The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1899-08-01

Brock Elliott was about the city
Wednesday.
Shafer Bros. will finish their brick
job 10 day or two.
j. G.. West, of Nobe, was about
the city Wednesday.
We found it impossible to attend
the Institute last week.
Flux is raging in Mason county
below the Great Kanawha.
1. n. Bell and Miss Mary Core
were in town Friday evening.
Frank White brought tears of graf
itude to our eyes last Tuesday.
Ms. DR.. Swentzel was quite sick
last Tuesday and Wednesday.
An Industrious man will work
whether compelled 50 to do or not.
We d. not build air castles. "Suffi-
cient unto the day is the evil thereof
Time rolls on and mans lngrati-
tude to man stands conspicuously
out.
Great crowds have visited the
Stump No. /, oil we'll in the last few
days.
Mrs. Will, better known as Tin
kerr" JONES died last Wednesday
morning.
Miss. Ella Mathews was charm.
ing guest Of friends In this town last
Thursday.
Several folks from about town
attended the Institute at Arnolds-
burg last week.
Some people must think we can
actually live and run our business
without money.
Rev. Charles Burl, wife and little
daughter were here visiting friends
last Wednesday.
We are over crowded with job work
but come right along we will try
to supply your wants.
Some picture man was here last
Thursday delivering quite a bunch
of we'll executed pictures.
The marble game has gone from
the "kids" to the men and much time
is devoted to marble shooting.
Miss Stella Stump, Rev. P. A.
Kelly and VIM. p. King were among
the new additions to our subscription
list last week.
We will venture tie assertion that
there are more dogs in this town, at
this time, than in any other town III
the State of its size.
Hal Cain let his drilling machine,
engine and all get loose from him and
down over hill it went pell nell,
but no serious damage was done.
Rev. Harvey Golfer will conduct
services at the Baptist church at
South Parkersburg on next Sunday
morning and evening. Sentinel
We would like to see a great awak-
ening of religious interests in this
town this year. The people will need
a good supply to bridge over next
year
Read young Prices letter in another
column. 1t is just plain common
place letter to home folks, and the
very fact that it is, makes it all
the more reliable.
Mrs. DIR. Blair had the misfortune
to fall from the upper to the base
ment stony of cellar last Wednesday
morning. Her injuries are very
painful and may disable her per.
manently.
The reports from the Institute agree
that it was a very interesting session.
We had no special reporter on the
ground and for this reason cannot
give a complete report. We are in.
formed that the attendance was not
so large rs usual, but the interest un-
usually good.
Let us all do right and have no
quarrelling among ourselves. Life is
too short and the conflicts of life are
too numerous to fit or fret it away.
He who is continually quarreling not
only lives a miserable life himself
but makes others around him the
same.
The greatest thing farmers Of this
county have to contend with is brush
and filth. We made trip to our
old home last Wednesday evening
and CHANGED to notice a hill field, of
of which we cut the filth each year
for eight or ten years, some fifteen