Thursday, January 21, 1926
Last Monday, when Mr. and Mrs. William Puffenbarger were returning from their wedding trip, their automobile engine stopped on them in the ford of Little Back Creek near Mountain Grove. They got out and tied the machine with a wire as the stream was rising rapidly. Before they could get a team, a lot of ice and treetops came down and washed the car down the creek.
ABOUT DUNMORE
This is the way that I read the sign as to the name Dunmore. It is one of the oldest settlements in Pocahontas County. All of Maj. Jacob Warwick’s children were born there. The stream was named for Andrew Sittlington, Jacob Warwick’s stepfather.
The plantation was called Dunmore in Jacob Warwick’s day.
The late Isaac Moore and William Dunkum bought the land in 1851 and sometime after that the post office was named Dunmore, either from a combination of the names of Dunkum and Moore, or because it was the name of the plantation of Jacob Warwick, or for both reasons.
There is no other reason to believe that the plantation was named for Lord Dunmore than that Dunmore was the commander of the army in which Jacob Warwick served. There are people in the county who can remember Dunmore place further back than the time Dunkum and Moore settled here. A. P.
BEARS
Some fox hunters near Minnehaha Springs last Thursday came across the track in the snow of a big bear. He had come from the Lockridge mountain and went into a big laurel patch on Brandy Hill. They went around the thicket, but the bear had not come there.
Word was sent to Jim and Bob Gibson and they came Friday morning with their bear dogs. They passed Marlinton before daylight, and at the Springs they found a small army ready to go to the woods.
It was found that the bear had left out and crossed the rise at the top of Allegheny Mountain at Rimel, headed south. The hunters followed him all day Friday and Saturday but never got near enough to justify turning the dogs loose.
Late Saturday, the hunters had the bear surrounded in thick cover about High Top on the head of Meadow Creek. It was then too late, and the hunt was deferred until the next morning. As the standers were being placed, it is supposed the bear winded the men. Anyway, he left out.
Monday the men quit the chase on Ugly Creek, over in Allegheny County, somewhere back of White Sulphur Springs.
Word came Tuesday that hunters from Anthonys Creek had taken up the trail where the Pocahontas hunters left off, and the bear was heading back toward the place of beginning. The snow went off Tuesday, and no word has come that the bear was killed.
This is a powerful big old sheep eating bear. He ranges the Allegheny and he costs the farmers of Anthonys Creek about $500 each year in sheep. This fall, he has killed a lot of sheep for the farmers on Knapps Creek. He does not hole up in the winter, and last year, he killed sheep all winter long. He makes a big track and he steps out like a horse.
DIED
“Billy Mike” Gillian died at his home on Droop Mountain January 12, 1926, aged 77 years. He is survived by his wife and a number of children.
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Mrs. Madge Sheets McQauin, wife of Robert McQuain, died at her home near Green Bank, January 16. Burial at Huntersville Monday afternoon. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Price Sheets, of Huntersville. She is survived by her husband and a number of small children. About six years ago, she was terribly injured in runaway accident, and she never fully recovered.
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Last week, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Showalter, of Elk, received the sad message announcing the death of their only child, Howard, a young soldier in the Unted States Army, who was stationed in the Panama Canal Zone. It is not known when his body will arrive to be buried here. The young soldier was 22 years of age. He was a fine upstanding young man, who gave promise of a useful life.
Great sympathy is felt for the bereaved parents in the loss of their only child.
