Thursday, August 23, 1900
O. A. Veasy, the engineer who laid out the town in 1891, was here and laid out a number of very desirable lots on the brow of the hill back of the courthouse. Also, B. M. Yeager’s which are to be sold cheap. About forty cornerstones have been quarried to mark different corners throughout the town.
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The Pocahontas Bank purchased the building in which it is doing business and the adjoining lot at $2,000. This permanently locates both of our county banks on the same block, which together with the proximity of the depot and numerous stores already established makes that the business part of the town.
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The lots near the courthouse are considered the most desirable for residences and it is destined that this section of the town will contain most of the better class of dwellings. Hubert Echols bought a lot in this section and has let a house to contract to W. J. Killingsworth to be finished by December 1. C. A. Yeager is also building in this section.
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We want to know where this fad for naming places and things for prominent people will stop. A society young lady of Marlinton has named her pet dog after a lawyer in the town.
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George W. McClintic’s party made its annual visit to the fishing ground at the Forks of Cranberry. It was made up of Geo. W. McClintic, Dr. McConihoy, Murry Briggs, Hal Knight, Harry Anderson, of Charleston, Dr. McClintic, of Academy, L. M. McClintic and Andrew Price, of Marlinton.
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It is with feelings of sincere regret that it becomes our duty to record the death of one of our prominent young citizens, D. Taylor McNeill, Commissioner of the Federal Court, merchant and postmaster at Buckeye. This sad event occurred Wednesday morning, 14 instant, aged about thirty years. He was the Republican nominee for the legislature, served as a clerk on a senatorial committee last session; and was an enthusiastic member of the Masonic Fraternity and from early youth a professing Christian in the pale of the M. P. Church.
NEW NEWSPAPER
C.A. Monroe Meadows has been here for the past week making arrangements to start a Republican weekly newspaper at this place by the name of the Marlinton Messenger. He expects to get out the first issue about the first of next month. The paper is to be a six-column folio. We take a melancholy pleasure in welcoming to Marlinton this companion in adversity.
DUNMORE
All day singing at Stony Bottom Sunday. All leaders of music are requested to come and bring your books.
Sears, Roebuck & Sco-field have opened up a big store at Stony Bottom in the west end of town.
Work is progressing finely at the new town of Cass. The telephone line will be completed to that town from Green Bank.
Wagon loads of people are off to Cheat Mountain for black berries.
Auctioneer Swecker has a wagonload of shoes and some other goods placed in his hands for sale, which will be sold at auction in the near future at Green Bank.
ONOTO
Good morning, Mr. Editor!
It is nice and cool just now and if you will listen to me a few moments, I will tell you some of the news of our section of the country. No doubt you know where Onoto is located, but some of your many readers may not. This thriving place is situated on a little rise between Stony Creek and the Big Spring one mile and a half from Edray. Onoto is booming since we have gotten a mail route, three sawmills almost in sight and more coming, one planer and two grist mills, but as we are not directly on the RR line we don’t expect any machine shops to be built here for some time.
Jackson & Doyle are going to build fence for a business as soon as Doyle gets able to work. He had the misfortune to get his knee badly sprained some time ago.
There is a movement on foot to fence the cemetery at N. S. Duffield’s. Those who have friends and relatives buried there will please meet there on Saturday, August 25, at 2 p.m. in order to dress up the graves and to appoint a committee to take charge of fencing. If the interest manifested is not sufficient, the whole cemetery will not be fenced. Surely you have not forgotten the loved ones whose dust lies here. Come and help us locate and dress up the graves.
General Cosey still sits on the lumber pile and grins. He is a jolly old fellow.
Well, Mr. Editor, the day is getting too hot for me. I must go to the shade. – Razorback.
THE PANACEA
The Politician, ever bland,
Ere long will take you by the hand
And seek to give a true reply
To all your questions as they fly.
When explanations you demand
Of how to regulate the land
To make it bloom from sea to sea,
This is his answer, “Vote for me!”
If you would know a way to stop
All kinds of damage to a crop;
If some protection you desire
Against tornadoes, floods and fire;
If you, in short, would banish all
The ills man met at Adam’s fall,
And live in sweet unchanging glee,
This is the answer, “Vote for me.”
