Thursday, June 21, 1923
The old reliable June flood showed up in due form. It started to rain Monday the 10th and continued for three days and nights. The rain was thankfully received. The country was dry. Favored communities were getting showers to the envy of those deprived of the life giving element. But the rain that came last week was general and evenly distributed. The river responded with something like a four-foot rise. In respect to the June flood the Nile has nothing on us. There the water shows up from the hinterland in the month of June. The fishermen here have to wait over a few days but it does the fishing more good eventually than anything else.
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The rights of the individual are recognized by the courts. That is a doctrine that was fast being lost sight of in the rapid progress towards socialism. The principles of our government favor the growth of the individual, and the grafting of socialism upon the structure of the government has accounted for many of our ills, and especially is this true of taxation. Of course, when men are built like angels they will be nothing but glorified socialists and it will be an ideal condition. But unfortunately mankind as now constituted cannot be trusted sufficiently to ensure the success of the socialistic form of governing. The doctrine of socialism is unselfishness, and men are still selfish and it will take about twenty thousand years to breed a race that can be trusted in that way.
See the case of Providence vs Russia. That revolution differed from all others in that it did not recognize the rights of the individual.
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is the best definition of what individual rights are…
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Gifford Gordon, of Melbourne, Australia, has the following to say of our prohibition laws:
“The eighteenth amendment is the greatest social experiment the world has ever known. I have traveled over 25,000 miles of American territory since last July and have seen but nine drunken men. In Australia, you can see a drunken man for every mile you travel. We are as bad off as the United States was before the passage of your prohibition law.”
The contract has been let for a new depot at Cass. The new building will be 30 x 89 feet, and will stand 50 feet up the track from the present station. It is reported that the contract price is in the neighborhood of seven thousand dollars.
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Austin Little, Verlin Loudermilk and Burgess Dunbrack have formed a partnership and have taken over the repair department of the Marlinton Motor Company. These are experienced mechanics and have already begun to build up a nice business.
STRUCK BY RATTLESNAKE
Paul Burr, aged 16 years, was bitten on the thumb by a rattlesnake last Wednesday afternoon. First aid was given him, and he was hurried to Dr. J. W. Price, who dressed the wound. He has yet a bad hand and a swollen arm, but no serious consequences are now feared.
The young man is a son of Henry Burr, of Burr Valley. With his father, he was fixing a piece of road a mile or so from home. Their dogs were running rabbits, and one of them barked at a hollow log. The boy cleared away the bushes from the end of the log and felt something strike his thumb. He told his father he was snake bit, though he had not seen nor heard a snake. Mr. Burr came with an axe, cut open the log and found a big yellow rattler. Paul was hurried the sixteen miles to Marlinton in an automobile. The doctor found one of the fangs imbedded in the flesh of the thumb. The other fang had penetrated the skin but had torn out.
OUR TEACHERS
The Board of Education for Edray District met at Marlinton and selected the following named teachers for Edray District High School: G. D. McNeill, principal, A. G. Killingsworth, Miss Agnes L. Price, Miss Mildred L. Yeager, Mrs. Mary Frances Overholt. The remainder to be selected by the principal.
Grade teachers: J. W. G. Smith, principal, Mrs. Catherine Vaughan, Misses Eugyl Harris, Beulah Moore, Nell Yeager, Bessie Brown, Elizabeth Hill, Dorothy Irvine and Gertrude Overholt.
DIED
Sterrett Heavener Beard, fourth son of Mrs. Rachel Beard and the late Forrest Beard, died at his home in Marlinton June 13, 1923, aged 10 years… Interment at Hillsboro… Sterrett’s mother, four brothers and three sisters mourn their loss. The floral tributes were beautiful…
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Mrs. Ella Silva Barlow, wife of Anderson Barlow, died June 16, 1923, aged 47 years… Burial at the Edray graveyard on Sunday afternoon, the services being conducted from the Edray church… A congregation that filled and overflowed the large church gathered to pay respect to her memory.
Mrs. Barlow was a daughter of Robert Silva, of Mossy Rock, Washington, and his late wife, Martha Young Silva.
A notation in her Bible shows that she finished reading it through on June 13, 1920.