Thursday, August 7, 1924
This week will finish dismantling the railroad track of the Warn Lumber Corporation from above Dunmore to Frost. C. P. Adams, section foreman at Sitlington, has charge of loading the steel leased from the C. & O. Railway Co. about 20 miles of rail, and shipping it to points on that line. Only a few more days cutting remain for this company which has been in operation at Raywood for the past nine or ten years.
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The weather report for the month of July by S. L. Brown, local weather observer, is as follows: Mean temperature for the month of 64.2 degrees; hottest 84 on the 24th and 30th; coldest 42 on the 18th; greatest daily range, 32 degrees on the 30th. Total rainfall, 5.06 inches…
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Paul Overholt is getting material on the ground to build a brick store room on his lot adjoining Paul Golden’s building on Main Street. Withrow McClintic bought the office building on this lot and moved it to his lot on Upper Camden.
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The small Ford trucks in use on the surfacing of the Price Hill road at Marlinton have demonstrated their practical use in this kind of work. They are making from 30 to 40 loads of rock per day on a mile haul.
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Born to Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Cutlip, of Marlinton, a son.
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Denny M. Callison, of Beard, met with a peculiar accident last week while attending a limestone crusher on his farm. His shirt was caught in the end of the shaft of the fly wheel and every particle of his clothing was torn from his body, and he was badly, but not seriously, hurt.
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Charley and Hamp Carpenter came over from their home on Beaver Dam to the Greenbrier between Buckeye and Denmar one day last week to try their hand at bass fishing. Although it was their first experience, they did a good business and got a lot of nice ones. The largest was eighteen and a half inches and weighed four and a half pounds. They also had several fifteen and sixteen-inch ones.
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Alfred Dean, who lives in Beaver Lick Mountain, was severely injured Saturday evening while working on a scaffolding repairing his barn. A log fell from the eaves of the barn striking and breaking his shoulder blade and collarbone, knocking him to the ground a distance of about 12 feet. Mr. Dean was able to come to town Tuesday to have his wounds dressed.
BOY SHOT
Lewis, 14 year old son of D. J. Weatherholt, at Sitlington, was shot and fatally injured by a shot gun in the hands of his grandfather, Amos Kline, Tuesday evening. The shooting was purely accidental. Mr. Kline was trying a new shot gun and the boy ran in front of the gun just as he was pulling the trigger. Dr. Moomau was hastily summoned but it was found he was bleeding internally and nothing could be done to stop the flow of blood. The boy lived but a few hours, dying about 11 o’clock the same evening.
He was a very bright young boy and the accident is a sad blow to his parents.
DIED
Charles N. McComb died at his home on Beaver Creek Monday, July 28, 1924. Just one week to the day before his death, he was thrown from a load of hay. He was 72 years old. His body was buried on his farm Tuesday afternoon.
The deceased was the son of the late James Price McComb and his wife Eliza Moore McComb, daughter of Aaron Moore and Elizabeth Johnson Moore…
His first wife was Miss Mary E. Alderman, daughter of Soloman Alderman. To this union were born seven daughters, all of whom survive… Mr. McComb died seven years to the day after the death of his first wife…
His second wife was Lepha Schoolcraft. Their children are Elizabeth, Gladys and Eldridge…
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Henry T. Gum died at the Marlinton Hospital Wednesday night, July 30, 1924, from the effects of a shotgun wound received in a general fight between Gum and his family on one side and C. M. Shields and his family on the other side near Burnsides station.
Charles Shields, aged 23, is in jail charged with the shooting of Mr. Gum. He is the son of C. M. Shields. The Gums and Shields live on adjoining farms, parts of the old Burnsides estate.
The deceased was 63 years old. He was raised in Highland county but has been a resident of Pocahontas county for many years. He is survived by his wife and three children, Clark Gum, Floyd Gum and Mrs. Annie Cordell.
His body was buried in the Oak Grove Cemetery near Hillsboro.