West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1899-05-04
The Dafter Family.

MtsIER EpiroR I'VE cluded to write
ag.u and tell you the muse. We had "A
mectia az the Slvuls house tho other
ntght for the purpose OF ofaugeruiainr n
trust When we was on the road ,,
ths SiSul0 house, we heln some oad
muse. 10 is reported here that Il. Wil-
liza rms has sarrenderod. Some cu.s s,t
our neighbors were up at Carmel the
other day talking with Ed. Williams
and they said Ei was soinx toglne the
Nethdist or ripuplicans, OF course it's
AL the same; he said he didsnt lh,e cn
Gine them out IA" ssis ne was afraid
hc0d git shot dWing the srNt e,,m-
pl gu il lac dident and Aonie say Buck
Whetseli is gittin weak in the kuess
TOO; he is afraid he might git shot by
the Methdist. Well must tell you a
little abO1tt Uhe mcetin; as said before
III was for the purpose OF auRernizin
trust The trust is to oe known as
The First National RipuplilSin Pener.
oyal Trust understood them to say
they wanted the word National m the
name IN order to secure tho respect OF
fareign nobility and the word Ripup-
uplican was pat in, so the wall street
MethdIst wouldent be afraid to- put
their money into IT, Now mister eG-
itor we hat considerable spealtin bat
| can't Tell ebeut all OF IL in this letter.
Ehc ffrst man TO speak was "a Skule
teacher; he went on ter say as how tho
ripuplieaU party now known as the
great Methdist church had brought
this county u9 FROM nothin; he says we
all know that before Bishop Mikinlev
got the people right en- projections
there was no demaRd for peneroyal
| and there was no distilery OF that kind
in all this country. We will tell you
more about what he said when we
write again. lie was interrupted often
while he was spsalsin of the benefeita
deriyei from trusts, especially when
he said trusts were formed for the
purpose OF eheapsning tho product.
! Several of the farmers walked out.
| sayIn IL the product was cheap the raw
materia; would be cheap and | was
| told that John o. Whetsel sand he
| would put his ground In corn and not
! go into the peneroyal business, We'll
the skule teacher went on ter say AS
| how he was not use to such confusion
and that he was oyer at Ktngwood
! some years ago and heard Rev Flu.
| racker distress eleven millions of peo-
Pile and was not interrupted once and
Gemima that's my wife, was sotin right
[ by hie and she said she reconed she
people was fraid they would gsy SHOT.
] tole her TO keep stFll bng she got she
lass words yeu know woman Will
have that Then there was &C man
there from VermOnt he said much
more than we wifi tell you this time;
I've said the people of Wes Vipginny
was gettin alou~ enc but sa ys Isa, YOU
have much TO learn yetS he says. up
very scearce; that is people who are
outsid, OF the pafes Of the church arc
very scearce' now he says IL one Of us
narChorn people hapen TO get bold Of n
punched quarter no never knows what
true happiness is till he gifts IL off on
some one else Now he says some OF
you people find fault with us becans
some OF Us are mem bers Of trusts and
consequently are not on ~ sociaI equal
ity with others but he says fiud you
people are not on social equality
only at church fairs where the uper
crust-ladies will eondccend TO rub
mp against the lowest man till hs.
spends his last quarter. Well lac SAYS
l. was down at Charleston while Vour
legislator was in session. dhdent gft
there till after the Senator was elected
but ] seen Bro Dawson and Rev. AZ.
lter-son and Bro. Elkins; they lold me
all about the trick il was done by and
! says look here Bro. Dawson don't
you suppose there was pretty con.
siderable stencil went up from chat
capitol while that was goingon How
did the man in the moon stand the
smell while prssinR over that building.
Bro. Dawson says. 1 6hInk he can stand
anything after passing right oyer tho
dome at Washington for several years
but the Rev Atlscr-soa shut both ewes
right tight and said the man ln the
moon is a nrthan man and he holds
his hand over his nose while passing
oyer such places Well he saws. Rev
Atkcr.son IS is preparing places for
you people as fast ~ possible. learned
as came throUg KinQwoOd that he
had sent Ero D,twson out 10 notify
some 81 tue people that the pie wagon
Vas coming and cxort others To be-
faithfui thut their turn would come
| bge AMI bye He says they bad quite
20 littie mcetip at Sinth's noter and
vent away singing every thing +,
lovely and the goose hangs hiob.
Some Of yon don't believe in singing
sucn Things b0t up martin the Mstbdj,f
are allowed 90 sing such things al
times just aiore the pic wagon come
around; he said he was well acuuaintcd
/ with lodge iIolSe and the Jedqe fs 10.
I ing hnc; hs gets moderately rOod
siiery and dout have very much 90 do.
be puts in ont all his spare time
I raising nirger heel pota toes and Mr..