Thursday, June 22, 1899
A bad runaway accident occurred at Mt. Vernon church Sunday. Joseph Lantz’s horse ran away and Mrs. Lantz was thrown out and was unconscious six hours from a blow on the head, tho not otherwise injured. The horse collided with a buggy occupied by Washington Moore and his son, Price Moore, who were both thrown out, and the aged man suffered considerably from the shock. The carriages were wrecked.
TRAIN ROBBERY
On June 2, 1899, the safe of the Pacific Express Company was blown up by train robbers near Wilcox, Wyo-ming, on the Union Pacific Railroad. Paris D. Yeager, who is in the employ of the Continental Oil Company of Denver, Colorado, sends us a fragment of the safe that was left hanging, and it is a valuable addition to The Pocahontas Times’ collection of curiosities…
The robbers, after killing one sheriff, are supposed to have escaped to the Hole-in-the-Wall Country. This a remarkable region in the western part of Wyoming to which there is only one known entrance and that only wide enough for one horse to pass at a time. It is a place of refuge for escaped criminals, and there are supposed to be in hiding there several hundred men who have prices set on their head. A small army of men have banded together to rid the State of this perpetual menace and for the sake of the rewards offered.
THE BLACK SPRUCE
It has been but a few years since people were wondering if there ever would be any demand for the great spruce forests of this county, and now it heads the list of desirable timber.
There has grown up a confusion of names in regard to some of our conifers and the black spruce is involved. It was known as the yew pine by our old time people and the hemlock spruce was called spruce. Then came the Northern lumbermen and they called the yew pine spruce and the spruce hemlock, and after a struggle of many years, the names are about righted at last. But there is Yew Mountain to retain the name and mark the fact that at one time the black spruce was known as yew pine.
Spruce makes paper and in the paper it retains some of its qualities. A few years ago the housekeeper would not use a newspaper for kindling for it would not burn, but now any newspaper made of pulp makes the best of kindling.
The Power of Purpose in Life
There is no true manhood without a high purpose. Purpose is moral concentration. It is the rudder of individual life. Purpose means having an object in life, a definite goal to attain. It is not confined to an exalted ambition, towering into the clouds of the unattainable – it means the conscious directing each individual should give to his life.
The mother in her home, can have this purpose within the four walls and may find her finest fulfillment there. It may be the consecration of her energies to the genuine, careful training of her children, watching more closely their individual needs. But it is purpose. It is not “letting things work themselves out.”
Most of the failures in life come from wasted energies, from scattering one’s forces over many subjects, from a vain attempt at versatility. Men of merely ordinary ability have made brilliant successes, while men of brilliant minds have made ordinary failures.
Well-tilled gardens pay better than poorly managed farms.
WEDDING
Mr. P. H. McNulty and Miss Lou Clark were married June 14 near Academy. The groom is a prosperous young citizen of Highland county, and the bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Preston Clark, of the Levels.
DIED
John G. Cackley, 66, died at his home in Clinton, Illinois. He was born near Huntersville, a son of William and Jennie Cackley.
The deceased was one of the best known men in his county and had been active in business until a year or two ago, when failing health compelled him to retire. He had accumulated considerable property which mainly consists of a good farm, his residence property and two store buildings. He had been an honored member of the I. O. O. F lodge for about 40 years. He was liberal and contributed freely to any worthy cause. A Clinton banker said the checks of no man for church and charitable purposes oftener came to the bank. Politically, he was a Democrat, though he took no part in the discussion of politics.
