The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-07-20
MEMBER
OF a Noted Family is Colonel
Woodford Nos Visiting
at Bridgeport.

BRDGERQRT. w. Va. July 20,
z-icol. A. w. woodford, Of Eisinore,
Calf. IS at bridgeport waiting his
granddaughter. adrSeFIora Gawthrop.
and his nephey. #. B. Dagisson. Che
greas cattle king OF West yirgiuia) !.
Col woOdford is as clipper as ever.
hale and hearty, good eater. a good
drinker and looks os young as ne did
Corty years ago. wherever you ind a
drop of woodford blood you md
sense. energy and good business tact,
4he WoOdfords have a great gamb-
ling instinct, not afraid TO make a
venture regardless Of the risk. So
great Is the lacIg OF fear that in the
great aviation meetins in Los An
geles. CalS, the colonel took a ride
above the clouds with one of.the most
renowned aviators Quite display o.
nerve for nonagenarian.
Col. Woodford is older than the
railroads. telegraph and all the late
inventions Of the nineteenth cen
fury. was present In 1s4s when Major
johnson Fleming tried to fly at Flem-
tngton and fell and broke his leg.
The Woodfords are a race Of ath-
Iletes, not quarrelsome. but no. Wood
ford, ever said enough In a physl-
cal encounter. one of the eoloneps
brothers once had pueflistic en-
counter with a cattle man named WIZ
lar at baltimore, Md. a man of the
same kind Of stun as the Woodfords,
and they fought and fought until they
both 6ell exhausted. Neither would
Surrender. They shook hands and
were good friends IKE the Blue and
the Gray They learned to appreci-
ate each other. Mayor James Wood
ford, of Phntppi, now an Octogenar-
ian. was noted for his sprintlng as
we'll as courage an don the PimlIcO
track at Baltimore outran their swift
est runners
Charlie Woodford, now at Grasselli.
Is made OF the same material and the
man that tackles Charlie will find that
he Is not a man TO be Cooled with.
Col. Hutton, of Huttonsville, married
Into the WoodGord family and has
raised sons that fear neither man nor
devil one of whom HIVES in Clarks-
burg and Is at the head OF the cleo
trical department Of the Mononga-
hela Valley Traction Company. What
ever a Woodford does he does well
Although all great money makers
aheir lEberafity. their generosity, has
prevented them from becoming mil-
liOnaires F.B. Davidson. half Wood
ford, Is the most liberal man in the
country. When a man asks for bone
gets a, ham or middlin& when he
asks Flave Tor bread he doesn't get a
stone, but a loaf with. butter and SUI
gar ON It. Public spirited d'lave has
done much to give Bridgeport SPLEEN
did school building and a good corps
OF teachers He is also an earnest
advocate OF good roads and every
public improvement.
fhe WoodtoFds are men OF opinion
ana use, stleiraoEn Judgment in their
affairs, : When Col, woodford arrived
ius aliforrna and determined to set
tiesshere. 5000 acres of land was Of
Tered asorqs sale at SIS an acre and no
buffers The colonel took in the sit
uafsop, made the Investment and in
lessa -tfaa five years sold at $50 per
acre. He Is a lover OF nature and
makes his home In the San Jacinto
mountains, where he can see the
snow on the mountains every day in
the year. 1t Is the wish OF the writer
l,that Col. wOodford may live long
and prosper and that on his monu-
ment. " he ever dies. may he inscribed
the truth. IAN honest man Is the
noblest work Of GOO"
a FRIEND.