The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-09
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ter Watson, having secured a Job at
Chicago Junction which will last for
several months, removed his family
to that place some time ago where
they will remain until the job is com
pleted. We wish them success in
their new field of labor.
Mrs. Andy Conway, an aged lady
of our village, has been in poor health
for some time.
A Mr.. Russell, who lived on Mr.. Da'
vid Simpsons farm about one mile
above town, died of fever and com
plication Of troubles, Saturday evening
about four o'clock. We are not able
TO tell where or when the funeral will
take place.
The work of remodellng our school
house is going on very nicely under
the supervision OF Mr.. ]. F. Thackerr
but the house will not be ready for
school to begin in it by the fifteenth
I
inst. The work has been hindered
some by the rains. When completed
the house will be a great improvement
over its former self. Much credit is
due our enterprising president of the
board of education, Mr.. William B.
Ice, Jr., for this advance step.
Lloyd E. Moore is convalescing
from an attack of fever which has
kept his In his bed for more than two
weeks. He is now getting along nice
lily. Dr. Floyd Smith, of this place
was the attending physician.
"Kite" King and little sister, son
and daughter Of Mr.. John King Of this
place, two other fever patients, are
convalescing after quite a long siege
of sickness.
Mrs. 2. D. Robinson and children
are visiting near relatives and friends
on Pharoah's Run. So also is her sis
ter, Mrs. Russell Ice, of Warrington
Barnum was certainly right wher
he said the American people like tc
be humbugged. The way that "end
less.prayer chain" letter has been sent
from one to another is ample proof
of this. 1t must be fully six months
or more since that preposterous fraud
and fake was started on its rounds
but just recently 1t reached Barrack
vile. The very absurdity of it should
have prevented its circulation, but
here 1t found at least one victim. Some
people are far more easily Influenced
by superstition than by Scripture. The
letter begins with disjolnted, spas
modic sort of prayer, indicating greal
incoherency of thought. The New
York Witness says ut is falsely stated
to have been written by Bishop Law
renee" The letter itself claims hin
for its author. The person who re
ceives 1t is threatened with great mis-
fortune If he does not copy and sent
out nine copies Of 1t, and assured thai
one person who did not met with
dreadful accident. 1t is further as
serted in the letter that "at Jerusalem
during the holy feast 1t was said: "He
who will rewrite this prayer will be
delivered from every calamity" Il
closes with the usual request: please
do not break this chain" No "feast
can be holy unless directed to be OBJ
served by the Omnipotent One, ant
all His directions are to be found II
the Holy Bible; and as there is nov
no directions for such a feast, it Is
untrue that there was a holy feast al
Jerusalem" within the past eighteen
hundred and some years. It is really
disheartening to know that there are
so many people in this country who
know so little about God and his worj
that they are capable of believing ant
circulating such lies as are found II
that endless chain prayer" People
who read and study the Bible and who
are satisfied with the truth in its sim
pllcity will never have anything to dc
with such fake. A resort to sucl
methods shows a desire to feed on the
sensational and novel, and is clear
proof that the person so doing is moi
satisfied to live in that simplicity
which the Sacred Record requires
But I must put a period to this OF
Lone Star will offer his protest, Oh
accuse me Of preaching some ones
funeral.
Lost, stolen or strayed" will tell
the whereabouts Of Lone Star-most
likely the last. 1t can't be possible
that he actually cut wisdom tooth
and hence dropped into innocuous
desuetude.
SIR TOBY.