Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-09-11
Pounding Mill News.


Mrs. Faith PARROT, an organizer
of Woman's Christian. Temperance
Unions, was at Raven Saturday, and
organized union at that place.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Lambert and
family, and Mr.. and Mrs. White and
children, of Raven, had picnic dinner
in the grove near the Boxley quarry
last Sunday. Several friends from
this town Joined. the party.
The following persons motored here
Sunday and called on Mrs. r. X. Gil
lespie: Mrs. Geo. C. Peory, of Wise;
Miss Stella Stras, of Roanoke; Miss
Bessie Peery, Mrs. Mary Peery, and
Marvin Mcclure, of Cedar Bluff.
Mrs. w. B. Steele attended the Sun
day School picnic at Rocky Dell, tax
ing advantage of the opportunity of
putting up posters and distributing
temperance literature, and attended
the Eastern Star Banquet at Tazewell
Saturday night. She was the guest of
of Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. A. Repass.
r. f. and II. G. Gillespie spent Sat
urday and Sunday in Thompson VAL
ley, the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
Ward and family.
School opened yesterday with Misses
Garnett Phaar and Mary Brown as
teachers. Almost one hundred pupils
were present. The young ladies will
spend the winter in the home of Mrs.
r. K. Gillespie and Mrs. Rebecca
Williams. We predict a fine school
for these young ladies'. notwithstand-
ing the fact that the schol is crowded
and an additional teacher nodded.
Miss Cora Mcclure and brother,
Eddie, of Pounding Mill Branch, are
attending school here, and boarding
with their sister, Mrs. Bob Petts.
Rex Steele, B. S., left Saturday
for Kansas City, Mo-, to finish his
course in the Kansas City Veterinary
College.
Mrs. R. X. Gillespie visited Mrs.
Geo. r. Mccall at Raven Sunday.
Jim Bob Hurt has gone to Sou Falls
S. D., to spend the winter with his
aunt, Mrs. james Kelly and accept
position.
R. M. Sparks attended the famous
Sunday School and temperance rally
in Baptist Valley last Sunday. He
was delighted with thelectures.
Willim Caldwell was delivering
wagon load of peaches here yesterday
from his farm OH the branch.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. T. Altizer were at
Gillespie Sunday.
Mrs. Alex Beavers and pretty lit
tie daughter, of Wittens Mills, visited
their brother, j. T. Altizer Sunday.
r. M. Sparks made n business trip
to Cedar Bluff yesterda.
Rev. Mr.. Tucker, of the Episcopal
church, will preach here tonight,
and will be the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
C. M. Hunter.
Miss Margaret Williams visited at
Cedar Bluff Sunday.
Miss Elizabeth Yost, and brother,
William, of Tazewell, are visiting the
Misses Gussie and Henry Christian.
Mrs. w. b. Harris, of this place,
who underwent serious operation in
a hospital in Newport News, is i'm
proving. She is being looked after
by her brother, DIR. Geo. Williams, of
that city.
Rev. Edward Smith will preach
here next Sunday.
Miss Emily Morris, of Richmond,
is spending a couple of weeks visiting
her cousins, Mr.. and Mrs. C. M. Hunt
er.
Lois, Mary and Katie Hurt, Misses
Mary B. and Jessie Gillespie are at
tending Tazewell High School.
Mr.. William Shepherd, while Wis
iting beyond Whitewood near Dismal,
was present on last Saturday at a
meeting and baptizing of thirty per-
sons. The meeting is being held by
Rev. Luther Goss, formerly of this
place, and others. Several more were
to have been baptized on last Sunday.
Rev. MIR. Goss has lately returned
from three months preaching tour
in Nebraska. He is of the Church of
God.
Rev. E. A. Rich and Bishop B. d.
Tucker, of the Episcopal church, were
here last night. The latter preached
an excellent sermon from John 18th
shapter.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Myers returned on
Sunday from weeks visit to rela-
tives at Portsmouth, Roanoke, Hol-
Inns and Bluefield.
The Number of Men.