Thursday, July 10, 1924
J. F. Thornton, of Beaver Creek, came to see us Monday. He is a native of Nicholas county, where he spent his life of 77 years. Last fall, he came to visit his daughter, Mrs. Tyler Symns, on Beaver Creek, and he liked Pocahontas County so well that he just stayed here. Fifty or more years ago, he helped drive a flock of sheep over the Staunton and Parkersburg Turnpike. He spent the night at old Travelers Repose, the famous old inn kept by the late Peter D. Yeager.
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Meade Waugh, 11 year old son of Harlow Waugh, had his left arm broken at the wrist by falling on it while doing a stunt in the Junior Chautauqua program Saturday afternoon.
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United States Commissioner A. E. Smith had before him last Thursday Joshua Jones, Susan Jones, Virginia Jones, Effie Hel-mick and Pearl Perkins, charged with violation of the federal prohibition laws, in the town of Cass. All of them waive examination and were held for the Federal grand jury.
PRESIDENT’S SON DIES
Calvin Coolidge, aged 16 years, the youngest son of President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, died in Washington, Monday night, July 7, 1924. The cause of his death was blood poisoning. On Monday, June 30, he rubbed a blister on his foot while playing tennis. The place became infected and blood poison developed.
NATIONAL CONVENTION
Here I am in the midst of Bedlam. In a national convention which is suffering from constipation. There are thousands of persons present and there is confusion. There is a man just behind me who insists on emitting a whistle so hard and shrill that it all but breaks my tympanum, and for the first time, I have shown the nervous visitation from which the savage delegates have been suffering for many days. They are on the 63rd ballot. The record has been broken for all national conventions. The record heretofore established was 59 ballots taken by the convention that brought on the Civil War. That convention met at Charleston, South Carolina, and having taken 57 ballots, adjourned to meet in Baltimore. There, Stephen A. Douglas was nominated on the second ballot. The party split. Lincoln was elected. Civil War followed…
As I conclude these remarks, the convention is still trying to find a way out and it may solve the problem any minute. I hope that the Gordian knot will be cut and Davis nominated. I am willing to accept any of them.
The party is somewhat embarrassed, but the Republicans have Lafollette to contend with, so there is sorrow enough to go around.
BELLED BUZZARD AGAIN
DUNMORE – The Belled Buzzard is back here again to his homeland by July 1 in order to get some refreshments, having arrived from Florida.
Eighteen years ago in May, a Mr. Horn was here exploring for iron ore in Michael Mountain, or rather he was here to get the more valuable metal from Robert McLaughlin, myself and others.
He found a buzzard’s nest in the cliffs at the high rocks in sight of Dunmore. Cam and Mus McLaughlin belled two of the buzzards on the nest with two small sheep bells.
I do not know if this has been related in other notices of our friend buzzard, whose territory is large, including many states. – E. N. Moore
DIED
William Lawrence Hill, son of Mattie Hill, died at the University Hospital, Charlottesville, Va. June 20, 1924, of abscess of the right kidney, aged 18 years. Funeral service was conducted at the Brownsburg M. E. Church. The body was laid to rest in the Brownsburg cemetery. He leaves to mourn his loss, his mother and four sisters – Miss Georgia Hill, Mrs. Belle Jackson, Mrs. Mary Cashwell, Mrs. Beatrice Jackson, and a host of relatives and friends.
