Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1909-12-03
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The weather continues fine: we
cannot recall ever having seen a
more lovely fall, grass is as green
as in summer, but very short. Far
mers generally are done husking
corn and butchering, and notwith-
standing the high price of grain,
there were rather more than the
usual number of hogs butchered.
The chestnuts and ac5rns helped
out the dollar corn.
The water is so low that it is
hard to get any grinding done. The
warm weather and low water have
made the buckwheat market late.
Usually nearly all the buckwheat is
marketed by this time, but this
year only small part of it has
been ground. Many of the far
mers are taking their grain to Mon
terey because of the inability of
the mills here to grind it.
There was good hay crop but
it has been bought up and even
wife a mild winter there will be but
little, if any hay left over. for so
many cattle are being wintered be-
cause of the dry weather making
fall pasture short, the cattle were
not in condition to market and the
buyers holding back.
Mr. A L Hammer is at work on
his mill, the foundation is being
pushed with Mr. Hammers usual
vim and earnestness. He has half
the lumber ready and the remain
der will be sawed in a few weeks.
The Mill site is on the east side of
the Bullpasture river, north of and
bordering or the S & P Turnpike,
and an ideal site for a mill. The
dam will be a few hundred yards
up the river and will be one made
chiefly by nature, Cedar Knob on
the one side and high bank on
the other, leaves only the
work of constructing dam across
the stream.
The schools here seem to be 60
ing along nicely and doing good
work for SO many grades to the
teacher. Two schools where there
were formerly three makes about
six for a teacher.
Saturday night a week ago Mr.
Lucius Neil slipped his lady love,
Miss Blanche Devericks, from her
home on the Cowpasture, and has
tened to W. is!lington, where they
were married, returning to the
home of the groom's parents on
the Bullpasture, Wednesday night,
where they were given a dinner
Thursday, eating Thanksgiving and
wedding together "Stolen sweets
are the sweetest" and we hope it
will be true in this case and that
their lives may be happy and USE
full.
Mr. Luther Shull bought a fine
team of draft horses last week, one
from Mr. Jake Armstrong and the
other from Mr. Ambrose Rexrode,
both being Perchecns and bred in
the county.
Mrs L B Byrd is on the sick list
this week.
The merchants are all having a
good trade. There is not the usual
number of turkeys on the market
but the high prices of butter and
eggs enables the people to do the
usual amount of buying.
Mr. Simmons, of Dayton, is going
to conduct a shoemaking business
in the shoe factoy. Mcdowell is
getting on a boom,
1t will soon be time for Santa
Clause to come around and | notice
the children have on their usual
before-christmas behavior.
Mr. Robert Shumate has been on
the sick list for few days,
Mr. Joe Siple called DR. Siron ear
ly yesterday morning. He fell on
his kitchen loft and hurt himself.
We have not learned the extent of
his injuris.
ADDITIONAL ITEMS.
Mcdowell, Dec | 1909 The
merchants are busy butcherlng tul-
deys.
Misses Lille Hook and Bessie
Peterson spent Thanksgiving at
their homes, returning to their
schools the first of the week,
Mr. Andrew Masters has been
quite sick since Sunday.
Howard Alexander, who has
been at Clarksburk, w Va, for
some time, came in on the mail
hack this morning.
E A Hammer is blasting out the