Tazewell County, Virginia, Newspaper Articles: Clinch Valley News--07 June 1940 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 07 June 1940 LOCAL NEWS (TAZEWELL) W.L. PAINTER, county Red Cross Chairman, announced Wednesday that the county's quota of $2,400 for the sufferers from the war overseas was $900 short. The need is great and every person in the county is urged to respond to the plea. Bill THOMPSON'S theatre contribution Tuesday night amounted to $70. He gave all the proceeds from the show to the cause and his generosity has been highly commended. Mrs. Henry E. HARMAN and daughter, Mrs. Henry PRESTON, Jr., and children have been in Richmond, where they attended the commencement events for St. Catherine's School, where Mrs. HARMAN'S granddaughter, Miss Marjorie Elizabeth PRITCHARD received her diploma of graduation Monday afternoon. Mrs. PRESTON preceded to Baltimore to be the guest of her sister, Mrs. J.E. BIGGS. Mrs. HARMAN is visiting her brother, Mr. J. Early ST. CLAIR in Roanoke. Judge Albert PEERY'S Trail Justice Court had among a number of very interesting cases one involving a chicken which slipped through a crack in the fence and damaged a neighbor's garden. The neighbor shot the chicken. And then the neighbor threatened to maul a little girl, and threw an iron rod at her. But Judge PEERY got his dander up when the gunning neighbor sent word in his hog calling voice that if "you will come down in the road I will stamp the stuffin' out of you," referring to an elderly woman who owned the offending chicken. The chicken killer was fined $10 and costs and sentence suspended. Judge PEERY lectured the whole outfit on behaving themselves. A number of boys were before the court for drunkenness and other offences - traffic violations, etc. The Texarkana Daily News, of Kansas, announced in its issue of May 25th the engagement of Miss Lillian Lake NEWTON to Mr. S.G. STEWART, of Stephenville, Texas. The announcement was made by Miss NEWTON'S parent's, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph NEWTON. Mrs. NEWTON is sister to Mrs. John S. BOTTIMORE, Tazewell, and is well remembered here as Miss Edna BELEW. The marriage will take place June 17. Mr. STEWART is a Presbyterian minister in charge of the church in Stephenville. Miss Julia Edmonia HOBSON and Mr. Monroe GRAYBEAL will be married Saturday afternoon. The wedding will take place in Christ Episcopal church, Bluefield, West Virginia. The ceremony, is to be performed by the bride's father, the Rev. Jennings W. HOLSTON pastor of Christ Episcopal church. Joseph STRAS, aged 89 years, died Tuesday at his home, 411 Walnut Avenue, S.W. Roanoke, after a lingering illness. He was a son of Joseph and Letitia STRAS, prominent among the early residents of Tazewell County, and was educated at private schools and at Roanoke college and later practiced law at Tazewell in partnership with the late Major R.R. HENRY. He was a brother of the late B.W. STARS, Sr. a prominent business and professional man of Tazewell. In the year 1800 Mr. STRAS and his family removed to Salem, where he engaged in business for several years before coming to Roanoke. During his long residence in Roanoke he took an active part in the growth and development of that city and was prominent in religious and business circles. Surviving are his widow, formerly Miss Mary Elizabeth SPOTTS, of Tazewell, to whom he was married in 1872, a daughter, Mrs. Stella PENN, with whom he made his home, and a son, James Campbell STRAS, of Cardinal, Ky., and a sister, Mrs. A.D.W. WALTON, of Roanoke; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Funeral services are to be conducted at four p.m. Thursday at Greene Memorial Church, of which he was one of the oldest members. The pallbearers will be: George C. PEERY, W.M. GILLESPIE, Joseph MOSS, Dr. James WILLIAMS, James O'KEEFFE and Frank GREGORY. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon for Andrew H. STEELE, from the home in Portsmouth, Ohio. Mr. STEELE was a native of Tazewell County. He died Monday in a Portsmouth hospital following injuries received on last Saturday when a taxicab in which he was a passenger was demolished by a Greyhound bus in Portsmouth. Mrs. STEELE and one son and a daughter remain patients in the Portsmouth hospital suffering from injuries received in the same accident. Mr. STEELE is survived by his widow, formerly Miss Irene KENNEDY, of Coeburn, Virginia, and also by five children, Henry, 21; Joseph, 20, Charles, 18, Frances, 16 and James, 10. Mr. STEELE'S parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.H. STEELE, of Pounding Mill and nine brothers and sisters also survive. They are: Andy STEELE, Edgar STEELE, Fred STEELE, Mrs. W.S. WHITT, Mrs. Paul BROWN, Mrs. Noel J. WITT, Mrs. James FOX, Claude STEELE, Charles STEELE, Paul STEELE. Mr. STEELE was 50 years of age and was connected with the engineering department of the Norfolk and Western. William Robert NASH was born March 29, 1872. He was united in marriage to Miss Mary HOLLEY on January 22, 1895, who departed this life 12 years ago. To this union were born four children, two having preceded him to the grave. W.R. NASH died May 23, 1940, at the age of 68 years, 1 month, 24 days. He was highly respected by those who knew him. He believed in his children and did everything in his power to make them happy. He was a good neighbor and was always willing to help those who needed him. He spent his entire life in Tazewell. He is survived by one son, Trevlyn NASH, one daughter, Mrs. Alverta NASH DAVIS, one granddaughter, Mary HAYDEN, two brothers, James NASH, of Beckley, West Virginia and George NASH, of Tazewell; one sister, Mrs. Jessie L. WOODY, of Tazewell, and a host of relatives and friends. Mr. J.T. KENDRICK, ill at his home here for several weeks, is much improved. He has been on the street several days this week checking up on the current local ???. In last week's issue of the Clinch Valley News there was an article with reference to the trail and conviction of James HARMAN on a charge of forging a check on Cleve JONES. It seems that this article was misleading or confusing. There are four or five persons in Tazewell County by the name of James HARMAN. The James HARMAN who was convicted of said charge of forgery is a coal miner about forty years of age, the son of a farmer who lives in the McGuire Valley section of the county, and who moved here from West Virginia several months ago. Mr. ROYALL, the Tazewell lawyer who defended HARMAN on this charge, in his argument of the case, frankly confessed to the jury that his client was guilty, and made a plea for mercy. Mrs. Reese ANDERSON recently returned to her home at Graham from a visit to her father, C.B. BOWLING, at Wilson, Ohio, and brought back pictures of a very fine piece of hard work executed by her father in a four poster bed, which contained over 200 pieces of different kinds of wood worked into the structure. The picture of this bed will appear in next week's issue of the News. Judge Keemer HALL is recovering at his home in North Tazewell from an attack of pneumonia. Marguerite MULLIN is visiting her brother, Robert S. MULLIN at Dublin, Va. Phil ROACH is improving at his home here from an attack of pneumonia. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Earl WALLACE, last Thursday, a daughter, at the Clinch Valley Clinic, Richlands. Charlie KINCER, of Dante, spent the weekend in Tazewell as the guest of his mother, Mrs. Henry KINCER. Mrs. Pete HELDRETH, of Tazewell, is in Huntington, West Virginia, where she is the guest of relatives and friends. Mrs. Elsie BUCHANAN left the past week for a visit with her parents in Roanoke. Miss Mary Jane FLOYD, daughter of Mrs. Lois FLOYD, of North Tazewell, is spending the summer with her grandmother in Floyd County. J.C. HORNEY, of Horney Brothers Land Auction Co. of Wytheville, was a business visitor here Wednesday. Mrs. George VAN LEAR returned to Tazewell last Saturday from visit with her daughter, Miss Elizabeth, of Norman Oaks. Mrs. Katherine HUTCHINSON, of Pittsburg, PA is in Tazewell the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H.S. SURFACE. Mrs. Raymond S. PEERY returned Sunday from the Bluefield sanitarium, where she received surgical treatment. Mrs. A. Ward DENNISON underwent an operation at the Bluefield sanitarium on Tuesday for the removal of her tonsils. Mrs. T.W. ZINK of Tazewell, is in Staunton, the guest of her daughter, Mrs. C.. EDDIE and family. Mr. and Mrs. Keith THOMPSON left Monday for New York. They will attend the New York World's Fair before their return to Tazewell. Dr. Bill COATES and his brother, Wade COATES, are expected home this week from Richmond for a vacation with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.F. COATES. Albert PEERY is fast regaining his strength after a slight stroke. When old summer time gets going good he will be back to his former self again. Mrs. J.N. ELLER and Nelson and Mary Elizabeth ELLER and Mrs. Linney HAGY, of Welch, are guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs. James ALEXANDER. Mr. and Mrs. C.K. HALL, have as their guests Mr. HALL'S mother, Mrs. C.E. HENDERSON and Mr. HENDERSON, of Tampa, Florida. Mrs. Jake PRIODE, of Clintwood, Virginia, was in Tazewell last week, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Bob PROIDE. Miss St. Clair PEERY, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Garland PEERY, has returned to her home here from Ward-Belmont school, Nashville, Tenn. Mrs. Robert AKERS gave a birthday party June 2 for her daughter, Katherine Kermit HOPKINS, Andy ALEVE and Blanche HOPKINS, from Morgantown, West Virginia, were among the guests. Curtis Waltman CROCKETT, son of Mr. and Mrs. T.H. CROCKETT, North Tazewell, completed his high school work and received his diploma from Berea College, secondary school, June 3. The Rev. Haskin V. LITTLE, attended finals this week at Madison College, Harrisonburg, and at the Virginia Theological Seminary, at Alexandria. His sister, Miss Elizabeth LITTLE, a graduating Senior at Madison College, is expected to return to Tazewell with him for a brief visit. Mrs. L.D. GEORGESON, is fast recovering from a full, which occurred at the home of her brother, Harry HOWARD, last week. She opened the door of the cellar accidentally and plunged to the bottom, inflicting painful injuries. Misses Lyde, Fannie and Hattie TYNES of Tazewell and Mrs. James R. LAIRD, of Huntington, West Virginia, visited Mr. and Mrs. Harold P. STREET of Wytheville, this week. Mrs. Will Ed PEERY, Mrs. George MCCALL and Mr. and Mrs. R.C. PEERY returned the first of the week from Farmville, where they attended the commencement exercises of State Teachers College. Miss Katherine PEERY, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.C. PEERY, received her diploma from that institution. Sergeant Ed WITTEN, of Virginia State Police, is here from Clifton Forge visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank T. WITTEN. Sergeant WITTEN is delighted with the section of the State he serves. Mrs. A.G. KISER is visiting her son, Myron KISER at Guntersville Dam, Ala. Mrs. KISER was accompanied as far as Knoxville last Saturday by Mr. and Mrs. Roy S. THOMPSON, of Bluefield, who are spending a vacation in the Nrris Dam area. Misses Margaret JONES and Mildred WHITE, of North Tazewell; Jim and Laird HARMAN, Walter PIERCE, Bob CROCKETT, Sidney COULLING, Ray BOOTHE, and Ruth BAILEY, of Tazewell, will represent Tazewell and North Tazewell Methodist churches at the assembly held at Emory and Henry College this week. Rev. W.S. JONES and Ralph HAWKINS expect to leave with their families next week for a week's tour. Mrs. JONES and the children will visit their parents, the Blackards at Stuart, Mrs. HAWKINS and daughter will visit parents on the Eastern short of Maryland and the men will attend the Southern Baptist convention in Baltimore. Among the 427 graduates for the bachelor of science degrees and 66 candidates for master of science degrees to be conferred at Virginia Tech's sixty-eighth commencement exercise Monday, June 10, are Robert Lee PEERY, North Tazewell; John Joseph MEEK, Burke's Garden; John Anderson MACOM, Jr., Pocahontas, B.S. Degrees, Gordon C. FARMER, Richlands; George Washington LITTON, Tazewell, M.S. degrees. Miss Frances QUALLS, of Fort Bennings, Ga., is in Tazewell the guest of her friends, Mary Martha PEERY and Virginia BARNES. Good looking girls from Georgia are naturally associated with the famous George peach, which possesses all the qualifications for entrances in contests for supremacy in good looks and attractiveness. POUNDING MILL The Rev. Lee HILL, Methodist minister, will preach here Sunday night. Rev. Curtis JONES preached Sunday night. Rev. Curtis HANKS, the Church of God minister, preached on Quarry Hill Saturday night and Sunday and will preach again next Saturday and Sunday. Prayer meeting Thursday night. Rev. George DOYLE and Mrs. DOYLE called on Mrs. W.B. STEELE this A.M. for Norton, on his way to his home in Boston. He has been preaching in the Church of God for 44 years. Preached here the first of the year in 1901. Has visited this place and others for 14 consecutive years. 18 from here attended the C.E. Union meeting at Cliffield Friday night and brought back the banner. Rev. George E. OWENS, Rev. Curtis JONES and Rev. Lee HILL were present. A.H. STEELE, who was injured in an automobile collision was buried today. The obituary of Mr. STEELE will be found in another column. Mrs. Aught GILBERT remains about the same. Mr. and Mrs. Tom CATRON, War, West Virginia spent Sunday here with Mr. and Mrs. Tom MULKEY. Mrs. MULKEY and Dolores returned home with them to spend the week. Peggy TRAYER, Marie JONES and Mary Gladys JOHNSON, Freda Mae JOHNSON, picnicked across the river in front of post office today. Mrs. Virginia RANES left Tuesday to visit her daughter at Gardner, Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond JOHNSON, Bluefield, West Virginia, spent Sunday afternoon here with parents, Mr. and Mrs. James JOHNSON. Miss Mary Sue RINGSTAFF returned last week from Milligan college She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.L. RINGSTAFF.