The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1899-09-05
LII aboard for the Arnoldsburc

All aboard for the Arnoldsburr
Fair.
Capt. G. Rice was in the burg g
short time Saturday.
w. S. Holland and grandson, Mas
ter Thur, were here Friday.
DIR. Mssnn, is still about. He
seems to be doing considerable work
The Farmers Institute for this
county will be held October 8 and l 0.
Z. B. Starkey and his force of work.
men went home Saturday afternoon.
The vigorous and strong of to- day
may be the faint and weak of to.
morrow.
We feel jus, pride in the progress
our band boys have made. They
have worked very hard, COR which all
OF our citizens ought to be thankful.
f. G. Garrett, Gardway Il Marcus
man, was here Tuesday. He is a
hustler from away back, and the man
who goes up against him in business
way trots in fast company.
DIR. John Stops, Dentist, will be
here Sept. %, and remain two DAYS,
Brooksville, 27. two days, and will
be thoroughly prepared to do all kinds
of dental work.
We think We have everybody's
name, together with all of their rela-
tlous' names Ill this paper who have
been to town for the last five or six
days. lfany are omitted it is purely
an accident.
When the apple trees on the Bap.
list church lot begin to bare those of
us who belong can have plenty of APP.
pie jack or hard cider. The idea Of
putting out apple trees as ornaments
is "pontostrous."
Gardway & Marcus man, f. G..
Garrett, will visit the several stores
OF this county once III every 80 DAYS
and will pay cash tor ginseng, yellow
root, wool, sheep pelts and marketable
products Of all kinds.
Solomon and Terry Starcher. two
former residents of this county, who
now reside i'll Webster county, were
here lasts week the guest of friends
The boys have both done well since
to Webster, and we hope
they will continue in good luck.
Joe Wilson had the misfortune to
get his store and dwelling house burn
ed sometime ago, and although he
was insured in the Peabody Insurance
Co., of Wheeling, he has not vet
received a penny on insurance. That
which does not insure is no insurance.
Charley HOsey was down on Leaf
Bank the other day and while there
CHANGED to see fox chase in which
Charley Stump's two famous hounds
and what is known as Chap Johnson's
old red hound were participating.
While Charley's best hound was not
in it with the red chaser, as Charley
tells it, the fox and three hounds we're
all about an equal distance apart.
Rev. Sessions and wife LEFT this
(Monday) morning for Ashland, Ky,
to attend the annual conference which
meets this week. Whether he returns
to this work is not yet known. We
do hope he will. We believe he is a
man altogether misunderstood bv the
and with the powerful sermons
he breaches, together with the power
and influence of the Good Spirit, would
soon awaken better religious inter
est among us. With Rev. Sessions
Mt the Methodist church and Rev.
Bnrps at the Baptist church we will
he blessed with able ministers. Then
when church going people come among
us they will be imbued with the idea
that we are up to date people and that
it is good place to locate.
1t is not all uncommon thing to
hear some one say of hayward boy
or an erring girl, "Let him." or her,
Ego to HI" But, no, no; the duty.
full parent or the devoted friend clings
to them until the last. Many excuses
are made for erring steps, many anx.
ious signs and groans, in spirit, are
uttered as the child or friend nears
the awful precipice, to % over which
means eternal ruin. No, mo-: to follow
loving boy, loving girl, friend
whom you love, even down 10 the
gates Of hell itself, is not UNFOLDING
vice. We once read Of young man
who persisted in the excessive use of
strong drink aud many other appall
ing vices, until father, mother, broth.
ers and sisters had discarded, him an
he was let { beastly drunk IN the broil