The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-12-08
Liberty TOWNSHIP LETTER.
A Chatty, Cosby Letter About
Crops, improvements, Amusements
and Local Matters Generally,


DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING. 1871.
Heavy crops, Of which your Corrcspond'
cnt prOpOacs 10 give some account, have
delayed his allcr.haryCst letter, which
aims " be written during the rest the
farmer takes Gfhc ever takes any at that
season Of the year, ind 70 come In on you
when, II ever, you arc slack Of news.
A few local items, rather than con.
neCted epistle, Is proposed IA the result Of
the present effort, which will, maybe,
come as OppOrtunc % your rural readers
around the winter iircsidc M nj any other
time; " compare large yields, and indulge
ina little gossip, II can but get in before
Congress, Legislature and Constitutional
Convention.
such general good crops we have not
had for, say quarter Of a century. The
apple crop, maybe, comes the nearest a
failure. Once more, II Ia presumed, Ohio
county has produced enough grain for
home consumption. | have met but one
grOwlcr, and he had fine crop when the
rest Of B lef acres Of weevil.smittcn
straw uncut
To show what we have done by partiCu.
larzing little: PcrG Whitman grew
from twelve bushels sowing, IN ten acres,
$40 bushels Ol wheat. j. Y. Chambers
hAs probably better yield. The CASTOR
boys were not behind and 30 on through
the township. On Castlcman's Run large
yields were the rule. Short Creek excel.
ed itself in corn, which ia grown " a
greater extent among those rich hills than
wheat
The gathering In Of our crops was a
pull--lOng, hard, steady and strong Help
WAS scarce As an instance Of what we
can do from "Bun " sun take this: o.
CASTOR reaped, bound, and shocked forty.
five dozen Of lodged wheat, and went n
mile in the evening ITO hold sweet con
verse" rs the Bard Of Avon says, with mis-
lady; and this work was not Tor one day
only. Come on with your "DugLo HOrn,"
DC, from which you seem proud tOquOte,
while | proceed.
Your correspondent grew from one 20.
tatO picked up from Col Ilenry's
patch aud planted IN n gravelIy iill
side, l2O potatoes. Nothing counted I'm.
der the size ola walnut, and cooked mess
beside; making over halt bushel The
kind Is moi known. There are to bc seen
in the cellar, carefully wrapped up in the
New York I'nibuno, glarlng from the out.
side Oi which Ia an article headed, "What
] know about farming" (This Ia no indi.
cation that II. q. will gGta vote from your
correspondent for prcsIdcnt)
Ia improvements put us not behind.
Valley Grove, by which Is included that
part u the National Road between Point
Mills and Gilmor's Crossing, has been re-.
painting and fGmOdGling herself in such n
way that the old time resident would
scarcely recognize her y. Buchanan. nj
tho mouth Of MCGraw, las remodclcd the
old Jones property into quite astylsl resi-.
dCnce, and proposes To go On improving.
j. W. Reed, Just below, dealer in country
produce, las Just finished tho same, while
II. Dice above comes out in fancy
style and glowing cOlorS Professor
Slater Ia still improving his resi-.
dCnce. J. N. POllack Inns the plastcrers
finishing up. On the other border Of The
township, A. Il. Jacob has just put up
what Is said 10 be the best house in the
county outside Of tho city and Leather.
wool.
The last school house for the township
is now being erected by the Mcssrs Den.
nistnn, and IT the rcirOgadc movement
(which some claim Is u begin by the
party Just come INTO power, we will at
least have our new school houses. The
PrOiessOI--sO named from presiding over
n base ball Club--has stepped into the
school room, and Ia now running the
Valley Grove school, with splOndiI sue.
cess, u course. The County Superin.
tendent, teacher in No. 8, Is now quite NJ,
and has vacation until aller the holidays
Croquet forms the attraction at Gil.
mOre's Grove every Saturday afternoon.
A literary club ON Friday evening,
at No. school room, gaining steadily in
numbers and In quality Of performance.
A lOrinightly paper Is carried on,
The Normal SchoOl nj West Liberty
seems TO bo stepping forward on to sue.
cees-it success Is not already attained.
This ancient scat OF government for the
Panhandle supports two music leacicrs.
both, ! am informed, having fine classes,
while Prof. Weber, Of your city, seems TO