Thursday, August 6, 1925
County Court was in session on Tuesday with commissioners Williams, Mc- Neel and Hudson on the bench. Some accounts were audited and much routine business gone through with. The matter of a new jail house was under consideration. An architect was present and went over the matter with the court. A building about 40 by 40 feet, two stories high is the present plan. This will take care of 48 prisoners. It will be put on the north side of the jailer’s residence. The site is now occupied by a wooden structure. The present jail is wholly unsuited for present needs, and it is not a healthy place to cage people.
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Mrs. H. S. Rucker has rented her house to Mrs. Marshall, who will conduct a boarding house for high school girls. This is something that has been needed for some time. The rate will be $25 per month or $22.50 when the children spend Sundays at home.
LETTER
Mr. Andrew. Price.
Dear Sir:
In reading your editorial last week in the Times, I notice that you refer to the small hill near the forks of the road near the John B. Warwick place as the probable work of the Mound Builders and should be further investigated.
I just want to tell you that there is some kind of history connected with that particular hill or mound whichever it is, for there is a complete map of the hill drawn on a rock by the Indians or some other lost tribe. I am not certain, but I think this map or drawing is on the Seneca Trail. My departed friend, Beverly Waugh, showed me the markings about 15 years ago, and I readily recognized the hill in question. As I have always thought there was something rather peculiar about that particular place.
Now if you want to see what is, in my opinion, a real work of the Mound Builders in Pocahontas, you ought to closely examine the hill that sits out in the level bottom lands between the residence of Charley Nottingham and Sitlington Creek. It is about two and a half miles from Dunmore. There is the same kind of rock on the top of it, as there is in the creek bottom several hundred yards away, and is not connected at any other raise of ground of any kind whatever.
Crank up your Ford and run up and look that place over and give it the write up and I feel sure that you will find something entirely out of the ordinary. – J. B. Sutton
FAIR NOTES
Never before in the history of the Pocahontas County Fair has the number of racehorses approached the number which are coming in for this year’s races and the more the faster.
There are 15 running racehorses already here or entered. There are a number of races for Pocahontas County horses which are not as full as we would like. If you own a horse that can go a bit under the saddle, bring him in. A few more running mules are needed to make things interesting too.
WEDDING
Mr. Merritt Moore Gum and Miss Sylvia Leone Taylor, both of near Dunmore, were married at the Presbyterian Manse in Marlinton Tuesday afternoon, August 4, 1925.
DIED
Mary Francis Young, aged three years, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Young, died Sunday morning, August 2, 1925. She had been sick with cholera infantum. Burial at the Edray cemetery Monday afternoon.
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William Sharp died at his home at Edray Tuesday morning, August 4, 1925. He was in the 83rd year of his age. The funeral service will be conducted from his late residence Thursday afternoon, and his body will be laid to rest in the family burying ground on the estate.
Mr. Sharp was one of the best and most prominent citizens of Pocahontas County. He had a wide circle of friends and relatives who will regret his departure. He was a son of the late Jacob W. Sharp and his wife, Elizabeth McNeel Sharp. His wife was Miss Julia Moore…
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Napoleon Bonaparte Arbogast, aged 69 years, of Durbin, was found dead in his bed Friday morning, July 31, 1925. Burial at the graveyard above Travelers Repose Sunday afternoon.
Thus, is noted the passing of one of the best-known citizens of the Town of Durbin and the Green Bank District. He was the son of late Adam Arbogast and Sarah McDaniels Arbogast. In his teens, Mr. Arbogast was afflicted with inflammatory rheumatism, which left him almost a helpless cripple. He went on crutches ever afterwards. He learned the shoemaker’s trade and worked at the bench for years. He was honored by the people of his district with the office of Justice of the Peace; later he was postmaster of Durbin. By diligence, industry and thrift he accumulated a good estate.
