The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-02-23

The Washington Post Almanac i:
a beauty and valuable.
Lafayette Stump, of Staten, was q
visitor to the city last Wednesday.
The harder some men push toward
prosperity the harder others will pull
sgainst il.
Those who were out last Saturday
report whole days proceeding OF
very wet rain.
1t would be great blessing for the
school work for those who do not try
to improve the opportunity it affords
to stay away. Idleness begets Idle.
ness.
Yesterday was your Uncle George
Washington's birthday. Wonder
what the venerable old gentleman
would think of his country if he should
raise from the dead and fake look
at it?
We remember of reading many
years ago in one Of the text books
ABOUT storm and sunshine trying
their hand on taking Il mans coat off,
and as we remember the case the gen
tie, calm and unassuming sunshine
won
Mr.. Chuck, of Troy, was here again
last week rounding up the right Of
way so far MS it can be obtained
through this county for The Little Ka-
nawha River Railroad. He SAYS he
has less trouble in this than in Gilmer
county.
Some people mako a great effort to
create the impression among some 9TH
err people who live in the country that
we are bad and selfish set of people in
this town. The reason for this may
be because some Of us do not our aims
before men.
fla man offers up prayer for sim
ners when at church, and i'm CONVEX
sation outside promises some of the
same sinners calamity and clark
days" he puts them to guessing which
end of the string he is pulling. But
we don't mind that, we can carry an
umberrelIa on moonlight night as
we'll as some other people.
An obituary came to this office last
week written in memory of a little
child. If we could find the name OF
any relative to the deceased on our
subscription book we would publish
the obituary. Rut to the best of our
knowledge there is not so much as
one, hence the words of comfort and
consolation would be wasted i'm the
desert air.
Tobert Poindexter was killed last
Sunday night near the Big Moses gus
we'll, IN Tyler county, by man by
the name of Dulin. The weapon us.
ed was razor, Poindexter being
barber, and was killed in his own
shop. The same old story, BOTH MEN
WERE DRINKING. One Of them now
in eternity and the other in duress
vile. Young man, think of it!
We took a little journey to the
country last Wednesday morning and
among other places visited was the
poor farm, where we met the present
keeper and the gentleman who is to
TAKE charge the first Of April.
Both gave us n cordial greeting, said
they had been looking for us FIR
some time, and hat while we had all
Of the outward appearances of n fit
subject for the iniImary, it would be
necessary to have an order from the
overseer Of the poor This we did
not have, and returned to our native
heath.
Roane county has started in this
direction by the county court author
izing the Construction ola steel bridge
across Spring creek Now the thing
for us to do Is bridge the river and
West Fork and clasp glad hands with
our sister county on the plane Of pro.
gress. We can do this by the adop.
ton o. a proper system of economy.
Let the several surveyors of roads re-
qulre the same amount of work from
each man they employ on roads that
they (the surveyors) would require
men to do ON their farms and the mon
ey thus saved will build not only the
two bridges, but several others in
eight or ten years. At any rate We
need the bridges.
Reverend Culpepper, Of Kansas, has