Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1916-10-27
INTERESTING NEWS LETTER OF
NORTON HAPPENINGS.


Norton, Va, Oct. 24.-We are hay
ing stiff and stubborn fight in Wise
county this time. Slemp and his fore
es realize that they are up against it
IN this county and are making every
effort possible to hold their own. I'm
ported speakers from Nangatuck and
Choiffowee, from Yubadam to Kala-
nlazoo have invaded the county telling
our folks what great thing the
protective tariff was, which Henry
Stuart called last years birds nest.
Truth is, it is so easy to corner n re-
publican now by simply asking few
questions that you cant help being
little sorry chat there is so little for
Them to stand on" Mr.. Hughes was
pressed so hard as to what he would
have done in the Mexican trouble that
he finally and unfortunately said he
would have recognized Huerta. Jack
Montague said in his thrilling and hair
raising eloQuence before that great
assemblage ut Cleveland last week
that the assassin who struck the below
ed Mckinley down was just rs worthy
OF recognition as the assassin Hucrta,
who struck Madcro down. Mr.. Hughes;
is no doubt n great jurist, but as a
statesman and politician he is about
"a littlest American since the days
of Tom Thumb.
Mr.. Gilmer's Letter.
Glad to see that fine letter in the
News from Mr.. Gilmer Of the Leba-
non Bank, stating how an individual
could get money under the new cur
rency law. l heard two Republicans
last week telling batch of fellows
at the depot that nobody in this sec
ton were benefited by the Wilson
currency law; no one could get or had
gotten any money from these banks.
They were good men-one was our
friend, R. M. McCorkle, of Big Stone
Gap: Now he must be told better.
lie has been awa" over in the noun
tains of Diclenson the past year AMI
so wei satisfied with his lumber bust
ness over there that he has just swal-
lowed everything a pessino republi-
San told him. He is too truthful, hon
est and conscientious a man to be mis-
led in such a way. Nobody in Wise
county has been compelled to call on
enc OF these "Uncle Sam" banks. Our
local banks are only too anxious to
take in all the rood napcr that is of
fered.
The Wise County Fair.
We had the best fair of the South
west. Such display of fine fruit
has not been eXcellcd in the State. the
horticulturalist sent from Blacksburg
to judge the fruit at the Fair said all
that high table land around Wise
Court House would ere lonr become
a solid orchard. From oCeburn you
go straight up until you reach the top
of Guests Mountain, about ike it is
going un Rich mountain from Taze-
well, but when the top of Guests
Mountain is reached it makes off to
the north almost level and for miles
there is great plateau of country
with high attitudes. This is the finest
fruit section of Wise county. The fin
est opportunity eXtant for men with
small capital, or young men, is right
here in Wise county. Just get hold
of so or rs acres of this fruit land.
No matter if its all in woods, clean
it up and plant it in apple trees: 1t
will make one independent in q few
years. An Industrious man can afford
TO borrow money from Uncle Sans
bank and invest it in this fruit land.
Under the Farmers Loan Act he can
borrow it at S per cent and take DO
years if he wants that much time to
pay it back. Will some Republican
brother pitch and carry the tune to
"AmaZin' grace"
Pete Litz, one of Tazewell's boys,
is the pioneer of fruit DEVELOPMENT
in Wise county. Several years ago,
with but little capital. he purchased
land right on the top of Guests Noun
tain and began planting it in fruit.
This year he will market six to eight
thousand bushels of fine winter an
pies, and he is just getting fair
start. A cold storage with a capaci-
for about 5000 barrels of anples,
is being put in by the owners of the
Norton Ice plant. T. r. S.
P. s.-Wonder if Hughes would
have done different from Adam in the
Garden, or from Moses in leading
the Israelites through the Wilder
ness and Red Sea? Roosevelt says
when the Lusitania was sunk, that he
would have seized every German ship
he could have laid hands on. Vice
President Marshall said, eyes, and
you would not have found San Juan
Hill and it would have taken more
than one niger regiment to rescue
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