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The Tazewell medical society met here on Wednesday in regular session. There was a full
attendance of the physicians of the town, and one, Dr. J.P HALLER, of Pocahontas, from outside. After the usual routine business the subject of tuberculosis was informally discussed, and some astonishing and alarming statements were made by the physicians present. The statement was made based upon observation and conservative estimate, that there exists at this time not less perhaps, than one hundred cases of the dread disease, in some stage or other, in this town and immediate vicinity, and not less, perhaps than 1000 cases in the county. This is an alarming statement, coming from the source it does, and the worst of it is that no organized, co-operative effort is being made to even check the spread of the disease. However, the physicians determined on Wednesday, that at their next meeting, which will be held in October, to organize a league for the specific purpose of fighting the plague. One of the first and most important things to be done is to acquaint the people with the fact that there exists right among them an awful, deadly and incurable plague - incurable unless taken and skillfully treated in its incipiency. This is a matter which every family, black and white, in the entire county, is vitally concerned, and will give the league when organized hearty corporation.
A successful revival meeting closed late Monday night at Gravelly Hill, conducted by Revs. J.R.
PUCKETT and J.H. BOWLING. This good, old fashioned meeting, resulted in 21 additions to the Methodist
Church.
Tip Top - On Friday, August 28, a dance will be given at night at the Iron Lithia Springs Hotel. Music will be furnished by the Columbia Orchestra of Keystone. Saturday August 29, 3 pm, there will be a game of baseball between Keystone and Tazewell. Everybody is invited and a good time is assured to all.
George, the young son of Mr. JOHNSON, the blind man, who lives in this community, was bitten by a dog a day or two ago, supposed to have had the
rabies. The dog was killed, and the boy, who was treated by Dr. C.W. GREEVER, will be sent, perhaps, to the Pasteur Institute.
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