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H. G. GILLESPIE came home from V.P.I. at Blacksburg to spend a couple of days with parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.K. GILLESPIE. He expects to get his  "sheep skin" in June.

A.C. FOWLER loaded on yesterday twenty-one sticks of timber for the navy yard in New York. The timber measured over 20,500 feet and averaged over  forty feet in length. The timber is for "Uncle Sam" was loaded at Vandyke and bought from Mrs. Sallie BANDY, wife of the late James BANDY.

Rex STEELE was one of the invited guests to spend from Saturday to Monday, at Dr. RITTER's at Whitewood.

Mrs. George BREWSTER (nee: Mary Ann Earls), who has been on the sick list  the past week is better.

Mr. and Mrs. C.H. TRAYER'S baby has been quite sick with measles for a few days.

Mrs. R.M. SPARKS left Monday to visit her daughter Mrs. Norman TURNER and her baby girl, at Ada, West Virginia.

Miss Mary B. ALTIZER, of Richlands, visited her brother, J.T. ALTIZER and family here Friday and Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. Ben RILEY came here last week to make their home with his son, Alex RILEY. Mr. RILEY has added two nice rooms to his residence. Mr. and Mrs. RILEY are quite feeble.

Messrs. Fred GILLESPIE, J.H. WILLIAMSON and Dr. ZIMMERMAN were invited guests of John O'KEEFFE at Tazewell, Sunday to dinner.

Mrs. Susan RINGSTAFF and Mrs. Alysa MULKEY visited their daughter and mother, Mr. and Mrs. MULKEY and family in Graham.

The HURT twins, Mary and Katie, and Jessie and Ollie Kate GILLESPIE, spent Saturday and Sunday with Elizabeth GILLESPIE at Gillespie.

Mrs. J.T. ALTIZER was shopping in Richlands one day last week.

James NEELE is at Tazewell today. G.R. THOMAS is R.F.D. carrier in his place.

Mr. and Mrs. MULKEY, who were burned out recently, have gone to housekeeping and are nicely fixed up. Their neighbors and two societies gave them a bureau dower of sheets, and about sixty towels and other things.

Mrs. Robert PETTS, spent Friday visiting her mother, Mrs. Charles McGUIRE on the Branch and reports her mother as being unable to walk from rheumatism in one of her limbs.

The Sunday School - The Sunday School District Convention held a Shawvers Mill last Saturday was pronounced a decided success by everyone in attendance. The convention is composed of about eight schools, beginning with Concord, taking in Burke's Garden and extending to the county line below Cove Creek.

John P. GOSE, of Burkes Garden, is President and P.G. BAUGH, Secretary of the convention. They were present and discharged the duties of their office well. The program was carried out, every speaker being present except one, Rev. Mr. ARROWOOD, who was unavoidably absent. Revs. BULLARD, CAMPBELL, PLATT, HICKS and BROWN, President of the county association and the secretary of the county association, were present, and had places on their program. The speeches were short and to the point. The well known, long winded Sunday school speech was conspicuous by its absence.

The Shawvers Mills church, of which Rev. Mr. BULLARD is pastor, has a flourishing school. George CRABTREE is superintendent. This is been a strong country church for many years. Nearby is Kinzer's chapel, a Methodist church, Rev. Mr. HICKS, pastor, with Millard KINZER as superintendent and general manager of the Sunday school. further down the creek is Cove Creek Sunday school, with Mr. Jeff HIGGINBOTHAM, superintendent. Mr. and Mrs. T.L. SHUFFLEBARGER are active members of this school at least Mrs. SHUFFLEBARGER is. We don't know so well as to "Tom".

These schools were all represented, also the Concord and Mt. Olivet schools of which P.G. BAUGH and Felix BOURNE, JR., are superintendents, respectively. No attempt will be made here to report the speeches made. They were all good; the singing was good, and the Sunday school cause in the community was given a boost, which will be felt in the future in greater efficiency and large attendance. All these schools will be represented in the annual meeting to be held in June here.

The Shawver mill people had provided lunch for all the visitors, and the homes nearby took a number of the visitors home with them to dinner. The writer had the pleasure of breaking bread with his old friend, Millard KINZER, as did Mr. BROWN, Mr. HICKS and a number of young people as well. Mr. and Mrs. KINZER'S open heartedness and genuine hospitality, is known here far and wide. In fact, this can be truthfully said of the Clear Fork people generally.

GRAHAM

The health of the town is good and the attendance at Sunday school and all the churches better then ever.

Sluss, Baker & Co. have almost completed the pipe line and the tests made so far by turning on the water are highly satisfactory.

The L.T.L. had an egg hunt in which more than fifty little hunters and our large Hunter were present.

So far, 89 have responded to the invitation and 66 have have been baptized as the result of the revival in progress here. At. 7:30 P.M. next Wednesday, April 22, a special service will be held for those who recently joined the church. It is hoped that Bro. BULLARD can be here at that time.

BURKES GARDEN

Mrs. T. C. BOWEN and children are spending awhile with home folks. Since their arrival, Mrs. BOWEN has developed a mild case of measles.

Mrs. Julia A. HALL, "who has been in feeble health for several months, is very ill. Dr. WOOLWINE of Ceres, was called in consultation with Dr. HIGGINBOTHAM last week.

Mrs. Levi RHUDY, Misses Etta and Emma GREEVER, are improving, as is, also Miss Rosa KELLEY, who has been laid up with inflammatory rheumatism for several weeks.

Mrs. W.B. CRISMOND of Smyth, has been very ill at her sister's Mrs. L.W. WYNN

Dr. and Mrs. James H. MOORE have returned to their home at Mechanicsburg, after a weeks stay with Mrs. MOORE'S parents, Mr. and Mrs. B.R. MOSS.

SHAWVER'S MILL

The Sunday School (Con't) - Regret is expressed by the pastor and others that a number of the male members of his church were forced to absent themselves from the meeting. They were busy and could not be present, they thought. However, the number of substantial men and good women present, some coming quite a distance, was a most encouraging and hopeful indication. One speaker said that the Sunday School work is now recognized as a mans job, no longer to be limited to women and children. "It's a mans job," has a good job for every man, and every lover of home and church is taking hold of the work. One of the brightest and finest young women in the school, Miss Ada LEFFEL, was elected superintendent of the Cradle Roll and Home Departments, and each school was urged to take up the work of this department in their communities. The convention rushed through in the afternoon so as to give the women and children opportunity to rehearse for an entertainment to be given next day by a social of the church.

TIP TOP

Tip Top, April 16 - Rev. James W. HOLBROOK, an old and well known citizen, a minister of the Southern Methodist church, died at his home near Bailey on last Friday night. His death was very sudden and was unlooked for. He had been sick during the early part of the winter, suffering from Bright's disease. Mr. HOLBROOK was over 70 years of age and leaves a widow, three sons, Joseph, and Will of Bailey; Rev. Z.D HOLBROOK of Pearisburg circuit and three daughters, Mrs. D.D. MOORE, of Bluestone, Mrs. James DEATON of West Graham and Miss Linnie, of Bailey. Two brothers also survive, W.D of Bailey and John of Graham. Two sisters are living somewhere in the west. Mr. HOLBROOK was a great revivalist and local worker in the church and will be missed from the community. The burial occurred Monday in the Holbrook cemetery. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. J.E. SPRING, of the Tazewell charge.

POCAHONTAS

Floyd BLACK of the George S. Landon Drug Company is in Richmond attending the annual meeting of the Rexall druggists of Virginia.

Efforts are being made to get the Pocahontas street committee appropriate funds for a series of lights on the principal streets of the town which will give Pocahontas a "White Way" like many other cities.

A company being formed here to build a modern steam laundry to take care of the large amount of business of this character now going out of town.

A gentleman from Cincinnati has been here this week arranging to install an ice plant, which he hopes to have in operation by the first of July.

Fire broke out in the general store of Johnson and Pettis Monday night. The fire company responded promptly and soon extinguished the flames. 

The baby of Mr. and Mrs. S.B.B. SCOTT died at the Scott home here Wednesday evening.

GENERAL NEWS

The scarlet fever quarantine has been raised as to the churches of the town, but not the Sunday Schools. It was thought best by the Board of Health to continue the quarantine for a while longer so far as the gathering in crowded rooms by children is concerned. The picture show and the Sunday Schools and lower grades of the public school will not be allowed to meet for a while yet as a precaution. The situation is not alarming but still unsafe and dangerous. There is no telling how many people have been exposed from the beginning and the physicians will not be very much surprised if there are still new cases.

The latest case reported, so far as is known, is that of McDonald, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Grat M. MULLIN on Tazewell Ave. Just where and how the child got the infection is difficult to say, perhaps. And there may be more.

There is division of opinion as to the effect of the epidemic and consequent quarantine on the business of the town. Some business men declare the injury great. People in infected homes and their children were kept off the streets for weeks. In some cases country people remained away because of the fear of carrying the disease home to their children. One man, compelled to come to town, left his team and son outside the corporate limits, because, he said, he was told that country people were forbidden to come into town and would be fined if they did.

The churches and the Sunday schools have felt the effect of the quarantine most seriously. For three successive Sabbaths no church in town has been opened for worship. The congregations have become scattered, collections fallen behind. The benevolent societies have been unable to meet. Of course the Sunday Schools have suffered, and take it all in all, the 1914 quarantine in Tazewell has been a rather serious proposition.