Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-03-19

Don't wait till you are ready to plant
corn to repair your drill. When or
dering repairs send the number of
| piece wanted.
Star Motor & Machinery Co.
Mrs. r. A. Osborne, who has been
critically ill at her home in Graham,
is reported better.
Liviticus Chiffin, who was wanted
in Wise county for felony, was ar
rested in Graham Monday by police
man Mathews, and will be returned
to Wise for trial.
M. l.. Peery was called to Bristol
last Thursday night on account of the
death of the baby of Mr.. and Mrs.
Roy Peery.
| f. M. Moss, Prof. Ewing Lawson.
! Robert Moss, John Thompson and
| John ID. Greever, prominent Burke's
Garden citizens, were in town this
week on business.
j. j. Porter, state food inspector,
made tour of Tazewell county last
week, and was in this town on last
| Thursday. He discovered number
of technical violations of the pure
food laws, it is said.
Mrs. C.. A. Thompson has returned
from Bluefeld, whittier she went to
see her little granddaughter, Sarah
Katherine Thompson, the young child
of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy S. Thompson.
OF course Mrs. Thompson says it is
the prettiest baby she ever saw.
Owing to the illness of Mr.. w. p.
| Payne, President of the Tazewell
Hotel Corporation, the advertised
meeting of the stockholders of the
corporation was not held, but is to be
held at some future date.
Clarence Hoback, son of the late
Thomas Hoback, of this town, who
died this week in Bluefeld hospital,
/ was brought here for burial yester-
day.
Miss Clark, whose home is near
Danville, is visiting her sister, Mrs.
N. IL. Kiser, ut North Tazewell.
Miss Clark is en- route to her east
ern home after spending some
months with another sister, Mrs.
Davis Aldrson, of Russell.
AS we go to press the most no.
able feature of the war in the east
seems to be the inevitable entrance
of Italy into the war on the side of
the allies. The offer of GER
tain territory in Austria, as the price
of neutrality appears to have been
turned down-the Italians evidently
thinking that the territory in ques-
ton, may not be delivered"
Miss Margaret Whitley, daughter
of Mrs. Cosby Whitley, of North
Tazewell, who is a student at the
Martha Washington College, had the
misfortune to break her arm by fall
ing from n fence at Abingdon last
week. She is now in the Bluefield
sanitarium for treatment.
Miss Mamie st. Clair, who so sue
cessfully conducted the work of the
county demonstration for the girls
canning clubs last season, has been
retained in the position by the Board
of Supervisors for this year. She
requests that girls in the county, who
will join the club make application
to her at once. A number of hand
some prizes will be given this year
to, those who excel in any given line
The competitive exhibits will be
shown at the county fair this fall.
According to the Graham Daily
News the so-called preliminary shut
file" of the Republicans in the conven-
ton here last horse day is causing
some alarm among the faithful. Ii
appears that the political graves have
been dug for certain of the spell
binders" who have forgotten the Ian
guage of the tribe, and that the obse-
quies will occur at the Richards con-
vention. 1t appears that the bond is
sue fight has not been forgotten.
Our friend, II. G. P. Mcneil has
moved his family from Indian. to Sa-
lem, Va. He has bought a small farm
near that historic town where all the
land is rich and markets nearby ant
good. Mcneil has many good friend.
in Tazewell, who will miss him and hi:
family.
Mr.. j. f. Sisk, engineer at the pow
er house of the Street Railway Com
pany, called in recently and paid hi.
tuition" He has been at the throt
| tie in the power house for four years
and during that time has worked ev
i cry day, including Sundays, with the
| exception of about six days, when HI
| was called away from town, or from
sickness. Pretty good record. Mr.
Sisk came from over about Ivanhoe.
| Miss Lettie Rhudy, of the "trib,
| of Levi" of Burke's Garden, spen
| Tuesday night in Tazewell with Mrs
| B. f. Lewis. Miss Rhudy has JUS
returned from the educational con
ference, which met in East Radford
at the normal school, March 18th
. 18th, and 18th. She informs us thai
this meeting was we'll attended anc
proved very beneficial to all present
There were teachers, big, little, old
and young at the meeting. Every
one left Radford with head full OF
new ideas. After the conference clos.