1914

Friday, April 17, 1914
 

Tip Top, April 15 - Rev. James W. HOLBROOK, and old and well known citizen, a minister of the Southern Methodist church, died at his home
near Bailey on last Friday night.  His death was very sudden and was unlooked for.  He had been sick during the early part of the winter,
suffering from Bright's disease.  Mr. HOLBROOK was over 70 years of age and leaves a widow, three sons, Joseph, and Will of Bailey; Rev. Z.D.
HELBROOK of Pearisburg circuit, and three daughters, Mrs. D.D. MOORE, of Bluefield; Mrs. James DEATON, of West Graham and Miss Linnie, of Bailey. 
Two brothers also survive, W.D. of Bailey and John, of Graham.  Two sisters are living somewhere in the west.  Mr. HOLBROOK was a great
revivalist and local worker in the church and will be missed from the community.  The burial occurred Monday in the Holbrook cemetery.  Funeral
services were conducted by Rev. J.E. SPRING, of the Tazewell charge. 

POCAHONTAS

Floyd BLACK of the Geo. S. Landon Drug Company, is in Richmond attending the annual meeting of the Rexall drugists of Virginia.

Efforts are being made to get the Pocahontas street committee appropriated funds for a series of lights on that principal streets of the town which
will give Pocahontas a "White Way" like many other cities.

A company is being formed here to build a modern steam laundry to take care of the large amount of business of thic? character going out of town.

Fire broke out in the general store of Johnson and Pettis Monday night. The fire company respoinded promptly and soon extinguished the flames. 

A gentleman from Cincinnati has been here this week arranging to install and ice plant, which he hopes to have in operation by the first of July.

The baby of Mr. and Mrs. B. B. SCOTT died at the Scott home here Wed. evening.

POUNDING MILL

H. G. GILLESPIE came home from V.P.I. at Blacksburg to spend a couple of days with parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.K. GILLESPIE.  He expects to get his
"sheep skin" in June.

A.C. FOWLER loaded on yesterday twenty-one sticks of timber for the navy yard in New York.  The timber measured over 20,500 feet and averaged over
forty feet in length.  The timber is for "Uncle Sam" was loaded at Vandyke and bought from Mrs. Sallie BANDY, wife of the late James BANDY.

Rex STEELE was one of the invited guests to spend from Saturday to Monday, at Dr. RITTER's at Whitewood.

Mrs. George BREWSTER (nee: Mary Ann Earls), who has been on the sick list the past week is better.

Mr. and Mrs. C.H. TRAYER'S baby has been quite sick with measles for a few days.

Mrs. R.M. SPARKS left Monday to visit her daughter Mrs. Norman TURNER and her baby girl, at Ada, West Virginia.

Miss Mary B. ALTIZER, of Richlands, visited her brother, J.T. ALTIZER and family here Friday and Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. Ben RILEY came here last week to make their home with his son, Alex RILEY.  Mr. RILEY has added two nice rooms to his residence. 
Mr. and Mrs. RILEY are quite feeble.

Messrs. Fred GILLESPIE, J.H. WILLIAMSON and Dr. ZIMMERMAN were invited guests of John O'KEEFFE at Tazewell, Sunday to dinner.

Mrs. Susan RINGSTAFF and Mrs. Alysa MULKEY visited their daughter and mother, Mr. and Mrs. MULKEY and family in Graham.

Mr. and Mrs. MULKEY, who were burned out recently, have gone to housekeeping and are nicely fixed up.  Their neighbors and two societies
gave them a bureau drower of sheets, and about sixty towels and other things.

Mrs. Robert PETTS, spent Friday visiting her mother, Mrs. Charles McGUIRE on the Branch and reports her mother as being unable to walk from
rheumatism in one of her limbs.

Mr. and Mrs. James JOHNSON'S oldest son, has measles as has also "Buggie," son of Mr. and Mrs. C.M. HUNTER.

Mrs. W. B. STEELE and daughter, Miss Uva, were shopping in Tazewell Wed. and Bluefield Friday.  Miss Pearl McGUIRE, of Cedar Bluff, Mrs. STEELE'S
sister, accompanied them to Bluefield.

Mrs. Curtis SHAMBLIN is desperately ill of fever at the home of her father, Mr. and Mrs. George DUNCAN.  She gave birth to a little daughter
on Thursday night and little hope is entertained for her recovery.  Her many friends and relatives here are much alarmed at her condition.

J.B. GILLESPIE, of Wittens Mills, who spent Sunday here with friends and who has been suffering from a severe cough for the past two weeks, was
able to resume his work Monday as salesman for a large wholesale drug house at Salem.

L. DUNNINGAN, of Gratton, was a pleasant visitor here Saturday and Sunday on his way to and from a visit to relatives, Mr. and Mrs. John WYNN in
Baptist Valley.

Mr. W.G. GILLESPIE expected to move his family from Liberty Hill to his place today, but on account of the wind and rain was compelled to defer
same until tomorrow.

Mrs. James CONLEY, of Richlands, visited friends here the last of the week, returning home Tuesday.

Mr. A.F. PRUNER, of this place, was married in Baltimore to Miss BROWN, of Eastern Virginia on Wednesday of last week and came here this morning. 
Miss BROWN is the charming sister of Mrs. G. C. MCCLAIN, whose husband is foreman for the Boxley quarry here, and Mr. PRYOR (Does say PRUNER above)
is shop foreman.  They will reside in the McCLAIN cottage until Mrs. MCCLAIN returns from the home of her parents.  She has been away since
Christmas.

The HURT twins, Mary and Katie, and Jessie and Ollie Kate GILLESPIE, spent Saturday and Sunday with Elizabeth GILLESPIE at Gillespie.

Mrs. J.T. ALTIZER was shopping in Richlands one day last week.

James NEELE is at Tazewell today. G.R. THOMAS is R.F.D. carrier in his place.

April 17, 1914

Sunday Schools at Shawver's Mills

The Sunday School District Convention held a Shawvers Mill last Saturday was pronounced a decided success by everyone in attendance. The convention
is composed of about eight schools, beginning with Concord, taking in Burke's Garden and extending to the county line below Cove Creek.

John P. GOSE, of Burkes Garden, is President and P.G. BAUGH, Secretary of the convention. They were present and discharged the duties of their
office well. The program was carried out, every speaker being present except one, Rev. Mr. ARROWOOD, who was unavoidably absent. Revs. BULLARD,
CAMPBELL, PLATT, HICKS and BROWN, President of the county association and the secretary of the county association, were present, and had places on
their program. The speeches were short and to the point. The well known, long winded Sunday school speech was conspicuous by its absence.

The Shawvers Mills church, of which Rev. Mr. BULLARD is pastor, has a flourishing school. George CRABTREE is superintendent. This is been a
strong country church for many years. Nearby is Kinzer's chapel, a Methodist church, Rev. Mr. HICKS, pastor, with Millard KINZER as
superintendent and general manager of the Sunday school. further down the creek is Cove Creek Sunday school, with Mr. Jeff HIGGINBOTHAM,
superintendent. Mr. and Mrs. T.L. SHUFFLEBARGER are active members of this school at least Mrs. SHUFFLEBARGER is. We don't know so well as to "Tom".

These schools were all represented, also the Concord and Mt. Olivet schools of which P.G. BAUGH and Felix BOURNE, JR., are superintendents,
respectively. No attempt will be made here to report the speeches made. They were all good; the singing was good, and the Sunday school cause in
the community was given a boost, which will be felt in the future in greater efficiency and large attendance. All these schools will be represented in the annual meeting to be held in June here.

The Shawver mill people had provided lunch for all the visitors, and the homes nearby took a number of the visitors hom with them to dinner. The
writer had the pleasure of breaking bread with his old friend, Millard KINZER, as did Mr. BROWN, Mr. HICKS and a number of young people as well.
Mr. and Mrs. KINZER'S open heartedness and genuine hospitality, is known here far and wide. In fact, this can be truthfully said of the Clear Fork
people generally.

Regret is expressed by the pastor and others that a number of the male members of his church were forced to absent themselves from the meeting.
They were busy and could not be present, they thought. However, the number of substantial men and good women present, some coming quite a distance,
was a most encouraging and hopeful indication. One speaker said that the Sunday School work is now recognized as a mans job, no longer to be
limited to women and children. "It's a mans job," has a good job for every man, and every lover of home and church is taking hold of the work. One of
the brightest and finest young women in the school, Miss Ada LEFFEL, was elected superintendent of the Cradle Roll and Home Departments, and each
school was urged to take up the work of this department in their communities. The convention rushed through in the afternoon so as to give the women and children opportunity to rehearse for an entertainment to be given next day by a social of the church.

GRAHAM

The health of the town is good and the attendance at Sunday school and all the churches better then ever.

Sluss, Baker & Co. have almost completed the pipe line and the tests made so far by turning on the water are highly satisfactory.

The L.T.L. had an egg hunt in which more than fifty little hunters and our large Hunter were present.

So far, 89 have responded to the invitation and 66 have have been baptized as the result of the revival in progress here. At. 7:30 P.M. next
Wednesday, April 22, a special service will be held for those who recently joined the church. It is hoped that Bro. BULLARD can be here at that time.

BURKES GARDEN

Mrs. T. C. BOWEN and children are spending awhile with home folks. Since their arrival, Mrs. BOWEN has developed a mild case of measles.

Mrs. Julia A. HALL, "who has been in feeble health for several months, is very ill. Dr. WOOLWINE of Ceres, was called in consultation with Dr.
HIGGINBOTHAM last week.

Mrs. Levi RHUDY, Misses Etta and Emma GREEVER, are improving, as is, also Miss Rosa KELLEY, who has been laid up with inflammatory rheumatism for
several weeks.

Mrs. W.B. CRISMOND of Smyth, has been very ill at her sister's Mrs. L.W. WYNN

Dr. and Mrs. Jas. H. MOORE have returned to their home at Mechanicsburg, after a weeks stay with Mrs. MOORE'S parents, Mr. and Mrs. B.R. MOSS.