The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-01-10
In Ola Union.

triot of old Union, and at the hos
pitable home of the venerable mer-
chant, @. w. Maupin, Esq. We
say famed, for everywhere Union
district is noted for it's many beau
tiful churches, shapely school
houses, great farmers and stock
growers, happy homes and good
citizenship. Mr.. Maupin, in his
many years residence here, has
built up gre merchandise bust
ness, where surrounded by an eX-
tensive landed estate, and his ines
Unable family, he spending his de-
clining years, in quiet and business
else. He tells us that 1899 was a
very good business year for him,
aud that for his part he has no
complaint to make. Mr.. Maupinb
despite his advanced years is still
active in looking after his business
and estate We found the indomi-
table Dan, shaking as if with ague,
down on the beach, getting skiffs
out of the ice in the river.
Just across lots from here is the
home and adjacent thereto the of
flee of DIR. Waggener, son-in-law of
Mr. Maupin. He enjoys a luera-
tive and we'll merited practice
throughout this section of coun-
try, on both sides of the Great
Kanawha river. The health of the
people at this time he says is ex-
oeptionally good, little sickness,
and few deaths.
Travelling the road leading out
over the hills from here, you come
down on the creek beyond, directly
in front of the old Lewis Greenlee
homestead, the present homo of
his son Claiborne. 1t is beautiful
place, but difficult of access by this
road, for the reason the ford is diff
ficult to cross when tho water is up
and the County Court has never
seen proper to put bridge over at
the place it should. 1t will be re-
membered that Lewis Greenlee,
Esq, met his death from heart dis
ease in the Court House yard, at
Point Pleasant, attending n Repub-
lican Convention in 1892 His
good wife soon followed him across
the "Great Divide" and they now
sleep side by side in the old family
graveyard near by They will ev-
or be remembered as good old
Christian people of kind and gen
orous heart Many relatives live
in this aud Cologne district.
Or to the left here, not Sab
bath days journey, is the happy
home of that prince of all good fel.
lows, Hon. j. p. Dunn, eX-Presi-
dent of the County Court, and we
found him and all of his, enjoying
the best of good health. When in
formed that many people were look
ing toward him as the Miltindos, to
lead the Democratic hosts to VIC
tory in the the next great fight, he
said he was unaware of it and was
not candidate. The Democratic
party couldn't nominate a better
man, and if he enters the conven-
ton, in the opinion of your report
or, that it will be with such poll
as will come mighty nigh knockin'
the persimmon. just stick a pin
here, Many others think him the
mbn of the hour.
Going back and turning off to
the right at Greenlee's and up the
creek, is Mark SaYre,' one of the
old land marks of the district.
Without Mark it wouldn't be the
natural, good old Union district as
it is. All but two boys of his fam
lily have married and settled to
Having too much
land, he will divide it among the
children, which he is doing salts
facorily to them all. They are a
family much devoted to one another
and they will always live not very
far apart.
On the tip top of the mountain,
away beyond, is the Calispel school
of high "Larnin," named by d. A.
Sayre, NJ. D., of Hartford City, who
built it, at n time when he was
pushing the plane by day, and
for the Escolapian
by night. It's a good
school house.
Down over the rugged sleeps and
we are in Volts Valley, at the
great general store of the pusua-
tive f. p. Miller, ESQ, and Cape-