Thursday, December 27, 1923
We notice in the Pocahontas Times, a Marlinton, W. Va. paper, that L. O. Simmons received a letter of appreciation from the Davis Stuart School, an orphanage of Lewisburg, for a Thanksgiving Day gift of two barrels of vegetables. It is pre- sumed that he raised vegetables himself although we vexed to guess just where he got the time. Possibly he had put a lantern on his plow. Mr. Simmons is a tall man, measuring over six feet, and lanky. One gets the impression from him of unbounded energy and this impression is substantiated when the fact of what he does comes out. Mr. Simmons is foreman of the composition room of the Times. On the side, he runs a bicycle repair shop, and raises poultry. But there is something else for which he is known throughout the state – he is an expert in apiculture. – The Guide, published by the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind.
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Students who are spending the holidays at their homes at Hillsboro: Eric Clutter, Washington & Lee; Isaac McNeel, Hampden Sidney; Milburn Curry, Asbury and Andrew McLaughlin, Claude Warren, Shenan- doah Collegiate Institute; Miss Letta Beard, Marshall; Harper Beard, West Virginia University.
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Norman Sharp, aged 17 years, was before the circuit court Monday morning on a charge of check raising. He confessed and was sent to the reform school at Pruntytown until he is 21 years old. This is his second offense, having been paroled. He is a son of Divers Sharp, who is now serving time in the penitentiary for stealing sheep.
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Easter Gibson, a boy of 19 years, was before Squire Smith last Saturday on a charge of having whiskey in his possession. He was fined $100 and six months in jail.
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Isaac Barlow butchered the prize hog of the season. It was a two year old purebred Duroc Jersey that weighed 900 pounds on foot and dressed out 750 pounds. This hog took the prize at the County Fair of 1922.
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The neighbors of the Wanless and Oliver communities gave a box supper last Saturday night. The proceeds amounted to $71.70, and were donated to Henry McCray, a blind man who is now at the Marlinton Hospital…
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Ashby Higgins and Odie Moyers, of Elk, were held to the grand jury in Squire Smith’s court Thursday afternoon on a charge of moonshining. They live on Crooked Fork of Elk. The arrests were made by Sheriff Brown Beard, Deputy Sheriff Elmer Moore and Constable Charles K. Butler. About 100 gallons of mash was destroyed.
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The Christmas service at the Presbyterian Sunday School was so largely attended that it was necessary to repeat the service.
Slaty Fork
Lumbering, Lumbering, Lumbering is the order of the day. Forrest Gibson and Willie Gibson have a job of logging; James Gibson has a job of logging; Hugh Hannah is going to start a job of logging soon, and move his mill from Marvin Hannah’s to do the sawing. The W. Va. Pulp and Paper Co. is doing a rushing business; we hear of no one being turned away from work.
L. D. Sharp has bought here this week in our neighborhood about $400 worth of fur.
Here on the headwaters of Elk is getting to be a busy place; even the chickens are gathering up gold dollars. Mrs. Laura Sharp while dressing a chicken found a gold dollar in the gizzard of a chicken.
WEDDING
Fred F. McLaughlin and Miss Nellie Howard Yeager were married quietly at the home of the bride’s sister, Mrs. Moody Kincaid, at two o’clock Wednesday afternoon, December 19, 1923… Immediately after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Mc-Laughlin left by automobile for Stuarts Draft, Virginia, and other eastern points.
The groom is a son of the late George H. McLaughlin. He was a volunteer in the world war and saw many months of service in Europe. For a number of years, he has been engaged in the purebred cattle business in Virginia, but he has recently purchased a coal business in Marlinton.
DIED
Mrs. Susan Malinda Pryor, a faithful member of the Pleasant Green M. E. Church, near Seebert, departed this life December 7, 1923, aged 88 years. She had spent most her life in the service of the Lord. She was loved and respected by all who knew her, and often spoke of her many friends among the white people who were so nice to her. The funeral service was conducted by the pastor in charge, Rev. J. C. McPherson, assisted by others. She leaves two children, 16 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren. Her body was laid to rest in the McNeel cemetery.