Thursday, August 28, 1924
Harvey Bright was struck in the stomach by the rebound of a plank while operating a ripsaw last Saturday. For a day or two he was thought to be seriously injured internally, but is making a good recovery without complications.
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Very heavy rains Sunday night and Monday have freshened up things and raised waters. The season of 1924 has been marked by early and later rains.
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Francis Hamrick died very unexpectedly, near Mingo, last Friday night. Burial on Sunday. His age was about 50 years. He was at Marlinton on Thursday and appeared in his usual good health.
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Rattlesnakes are said to be very numerous this year. Some very large ones have been killed, particularly, in the Anthony Creek region.
OBSERVATIONS
Pocahontas County opened the season of agricultural fairs. It was a big week. This is an age of automobiles all steamed up and no where to go. So when there comes a great event like a county fair, they fill the tank with gas and light out for the place of excitement with all the family. I have been making some scientific observations as to car capacity and find that the cheaper the car, the greater number it will carry safely and the happier the passengers look. And the better time they seem to be having.
I have seen Fords filled up with young ones until they looked like baskets full of puppies. Then comes some long, powerful, sleek looking car swinging along with some sulky persons in it spurning the ground. These people look like they had tried life out and found it unpleasant. And I have noticed that the chances of an invitation to ride in such a car are not very good. But comes the popular Ford with about eight in it, including the baby, and they will invite a person to ride on the running board…
I live at the mouth of the run just as I did some 30 odd years ago. Then there was a covered bridge over the river and the passing of a single wagon across that bridge in the course of day was an event. We would hear the rumble of a wagon on the floor and before the day was over, some watcher on the road it took would make a report of the circumstance. It was generally a covered wagon going to or returning from Millboro, Virginia, with freight. Or it might be a pleasure carriage.
I thought of that day and time when the automobiles streamed back and forth all last week by the thousand.
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Judge Fisher had agreed to come to the fair some weeks ago, and he started from Sutton in a motor car and got as far as Webster Springs when the big rain fell. On Point Mountain, the car stalled in the rich muddy roads of West Virginia. The Judge sent the car back, and taking his valise in his hand, jumped over the fence on the lower side of the road and walked and slid down to the mountain to a Hamricks, and made his way up Elk River until he came to a camp and waited until the delayed train of the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company came in though the sodden woods and under the weeping skies. And about the break of day, he got off the woods train at Laurel Bank, at the three forks of Elk River, and got a motor car and came over to Marlinton in time to make his appointment, and from Thursday to Saturday, he visited among us.
BIRTH
Born to Mr. and Mrs. James McClure, at Wood-row, August 25, 1924, a daughter.
AROUND THE STATE
Moundsville – Among the federal prisoners transferred from the West Virginia penitentiary at Moundsville to the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kansas, was George Rogers, who is serving a 67-year prison term for this part in the million-dollar mail robbery at Toledo, in 1921.
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Wheeling – When William Palmer, a city fireman, pushed back his chair from the table and struck a match to his pipe for a comfortable after dinner smoke, gas, which had accumulated in the room from a leaking jet, blew out the entire side of a four family apartment house on Wheeling Island. No one was injured.
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Wheeling – Angered by his wife’s repeated pleas for money with which to return to her native Italy, Leo Grecco, 29, of Richland, a suburb, called her to him with a request for a kiss and when she threw her head back to receive the embrace, he slashed her throat with a razor, according to Mrs. Grecco’s account to police at a hospital.