Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-11-27
POUNDING MILL.

Pounding Mill, Va, Nov. 24.--Miss
Gussie Christian has as her guest
Miss Elizabeth Yost, of Tazewell.
Mrs. Rebecca Williams spent Sun
day with her nephew. DIR. w. r. Viii
liams and family, and reports a new
boy baby in the home.
w. B. Steele and A. C. Fowler were
business visitors to Tazewell yester-
day.
Rev. James Graham and family, of
Washington county, spent Saturday
night and Sunday visiting his sister,
Mrs. Fl. w. Christian and family.
They were on their way to Honaker to
take charge of his new work in that
section. Mrs. Rebekah Yost, of TaZe-
well, was also a visit Sunday.
Mrs. w. B. Steele spent Sunday Wis
iting her mother, Mrs. Jane A. Nc
CURE and home folks, at Cedar Bluff.
She reports her rrother, who has been
sick, as better, Lut her brother, Jas.
Mcclure, as being very poorly on that
day.
Mrs. Chas. Mcclure has been very
sick for the past week at her home
on Pounding Mill Branch. Her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Robert Petts, was called to
SNN AANh otoii ySolSi0siN-
Mr. Fred Steele is loading tur-
keys here today, car went off from
here for him one day last week. Also
Mr.. Graf Steele and Mr.. Vandyke
from Paint Lick, are looking after
the shipments-4S coops by express
today. Sorry we have lost the names
OF the banner turkey raisers and sta
tistics of that section.
Mrs. Pattie Sparks and little son,
wife of the late Rev. iona Sparks, are
out from Oklahoma, visiting relatives
and friends, guest of her brother-in-
law, r. M. Sparks and family, and
left today to visit her daughter, Mrs.
j. N. Duggen, in West Virginia.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. II. Griffith and
children, from Whitewood, are also
visiting their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
r. M. Sparks.
MIR. j. I. Altizer was business Wis
itor to Tazewell today.
Gladys, four-year- old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. J. T. Altizer, who has
been quite ill for week, is better.
Many porkers have been slaughter
ed the past week.
Rev. w. S. Bullard preached
most excellent sermon on Sunday
night to the young men especially.
Guest of Mr.. and Mrs. II. NJ. Sparks.
There is talk of getting up Bel
gian fund here, if some one would
just take the matter up, it seems to
me that some of the people here have
plenty and to spare. Clothes for the
women and children would be god
send; good secondhand garments, no
matter as to style, anything clean and
warm. Who will contribute?
Mrs. James Johnson, of this town,
has been on the sick list for few
days.
Born-to Mr.. and Mrs. C. H.
Steele, boy; to Mr.. and Mrs. John
Ascue, girl-all of Paint Lick-11
and z each, respectively. Mr.. and
Mrs. Steele have just completed their
nice large new residence.
Mrs. w. G. Gillespie was shopping
in Tazewell one day last week.
1t is said that Mr.. G. p. Williams
will move his family back from Okla
homa to this place, that the entire
family has malaria and chills.
Mr.. Doyle Shamblin, son of Mrs.
Cora Shamblin, was married to Miss
Mollie Williams, formerly of Cedar
Bluff, one day last week. The boys
here gave them big serenade on
their farm.
Rebekah, the 5-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. George Vandyke, near
Laurel, was burned at II and died
at $3.50 on Friday. Her clothes caught
from an open Franklin stove. Child
only five minutes before was sitting
behind the stove playing with the cat.
After catching afire Elsie opened and
shut two doors, making her way to
the kitchin, where her mother discov-
cred her clothes and hair all afiame.
She wore an apron but the balance of
clothing were outing and burned cas-
lily. Interment in the Yandyke grave
yard nearby on Saturday.
Mr.. Harvey Osborne, of Tanners
vile, and jackson Sheets. of Liberty
Hill, spent Sunday and Monday with
their uncle, Mr.. M. H. Burnett and
family, of this place.