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

Theodore Pobst, a student at the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, is at
home for the Easter holidays.
Our old countryman, Mr.. II. A.
George, of Warrenton, has been heard
from. He still has a bank account
and sends part of it to this office.
Mrs. A. S. Higginbotham and little
daughter, Hortense, are at Castlewood
this week visiting the formers pa
rents, Hon. and Mrs. Walter Dicken-
son.
Among the letters received this
week was one from Mrs. j. f. Rudd,
of Mannering, w. Va, formerly of
this town. Mrs. Rudd reports Mr..
Rudd's health quite poor, and also
that of her son, Fred, who worked
here for a while in the shop of C. T.
Patton.
Our old friend, w. II. Rye, of Po-
cahontas, was here on Monday, and
pushed up his figures into next year.
His neighbor, Mrs. Edwards was with
him-both having business matters
in the clerks office to look after.
Albert Keith, son of Mr.. William
Keith, died at his home here Sunday
morning of tuberculosis. He had
been ill for several months. Burial
was on Monday in the new cemetery.
Mr.. j. c. C. Dunford, assistant
secretary of the Baptist State Sunday
School Association, was n visitor to
Tazewell on last Friday.
The editor is under obligations to
Mr.J. Graf Gillespie for consideration
shown him on his recent visit to Tip
Top. If the Squire" will pitch right
into the Sunday School work at Tip
Top he will succeed the same as he
does in other business which they saw
is fine.
Robert Hawkins, who is taking a
| course in pharmacy in Richmond, on
last Saturday underwent an opera
ton for appendicitis at the Johnston
Willis hospital in that city. The OPP
Grafton was successful one, and Mr..
hawkins is recovering nicely.
A number of people from this town
will go to Shawvers Mill tomorrow
to attend the Sunday School Conven-
ton. The meeting will open at 10
O'Clock and close in the afternoon. All
the Sunday school teachers and Off
GERS of every school in that commu-
nifty are urged to be present.
Hon. Richard Evelyn Byrd, the
newly appointed United States attor-
ney. for the western district of Vir-
ginia, having been confirmed by the
Senate on last Tuesday, is this week
moving the office from Tazewell to
Roanoke, where his official head
quarters will be during his incum-
bency in the office.
John Hart has been confirmed as
Colonel Dave Bailey's successor and
its up and away from the Ninth dis
trict with the Collectors office. It
isn't much, nohow, as it has only
helped Lou Summers and Dave Bail
ey to put butter on their ash-cakes
and sugar in their liquor for the last
II vears.-Wise News.
Several Graham ladies have been
in Tazewell this week and carried
away with them a number of suits.
skirts, etc. from our stores. The
people are fast finding out where to
get first class goods at moderate
prices. The Graham ladies here
We're: Mrs. John Baylor, Mrs. Lee J.
Barbee, Mrs. Davenport and Mrs. Fl.
B. Frazier.
A large number-too large to emu
merate hereof the readers of this
paper. have been rushing in their
subscriptions to get in before NAV
!st, when the new rate of $1.50 goes
INTO effect. Several new subscrip-
tons have also been received this
week.
Miss Jennie Kits came up from
Clear Fork on Tuesday, and says Mr..
Jones is about the same. and still
hopeful to "come with the grass"
Miss Dorothy Jones was with her.
and, by the way, it was Miss Doro,
thy and not Miss Bessie, as we had
IT, who baked the fine cake for some
fellow to steal. Neither cake nor
dish had been heard from at last ac-
count.
1t is respectfully requested of
those who send typewriter eontri-
buttons to the columns of the Cl;nch
Valley News, that the matter be
double spaced. 1t is very difficult
for the operator on the lfnotype to
handle solid matter rapidly with any
degree of accuracy; and a compliance
with this request will not only facil-
itate his work, but will insure abso-
lutte accuracy in the words and mean
ing of your contributions.
Mrs: B: M. Brown and little daugh-
ter, Virginia, left Thursday for Roa- !
noke, where the former will take up |
her duties as docket clerk in the Office |
of Hon. Richard E. Byrd, the newly |
appointed United States attorney for
the western district of Virginia. Miss
after a few days spent in
Roanoke, will go to Havre de Grace,
Md, to visit her grandparents, Mr..