Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-02-13
FOREIGN VISITOR
AT POUNDING Mill
A Chaldean Missionary Solicit
ing Funds For Orphans in
Asia---Personals From
Down the Clinch.

sometime visiting friends and her
aunt. Miss Lettie Ringstaif.
Mr.. j. Il. Altizer made Il business
trip to Cedar Bluff and Tazewell to-
| day.
Rev. Ed. Smith preached in the
Methodist church Sunday night. We
heard several compliments on his SER
mon. His quarterly meeting will be
held here the first Sunday in March.
The meeting will probably be pro-
tracted.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. X. Gillespie had as
their guest one night recently, Mrs.
George Ward, of Thompson Valley.
Mrs. Ward and Mrss. Gillespie spent
the next day mt DR.. Baylor,s mt In
dian.
James Ncele spent Saturday night
and Sunday with home-folks on Lit
tie River.
Rev. james Graham has returned
to his home in Washington county.
Mrs. VIM. Mulkcy, of Graham, re-
turned home Sunday after spending
the week with her mother, Mrs. Susan
Ringstaff. Mrs. Mulkey is recovering
from spell of typhoid fever and is
still rather weak
Mrs. M. j. Sturgill spent the weeks
end mt Richlands attending the quar-
terly meeting which is being held by
Rcvs. w. A. Long and Riddle, of
Grecnville and Eliznbethton, Tenn,
respectively.
MIR. and Mrs. Lloyd Shamblin and
two children left this morning for
English, w. Va, after few days Wis
it to his mother, Mrs. Cora Shamblin.
This family, us well as other fami-
lies who have left here recently.
would have removed here had there
been any vacant houses available.
Mrs. James Azbury and mother.
Mrs. Angie Hnrman, of War, w. Va.
spent last night here with friends.
Mrs. Azbury on yesterday purchas-
ed the residence Of the late Geo. w.
Harrison mt Tazcwcll and will prob
ably reside there after April Ist. They
have valuable property at War.
Miss Mary Brown, primary teach
er in the school here, spent the weeks
end with homefolks at Indian.
The groud is about covered with
snow, which began falling about 2:3O
today.
Mrs. j. Il. Altizer and children spent
Saturday night and Sunday at Rich
lands with parents, Mr.. and Mrs. AL
ex Altizcr.
MIR. and C. II. Trayer's baby has
chicken qox-a mild case.
Mrs. r. X. Gillespie spent Satur
day Mt Tazewell.
A good deal of booze was in evil
dence here Saturday. There were no
arrests but should have been.
Visitor From Turkey. :.
Rev. Archdeacon Alexander Kursa-
kos, Of Asiatic Turkey, "a Chaldean
Christian), spent over Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. w. b. Steele and family
He was sent by the Bishop to solicit
funds for the orphan school work of
that poor benighted country. We all
have heard something of the fearful
prosecutions they have endured at the
| hands of the Hurds and Mohamedans
and the many children rendered home
less. They get no help from the gov
/ arnnnanf OnI pA,,onat1nl -
this personal canvas. They are try
| ing to rebuild their orphan home and
educate the little ones as their par
| ents would have done. We trust that
brother Kuriakos may be successful
in his labors of faith and love. The
Master said: "He that giveth cup
Of cold water to one of these, my de-
ciples he shall in no wise lose his re-
ward" Be careful to entertain stran-
gers for thereby some have enter
tanned angels unawares. Brother
Kuriokas left parents, brothers a wife
and three year old baby in far away
Asia and expects to return when he
has raised the amount, 900 pounds
sterling, which is something over $3,-
900 in our money. He has been
preaching thirteen years and hopes to
send his wife and child here when the
child is ten years old, to be educated.
Bible readers will remember that the
Chaldeans are descendants of Abra-
ham and that from Jude, son of Jacob,
Jacob, son of Abraham, came the He.
brew from which our Bible was trans
lated. He also says that Christ, Alb
raham, Isaac and Jacob all spoke the
Chaldean, the same language that hc
does. Their alphabet consists of g.
letters; you begin at the back Of the
book to us and read right to left, so
when they have finished the book they
are at the first or beginning, as we