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There is general complaint among the pastors of small attendance upon the different services of the churches - Preaching, Sunday Schools and prayer meetings. Even when there is only one church open in town for preaching on Sunday, it is claimed that the attendance is small. One pastor remarked recently that all the churches put together, are not reaching one third of the people in town. This is putting it strongly, but is certainly true when the prayer meeting attendance is considered. The Wednesday night services are poorly attended, beyond all question. When asked why don't you go to church, the answer will be, if honest, in a majority of cases, "because I don't want to." Why they "don't want to" is another question to which there are various answers. A most
universal reason for not going to church is the one very frequently given, "I was sick," but in almost every case the sick man is well and on the street Monday morning. The man who says "because I don't want to" comes near telling the truth, and is representative of the majority. The ministers have been tugging at the problem, how to improve the religious condition of Tazewell, for a long time with seemingly very unsatisfactory results. That Tazewell people are more callous and indifferent than other peoples is not easy to prove. The same conditions under the same circumstance would prevail
anywhere.
The accounts for tuition in the Tazewell High School are now due. The teachers will soon leave, and must have their salaries. These tuition accounts must be paid at once, and if not so paid will be placed in the hands of an officer for immediate collection. Please come forward and settle at one. J.H.
LEWIS, Treasurer Tazewell High School.
The following named officers were nominated at North Tazewell last Wednesday night: Mayor, Jno. F.
IRESON, Recorder, R.H. IRESON, Sargeant, J.D. GILLENWATERS. Councilmen; C.H.
PEERY, George P. HALL, J. Arthur PEERY, M.H. KISER, W.W.
PEERY, and E.L. WHITLEY, Sr. Treasurer, K.D.R. HARMAN.
Capt's COOPER and WHITE, officers at the penitentiary, took thirteen men from this and Wise counties to day to the penitentiary. Jas. P. SHORT, William DAVIS, C.E.
CHRISTIAN, white; and Houston MATHEWS, colored, leave as representatives of Tazewell.
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