Thursday, November 27, 1924
Mrs. Sheldon Hannah was terribly injured in a runaway accident at her home on Elk last Friday afternoon. She was returning home from Marlinton in a wagon loaded with flour. As the team was turned into the Hannah homestead, a line or something broke and the team bolted. The wagon went over a rock and Mrs. Hannah was thrown out. So badly was she cut about the head, 20 stitches were necessary to close the wounds. It is thought that she also suffered a fracture of the skull. Mrs. Hannah is an aged lady. Two of her daughters, Mrs. John Baughman and Mrs. Pat Gay, live in Marlinton.
MAIL EARLY
There will be no delivery of mail on Christmas Day by city or village carrier after 11 a.m. and there will be no rural delivery service any place in the United States. There will be no window service and no dispatch except first class mail.
It is therefore of the utmost importance that mail intended for delivery be posted by the evening of the 23rd at the latest. It avails us nothing to rave at the overloaded postal service and there is not one so much concerned or so badly inconvenienced as the tardy shopper and mailer.
MORE BOBBED HAIR
To the author of the bobbed hair piece in last week’s paper, I would say to remember the Bible injunction for him that is without sin to cast the first stone. Also, please remember that all bobbed hair women and girls are not bad. About the toughest character in Pocahontas has long, flowing tresses.
Not all the girls and women who sit in the closed cars, parked in dark corners and along roadways have bobbed hair. Not all the girls and women who choose the wrong road have short hair. What about the man or boy who leads them astray? Wrongdoing went on before women and girls adapted the fashion of bobbing their hair.
What about the long-haired woman who prefers a poodle dog to a husband and babies? What about the woman with her hair done up over her ears, ear bobs, a thousand-dollar diamond ring and things to match, leading a poodle dog with a silver chain and extravagant collar set, with gold and silver, who positively refuses to become a mother and neglects to give of her abundance to worthy charity.
What about that man who slips away at night from his dear wife who has long, flowing tresses, to go around the corner to meet his soulmate. This little girl is dear to some mother’s heart. She has been misled by his oily, ever ready promises of this and that and of his tales of how he and his wife don’t agree, and he can no longer love her because she is so plain and wears her hair straight back and is not one bit jolly anymore. Also, there are so many kids now that they get on his nerves. … – M.L.T.
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Dear Editor:
Just a few lines in answer to M. S. H. on bobbed hair.
I’m a married man and my wife has bobbed hair, and “oh, horrors!” I bobbed it myself and I’m going to keep it that way. Why”
Because it banished forever the daily headache. Doc’s big idea, and I truly believe there are lots of other women who bob for the same reason. If so, “Hurrah for the Scissors!” – M.E.J.
Dear Editor;
I would like to have a small space in your valuable paper in answer to a letter last week about bobbed hair.
I do not want to raise a disturbance but would like to say a few words in regard to this subject.
I am a girl, and I have bobbed hair.
Of course, I have my faults, but I am not afraid to have every moment of my life revealed
I do not think that bobbed hair has anything to do with a girl’s character. She can be just as true blue as the girl with long tresses.
Any girl with bobbed hair will say that it takes just as much care as it ever did, and there is nothing to being too lazy to comb it. I think that a girl with bobbed hair would make just as good wife as those with long hair, but you boys need not worry, no bobbed hair girl is going to get down on her knee and beg any self-conceited goody-goody man to marry her, at least some of them won’t.
I don’t see why bobbed hair should be the downfall of any girl. If you men would keep your places and not come around with so many honeyed words and such good promises, there would not be so many girls with ruined lives.
Of course, some girls do dress unreasonably and paint up like clowns, but some of them don’t. I don’t think you should judge all girls with bobbed hair as being bad even if some of them are. You men would not want to be judged by one bad man, would you?
And I think that the girls are just as good looking with all their short dresses and paint as a man with his hat over on one side of his head and a cigar, cigarette or pipe between his lips and his nose red from the effects of alcohol.
Even if you don’t want a bobbed hair wife, who cares?
It is no disgrace to be an old maid anyway. I would rather die an old maid a hundred times than marry some men and have to drag them home drunk every few nights like some I know. – XYZ
G. W. WILMOTH
Geo. W. Wilmoth departed this life October 12, 1924, aged 64 years. His disease which baffled the skill of the most eminent physicians was of about two years duration and during the entire time, with the exception of a few weeks, he was courageous and hopeful. But in the last stage of the disease, as the elixir of life became less, and the Star of Hope began to vanish, he was often heard to say, “If the time would only come.”
He leaves one son, K. B., and two brothers, J. D. and W. Lee, with the family relatives and a host of friends to mourn his loss.
Out beneath the oak here, just upon the hill
In sight of the dear old home, they are lying still.
Father, mother and brothers, dear,
Who have passed through the gate
And their spirits now do linger
With loved ones who wait…