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The members of the Gravelly Hill Church and Sunday School, with a number of visitors and invited guests had a fine day last Sunday. No one who was present will soon forget the
occasion. Instead of the customary picnic a meeting was held under the spreading chestnut and maple trees, in a beautiful grove nearby. There was preaching at 11 o'clock by Rev. Mr.
BOWLING, and at 3 o'clock by Rev. Mr. DOYLE, of Bluefield, with a "few feeble remarks" on
Sunday schools by a visitor. All the exercises were interspersed with good singing, good preaching, good eating, good shade, good water and good weather - everything was good, and the results cannot fail to be good. The young people were there from the surrounding country. The fathers and mothers were there with their children. They came in wagons, buggies, horseback, and afoot. It was a typical, country scene, frequently witnessed and enjoyed in days agone, but seldom seen now.
Mrs. YOST, wife of John W. YOST, died suddenly at her home near Concord church on Wednesday night about 11 o'clock. She had been sick for about a week though not confined closely to her bed. It is stated that neither her
physicians, Drs. CROCKETT and BOWEN, nor her family thought her case at all serious, and expected her to be well in a short time. On Wednesday night her husband, noticing her breathing to be unnatural and lighting a lamp went to her bedside and found her just breathing her last. She was dead in a minutes time. Mrs.
YOST was the mother of ten children, nine of whom are living - the youngest about two years old. She was a good woman, a devoted wife and mother, and her death is a shock and great grief. The burial took place at Concord yesterday afternoon.
George H. MOSS received another car load of Canadian Shorthorns a few days ago. The yearlings are fine size and good animals. Capt. C.A.
FUDGE bought the lot at once, at about $24.00 a piece. The cattle reached Tazewell on Sunday morning, having been delayed several days, and were sold on Monday morning. Other car loads are expected this week and later.
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