Thursday, April 4, 1901
STAMPING CREEK
Stamping Creek has gone Democratic; all except Mrs. Fair Play, and the last we saw of her she was mounted on her Kentuckian racer, on her way to see McKinley about sending troops to shut up that pig’s ear at the mouth of Beaver Creek, as she couldn’t make our Prosecuting Attorney obey her.
Mrs. Pooh overdid it when she said honest Jeff was crazy. She is always trying to measure other people’s corn in her half bushel. In her writings, she exhibits symptoms of mental derangement of the brain. Poor old Mrs. Pooh has gone mad over fire water.
FATAL ACCIDENT
H. H. McClintic, a prominent citizen and wealthy farmer of this county, was instantly killed last Friday afternoon, on his farm on Williams River by a falling tree.
He had spent a few days in Marlinton with his mother at the home of his brother, L. M. McClintic, and left for home Thursday afternoon. Friday, with William Hefner, an employee, he went to a distant part of his farm with a two-horse team for a load of timber. On the return the doubletrees of the wagon broke at a place in the road opposite where a spruce tree had lodged on other trees. Hefner went to the house for another doubletree and Mr. McClintic remained to watch the team.
He sat down on the upper side of the road near the butt of the lodged tree, and it is thought he must have gone to sleep as the spot was sheltered and the sun warm, and he had lost sleep the night before attending to his sheep. The lodged tree had stood all the blasts of the winter, and lately a large lynn had been cut down across it and broke off a piece eight feet long at the butt without bringing it down, and it is hard to understand why it should fall on a calm day. Probably some movement on the part of the victim brought it down. The tree fell and crushed Mr. McClintic under it, falling across the back of his head and shoulders, killing him instantly.
The funeral took place from the home of L. M. McClintic Sunday. Services at the Presbyterian church were conducted by Rev. Wm. T. Price and Rev. G. W. Nickell.
A large concourse of people attended the services. He leaves surviving him his mother, Mrs. Mary A. McClintic, four brothers, L. M. McClintic, of Marlinton, Geo. W. McClintic, of Charleston, Withrow McClintic, of this county, and E. D. McClintic, of Seattle, Washington. He was 39 years of age and unmarried.
In the death of Mr. McClintic, Pocahontas County loses one of its best and most conservative citizens. He was educated at Roanoke College, and though well fitted for a professional career, chose life on the farm near to nature, of which he was a close observer and student.
FOR HORSE LIFTING
A lumberman by the name of Nagle attended the Mann Bros. sale last week and bid on everything in sight. He finally captured a horse and buggy at the price of $101. The horse was put back in the stable waiting a confirmation of the purchase by giving note or paying cash. Later in the day he took the horse out of the stable and started for Huntersville. This was regarded as a sinister action on the part of Nagle, and William Mann, S. M. Gay and Hamp Galford went after him, got him in a mile or so out of town. He was brought back and the sergeant of the town took him to jail on a charge of drunkenness.
Monday morning, he was arraigned before Mayor King charged with horse stealing…
He was committed to jail to await the action of the grand jury. Woe to the man who has to face a Pocahontas jury on this charge.
BOY MURDERER SENTENCED
Union, W. Va. – In the Circuit Court here, the jury in the case of Charlie Crawford, the 14 year old boy who shot and killed his 16 year old brother Frank on February 11, because he refused to let him have dogs to go hunting, found him guilty of voluntary manslaughter, and he was sentenced to the Reform School till he is 21 years old. The father of the boys is serving a six-year term in the penitentiary for attempting to murder his brother-in-law and is also under indictment for forgery.
WEDDING
Married at the Edray church, March 27, 1901, by Rev. Geo. P. Moore, Harry Gum to Miss Woodsie Ratliff. The bride is the accomplished daughter of Mrs. N. E. Ratliff and the late Marcellus Ratliff. The groom is a prosperous young man of Green Bank.
The bride was beautifully arrayed in white silk, and the bridesmaids in cream cashmere… After the ceremony, they repaired to the home of the bride, where a bountiful and tasteful supper was arranged, of which forty or fifty persons partook.
