The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1899-07-18
Attorney ]. D. Cutlip was here

III Tue CITY rrllay.
Nearly everybody must have been
harvesting last week.
Industry and good "horse sense
will lead man to success.
Travel, up aud down this end of the
river, is almost suspended.
Circuit court clerk, r. w. Hall,
was here a day or two last week.
5. Nj. Ward has put in a planning
mill at his Pine creek mill plant.
1t is not always the smartest man
who forms the most acquaintance.
Rev. ID. r. Polling and wife, of
Staten, were in town last Wednesday.
The contract for the abutmerts to
the Barnes run bridge on the 25th.
Lee Stump, of Brooksville, was
transacting business about town Fri
day.
a boy usually gets very lame with
a sore toe about the time to bring
the COWS.
Mr.. and Mrs. q. w. Richards and
Miss Jennie Wilson were shopping in
town last Tuesday.
Homer Greer, one of the leading
business men of Cairo, was here day
or two last week, looking after busl-
ness matters.
We have been guilty ola few things
in Calhoun county politics that some
men ought to remember, but it seems
that they don':.
When a man does wrong, he is us
mad as hornet if it appears in the
ewspaper; when he prelorms some
charitable act, he is just as mad if it
does not appear in the newspaper
On the other hand, when his neighbor
does right or wrong, from his point
of view, the circumstances are reversi.
ble.-Phillppi Plaindealer.
One man says, 81 wish it would
rain" Another one sighes, eft it
only would not rain til l get my
grass up" 30 it plainly seen that He
who created the heavens and the
earth and fixed natures perfect laws,
did not please all men, and we do not
expect to. a clear conscience is all
we expect 70 have.
Anywhere from one to twenty five
men step into our office each day to
get drink of water. A pump In
front of our office would provide them
a much better drink, and, we have no
doubt, would accommodate more peo-
pie. But the people who furnished
the money to put it down feel that
they have done enough, az it has to
become a public well.
We had occasion to drive over
portion of Sherman district roads last
Monday and we are decidedly of the
opinion that the surveyors have
not done their dLty by three hun
drcd and twenty-ninc sight. Fifty
cents mile ought to throw the loose
rocks out of the roads, and then, if
they are steep and siding, 1t makes
the travel more tolerable.
The young people of Grantsville
and vicinity were highly entertained
at lawn party, last Tuesday evening,
given by Mr.. and Mrs. Hagan Barr
in honor of the a. V. p. Literary
Club. After very pleasant hour
spent on the lawn, the guests repaired
to the house where they were treated
to Il gorgeous repast Of all the most
appetizing delicacies of the season.
Social games we're then participated
in until late hour when the young
folks returned to their homes, one and
all declaring that they had spent
most enjoyable evening.
y practical reform in the examina
ton for teachers certificates could be
inaCgurated without injustice or a
hardship on any one. At each exam
nation following institutes there are
from 80 to 70 persons in the exami.
nation and must necessarily be So
seated as to moke it possible for one
applicant to read the manuscript of
another, thereby allowing persons to
make grades they do not merit. Now,
to obyiate this let two examinations
be held, dividing the county into two
examination districts, and require all
teachers living in each district to be
examined therein, and teachers from
outside the county can be governed
by 81 geographic, Or some other practi-
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