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Miss May HANKINS is ill with fever at
the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas HANKINS. Miss May has been teaching
music at Graham for sometimes, and was brought home a week ago quite sick, afterwards
proving to have typhoid fever. Miss HANKINS is one of the most popular young ladies
in this section, and her sickness is sincerely regretted far and wide.
The remains of young Floyd CHRISTIAN were
brought here on Monday from Bluefield, and taken to Clear Fork for burial. One of young
CHRISTIAN'S feet was severely crushed by a train in Bluefield one day last week. The foot
was amputated, and he was thought to be getting on well, to within a short time of his
death. His mother is the daughter of J.F. GILLESPIE on Clear Fork, and he is said to have
been an industrious and worthy young man.
Within a short time, or just as soon as the
ground begins to thaw the road from Tazewell to the station will become almost impassible.
Even now it is in a wretched condition, as are many of the other roads - all of them
perhaps in the county. This particular piece of road has had money spent on it to make it
one of the best. But what has been put there is wasted. Rocks beaten up and piled down in
the mud - no roadbed except mud - have sunk and continued to sink. The middle of the road
is a great gully, full of mud and water and chuck holes. Where's the good or sense in
wasting money in this manner? Haven't we got a man in the county who knows and who will
show the people how to build a road? It's a disgrace and a shame - such roads as this, and
others, in this great rich county.
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