Thursday, October 7, 1926
John Petts, who lives on Mill Run, Burnsides, was severely scalded while working on the log loader of the Spring Creek Lumber company recently. A trestle broke and the loader dropped about 20 feet into the stream. Petts was caught with only his head and one arm out of the water. The hot metal and steam heated the water of Spring Creek until it was scalding hot, and Petts was severely burned almost over his entire body. He was taken to the Ronceverte hospital but is now at his home on Mill Run. His condition is reported as precarious…
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The infant child of Ira Hannah on Bucks Mountain has been very sick with cholera infantum.
ABOUT THE COUNTY
I spent the weekend in the good County of Highland. It has been more than 20 years since I was in the town of Monterey. I had passed through the town many times and I thought as I travelled, I had noted the changes. A few hours there, convinced me I knew not the town at all.
Monterey is a fine town with lots of cement sidewalks , hard surfaced roads, water, lights, fine churches, a modern hotel, newspaper, courthouse, good schools, banks, good homes and fine people. It is set on a hill, over three thousand feet above the sea. More than a thousand feet higher than Marlinton. It don’t look it, for it is surrounded by higher mountains…
Sunday morning, I was sitting up in the church. The polite but misguided teacher of the men’s Bible Class asked me to teach the men. With all the presumption of an ignorant person, I waded in. The water was fine, but it soon became too deep. I found out that those men knew Bible and had had religious experiences that I had yet to learn. The old-time school rule that if you are not prepared, just start an argument always works out happily…
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Dwight M. Kershner, at Fairview, a daughter.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Walker, of Bruffeys Creek, a daughter.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. T. Hoover, at Buckeye, a son.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Norman McHenry, a son. This is the sixth son and the seventh child of this family.
DIED
Isaac B. Smith died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. S. J. Pyles, near Seebert. His age was 85 years. Mr. Smith was one of the good citizens of Pocahontas County. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he volunteered as a confederate soldier, and he saw much service as a member of the 14th Virginia Cavalry.
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Paris Hammonds died very suddenly on Williams River Tuesday morning, October 4, 1926. He had gone with Paul H. Price, the geologist, to look up a coal bank on Black Mountain. He fell by the road when a few hundred yards from his house and was dead in a few minutes. Mr. Hammonds was 72 years old. As a small boy, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hammonds, brought him from Kentucky. He grew up in the Black Forest, and he was a famous woodsman and hunter. He is survived by a large family of children. On Tuesday, his body was buried in the graveyard on the Shearer place.
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Charles Cecil Sheets, 35, of Huntersville, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Sheets, died in a Ronceverte hospital from injuries received in an accident on his sawmill near Lewisburg…
The passing of this loveable young man will be keenly felt by all who knew him. No words we can say can fill the vacancy of the hearts who miss him most.
Funeral held from the home at Huntersville with his body laid to rest in the Huntersville cemetery.
