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Mrs. Nellie ASCUE, Cedar Bluff, attended the protracted meeting here Sunday.

Miss Cora WILSON & guest, Marguerite MCNEIL, of Ferryville, North Carolina, went to Richlands this PM.

Mrs. E.S. HALL visited her sister, Mrs. H.W. CHRISTIAN the last of the week, on her way from Dante to Gary, West Virginia, where she will join her son, Mr. James L. DAWSON, who has a position in a store, and where they will reside in the future.

Miss Pearl VAIL, Tazewell, spent several days recently with her cousin, Mrs. R.K. GILLESPIE.

Miss Minnie ONEY, Williamson, West Virginia, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Charles CHRISTIAN.

Mrs. Taze SMITH and three children, Castlewood are visiting her uncle, Mr. John ROBINETT and other relatives here this week.

Mrs. John ASBURY had as her guest last week, here sister, Mrs. Julia SANDERS, Graham.

Mrs. Tom RINGSTAFF and baby visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. GRIFFITH, at Richlands recently.

Miss Myrtle JOHNSON returned Monday from Bluefield where she has been nursing her sister in law, Mrs. Will JOHNSON, who has had pneumonia.

Mr. Charles GILLESPIE, Raven, spent Friday night with his brother John here, on his way to visit his brother Will, at Knob.

Miss Pearl MCGUIRE, teacher, made her usual trip home Friday returning Sunday.

Miss Grace WILLIAMS, spent from Friday to Monday with her sister at Steelsburg.

News reached us today, of the elopement of Messrs. Russell ASCUE and Ben STEELE and the Misses BROWN, daughters of Mrs. Ocie WITT, all of Paint Lick. The girls were attending school at Richlands and eloped to Bristol. They are granddaughters of the late Patton J. BROWN, of Richlands.

Mr. Luther GOSS, Big Creek, attended meeting here last week and visited old friends.

Miss Addie HARRIS was home a few days last of the week from Graham High School on account of that institution having closed on account of diphtheria.

Mr. Frank WILSON, agent and operator fo the N and W is home on a vacation.

TAZEWELL COAL TO A BIG CORPORATION

Empire Coal Land Corporation Has Probably Been Acquired by U.S. Steel.

The report reaches Tazewell that the deal pending for sometimes between John A. ESSER and the United States Steel Co. is about to be consummated, and the within a few days the announcement will be made officially that the Empire Coal Land Corporation has passed into the hands of the gigantic corporation.

Mr. ESSER passed through Tazewell on Tuesday on his way to New Your, presumable to close the deal.

The Bluefield Telegraph, of Wednesday, had the following with reference to the deal.

Mr. ESSER left last night for New York, where he will confer with the steel corporation regarding the sale of the property which is necessary for that company to properly develop the Farraday Coal and Coke property, consisting of 27,000 acres and owned by H.C. FRICK.

The deal, if carried through, and there is expect reason to believe it will be, will carry with it hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Empire property contains an excellent coking ?, which the steel company has wanted for sometime. During the past year a large sum of money has been spent on the property in developing and building of coke ovens. The property was purchased from General Rufus A. AYRES by the present owners.

The Farraday Coal and Coke properties, which adjoins it, is rich in timber as well as coal. Although many very flattering offers have been made to Mr. FRICK for the timber on the property, or a part of it, he has steadfastly refused to sell and now the Cedar Bluff cutoff will develop the property making the timber valuable enough to more than pay for the original investment and many others which the steel company has in this region.

Who knows but that near Richlands there will spring up in the near future another Gary, with its thousands of employees who will be needed to operate the large holdings of the steel company?

COVE CREEK

Rev. Mr. GOSE will preach at Nebo next Sunday at 11 o'clock.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed NASH were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. M.F. NEEL Saturday and Sunday.

S.W. GOOD and A.F. SUITER attended the Odd Fellows Lodge at Shawver's Mill last Saturday night.

Miss Ollie MARTIN was the guest of Miss Dott GREGORY Saturday and Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Thompson GREGORY and little daughter, Ruth, spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Charlie WALKER.

Mrs. A.F. SUITER spent Saturday night with Mrs. S.W. GOOD.

Miss Annie BROWN of Burke's Garden is visiting relatives here this week.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank STEELE were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. S.W. GOOD last Sunday.

Mrs. Sallie LOVE was the guest of Mrs. L. SUITER one day last week.

Mrs. J.B. GREGORY took a nice drove of cattle to Bluefield this week.

Mrs. Geneva STEEL and son, Marvin, were shopping at Rocky Gap one day last week.

Mr. Edd WAGNER was the guest of friends here Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Sam GREGORY have returned from visiting relatives in Giles County.

BURKE'S GARDEN

Mr. Steve BOLLING killed a hawk a few days ago, which measured 52 inches. The hawk had been very annoying and had demolished a number of young chickens and turkeys. Mr. BOLLING is receiving due praise for his good marksmanship.

Rev. H.E. BAILEY visited his family in Giles county last week and incidentally cast his vote for STUART.

Mr. E.L. GREEVER and sister, Miss Ida, drove over from Tazewell and spent Sunday with homefolks.

Miss Nannie Rose MOSS has gone to Washington, DC where she will spend sometime with friends.

Miss Jessie LONG has as her guest her cousin, Miss Rosa FOX, of Pleasant Hill, Smyth County.

Miss NICKELL has been slightly indisposed as a result of not being accustomed to our pinching Burke's Garden air.

Mr. and Mrs. R.M. LAWSON are spending a few days in Wytheville. 

Mr. and Mrs. John P. GOSE and children are expected home from their visit to relatives in Smythe and Washington counties on next Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry PEERY are spending a while with Mr. and Mrs. James T. PEERY.

Yesterday was Turkey day - Mr. Steve PEERY drove nine hundred of the fat fine birds away to market.

Mr. and Mrs. John FANNING, of Bland County, have moved into the property belonging to Mrs. FANNING'S father, Mr. Luther PEERY, at this place.

GENERAL NEWS

Mary Holmes Pearce, the bright young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.V. SPOTTS, died at St. Paul's Episcopal School in Beaufort, North Carolina, last Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the 13th year of her age. The remains reached Tazewell on Tuesday morning, and after brief services in the Episcopal church, were interred n Jeffersonville Cemetery. Her mother, Mrs. SPOTTS, was with her at the time of death. Mary Holmes had about recovered from an attack of diphtheria which she had in September. Following the diphtheria she suffered a stroke of paralysis of the lower limbs, from which she seemed to be recovering. Her mother, who reached Beaufort on Thursday to pay her daughter a visit, found her in the best of spirits, and apparently getting on well, so much so, that she went out driving on Friday. During the drive she complained of pain in her back. Saturday morning Mrs. SPOTTS was uneasy and called a physician, who after an examination, found the paralysis was gradually but surely moving upward, through the body. At 4 o'clock that afternoon she passed away. The little body was prepared for burial, and with it the heart broken mother and father returned to their home here. We say "she will be missed" but only her mother, and her step father, who loved her as he would his very own, know that full import of that expression. She was a bright, cheerful, affectionate child. She was popular here with her girl friends, and in the school in Beaufort, where she had been a pupil for two months, she had won the praise and esteem of teachers and students, and is said to have been entirely happy and contented there. The stricken family have the deepest sympathy of the entire community. Great white chrysanthemums are banked high upon the mound beneath which the body of Mary Holmes sleeps. They, like the little body, will mingle with the earth from which they sprang. Out of frozen earth, and underneath the snows of winter the flowers will bloom again in the springtime of resurrection.