Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1921-09-16
ALL DAY MEET
in THE COVE
Billy Sunday Club of Bluefeld
Guests of West End of the
Ccunty--Fine Addresses by
Visiting Members.

Last Sunday was "Red Letter"
day in, the Cove, from all accounts.
not only great social but also OF;
spiritual enjoyment A large num-
Der of the members of the B. s. q.
OF Bluefield. headed by Judge Ma>-
nard, President, and including sins
ers and speakers. with a respectable
contingent of the club of TaAewelI.
gave the people of the Cove such n
DAY and treat as will not soon be
forgotten. The entire service was
under the direction of w. w. Nc
Neal, Chairman Of the Extension
Committee. There were two scr> i.
ices, IL and 3 o'clock. The following
is clipped from the Bluefield Tele.
graph:
with n throng of about four hun.
dred people present the Billy Sun
day Club of Bluefield put over what
IS declared to have been the most
successful meeting conducted bv nj
out of the city Sunday at the Union
church near Maiden Springs, in
Tazewel county, Va.
Nearly hundred members of the
club, many of them accompanied bv
their wives and family, set out from
the corner of Raleigh and Federal
streets Sunday morning at 8:3O|
O'Clock ON the forty mile drive AMI
arrived at the church shortly be-
fore eleven. The service was prac
tlcally an all-day affair and was
opened at 11:15 by Judge J. Frank
MAYNARD, president of the club.
There were two services conduct
ed, the programs for each being m
charge of the club and under the di
rect supervision of the clubs eXten
sion committee of which w. w. Nc
Neal is chairman
The program for the first meet,
ing was opend with the singing ofI
the old familiar tabernacle song,
Brighton the Corner" after which
Kew. b. Q. Shannon, pastor of the
church offered a brief prayer The
quartettc from the Christian churcn,
Messrs: Gollehon. Campbell, Roberts
the Wildwood" Mrs. Roberts play
ing the piano accompaniment A
solo, sung by Mrs. Nichols, accom-
panied by Mrs. Barrow, was follow
ed by scripture reading by Ernest
Henson, superintendent Of the Blanll
Street Methodist Church Sunday
school. Following n hymn, Rev. Mr..
Shannon made brief Introductory
talk for Judge Maynard and then
the judge called on Captain Rcesa
Bowen who responded with a stir
ring talk which plainly deeply cffec-
ted all who heard him. Another |
song was followed by an excellent
address by Judge Maynard, in which
he took occasion to point to the his
tory of Virginia and its achiev,
ments. The Tazewell quartette, COM
posed of Mrs. Alexander, Miss Tai
bert and Messrs Steele and Russ
then sang, accompanied by Miss Wit
ten which proved n most welcome
and pleasing surprise. To close an
excellent program, Mrs. Maynard
sang the "Ninety and Nine" after
which MI. Shannon dismissed the |
audience for lunch.
And such lunch! The people of
the vicinity evidently thought the
people from Bluefeld were hungry
for they had prepared great feast
and sandwiches. cake. fried chicken.
and other good things were passed
around and around again as the big
crowd stood under the shade of the
beautiful trees that fill the church
yard. a S~lii
At o'clock the second service
was started. A prayer by Rev. Mr..
Sells followed several opening songs
and then the Billy Sunday quartette
sang. They were followed by Mrs.
Frank Roberts, who sang beauti-
full solo. Scripture reading by Rus
sell Ritz was followed by another
selection by the Christian church
quartettc and then Ernest Henson
made brief talk. A solo by Mrs.
Nichols, and then w. w. McNeal,
chairman of the extension committee,
delivered the afternoons address.
Everybody seemed delighted with
the meeting, The visitors from
Bluefield were simply overwhelmed
by the generous hospitality and evil
dent gladness of the Tazcwell peo-
pie to see them, and the latter seem
ed pleased with the efforts of the
Billy Sunday Club.