Thursday, August 5, 1926
In Daniel Webster’s day and time, about 90 percent of the nation were farmers, and he paid his respects to them as follows:
“Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of a man. Man may be civilized in some degree without great progress in manufactures and little commerce with his distant neighbors. But without the cultivation of the earth, he is in all countries a savage. Until he gives up the chase, and fixes himself in some place, and seeks a living from the earth, he is a roaming barbarian. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.”
I think that he might have gone further and said that they are the foundation stones of civilization and that the continuation of the country depends upon them. Their country’s pride, when once destroyed, can never be supplied.
HOMECOMING DAY
Everybody who ever lived in Pocahontas County is cordially invited to return to the county at Fair time and meet old friends. This is one of the especial features of our Fair.
Remember and bring something to the Old Time Exhibit at the Fair, and especially any old-time crockery ware. We want to make a specialty of these crocks, jars, pitchers or any old-time dish. Notify Calvin Price or T.S. McNeel. They will be carefully taken care of and returned.
Every old soldier of the Civil War, either Union or Confederate, is invited to attend the Fair as guests of the Fair Company.
HOSPITAL CAMPAIGN IS ON
The campaign to raise funds for Pocahontas County Memorial Hospital began last Thursday night with a dinner in the Agricultural Hall at the Pocahontas Fairground. More than 150 people partook of the banquet. County Chairman Fred C. Allen presided, and speeches were made by Allen P. Edgar, F. M. Sydenstricker, Ira Brill and J. A. Sydenstricker.
LETTER
Dear Sir;
Please allow space in your paper in which to reply to an article that appeared in the Marlinton Journal, under date of July 28, 1926, with reference to an accident which happened near Frost, in which a cow belonging to E. G. Sharp was injured by an auto, the writer of the article which was printed in the Journal failed to sign his name to the same, but inasmuch as he starts off his article by saying that the driver of the car that hit the cow was in an intoxicated condition, I wish just to stick a pin there and say that is falsehood.
No. 1, the driver of the car, who was Allen Galford, of Cass, was not in an intoxicated condition, as can be easily proven by numerous witnesses, and the writer says that the cow was standing in the side ditch, leaving 18 feet of road for anyone to pass. That is a falsehood.
No. 2, the cow was walking about the center of the road, and Galford cut off his gas and decreased the speed of his car, and the cow turned as though she was going to the left side of the road, and Galford put on the gas to go by on the right side of the road, which is the side required of him by the road law, and when within a few feet of the cow, the cow suddenly wheeled to the right, and directly in front of the car. Galford immediately applied his brakes and skidded into the cow, striking her almost broadside, and not in the rear as was formerly reported in an issue of the paper. …
Now, the reason I am replying to the article printed in the Marlinton Journal is this, I was driving directly behind Mr. Galford when he had the accident, myself and the five passengers that were with me in my car saw the accident just as I have stated it and inasmuch as I stopped my car and was assisting Mr. Galford and others to tie his wrecked car to a truck so as to haul same to a garage for repairs and while doing so quite a number of cars passed by and from some unknown cause, the report got circulated that I was the man that had run into the cow, and as the writer of the article in last week’s issue of the Journal, emphasizes the statement that the driver of the car that hit the cow was intoxicated, those who are not made acquainted with the facts may get the impression that I was under the influence of intoxicating drink.
Yours very truly,
J. B. Sutton,
Justice of the Peace
