The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1909-11-02
Births.

THE statesman does the speaking,
The editor booms the town,
The lover does the popping,
The damsel turns him down.
The poet does tho dreaming,
The farmer clears the woods,
The eagle does the screaming,
But the stork delivers the goods, y
To Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Kelley
of White Pine, on Monday night
of last week, a fine baby daugh-
ter was born.
To Mr. and Mrs. C. w. Stall
man, of Big Springs, a boy baby
was born one day last week.
On Thursday morning the
stork visited the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Bert Shaffer, of our
town, and left with them a dandy
fine, big girl baby.
See the notice of trustees sale
in this issue.
Jennings Hathaway was on
our streets Saturday.
Oke Terrell, prince of good fell
lows, was on our streets Saturday.
Grant Roberts and Oke Gamer
Of Pine Creek were in town on
BUSINESS Saturday.
Dowd and Pratt Stump, Phillips
Run farmers. were here on bust
ness Saturday evening.
j. H. Marshall, Big Roots
hustling farmer and timberman
was a caller in town Saturday.
Cassie Ayers, the South Penn
man, was busily engaged about
the court house several days last
week.
Gay Stanalker, Jesse Ward and
Phillip Terrell, out of town bus
mess men, were here Saturday
looking after business.
Two marriage licenses issued
since our last report: Emmit
Taylor, 26, to Mary Jones, 20,
and Herbert Smith, Is, to Jennie
Stafford, 10.
j. w. Dawson will soon move
his family from the Scott hoDse,
above town, to Stouts Mills, wnere
he is working in a blacksmith
shop.
j. G. Oles, the genial supt. of
the w. Va. carbon factory, was a
caller while in town Saturday.
His boat, the Virginia Rhodes"
is doing a dandy business between
here and Palestine, and has prov
en- to be first class freight boat
Mr.. Oles recently built a couple
of large barges and the little
boat pushed these two and an
other one loaded with freight
from Palestine Saturday.
There is a report that certain
peddler of beef who sometimes
brings a wagon load Of it t
Grantsville, has been butcnerinp
bulls for THE trade, Mind yor
we do not say positively that you
Grantsville people who have beer
buying beef from this peddlel
| have been eating bull meat, blu
there are some mighty reliable
people who say that t his same
peddler has buchered at least
three he bulls within the last few
| weeks. 1t might be well to in
vestigate as to the gender and
condition of the animal buchered
when you buy your next beef.
| w. S. Holland, the aged faith
j er of Mrs. Blizzard, wife of Judg'
| Reese Blizzard, is critically i'll a
his home near Midway, up the
Inter-Urban line, and relative
and friends are apprehensiv,
that he may not recover from
the attack of asthma, with which
he is suffering. Mr.. Holland ha
been i'll since early last snmme
, and was in a very weakened con
dition when stricken by the
, affliction which now threatens {,
prove fatal. Members of tn
family are i'm attendance at hi
bedside and although alarmed
are hoping that the crisis will
soon pass and that Mr. HOLLAND
may recover Parkersburg Stat
Juurnal
2 The year 1909 will 90 down a
one of the most notable i'm histor
in its achievements. The yea
is still far from it's expiration
yet it is already recorded that Il
I this year the wireless on q sink
J. ing ship first summoned aid fror
ships below the horizon; that th
I four days transatlantic boa
became a fact: that Lieut. Shack
elton first carried the BIRTHS
flag to within III miles of tn
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