Thursday, August 19, 1926
On Saturday evening, July 31st, as train No. 144 was traveling between Clover Lick and Stony Bottom, Mr. J. M. Myers and Dora Grace Ryder were united in the holy bonds of matrimony by Rev. H. Blackhurst in the baggage car in the presence of Conductor J. N. Redden, Brakeman J. E. Hall, Brakeman R. F. Clifford and Agent G. M. Bryce. The happy couple received the congratulations of the entire train crew, and their many friends wish for them a happy and prosperous life.
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Miss Elizabeth Hill, daughter of Frank R. Hill, fell from the attic window of her home about midnight Tuesday night. She is painfully and perhaps seriously injured. She is hurt about the head and face and side. She was asleep and dreamed that her two little brothers were playing on the roof of the porch and she went to get some plaything they wanted in the attic, walking in her sleep. She fell from the window to the roof of the front porch and then onto a cement walk.
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The Midland Trail is a restless place. It is a good deal like another trail in the north called Broadway, where people hurry to and fro. It is road number 3, cutting the State into two parts, after the manner of the New name-Kanawha River first overcame the mountain barrier. Later, the Indians marked a trail and perhaps the Kentucky buffalo made a trip through the rugged mountains to use the grasslands of the Valley of Virginia. Then the white men made a road called the James River and Kanawha Turnpike. Then the Virginians made the noble project of building a canal across the mountains, and they would have done so too, but for the fact that the modern invention of the steam railway decreased the economic neces- sity of a waterway from east to west. Then the C & O railway crept across the divide and took away the dividends of the stage companies and the old pike fell into disuse except for local purposes. The pike had tackled mountains on the proved proposition that a straight line is the nearest way between two points, but the railroad had its limitations and it sought the grades along the stream. The railroad fixed the status of the State, for it came at a time when the natural resources of the State, especially its coal, were needed for the upbuilding of the nation, and great cities like Huntington and Charleston and many other fine municipalities sprang up and flourished…
THE FAIR
Rain and mud marred the first three days of the Pocahontas County Fair, but there were a lot of people on the grounds Tuesday and Wed-nesday regardless. Judge Forrest Moore, of New York, made the Homecoming Address. He made one of his usual characteristic fine speeches and the people heard him gladly.
The track has been so wet and heavy that the track races have been handicapped.
In every department the entries are much more numerous and varied than ever before. The quality of the exhibits is better too. There is a keen rivalry between the four districts and exhibit of each district is a thing of wonder.
The special feature of the Fair this year is the entertainment furnished each day by the people of the four districts. Tuesday was Little Levels Day; Wednesday, Greenbank Day; Thursday, Huntersville; Friday, Edray; and Saturday, Pocahontas County Day. On last Friday night, nearly three hundred people from the Huntersville District came to the Fairgrounds to rehearse their program for the day. The people of the other districts were equally enthusiastic as the Huntersville folk in these matters, and they all are putting over wonderful programs.
ON THE MIDWAY
Lilla-Lee, the Fat Girl, stands the hot weather better than Nashville the Giant in the Big Circus Sideshow. The little congenial Japanese gentleman seen always on the hurry on the midway is not the manager of the Tea Gardens but, assisted by his wife, directs the big Ferris wheel and chair planes.
Alva, a real “Alligator boy” from Raleigh, N. C., sure is an interesting fellow to watch and talk to. He sure packs them around his attraction from early morn till late at night…
The Midway Café as the West Shows Cook House is known to all the visitors on the fairgrounds is a high-class reasonable place to set down to a good meal or lunch. The steward Mr. Stevens works night and day during the Fair season catering to the exacting appetites of the thousands of Fair visitors who have to be catered to while excitement reigns on the fairgrounds… At the close of the Fair here Saturday evening, the big West’s World’s Wonder Shows go to the Greenbrier Fair for all next week.
