universal favor of both pa
irons and pupils.
"The poor We have always with
been the cry. Many of these "poor
might be in good shape, but they seem
to prefer to remain poor. The BEL
gians are in poverty through no fault
Of theirs, and deserve help.
The Masonic Lodge on Monday
night elected the following officers:
Master, II. p. Britain; Senior War
den, w. B. Leslie; Junior Warden, C.
W. Steele; Senior Deacon, ii. r. Haw-
horne; Junior Deacon, j. Ed. Peery;
treasurer, w. T. Gillespie; Secretary,
Jho. S. Bottimore; Tyler, Jno. S.
Thompson.
The unfavorable weather of the past
two weeks has been "hard on the NOV
les" However, good pictures, some
of them very fine, have been shown
each night, to small audiences of "the
faithful" whose seats are always
filled. 1t is stated that the program
for tonight and tomorrow night are
specially interesting.
Mr.. Louie C. Gillian and his pretty
sister, Miss Katharine, of Cove Creek,
son and daughter of j. E. Gillian
were here on yesterday, shopping, and
called to us, left bat-wing and a
half, and were cheerful and pleasant
about 1t, too. Louie very properly OBJ
served, that bat couldn't do much
flying with only one wing and half
Perhaps it would be wise to put the
price up half a wing.
Lanam, the six-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. G. E. Hamric, of Graham
died Sunday afternoon at 2:30
O'Clock, of diphtheria with complica-
tons. The little fellow was only, i'll
Gle week. His throat became badly
swollen and it became necessary to
perform an operation several days
after the disease manifested itself, q
specialist nibeg called in for the pur-
rose. The physicians also used the
antitoXin treatment, but the little
patients weakened system was un.
able to resist the ravages of the
disease, and he was only relieved
when death ensued Sunday afternoon.