Tazewell County, Virginia, Newspaper Articles: Clinch Valley News--March 17, 1916 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Michelle Burress http://www.cvnotes.com ==================================================================== Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ==================================================================== Clinch Valley News March 17, 1916 POUNDING MILL ------------------------------- Logan RINGSTAFF, N & W bridgemen, spent the weekend with homefolks. Reuben LOWE has moved his family from Cedar Bluff to the Kelly place of Pounding Mill branch. Mr. John BOOTHE moved his family to Tazewell. Miss Marie MAXWELL, who has been in Bluefield for the past week for treatment, has returned home. W.R. SPARKS came up from Toms Creek Sunday and spent a few hours with his mother, Mrs. Martha SPARKS. Mrs. W.B. STEELE and daughter, Mrs. J.B. GILLESPIE spent last Friday night at Cedar Bluff with their family. Miss Pattie WHITAKER, who has spent some time here, returned Saturday to her home near Sayersville. Rev. J.N. GRAHAM, of Sword's Creek, spent Monday night visiting his sister, Mrs. H.W. CHRISTIAN and family. He preached Sunday night for the revival at Richlands, the regular preacher being indisposed. Mr. and Mrs. W.G. GILLESPIE spent the weekend visiting relatives at Raven. Miss Ada PRUETT, of Richlands, spent Saturday night with her aunt, Mrs. J.T. ALTIZER. W.B. STEELE and R.K. GILLESPIE are at Cedar Bluff this afternoon looking after the Bluff flouring mills. Robert, son of the late John VAN DYKE, died of pneumonia at the home of his mother, Mrs. Rhoda on last Friday morning. The burial took place on Saturday at 11 am at the G.R. Thomas graveyard in the presence of a large number of friends. He was a good boy and will be greatly missed by his relatives and friends. Peery PRUITT moved his family from this town to Tazewell, where he will farm for John MCGRAW on the county farm. The many friends of Mrs. Hortense ROPP, the noted temperance lecturer, will be glad to hear that she is improving from a severe case of typhoid fever at her hoe in Shenandoah. J.T. ALTIZER visited his brother, Dock, at Richlands Saturday. John WITT spent Saturday night and Sunday with his wife at Paint Lick. Seh has almost recovered from her severe spell of pneumonia and hopes to be able to move soon. Rev. W.S. BULLARD has an appointment here for next Sunday at 11 am. Mrs. C.M. HUNTER and sister in law, Miss HUNTER, of Eastern Virginia, visited Richlands Saturday. TANNERSVILLE -------------------------------- Mr. Wesley OSBORNE and little son, Graham, are visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William OSBORNE and relatives here. Mr. W.S. TAYLOR is back on the mail route from Tannersville to Benbow, after several months vacation. Mrs. C.W. ASBURY and daughter, Miss Blanche, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. R.P. HILT Sunday. Mr. G.W. BLACKWELL has returned here after spending the winter with his daughter, Mrs. Bettie PERFATER. Mrs. F.A. WHITEHEAD was guest of Mrs. Reese HILT last Thursday. Miss Julia FRENCH is visiting relatives in Saltville. Miss Ida CALDWELL is reported improving from an attack of pneumonia. Mrs. William KIRK was visiting her sister, Mrs. Ryburn PATRICK at Broadford Friday. Messrs. W.S. TAYLOR, E.A. HOLMES, and R.H. KEISTER were among the lonesome "dear" hunters in the lower Poor Valley Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. F.A. WHITEHEAD were visiting friends at Broadford Saturday night and Sunday. Mr. James NEEL was a weekend visitor at M.F. BROWNS. Mr. H.J. WHITEHEAD was visiting his daughter, Mrs. George GATES, in Smyth County last week. Mrs. I.L. PATRICK has been indisposed for the past week with a severe attack of the grip. Miss Bessie BROWN of the Cove, spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M.F. BROWN. Messrs. Wesley OSBORNE and Gilbert OSBOREN and Mrs. J.A. PATRICK were the guests Saturday night at the home of W.A. CRABTREE. Mrs. E.S. BOOTH is the guest of Mrs. I.L. PATRICK today. Mr. W.S. PATRICK was visiting at Asberry's Saturday. Mr. J.C. TAYLOR is moving his family today to the Cove on S.J. THOMPSON'S place. Mrs. R.P. HILT and children were visiting at I.L. PATRICK'S Friday. The schools at this place have all closed after very successful sessions. Miss Nina M. WALTHAM, teacher at Valley View, has returned to her home in Chesterfield County. Miss MCREYNOLDS to her home in Johnson City. Mrs. J.L. TAYLOR taught the Laurel Branch school. They all proved to be competent teachers, but our session was far too short, only five and a half months. When will our legislature give the little one room school the attention it deserves? The colleges and universities received fabulous sums annually and the little schools in the country are forgotten. At the last court the right of way for the new road through Mr. J.A. NEAL'S place was condemned and the work will probably commence at an early date, as this road is almost impassible. When this road is built and the bond issue in Jeffersonville district carries, we have hopes of a dry road to the court house, a thing we haven't had heretofore. Mr. W.T. CORELL is to be congratulated in his untiring efforts to have the appropriations put in the petition for improvement of the road in the upper end of the valley and across Clinch mountain. --------------------- Cove Creek, March 14 - Mrs. Virginia STOWERS died on March 7, 1916, at her home on Wolf Creek. She was seventy eight years old. She is survived by a husband and nine children, namely, C.F. STOWERS, of Clear Fork; Hiram STOWERS, of Burke's Garden; Frazier STOWERS, of Bluefield; Clint STOWERS, of Wolf Creek; Mrs. Amanda STOWERS, of Smyth County; Mrs. Mary SHUFFLEBARGER and Mrs. Sallie DEAVERS, of Bland; Mrs. Lou GREGORY, of Clear Fork and Mrs. Ada WILSON, of Bluefield. Mrs. STOWERS was greatly esteemed for her womanly virtues and kind disposition. The remains were brought to Clear Fork. The funeral was preached at Mt. Nebo church by the Rev. W.K. NEEL, assisted by Rev. Mr. TOWE. She was a faithful and devoted wife and a kind mother; her door was always open to everybody, the poor as well as the rich. She was a great help to the church and will be greatly missed. Miss Rachel PEARCE died at the Catawba sanatorium last Tuesday evening of tuberculosis. It will be recalled that she was forced to give up her position in the High School here lat fall, on account of her health, immediately after discovering that she had consumption. Her decline was rapid, notwithstanding the best expert treatment at Catawba. Her sister, Miss Pauline, a teacher in the High School here, left at once to attend the funeral and burial. Deceased was a splendid young woman and was held in high esteem by her associates in school here. She was greatly liked by the pupils of the school, and as a token of their esteem for her about $35.00 was collected in the school this week to secure a floral design to be sent to her home in Richmond. Miss Pauline PEARCE expects to return to the school here Monday. Messrs. E.F. and F.T. WITTEN have closed the deal for the Diamond Cash Grocery Company, and began business this week. They propose carrying an up to date line of fresh groceries, and selling for cash. By selling strictly for cash they find that they can sell goods for less money than those who sell on long time. Mr. E.F. WITTEN, who is at Hot Springs, Ark., will have charge of the business upon his return to the city. BURKES GARDEN ---------------------------- Since the weather has gotten warmer the snow drifts are fast disappearing, but a few of our roads cannot be traveled yet except on horseback. Luther HALL has been very ill with pneumonia for several days. Mrs. BURRESS fell one day last week and came near breaking her hip. Mrs. Elmer L. RHUDY has been quite sick for several days. After a severe attack of grip, Miss Ollie GOODMAN is again able to resume her duties as telephone operation. H.R. STOWERS and family attended the burial of their mother on Clear Fork last Wednesday. Mrs. Whitley BOLING and daughter passed through the Garden last week enroute to their home in Smythe. Dr. and Mrs. Homer ANDERSON left this morning, the former to attend the Laymens Missionary meeting in Roanoke and the latter to visit homefolks in Richmond. N.W. STOWERS attended the burial of his aunt, Mrs. Virginia STOWERS on Clear Fork Wednesday and also the burial of Mrs. BLESSING on Wolf Creek Thursday. ---------------------------- Col. William C. PENDLETON, who has been in town several days, returned to his home at Marion on Tuesday afternoon. While here he gave out the information that he will not return to Tazewell to live and publish a paper, as he once thought of doing, but will continue the American at Marion, and in addition to his work as editor, will write a history of Tazewell and Smyth Counties. He has already collected a lot of valuable material, and is still doing so. Such a book as he has outlined will be a valuable addition to the literature and history of the State, and his friends look forward to its completion with much interest. Mr. James Thomas HELDRETH, aged about 80 years, died at his home at Rural Retreat yesterday morning about 7 o'clock of cancer of the stomach. He is the only living full brother to Mr. J.J. HELDRETH, of this town. His nephews, Thomas and Joseph, Mrs. Thomas HELDRETH, and Mrs. John BARNETT, a niece, left last night to be present at the funeral and burial at Rural Retreat.