TAZEWELL COUNTY, VA - NEWSPAPERS - Clinch Valley News, 1 Aug 1902 Falls Mills ============================================================================ USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the Virginia USGenWeb Archives by: Karen Eagle Moman arizonaeagle@qwest.net ============================================================================ "Clinch Valley News" Tazewell, Tazewell Co., VA Friday, August 1, 1902 FALLS MILLS Falls Mills, July 30th MRS. EMILY BUCKLAND is very sick. [Emily’Emma’ Tabor, d/o James Harrison Tabor & Nancy Moore Runion. Emily was married to William Jasper Buckland ]. …….. JOHN SARVER has been on the complaining list for several days. [Probably John Henry Sarver who married Maude Irene Neal] …………… JO KING lost his pocketbook last Sunday, containing twenty five dollars. [Most likely Joseph King age 22, b. Mar 1878 in TN., a Stone Cutter and living with James M. King b. Mar 1872 in TN, a Stone Cutter. ADDED DATA: 1900 TAZEWELL CO VA CENSUS # 283, Clear Fork, W. L. Stephens, enumerator JAMES M. KING, 28,-. B. Mar 1872 TN, Stone Cutter …..Eliza, 28, b. Feb 1872 VA, wife MARION MARLOW, 25. B. Apr 1875 AL., Boarder/Blacksmith JOSEPH KING, 22, b. Mar 1878 TN, Stone Cutter …..Emily 16, b. July 1883 VA, Siiter-in-law (of James M. King) LAMPET WITTEN, 6, b. Dec 1893, Stepson (of James M. King) ……… The I. O. P. T. S. will give their members a picnic in the near future [I do not know what the initial represent] RELATED: The I. O. P. T. S held their weekly meeting last Saturday night, business of importance was transacted. ……… What has become of the people who used to conduct the prayer meetings at this place? ……………………. The N. & W. R. are giving the depot at this place a new coat of paint. [Norfolk & Western Railway] ………. There are people who have been caught in their own traps …………… JOHN W. FINK went to Williamson on business this week. [Son of James C. Fink & Cynthia Dudley]. JAMES KIRTNER and MISS SARAH LAWSON, of Bluefield, were married last Friday week, thus another link out of the bachelor chain at this place. RELATED: We thought we had seen all kinds of instruments and implements in a serenading party, but when the boys proceed(ed) to serenade JIM KIRTNER with empty wagons, we concluded that there was something new under the sun. ………….. L. J. BARBEE was paying off WALTON & CO’S men at Cooper last Saturday. [Lee J. Barbee, Sr] ………… On account of bad health W. B. TABOR has retired from his store; his brother J. W. TABOR is now conducting the business. [I believe to have been William Burts Tabor, 1873-1946, and Joseph Wade Tabor sons of Thomas Edward ‘Edd’ Tabor, Sr., & Anna Elizabeth Parker. This would have meant W. B. was a young man. However, I find not other such Tabor brothers in the area that would fit this article]. ………. DR. C. C. ALMON and wife were visiting friends at this place last Monday. ……… Don’t ask the handful where they were last Saturday night or what subject were discussed. [It is certain a hundred years later we will never know! May 2002]. ………………….. The farmers in this locality have harvested their hay. The quality was good, but below average. The oat crop is above the usual average, but the average was small. Vegetation off all kind is suffering for want of rain. …………… J. H. WALKER, JOE WATKINS and C. E. BROWN, have moved their families back to Tennessee. ………………. There are two empty houses in town now which are the first occurrence of the kind in twelve months. ………. We are informed that the United States Steel company has purchased thirty acres of land at the mouth of Abbs Valley and have broke the ground for the erection of a large fire brick plant at that place. …………….. We have tow churches at this place and a large majority of the citizens are church member, but the prayer meeting has been discontinued and no one appears to be interested enough to try to revive it. This should not be so. Who will make the first start to reorganize it? ………… A camp with such men as B. YOUNG and W. J. FINK at the helm it could not be otherwise. [It appears words are missing? Walter J. Fink, s/o James C. Fink & Cynthia Dudley. I believe "the camp" meant the business end of the stone quarries at Italy Leaks]. RELATED: Friday, August 1, 1902 Submitted from Italy Leaks Pay day went off quietly last Saturday at the camp, but the Falls Mills citizens were disturbed at nigh by some of the boys who drank to (sic) freely of that intoxicating drink. [Italy Leaks was located near Falls Mills]. …………… Your quill driver from Taborsville was in town this week, we are glad to note (the) stand he has taken against whiskey, long may he live and continue to fight the greatest curse that ever invaded our land. [I have no idea what a quill driver would have been] …………. BAILEY HALE who we have mentioned in these columns as being very low with cancer of the stomach died last Friday and was buried Saturday Morning. [This might have been the second son of Elias Edward ‘Edd’ Hale & Mary Ella/Ellen Tabor, d/o Russell B. Tabor & Elizabeth Compton]. RELATED: Friday, August 1, 1902 Submitted from Italy Leaks BAILEY HALE, who has been sick for some months past, died last Saturday and was buried Sunday near his home on Red Oak Ridge. [Day of death & burial conflicts between the two submissions]. Karen EAGLE Moman arizonaeagle@qwest.net May 2002