Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-05-07


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Work on the renovation of Main
street mas begun in earnest. Kinser
and Vermillion are hard at it.
Rev. R. B. Plat, pastor of the
Tazewell Methodist church, has been
in Floyd county this week, where he
delivered the valedictory address be-
fore the Floyd High School.
The Methodist church is to be ded-
icated here Sunday, the dedicatory
sermon to be delivered by Rev. DR.. E.
E. Wiley, pastor of the Bland Street
Methodist church. Special music is
being prepared for the occasion, and
no doubt large crowd will be pres
ent.
John A. Sayers, of this county, has
recently bought fine farm in the
county of Greenbrier, consisting of
PTS acres and also the old home place
of Dan Trigg near Abingdon. He
paid about $4,000 for the Greenbrier
farm and about $4,000 Tor the Abing-.
don place.
Mr.. Harry w. Bane motored to town
Wednesday morning in his Studebaker
car and says "she runs like q top"
He brought with him Misses Sadie
Mcclure and Maggie Hurt and her
brother, Geo. w. Hurt. Mr.. Bane has
the agency of the Studebaker cars
and has sold number of them at Ce-
dar Bluff and community.
Prof. Tom Litz, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. ID. II. Litz, of Morristown, Tenn.
formerly of Tazewell, is on visit to
his kinspeople and acquaintance in
this section. He has just closed his
second year as teacher in Smyth
county. Tom grew up in this town, is
a fine, intelligent young man, and
will be heard from in the future.
The Daughters of the Confederacy
will meet on next Wednesday after
noon with Miss Lyde Tynes to ar
range for the Memorial Day exer-
cises to be held here on May 25th 1t
is necessary that all the daughters
who possibly can attend this meeting,
as much is to be done to make the ex-
crciseS q success.
DIR. NJ. B. Crockett has just sold two
; fine 7-passenger Chandler automobiles
. one to S. B. Ward and the other to
DR.. w. E. Baylor. DR.. Crockett says
that it almost impossible to get the
; Hup cars, for which he is local agent,
. the factory being taxed to its capac-
ity to fill orders booked sometime ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. John R. Gildersleeve,
: Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Bowen and Mr..
. and Mrs. Geo. w. Lewis have all got
ten settled in their new homes on
: Tazewell avenue. The next impor-
tant events on the avenue now will
. be the house-warming parties these
. new settlers" will give. These func-
. tions will be looked forward to with
. interest by the neighbors and friends
. round about.
Jerome Knoll, of this town, who
l has been a student at Randolph Ma
. con Academy, at Bedford City, fol
/ the past session, was operated upon
!. in Lynchburg last Friday afternoon
1 for appendicitis. The latest reports
!. indicate that he will make a speedy
. recovery. Mr.. and Mrs. w. 7. Wit
ten went to Lynchburg Friday to be
. with young Knoll, Mrs. Witten re-
naming in the city Tor short visit
to her old home. Mr.. Witten re-
turned Monday morning.
Mr.. L. A. Tynes, proprietor of the
Star Motor Company, has just re-
turned from a business trip to the
Northern and Eastern cities. He
visited, of course, the wonderful Ford
factory, and says things about this
. factory almost unbelievable He held
his watch on the loading department
and by actual count three finished
. cars were put out every so seconds,
1870 cars every hour. This makes
1900 cars day, and the supply is not
equal to the demand. Mr.. Tynes Wis
tied other factories also, all of which
are turning out large numbers of
cars daily.