Thursday,
May 15, 1913
 
The late Homer Davenport imported sixteen full-blooded Arabian stallions and the National Horse Breeders Association has picked the bluegrass counties of West Virginia as the proper place for the breeding of this new stock. The horses will arrive at Ronceverte shortly and mares approved by the inspectors will be bred to these stallions. The horses will be distributed in the counties of Pocahontas, Greenbrier, Monroe and Randolph. It is stated that the famous Morgan strain of horses was started in America in this same way. The Bay of Tunis sent President Fillmore a number of Arab stallions as a present. The present was not accepted by the President, but they were sold by order of Congress, and from them all the Morgan horses trace their descent.
 
Clydesdale Stallion
My well-known, full-blooded, registered Clydesdale Stallion will make the season of 1913 at my farm on Swago, Marlinton, Edray and Academy. Terms -$12 to insure colt, mares traded or sold forfeits insurance and fee becomes due, all care taken to prevent accidents, but will not be responsible for any accident, that may occur. Mares kept on pasture and bred.
W. McClintic
Marlinton, W. Va.
 
COUNTY
SUNDAY SCHOOL
CONVENTION
The most successful meeting of the County Sunday School Association closed at the Presbyterian Church Tuesday afternoon. The meeting commenced Sunday night with a Mother’s Day service before a packed house, and very appropriate and pleasing were the exercises…
Probably the most interesting thing of the whole convention was the parade on Tuesday afternoon headed by the children of the two Sunday Schools of the town and a class from Edray Sunday School. The line of march was from the Methodist Church to the Presbyterian Church and back to the opera house, that being the only room sufficiently large enough to hold the parade, about six hundred in number.
 
TO MAKE
SPARROWS DRUNK
Greeley, Col. - This town founded by Horace Greeley for the promulgation of temperance principles and which has never had a saloon, is soon to see drunks in large numbers if the plans of ten women are carried out. They plan to get intoxicated English sparrows and finches, especially the females, in order that the two may be separated and the sparrows put peacefully to death.
The idea is to put out pans of seed soaked in alcohol. The birds flock to the pans, eat, and soon are drunk.
The English sparrow, which kill off the finches, will be killed, and the finches, which destroy harmful insects, will be allowed to get sober and fly away.
 
GREENBANK
J. L. Sheets, of Marlinton, was in town last Friday; he attended the burial of his brother, Harrison Sheets, at Arbovale.
Yes, three big frosts and the fruit is all killed, and fears are had about the wheat; some think it is injured.
Arthur Sheets was thrown off a bicycle last Sunday, coming from Wesley Chapel, and badly shaken up with a few slight cuts and bruises.
Samuel Rider is very low at this writing. His son from Kansas and his daughter from Buchannon are with him.
J. H. Curry is complaining at this time, hardly able to be about.
C. M. Acord had the misfortune to have his house burned on the 9th instantly, with all its contents, even the family’s wearing apparel. We have not heard the particulars yet.
 
DENMAR
Miss Ada Doyle is assisting Dr. McElwin in an up-to-date ice cream and soda parlor at this place.
Ed Sheets, of Spruce Flats, spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs. Will Adkison.
 
HUNTERSVILLE
Mrs. Walter Bird, Miss Faye Grose and Mrs. G. C. Poling are on the sick list.
Mrs. Henry McComb went down to Beard Saturday to see her mother who is very ill.
Zane Moore went to Buckeye Saturday to get a load of tools for the Bridge Company.
Mulvey Moore, who graduated at Valporaiso University last year, has been employed as bookkeeper for G. W. Huntley & Sons in place of Miss Nora Sullivan, resigned.
Clarence Jordan has purchased the house and lot formerly occupied by John Loury, from W. H. Grose, and will move into it from Frost in the near future.
 
DUNMORE
Fine shower; fruit all froze; some of the mud holes in the road did not freeze up.
John M. Arbogast’s fine house near Boyer was burned Saturday with all contents. Also, C. M. Kerr’s house was burned with all its contents; no insurance.
A great deal of fire was in the mountains this week. The most of the mountains have been burned so much that they are so poor you cannot raise an umbrella on them.
Mrs. W. A. Noel will serve ice cream every Saturday eve and night at the store.
There is some talk of building a Methodist parsonage at Huntersville or Minnehaha Springs. It is a hard matter to have preaching without a preacher, and a harder matter for a man with a family to live without a house.
Miss Grace Luzier, aged 18 years, died in Dunmore at the home of her sister, Mrs. Austin Little, of organic heart trouble. Her remains were taken to Thomas, Monday for burial. She leaves a father, one brother and two sisters and many friends to mourn their loss.
Auctioneer Swecker will sell at Marlinton on the 23rd, three of the finest bodies of timber land in the county.
 
 FROST
The fine weather has given the farmers a chance to do their plowing and most of them are done.
We are still having groundhog weather; there was ice on the morning of the 11th.
It is too early to work the roads. The road men are waiting until the freezing weather is over.
Rev. K. D. Swecker preached an able sermon on Hell, the certainty of it, its condition and inhabitants, and the way to escape it, to a large and attentive congregation.
The congregation and pastor of Mt. Vernon were much alarmed when it was discovered that there was fire in the attic of the building, but fortunately a small quantity of water was gotten by willing hands and the fire was extinguished in a short time and no harm was done and the pastor resumed his service.
C. A. Abuchon and wife who are walking on a cash wager from Waynesboro, Pa., to St. Louis, Mo., spent Sunday night in town.

Thursday,
May 8, 1913
 
Jack London’s story “John Barleycorn” has ended in the Saturday Evening Post without the victim of old John Barleycorn getting on the water wagon. He details the misery and the sickness of the habit but he evidently has not yet come to the parting of the ways. We predict that if Jack London lives many years longer there will be a supplement to add to this story of drink by a man who need not drink and who, as he insists, is not an alcoholic
The five hundred dollar state song by S. E. Kiser is out. It is by a famous poet and the lines show that he has at least a barroom acquaintance with the muse. We think he did well under the circumstances. It is a good deal like bologna sausage – the drunker you are the better you will like it.
 The many friends of Rev. G. W. Nickell will be interested to hear of a recent mishap that befell him. He had led a colt – one or two years old – into its stall and hitched it, and reached down for an egg that lay in the manger, when the colt reached down, apparently in play, and took off the top of Mr. Nickell’s ear. Our information is that the doctor trimmed the wound so that there was very little of the injury evident. “And,” said he, “there was plenty of ear left.” But the wound was very painful for some time. Mr. Nickell will suffer no permanent disfigurement, but the escape was a very narrow one.
 The many friends of Hubert Echols, cashier of the Bank of Marlinton, will be gratified to hear that he is fast recovering from a very severe attack of erysipelas in the face.
F. R. Hunter, agent, delivered three overland automobiles last week – a runabout to M. E. Poe and touring cars to E. B. Smith and Lonnie Belz.
 J. F. Few, organizer of the Order of Owls, is in town getting up a Nest. He expects to organize about the first Saturday of June with a membership of upwards of a hundred. A nest has been organized at Cass with a membership of 150
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 NEWTON, N. C.
We will once again give you a few items from the south, as we are always glad to get the news from Pocahontas.
We are having fine warm weather, although it is very dry, but we hope for rain soon.
Cotton and corn planting is done with. There is a fine prospect for fruit of all kinds. Strawberries are ripe and are fine if the weather doesn’t continue too dry.
W. W. Arbogast from Thornwood, W. Va. was a welcome visitor at G. W. Cowgar’s and W. A. Grogg’s last week. He is looking for a location in this country, with an idea of moving his family here.
G. W. Cowgar had water put in his house last week; he has also built an addition to his house this spring.
We are sorry to notice in the papers so many deaths of Pocahontas people; was sad to learn of the death of Frank Patterson.
G. W. Cowgar has a very valuable cow sick; also the widow Witherspoon lost a fine cow a few days ago.
 
MT. ZION
Hot and dry. Farmers are busy planting corn and potatoes.
John Grimes and son, Quay, took a drove of cattle to Clover Lick for Mr. Dudley one day last week.
Mrs. O. B. Sharp who has been seriously ill, is slowly improving.
Rev. McClelland is preparing to fence in the Mt. Zion cemetery which is badly needed.
 
BROWNS CREEK
Hot and very dry. Most all the corn in this neighborhood has been planted; the ground was in fine shape.
There will be plenty of apples in this section if they are not killed later on.
There is a lot of Gypsies camped at the Browns creek ford, trading horses and telling fortunes.
Fenton & Pyle have finished one set of sawing on H. P. McLaughlin’s place and is moving the mill to another set near S. R. Hogsett’s.
The many friends of Floyd Moore will be sorry to hear he is seriously sick in a hospital in Detroit, Michigan.
Charles McLaughlin is building a new barn.
 
DUNMORE
On Monday afternoon at Wesley Chapel was buried one of the best and more prominent and influential citizens of Greenbank District, in the presence of perhaps the largest concourse of people ever gathered in the district on a similar occasion, Frank P. Patterson died at Des. Moines, Iowa, on Thursday, May 1, of cancer of the throat, after an illness of several years. He was 39 years of age, and is survived by his wife, who is a daughter of the Rev. J. W. McNeil, his aged mother, a sister and two brothers. For a number of years he has been a member of the M. E. Church South, and lived an upright, consistent Christian life.
The Rev. and Mrs. J. W. McNeil are here with their daughter Mrs. Frank Patterson.
The little child of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Burrell, of Spruce, was buried at the Nottingham graveyard Sunday afternoon.
Harrison Sheets died at his home at Arbovale Monday morning, May 5, of cancer of the stomach, aged about 30 years. For some months he had been very sick, and had returned from the hospital the day before he died. He was a son of the late Henry Sheets, and was an honest upright citizen. He is survived by his wife and two small children, his aged mother and a number of brothers and sisters. He was buried at the Grogg graveyard.
The big mill started – Mr. Robinson, of Indiana, touched the button, 196 lbs. to the barrel.
Captain Swecker says the biggest apple bloom he has ever seen, but the moon changed in the neck which means snow or frost or both.
 
 
DR. D. S. SYDENSTRIKER
The Rev. D. S. Sydenstricker, D. D., died at his home at Academy on Thursday, May 1, 1913, after an illness of a year or more, aged 78 years.
On Saturday he was buried at the Oak Grove graveyard, where forty years ago he preached in the old Brick Church. An immense crowd of people gathered to pay a last tribute of respect to him. Dr. Sydenstricker is survived by his wife, two daughters, Vergie and Mamie, and two sons, Lacy and John; one sister and five brothers, four of whom are ministers.
For nearly fifty years Dr. Sydenstricker has been a minister of the gospel in the Presbyterian church, serving the Oak Grove congregation at Academy for nearly forty years. He was a clean man, deep and pure, who bettered the world by having lived in it.
 
 

Thursday,
May 1, 1913
 
The rain Saturday afternoon was very welcome, extinguishing the numerous forest fires over the county.

The down freight was wrecked at Sixty Saturday morning derailing two cars and delaying traffic several hours.  The conductor, Captain Courtney, was thrown against the end of the caboose, badly bruising him about the chest and cutting his mouth.

The venerable John E. Gum, of Greenbank, was in town over Sunday. He expects to go to Webster county to spend some time with his son, Warwick Gum, the engineer on the West Virginia Midland Railway.  It is his intention to go to Gettysburg the first of July to the fiftieth anniversary of the battle. In spite of Mr. Gum’s 86 years, he gets around with ease, enjoys life and feels as well as ever, except a little rheumatism now and then.

Attention is directed to the advertisement of the sale of livestock of the late A. M. McLaughlin at Maxwelton, Greenbrier county, May 27. The quality of Mr. McLaughlin’s stock is too well known to need recommendation here, being as good as the best to be found anywhere. The sale will be cried by Fred Rippart of Decater, Indiana, an auctioneer of national reputation, whose specialty is livestock sales.  He is not unknown to many Pocahontas stockmen, having cried the sales of the Anderson Hereford herds some years ago. Anyone desiring transportation from the railway at Keister station to Clifton farm will be taken care of by notifying Lee or Edgar McLaughlin at Academy, any time prior to the sale day. The ladies of Clifton Church will serve dinner to any and all persons on the ground.

In spite of all the automobiles which now cover the Pocahontas citizens with dust, not one is owned by either a preacher or  lawyer.  They must have been easy on the public.

A Republican congressman said bitterly that President Wilson talked to them like “immature schoolboys.”
“O for one hour of youthful joy: Give back my twentieth spring; I’d rather laugh a gay eyed boy, than reign a gray beard king.”
 
 
THE NEWSPAPER
Trade hardly deems the busy day begun
Till his keen eye along the sheet has run;
The blooming daughter throws her needle by,
and reads her schoolmate’s marriage with a sigh;
While the grave mother puts her glasses on,
And gives a tear to some old crony gone.
The preacher too his Sunday theme lays down,
To know what last new folly fills the town;
Lively or sad, life’s meanest, mightiest thing,
The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting kings.
-Sprague
 
ARBOVALE
Gary Phares passed through town last Monday enroute for Dunlevie, after spending Sunday night with his mother.
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Rader came in from Deerfield to attend the funeral of their grandchild, Minnie E. Sutton.
Porter Kerr had the misfortune to break his engine last Saturday while trying to move a house for C. C. Arbogast.
David Rader’s barn was burned last Saturday night. Loss not known.
Harrison Sheets is no better at this time. He is talking of going south where it is warmer.
Charles Gum, one of our worthy young men, and Miss Rachel Ruckman, of Millpoint, were married last Wednesday, and Thursday they came home, where a bountiful supper was waiting them.  May all happiness and a long life be theirs, as they are beginning life young, only two days difference in their ages, being nineteen last March.
Potatoes has dropped to forty and fifty cents a bushel since the duty was taken off. Butter is a good price and rather scarce.
 
FROST
The downpour of rain Saturday made us think we were going to have another flood.
A few of our town people attended the circus at Marlinton, Saturday.
We are glad to report little Edna Lee Gibson is much improved, is gaining flesh and strength, and her parents do not think it necessary to take her to a hospital.
Miss Lucy Rider has been confined to her room for a few days with grippe.
Lacy Johnston came up Knapps creek Monday with “Tom Thumb,” the horse which carried off the prizes and blue ribbons at Monterey last fall.
Dorse McCarty has moved to Clover Lick where he has a contract of bark peeling.
The picket wire fence will soon be erected in front of our school house, which will add very much to the appearance of the building and town.
 
GREENBANK
Our farmers made good use of the nice warm days last week, sowing oats and planting potatoes.
Austin Lightner had a car load of lime and a car load of fertilizer brought in last week for the farmers.
J. C. Arbogast is very much indisposed at this writing, and fears are entertained about his recovery, but we hope he will recover.
John R. Warwick has been poorly all winter and don’t improve much.
Mr. Shoemaker and wife, of Marlinton, dined at L. L. Little’s last Thursday. Miss May Little accompanied them home.
 
DR. CACKLEY DEAD
Information has been received here of the death at St. James parsonage, Roanoke, Va., of Rev. A. M. Cackley, D. D., a former pastor of the Methodist church at this place.
Dr. Cackley was one of the best known and best loved members of the Baltimore Annual Conference of the Southern Methodist Church. For thirty-eight years this valiant soldier of the cross had done faithful service as a minister of the gospel and when his body fell beneath the stroke of that dreadful disease cancer, (of the stomach), we are sure his pure soul found an eternal triumph.
“A pure man” was the general estimate of this beloved brother in life, and what better encomium need he in death.
For three years Dr. Cackley served this Methodist charge where he wrought faithfully and well. We all mourn his departure and extend sympathy to his bereaved.
 
DR. SYDENSTRICKER DEAD
As we go to press the tidings come of the death of the Rev. Dr. Sydenstricker, which occurred at his home at Academy about noon today, Thursday.
Also, Frank Patterson, of Dunmore, died today, in a western hospital

Thursday,
April 24, 1913

CUTTING SCRAPE
P. C. Clayton, a special policeman, of Thornwood, was cut and very seriously wounded in a fight at Thornwood Sunday. He had arrested a young man named Kromer, from Highland county, and was attempting to put him in the lockup. R. C. Miller interfered and attempted to prevent the policeman from locking up his prisoner, and in the mixup Clayton was stabbed in the right breast, and badly cut on the right leg. However, he proceeded to give Miller a good beating up before he weakened from loss of blood...

BIG FIRE AT DURBIN
$30,000 Goes Up in Smoke Tuesday Morning. Third Big Fire For Pocahontas This Year
Four large buildings were burned Tuesday morning – the Eureka Hotel and Town Hall, owned by E. J. Kisner; the large store building of Kenna Rexrode, occupied by Shulman Bros., and the big building of Thomas Cummings.
The fire was first discovered in the Eureka Hotel about 6:30 a.m. in rooms occupied by guests who had shortly before departed on the Greenbrier Division train.
The town of Durbin is wholly without means of fighting fire, and the flames spread from one wooden building to another until the brick building of the Bank of Durbin was reached. Only an alleyway, six feet wide, separated the Bank from the Cummings building. It was given up that the bank building would have to go, and plans were laid to fortify against the conflagration at the post office building.
However, John W. Goodsell, superintendent of the Pocahontas Tannery, arrived on the scene at this time with a hundred men trained in fire drill, and took charge of the situation. Men were put on the bank roof under directions to stay until the building was ready to fall in, and a bucket line formed to some locomotive tenders in the nearby railway yards. These tenders were kept full of water at the tank and pump station.
Blankets were hung over the windows and doors and all exposed woodwork, and the building was kept soaked inside and out. The men on the roof stayed and poured water, though the heat burned their hair and blistered their skin.
It was a daring fight against heavy odds, well planned and wonderfully well executed, especially when the lack of means is considered. And it was successful, for here the fire was gotten under control and the town saved.

HUNTERSVILLE
Jamie McComb, of Cummings Creek, was a business visitor here Saturday.
Mrs. J. C. Loury is having a siege of mumps.
Miss Lollie McComb has been real sick for several days, but is some better at this writing.
Squire D. B. McElwee, of Minnehaha Springs, was here a short time Saturday. He was accompanied home by his daughter, Mrs. Elihu Moore and her children.
John I. Lee, who invented a chicken feeder, was here Friday with a Denver, Col., firm to sell his patent.
The circus at Marlinton next Saturday will be attended by quite a few from here. Of course the old folks will have to take the little ones who never saw an elephant.
Winfred Moore started to Detroit, Michigan, last Saturday where he will enter an automobile school and prepare to be a chauffeur. We wish him abundant success.

DUNMORE
Some fine weather and some frost. We fear that the peaches and pears are frozen.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sutton’s little child, aged two years died Tuesday morning near Arbovale, and was buried at Arbovale Wednesday.
Sam and Charlie Elliot moved their planer and engine to Clover Lick, and will build J. R. Hevener’s house.
M. F. Herold is building a new house. He will soon have the cage then the bird; good for Millard.
The road from Dunmore to Frost is in the worst condition that we have ever seen it.
Jimmy Baxter and his best girl were up Sunday in his automobile and got stuck in a mud hole.

GREENBANK
We are having fine weather at this time, a little too much rain to suit farmers and garden making.
Rev. T. H. Burch and family arrived at the Methodist parsonage on last Friday. The ladies of the neighborhood and Dunmore were at the parsonage and gave them a hearty welcome with a nice supper. We extend a hearty welcome to them and hope and pray that the church rally to their leader and be ready to lend a helping hand at all times.
J. P. Wooddell went down to Greenbrier county some days ago and bought a fine mare.

LOBELIA
It has been raining for the past week and the grass is looking green.
Fred Hill has been working for Newton Clutter.
Miss Edith Alderman and brothers, Clive and Theodore, were guests of their sister, Mrs. Ellawood Hill, last Saturday and Sunday.
L.T. Hill is building a seven room house.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Winters Morrison, April 16, a daughter.

LOCUST CREEK
Fine weather and everybody preparing to plant corn.
Albert McCoy is preparing to begin work on his new dwelling house soon.
Preaching at the Locust Creek church last Sunday by our new preacher was fine and was attended by a large congregation.
Charles McCoy, of Denmar, was visiting his father, Wallace McCoy, Sunday.
A.N. May & Co. has contracted to build D. C. May a fine dwelling house.

RACHEL ANN GIBSON
The subject of this sketch was born May 24th, 1853, and died April 18th, 1913, aged 59 years, 10 months and 16 days. Mrs. Gibson was the widow of the late George Gibson. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Marvin C. Carter, several brothers and sisters and a host of friends. She joined the Methodist Episcopal church nearly forty years ago. Her life was consistent with the profession she made. She was a good woman in all that the word good implies.
She believed in the keeping of the whole of God’s law, which is summed in the two great commandments, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all they heart, mind, soul and strength, and thy neighbor as thyself.” She not only believed them, but she put them in practice. Her last words were, “Don’t worry, I am all right.” Repentance toward God, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and practicing Gods commandments made her ready.
Mrs. Gibson was sick but a few hours, but her suffering was intense. She told Mr. Carter she would not survive the shock. He encouraged her, called a physician and all was done that human aid could do, but the disease would not yield to treatment. She died, only as a Christian can, in the full triumph of a living faith and hope of a glorious resurrection.

Thursday,
April 24, 1913

CUTTING SCRAPE
P. C. Clayton, a special policeman, of Thornwood, was cut and very seriously wounded in a fight at Thornwood Sunday. He had arrested a young man named Kromer, from Highland county, and was attempting to put him in the lockup. R. C. Miller interfered and attempted to prevent the policeman from locking up his prisoner, and in the mixup Clayton was stabbed in the right breast, and badly cut on the right leg. However, he proceeded to give Miller a good beating up before he weakened from loss of blood...

BIG FIRE AT DURBIN
$30,000 Goes Up in Smoke Tuesday Morning. Third Big Fire For Pocahontas This Year
Four large buildings were burned Tuesday morning – the Eureka Hotel and Town Hall, owned by E. J. Kisner; the large store building of Kenna Rexrode, occupied by Shulman Bros., and the big building of Thomas Cummings.
The fire was first discovered in the Eureka Hotel about 6:30 a.m. in rooms occupied by guests who had shortly before departed on the Greenbrier Division train.
The town of Durbin is wholly without means of fighting fire, and the flames spread from one wooden building to another until the brick building of the Bank of Durbin was reached. Only an alleyway, six feet wide, separated the Bank from the Cummings building. It was given up that the bank building would have to go, and plans were laid to fortify against the conflagration at the post office building.
However, John W. Goodsell, superintendent of the Pocahontas Tannery, arrived on the scene at this time with a hundred men trained in fire drill, and took charge of the situation. Men were put on the bank roof under directions to stay until the building was ready to fall in, and a bucket line formed to some locomotive tenders in the nearby railway yards. These tenders were kept full of water at the tank and pump station.
Blankets were hung over the windows and doors and all exposed woodwork, and the building was kept soaked inside and out. The men on the roof stayed and poured water, though the heat burned their hair and blistered their skin.
It was a daring fight against heavy odds, well planned and wonderfully well executed, especially when the lack of means is considered. And it was successful, for here the fire was gotten under control and the town saved.

HUNTERSVILLE
Jamie McComb, of Cummings Creek, was a business visitor here Saturday.
Mrs. J. C. Loury is having a siege of mumps.
Miss Lollie McComb has been real sick for several days, but is some better at this writing.
Squire D. B. McElwee, of Minnehaha Springs, was here a short time Saturday. He was accompanied home by his daughter, Mrs. Elihu Moore and her children.
John I. Lee, who invented a chicken feeder, was here Friday with a Denver, Col., firm to sell his patent.
The circus at Marlinton next Saturday will be attended by quite a few from here. Of course the old folks will have to take the little ones who never saw an elephant.
Winfred Moore started to Detroit, Michigan, last Saturday where he will enter an automobile school and prepare to be a chauffeur. We wish him abundant success.

DUNMORE
Some fine weather and some frost. We fear that the peaches and pears are frozen.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sutton’s little child, aged two years died Tuesday morning near Arbovale, and was buried at Arbovale Wednesday.
Sam and Charlie Elliot moved their planer and engine to Clover Lick, and will build J. R. Hevener’s house.
M. F. Herold is building a new house. He will soon have the cage then the bird; good for Millard.
The road from Dunmore to Frost is in the worst condition that we have ever seen it.
Jimmy Baxter and his best girl were up Sunday in his automobile and got stuck in a mud hole.

GREENBANK
We are having fine weather at this time, a little too much rain to suit farmers and garden making.
Rev. T. H. Burch and family arrived at the Methodist parsonage on last Friday. The ladies of the neighborhood and Dunmore were at the parsonage and gave them a hearty welcome with a nice supper. We extend a hearty welcome to them and hope and pray that the church rally to their leader and be ready to lend a helping hand at all times.
J. P. Wooddell went down to Greenbrier county some days ago and bought a fine mare.

LOBELIA
It has been raining for the past week and the grass is looking green.
Fred Hill has been working for Newton Clutter.
Miss Edith Alderman and brothers, Clive and Theodore, were guests of their sister, Mrs. Ellawood Hill, last Saturday and Sunday.
L.T. Hill is building a seven room house.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Winters Morrison, April 16, a daughter.

LOCUST CREEK
Fine weather and everybody preparing to plant corn.
Albert McCoy is preparing to begin work on his new dwelling house soon.
Preaching at the Locust Creek church last Sunday by our new preacher was fine and was attended by a large congregation.
Charles McCoy, of Denmar, was visiting his father, Wallace McCoy, Sunday.
A.N. May & Co. has contracted to build D. C. May a fine dwelling house.

RACHEL ANN GIBSON
The subject of this sketch was born May 24th, 1853, and died April 18th, 1913, aged 59 years, 10 months and 16 days. Mrs. Gibson was the widow of the late George Gibson. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Marvin C. Carter, several brothers and sisters and a host of friends. She joined the Methodist Episcopal church nearly forty years ago. Her life was consistent with the profession she made. She was a good woman in all that the word good implies.
She believed in the keeping of the whole of God’s law, which is summed in the two great commandments, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all they heart, mind, soul and strength, and thy neighbor as thyself.” She not only believed them, but she put them in practice. Her last words were, “Don’t worry, I am all right.” Repentance toward God, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and practicing Gods commandments made her ready.
Mrs. Gibson was sick but a few hours, but her suffering was intense. She told Mr. Carter she would not survive the shock. He encouraged her, called a physician and all was done that human aid could do, but the disease would not yield to treatment. She died, only as a Christian can, in the full triumph of a living faith and hope of a living faith and hope of a glorious resurrection.

Thursday,
April 17, 1913

Governor Hatfield has been holding out the olive branch of peace to the coal industry. We advise that the interested party grab it before it grows to the dimensions of a club.
The city of Elk Point, South Dakota, elects its saloon-keepers by direct vote, and recalls them if they put too much river water in their goods.
 
“CLEAN UP” NOTICE
At the last meeting of the Town Council it was ordered that notice be given for everyone to clean up their premises and adjoining alleys of all rubbish, etc. – the same to be hauled to dumping ground on the river bank at the mouth of and on upper side of Knapps Creek.
It is necessary for the good health of the town that this be attended to at once, and unless you do it by May 1, 1913, the Sergeant will do it at your expense.  F. M. Sydnor, Recorder
 
 CHURCH BY FLOOD
Historic Blennerhassett Island last week fell heir to a big substantial frame church with an 800 pound bell which was deposited on the island by the turbulent waters of the Ohio river during the flood which swept over the island. A few days before the water receded from the island the inhabitants managed after some labor in mooring the big church to a desirable spot where it will in the future play the part it was built for in other climes.  Nothing could be found about the building to indicate where it had come from. With the exception of the floor, the edifice is in good condition.  The religiously inclined natives of this historic old island declare that the church is “Bread they have cast upon the water” in former times returning to them.
 
TROUBLE
Town Sergeant L. M. Foster, of Cass, Pocahontas county, got into trouble the other night in Hinton by getting a cargo of juice on and displaying two large pistols on the streets. Judge Sawyers fined him $5 and gave him 20 days in jail. He also held him for the grand jury on the charge of carrying pistols. The legal points are these: How many pistols can a man carry on a state license? Can he carry them outside of his county?  Does getting drunk and into trouble revoke his license? How can a man of intemperate habits get a license, and what shall be done with those who obtain a pistol license and later abuse the privileges granted by the state?
-West Virginia News
 
GOING-GOING
Captain Swecker sends us the following:
The auctioneer had auctioneered for the last time, for he was very ill and lay now almost at death’s door.
Beside his bed stood the doctor and the auctioneer’s wife, anxiously watching each symptom, each movement, each respiration.
“Doctor,” hoarsely whispered the hammer wielder’s wife, “what is his pulse now?”
The doctor raised the patient’s wrist.
“His pulse,” he answered, “is now going at 104.”
The auctioneer sat up excitedly in bed.
“Going at 104!” he cried feebly. “Going at 104! Who’ll make it 105? Do I hear 105 for a pulse that has been running steadily for 47 years and never once stopped? Will you bid 105? Who’ll make it 105?”
But no one made it 105. And a minute later the auctioneer was going – going – gone!
 
HILLSBORO HIGH BRIEFS
Mr. J. B. Grimes, of Lobelia, has been elected by the student body as one of the three judges in the Hillsboro-Marlinton contest. Mr. S. H Sharp was elected by Marlinton students, at whose request the date has been postponed.
The following is a summarized programme of the coming contest:
1. Debate – Question: Resolved That capital punishment should be abolished. To affirm, Charles Richardson and Robert Arbogast. To deny Dakota Kirk and Charles Smith.
2. Essays – The Crusade of the Rural School, by Bertha Overholt, and Woman’s Sphere, by Gladys Warwick.
3. Orations – The Martyrdom of Joan of Arc, by Ralph Buckley, and The Human Element Art, Literature and Religion, by Paul Overholt. 4. Readings – The Chariot Race, by Elise McClintic, and The Flood, by Pearl Darnell.
 
VIRTUE
He doesn’t smoke and he doesn’t drink, he doesn’t gamble, he doesn’t chew – for he is a highly moral gink who never does what he shouldn’t do. He never smashes the *decalogue and he never fractures the laws of man; in fact he’s a perfectly proper cog in the big machine since his life began.
But that is as far as his virtues reach – they’re negative virtues, one and all; he’s never been known by kindly speech, to help the fellow who’s prone to fall – he has no knowledge of fellowship, no love of beauty or honest mirth.
There is no warmth in the hands you grip, when you greet this chap on the “Good Ship Earth.”
He isn’t tender or sweet or kind, he isn’t merry or bright of eye; but look him up and you’re sure to find his reputation is very high; but it isn’t by negative acts we mount – for we maintain this word is true. It isn’t the things you don’t that count; it’s rather the sort of things you do!
 
*Decalogue: The Ten Commandments
 
 
 

Thursday,
April 10, 1913

Sometime after the horrors of the Johnstown flood had passed away, to a certain extent, the saving grace humor appeared even in connection with this great calamity. It was related that one of the victims was in the other world and was there relating to a group of other spirits the wonders of that overwhelming flood and all listened with interest and attention except one small ancient spirit who moved away with an exclamation of disgust. Then the flood sufferer asked who it was that treated his story with so little respect. They said why that is Noah, and he does not think that your flood amounted to very much.
There are some sheep in Central Park in the City of New York. The other day the keeper fed some of the lambs out of a nursing bottle and the great dailies [newspapers] featured it as an important piece of news. We are covered with shame to think that all these years we did not know a vital item of news when we saw it.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, who has been trying to break into prison for a long time, was tried last week and sentenced to serve for three years in London on a charge of having counselled certain persons to feloniously place gunpowder under the house of Lloyd George and blow it up. This follows close on the trial of Mother Jones on this side of the water who is also accused on counseling various persons to do violence. Mrs. Pankhurst conducted her own defense and tried to justify her position that she was entitled to take any means to secure votes for women. She has headed an uprising among a part of the women in that country on the suffrage question, though it seems to be an undisputed fact that the majority of English women, secure in their position as household favorite, do not wish to jeopardize it or take any new and additional duties to the state. Mrs. Pankhurst heard the verdict of the jury and leaning over the rail of the prisoner’s dock said impressively: “I will not submit. From the very moment I leave the court I will refuse to eat. I will come out of prison the earliest possible moment, dead or alive.”

GREENBANK
We are having fine weather – a little flurry last Saturday and a little snow Sunday morning but by evening it was gone. Some of the farmers have sowed oats.
W.H. Arbogast, of Durbin, was down to see his father, Major J.C. Arbogast, who is dangerously sick at this time.
James Curry is very much indisposed at this writing.
J.W. Oliver, our genial assessor is on the war path again, assessing the people; look out for him and have your dollar ready.

STAMPING CREEK
Plowing and logging is the order of the day.
Forest McClure has resigned from his position with the Raine Lumber Company.
A.C. Irvine had the misfortune to get his knee cut while cutting timber.
Mrs. Raymond Rhodes, who has been sick for some time, is no better, we are sorry to say.

FROST
Aaron Sharp moved from his family last Friday into the house with his father, formerly occupied by his brother Butler, who moved to his farm near Stony Bottom.
We are sorry to hear that little Edna Gibson’s physician thinks it necessary for her to go to the hospital unless she improves in the next week.
A nice drove of cattle and horses belonging to Mr. Dudley, of Augusta county, passed through town Thursday, enroute to Mr. Dudley’s grass farm on Elk.

ARBOVALE
Some snow and very windy last Saturday and Sunday.
The floods did some damage by washing off fences and leaving a good deal of drift on meadows.
John Townsend says he walked through a plowed field of Dyer Gum’s a few days after the flood where the water had washed the soil off, and gathered up about two pounds of minnie balls.
Andy Nicholas expects to go to Nicholas county to attend court having been summoned as a witness in a murder case.

SUNSET
Ed McLaughlin, of Stony Creek, was in this part buying calves recently.
We believe that winter is about over as the spiders have come from their dens. We learned that Harry Shinaberry killed the largest spider that was ever known in the county; it was near the size of a cup.
D.F. Shinaberry is expecting to move his stock to Clover Creek soon.
The flood did a great deal of damage to the farmers of this vicinity.

NEWS
H.H. Hudson, of Durbin, was in town Monday night. He brought down a man named Richard Wood who was found on the mountain near Durbin one cold night last week in a deranged or delirious condition. He gave his name as Richard Wood, home as Summersville, Ohio. There is a period of time of which he can give no account, but thinks he was in a hospital somewhere but does not know how he got away. He has a high fever, fast pulse, and is a little more than skin and bone. He is known to some woodsmen who worked with him in the Richwood line a year ago, when he was a strong hearty man. The county will send him back to his home when he is able to travel.
Road Engineer Kramer came to town Tuesday to arrange to put the prisoners in the county jail to work on a limestone quarry on the Aaron Kee farm, getting out rock to macadimize the road from Marlinton toward Buckeye. Yesterday he had four men at work and today he will have four more. The men are working very willingly and Mr. Kramer expects to have a great deal of stone ready by the time road building can be commenced.
Two prisoners on the road gang, Wm. Moss and Ray McComb, convicted of selling whiskey, made their escape this afternoon.

FIRES AT ACADEMY
The store building of S.J. Payne at Academy was destroyed by fire Monday morning. The fire was discovered about six o’clock, and consumed the building so rapidly the W.J. Kline and family, who occupied the upper floor, had barely time to escape. It is not known how the fire originated but supposedly from a defective flue.
E.H. Beard & Company with their general merchandise store occupied the store room and they are the heaviest losers, carrying an insurance of $5,500 on a $9,000 stock of goods.
The post office was in this building also, but a larger part of the supplies were saved.
The Masons lost all paraphanalia and equipment, valued at $1,000.
The total loss caused by the fire is at least $15,000, with an insurance of $10,000.
On Tuesday morning the storehouse of E.L. Beard, on Main Street of Academy, caught fire in the room from a flue, but by hard work the building was saved without great damage.

GEORGE BEATY
Departed this life March 19, 1913, George Beaty, aged 73 years. In the death of Mr. Beaty the community loses a substantial citizen, the church a strong pillar, and the people a firm, true, loyal friend. Born in Rockbridge county, Va., his father of Scotch-Irish race while from his mother and association he inherited the qualities of the Virginian.
With five daughters, his home was for years the center of the social life for the neighborhood, and hospitality and good cheer was distributed with a lavish hand. Ministers of all denominations stopped there and went on their way, cheered and comforted by the hearty welcome of Mr. Beaty and his family; but as his daughters one by one married and left to live in homes of their own, he left the old home at Mingo and moved out on his farm on the Mingo Flats, where he resided until his death, his youngest daughter living with him.
In the presence of a large number of his old friends and neighbors and followed by a little band of Confederate Veterans, he was taken to the Mingo cemetery and laid to rest. Truly a good and useful man has gone to his reward.

Thursday,
April 3, 1913
 
All we have got to say about the Greenbrier River is that she behaved like a perfect lady considering how full she got.  The floods last week were something fearful.
We were in Philadelphia and the general impression there was that the main Alleghany had washed away, together with all the foothills. The word was that there was nothing left west of Clifton Forge. This was very disturbing to a man from Marlinton, considering that it is situate in a narrow valley between mountains with a high water mark of some prehistoric time, two hundred and fifty feet above the bed of the river. At the West Philadelphia station sympathetic railroad men were explaining that the C & O train had been “annulled” and conveying the impression that our beloved county had been annihilated…
And even as they talked the announcer called a Southern train for New Orleans, and breaking away from Job’s comforters we ran for the train which was at least headed in the right direction…
Looking out the window, the Cow Pasture river was in sight and the evidences of flood were most startling. The trees along the banks were uprooted or torn and marked far up the trunks. It looked like a flood of at least thirty feet. Such a flood in the Greenbrier would have done untold damage to Marlinton. In a few minutes the Jackson River came in view and this old drunkard looked like he had been on the spree of his life…
It was with great relief that we observed that the Greenbrier, while showing that it had had plenty of water in it, had  not twisted, uprooted and marked the timber like the rivers east of the mountain.
The forces of nature are fearful and the rivers are to be treated with respect, and if anybody builds a dam above us, then ho for the Mountains of Hepsidam. They may be of great economic value as power producers, but we do not want to live in the shadow of such a valley of death.  The thought of Dayton and of Johnstown would banish sleep. Rather we would say with the poet: “Flow on, forever, in thy glorious robe of terror and of beauty.”
 
THE RETAIL MEN
The other day I meandered into a drug store and ordered certain chemicals which I happened to know actually cost 11 cents. The druggist charged me 35 cents. I inquired if he hadn’t added too much profit. I told him just what the item cost.
“My dear sir,” he answered, “in the corner drug store we do not pay any attention to the cost of the chemicals in the drugs – that is the smallest part of our expense. We are selling you the high rental of a drug store on a convenient corner, electric lights, furnace heat, free telephone service, stamps sold at cost, a meeting place for the neighborhood, a place where you can stand on a cold day and wait for your car, free seats, free newspapers. Not only that, but we are prepared to tell you what is good for dyspepsia, toothache, indigestion, lumbago; in fact, we prescribe, free of charge, for most human ills. It is for this class of service that we charge – the drugs are simply incidentals.”
Well, brother, don’t you think this druggist was about right? At the same time, it is just like you and me to accept all these conveniences and accommodations, and then kick if a fly happens to light in our soda water.
Did it ever occur to you, when you happened to want anything and needed it in a hurry, what it costs to have this particular item all ready for your use at a store just around the corner?
 
FATAL ACCIDENT
Wesley Perkins, watchman of an engine for the W. Va. Spruce Lumber Company, was killed at Spruce last Friday night. A part of his duties was to fill the oil cans of the engine, and he had run the engine to the sand house for this purpose. The oil barrel stood on the platform. And in getting out the oil he pulled the barrel over on him, catching his head between the falling barrel and a knuckle joint on the running gear of the engine. His skull was crushed and death is supposed to have resulted almost instantly. About five o’clock Saturday morning Italian laborers going to work discovered his body.
 
LOCAL MENTION
The McCoy lands embracing 13,800 acres of timberland on Alleghany mountain on the headwaters of Sitlington creek, has been sold to John J. Hite, a well-known coal man of Fairmont. The deferred payment was $112,000. The full consideration was not stated in the deed. The owner of the land, James McCoy, has recently died.
George Beal, who has been sick since last fall, is still in bed, but he stood the winter remarkably well and his condition is much improved.
 Geo. W. Beverage lost a very valuable Jersey cow by being foundered this week.
 
STONY CREEK
Plowing, logging and hauling lumber is the order of the day when it is not raining.
Amos Lytton purchased a team of the Finely Bros. and is hauling.
The bull moose job is progressing nicely in the mud, under John M. Geiger.
The only prospect for D. L. Beverage is to plow his garden again, as the water washed the dirt away.
 
DUNMORE
March came in like a lamb and went out with 65 head of Joe Buzzard’s old sheep.
Considerable damage was done by the floods. All the foot bridges on Sitlington and Thomas creeks and their tributaries were washed away. Water gaps, fences and roads are in bad shape – one good ditch and that is in the center of the road.
 
CLOVER CREEK
We are having fine weather and plowing is the order of the day.
Sam Varner brought three car loads of cattle to Clover Lick last week.
J. H. Doyle is selling out his apples and potatoes which he wintered over from last fall.
 
 
HILLSBORO HIGH SCHOOL
The lecture, “Spitters and Quitters,” delivered by Dr. Sheldon in the auditorium on Saturday night was highly instructive and pleasing.
The Hillsboro Literary Society will convene on Friday at 7:30 p.m. An interesting program has been prepared. The proposition for debate – Resolved, That punctuality is of more consequence than preparation, is to be discussed.

Thursday,
March 27, 1913
 
THE BIG WIND
A little after nine o’clock last Friday morning a big wind, accompanied by hail, snow and rain, struck Pocahontas county. The storm was over in a few minutes but few people recall a worse wind storm, and great damage was done. From every community come reports of barns unroofed, sheds and fences blown down, timber uprooted, fruit and sugar orchards damaged and telephone and telegraph wires torn down. In the Levels J. P. Beard had a large barn blown down. At Cloverlick the roof of J. O. Mann’s barn was blown off and also the porch of Bly Noel’s house; a section of this barn roof 20 feet long by six feet wide was carried several hundred feet.
Above Stony Bottom a house was blown over against a tree. On Swago, Cam Armstrong’s corn crib was blown nearly a hundred feet and corn scattered about. Ernest Jackson on Laurel Creek had his grainery blown down.  The roof was blown off the large barn of W. H. Barlow at Hunters- ville. At Spring Creek the depot was damaged  and a large window was carried several hundred feet by the wind but the glass was not broken. At Marlinton the damage was confined to tin flue tops, signs, wagon tops, tin roofs, etc. A large shed at Smith’s livery stable was moved around. At the tannery a large window was carried many feet but was laid down so gently no glass was broken in it.
Reports from all parts of the State tell of great loss and damage of property and in the Southern and Western States many lives were lost. At Jennington, this State, a man named Pelky, of Thornwood, was killed. He had taken shelter under a lumber dock and a large tree fell upon him.
 
BIG FLOOD
Today, Thursday, is flood day on the Greenbrier. At Marlinton the water was the highest in 36 years and caused great damage and inconvenience. Knapps Creek overflowed the eastern end of town, coming up to the top of the railroad grade at the water tank and ran into many of the houses. The river is not as high in comparison as the creek but it put several inches of water in Main street and overflowed a section of the walk on Camden avenue below the Times office. Many small outbuildings were washed away, roads, and board walk damaged and telephone wires are down. The trains are not running today, as the track in many places is under water.
All day Wednesday there was heavy rain, and Wednesday night the rain came down in torrents. At half-past five the water from Knapps Creek began to come out in the town and two hours later the river was out of its banks.
 
AARON JORDAN
Our friend, Aaron Jordan, lives in the rocky pass above Huntersville, on his own land and drives his own team to the county seat. He is seventy-one years old but he bears them all without bending. He looks like an Arab chief. At the outbreak of the Civil War he went with his master, Captain Payne, of Alleghany county, into the Confederate service. In one of the Valley campaigns they were both captured by Pennsylvania troops at Winchester. A large number of prisoners were herded into the pike and started north to Harpers Ferry.  With Aaron was another man by the name of George Hedrick, body servant of General W. L. Jackson.  They were both riding and Captain Payne was walking. They knew that something unusual had happened but did not know that they had been captured. A Union officer rode on the outside of the column and asked George what he was doing in the army. George replied that he was fighting the damned Yankees!  The officer glared at him and rode on. Presently he returned and repeated his question and George gave him the same reply, whereupon the officer drew a heavy sabre and slew George. At least George fell off his horse with his throat cut and fell outside the ruck and was never heard of again. The officer then put the same question to Aaron as to what he was doing in the army. Aaron answered that all he did was to eat and run, mostly run. This mollified the captain and he observed that a good run was better than a bad stand. He then reached into his saddle pockets and gave Aaron some hard tack. And what was better – a twist of tobacco. A soft answer turneth away wrath…
 
 DROOP TOP
The weather is fine and it looks like spring is here.
The farmers of this neighborhood are all plowing and doing things on the square this fine weather.
Alvin Pritt has resigned his position with the Droop Mt. Lumber Co. and is now working for G. M. Williams.
D. D. Gladwell was in this part fixing up telephone lines Saturday.
 
LAUREL CREEK
An Italian child died on the river and was brought here for burial last week.
Mr. Beirne, of Charleston, and Hubert Echols, of Marlinton, were in this part enroute to the head of Williams River, looking over the Campbell Company’s lands and prospecting for coal. They found some good coal on J. W. Sheets’ farm, also on the Campbell’s land is some fine coal.
A.C. Barlow, of Onoto, was here to doctor some sick cows and horses, Saturday.
 
GREENBANK
We are having fine weather – no snow and so warm in the day time we don’t need any fire.
The Deer Creek Lumber Co. has completed their railroad to the C. A. Lightner farm, and are putting about 20 truck loads of logs to their mill near Cass daily. They lost a fine horse last week.
J. R. Gum got badly hurt while pulling stumps one day last week. The cable broke and hurled a piece of iron which struck him on the leg. He is going on crutches at present, but is improving slowly.
Dr. C. H. Chapman, of Webster Springs, is repairing and making teeth for the people of this part of the county. He is a fine dentist.
 
ARBOVALE
Equinox, eclipse, full moon and Easter, and it did not snow.
Profs. Doddrill, of Wesley Chapel, and Wooddell, of Oak Grove, and Howard Wooddell passed through town last Saturday evening enroute to the literary on Top Alleghany.
Fred Conrad and Andy Nickolas are preparing to put up some wire fence.
 
ONOTO
We are having some warm spring days and the farmers are making good use of the fine weather – plowing and getting ready for their spring crops.
Robert Jordan and wife spent Easter with Mrs. Jordan’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. George C. Moore.
Miss Mabel Baxter came home Saturday from Academy where she closed her school.
FROST
Mrs. Aaron Sharp and baby spent a few days with friends and relatives in Marlinton.
Price Moore passed through town with a fine team of gray mares which he had purchased from a Mr. Jones in Highland.
Miss Margaret and Glen Pritchard spent Sunday with their schoolmates Vera, Glenna, Raymond and Richard Gibson.
Mrs. Dorse McCarty, accompanied by Mrs. W. J. Pritchard and baby, made a flying trip to Dunmore Friday, where they took advantage of Miss Ella Pritchard’s millinery opening.
 
KNAPPS CREEK
Neil Pritchard has been doing some skidding, but he says his ox has given out.
Grover Moore has been on the sick list but is able to be out again.
A.C. Shinaberry had the misfortune to lose two very fine cattle last week.
 

Thursday,
March 20, 1913
 
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.  Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content and a hundred virtues which the idle never know. – Kingsley

 Many boys would like to be president but more would rather belong to a major baseball league.

 We understand that Mrs. Woodrow Wilson says that $1,000 a year is sufficient to clothe any lady of the land.  Break the news gently to the ladies of Pocahontas county that hereafter when the thousand dollar mark is reached in any case that the treasury of the family is justified in turning down all drafts.  Girls will only be allowed $500 each and boys $15.75.  These rules in effect from January 1, 1913. A word to the wise should be sufficient.

 Fairmont, W. Va. – Fairmont was interested in a deal of the greatest importance to the timber industry when Messrs. John Y. Hite and R. M. Hite purchased for themselves and eastern associates, the McCoy tract in Pocahontas county, W. Va., and Highland county, Virginia, securing over 16,300 acres. The deal, which was conducted by Mr. Alex R. Watson, real estate promoter of this city, is one of the most important of the year, for a sum said to be approximately $300,000 was involved in the deal.  This land lies on the Alleghany Mountains, around the headwaters of Sitlington Creek, near Dunmore.

 On Saturday there was a general cleaning up in bootlegging circles at Cass. Mayor Gillespie, though just recovering from a sick spell, was able to sit through the long trials, and dispensed justice with dignity and fairness. Several were dismissed, two Italians gave bond for appearance at court, and one man was sent to jail.
 
LAUREL CREEK
We are having some March storms.
Miflin Gilmer, who done a job of clearing for Vester Gilmer, has returned to his home on Elk.
Several of the young men went to Marlinton Saturday night to join the Moose Lodge.
Saturday while Elmer Baxter was on his way to Marlinton, as he was crossing the railroad above Campbelltown, his horse caught its foot and threw Mr. Baster about ten feet, but no serious damage was done; both were able to get home and have about recovered from the shock and fall.
George Sharp has purchased a lot of thoroughbred Leghorn and black Minorcha chickens and will start a poultry farm soon with Edgar Sharp as a partner, and Howard Beverage is also interested and perhaps will have charge of the yard.
 
DROOP TOP
There is plenty of mud in town at present.
The sick of this neighborhood are reported better, except Fielding Pritt, whose recovery is not expected.
R. P. Kershner, our saddle and harness maker, has built a shop and is doing a good business.
T. L. Scott, the noted road monkey, is still on the job.
 
DUNMORE
Get your Easter egg colored yaller.
A little mud long the line.
A.S. McCollough has opened up and up-to-date shop at Sitlington, and sold nearly a whole car load of seed oats Tuesday.
Brush, old wagons, sleds, rocks, fence rails and various other things in the public roads. Now is the time to open up the ditches and not put it off till hay making.
A great many acres of good land in this county is not farmed on account of stumps.  Wm. Smith is cleaning off the stumpiest piece of ground we ever looked at – big white pine stumps 5 feet across is pulled out with his stump puller.
 
ONOTO
Farmers are busy plowing and preparing to put out large crops this spring, and business in general seems to be on a boom. No, no “soup” yet and Wilson is president.
Ernest VanRennan has moved back to his home here from Campbelltown. He says that Campbelltown is all O. K., but Onoto is good enough for Ernest.
A very enjoyable evening was spent at the home of Asa Barlow last week, when he invited the people of this neighborhood to a sugar stirring.
Hurrah for Woodrow Wilson and the good old Pocahontas Times.
 
LOCAL MENTION
Paul Yeager will go next week to Ironton, Ohio, to play ball this season with the Ohio State League.
C. W.  Underwood, of Beaver Creek, was in town yesterday.  He has taken a logging contract for the Watoga Lumber Co.
Isaac McNeel, Jr., little son of Dr. H. W. McNeel, underwent an operation on his throat at the Ronceverte hospital last week.
Jerome Kellison died at the Weston State hospital Saturday. It will be remembered that he was sentenced for life about ten years ago from this county for the murder of Mrs. Jacob Simmons.
 
THAT CAR
He owned a handsome touring car,
To ride in it was heaven.
He ran across a piece of glass –
Bill - $14.97.
He took his friends out for a ride,
‘Twas good to be alive.
The carburetor sprang a leak,
Bill - $40.95.
He started on a little tour,
The finest sort of fun.
He stopped too quick and stripped his gears.
Bill - $90.51.
He took his wife downtown to shop
To save carfare was great,
He jammed into a hitching post,
Bill - $278.
He spent his little pile of cash,
And then in anguish cried,
“I’ll put a mortgage on the house;
And take just one more ride.”
– Oklahoma Banker