Thursday, September 25, 1924
A political editorial has been called for, and how I do dread it. It was a small matter 32 years ago, when in the plentitude of fullness of beans, I managed to insult a few worthy persons each week. I wanted to be an iconoclast. A breaker of icons and images. A radical. But the longer I live, the more I am convinced that thought moves in cycles, returning to the point from whence it started, and that wisdom was already ancient before I was born. It is hard to keep from offending. The printed word takes reverse English. But my clientele has increased, and it is rarely that I see any sign of hurt from my article these days, but as I say this I drum softly on the woodwork. But my totem saw the shame, to my mountain home it came and told me in the watches of the nights, there birds of many kinds, many men of many minds, and every single one of them has rights…
LOCAL MENTION
On last Saturday afternoon, Rev. L. S. Shires went over the road in his automobile at the bridge above Huntersville. The machine turned over on him and he was beneath it some time before assistance came by. He was brought to the Marlinton Hospital in an unconscious state. Besides bruises, it was found that his face and mouth were badly burned with gasoline. His injuries are painful but not serious. The road was wet, and the car skidded in making a turn. Mr. Shires is pastor of the Methodist churches of Greenbank and Dunmore.
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The furniture is being put in the Marlin-Sewell Hotel. H. M. Lockridge will be the manager, and he hopes to be able to open his house to the public in a few weeks. Mr. Lockridge, through his management of the Allegheny Club, has a wide reputation as a hotel man, and with the fine well-equipped plan, he will give Marlinton a hotel that will be a credit to any town.
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Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Pritchard and little daughter, Martha Lee, of Raywood, accompanied by June McElwee and family, of Marlinton, spent the weekend at Lewisburg. They motored home Sunday by way of White Sulphur, Hot Springs and Warm Springs, calling on their uncle, W. J. Pritchard, Sunday evening.
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Married at the Methodist Parsonage, September 23, 1924, John Leslie Kennedy, of Albermarle county, Virginia, and Lena May Davis, of Pocahontas county.
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The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Pat Bennett was operated on Saturday for the condition known as Spina Bifida or Cleft Spine. Its condition is serious but there is hope of recovery.
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Bruce Vaughan was kicked by a horse while skidding logs at Thorn and Teeters camp, Huntersville, last Monday and painfully hurt about the chest and shoulders.
SCHOOL NOTES
School is now on its third week and as time progresses so does the school spirit. A sample of this was shown Thursday night at the Freshman initiation when out of a possible 155 students enrolled, 150 were seen taking part in the “snake dance” that wound through Main Street. Traffic was held up and the sidewalks were lined with cheering spectators. But fear of approaching rain drove the initiated and initiators to the high school, where refreshments were served and stunts performed by all the Freshmen.
Mr. Buckley gave a very interesting talk in chapel last Wednesday.
Miss Mona Sheets, of Arbovale, and Miss Lillie Thomas, of Clover Lick, are the two new members of the senior class…
Coach Saunders already has his squad of Pigskin Chasers in condition for the opening game…
Every week, a part of this column will be devoted to a book review of the most popular book among the students for that week.
This week: “The Plastic Age,” by Percy Marks.
The popular appeal of the “Plastic Age” is said by many to be derived from the fact that it gives a realistic picture of school life. It is well worthwhile for every high school student who is thinking of going to college to read this book. They will not be deceived, like Hugh Carver, by the false glamor of noble ideals which one’s parents are apt to throw around college life.
DIED
Mrs. Matilda Bonner, aged 67 years, died very suddenly at the home of her son C. Lee Bonner, at Laurel Bank, last Thursday. While sitting in a chair she was suddenly stricken with a heart attack. On Friday, her body was prepared for burial by Z. S. Smith, the Marlinton undertaker, and taken to the old Bonner home on Elk River for burial. Mrs. Bonner was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Ware, her mother’s maiden name being Wamsley. Her husband was John Bonner, who died five years ago. She is survived by nine children, and five brothers and sisters.
