Tazewell County, Virginia, Newspaper Articles: Clinch Valley News--May 28, 1915 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 May 28, 1915 The contest for the most popular young lady, who will be given a free trip to the Panama exposition, and return, and various other prizes, has developed a large number of candidates this week, a number of whom have received large votes, Miss Lucille JONES, of Gratton, heads the list this week, with several close seconds. The first prize of a handsome silver salad spoon has been awarded to Miss JONES. The lady showing the biggest gain for the week ending June 2nd, will also be awarded a handsome prize. The following is the standing of the candidtes for the week ending May 29th: Miss Lucille JONES 10070 Miss Blanceh PUCKETT 1085 Miss Mary MOORE 1115 Miss Mammie ST. CLAIR 1040 Miss Mary MCCALL 1725 Miss Sadie WHITLEY 1180 Miss Barbara BRITTAIN 1125 Miss Mary HARMAN 1090 Mrs. G.M. ST. CLAIR 1135 Miss Kate REYNOLDS 1215 Miss Mary MOSS 1050 Miss Ada Lou HURLEY 1225 Miss Tot MCCALL 1040 Miss Katherine ST. CLAIR 1030 Miss Annie LITZ 1025 Miss Frances LITZ 1045 Miss Hazel WYNNE 4000 Miss May LYNCH 8025 Miss Marguerite WRIGHT 1010 Miss Mary TURK 1015 Miss Blanche BROWN 1015 Miss Annie GREEVER 1930 Mrs. Kate GILLESPIE 1010 Miss Lyde PEERY 1040 Mrs. T.L. SHUFFLEBARGER 4005 Miss Elizabeth REED 1010 Miss Katrina GOSE 1005 Miss Evelyn MCCALL 1010 Miss Marie MCNULTY 2735 Miss Alma THOMAS 6955 Miss Ella PEERY 2000 Miss Uva STEELE 2000 Miss Minnie HAMPTON 1000 Miss Della LEFFEL 1000 Miss Rosa BURTON 1000 Miss Annie GREEVER 1000 Miss Lula BAUGH 1000 POUNDING MILL -------------------------------------- Harry WILLIAMS, 16 year old son of R.S. WILLIAMS, visited his father here the last of the week, and on Sunday left for Williamson, West Virginia, to spend the vacation with his uncle, H.G. WILLIAMS. On May 20th he graduated with honors from Ervin High School, Ervin, Tennessee. He will probably enter Emory and Henry College next session. Dr. R.B. GILLESPIE, of Tazewell, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. R.R. GILLESPIE today. G.C. SHAMBLIN, Mrs. Curtis SHAMBLIN and A.J. PETTS, who have fever are improving. Rex STEELE, who had same disease is out again and Mercer THOMAS has typhoid. Miss Maudie PETTS was reported as having typhoid also, but the assertion has been denied. She is quite sick, however. Dr. G.L. ZIMMERMAN took Mr. and Mrs. James BRUSTER'S little son today to Richlands to be operated on, probably amputate his leg. Some time ago he stuck a thorn in one of his legs and blood poison set up. Rev. John P. LOCKHART, formerly of Honaker, but now of Richlands, will begin a few days meeting at the Church of God on tomorrow night, closing Sunday night. William SHEPHERD and probably others will be baptized in Clinch River just after the 11 o'clock service. In the afternoon at about 3 o'clock there will probably be a service at the convict camp. Everybody is cordially invited to attend these services. Mrs. James E. MCGUIRE of Cedar Bluff, spent Thrusday afternoon visiting her sister in law, Mrs. W.B. STEELE, and family. Mrs. C.P. WILLIAMS attended the funeral of her mother, Mrs. BOWEN, at Tip Top, on last Sunday. Rev. CARR, an aged minister, preached the sermon. Mrs. BOWEN died in Richmond in the early spring, but her funeral was not conducted then on account of her daughter, mentioned above, being in Oklahoma. Mrs. Ollie HURT and R.K. GILLESPIE attended the funeral and burial of their aunt, Mrs. BOWEN, in the Cove and Tazewell on last Sunday. Mrs. W.B. STEELE was shopping and calling on friends and relatives in Tazewell last Thursday and spent Saturday and Saturday night visiting her mother, Mrs. Jane A. MCGUIRE. Mrs. STEELE expects to start on Wednesday or Thursday of next week to attend the big annual assembly of the Church of God, which convenes the 4th of June and continues for ten days. From there she expects to go to Missouri, Nebraska, Utah and Idaho to visither half dozen aunts and uncles and various cousins. Mrs. Wyrene MAXWELL and Mrs. Mary WILSON expect to accompany Mrs. STEELE and far as Anderson and attend the assembly. Several thousand people attend these meetings annually. Two thousand can be seated in the new dining room at one time, it is said, while eleven bundred could be seated in the two old ones. The new road, which is being made by convicts and others, is being rapidly pushed. Rev. Nannie B. OSBORNE, of Athens, sister of Mrs. H.W. CHRISTIAN, will preach at the Methodist church Sunday at 11 o'clock. She will be here for one day only we are informed. We are sorry the two services will conflict, but if all will come out both churches can be filled. Try and see. A.J. MYERS, of Hollins, was greeting old friends today. He is the guest of his daughter-in-law, Mrs. F. MYERS. Mr. MYERS is still visiting in Roanoke and is feeling much better. Born to Mr. and Mrs. James BRUSTER, on Sunday morning, a daughter. This makes 13 living and one dead. Ernest MCMULLEN spent Sunday with his mother at Wittens Mills. J.B. GILLESPIE of Wittens Mills, visited relatives and friends here Sunday. Commissioner ALTIZER is doing business in the city today. Several old soldiers boarded the train here yesterday for Tazewell to attend the reunion. Mrs. Marion PHILLIPS attended the commencement of the Richlands High School Monday night. Her daughter was a student. Rev. MOTLEY preached here Sunday at 4 o'clock. ---------------------------- Mrs. Louisa G. BOWEN, widow of the late Captain Henry BOWEN, died at her home in Bowen's Cove, this county, last Friday evening about 6:30, and funeral services were held on Sunday at 1 PM, conducted by Rev. R.K. SUTHERLAND, of Emory, Va., assited by Rev. J.E. SPRING, of this place, and interment was in the Jeffersonville Cemetery, at this place, in the presence of a large concourse of friends and relatives on Sunday afternoon. Mrs. BOWEN was the daughter of the late Col. William M. GILLESPIE, and was born at Richlands, this county, on the 20th day of August, 1842, and was one of a family of nine children, as follows: David GILLESPIE, Mrs. Margaret HARRISON, Mrs. Clinton BARNS, Mrs. Barbara GILLESPIE, Mrs. Ella PAINTER, Mrs. Mary BARNS, Joseph S. GILLESPIE and A.P. GILLESPIE, all of whom are deceased, except ex-Senator Joseph S. GILLESPIE, Mrs. Mary BARNS and Mrs. Ella PAINTER. Louisa M. GILLESPIE was married on the 4th day of December, 1871 to Captain Henry BOWEN, who only preceded her to the great beyond three weeks, but her death came very suddenly. She had been talking to friends and relatives on the day of her death, and had expressed herself as feeling better than usual, but just at the close of a beautiful day, a beautiful life also closed, and it was with deep regret that her many friends and relatives heard of her death. Of the marriage to Captain and Mrs. BOWEN there were born six children two daughters and four sons: Miss Margaret BOWEN and Lou Ollie BOWEN, and Messrs. J. WALKER, William REES, Henry A. and Joe C. BOWEN, all of whom are living, except the little daughter, Lou Ollie, who was born on July 31st, 1880, and who died, August 16th, 1887. Mrs. BOWEN early in life united with the Methodist church at Richlands, being the first of her family to united with this church and her action in this important step in life seemed to have had its influence, as her parents and three sisters soon after united with the church. During her long life she had been an earnest, active and useful worker for the cause of Christ, and her influence for good will long be felt in the community in which she lived. The floral offerings were beautiful and numerous. The pall-bearers were as follows: Active: W.J. GILLLESPIE, C.J. MOSS, Barns GILLESPIE, W.M. GILLESPIE, W.O. BARNS and J. Sanders GILLESPIE. Honorary: W.T. GILLESPIE, George C. PEERY, John T. BARNS, Captain Rees T. BOWEN, Henry S. BOWEN, S.J. THOMPSON, J.S. WHITE, W.A. BARNS, George WARD, James HARRIS, A.J. MYERS, R.K. GILLESPIE, J. Powell ROYLL, H.B COPENHAVER, Dr. R.B. GILLESPIE, Jeff WARD, J.W. CHAPMAN, F.M. MOSS, Dr. P.D. JOHNSTON, and J.G. BARNS. --------------------- There were about 120 - some say 150, of them - these old souvenirs of a never to be forgotten past, here on Memorial Day to attend the annual ceremonies of the day. These ceremonies consisted of the decoration of the graves of comrades who fell on the field - graves forever green - as green under bleak December snows as they were on Tuesday, under summer flowers and the grass which springs eternal above their silent beds. There were patriotic, cheerful songs by the school children, representative of an on-coming generation at this end of the line, in greetings of honor, and perhaps farewells, to those at the other. There were other ceremonies - an address - a sumptuous dinner and then departure for home - and, in some cases, the grave. They road in, they hobbled in, some on crutches, some on a wooden peg, some in wagons, some on horseback - some on footback, some in buggies, a few in automobiles. They got here - did this battered and shattered remnant of one of the most splendid armies ever marshalled on a battlefield since the world began. Many of them bore the marks in their bodies of carnage and blood. One had an eye shot out, leaving a great sunken socket. Another, a long red scar across the back of his neck. Another limped from the effect of a Yankee bullet which smashed the bone in his knee. Another, the mark on his breast where a ball entered, passing through his body, making a larger hole where it came out than where it went in. They were proud of these marks, and never tired of telling how and where they got them, more than 50 years ago. They told these stories over to each other, as they do on every Memorial and reunion day. The younger men and boys gather around and listen with unflagging interest. Pity these stories and incidents, these scattered leaves of actual experience, cannot be gathered and bound into volumes, that they might be preserved - this unwritten history of "The Lost Cause." Instead of one or a dozen histories of the war there could be thousands, for not only did each soldier help make history - he is himself a history. The line of the old Confeds formed on Main street, around the old time honored flag, the Stars and Bars, held proudly aloft by Standard-bearer Caudill. Major WHITMAN was in command. The command to "fall in" was as familiar after 50 years, as when these men followed Lee and Jackson, and they "fell in," awaiting further orders. The old soldier is a hero in the eyes of Southern women - as much so now as when mothers and grandmothers prayed, wept, worked and warred during the long and dark, days and the longer and darker nights, of the tragic years of the sixties. These defenders of the women and the homes of the Southland are now, in their turn, defended by the daughters and grand daughters of the Confederacy, tenderly and untiringly, with increasing tenderness as they years go by, as these once stalwart men advance into the second stage of childhood and helplessness. And so, the column no longer marches in parade on foot to the cemetery, short though the distance is. Automabiles are provided, luxurious and carefully driven, to and from the old soldiers mecea, where he loves to pay annual tribute of devotion, pray, and drop a flower - wet with tears. The Tazewell Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy prepared and served a splendid dinner. It is egotistic, folly, to attempt here to add to the tribute of honor already paid the Southern women of the Confederacy. Their names and their deeds, are they not written in the Lambs Book of Life, in Heaven's Hall of Fame? Mr. J.W. CHAPMAN delivered the memorial address. His subject, the Heritage of the South, was admirably presented. Those who had the pleasure of hearing the address are loud in their commendations. An effort was made to get the manuscript for publication, but the request was politely refused. It should be printed and preserved finally. This Camp desires to place upon record a memorial tribute to Major A.J. TYNES, one of its members who died on the 11th day of November, 1914. Major TYNES was a soldier in the Confederate Army during the entire war between the states. He saw active service in different fields of operation and held a number of official positions. He was a zealous member of this camp and rendered it efficient service. He was a highly respected and useful citizen of Tazewell County, and a public spirited man. Therefore, be it resolved, that: This tribute be preserved among the archives of this Chapter and published in the two newspapers of this county, and a copy thereof be transmitted to members of his family. ------------------- Our friend James W. JONES, who lives east of town, not far from Five Oaks, on what is known as Lincolnshire, was here on Monday, and it came out in a conversation with him that he was in no condition to be troubled with other people's troubles, for he has enough of his own to keep him busy. His father, who will be 105 years next October, has lost his mind, and not being willing that he should be sent away, is caring for the aged parent in his own home. This is a constant source of anxiety and care. In addition, not long ago, James JONES, an express messenger on the N and W., while at home on vactation, was seriously hurt by being thrown from a top load of baled hay, at Burke's Garden Switch, and George, another member of the family, was taken to the Bluefield Sanitarium last week for a surgical operation for appendicitis. And so, the old saying, that troubles never come single, seems to have been verified in this case. But, everybody is getting well, and the skies are brightening. SHAWVERS MILLS -------------------------------- Mr. and Mrs. S.P. CALDWELL, of Craig County, are visiting their daughter, Mrs. D.W. LEFFEL, and other relatives of this place. Mrs. John COSBY, of Lynchburg, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.M. PRUETT. Mrs. Myrtle BELCHER is spending a few days in Bluefield. Mr. and Mrs. S.N. SHAWVER returned from Richmond, where they attended the Odd Fellow and Rebekah assembly. Mr. Chester BELCHER is now at home for some time. Mrs. Nancy DAVIS, of West Graham, is spending a few days with relatives. Mrs. Will NEWBERRY, John and Frazier KIDD have been called to the bedside of their father, R.J. KIDD, who is not expected to live. Mrs. John FARRELL, of West Virginia, spent several days with parents, Mrs. W.M. PRUETT in the past week. Messrs. Arthur and George BEAVERS, of Maxwell, spent Sunday past at the home of Miss Nancy SHUFFLEBARGER. Mr. L.H. CARBAUGH was calling on his best girl Sunday, returning to his work on No. 6. --------------------------------- The high school closed this week. The teachers, most of them, are gone. The children no longer march and parade the streets, and a dullness is felt in town, due to their absence. The closing exercises began on Sunday with the bureaucratic sermon preached by Dr. LONG, president of Martha Washington College. "The Child in the Midst" was the subject of the discourse, and was listened to with close attention by the large crowd present. On Tuesday evening a very interesting musical recital was given by Miss CROCKETT'S musical class in the chapel. On Wednesday evening the graduation exercises proper took place. Judge HUTTON, of Abingdon, the well known lawyer, who was to have delivered the literary address, was unable to be present. Rev. S.B. VAUGHT, of Abingdon, delivered the address before the graduating class. The following program was well rendered. Notwithstanding the rain the chapel was crowded with interested friends and patrons of the school. After the regular program the medals, prizes and diplomas were awarded. Miss Elizabeth GILLESPIE, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Sanders GILLESPIE, was awarded the medal in first year latin. So close was this contest that an extra examination was necessary to determined the winner. The medal was awarded by Rev. Mr. PLATT. Mr. H.R. HAWTHORNE introduced the orator of the evening. Rev. Mr. VAUGHT, Prof. GOLLEHON, the principal, awarded the diplomas to the eleven graduates, as follows: Robert C. JACKSON, Miss Cora BRITTS, Miss Bonnie BARRETT, Miss Marguerite WRIGHT, Miss Geraldine KENDRICK, Miss Ollie BRITTAIN, Miss Francis LITZ, Robert MUIR, Joseph E. JOHNSON, Thomas CAMPBELL and Cecil MARTIN. Program - Invocation: Salutatory - Robert C. JACKSON Music - Cora BRITTS Class History - Bonnie BARRETT Characteristics - Thomas CAMPBELL Prophecy - Geraldine KENDRICK Music - Marguerite WRIGHT Poem - Cecil MARTIN Gifts - Ollie K. BRITTAIN Music - Fannie LITZ Last Will and Testament - Joseph E. JOHNSON Valedictory - Robert THOMAS Ushers - Graham PRESTON, Thomas MARTIN, Barns MOORE, William BOTTIMORE, Everett JOHNSON, and Houston ST. CLAIR. -------------- Judge KEGLEY'S court is still in session. A number of important civil and criminal cases have been tried. The following is the criminal docket disposed of: Howard BARKLEY, charged with robbing a Hungarian of $2.00 and a script card at Pocahontas, was given five years in the penitentiary. Robbery was committed at the point of a pistol. Sam MACOM, an officer of Pocahontas, gave very valuable assistance to the commonwealth in working up the evidence in the case, and it was largely through his efforts that the conviction was secured. Commonwealth against Earl EISENHOWER and John KENNEDY, for murdering a colored man on the coke yards at Pocahontas in February, resulted in a verdict of five years in the penitentiary for each of them. the evidence was all circumstantial. A convict, Zebb COSBY, colored, who escaped from the convict camp in Maiden Spring district two months ago, was given an additional term in the penitentiary of one year. Richard COOPER, colored, convicted of stealing merchandise from the commissary of the Pocahontas, was given one year in the penitentiary. The following is the jury serving at this term of court: G.W. CRABTREE, T.B. LAMBERT, H.M. KINZER, C.L. JONES, J.L. ARMES, W.G. COX, F.J. MOSS, James H. MCGUIRE, R.B. CONLEY, C.B. DANIELS, W.O. GEORGE, John C. MEADOWS, John E. MCGUIRE, George W. SPARKS, C.H. HANKINS, James R. BROWN. LOCAL NEWS --------------------- Miss Mary PRESTON and Miss Ellen SCOTT returned to their homes here yesterday from Mary Baldwin Seminary. Miss Nell BAYLOR also returned at the same time to her home at Wardell. The Town Council at North Tazewell will, from this date, begin the enforcement of auto speed laws, and drivers had better watch out. Sergeant PEERY authorizes us to state that 12 miles per hour on straight road and 8 miles on curves will be strictly adhered to. The case of W.P. PAYNE against the town of Tazewell, an appeal from the decision of the committee which assessed the damage to his property west of town on account of the widening of the road, was tried in court here yesterday morning and affirmed. The committee allowed Mr. PAYNE $25.00 damages on account of a strip of land that was used. Mr. John C. ST. CLAIR, whose illness was reported in the last issue of this paper, is said to be much improved.