Thursday, February 12, 1925
Sheriff W. H. Barlow and Constable Hambrick got a fine still on Williams River near the home of C. C. Riddle. They arrested Riddle and he was bound over to the grand jury by Squire Smith.
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James M. Workman was a visitor at this office last Thursday. He lives at Burnsides, and he is employed by a coal company to look after a big tract of land that formerly belonged to the Maryland Lumber company. The other day, he and his brother, Silas, were going out to cut fire trails. They saw many deer tracks in the snow and found an antler which a big buck had just shed. The finding of deer horns in the woods is a rare thing, even where deer are plentiful. It is understood that the State of West Virginia has purchased for a game preserve the remainder of the Denmar tract, amounting to 4,500 acres. There are few if any woods in West Virginia better stocked with deer than the Denmar lands.
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A serious accident occurred at the home of S. K. Mullenax at Bartow, when two of his children and two of Edward Monk’s children were injured by the explosion of a dynamite cap. It seems as if one of Mr. Monk’s sons, who had some caps, was sitting upon a board underneath of which he had placed the dynamite and while holding the cap in one hand, touched it with a lighted match. The result was that the boy’s left eye was destroyed, his right eye injured, his left hand seriously injured and several pieces of the cap in his shoulder. The other children were only slightly injured.
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Little Miss Kathleen Faulknier, aged 12, daughter of Guy Faulknier broke a bone in her arm last Thursday. She was skating on roller skates and in falling struck her arm on the cement sidewalk.
FISH AND GAME
By George Sharp, Chief
Deputy Game Protector
Within the memory of men, who refuse to be called old “log rollings,” were grand social parties in the mountains of West Virginia. People would gather for miles to assist a neighbor to clear a spot of ground for farming. The men would cut and pile timber to be burned while the women baked pies and prepared elaborate meals for the workmen. The evening would see a platform dance of the square variety in which everybody had a good time.
Millions of feet of the finest timber was destroyed in this manner. We realize the mistake they made in thus destroying valuable natural resources. Not only did they destroy the timber, but they destroyed the homes of the wildlife of the State.
In addition to destroying the habitat of the animals they killed the game in the forests at any season of the year to supply the tables. Fish were caught in streams every month. Little or no consideration was given to the mating season or the entire elimination of certain species of wildlife.
We have entered a new era. We have learned by experience that the destruction of forests by burning or by wasteful cutting of timber is an irreparable loss. We have also found that unless the game in the woods and the fish in the steams are given a certain amount of protection, they will soon be eliminated…
HONOR ROLL
Raywood School, Mrs. Clyde Wooddell, teacher. Advanced room: Richard Conley, John Friel, Charles Malcom, Hunter Sprouse, Holland Sprouse, Oliver Sprouse, Earl Sutton, Dan Friel, Charles Pritchard, Roy Gum, Valera Frazee, McNeer Kerr, Martha Conley, Rosalie Frazee.
Intermediate room: Lynn Kerr, teacher. William Plyer, Leroy Sprouse, Roy Sutton, Domineck Circosta, Everett Ray, Rose Circosta, Mary Malcom, Pearl Weatherholt, Rella and Olla Gum. Primary room: Verna Siple, teacher. Robert Friel, Buster Frazee, Lottie Gentile, Carl Conley, Linsley Flannigan, Bricie Micks, Elmer Wolverton, Harry Scofield, Martha Lee Pritchard.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Dean, near Watoga, a son.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. French Kirkpatrick, a son.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Beverage, a daughter. This is the 12th child in this family, and all are alive and hearty.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Morrison, a daughter.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Milburn Sharp, a daughter.
DIED
Lucy Maude Diehl Hannah, wife of Page W. Hannah, age 32 years.
She was a loving wife, a kind, faithful mother, and a friend to all who knew her. She was always ready to help those in distress; one thing in her life very noticeable was the true pleasure she took in caring for flowers and the taking them to both the church and the sick.
She was an earnest Sunday School worker, having acted as secretary and treasurer of the Slaty Fork Sunday School for a number of years…
Her last hours were cheerful ones – she complimented on her good night’s rest and calmly passed away.
The funeral was conducted from Mary’s Chapel with burial at the home graveyard…