The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1899-07-25

here Saturday.
Ira Yoak Tell victim to the kiss.
ing bug last Friday evening.
|. l.. Sinners and Z. w. Gamer,
of White Pine, were here Saturday.
j. NJ. Wilson came down from
Road run Saturday to talk politics.
This is the luckiest town in the
world so far as fire is concered, but
the evil day will come.
Our honest friend, Van Smith, of
Laurel, was down Saturday. He
rides fine, large, fat horse.
Charley Beall and Ernest Frymire,
two of the best live stock dealers,
passed through here last Tuesday.
BY saying it would be dry Satur.
day, Charley Stump committed a
great wrong, we need rain so bad.
Robinson Woodfordf and little
grandson were here, guests of the
Central Hotel, day or two last
week.
Judge Blizzard had the misfortune
to get one of bis finest bred colts cut
badly on barbed wire fence, last
Tuesday.
A fifty dollar sewing machine sold
at the front door of the court house
Saturday evening for $3.50. Quite
Il difference.
VIM. Barr, who has been so badly
afflicted for several months has so
far recovered as to be able to travel
about and look after business matters.
The ELAN Baptist church on Mid
die run, i'll Gilmer county, will be
dedicated the second Sunday in Au-
gust, beginning at 10 o'clock, a. M.
An all day service. Baptist Banner
please copy.
Wharf Master, Park, of Creston,
was here Saturday He is whole
business team and has pleasant
greeting for all. lie went from here
to Mt. Zion.
Honest men like James Bolton
make it possible for n newspaper TO
exist. Out of the first available
means he remembered the writer and
others VII" had given him credit.
Such men deserve the best the land
Clay Mcdonald and WIN. Hath.
away, two of Sycamore's handsome
and sprightIy young men, were in
town Saturday. We are at loss to
know why Hathaway was looking so
at the County Clerks Office.
1t may mean Hathway-Starkey.
For long time Capt. j. f. Nc
Donald has held the Sycamore cham.
pionship for large and numerous
snakes. But now his son, Tell, comes
to the front and distances him, even
to hopeless distance. Last Thurs.
day, while Sida Hathaway was now
ing for said Tell Mcdonald, he ran
across l3 well developed and biting
copperhead snakes, (and it was not
good day for snakes, eilher,) all of
which he killed.
1t makes no difference to us wheth-
err visitors who enter our sanctum are
bare-footed or shod. 1t is the internal
and not the external qualifications
that we regard. Any old "Aunty,"
who boiles soap in some back yard, if
she be pure, honest, virtuous and
charitable, is good enough for the as.
ISOLATION Of Kings, Princes and Pc.
tentates. He who scorns labor scorns.
that which has made this the grandest
country of which history gives any
account.
TO those who would advertise our
town as Il place where law and order
IS disregarded, we want to offer the
following quotation from the Bible:
Moreover if thy brother trespnss
against thee, go and tell him his
fault between thee and HIM alone;
if he shall hear thee, thou hast gain
ed thy brother. But if he will not
hear thee, then take with thee one or
two more, that in the mouth of two or
three witnesses every word may he
established And if he shall neglect
to hear them, tell il unto the church:
but if he neglect to hear the church.
let him be unto thee as a heather man
and IA publican" See Mathew 1918:
H.
Itmny not appear 50 to our people,
but it is, nevertheless, true, that three
Of the best horses in West Va. are
owned in lhis town. We confidently