The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-06-19
Curtis Villa,
Ed No. %
June Is, 1901

June Is. 1906
Editor Fairmont West yfrginian:
Accept 1ew shavings this
place to the many readers Of your val
liable paper We would say that the
people Of our village and community
at large are generally well.
The Children.s Day services at the
curtiss NJ E. Church Were a success
under the management of Miss Mia
cordrav- The church was beautiful
ly decorated with flowers. evergreens.
flags and bunting. The programme.
with Banner and SonS) consisted OF
Rotations. marching and music. was
very creditably carried out with Miss
Ida Cordray at the organ. The Chill
dren's day Offering was S11.OS.
Mrs. Hannah Cunningham, wife of
James Cunningham. OF Ohio. died at
the residence of her father. Richard
Cunningham. near this place and was
buried at the W. y. Cunningham GEM
etery on last Wednesday,. June 10.
1906. She died Of consumption. Be
sides a host of friends and relatives.
sic ave kdlHeI. HcILte- cIe DIclA-
er. seven sisters. husband and four
children She was about ~thirty-fve
years old.
Having often seen and heard the
Free Press spoken of as the great
paper I take this occasion to say and
propose that we as Il people stand
fat footed and declare thai the West
Virginian is and shall be called The
Great Paper. Great in more ways
than one. for it was our newspaper
before the Free Press was bo-n and
when money in our State and coun-
~ was carce and when il took grit
spuaf and backbone TO edit and run
a West VirSinian in our little noun
tain State
We think there Will be a Wedding
close about here soon If we can get
both parties and the pastor in the no.
ton at the same time. But we think
the next wedding viii be in the wilds
of Preston county. Jno. O. says he
will beat thai fellows tine or break
a suspender.
If our husbands and sons would
work as hard in our gardens as they
do at pitching horse shoes we tired
women would not have n hoein-
while we could have time TO read
some Of the news of the day and be-
sides they would not make them
selves look ridiculous in the eyes OF
the community.
don't know whether we will get
our village incorporated or not, but
if We do I'll bet we will a some
changes For instance We will have
our stone walk finished that Hays &
| Co. commenced and when the yahoeS.
the ~mountaineers and the people from
the Hill country assemble on our
streets or in the public square and
make themselves conspicuous by
their vile Language. by their cursinG
and swearing. we Will have a dun
Seon and a bath tub with soap, wa
ter and broomS and will have the out
| side Of the platter clean if not the
inside and then We think we will get
some kind Of an office. if it is moth
| liz LloIe lI1d1i IluSlSe u ~ SS14oSA
house. Oh. how we do hunger and
banker o. Office. Any old kind OF a
\ party that Will give US an office will
be u party.
E.. c.. Cunningham has moved his
portable blacksmith shop to this
| place where you can find him three
days out OF a week if he is not some
where else.
Some people believe in raising
their chickens in a brooder. some pre-
fer to raise them with the mother
hen and still others believe In rails
ing them off other peoples hen
roosts.
Our pipe line man has a job of
grubbinS that he works at when he
has nothing else to do
As DR.. Frank passed through this
place some time ago on his way to
the sanitarium with a load Of DRINKS.
one of his patients fell from the am
bulance and could NOT make the rise
unit Teddy Cnot Teddy Roosevelt)
but our own good natured dc Teddy
came to his assistance n together
he and LoSue toted him and re-
loaded him. but not as heavy as he
got loaded at ManniStoQ-
We still have our jokers and busy
bodies.
If this misses the big mouthed
waste basket. we viii come again
EMO.