Thursday, August 13, 1925
GOOD FELLOWSHIP TOUR
The Third Annual Good Fellowship tour of the Livestock Association and the State Dairymen’s Association came through the Greenbrier Valley this year.
They arrived at Marlinton on Sunday night about 150 strong in some 40 odd automobiles. They had come from Cheat Bridge by way of Greenbank and the Knapps Creek Valley. They were fed and stalled at the county Fair Ground by the 4-H children of the Boys and Girls Agricultural clubs. The Kiwanis officially welcomed them.
On Monday, the party was augmented by a lot of town folks and went down the Seneca Trail to the Little Levels.
At Lanty McNeel’s farm, a regular stock dipping demonstration was staged at the Millpoint community dipping vat. This is one of five community vats in Pocahontas County. Horses, cattle, sheep, hogs and dogs were put through and under the disinfectant for the entertainment and instruction of the company. …
A bunch of about 100 bluegrass three-year-old steers were shown on the Wm. T. Beard old homeplace. This is as pretty a bunch of cattle as any man ever saw, in good condition, uniform in size and will go on the market at 1,400 pounds and better.
Then on to Hillsboro. The fine high school and graded school buildings were inspected, and the wonder grew that a village the size of Hillsboro could have such commodious and modern school buildings and equipment.
Lunch was served at the Presbyterian church by the ladies of the Community Club, and it was a fine meal. It was eaten picnic fashion under the beautiful trees on the church lawn… Rev. J. C. Johnson, pastor of the Oak Grove church, welcomed the visitors with an eloquent speech…
“We hope you will enjoy the day looking over this beautiful valley, nestling here among the Alleghanies like a jewel in the hand of a queen. We throw open our hearts and home today. Every dimpling dell, every bosky glade and every mountain face smiles you a cordial welcome.”
After lunch the tourists became de-tourists by reason of state highway work on the Droop Mountain, and they went around the end of the mountain.
A stop was made at the Callison Farm to see a herd of 50 or more registered Hereford cows with calves. Then on to Greenbrier, and this editor turned back…
The party consists of farmers and their families, university professors, county agents and other agricultural workers, and newspaper men. It is seeing West Virginia at first hand all right. For a day they traveled in Pocahontas County, and one man remarked that she sure was one whopper of a county.
DURBIN CHAUTAUQUA
The Durbin Chautauqua Committee has received its assignment of duties and is now asking everyone to reserve August 14, 15 and 17 for attendance at this community affair… The correlated series of lectures will deal with vital considerations of national, community and personal success and each entertainment organization will provide that good and wholesome type of recreation which is of lasting benefit. … Lectures include: “The Inalienable Rights of the Child,” “The Man the World Does Not Know,” “Education of All,” “This Way Out,” “Brothers All,” and a three-act drama, “When Mother Goes on a Strike.”
ASKING FOR A RENEWAL
Following is a letter sent out by an Illinois publisher to subscribers whose subscription to his paper had expired:
“A few days ago, we sent a letter to 10 of our most valued readers, reminding them that their subscriptions had expired and gently hinting that an early remittance would be appreciated.
“Five of them promptly paid up. One replied that he would pay ‘next week’ – but he died the following Saturday. Another said he would pay “the next time he saw us.” He went blind.
And yet another telephoned that he ‘would run down and pay us sometime.” He has the rheumatism now and can’t even walk.
The ninth said he would see us in hell first.’ He got religion that night and will not be able to keep the appointment.
“We have not heard from the 10th one yet, and the 10th one happens to be you.”
SMELLS
My Daddy smells like tobacco and books,
Mother, like lavender and Listerine;
Uncle John carries a whiff of cigars.
Nannie smells starchy and soapy and clean.
Sandy, my dog, has a smell of his own
(when he’s been out in the rain he smells most).
But Katie, the cook, is more splendid than all –
She smells exactly like hot buttered toast!
DIED
George W. McKeever died Tuesday morning at his home on Swago. His age was 86 years. For many months he had been in failing health. Mr. McKeever was one of the prominent citizens of the county. During the Civil War he was an officer in the State Guard.
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Aunt Susan Graves, aged about 80 years, died Saturday morning at the home of J. H. Knapper, in Marlinton. She had appeared to be in her usual health on arising, but as she went about the household duties, she was stricken with apoplexy and died a few minutes later. On Sunday afternoon, her body was laid to rest in the cemetery at Brownsburg. A large congregation paid tribute of respect by their presence…
Aunt Susan was born a slave in the family of Colonel Lanty Lockridge, of Knapps Creek, the father of the late Colonel James T. Lockridge. She was closely associated with the family all her life. She had seen and served five generations of this family. At her grave were the granddaughter, great-granddaughter and the great-great-granddaughter of her old master.
Hers was the humble and contrite heart following, as best she knew how, her Lord and Master with an abiding and childlike faith. She went through a long life that had more than the usual share of privation and tribulation, but down to her last days, she shared the joy of the home brightened by the coming of a new life, and the sorrow of the house of mourning.
