The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1908-05-12
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fever and in few days succumbed
to its fatal rayages. His body was
laid to Resin the Stumptown ceme-
terry Saturday, May >
Prof VIM Bush is teaching a
singing school Mt Faiyiew.
Rev. Daniel Huffman preached at
the Middle run church Sunday.
Roy Hersman has purchased the
VIM Mccartney farm on the hill
near Fairview, and VIII soon occupy
/ it.
Uncle Hiram hester tarred a few
days with his daughters on Lower
run, but left Sunday for Scotch Nc
Donald's where he has a contract for
building chimney.
MARCEL is zone ahead" Marcel.
lus Stump and Sylvanus Mccartney
have been spending their odd spells
trading with each other, both max
ing money; that is, one makes IN
one deal the other in the nest
keeping something near even.
But MARCEL seems to be ahead at
present.
You see it was something like
tn Van traded MARCEL NOW
ing machine and hay rake. a
corn crusher. a Wolf run grit
grindstone, a pair of spreaders,
with enough bale wire to supply
the.brOken links, and a pair of
rubber boots, all of which arti-
cles were second-handed, of
course, for thoroughbred Pol
and-China buck sheep. The deal
being consumated, all the arti-
cles bartered were delivered, ex-
cept Jersey hen. which Mozart
ney reserved the use of until her
biddies were old enough to wean.
Mr., Mccartney went next morn
ing to his mill. He had not been
gone very long however till Mr.,
Sheep who had been placed in a
lot near the house, becoming
lonesome from having been sepa-
rated from his old associates and
familiar haunts, began to amuse
himself by trying to knock a
Iblack spot off of one of the
boards on the fence. When Nc
CARNEY came home in the even
ing, he found a half acre of fence
in splinters on the ground, his
wife on the garden fence, some
OF the children on lumber piles
some in the forks Of apple trees.
So Van who never fails to find a
way out Of all difficulties, got on
all fours, and by lodging first
behind one stump then another,
then a rock or a sapling, succeed
ed in decoying Mr.. Sheep quite a
distance from the house. But
then another trouble loomed up.
How in the world was he to get
rid of this pesky fellow Provi-
dence always helps the man who
helps himself, and while seated
on the branch Of a persimmon
tree on the hill near Grant Rich
ards trying to formulate plan
of escape from this dire predica-
ment, Grants pups CHANGED to
pass that way in pursuit of a rab-
bit. Mr. Sheep thought of the
old adage: "a bird in the hand is
worth two in the tree" and gave
chase to the canine adventures.
Well now he chased those poor
pups across the hill to Mr.. Nc
Cartney's house that Aaron Ben
nett recently vacated, where they
took refuge under the floor.
IN closing this bit of history
suffice it to say that Mr.. Sheep is
master Of the situation on that
side Of the hill, and monarch Of
all he surveys, which fact that
spectacle man can attest who
ventured upon his realm, and af-
ter having his case Of glasses de-
molished and himself badly
bruised, managed by the aid Of
his Lordship, the sheep. to get on
the outside. The Mccartney
family are living inpeace on their
side of the hin, but those poor
pups are to be pitied they dare
not stick their heads from under
! thc floor. Death by starvation
| stares them i'm the face. Nobody
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