Tazewell County, Virginia, Newspaper Articles: Clinch Valley News--October 15, 1920 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 October 15, 1920 GRATTON -------------------------------------- The Gratton folks are glad to learn that they get Mr. ULM, their pastor back for another year, and exceedingly sorry to lose our Presiding Elder, and to learn he is going so far away. Our best wishes goes with him and his splendid wife. Miss Lula BAUGH and brother, Walter, went to Roanoke last Friday to hear Billy Sunday. They were delighted with his preaching. Mr. and Mrs. H.G. YOUNG spent Sunday in the West end of the county. Mr. YOUNG has been home for several days. James R. YOST, who has been with his uncle, Mr. Will YOST, at this place for the past summer, will leave Friday night for Pennsylvania where he has accepted a position. We are sorry to see him leave. People of this neighborhood are making sorghum and threshing buckwheat. We are getting ready to feast on buckwheat cakes and cane molasses. COVE CREEK -------------------------------- Jack Frost visited this part of the country, and the farmers are busy cutting corn. Miss Lora NEELE was shopping in Bluefield last Thursday. Mr. Oscar MITCHELL and wife, of Bluefield, Mr. R.C. FOX and family, of this place, were the guests of Mrs. S.F. FOX and family at Bishop's Chapel Sunday. The school opened at Stowersville Monday with Miss BARTON as teacher. We wish her great success. Several from here attended the box supper at Mr. S.N. SHAWVER'S Saturday afternoon. Paul, the youngest son of Mr. W.P. SLADE, fell off of the fence Sunday afternoon, breaking his left leg. He is doing nicely at this writing. Misses Lettie STOWERS and Bessie STEELE returned home Tuesday from a few days visit in Bluefield and Graham. Misses Gertrude and Dora FOX were shopping in Bluefield Tuesday. Mr. George SLADE, of Pearisburg, is visiting his father, Mr. J.W. SLADE, of this place. POCAHONTAS ------------------------------- Mrs. Ben T. GRAHAM and little son have been visiting Mr. GRAHAM'S relatives at Graham for a day or so. Mrs. Izzie SUTTON has resigned her position with the Block Co., here to accept a position at Princeton, West Virginia. Miss Margaret MITCHELL has accepted the position with The Bloch Co. made vacant by the resignation of Mrs. SUTTON. Mrs. G.B. IRVINE, of Williamson, West Virginia is spending some time in Pocahontas with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. HALLER. Fred MCNEER left several days ago for Fishburne Military Academy, Waynesboro, Va. F.E. WAGNER has returned from a trip to Staunton, Virginia. There was a large attendance of Pocahontas and Boissevain people at the ball game at Bluefield Friday between the Graham Red Sox and the Cincinnati Reds. The game was a victory for the Cincinnati Reds, score 9 to 1. Mrs. R.W. WITTEN has resigned as manager at Pocahontas Inn of the dining room. She is with her daughter, Mrs. C.M. FIELD, at Maybeury, West Virginia, also her daughter, Miss Catherine WITTEN, is a Maybeury. Mrs. Sol BAACH accompanied her father in law, Jacob BAACH to Greensboro, North Carolina, and will spend a few days there. It is a safe prediction that she will return in time to do effective work in behalf of the democratic ticket. Pocahontas Lodge No. 60, Knights of Pythias was well represented in the Grand Lodge at Staunton this week: F.E. WAGNER, J.R. YOUNG, J.M. NEWTON being the members present. This lodge has been honored in the election of a Supreme Representative from its membership, J.M. NEWTON, P.G.C., having been elected unanimously to that position, made vacant by the election of George C. CABELL, of Norfolk, as Supreme vice Chancellor. The next session of the Supreme Lodge will be held at San Francisco. -------------------- F. Thompson and Sons, who recently sold their fine farm near town; Baldwin Brothers, J.C. Holbrook, of Graham, have bought the Tarklin Coal Company at Honaker and are now in charge of the business. The sum of $50,000 was paid for the coal mine and it is said that a profit over this amount has already been offered the new purchasers. Honor Roll of Tazewell High School for September - First Grade: Graham VANDYKE, Hattie CRAWFORD, Gertrude KEISTER. Second Grade: Elmer ASBURY, Clarence BROOKS, George COX, Beverly HALL, Polly WHITLEY, Marie LAWSON, Mary WHITLEY, Janis STEELE, Rose STEPHENSON, Rose PEARCE, Katherine JONES, Elizabeth HOPKINS, Lillian HARMAN, Treble DEBORD, Frankie EDWARDS, Georgia CRAWFORD, Margaret COPENHAVER, Mary Crockett BOWEN, Billy BARNES, Marion DAVIDSON, Kenneth MCGRAW, James HAGY, Fred STEPHENSON, Walter VANDYKE, Ruth PEERY. Third Grade: John S. BOTTIMORE, Barnes GILLESPIE, Luther HALL, Henry KINCER, Robert Spencer MULLIN, Ruth ATWELL, Eleanor HARMAN, Hildreth HAMPTON, Janie ROYALL, Josephine STEELE, Ethel SORAH, Lucy Craig WARD. Fourth Grade: Bundy BARNS, Joe JONES, James GREEVER, George REPASS, Marena MARTIN, Louise BOWEN. Fifth Grade: John COPENHAVER, Mary Elizabeth JOHNSTON, Edna HILTON. Sixth Grade: Ben JOHNSON, Evelyn RUSS, Rachel ROYALL, Emma NECESSARY, Myrtle NECESSARY, Edith IRESON, Maggie FORBES, Lou BOOTH. Seventh Grade: Nancy WARD, Lettie WHITT, Ellen PEERY.