The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1899-06-13
Local Briefs.

utup the wire scTeeHs.
The lawyers are among us.
j. w. Pell is quite an artist.
g. w. Ritchea is improving.
We have some type in this issue.
Last week was great corn weather.
Mrs. G.. w. Ritchea was here Fri
day.
f. b. Grim was up to the city
Friday.
We could provide for few more
subscribers.
Rain that is due on the Sth is no
good on the 9th.
Your home merchant will invest
his profits with you.
Mrs. w. ID. Gates has been too sick
TO scold for some weeks
We hear it often.-"Why don't you
put pump in this well?"
Capt. j. +. Mcdonald was in the
city few minutes Tuesday.
We appreciated call from Miss
Nettie Stump last Wednesday.
Mrs. Radahaugh, of Nobe, market
ed produce here Friday morning.
We hear that the railroad is sleep.
ing the sleep that knows no waking.
jolly Blaine Stump, the Spencer
livery man, was over last Thursday
night.
Quite a difference between the at
mosphere Of last week and last Feb
ruary.
We have nothing new from the
railroad or oil development in this
section.
Owing to terrible rush of ioh
work this paper may not be up to its
standard
John OHanlon is right on the
ground, and ready to restore the sight
Of the blind.
Now Anthony invariably hits the
rain, for he prophecies rain each day
until it comes.
Mrs. johnson Westfall was here
last Friday, the guest of her sister,
Mrs. j. w. Pcll
The Leaf Bank No. 2 has at last
been packed and is now being sement
ed and will soon be shut in.
Hal Cam is drilling water well
for j. H. Marshall on Big Root. He
is 80 feet deep but no water yet.
The writer and his family are in.
debted to Mrs. II. r. Stump for n
mess of nice potatoes last Monday.
Frank White and wife we're shop
ping in the city last Tuesday. Mr..
White is badly afflicted with rheuma,
tism.
Lawson Smith, of Lower Run, was
here day or two last week. He has
changed wonderfully since he left this
town.
When an editor naturally writes
about the things going on around
him, people oughtn't kick if they get
rubbed little.
There is Young man in this town.
who is so dead in love with a girl, that
he loves her whole family, intend
ed mother.in-law and all.
Chat and Joe Riddle and a young
Wade, all Of Gilmer county, passed
through town last Thursday enroute
to Ohio to seek fortune.
Ernest Frymire, a live stock deal.
er, of Auburn, passed through town
last Monday, looking for stock. He
was headed for Roane county.
"Parsons" speaks Of raising two
cops ofi the same ground, the same
year, on Walnut. We can raise four
crops here; Potatoes, corn, turnips.
and weeds.
Tlte Fleming was brought here on
a bail-piece last Monday evening and
committed to Jail, and on Thursday
his wife came over and he is again
out on bail.
We went to press too early last week
to get to mention that powerful cat
fish that Van Smith caught some.
where near the mouth Of Laurel. 1t
tipped the scales at % pounds.
There is patent medicine adver
iisement going the rounds Of the pres,
mo right to ugliness." 1t has direct
reference to women, just as though
anyone ever saw an ugly woman.
We hope it will be the pleasure
Of our subscribers who are indebted
tous, a greater mr. less amount. to droJ
in while bpro affnuIit,o cpurI on,