Tazewell County, Virginia, Newspaper Articles: Clinch Valley News--April 7, 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 April 7, 1916 STEELSBURG -------------------------------------- Rev. F.H. BURHMAN filled his regular appointment here last Sunday. The good road forces are making good use of the pretty weather laying stone and it is to be hoped that our road can reach through as it is needed worse than any road in the county. Miss Kate PEERY, of Liberty Hill, returned to her home Sunday after spending a few weeks with her sister, Mrs. Harvey NOEL, here. Misses Mildred and Helen MCGUIRE, of Cedar Bluff, and Hazel MARTIN, of Bluefield, spent last Wednesday evening with their aunt, Mrs. R.B. STEELE. Mr. and Mrs. Sherman PEERY were the guests of Mrs. O.M. FERRELL on Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. John DEBORD visited the Camp Sunday evening. Mrs. John JACKSON and daughter, Miss Pearl, visited relatives at Cleveland last week, returning Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. A.W. GRIFFITH were shopping in Richlands last Saturday. Mr. John PEERY, of Liberty Hill, made his usual visit here Sunday. Little Miss Mildred and Francis WITT, daughters of Mrs. Hugh WITT, of Paint Lick, spent last week with their aunt, Mrs. R.B. STEELE. POCAHONTAS ------------------------- Although it is only a little over two months until the town election for officers, little is said about it and no one appears to be especially anxious to be considered as a candidate for the officers. Perhaps interest will increase as the time approaches. Miss Estelle PRICE, fifth grade teacher at the school has been kept in with diphtheria and Mrs. C.S. MINTER is substituting for her. All the town people are sorry of the resignation of Heber M. UMBERGER as assistant cashier of the Bank of Pocahontas, who will move with his family to the town of Concord, North Carolina, where he expects to engage with his brother in business. Mr. UMBERGER is a popular man and Pocahontas people regret much to lost him and his family, but he believes that a wider opportunity is open to him in his new line of business. They will move as soon as arrangements can be made after his successor has been appointed. George J. CUNNINGHAM, the Boissevane merchant, was in Pocahontas this week on business. We have been wondering who the Colonel DODD is, who is leading the chase in pursuit of Villa in Mexico. He is an uncle of George and Herb DODD, both of whom are known to Pocahontas people, the former being a citizen of Graham, and employed at the Boyd Department store. At least this is the information that is given to us from reliable source, and we believe it is true. Years ago there was a superintendent of the Pocahontas Collieries Company here named DODDS, and the name being spelled differently would indicate that he is a different man, but we are inclined to believe that Col. George DODD, of the Mexico notoriety, is related to the Tazewell DODD family. Pocahontas high school will have three representatives at Graham on Friday night, viz: Abraham LUBLIMER, Harry MACOM and John NEWTON, Jr. The last two are debaters. The school here will clash with Graham high school in debate, as reported in the papers. Abraham LUBLIMER will be pitted against one of the Graham boys in a reading contest. Several pupils teachers and relatives will accompany the boys to see the fun. POUNDING MILL -------------------------- School at this place, which has been taught an extra month by Miss Bessie SAYERS, of Pulaski, closed today with a good program. The children did well, and reflected much credit on the teacher. Quite a number of patrons and others were present and enjoyed the exercises very much. Miss SAYERS will probably return next year. The patrons are very much pleased with her teaching. Mr. and Mrs. R.K. GILLESPIE attended the birthday anniversary of the latters' mother, Mrs. Mary O'KEEFFE at Tazewell on last Sunday evening and enjoyed the day very much. Mrs. O'KEEFFE spent Thursday night visiting her daughter. Mr. J.T. ALTIZER is confined to his home with a very severe sore throat. His sister, Miss Mary Belle ALTIZER, came up from Richlands this morning to look after the post office and store. Mrs. W.B. STEELE and daughter, Mrs. John B. GILLESPIE, visited her mother, Mrs. Jane A. MCGUIRE at Cedar Bluff last Friday. Miss DRINKARD, of Tazewell, who helped nurse Mr. and Mrs. C.H. TRAYER'S little daughter, returned to her home Sunday night. The child has almost recovered and Mr. THAYER has resumed his position as operator for the N and W. Mrs. John WITT and baby did not move here last week, as she expected. She has been very ill at the home of her father in law, Mr. Ryburn WITT. It was feared at first she was taking typhoid fever. Mr. WITT went over and spent Saturday night and Sunday. Miss Marie MAXWELL left last Saturday to visit friends in Roanoke and Salem. Her father, R.K. MAXWELL, accompanied her. Mrs. MASSEY, of Shipman, is visiting her nephew, Mr. R.A. CRAIG. Miss Margaret THOMPSON, Mrs. CRAIG'S sister, has returned home. The Crochet Club enjoyed a most pleasant afternoon on last Thursday with Mrs. H.W. CHRISTIAN and her daughter, Miss Gussie. There were about sixteen ladies present. On tomorrow from 2 to 5 Mrs. John B. GILLESPIE will entertain the club at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.B. STEELE. Pat NEWMAN, who was killed Saturday night by a train, while alighting from same, is a brother of Dora NEWMAN, who is being reared by Mr. and Mrs. W.B. STEELE, of this town. He is a grandson of Mrs. Mollie THOMPSON, on Little Creek, in Burke's Garden. Four of the children were sent to the Litz home in Bluefield. Three were gotten good homes in the middle part of the state and one, a girl of thirteen sent to a school for the blind, and is being given a musical education in connection with the literary work. James G. LITZ, of the Litz Home, had her eyes operated on, one being removed, thus regaining a the measure the sight of the other eye. Last summer, during the vacation, she was put in an industrial school. Mrs. Julia WILLIAMS went to Richlands this afternoon. Clarence HANKINS was here this am in his car from Richlands, in place of traveling salesman James FOX, who is at home nursing his little daughter, Margaret 5 years old, who has been desperately ill for over a week with pneumonia and typhoid, and probably a touch of spinal meningitis. She has regained consciousness, but has little or no use of her hands. Much sympathy goes out to the bereaved parents. They lost two children a few years ago with meningitis. Mrs. T.A. REPASS, Sr. of Cedar Bluff, Mrs. FOX'S mother, is with her. BURKES GARDEN ------------------------ Mrs. A.M. MCGINNIS has been very ill from several days, but seems to be resting easier today. Mrs. John LONG'S baby is very ill with pneumonia. Messrs. J.R. MEEK, J.B. MEEK and Roy MEEK are in Grayson this week buying cattle. Mr. and Mrs. T.C. BOWEN, of Tazewell, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. Meek HOGE Sunday. A number of farmers from this place are hauling fertilizer this week. Rev. W.C. THOMPSON expects to begin a meeting here next Sunday night. Miss Lucretia MAHOOD has been looking after the interest of her farm here for the past week. Mr. James L. MONTAGUE spent part of last week in Burke's Garden for the purpose of giving the farmers instruction in crop planting. R.S. MOSS and Charles MOSS expect to go to Grayson tomorrow for the purpose of buying cattle. ----------------------- The meeting of the Division Chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy of Southwest Virginia opened here on Tuesday morning in the High School chapel, following the reception given on Monday evening, an account of which appears elsewhere in this paper. The morning session was opened by Miss Lyde TYNES, President of the Tazewell Chapter, and Mrs. C.W. SUMTER, of Christiansburg, presided during the day. The day was taken up largely by reports from the different chapters, offered by delegates present. This division, as we understand, includes the territory west of and including Roanoke. A few of the chapters only, were not represented. In addition to the reports and general routine business, there were a number of addresses from visiting daughters. Mrs. Norman V. RANDOLPH, of Richmond, President of the Richmond chapter, made a touching appeal for help from all the Chapters, for the Confederate women of the State, widows of old soldiers, a cause to which she is devoting her untiring energies. She has been for a number of years a familiar figure before the Legislature and Senate, pleading for appropriations for helpless old women of the State. An interesting statement was made by Mrs. Merchant, representing the Shiloh Monument Association. Mrs. Merchant stated that there were more than 100 federal monuments erected in memory and honor of the union soldiers who feel in the notable and bloody battle of Shiloh on the plain of Tennessee, April 1862, and only two or three cheap monuments erected to the memory of the Confederate soldiers who feel and are buried there. The women of the South, in the year 1905, formed the Shiloh monument association, their object being to erect a monument there to cost $15,000 and serve a long neglected duty and service. Of this amount $36,000 has been raised, and the remaining $14,000 must be secured by October 1st next. Mrs. Merchant is treasurer of the Association and is making her touching and stirring appeal to the women of the South. She makes a strong and stirring speech. The High School Chapel was filled to the doors on Tuesday evening with a representative audience. The large stage was tastily and appropriately decorated with ferns and potted plants, Confederate flags. Large portraits of President Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee hung upon the wall, and looked down upon the scene, and were a source of inspiration to the speakers. Mrs. George W. ST. CLAIR presided with matycious dignity and grace during the evening session. On the platform were seated, Miss Lyde TYNES, President of the Tazewell Chapter; Mrs. Norman V. RANDOLPH of Richmond; Mrs. Judge A.A. CAMPBELL, of Wytheville; Mrs. Merchant of Chatham; Mrs. SUMTER of Christiansburg. The evening program consisted of songs, vocal and instrumental; addresses by home people, papers read and an address by Mrs. CAMPBELL, Mrs. Merchant and Mrs. Randolph. The first number was a song by 20 pretty school girls. Miss Ella BOWEN, of Tazewell, read a paper, in which the lives and deeds of Tazewell soldiers was vividly recited. Then followed a solo by Mrs. A.S. HIGGINBOTHAM. Mrs. MERCHANT, Treasurer of the Shiloh Monument Association, read a paper which was highly entertaining. Mrs. Barns GILLESPIE read a selection from the Confederate Veteran, contributed some years ago by the late Captain A.J. TYNES. Mrs. Judge CAMPBELL discarding her manuscript, told graphically of General Toland's raid into Wytheville in July 1863, and of his being killed in Wytheville, the burning of the town and the rout caused by an attack of Confederate troops, and many other interesting facts about her great county, when Fincastle county included all that territory. This address was followed by a violin duet by Miss Louise WITTEN and Miss HALL, young pupils of Miss Blanche HURLEY'S class. Of much interest was an address by Mr. L.A. TYNES on General Lee, the immortal hero of the Confederacy. Mrs. RANDOLPH again made a plea for the widows of the Confederate Museum in Richmond and urged all who may have relics of the war of any and all kinds to sent them to the museum for preservation. Mrs. SUMTER made a short address in the close. A timid and modest little woman, whose name the reporter failed to catch voiced the thanks of the lady visitors and delegates for the great and unbounded hospitality they had enjoyed. Messrs. H.S. SURFACE, Conrad F. TYNES, Misses STEVENS and Lester "made the hit" of the evening, it was said, by singing, "Carry Me Back to Ole Virginny," and "Tenting on the Old Camp Ground." Also, Mrs. J.G. BUSTON, Mrs. H.C POBST, Mrs. Roy S. THOMPSON, Mrs. Barns GILLESPIE, Misses LESTER and TYNES, contributed much to the evening's entertainment by the signing. A most pleasing incident occurred when Mrs. SUMTER came forward, and in a few well chosen words, presented to the chapter here a large silk flag of Virginia, a gift from the visiting chapters. The flag was gracefully accepted by Miss TYNES, on behalf of the Tazewell Chapter. While the flag was being waved from the platform by two ladies a choir struck up that old song, Dixie, which never fails to stir and enthuse a Southern audience, and the entire crowd joined in the chorus, changing to "I'm Glad I Live in Dixie," after which good-byes were said, and this memorable meeting became a bright and pleasant page in Tazewell's history. The town has not had heretofore the pleasure of entertaining more charming or appreciative women, whose stay among us was all too brief. The women from the home town of Tazewell doing the honors of the occasion where: Miss Lyde TYNES, President of the local chapter; her sisters, Misses Hattie and Fannie; Mrs. FUDGE; Mrs. G.W. DOAK, Mrs. George W. ST. CLAIR, Mrs. George W. GILLESPIE, Mrs. H.E. HARMAN, Mrs. A.G. KISER, Mrs. C.T. PEERY, Mrs. A.S. HIGGINBOTHAM, Mrs. Dr. John E. JACKSON, Mrs. J.W. CHAPMAN, Mrs. J.F. HURT, Mrs. W.G. O'BRIEN, Mrs. John S. BOTTIMORE, Mrs. W.S. BULLARD, Mrs. B.W. STRAS, Mrs. C.W. JONES, Mrs. A.J. MAY, Mrs. Roy THOMPSON, Mrs. THOMAS, of Williamson; Mrs. L.A. TYNES, Mrs. Barns GILLESPIE, Mrs. T.C. BOWEN, Miss Rachel BOWEN, Miss Rosalie STRAS, Miss Eloise BUSTON, Miss Lucile THOMPSON, Miss LESTER, Misses Anna HARLESS and Gertrude CRADDOCK, of Christianburg; Miss Mary PRESTON, Mary MOORE, Marea ST. CLAIR, Karl BUNDY, Elizabeth ST. CLAIR, Bessie JACKSON, and Miss STEVENS. The men gracing the occasion by their presence were, besides mine host, Hon. A. ST. CLAIR, Rev. W.S. BULLARD, Rev. R.B. PLATT Jr., Glenn M. ST. CLAIR, Dr. Henry Thomas HALEY, Dr. Edward JACKSON and the 'chain' gang, W.G. O'BRIEN and J.A. LESLIE. Delightful solos were rendered by Mrs. Roy THOMPSON, of Bluefield, and Miss Neta PEERY, of Tazewell for the entertainment of the company. Refreshments were served and everything was pleasant. FALLS MILLS --------------------------- The school at this place closed last week. Some of the boys are looking very lonesome since the teachers left. Billy BAKER, whom we reported as being very sick last week, is no better. Miss Nona Lee and Ethel CARTER spent Tuesday night with Mrs. I.H. HARRY. Miss Rose BAKER was visiting relatives iin Boissevane last week. Miss Texie BRYANT, who has been at Shannon, West Virginia, has returned to her home. Mrs. Eva ROBINSON gave a temperance lecture here Sunday, which was greatly enjoyed by her hearers. Mr and Mrs. Robby HANDY, of Pocahontas, were visiting here Sunday. Mr. Stanley Irwin STURGESS and Miss Edna Eleanor TABOR were united in marriage in Bristol on March 29th. It wasn't an elopement, the young couple thinking it would be a nice trip. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W.J. STURGESS and is employed by the N and W. The bride is the beautiful young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.J. TABOR and was raised in this vicinity. D.D. BAKER is visiting his father, J.W. BAKER in LaFollette, Tennessee. ------------------- Announcement was recently made in the Graham Daily News of the Bluefield Telegraph, that Mrs. T.O. MITCHELL, of North Tazewell, was dead. The mistake made greatly troubled a number of her friends and relatives. Mrs. MITCHELL is not dead, nor even ill. She lost her husband some weeks ago and a little child recently.