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Something you never saw, perhaps never heard of, is a brood of partridges hatched by a chicken hen, and mother and babies doing finely. A short time ago, Robert
LEWIS, son of George W. LEWIS, of this town, found a partridge nest, with 19 eggs. The mother bird was setting, and had been for some time. Robert kept his eye on her, and at the psychological moment, took the eggs home and put them under a setting bantam hen. Within a few days, 16 of the 19 eggs hatched a little brown partridge. The hen and her brood are getting on splendidly. The hen things they are chicks, and the little ones thinks she's a mother partridge, but what difference. What folks as well as birds don't know don't hurt
'em, they tell us. Fried partridge this fall, along with fried chicken - well we speak for a seat at our neighbors table right now in time. If the birds continue to grow and do well, Robert says he will show them at the Fair in September, as the first thing of the kind
ever seen in this county. Did you ever hatch wild birds under tame hens?
Twelve hundred acres of land including the home place, belonging to A.S. and
A.J. HIGGINBOTHAM, west of Tazewell, was sold this week to Mr. Will BOYD, of Honaker, the consideration being $100 per acre. Possession will be given about December first. The purchase embraces the home now occupied by Mr.
A.J. HIGGINBOTHAM and family, and the land running west along the mountain. It is reported that Mr.
A.J. HIGGINBOTHAM proposes at once to erect a fine home on the land still owned by him and his brother near Pisgah, about 900 acres. My
BOYD was here yesterday from Honaker and stated that he would come to Tazewell about December 1st, with his family. He is related to
E.R. BOYD, of Tazewell, and like his Kinsman, has been very successful in the lumber and coal business in the Southwest.
Mrs. R.E. FIELDS and daughter, Dorothy, of Chickasha, Okla. has been
visiting relatives in Tazewell, and is now in Washington on her return home.
Miss Kathleen CAMPBELL, of Wytheville, is visiting Mrs. A.G. MARTIN.
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