West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-09-06
IRONDALE

school teachers was attending the
teachers institute at Terra Alta
Mrs Minnie Moore who was taken
with Typhoid fever two weeks ago
and called DR.. Kimble in attend.
ance, is up and doing her work
Potatoes are only about a half
crop in this section. Hay was fairly
good and corn, judging from the
nearest crop, wont near measure up
to the average.
A lady who holds a Government
position at Washington is spending
her midsummer vacation here. She
is also missionary worker and has
made several addresses since sne
came among us. In one she refer
red to the mines as the place TO 30
to get drunk, as ii the miners were
the only people who drank Since
we have no saloons or di.,illcues
here, is it possible she will 90 ba,k
TO Washington and report that she
smelt "moonshiners" out here? The
Good Book says charity begins at
home. Has this lady corrected an
the evil aud drunkenness existing in
Washington and surrounding count.
ry; that she has come so far 10 find
sin to tackle1 Why If she would
read the papers, especially the
"Star" she would know there is
work for missionary right at home
and on every side Of her in every
form and she wouldn't need TO refer
to the papers for information, If sEc
would only cast her eyes about her
One would suppose from her re.
marks that all is purity, in fact
sanity there. Perhaps II is another
case of bind attempting TO lead
the blind, or pluck the beam out Of
thine own eye, then canst thou see
clearly to cast the mote out OF
thy brothers eye. Does the Presi-
dent grant vacations for Govern
ment employees to go out over the
country insulting his constituency
because man has to earn his and
his familys living down in the depths
of the carth in the midst Of all sorts
of danger, is that any reason why
he should be looked upon with con
tempt or held up as objects of rid
cule to the world; l don't think so,
and If they should indulge a little,
think they are vast more excusab,e
than those at Washington who hold
the welfare of the nation in the
palms Of their hands, and arc
supposed to direct the affairs of our
Government to the best Of their
ability with clear unbiased sober
mind. The Chief Executive should
be advised when any Of the Govern
ment employees offer insultg 70
honest laborers.
In referring to Mr.. Buck Forineys
mishap few weeks ago, he thinks
if he had been unfortunately cast
into the old gas pit the consequences
would have been most disastrous
In the first place Three Fork Creek
would have been blown dry and it's
waters sprinklcd all over Taylor
County. Meade Ford and Steve
Watkins, would have been tels-
graphing TO California that the San
Francisco earthquake was breaking
out afresh, ill they ascertaincd The
cause of the Cataclysm, then they
got huffy and sued the Government
for damage 70 their hay crop lie
says he'd pitieG Charley Armstrong
for Charley lost all his young
chickens and his ducks and geese
went swimming over the hills to he
cant tell where ,hey would have
landed. Sufficient 10 say Charley
had to start a new crop OF Poultry.
The hills between the "PiW snd
independence from one end TO the
other would have been ipcd off
the map, nothing leh 10 ,cu the
tale save Colorado Canyon in
West Virginia, then If Doe chadn1 gone
up in the smoke nc and Mr. Jackson
would have been oul Of job ulI
they bridged. For safety, cndlra ce
etc. those mail caruers should have
automobiles, but then they too
become unmansgeable somcdD. g
and run amuck.
Not long since queer case Of
sickness TO some occurred al mine
in Polish family an old doctor
who was in attendance diagooscd
the case and pronounced IL Asiatic
Cholera. But the boss Of the house
hold concluding that the old doctor