Tazewell County, Virginia, Newspaper Articles: Clinch Valley News--June 14, 1901 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 June 14, 1901 POCAHONTAS ------------------------------------- The N & W delivered yesterday five gondolas at the Browning Mines, the first trip of the Browning extension. They commenced loading coal there yesterday, the first that has been loaded for weeks. The bridge force and section men have been busy for some time laying the track and building tunnels on the N & W, extension to the Browning mines. Judge Mont BROWNING'S health is giving away and he is in very feeble health. The Mayor and Council have elected Rev. W.M. MINTER chief justice in his place. Mr. MINTER is a lawyer of fine legal talent and will make a good judge. The appointment has given entire satisfaction. Mr. Walter O'MALLEY, Supt., of the Pocahontas Colliers Co. has been in Pennsylvania for several days. He returned on Sunday. S. WALTON & Co's. train passed through Pocahontas today with steam drills, dynamite, etc. They have a contract to sink a shaft 70 feet deep above the machine shops, preparatory to placing a fan on the mountain to furnish fresh air in the mines. Mrs. M. MILLER, of Cumberland, Md. arrived in town Wednesday, with her baby boy, to spend the summer with her father, M. KWASS, and other relatives and friends in the city. Mrs. Harvey OWENS, who lives a short distance from town, was taken to the hospital at Marion, on Tuesday. The case is a sad one. Mrs. OWENS has five children, some of them quite young, and the father of the family is in poor health, and incapacitated to provide a living for them. The good people of Pocahontas are looking after the welfare of the children. The authorities at Marion sent one of the hospital nurses, Miss Jennie GOTT, after Mrs. OWENS. They left on the afternoon train Tuesday. There are 800 patients at Marion, so says Miss GOTT. The Editor of the NEWS, Major HENRY, Col. MAY and Warner WATKINS were among the Tazewell people registered at the Inn on yesterday. Rev. Mr. MOORE, pastor of the Presbyterian church, returned on Monday fro his protracted visit to friends and relatives in North Carolina. John L. BABER is in Lynchburg on business. Our people are making great preparations for the Fourth of July celebration. Fire Companies No. 1 and 2 are practicing daily for the prize contest. Chief REESE is justly proud of the boys. Mr. BAACH one of the leading and oldest merchants of the town is bestowing much care and labor upon the Pocahontas Cemetery, and his work is countig for much. Already there is much improvement in appearance and convenience. This City of the Silent will be as inviting as such a place is expected to be, as a final resting place for the bodies of our loved ones. On Sunday afternoons great crowds go there, when the weather is suitable, some to view the graves of loved ones, others for recreation and pleasure. Mr. BAACH is doing a work in which he should have the co-operation of all the people. Reverence for the graves of the dead is a distinguishing mark of civilization. A very enjoyable entertainment was given Tuesday night by the Y.M.C.A. after which refreshments were served. Miss Mable BAACH returned from Virginia College last week with her friend, Miss Eugenia FINLEY, of Georgia. Mrs. BRAMAR spent Friday and Saturday with Mrs. BAACH, enroute to her home in Georgia. The young men gave a little impromptu dance Friday evening to the young ladies who have just returned from school. Mrs. James BROWNING, Mrs. J. BAACH, Mrs. CAREY and Mrs. RUDISILL being the chaperones. Miss Patti LANDON leaves Friday to visit friends in Radford and Martinsville. Misses Bessie KWASS and Ester MILLEr are visiting friends in Bluefield. Rev. SOUTHERLAND, our Methodist Minister, is away for a three months vacation. Judge DILLARD, of Keystone, was in town one day this week. There is a rumor that Messrs. KIDD, WILLIAMS and HYMAN want to organize an orchestra. This is just what we need and we wish the gentlemen much success in the attempt. Louis BAACH was in town Sunday. BAILEY --------------------------------------------- Somebody made a mistake in the NEWS last week in regard to the location of Mr. MCDOWEL'S rheumatism. Instead of the word "head," it should have been "heart." Misses Mary WAGNER and Bessie HOUNSHELL took in the quarterly meeting at Wittens Mill Sunday. Miss Ella TABOR, of Bramwell, is the guest of Miss Edna THOMPSON this week. Miss Sue WAGNER went to Graham shopping, this evening. A. HOUNSHELL was on the sick list last week, but is some better at this writing. Mrs. McTEER SANDERS is also on the sick list. Our girls are going all they can towards getting ready for the entertainment. Our young people have a new organ in the church, on trial, but it is feared that the trial part of it will consist in the effort to get it paid for. Misses Jennie BAILEY and Bessie HOUNSHELL have tried the playing so far. Mr. James DEATON and family, of Pocahontas, visited Mr. George DEATON, of this place Sunday. POUNDING MILL ----------------------------------- Mrs. Mary Anne YOUNG of the Cove, came down from Tazewell on Monday and is visiting her brothers, Julius and Cyrus WILLIAMS. Prof. P.H. WILLIAMS came down today. Miss Jessie O'KEEFFE came down from Tazewell Sunday to visit her sister, Mrs. R.K. GILLESPIE and returned Monday. C.H. STEELE and family and niece, Miss Lyda WITT, of Paint Lick, visited their brother and sister, W.B. and Mrs. STEELE Saturday night and Sunday visiting their grandmother and aunt, Mrs. CRISMOND, of Burke's Garden, and Mrs. John WYNN, in Baptist Valley. Will GILLESPIE and bride, who were married last week, spent Monday with their brother and sister, Sam and Mrs. GILLESPIE, on their way back to Coal Creek. There has been considerable sickness here for the past week, but most every one is better now. Uva STEELE is so much indisposed as to be confined to her bed today. She has a very deep cold and cough and soreness in her chest, caused by horse back riding Sunday afternoon. Mrs. FAULKNER went to Oakvale, West Virginia last week and brought her mother, Mrs. LESLIE, who is an invalid, home with her. She will spend the summer here. The prayer meeting was reorganized at this place last Saturday night, and will be held each Sunday night when there is no preaching. The Sunday night union prayer meeting some time ago was for some reason, turned into a Bible reading. Prof. J.J. HOBACK will conduct the service on next Saturday night. Mrs. W.B. STEELE conducted the service on last Saturday night. Some of the old Methodists expect to attend the quarterly meeting at Bandy's Chapel next Saturday and Sunday. So sisters, please fry a few extra chickens for us. Rev. Mr. JORDON and his six weeks bride, after an extensive trip to Washington City and visiting relatives on both sides, were among us from Saturday until Monday afternoon, guests of W.B. STEELE and W.C. WILLIAMS. Mrs. JORDON was Miss Virginia ROOP, a graduate of Sullins College, formerly principal of a college, formerly principal of a college in Alabama, at $125.00 per month, where her sister was one of the assistants. For four years she has been stenographer for a flourishing railroad company at $85 per month, and now, poor woman, a poor Methodists preacher's wife at perhaps, $5.00 per month. At any rate we are well pleased with Mrs. JORDON, and must say she has already improved the preacher in the way of neatness. BENBOW ------------------------------------------ Rev. Philip JOHNSON of Tazewell preached at the White Church last Sunday at about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. His appointment was for 4 o'clock, but as this was his first trip he missed the road. So most of the congregation had gone home. Mr. JOHNSON will preach for us again the second Sunday in July at about 4 o'clock. Mr. Joseph WIMMER, and family and William WALK spent the day with Mr. H.T. BUCHANAN Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J.B. BOYER were visiting the family A.B. BUCHANAN Saturday night and Sunday. Mr. D.W. LYNCH has bought the home place of C.A. LEECE. We understand the price paid was $8,000.00. Mr. LEECE will move this fall to the place recently purchased by him from C.W. GEORGE. While Mr. LEECE is not going far away, he will be missed in this neighborhood by his many friends, but if Mr. LYNCH occupies the LEECE property it will simply be swaping one good man for another. G.O. THOMPSON is in the Cove this week attending the wedding of his aunt Miss Agnes BROWN, who is to be married to Mr. Slade WHITE, on Wednesday. ----------------------------------- We take the following from the Catlettsburg Daily Press, of June 6: A quiet, yet beautiful wedding last night was that of Ed. L. WRIGHT, foreman of the Catlettsburg Daily Press's composing rooms, and Miss Iowa DAVIS, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph DAVIS, of the North End, Rev. Dr. W.C. CONDIT, of Ashland, officiating, using the impressive ring ceremony of the Presbyterian ritual. Only the immediate family and relatives were present. The bride, on of Kentucky's fairest belles, was gowned in a beautiful white Persian lawn with trimmings of valentine lace and white taffetas ribbon. The groom wore the conventional black. They were, indeed, a handsome looking couple, and are loved and respected by a wide circle of friends, who join The Daily Press in wishing them a long and happy married life. After the ceremony they were driven to the home of Attorney C.L. WILLIAMS, on Louisa Street, where the groom had furnished apartments awaiting them. For the present they will board. Central Catlettsburg extends to this happy young couple the glad hand, as she always does to good people located here. Mr. WRIGHT was for two years editor of the Clinch Valley News, Tazewell, Virginia but for the past two years has been engaged in newspaper work in Ashland and Catlettsburg. A most distressing accident occurred near Keystone Saturday morning. At about ten minutes past 8 o'clock train number 4 struck and killed a woman named CHRISTIAN, who was walking on the track. Mrs. CHRISTIAN was about 50 years of age, and was with a grown daughter walking from Burke to Keystone. As the train approached the engineer blew the warning and the younger woman got off the track in time. Her mother, however, stepped on the other track and was struck by extra train No. 4. The engineer hadn't a second in which to stop his train after he saw the woman on the track. The grief of the daughter was described as being pitiful. Dr. PRESTON, who happened to be on the train, did all he could to relieve the injured woman's suffering, but his efforts were futile and death came Sunday morning as a welcome release. Mr. Barnes GILLESPIE and Miss Ruth PEPPER held a reception at Hotel Gladstone Tuesday evening, June 4th, from eight to ten. Only the bride were present. The marriage took place Wednesday morning at nine o'clock at the Presbyterian church, in the presence of a large concourse of friends and relatives, Rev. WALLER of Marion, performing the ceremony. The happy couple went directly to the station to take the east bound train. They will visit northern and eastern points of interest before returning to Tazewell, their future home. Mr. GILLESPIE has secured for his bride that most popular and beautiful young lady in our town. She is the daughter of Dr. C.T. PEPPER. Mr. GILLESPIE is a promising young lawyer of Tazewell. The following were among those from a distance who attended the marriage. Miss MONOR of Charlottsville, Miss MCDOWELL and Mrs. VANCE from Bristol, Mrs. CARSON, of Abingdon, Messrs. Franklin and Jacob GILLESPIE, of Tazewell, Mr. Louis E. PEPPER, of Roanoke. ITALY ------------------------------------ Mr. WALTON and Miss Nannie SUDDUTH are visiting their father as Welch, West Virginia. Arthur BAILEY, who left here last winter to work for Bailey and Henderson at Five Oaks, has returned and gone to work in the Quarries. We are sorry to note that our friend A.W. TABOR is suffering of rheumatism. Mrs. J.L. SMITH is very sick of Flux. B. YOUNG made a business trip to Cooper last Tuesday. Hon. W.G. MUSTARD passed through our "burg" Wednesday on his return from Princeton, West Virginia.