Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-01-10
not TO the place.

Well. our visitor having arrived
at the top. with some four or five
hours Of day light left, concludes
to hunt a lawyer and talk ubout his
suit. He finds that the Patriarcbal
Michael, and all the lawyers, In.
cluding the 1.-TWO Johns, have been
"unexpectedly called to Hunting
TOM" "will be back in the morn.
ing" Disappointed, he concludes
there's ''noth,ng doing" till nine
o'clock tomorrow; walks around the
public square two or three times,
says "Howd'y" to those he knows.
brings up at the hotel, amuses him.
sell with fragment or two of an old
Daily Post, and as soon after supper
as 1t Is dark enough. goes TO bed
and sleeps twelve hours.
You have been there most of YOU
and tried it once; the next time YOU.
too, join the crowd and 90 on to
the river to pass the night, return
ing with the rest in the morning.
WHAT'S IN NAME?
Sixty-three years a county seat |
Let us see what has transpired in
that time. The present county
seat town, the eldest of our family
of towns, was for years, of neces-
sity, the chief business center of
the county, as county seats should
be, and are in ninety cases out of
the hundred.
1t started out sixty-.hree years
ago under the name of "Trout's
Hill" Under this name il flour
ished for many years and died of
old age about % years ago. Itp
mantle then fell upon the shoul-
ders of an heir in the female line,
and she was called "Fairview :"
and she was, to the tired and
weary traveller. after an eight or
ten hour ride, fair-to. view, as you
caught glimpse of her twinkling
lights mile or 80 away, over the
worst roads you ever saw, termin.
ating in "pull up the hill" after
you got near enough to yell for
some one to bring a lantern to
chow you the safe way.
Well, "Fairview," girl like,
"spruced up considerable" New
and more commodious dwellinge,
hotels, and stores appeared, until
there was "no more room on top. {"
She incorporated; had Mayor,
Recorder and Council, collected a
town tax and ate at her own table,
so to speak, Cup to this time she
had boarded at home, and ate at
the public table,; she bought a
half dozen oil street lamps and
placed them 30 you could visit
round after dark without getting
into the mud over your boot tops.
Under this new impulse the fair
city on the hill Aourished for
awhile and grew to a town of three
hundred odd inhabitants then
came a long and tedious wait for
something new to develop and give
employment to the growing popu-
lation. They couldn't all hold
Office, and they couldn't all prac-
tice law there, so one by one the
younger and more ambitious mem
bers of the community, as we'll as
some of the older residents,
"quiety folded their tents" and
journeyed north TO the Ohio River
section. As they slo Wy picked
their way down the hill the finale
choir" of the town gathered on
the new stone wall, which the tax
payers of the county had built to
improve the Keyser aud other
property, and sang "Good.bve INV
lover, good-bve" till the movers
passed out Of hearing.
An occasional fire occurred, as
1T does, sooner or later in al
small towns, and for want of water
would burn from two TO four
buildings. AT first many rebuilt
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