Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-01-26

is successful surgeon. He is class
cd among the best in the State, and
his well equipped sanitorium has
proven q great blessing and help to
many sufferers of this section, and
through his skill and treatment many
lives have been saved, no doubt.
Ihe sanitarium is one of the most
valuable additions ever made to the
town of Richlands and has "put Rich
lands on the map" as one expressed
1t. The sanitarium had ten patients,
some of whom had been quite i'll in
deed, but all of them doing well.
We were shown through the build
ing by Miss Hancock, bright little
woman, who Is general manager. And
she, manages" too and does ii wei.
She doesn't look strong physically
but--Wcll, SHE has everything and ey-
erybody well in hand, aifable and kind
withal
DIR. Williams promised me Il cut of
the building for the paper and will
send 1t some day. if he don't forget It,
The High School.
Several of us visited the Hirb
school, battered the door, rang the
oell for sometime, but failed to ret
my response. ] heard. however, only
ne very best reports from the school.
MISS Evans. the principal is BOSS"
and mistress Of all she surveys. Her
rolps OF ten teachers are conductinp.
Z fine school. Two of Tazewel's fine
young ladies are in the faculty.
MISS Ellen Scott and Miss Bessie
Jackson and "they are filling the bill"
too, it was said
The Teachers Club House
To provide for the convenience and
acc0ilmodatlon of teachers, the town
e1 Ricalands bought n 14-room house
iof 94,ooO, and turned it into board
ing emporium for the teachers of the
school, obviating the necessity aud
worry of hunting around for "a plnce
to board" trouble teachers have
in al the towns of this section. None
of this trouble and worry in Rich
lands The buildinp is equipped with
dining room, cook room, etc. and the
rooms have beds, chairs, etc, the
teachers furnishing their own bed lin
ell, about the same as is the custom
at the colleges. Miss Evans is man
ager, and the expenses, which in
ciudes board, fuel and lights, is paid
by tie teachers equally. amounting
was informed, all told, not over sis
per month, and sometimes lower. The
teachers are expected to board in the
club so there is no danger of the sue
cess of the scheme. No doubt other
towns will adopt some such system
sooner or later. They will have to.
We, +. II. Forbes and myself, had
our brief visit with the Mayor of the
city, j. B. Crabtree, and a nleasant
time we had. "Jim' has Il fine $1,000
brick house, bran new, steam heat
baths, double parlors, library, ct Get
era, and is we'll and comfortably
fixed. His good wife was Il Miss
Brown, sister to George Brown, the
merchant, and daughter of the late
Patton Brown. The Mayor is de-
servedly popular in his little city, in
business, school and church circles.
Just across the street lives T. II. Da-
Wis, the insurance man, with whom
Mr.; Platt and II. A. Repass had
their sojourn. The dinner we had
well, it was just right and finely
served and above all, an open, honest,
hospitable welcome, made the occa,
sion memorable.
This gossip must end somewhere.
and this is a good place. l would like
TO speak of the other citizens and
more of the town generally, but not
now. j. a. L.