Friday, January 5, 1940 MAIN STREET HAS HAD A GOOD YEAR Business Institutions Have Prospered And All Set For 1940 Main Street, (which includes all sections of the county), Wound up the old year in good shape. Waiving aside a few imaginary injustices the people of the country generally passed the most eventful year of history. The more abundant life has been enjoyed by a larger percentage of the population than ever. On this particular Main Street on which we move and have our being, upon the pavements of which we have been permitted to travel for a long period of time, little out of the ordinary has taken place. There have been no tragedies, no failures. To begin with the nearest neighbor to the News, the Tazewell Nation Bank has suffered with growing pains in the past year, but came through with flying colors. Its President, Will Tom GILLESPIE, took and enforced vacation during the early part of the year, but when he got back from the hospital he was agreeably surprised to find that the institution had been run just as well in his absence as otherwise. Cashier Grat MULLIN, and his assistants, Russell PAINTER, Albert MCCALL, and iss Jane TICE have seen to it that the income and outgo balance each afternoon before the work stops. Around the corner is Dennison's Cleaning place. Ward DENNISON has a good boss, hence has prospered and kept the wolf from howling around the place....Sayers Bros. Department Store is supervised by Bill HUGHES who also has a boss. Mrs. Mamie GREEVER helps serve the trade. Hughes was with 5 & 10 for some time, but moved up town.... Over this store Virginia Smokeless has a little army of men and women keeping Jewell Coal moving for the Jewell Ridge Coal Corporation. How we do miss George ST. CLAIR. His doctor son, Houston, has taken up the reins and is driving ahead. Bob BROWN, Bob MOORE, Barnes MOORE, George REPASS, Walter CHAMBERS, ......REYNOLDS, Mrs. ZIMMERMAN, Misses Virginia CUTHERSON (?), Mary HAVILAND and Virginia HOBSON are always on the job unless they are somewhere else, and Bro. PEERY keeps the demand alive. C.T. PEERY & Sons weathered the year well, mode progress and money. Bane PEERY is the senior partner and his brother, Raymond is second in command. Peanuts (Baxter) DAVIS, Jim AKERS, Warner COLLINS, Cal COLLINS and Bill Surface is the force..... Haley's Clinch Valley Pharmacy carries on as usual. He has been chief cook and bottle-washer since Poston went to Pearisburg. "Pick" GILLESPIE is chief assistant, with Dorothy WHITMAN and Tasey MORRISON tending bar, and other departments of the store .... Henry & Graham building takes care of Lawyers Powell ROYALL and Crockett BRWEN, Insurance experts Jno. W. ST. CLAIR building on the second floor is filled with folks. There's dentist ROWLETT, lawyer Carl Crockett GILLESPIE, the county agent's office, with John BUNDY in charge, the farm administration headquarters, with Mr. HARMAN in charge, ably assisted by Misses FARMER and CRUISE. A part of the second floor is reserved for wooden overcoats and a nicely furnished room in connection. The store down-stairs, with a fine line of hardware, is in charge of Buzz PEERY, Undertaker WILDER, Fred LARIMER and Buss DYE. They take care of the store and funeral work. The Appalachian folks have quarters in the office, with Mrs. Irene PEERY in charge. Charley LARIMER, the veteran, Bill POSTON, Jiggs GILBERT, Dave ROWE, and other Appalachian men are in and out of the office at frequent intervals. Across the alley is the old Bank of Clinch Valley building. Sam HOOVER, with his watched and clocks also in local agent for the Motor Vehicle department in the sale of license tags. Miss Virginia HAGER, secretary to the school board, is always on the job keeping the school affairs in shape Boss GREEVER drops in occasionally. Upstairs, Alex RUSSELL, land agent for the Pocahontas corporation, with his assistant, Miss Hattie WHITE, has his office. On the same floor, Mr. WORTH practiced law for many years, but poor health keeps him at home most of the time. In the next building Herbert WARD is carrying on the business his father Jeff WARD conducted successfully so many years. He's all right. Mrs. Hallie WALL, Ernest LEWIS and Mrs. Newell BRITTS have the situation well in hands. Upstairs, Dr. J.N. HIGGINBOTHAM, Dentist R.P. COPENHAVER, lawyer A.S. HIGGINBOTHAM and son, Sidney, who writes insurance; contractor J.T. HELDRETH - they are all carrying on. When it comes to the court house next, the "gang" can be found on the job. Bill PAINTER, N.P. REED, Arthur MCGUIRE and Mrs. BAILEY are there most of the time, and Guy FLANNARY comes up when the work gets heavy. And there's clerk, Elmer KISER across the hall, ably assisted by Mrs. HURT, Miss MAXWELL and Glenn GILLESPIE. He keeps up with the procession. Upstairs Judge BUCHANAN can be found in his office unless he is somewhere else. The commissioner of the Revenue, C.M. WAGNER, takes over for another four-year term, with the able assistance of W.G. GILLESPIE and Marvin McGuire... Chairman Harry BANE, supported by Joe F. LITT (?) and Reece ANDERSON, take over for another four-year term as Supervisors... The new sheriff Bowen THOMPSON, deputy WITTEN operate next to John HORTON, Commonwealth's Attorney Gillespie. The board of supervisors hangs out in this building the first Tuesday in each month. Miss Martha Wade ALLISON'S 4-H club has an office in this building... The Hearthstone Tea Room is next in line, operated by Mr. and Mrs. H.S. SURFACE, assisted by the boys. Real food is dispensed here. This is about all we can stand of this review of Main Street this week. Keep tuned in on the station for next week's broadcast. PARTIES ARE GIVEN FOR MISS ST. CLAIR At an afternoon tea given by Mrs. Chase ADKINS, announcement was made of the engagement and approaching marriage of Miss Rosalinda ST. CLAIR to Mr. Frank G. FARRIER, of Newport, Va. The wedding will take place on January 20. Miss St. CLAIR is a daughter of Mr. Glenn M. ST. CLAIR, cashier of Farmers Bank of Clinch Valley of Tazewell. Mrs. ATKINS and Miss ST. CLAIR and Mrs. M.P. FARRIER, mother of the bridegroom-to-be, and Mrs. Sam WILSON and Misses Jacqueline and Glenn ST. CLAIR, sisters of the bride-elect, composed the receiving line. Mrs. C.F. TYNES of Bluefield; Mrs. John Wharton GILLESPIE, of Tazewell; Miss Nancy TYNES of Bluefield, Rachel ROYALL, Catherine ST. CLAIR, Betty TICE and Sammy SCOTT and Mrs. C.P. GILLESPIE assisted in serving. HONORED AT TEA Newport, Dec. 25 - Mrs. Mason MILLER entertained at tea on Wednesday, honoring Miss Rosalinda ST. CLAIR, of Tazewell. The guests were served tea and coffee in the dining room. Music was presented throughout the afternoon by Mrs. Clifton STAFFORD, violinist, accompanied by Mrs. A.L FARRIER at the piano. PARTIES Miss Rose Allen HIGGINBOTHAM honored Miss Rosalinda ST. CLAIR on last Thursday at her home on Marion Avenue, with a bridge party. Six tables were in play, high score being awarded to Miss Ellen Bowen and the floating prize to Miss Martha O'KEEFFE. Miss ST. CLAIR was the recipient of a gift. Miss Sammy SCOTT entertained on Wednesday afternoon in compliment to Miss ST. CLAIR. THREE RECOVERING FROM CAR CRASH Miss Bulah OWENS, of Haysi, with a fractured pelvis; Miss Katherine WALTHAL, of Richmond, similarly injured and David OWENS, of Richmond, a fractured fore-arm, was the result of a car crash early Monday morning near the residence of G.M. St. CLAIR. Miss WALTHAL was owner and driver of the car. Approaching Tazewell from the East, evidently at high speed, the car skidded in the road near Mr. ST. CLAIR'S, went over the rock wall and struck a tree, demolishing the car and injuring the occupants. The injured were taken to the Bluefield sanitarium for treatment. MRS. ST. CLAIR DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Mrs. Maria Tiffany ST. CLAIR, wife of the late Alexander ST. CLAIR, a prominent farmer, banker and business man of Tazewell county for half a century, died at her home in Tazewell Wednesday morning at 2 o'clock, following an illness of a year and a critical illness of several months. She was in the 86th year of her age. Surviving are one daughter and eight sons; Mrs. Marea HALEY, of Tazewell; Drs. C.T. ST. CLAIR and Wade H. ST. CLAIR, of Bluefield; Otis ST. CLAIR, of Welch; John, Frank and Alex ST. CLAIR and Glenn M. ST. CLAIR, of Tazewell. The funeral service has been set for Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock and will be held in the Methodist church, in charge of the pastor, Rev. J.A. BAYLOR, assisted by other Methodist ministers of this section. The mother of the ST. CLAIR boys has contributed much to the welfare and up building of this territory. Dr. Wade ST. CLAIR has distinguished himself as a surgeon and is a large stockholder in the Bluefield Sanitarium; Dr. Charley ST. CLAIR has likewise become one of the leading specialists in Bluefield. In the field of medicine these two ST. CLAIR boys have made valuable contributions. The ST. CLAIR'S moved to Tazewell about 35 years ago from Bluestone, where the elder ST. CLAIR, owned a large blue grass farm, and which is now operated by members of the family. Mr. Alex ST. CLAIR represented this district in the Virginia Senate for a number of years, being one of the few Democrats chosen for generations past. His contributions to the social and religious life of the community are monuments to his memory.