Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1916-04-21
WEEKS NEWS OF
POUNDING MILL
Mrs. John Whit Dies AT Her
Home al Paint Lick Tenn
perance Address-I.ocal and
Personal News Notes.

L. III. Williams is here this wccl,
he guest of his niece, Mrs. Julia
vi lliams.
Mrs. }. II. Altizcr and children Wis
itcd their sister, Mrs. Alex Beavers
and family Sunday at Wittcns Mills,
and took in the school entertainment
rt that place Saturday night.
Mrs. Jane a. Mcclure and dnuEht
or, Miss Pearl, of Cedar Bluff, spcn
Sunday visiting thci l. daughter, nm.
sister, Mrs. w. b. Steele and family.
Mrs. steele returned with them /
visit her old ncighbor, Mrs. lsrac
White, who has been desperately il
Of pneumonia and galsto,;cs. but i.
recovering to the dcIgh, of her man,
friends and relatives.
The least son of Mr.. and Mrs. X
X. Gillespie has been very i'll since
Saturday with symptoms of pncumo-
nia, hut is better.
Miss Grace Zimmerman spent from
Thursday to Saturday afternoon in
Tazcwell.
James Nccl, the T.. f. d. carrier,
was on vacation from Friday to Mon
day.
Rev. N. "A. Conner, OF lIonaker. the
Nj. f.. Church minister, will preach in
the Union church next Sunday night
lie and Rev. II. T.. Greer. of Maxwell,
are holding nrotractcd meeting mt
Mt. Olivct in Baptis. Valley.
Rev. Kate McDilda, of Cedar Bluff,
will preach in the Church OF God next.
Saturday night and Sunday at II
o'clock. Eeverybody invited.
The crochet club spent Il most en-
joynblc afternoon on las. Thursday
with Mrs. c. NJ. Hunter. Excellent
refreshments were served. Tomor-
row the club meets with Mrs. G. G..
Mclain.
Gardening ia the order of the week.
Rev. Mr.. Hughes, the Episcopal
minister from Dante, preached an cx-
ccllcnt scromn on Sunday niwht to
guest of Mr. and Mrs. c.. Nj. Iuntcr.
Ernest McMuIlim, former clerk for
W. B. Steele IL Company, WAS here
Sunday on his way from II visit to
his mother, Mrs. Margaret McMullin,
Wittcns Mills. lie was cnroutc to
Knob, where he has chragc of sto re-
j. b. Gillespie spet Friday night
visiting his parents, MIR. and Mrs.
John Gillespie ut Wittcns Mills.
DIR. NJ. b. Crockett, of Tazcwcll and
nephew, Davy Crockett, of Bluelicld
and Charles Moss, and others, drove
down from TaZewell via Baptist Val
ley in exactly an hour in Drs. passen-
ger Hup. Mr.. Crockett and Mr.. Moss
were cnroutc TO Lebanon, the form
er selling llups, and the latter buy
ing stock.
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Hoops, of w.
Va, are visiting their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Milton Harris.
Mrs. j. Il. Altizcr and children Wis
tied Misses Ada and b. Pruett at the
town of Richlands Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. w. b. Steele, son and
daughter, DR.. Rex Steele and Mrs.
John Gillespie attended the funeral
of Mrs. Steclc'a niece, Mrs. John
Witt at Paint Lick on last Saturday at
3 o'clock, at the home Of her mother,
Mrs. Jane Greer Repass, she having
passed to the great beyond the day
previous mt 4:30 p. m. mt the home of
her husbands parents, Ryburn Whit.
The funeral services were conducted
by Rev. Mr.. Durham, of the Method
ist church, of which she was mem
ber. She was buried at the Vcsscy
Green cemetery by the side of her
father, the late James A. Rcpass,
son of Il. a. and Theresa Repass, of
Cedar Bluff. Besides Il young husband
and one littl cson, 2l months old, she
leaves a mother and eight or nine
brothers and host of relatives and
friends. She was beautiful woman,
a lovely character and was only 10
years old. The cause other death
was probably some affection of the
brain. Sc had been i'll about three
weeks. The young couple we're just
arranging to go to housekeeping in
rooms over w. B. Steele & Co.'S
store, of which Mr.. Whit was mana
ger.
Misses Jessie Gillespie and Kate
Hurt attended the funeral Of Mrs.
John Whit at Paint Lick Saturday.
Mrs. Eva Robinson, of IIarrisville,
excellent temperance address last
night the Union church under the
auspices of the Womans Christian
Temperance Union, to good sized
congregation. Today at 2 o'clock at
Mrs. Steele's she reorganized the un-
ion with the following officers: Mrs.
w. B. Steele, president, (Mrs. r. X.
Gillespie having resigned); Vice Pres
ident, Mrs. C. II. Trayer and Mrs.
Martha Sparks; Recording Secretary,
Miss Gussic Christian; Correspond
in Secretary, Mrs. Julia Williams;
Treasurer, Mr.. C. II. Trayer; Obscr-
walton of Sabbath Leader, Mrs. Mar
tha Sparks; organist, Mrs. John B.
Gillespie. For lack of time this p.
m. this union put Off organization of
l.. T. L., but expect to take this up,
also medal contest and flower mission
work. Mrs. Robinson was the guest
of Mrs. Steele while here and will
speak at the Methodist church at Cc-
dar Bluff tonight, accompanied by
! Mrs. Steele.
A phone message this morning an.
nounces the sudden death of Whit
Lowe, of Cedar Bluff, husband OF
Rebekah Lowe, at the Williams hos
pital at Richards yesterday after
noon at 2:l5, where he had for an op.
Grafton the day before. lie was found
unconscious, (wherc he had fallen in
his yard), with blood gushing out OF
! hic mouth opI pnco tho folIinfr how