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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Clinch Valley News Friday, January 5, 1940 MAIN STREET HAS HAD A GOOD YEAR Business Institutions Have Prospered And All Set For 1940 Main Street, (which includes all sections of the county), Wound up the old year in good shape. Waiving aside a few imaginary injustices the people of the country generally passed the most eventful year of history. The more abundant life has been enjoyed by a larger percentage of the population than ever. On this particular Main Street on which we move and have our being, upon the pavements of which we have been permitted to travel for a long period of time, little out of the ordinary has taken place. There have been no tragedies, no failures. To begin with the nearest neighbor to the News, the Tazewell Nation Bank has suffered with growing pains in the past year, but came through with flying colors. Its President, Will Tom GILLESPIE, took and enforced vacation during the early part of the year, but when he got back from the hospital he was agreeably surprised to find that the institution had been run just as well in his absence as otherwise. Cashier Grat MULLIN, and his assistants, Russell PAINTER, Albert MCCALL, and iss Jane TICE have seen to it that the income and outgo balance each afternoon before the work stops. Around the corner is Dennison's Cleaning place. Ward DENNISON has a good boss, hence has prospered and kept the wolf from howling around the place....Sayers Bros. Department Store is supervised by Bill HUGHES who also has a boss. Mrs. Mamie GREEVER helps serve the trade. Hughes was with 5 & 10 for some time, but moved up town.... Over this store Virginia Smokeless has a little army of men and women keeping Jewell Coal moving for the Jewell Ridge Coal Corporation. How we do miss George ST. CLAIR. His doctor son, Houston, has taken up the reins and is driving ahead. Bob BROWN, Bob MOORE, Barnes MOORE, George REPASS, Walter CHAMBERS, ......REYNOLDS, Mrs. ZIMMERMAN, Misses Virginia CUTHERSON (?), Mary HAVILAND and Virginia HOBSON are always on the job unless they are somewhere else, and Bro. PEERY keeps the demand alive. C.T. PEERY & Sons weathered the year well, mode progress and money. Bane PEERY is the senior partner and his brother, Raymond is second in command. Peanuts (Baxter) DAVIS, Jim AKERS, Warner COLLINS, Cal COLLINS and Bill Surface is the force..... Haley's Clinch Valley Pharmacy carries on as usual. He has been chief cook and bottle-washer since Poston went to Pearisburg. "Pick" GILLESPIE is chief assistant, with Dorothy WHITMAN and Tasey MORRISON tending bar, and other departments of the store .... Henry & Graham building takes care of Lawyers Powell ROYALL and Crockett BRWEN, Insurance experts Jno. W. ST. CLAIR building on the second floor is filled with folks. There's dentist ROWLETT, lawyer Carl Crockett GILLESPIE, the county agent's office, with John BUNDY in charge, the farm administration headquarters, with Mr. HARMAN in charge, ably assisted by Misses FARMER and CRUISE. A part of the second floor is reserved for wooden overcoats and a nicely furnished room in connection. The store down-stairs, with a fine line of hardware, is in charge of Buzz PEERY, Undertaker WILDER, Fred LARIMER and Buss DYE. They take care of the store and funeral work. The Appalachian folks have quarters in the office, with Mrs. Irene PEERY in charge. Charley LARIMER, the veteran, Bill POSTON, Jiggs GILBERT, Dave ROWE, and other Appalachian men are in and out of the office at frequent intervals. Across the alley is the old Bank of Clinch Valley building. Sam HOOVER, with his watched and clocks also in local agent for the Motor Vehicle department in the sale of license tags. Miss Virginia HAGER, secretary to the school board, is always on the job keeping the school affairs in shape Boss GREEVER drops in occasionally. Upstairs, Alex RUSSELL, land agent for the Pocahontas corporation, with his assistant, Miss Hattie WHITE, has his office. On the same floor, Mr. WORTH practiced law for many years, but poor health keeps him at home most of the time. In the next building Herbert WARD is carrying on the business his father Jeff WARD conducted successfully so many years. He's all right. Mrs. Hallie WALL, Ernest LEWIS and Mrs. Newell BRITTS have the situation well in hands. Upstairs, Dr. J.N. HIGGINBOTHAM, Dentist R.P. COPENHAVER, lawyer A.S. HIGGINBOTHAM and son, Sidney, who writes insurance; contractor J.T. HELDRETH - they are all carrying on. When it comes to the court house next, the "gang" can be found on the job. Bill PAINTER, N.P. REED, Arthur MCGUIRE and Mrs. BAILEY are there most of the time, and Guy FLANNARY comes up when the work gets heavy. And there's clerk, Elmer KISER across the hall, ably assisted by Mrs. HURT, Miss MAXWELL and Glenn GILLESPIE. He keeps up with the procession. Upstairs Judge BUCHANAN can be found in his office unless he is somewhere else. The commissioner of the Revenue, C.M. WAGNER, takes over for another four-year term, with the able assistance of W.G. GILLESPIE and Marvin McGuire... Chairman Harry BANE, supported by Joe F. LITT (?) and Reece ANDERSON, take over for another four-year term as Supervisors... The new sheriff Bowen THOMPSON, deputy WITTEN operate next to John HORTON, Commonwealth's Attorney Gillespie. The board of supervisors hangs out in this building the first Tuesday in each month. Miss Martha Wade ALLISON'S 4-H club has an office in this building... The Hearthstone Tea Room is next in line, operated by Mr. and Mrs. H.S. SURFACE, assisted by the boys. Real food is dispensed here. This is about all we can stand of this review of Main Street this week. Keep tuned in on the station for next week's broadcast. PARTIES ARE GIVEN FOR MISS ST. CLAIR At an afternoon tea given by Mrs. Chase ADKINS, announcement was made of the engagement and approaching marriage of Miss Rosalinda ST. CLAIR to Mr. Frank G. FARRIER, of Newport, Va. The wedding will take place on January 20. Miss St. CLAIR is a daughter of Mr. Glenn M. ST. CLAIR, cashier of Farmers Bank of Clinch Valley of Tazewell. Mrs. ATKINS and Miss ST. CLAIR and Mrs. M.P. FARRIER, mother of the bridegroom-to-be, and Mrs. Sam WILSON and Misses Jacqueline and Glenn ST. CLAIR, sisters of the bride-elect, composed the receiving line. Mrs. C.F. TYNES of Bluefield; Mrs. John Wharton GILLESPIE, of Tazewell; Miss Nancy TYNES of Bluefield, Rachel ROYALL, Catherine ST. CLAIR, Betty TICE and Sammy SCOTT and Mrs. C.P. GILLESPIE assisted in serving. HONORED AT TEA Newport, Dec. 25 - Mrs. Mason MILLER entertained at tea on Wednesday, honoring Miss Rosalinda ST. CLAIR, of Tazewell. The guests were served tea and coffee in the dining room. Music was presented throughout the afternoon by Mrs. Clifton STAFFORD, violinist, accompanied by Mrs. A.L FARRIER at the piano. PARTIES Miss Rose Allen HIGGINBOTHAM honored Miss Rosalinda ST. CLAIR on last Thursday at her home on Marion Avenue, with a bridge party. Six tables were in play, high score being awarded to Miss Ellen Bowen and the floating prize to Miss Martha O'KEEFFE. Miss ST. CLAIR was the recipient of a gift. Miss Sammy SCOTT entertained on Wednesday afternoon in compliment to Miss ST. CLAIR. THREE RECOVERING FROM CAR CRASH Miss Bulah OWENS, of Haysi, with a fractured pelvis; Miss Katherine WALTHAL, of Richmond, similarly injured and David OWENS, of Richmond, a fractured fore-arm, was the result of a car crash early Monday morning near the residence of G.M. St. CLAIR. Miss WALTHAL was owner and driver of the car. Approaching Tazewell from the East, evidently at high speed, the car skidded in the road near Mr. ST. CLAIR'S, went over the rock wall and struck a tree, demolishing the car and injuring the occupants. The injured were taken to the Bluefield sanitarium for treatment. MRS. ST. CLAIR DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Mrs. Maria Tiffany ST. CLAIR, wife of the late Alexander ST. CLAIR, a prominent farmer, banker and business man of Tazewell county for half a century, died at her home in Tazewell Wednesday morning at 2 o'clock, following an illness of a year and a critical illness of several months. She was in the 86th year of her age. Surviving are one daughter and eight sons; Mrs. Marea HALEY, of Tazewell; Drs. C.T. ST. CLAIR and Wade H. ST. CLAIR, of Bluefield; Otis ST. CLAIR, of Welch; John, Frank and Alex ST. CLAIR and Glenn M. ST. CLAIR, of Tazewell. The funeral service has been set for Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock and will be held in the Methodist church, in charge of the pastor, Rev. J.A. BAYLOR, assisted by other Methodist ministers of this section. The mother of the ST. CLAIR boys has contributed much to the welfare and up building of this territory. Dr. Wade ST. CLAIR has distinguished himself as a surgeon and is a large stockholder in the Bluefield Sanitarium; Dr. Charley ST. CLAIR has likewise become one of the leading specialists in Bluefield. In the field of medicine these two ST. CLAIR boys have made valuable contributions. The ST. CLAIR'S moved to Tazewell about 35 years ago from Bluestone, where the elder ST. CLAIR, owned a large blue grass farm, and which is now operated by members of the family. Mr. Alex ST. CLAIR represented this district in the Virginia Senate for a number of years, being one of the few Democrats chosen for generations past. His contributions to the social and religious life of the community are monuments to his memory. MOTHER OF MRS. ROBERT HOPKINS DEAD. Mrs. Ida Stone JOHNSON, widow of the late A.S. JOHNSON, died on December 23 at her home in East Radford, after an illness of two weeks. Mrs. JOHNSON was born in Snowville, January 23, 1866, a daughter, of Dr. James L. STONE and Margaret Agnes WOOTEN. On Oct. 2, 1886, she was married to Albert Sidney JOHNSON. Mr. JOHNSON died in Radford in 1936. Mrs. JOHNSON was active in civic and religious affairs of Radford and was a member of the Baptist Church, charter member of the Legion Auxiliary and of the Kings Daughters, later becoming Radford Woman's club, and a member of General William Campbell chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution and also the U.D.C. There survives the following children: Frank J. JOHNSON, Radford; Guy JOHNSON, of Stuart; A.S. JOHNSON, Miss Maude JOHNSON and Mrs. Robert HOPKINS, of Radford; four brothers also survive: J.L. STONE, of Crewe; Dr. E.B. STONE, of Roanoke; W.W. STONE, of Oklahoma City and Frank T. STONE, of Arlington. GEORGE W. GILLESPIE IS TOWN OFFICER George W. GILLESPIE, of Boissevian, former court house deputy for sheriff HILTON, now belongs to the town police force. He went to work Monday morning. CARL GILLESPIE HAS NEW OFFICE Carl Crockett GILLEPSIE, former Commonwealth's Attorney, has moved to offices in the Peery & St. Clair building for the practice of law. LUCILLE CRABTREE IMPROVING Lucille CRABTREE, who was injured in an automobile wreck during the Christmas holidays, is recovering from the accident in a Richlands hospital. Carter HERALD, charged with the responsibility for the accident, was tried in Trial Justice court last week, and fined $100 and given thirty days in jail. His driving permit was revoked. MAXWELL SOCIETY On Wednesday, December 13, the Maxwell Missionary Society met at the home of Mrs. Jennie PORTER, near Tazewell. The meeting was opened by Mrs. W.B. GREEAR, president. Mrs. Ella PEERY gave the mission study in which we finished the book on India. Mrs. W.H. MCGEE had charge of the program. The program was very interesting. The meeting was turned over to Mrs. GREEAR. She called for a session with the treasurer by the members. After this there were reports by different superintendents. The meeting closed with prayer by Ms. J.M. CHARLES. During the social hour, Santa visited Mrs. PORTER, assisted by little Deloreas MULKEY, who, carrying a basket of presents, brought by all the members, placed it at Mrs. PORTER'S feet and helped her open and pass these around for inspection. The hostess served refreshments to fourteen members and the Rev. HILL. TAZEWELL STUDY CLUB MEETS Because of conflicting engagements during the Christmas holidays, the Tazewell Study Club held it's December meeting Tuesday night, January 2, at the home of Miss Rachel ROYINI, with Miss Katherine PAINTER as joint hostess. Mrs. Carl GILLESPIE gave a most interesting account of the life of John MARSHALL from his birth in a log cabin in Fauquier county, Virginia, through his long service to his country as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, showing his admirable qualities as a lawyer, a statesman, a writer, as well as a notable jurist. Miss Katherine PAINTER chose Henry CLAY, another famous Virginian by birth, as the subject for her most enjoyable paper, in which she pictured Clay as an eminent lawyer, statesman and above all the "Great Pacificator." The Club welcomed Mrs. Mabel HURT, the Misses Nettie JENKIN, Gladys VALDON and Leona BOWMAN as guests for the evening. LAWYER BRITTAIN MOVING OFFICE Attorney George Robert BRITTAIN (you know him as "Buddy") has moved his office in the room on Main Street formerly occupied by the late George MCCALL. He can be found there if you get in trouble. (This is not an advertisement). DEPARTMENT HEADS REPORT TO BOARD The Tazewell County, Board of Supervisors, composed of Harry W. BANE from Maiden Springs district; Reece ANDERSON, Clear Fork and Joe LITZ, Jeffersonville district, all of whom were elected at the recent election to succeed themselves, met at the court house Tuesday for their reorganization meeting. Mr. BANE was named to continue as chairman of the board. L.C. NEAL, superintendent of the county farm, was host as the farm on Tuesday at luncheon for the board, county clerk KISER, treasurer PAINTER and Commonwealth's Attorney GILLESPIE, sheriff THOMPSON, the personnel of the welfare and health units, J.W. WITTEN, farm physician and Mrs. Ellen BOTTIMORE, Supervisor of the woman's work under the WPA. The afternoon session of the board was given to an informal discussion of plans for the coming year. A resclutor, was placed guaranteeing to the state department of highways necessary rights of way for the construction of projects on secondary routes 524 and 627 in the Bandy section by the convict cap now employed in the county. Reports were heard from Dr. Lynwood FARLEY, health director for the Russell-Tazewell unit, Miss Gladys VAIDEN and Miss Eula Jane ARMSTRONG, superintendent of welfare, gave a report of the work of her department, Mrs. Ellen BOTTIMORE of the WPA sewing groups. Bills for salaries, materials, etc. were passed and ordered paid. The supervisors will have a joint meeting with the county school board Wednesday to discuss budget for the ensuring year. BURKE'S GARDEN HAS DOG CASE Tyler Boling's Shepherd Jack Tried For Sheep Killing But Justice Says Case Not Proven Burkes Garden turned out enmasse Wednesday at the trail of T.R. BOLING'S shepherd dog Jack, charged with injuring a high-priced ewe of C.J. MOSS. Dogs raided Mr. MOSS'S sheep one night during the holidays, the discovery having been made by Cleve HENINGER, who notified Mr. MOSS sometime after midnight of the raid. HENINGER is said to have shot at the dogs, one of which was alleged to have gone in the direction of T.R. BOLINGS and the other went in another direction. Next morning when a checkup was made it was discovered that one large ewe was dead and another badly damaged. Investigation led to the belief that the dead ewe had killed herself by running against a tree. The injured ewe showed signs of having been lacerated by a dog. Investigation developed that two LAMBERT boys, Lee and Jean, were passing the scene of raid about midnight, and saw the fire from HENINGER'S gun and heard the report. A short time afterwards, the shepherd Jack came along from the direction of the sheep pasture, according to the LAMBERT boys. However, Cleve HENINGER, who was close to the dogs, failed to identify either of them. He stated that he know the shepherd Jack well. Game Warden Ebb WILSON was called into the investigation, and with Mr. MOSS went to the home of Mr. BOLING and located the dog with the LAMBERT boys said they had seen leaving the scene of the raid. Mr. BOLING and the game warden were preparing to lead Jack away and shoot him, when the question arose as to the costs of the matter, whether Mr. MOSS would claim damages for the sheep killed. It developed that Mr. MOSS proposed to claim heavy damages because of the injury to the valuable sheep and then Mr. BOLING changed him mind about killing the dog, and stated before he would agree to the execution of Jack his guilt must be proven. So Jack was tried in his absence and found not guilty. The late Senator VEST, of Missouri, endeared himself to dog lovers by his classic oration in the defense of a dog, but the orators in this cas, Hubert PEERY and John BOGGESS, saw no occasion in this trial for emotional appeals in his honor. The Senator recalled that the dog was man'st best friend. He stayed by him in prosperity and in poverty, he licked the hand that whipped him, and when the final scene is enacted your dog will rest his head upon your mound and refuse to be comforted. Some effort was made to connect old Hitler, Alex MEEK'S monster bear, with this sheep killing incident. It was stated by one Burke's Garden citizen that if the bear was brought to trial, the evidence would pile up so high he wouldn't have a ghost of a chance. Some one suggests that a capias be issued for old Hitler and placed in the hands of deputy sheriff Andrew WITTEN for execution with instructions to being him in dead or alive. WITTEN'S experience in the marines qualifies him as a good marksman and if he got a sight of the old marauder that would be the end of him. Burke's Garden gunman are said to be getting bear meat hungry and may make another desperate effort to gratify that craving for wild meat. The resent snow makes it easy to track the sheep killer. MARRIAGES Wyatt-Bordwin Mr. and Mrs. Estle BORDWINE announced the marriage of their daughter, Gladys Audrey, to Mr. Raymond WYATT, on Wednesday, December 20th. The marriage was performed in Tazewell, with the Rev. C.F. LUNDY, officiating. Mr. WYATT is the son of Mr. and Mrs. S.J. WYATT, of Pounding Mill. Buchanan-Cruise Miss Dorothy Virginia BUCHANAN and Mr. Elzia CRUISE were united in marriage, Friday, December 23, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.H. BUCHANAN, of Tazewell. The marriage was performed by the Rev. J.A. BAYLOR using the ring ceremony. The bride was attired in white dress, with matching accessories. Only members of the immediate families witnessed the ceremony. The bride is a graduate of Tazewell High School and West Virginia Business College. She is employed as bookkeeper for Cruise Motor Co in North Tazewell. Mr. CRUISE is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J.M. CRUISE and is employed by his father as salesman for Cruise Motor Co. Mr. and Mrs. Cruise left December 24 for a tour of the Southern States. Smoot-Maxwell On Saturday, December 30, at Tazewell, Miss Virginia MAXWELL became the bride of Mr. T. Richard SMOOT, Jr. the Rev J.A BAYOR, pastor of the Methodist church, reading the impressive single ring ceremony. The rites were witnessed by the members of the immediate families, other relatives and close friends. The parsonage was lovely in Christmas decorations which lent added attractiveness to the always solemnly beautiful service. The bride were a street length costume of heavenly bule crepe with accessories to match, her only ornament being a necklace, a gift of the bridegroom. She wore a beautiful shoulder corsage of roses, also a gift of the groom. Miss Maxwell, the charming daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.R. MAXWELL, of Maxwell, Va. was educated at Richlands High School, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, and Concord college, Athens, W.V. and was an active member of Delta Sigma Spailon Society. Since finishing school she has been successfully employed in the grade and high schools of Tazewell County, from which position she resigned in December. Mr. SMOOT, son of Mr. and Mrs. T.R. SMOOT, of Bluefield W. Va., since his graduation from school, has been connected with the Norfolk and Western Railway, securing several promotions and is now yard master at Weller Yards, at Grundy, Va. Immediately following the marriage Mr. and Mrs. SMOOT left for a trip to New York. The bride choose for traveling a jungle green ensemble trimmed in milk fur. Upon their return they exert to reside at Grundy. Harman-Thompson Mr. and Mrs. C. Henry HARMAN are announcing this week that marriage of their daughter, Letitia to Mr. Sam J. THOMPSON, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bowen THOMPSON. The marriage took place September 30, 1939, at Bland, Va. GRATTON Gratton, Jan. 4 - The old year 1939 has gone with its joys and sorrow, troubles and the new here, 1940. We are one year more at the end of the way. And we are thankful that our country is a peaceful one. Let's keep it so. Miss Ada BURTON spent the holidays at home, returning Monday to her school in Thorpe, W.Va. Mrs. Mary McFARLAND, of Keystone, WV spent the holidays with Mrs. E.C. MCFARLAND at this place. We had a watch service at Concord Church Sunday night. Watched the old go and the new come in. Rev. LUNDY preached at 8pm after which we had an old time experience meeting. Then Mr. and Mrs. LUNDY had a bible questionnaire, which was very helpful and enjoyed by all. At the 11 pm hour, Rev. L.W. PIERCE preached a fine sermon and at 12 had the Sacrament. Mrs. G.G. JONES spent Friday and Monday with her brother and wife and sisters, Ross, Ada and Ella, and while here she spent the day with her sister, Mrs. Jennie McFARLAND. Mr. and Mrs. CALDWELL spent Christmas with Mrs. CALDWELL'S mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. A.I. REPASS here. The CALDWELL'S live at Yards, Va. Mrs. M.L. BURTON, Misses Ada and Ella BURTON spent one day last week with their sister, Mrs. JONES. Mr. and Mrs. M.L. BURTON and Miss Ada BURTON motored to Coeburn to visit the ASHWORTHS. Mr. ASHWORTH is 92 years of age and still works in his shoe shop. His is very active. The Concord Sunday school had a Christmas program and tree for the Sunday School. SHERIFF GOTS OFF TO GOOD START And Commonwealth's Attorney Moves in For Four Years - Carl C. Gillespie, Attorney at Law. There was little confusion when R. Bowen THOMPSON sat down in Dick HILTON'S chair in the sheriff's office Monday, and no friction when Trube HELDRETH took over the large family of men confined in the county jail, and Albert HAGY retired to his home on Highland Ave. Ex-Commonwealth's Attorney Carl Crockett GILLESPIE bid farewell to the office where he has wrestled with big and little criminals, and his relative John W. GILLESPIE took over the office for better or worse. Andrew J. WITTEN received his "baptism of fire" Monday when he was called upon to bring a prisoner from Lebanon, which was his first job. Sheriff THOMPSON, deputy WITTEN and Commonwealth's Attorney Jno. W. GILLESPIE succeed good men in office, and they will discharge their duties in like manner. Trube HELDRETH took over the jail Monday morning, and when noses were counted, thirty one answered present, but before the day was over this number had been increased. The Sheriff has an able number of assistants A.L. McMEANS, Jewell Ridge, J.J. JEWELL, Raven; Arnold ECKALD, and W.F. SHUMATE, Pocahontas; H.N. MORRIS, Boissevain. A deputy will be appointed for Graham later. E.E. CROCKETT and T.W. HARMAN take care of Bishop. Boss WAGNER'S Commissioner's office is in the court house. Bill GILLESPIE and Marvin MCGUIRE are his assistants. Commissioner WAGNER began another four-year term January 1st. The Board of Supervisor's, Harry BANE, chairman, Joe F. LITZ and Reece ANDERSON, one of the best boards the county has had, re-entered another four year's term. Henry VANCE, charged with shooting into a filling station on Cavitt's Creek, was arrested in Lebanon this week, and brought to jail here by deputy sheriff WITTEN to await trail. BOTH EX-SERVICE MEN Sheriff THOMPSON and his deputy Andrew WITTEN are both ex-service men. WITTEN served with the Marines, and it will be a good idea to keep in mind that your Uncle Sam's marines can get rough when necessary, and then the Marine can outrun a haunt if necessary. CEDAR BLUFF Cedar Bluff, Jan 4 - Misses Beulah SARGENT, Sylvia HANKINS and Beulah ALTIZER were calling on Miss Susie WILSON Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence JOYCE and Miss Lovelle CHAMBERS, of this place, spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. D.J. TOLLIVER, of Grundy. Mrs. Chap CHAMBERS, of this place, is spending some time with friends at Seaboard. Miss Raye WHITT of Caretta, W.Va. spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. M.W. BURRESS, of this place. Ruby and Beatrice SPARKS, of Berwind, have returned home after spending some time with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J.H. BEAVERS, of this place. Miss Vernie WILSON has returned to the State Teachers College after spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.H. WILSON, at this place. FROM MRS. HOWERY As Christmas came this year with a nice snow and everyone one so good to me during the absence in my home of my husband, who is sick and has been away for 7 weeks, you know how my heart filled up Christmas night as he was away. His chair was by the fire place, but no one could take his place. My friends tried to cheer the children and myself. My burdens have almost been more than I can bear. here I am at home eating what we both worked so hard to enjoy together this winter, now I am left alone with six children. I do want all to pray that my husband will be healed in body and mind and sent home to us. I want to thank Dr. WITTEN, Mr. and Mrs. C.K. HALL, Mrs. Virginia PORTER, John PORTER, my two brothers, Edward HELMANDOLLAR, of Welch, Homer HELMANDOLLAR, Tazewell, also my sister, Mrs. W.J. PEERY, of Welch, Miss Catherine HELMANDOLLAR of Welch, my mother and father, who helped me to have a cheerful Christmas. Thanks to everyone who helped my family. Mrs. Wade H. HOWERY.