West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-09-11
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Correspondence OF The Argus
Ches,nuts bid fair to be an average srcn
in this section.
Mrs. Nellie corbin of Grafton, is calling
In this section
Mrs. Ida Cramer. who has been spending
week at keyses. returned on Sunday.
We had two fros,s lately ye, they did In,
little damage exeep, to a few tender plants.
Eel Albright, has his sale bin, posted and
win leave us for Terra Alta in aboa, two
weeks.
Our young folks are preparing for another
singing school. with Prof. Groves AZ
teacher.
J. ID. Browning has moved the old DR..
Fieh,ner Office from the stree, to an sdioin-
ing alley.
l.. w. White of Herring. is calling among
our lads. lie eon,empla,es going to school
here this season
ID. w. Frasee broke the ground at Terra
Alta. during the pas, wsel, preparatory to
eteeunH store building.
Thomas Albright, has made purchase Of
the Edward King farm near Terra Alta aud
will move on the same in short time.
Threshing is now in order and the oats
yield Is an abundant one. Some of our
farmers are getting almost 100 bushels per
acre
Quite crowd Of our people attended the
allday meeting a, the Kelley School House
on Sunday last and report tina, Rev.
Cunnaham preached two good sermons.
b. c. Feather has purchased a dwelling
OF Z. +. jenkins. which he will move TO his
farm tor ,enament house. lie is also
adding three bay windows to his already
neat. large and eommodious dwelling.
M. w. Sanders, who has been going to
school at Parkersbure, spen, vacation a,
this place during the past week and con.
trae,ed To teach our school. II was re.
ported that X. L. Burke was hired, but the
board refused to pay the wages that he
wanted, and he refused TO teach.
10, Of our lads went coon hunting, or
rather corn and melon hunting on Saturday
night. when one OF the crew mimicked the
old farmer and shot or times which
scared the lads until they ran and fell
through wire fence. which lacerated them
so that they were easily distinguished for
quite while.
Some OF our young mothers are still
seaehing their babies TO cry and af,etward
they will whip them for it. The question
10 often asked as to why some peoples
babies or children are so much more grabbed
than others, to which We reply ,ha, noisy
child is al,ogc,her caused by the lack OF
understanding on the part of the training
We teach horse to stop by saying ''whoa;"
we teach COW TO come by saying "sook"
Sometimes dog Is taught to bark for his
food. while others are taught TO roll over
aud just SO with children. They are often.
times taught TO cry for everything wherein
they could be laugh, TO laugh just as easy
which has been demonstrated many a time.
a disobedien, child is nearly always made
disobedient by the parent aud ,uch are
usually whipped foolishly when the parents
are times out of 10 ia the fault No
sooner does the child learn that the parents
word is law than IL becomes obcdien,, which
wall be illustrated in many homes this
winter when those same children 90 To-
school to the teacher who says wha, he
ought and means what he says. aud we hope
tina, every home in Preston county will be
a court at which the compulsory school law
will he enforced. SAILfE WANDER.