Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-08-20

Leslie. ~
b. F. Lewis has moved his shoe
shop from the Henry & Graham build
ing to the office building of DIR. G. w
Greever, at the head of Main st.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. V. Cavett of
Sanford, N. c., are guests of their
relatives, DIR. and Mrs. p. d. John
ston.
G. o. Thompson, of Thomson Val
ley, is now the owner of an Inter
state, which he recently purchased
from DR.. NJ. b. Crockett.
Mr.. Hobart C. Kiser, of Dante
passed through town on No. IL Sun,
day enroute to Piedmont Business
College, in Lynchburg.
Captain Reese Bowen was taken
seriously Ill at his home here last
sunday morning and for several hours
his condition was alarming to his
family and friends. He became much
better Sunday afternoon, and has con
tinued to improve.
Mrs. G. f. Tynes and children, of
Glade Spring, are in the city the
guests of their husband and father.
=, r.. Tynes, of the Star Motor and
Machinery Co.
DIR. jackson is inaugurating a uni
que sale, as will be seen from the ad.
on this page. He will sell you any
Oh the articles enumerated in the ad.
at a ridiculously low price. 1t is called
One Cent Sale. Read the ad.
The news has just come to town of
the marriage of Miss Grace Bowser.
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. John Bow
ser, OF Tazewell, to Mr.. w. T. Tot
ten, of Chatham Hill 1t is stated
that Mr.. and Mrs. Totten have gone 10
housekeeping at Marion.
Edgar Steele and Alex Scott thresh-
ed the wheat of G. R. Brown the first
of the week. j. j. Roach, who has
charge OF Mr.. Browns farm, informs
us that 517 bushels were threshed
from twelve and half acres of wheat
which is believed to be about the best
record made in the county.
V. l.. Stephenson and d. Lockhart
have lust finished building an Office
room for the News. A partition has
been built dividing the office from
the work-room. Our "bums," however,
will find the same easy chairs and
newspapers that they have been ac-
customed to these many years.
On the first page is an advertise
ment Of big lot sale for Richards,
as the Sprato Addition. Richards is
a coming town, and you will do well
to invest your money there.
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The Blacky mill of the w. NJ. Rit-
ter Lumber Company, in Buchanan
county, was destroyed by fire early
last Saturday morning. 1t is said that
the mill was insured for $4,000. AL
bert Hopkins, of this town, is en-
ployed at Blacky, but so far as is
known he suffered no loss from the
fire.
The public schools will open in
Tazewell county on September 9Th
Division Superintendent w. Archie
Thompson has been as busy as pos
sibie. getting things in shape for the
opening.
A fishing party composed Of j. S..
C. T. Peery, ]. f. Bundy, Robert Bot,
timore, VIM. Bottimore, Wethon john
ston, Jno. w. st. Clair, Sprole Alex
ander, Bob Dickinson, left here Mon
day for weeks fish in the Holston
river.
party of prominent Mount Airy,
N. c., people passed through TaZe-
we'll this week. They motored from
Wythevillc to this place Wednesday,
spent the night at the Jacksonville
hotel, and left Thursday morning.
Those in the party were: Mr.. Geo. d.
Fawcett, Miss Hollingsworth, Miss
Gertrude Smith, Miss Sparger, Miss
Fulton, Mr.. r. e. Imam, and Mr.. ].
E. Marion.
Mr.. John d. Daley, who has been
in bad health for several months, was
taken suddenly worse Monday. He
was brought to town Monday night
and early Tuesday morning taken to
Bluefield, from which place he was
taken to the Westbrook Sanitarium
in Richmond for treatment. Mr.. Dali
ley's friends in this town and county
are much distressed over his condi-
ton, but hope that he will soon be
restored to his family.
Mrs. Moses Humphrey, and two of
her daughters, passed through town
Saturday enroute to their home at
Liberty Hill, from a visit to Mrs.
w. T. HARRISON in Abb's Valley.
Mrs. Humphrey was in high spirits
over the reception given her by the
! good people of Abb's Valley. She men,
toned the names of o. B. Moore,
C. B. Lowers, and others, who made
her visit to that community pleasant.
Beverly Murphy and Irvine Horton,
local Scolored men, were parties to a
fight on Main Street Saturday night.
Horton was painfully Gut, it is said,
by Murphy, the wound necessi.sting
Sc, eral stitches. Murphy surrendered
to the Sheriff after the fight and was
u cked I'D He was admitted to bill