Thursday, November 9, 1899
Last Sunday night was very frosty and a stranger showed strange taste in lying down in the street in front of a Marlinton hotel. He was heard to mutter: “This is a — — of a hotel; they don’t give a man enough cover to keep him from freezing.”
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Marlinton seems to be growing in popularity with a certain hilarious class as being a good place to get on a drunk. Their presence is a nuisance, and women and children are constantly in terror of meeting a drunk man when they happen to be alone on the street.
A gentleman said the other day that leaving the town unincorporated and without town officers was a bid to those who wanted a place in which to get drunk…
We were sorry to hear a man, whose home was in a city, say he had seen more drunk men in Marlinton in the few weeks he had been here than he ever saw in the city where he lived…
BROWNSBURG
Please allow me space in your valuable paper, as it has been some time since you have heard from us.
The mornings are very frosty, clear and still.
Mrs. Mary Hunter, who had not seen her mother, Aunt Annie Wheeler, for 20 years, is now visiting her relations and friends in this part.
On the 28th of October, the people of this place gave a grand entertainment for the benefit of fencing the graveyard and it was attended by a very large crowd from the camp at the tunnel and the camp near Colonel Levi Gay’s, and everything moved along pleasantly. The amount that was taken in was $50.
We return our sincere thanks to our many white and colored friends who have helped us. Now, let us, as a colored people, be of a more perfect union and the Lord will pour showers of blessing upon us.
CAMPAIGN LITERATURE
If you want to make a Democrat mad, tell him that the present business activity of the country is due to the effects of the McKinley administration. One would think that this would have the effect of converting the Democrat to Republicanism, but it does not. It only makes him mad. He has sense enough to know that the country is thriving not because of McKinley, but in spite of him. The Hinton Leader is using the following advertisement from the Roanoke Times as indicating the conditions under Republica rule, and asks if ever anybody saw a similar advertisement during the incumbency of a Democratic President:
WANTED. Three thousand men to work on the C & O RY., (96 miles) in Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties, W. Va. Wages, pick and shovel men, $1.40 per day; cart drivers, $1.40 per day; steel drivers, $1.50 per day; payable monthly. Tickets free. Cabin free. Blankets furnished, if desired. Board out of commissary $4.00 per month. Rock work, 10 hours. Report every Monday, until further notice, at 11 a.m. at office No. 8 Campbell Street. – C. G. Bowers & Co.
We know of a number of our Republican friends who honestly believe that, without the doctrines of the Republican party, the country would not last a year.
DIED
Mary Hoxsie Grimes, age 12, daughter of Craigen B. and Rachel Grimes, died November 3, 1899. She was greatly beloved, and the entire community was bereaved at her departure. She was beautiful in person and had a bright mind and was advanced in her studies beyond her years.
She was happily converted at Stamping Creek school house and joined the Methodist Church, South, October 22, 1899, and only 12 days from that day, she passed into the Upper Kingdom…
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October 28, 1899, the vicinity of Edray was bereaved of a very worthy and much esteemed citizen by the death of Mr. James Auldridge, in the 75th year of his life. He was the eldest son of the late Thomas Auldridge. The most of his life was devoted to farming, with the exception of a few years. He was one of the first clerks in Amos Barlow’s store at Edray, and then superintended a mill and carding machine near his late residence. As a farmer, he illustrated very successfully how the comforts of one of the best of homes and fertile fields could be evolved from flat woodlands…
Mr. Auldridge was married twice. His first wife was Miss Mary Ann, daughter of the late John Barlow. She and three children died in 1864, among the first victims of diphtheria in their neighborhood…
The second wife was Miss Julia Ann Duncan, daughter of the late William Duncan. They were married October 28, 1866, and by an interesting coincidence, his death occurred on the 33rd anniversary of this second marriage.
Sunday afternoon, his remains were carried to Mt. Pleasant graveyard, where the other deceased members of his family are buried…
