Thursday, March 16, 1900
We print on the first page Sir Wilfred Lawson’s views of the war as written by him for a local newspaper published near his home. He is one of the most famous opponents of the war in the House of Commons. He is like many of the most humane leaders of our country who see nothing in our boast of enlightenment and civilization if we have to submit the arbitrament of arms, in the manner of people of a ruder age. England and the United States are each engaged in wars of conquest such as many optimists had fondly believed belonged to a bygone age.
WEATHER NOTES
After a week of good weather, winter set in in earnest last week. The days had been warm, and butterflies had appeared. Some trout had been caught, the farmers were spreading the plow, the roads were getting in shape, and the mail was coming in on time.
We were congratulating ourselves that there could not be much more winter.
Wednesday night, snow set in and kept coming down until it measured 16 inches on the level. Butterflies Wednesday, snow flies Thursday. Business was stagnated. It was the deepest snow of the winter by far.
IN QUARANTINE
Seventy-five men were penned up in Camp No. 3
The quarantine has been raised on Camp No. 3, six miles from Marlinton. The one case of smallpox was managed so skillfully that no new cases developed, and the danger is over. The patient, however, still occupies the old Harper house and has no communication with anyone. The other men in camp send him his meals. They set the food down on a bench and call to him, and he comes and gets it when they have gone away. He is shunned as if he were a leper. As soon as he can get permission to come home, he will leave. His clothes have been burned, and the buildings have been disinfected. The contractor will burn the camp building, and the county should burn the old log house, recompensing the owner for it…
TROUBLE BREWING
A petition of 79 voters of the Huntersville district was filed with the county court last week asking that the Greenbrier River be made the boundary line between the Huntersville and Edray districts. This takes from Edray district the town of Marlinton, loveliest village of the plain, and nearly all the Greenbrier Railway. Hence these tears. Marlinton is indifferent, knowing that wherever her lot falls, she will take the railway with her…
There is no special reason to make the change other than to give Huntersville a portion of the railroad and make her more equal in size. The school taxes in Huntersville district have always been the highest of any district in the county…
This section once belonged to Huntersville, and they say it was changed to enable the pioneer settlers of Marlin’s Bottom to send their children across the river to school.
OBITUARY
Mrs. G. A. Boblett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Grimes, departed this life January 19, 1900. She was married to Mr. Harvey Boblett.
She was converted in early childhood at the Old Bethel Church on Swago…
On Thursday she talked to all and had a good word for all who came in. When she had bid them all goodbye, she wanted someone to join her in singing. Her husband joined her and sang “There are angels hovering round;” she also joined with her daughter in singing, “On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand.”
She requested all to care for her little ones she was leaving behind, and for her husband to gather the little flock and take them to Sunday School…
She leaves a husband and ten children. She was a true and faithful wife, kind and patient mother.
NICELY CAUGHT
A few evenings ago, a gentleman stepped from a train at one of the London stations, when a young lady skipped up to him, threw her arms rapturously about his neck, and kissed him many times, saying, “Oh, Papa, I’m so glad you have come!” The old gentleman threw both arms around her and held her firmly to his breast.
Soon she looked up into his face and horror stood in her eyes.
“Oh, my, you are not my papa,” she said trying to free herself from his embrace.
“Yes, I am,” insisted the old man, holding her tightly. “You are my long-lost daughter, and I am going to keep you in my arms until I get a policeman.”
When the officer came, he found the old gentleman’s diamond pin in the girl’s hand.