Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1921-01-14
THIS WEEK ruiRTY-TWo YEARS Aso
from The issue Of Jan
m 1870


after the fire.
The County Court OF Fayctte has
decided against liquor license for
the year.
Jas. F. Clark fAnthonys Creek.
has been appointed a Notary.
Frank Fallansbcc is elected May
or of Anderson for the ensuing
year.
Ninety-onc marriage licenses
were issued in Nicholas county dur
ing the past year-1S88.
Five bears have been killed On
20-Mile Greek in Nicholas in the last
few days.
S. =. Deem, a native Of Green
brir, died at his home in Charles
ton last Monday. aged 20 years.
Ronccvertc elects w. ID. Weaver,
Mayor. r. Ney Williams. Recorder,
and DR.. VIM. Campbell. J. NJ. Kim
ports, p. S. +. Sixeas, II. C.. Rodes
and John &. Tobin, CounCilmen.
Sherman. son of Thomas Nc
Chung. of the Wilderness district,
Nicholas county, accidcnuy shot
himself through the head with
pistol and died from the wound
on the 29th ultimo.
On Sunday, the 30th ult Quincy
w. Poage was on his way home
from Edray. Pocahontas county,
riding at rapid gait. when his
horse threw and trampcd him I'M
der his feet fracturing his skull and
inflicting other painful injuries. !.
Col. J. Alex Montgomery, late OF
Lewisburg. now Of Birmingham,
Alabama. and Miss Carrie Garland
Lewis were married at Vanderbilt
University. Nashville, Tenn, on the
9th ult, and left on bridal trip
to Cuba. They will reside at Birm-
ingham.
Mrs. Mary n. Dickinson, wife of
Joseph Dickinson, of Falling Spring
district, a mnatic confined in Jail
here. concciving that she was 60
ing 10 be hung, tore up one OF the
sheets, twisted it into a rope, made
a moose fixed it around her neck.
tied it 10 a net work over the win
dow and was found suspended by
the neck the next morning stone
dead. A coroncr's jury rendered
a verdict in accord with the fore
going.
Rev. Fielder Israel. d. d., commit
ted suicide by cutting his throat
with razor al his home nj Salem.
Mass. on the 4th inst. He was
born in Baltimore in 1927, lived
there during the Civil War, was
stationed mt LcwiSburg years prior
TO that war. and. twelve years prior
to his death. left the Methodist and
Joined the Unitarian Church. He
was on transfer steamer when 1t
burned in New York harbor three
weeks prior to his death and, il was
thought, received a shock which
produced mclancholia. thought to
be the cause of his dreadful ACT.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bobbitt widow OF
Gibson Bobbitt, and resident Of
the Union Community. Monroe
county, is the head of one OF the
largest families probably in this
part Of the State. She is the moth
or OF eleven living children, fifty
nine grandchildren. and ten great
eighty immediate descendants now
living. Mrs. Bobbitt is 70 years old
and lives with her son, Floyd p.
DODDltl, near Union.
State Senator John W. Arbucklc.
Delegates J. NJ. Sydcnstrickcr and
DR.. w. II. McClung; Thos. l.. Fcam-
stcr. Jas. C.. Mcpherson and Judge
J. NJ. McWhorter left Monday for
Charleston to be present when the
Legislature assemblies.
WIN. Fontaine Butcher. of Oregon
who has been visiting kin and old
friends in Grcenbricr will leave for
hs home the latter part of this week
James NJ. Cunningham and D. r.
Thomas, committee representing
the Canncry Company here. have
gone over to Lexington 10 examine
canneries in Rockbridgc and pos
sibly other parts Of Virginia.
Judge a. G.. Snyder left for Char
lesion Tuesday TO attend the .janu-
Ary term Of the State Court of APP
pcals OF which he is a member.
The Charleston Gazette reports
The Gen. C.. E.. Waits and l.. S. Mar
shall John Van Buren, recently visit
ed Col C.. S. Pcyton at his home on
Second Creek, and have many nice
things to say Of the delightful hos
piiality of Col. and Mrs. Peyton.
Rev. II. w. Kinzcr has gone TO
Baltimore 10 place himself under
medical treatment
Mrs. VIM. Is. Crump. Of Summers
County. is here visiting her daugh-
Ter, Mrs. Mamie y. McClung
T.. q. Arbogast, of Pocahontas.
and John w. Lcgg, Of Grccnbricr.
are in Charleston this week.
Louis l.. McWhorter. Of Charles
ton is candidate for the clerk ship
of the State Senate.
Ihc following gentlemen. elected