Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-01-22
POUNDING MILL.
Deaths of Former Tazewel Citizens.
Other Notes of Interest.

Pounding Mill, Jan. 20.-Miss MAJ
garet Hurt is filling the vacancy in
the school here, while the principal.
, Miss Garnett Pharr, is away being
called home on account of the sick
ness and death of her father. Miss
Pharr expects to retura the last of the
week.
Mrs. T. A. .Repass, OF Indian, yisi-
ted her cousin, Mrs. w. b. Steele, last
Thursday.
w. r. Sparks, son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Il. nj. Sparks, who holds position at
Dante, and who was quite sick last
week. with tonsilitis, has resumed his
duties.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. H. McGraw, of
Steelsburg, attended church here OH
last Sunday.
Mrs. r. X. Gillespie on Monday Wis
tied her daughter, Miss Mary b.,
Tazewell High School student who has
measdles at Mrs. Gillespie's mother,
Mrs. Mary O'Keeffe's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse While and baby,
of Belfast Mills, visited their sis
ter, Mrs. James Johnson on Sunday.
Mrs. VIM. Johnson, of the same city.
spent Friday and Saturday here. Mrs.
James Johnson was quite i'll last week
but is better.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. M. Hunter andthree
children returned Saturday from near
Richmond, where they had spent the
holidays with homefolks.
DR.. Zimmerman was n business Wis
itor to Richlands Thursday.
III. G. Gillespie was business Wis
itor to Cedar Bluff yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ely Robinett have
moved to Mr.. David Claypool's farm
on Claypool Branch, where he will
farm this year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Robinett visit
ed her father, Mr.. John Lowell on Lit.
tie River Saturday night and Sunday.
Mr.. ]. 7. Altizer was n business
visitor to Tazewell Monday.
Mrs. w. b. Steele last night and
today made her usual visit to her
mother, Mrs. Jane A. Mcclure at Ce-
dar Bluff, who, we are glad to report,
is almost entirely recovered from her
recent illness.
The Rev. Mr.. Hughes, of the Dante
Episcopal church. preached most
excellent sermon here Sunday night.
He is regaining his eycsight, having
been operated on by one of Tazewel's
eye specialists, DR.. Ed. Peery, of
Bluefield.
Rev. w. S. Bullard, of the Tazewell
Christian church, preached n splendid
sermon here Sunday, and was the
guest of Mrs. r. nj. Sparks.
News has just reached here of the
death of Thomas w. Heninger, which
took place at his summer home at the
healing springs in Dempsy; Idaho. on
the 31st of December, at which place
he and his mother, Mrs. Anna Bart
lette, went in the early summer for
their health. He died of dropsy and
heart trouble, and had been an inva-
lid from early childhood lived in
California sometime for his health;
also in Canada and Utah. Five
years ago he visited his aunt, Mrs. j.
Marion Mcclure at Cedar Bluff and
Mrs. John w. RcarGe, of Grafton and
relatives at this place, where he spent
about ten months. Ho was about 33
years of age. a kinder hearted man
never lived. Was a member of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints. Besides his widowed mother,
he leaves one brother. Mr.. Shelby
Bartlette and many relatives and
friends, who lament his early demise.
News has just reached here of the
death of Mr.. Floyd Suiter, of near
Ogden, Utah, which took place at his
home on the 31st of December of
pneumonia. He was grandson of
the late Peter Gose, of Burke's Gar
den; his mother was Katherine Gose,
who was born and raised at the stone
house on her fathers farm in Burke's
Garden, she being a sister of the late
Mrs Sallie Claypool and Mrs. Theresa
Mcclure. He laves wife and two
grown children. and four grand chill
children: His old friends, who linger
in Virginia will be sorry to hear of
his death.