Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-01-28
y ours truly
Washington, ID. G., Jan. 10th, 81.

"s"oro' focHhontns County. Items.
The thermometer registered 40 below
zero on last Monday morning, and those
who have ice houses are filling them
with ice about four inches thick.
The grip is prevailing to an alarming
extent throughout this section of cOun-
try. Every member of some house
holds is stricken with it, one not able
to wait upon the other. 1t clings to it's
victims with wonderful tenacItv, and
on the cupboard shelf walls of medi-
cines, cups of boneset and lifeeverast-
ing, teas and mustard plasters remind
one that 1t requires heroic treatment to
loosen its hold. To the dwellings of
the well to do and the cabin upon the
mountain side our physicians are going
day and night administering relief to
the afflicted ones. We are glad to state
that we have no very serious cases at
present.
Mr.. VIM. PrItt, who lived a short
distance from here, died OH last Thurs
day, the 2lst, from paralysis, aged about
SO years. He leayes wife and several
small children. He had been hard
worker during his lifetime, and at such
work as chopping, making rails and
clearing land had few equals. On the
hill sides and on the low lands are small
tracts of land from which his sturdy
axe removed the heavy timber, and
which will ever stand as monuments to
his memory.
Mr.. ID. a. Peck received q letter from
his brother, who lives in Nicholas
county. stating that John McClung
who liyes near him, and who has been
in bad health for some time past, had
ordered his coffin, and made all neccs
sary preparation for his burial. Mr.
McClung evidently has strange notions
about things. He might possibly be
able to write his name in the dust on
his coffin yet before he crosses the dark
and rolling river of death.
Subscription papers can he found at
the stores of E. II Moore Il co. and f
[. Holt, soliciting subscriptions OF
money to build fence around the Nc
Neil cemetery. This is a move in the
right direction. 1t is something we
are nearly all interested in, and some
thing that has been sadly neglected
We are grieved to see so few names or
the papers. Can it be possible that
there is any one who will refuse to con
tribute 25 or 80 cents ? Can we believe
there are persons in this community Sc
lost to sense of duty to the dead-st
lost to the memory of the sweet ties anC
associations that bind them to loved
ones-as to refuse to lend helping
hand to this worthy movement Goo
forbid. Go to the Mcneil cemetery
and note it's condition, look at the rot
ten, tumble down fence, through which
horses and cattle pass in and out a
will look at the once nicely-roundet
mound, upon which loving hands hat
planted beautiful flowers, disorderet
and trampled fiat look at the broker
tombstones and the brush, briars ant
weeds growing In wild profusion-wht
of us can look emotionless, Indifferent
and without Indignation upon such ;
sceneY Isn't it burning shame
blight and a mlldew upon the goot
name of our community. Let us re
move it. Let us build the fence and FL
nm the graves of our loved ones wht
have passed away. We leave the mat
ter with the good, the intelligent. tn
Christian people of this community.
Rorn 70 MFR. and Mrs. Joseph Walton
q civil j. II. G.