Thursday, July 31, 1924
Two dry state law enforcement officers made a raid on the Judge Bennett farm near Fayetteville Wednesday eve-ning and found a keg of moonshine, containing about 15 gallons of liquor. A large copper wash boiler was confiscated. There was nobody about where the liquor was found, but members of the Bennett family and two workmen on the farm were placed under arrest. All gave bond to answer preliminary hearing. The keg of liquor was found in a small house near the barn. The house was locked and officers pulled the steeple. A stove in the room was broken up. The officers were in hiding near the barn several hours previous to the raid. Federal warrants were also sworn out for the alleged offenders of the prohibition law and deputy marshal Absalom was here Thursday serving the papers. Bond in the sum of $2,000 each was given by W. R. and Romeo Bennett, Joe Mullens and Ben Johnson for their appearance in federal court. – Fayette Tribune
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A tourist in Alaska was being shown over a fox farm. After admiring some beautiful silvers, she asked her guide, “Just how many times can the fox be skinned for his fur?”
The guide, who was an old-timer, replied, gravely: “Three times, madam. Anymore than that would spoil him for breeding purposes.”
DOWN IN GREENBRIER
Editor Times;
I left home July 14 to go to the home of my friend, W. A. Bright, of Williamsburg, Greenbrier County. The family consists of three members, father, mother and son. They moved from near Arbovale about 13 years ago. Mrs. Bright was a Great-house. They are prospering in their new home, owning a farm of 100 acres of fertile soil. They have fine crops of all kinds, an abundance of fruits of many varieties and last but not least, a most gorgeous display of flowers. One thing I noticed particularly was that they are great church and Sunday School people who are living the Christian life.
I went mostly for cherries, and I got them. Mr. Bright has a fine cherry orchard from which he sold hundreds of gallons this year. People come for many miles to buy cherries and other fruits. Besides cherries, he has apples, pears, grapes, plums, corn, clover, timothy, alfalfa, potatoes – something to sell every day.
I saw more birds on this farm than I ever saw anywhere. The whole Bright family is interested, and the birds are fed as regularly as the family itself eats. One bird, a robin, is known to have returned season after season for several years. I will give the name of some of the different birds I saw at the Bright farm: cardinal, titmouse, white breasted nut-hatch, tufted titmouse, Caro- lina wren, hairy woodpecker, downie woodpecker, flicker, red belted woodpecker, slate colored junco, song chipping and other sparrows, including a white throated sparrow, black throated blue and other warblers, robins, indigo bun-ting, toohee, and many others and all in great numbers. These birds respond to good treatment, know when feeding time comes and have lost their natural (or unnatural) shyness of people.
It was a pleasure to stop in this home of Christian people who take time to be holy, and renew acquaintance of former years.
I returned by way of Anthony Creek.
J. H. Buzzard
Marlinton
DIED
Charles Warren Moore, age 25, only son of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Moore, of Dunmore, died July 25, 1924 at Ronceverte Hospital. Burial in Dunmore Cemetery Sunday afternoon, the service being conducted from the Dunmore Methodist Church. The service was under the auspices of the Cass Masonic Lodge. During the World War, he served as a soldier. For the past year, he had filled the position as bookkeeper for the Spice Run Lumber Company at Locust.
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On June 27, 1924, Mrs. Minnie Alice Doddrill, daughter of Wm. A Wooddell, of Cass, after an eight day illness, passed from this world to the land of fadeless sunshine to be forever with the God she loved to serve while here upon the earth. Mrs. Doddrill was born at Linwood May 1, 1882. In 1903, then Miss Wooddell, was married to C. W. Showalter. To this union was born one child. Both husband and child died. Mrs. Showalter was married to H. W. Doddrill in October 1906. To this union three children were born, two having preceded their mother to the grave. Mrs. Doddrill leaves her father and mother, five brothers, one sister, her husband and little son. Interment was made at the family burying ground at Clover Lick… By the home-going of Mrs. Doddrill, truly earth is made poorer, but Heaven is much richer.