Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1920-04-23
THIS week TRlRTY-TW0 YEARS AGO.
Condemned from the Issue of April
10, 1888.


lsham Mullins. who shot and kill
cd Henry Moore at SummcrSvillc
some months ago, has gotten Il
change of venue TO Charleston.
DR.. Gabriel Mcdonald. of Union.
candidate for the Democratic nom
ination for Congress. is out in Il
card giving his views of the politi-
cal questions of the day.
AT meeting of the newly elected
town officials Monday night. II. L.
Bell was elected Secretary. O. p.
Sydenstrickcr, Treasurer and II. C..
Cabell, Town Sergeant.
'Briarfield" 164 acres, the home
of the late Col. Joel Mcpherson,
near White Sulphur, was sold al
public auction in LewiSburg last
Saturday and Knocked down TO VIM
y. Stuart, owner of the White Sui
phur Springs. at S36.75 per acre
making sG.O27.
Dr.. VIM. ii. McClung. VIM. B.
Lynch and C.. l.. McClung are an
nounccd as candidates for the House
Of Delegates, !. w. Hinklc for Sher-
if and A. J. Livcsay for Assessor
Lower District.
Maj. John S. Rudd died at Coal
Valley last Saturday, the 18th.
Chloroform and other drugs were
found on the table in his room
causing suspicion i'll the minds of
his friends that he may have used
them too freely. He was well
known in this county, Monroe, Po-
CahontaS and Summers in all of
which he had been a teacher. Mai.
Rudd was native of Virginia and
a son Of Commodore Rudd of the
u. S. Navy. He left a wife, who is
sister of DR.. G. Mcdonald, of
Union, and two children.
E. II. Steward g. Co., OF Roanoke,
Virginia, is advertising its extern
sivc Furniture business there in this
number. Mr.. Stewart was former
ly a we'll known merchant of Green
brler-at Frankfort and nj White
Sulphur.
On Tuesday morning as W. H.
Harrah, Of the ASbury community,
was driving into town his horse
became frightened on the hill west
of town and dashed off down the
hill at fearful speed. Mr.. Iiarrah
was thrown from the buggy near
the old Masonic Lodge falling face
downward on the rocks. His nose
was broken, his face badly bruised,
and he suffered much pain. Drs.
G. n. and S. II. Austin gave him the
necessary surgical attention. The
horse ran into town. turned The
corner al Browns store and fell on
The platform. The buggy was
wrecked.
AT SewclI station on the E.. & o..
during the windStorm on Inc night
of the 9Th. a large Tree was blown
down on Orvillc Turner's house
crushing in tho roof and the upper
floor falling fiat across the lower
iloor, and tho there were ten per-
sons asleep in the house at the
lime all escaped uninjurcd, while
almost everything else was dcmol-
ished. a shoemaker named Bishop.
OF Hinton was sleeping in the sec
ond story and tho one side of his
bed was struck, broken and carried
to The lower floor. The other side
was left with Bishop on it ,unhurt.
Mrs. Turner. badly frightened,
Jumped from her bed with an in
liant ten days old in her arms and
ran 200 yards in her night clothes
to ncighbors. Turner formerly
resided in Meadow Bluff district
this county.
Miss Allie Hudson left Saturday
10 accept position in big man
tua-makinG establishment in Wash
ington.
Hon. II. c. Callison, of Nicholas
county, father OF Mrs. l.. T.. McClung
was in Grccnbrier this week.
ii. c. Eitc, long e.. & O. Agent at
fort Spring, has gone 10 northwest
N"Xas TO reside. Miss Louise
Frazier is visiting friends in Bal
timorc and Washington.
Attorneys from distance attend
ing Court here this wcck--Col. J.
W. ST. Clair, Fayetlc. Hon. john ID.
Anderson and Frank B. Smith, of
Nicholas. A. \. Campbell. John Os-
borne and j. ID. Logan. Monroe
mos Il. Mann Summers, and Judge
JAS. II. Ferguson Kanawla.
Miss Annie Austin goes taday to
visit her brother, Dr.. G.. l.. Austin.
III POcah0ntas county.
DR.. Jas. 4. Larue, aud family of
tiiilsboro. are visiting i'm Green
bricr This week.
Chas. NJ. Anderson who for some
lime mad been representing The
Singer Sewing Machine Company
in North Carolina, is back in Green
brjer.
District Stewards, J. J. Hobbs,
Lovinglon, j. e.. Young IIillsdalc.
Frank Follansbcc and L. C.. Bare
Anderson, and &. r.. Curry pocahon-
las, held their annual meeting here
this week.