Thursday, October 4, 1900
A five-year-old child of Eliza Campbell, staying at J. R. Apperson’s was kicked in the face by a colt Wednesday, breaking a part of the upper jaw and knocking out four teeth. Dr. Price rendered medical aid and reports a bad but not necessarily dangerous wound.
Col. O’Connel is locating a camp of 200 men on Beaver Creek, about five miles from Huntersville, with a view to cutting six million feet of pulpwood. It will be moved by a tramway to the main track of the railroad and sent on to Covington as fast as needed. By the time this is used up, the road may be in operation to Durbin and there may be no more driving by the river.
On Tuesday, as Henry White, of Driscol, was returning home from Hunters-ville, his horse shied at a valise near the Curry Spring, and Mr. White was thrown with such violence as to dislocate one of his arms at the shoulder. Repeated efforts were made by the strongest men available to reduce the joint, but in vain. He was then chloroformed by Dr. Patterson and then by strong effort the dislocation was readjusted and in a few hours. Mr. White was able to drive home and is doing well.
ACCIDENT TO R. K. BURNS
Robert K. Burns, of Academy, went with a four-horse team to the Hot Springs for a load of cement. He started back Tuesday evening and having failed to get a place to stay all night, was driving about eleven o’clock on the road on the spur just beyond Jackson’s River.
The night was very dark and the road extremely dangerous if approached too near the edge, as the bank is very precipitous for several hundred feet below the road. He had with him Bob Rose who was walking in front carrying a lantern. At a place where the road made an in curve, it seems that the wa-gon and team went straight on. The wagon was precipitated down the bank, some of the barrels of cement going to the bottom of the hill. They weighed 300 pounds each.
Mr. Burns was in the wreck and came out of it with a leg crushed just above the ankle. He was removed to Mrs. S. D. Price’s where he is now. He suffered four fractures. Drs. Criser and Page set the leg, and he is now doing as well as could be expected. The team and wagon were not hurt. Going over the road is a danger that is ever present for waggoners in a mountainous country, and the road between Marlinton and Millboro has many places marked by accidents of this sort.
HANDY THOUGHTS
We would furnish our readers with a few pearls of thought that will beautify the character of all who may use them.
Never think what you would not do, but never do what you would not do again.
Walk if you can; ride if you must; crawl if you have to; but whatever you do, keep moving.
A man with more theology than he has religion, is like a boy wearing his grandfather’s overcoat.
Without good common sense, knowledge is a cripple, beauty an idiot and strength a lunatic.
Love of honor honeycombs the heart; love of wealth hardens the heart; love of pleasure rots the heart.
Courage without politeness is rudeness; without caution, foolishness; and courage without love is cruelty.
Never talk unless you have something to say.
Life without love is like a table without food.
He who has lost faith has lost everything.
DUNMORE
Hugh P. McLaughlin was in town Sunday morning for a burial outfit for Mrs. Jasper Dilley, who died at her home near Huntersville, aged 35. Mrs. Dilley was a daughter of Perry Hogsett, and was a good woman, kind wife and loving mother. She leaves a husband, six children and a host of friends to mourn her loss. Her disease was consumption.
John Shanklin says he will give $50 towards an iron fence around the Dunmore graveyard. All public-spirited persons should contribute and have the fence put up.
There are about 300 men at work at the new town of Cass.
John Shanklin has had a nice monument erected at his son’s grave and has put a substantial iron fence around it. A neat monument was also erected to the Greeks who were killed at the same time that Mr. Shanklin was.
DIED
Summers Dilley, aged 45 years, died at his home in Greenbrier County near Frankford. He was a man highly respected for his good character; and his death is sincerely lamented. He worked hard all his life and was a kind, truehearted man. He was a native of Pocahontas County and moved to Greenbrier about a year ago. He leaves a wife and six or seven children.
THE REASON
We heard recently for the first time the reason given by an old gentleman of the name of Goff for his defeat for a county office in the primary. He was asked to what he ascribed his defeat. He said, “you see, most of my friends stayed at home on election day, and what did come out voted against me.”
THE TALE OF A YELLOW DOG
A boy came to the house of a gentleman in one of our northwest counties and wanted to sell him a yellow dog, which he led by a string. Now, this dog was of forty different strains of blood and each as bad, but the trading began.
“Will he suck eggs?” asked the prospective buyer.
“No sir, he won’t.”
“Well, I guess I don’t want him then. The hens have been crawling under the house and laying eggs and they spoil. I want a dog which will go under the house and suck them.”
“Well, now, Mister, when I come to think about it, I believe I did hear Ma say he’d suck eggs.”
