Thursday, June 10, 1898
W. M. Dean, of Lobelia, is agent for a firm dealing in the best varieties of improved wheat, and is trying to introduce it among the farmers of this county. We believe the bettering of wheat stock is a matter that should receive the attention of farmers. About a year ago, Mr. Dean’s new house and all its contents, representing the savings of himself and his wife of thirty years, ever since he came out of the Confederate army, burned up. He desires to return thanks for the many kindnesses shown him since that time by friends who have contributed to his great necessity.
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Peter C. Hill, of Jacox, was in town Monday and called at The Times office. He informs us that his neighbor, L. P. Curry, found a fine gold-plated watch in a piece of new ground, which was not damaged in the slightest and runs well. It was probably lost by a hunter or sang-digger. Mr. Hill has in his possession a book which was presented to his grandmother more than one hundred years ago; the hand made hunting knife used by Richard Hill (his grandfather); a silver coin of 1777, and other relics of Richard Hill, the famous hunter and scout.
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Jim Sizemore, who was indicted some time ago, charged with stealing a polecat skin, was arrested last week on a capias and lodged in jail. The evidence against him is supposed to show that he took the pelt from Pullin & Co.’s wareroom and sold it to Golden. He had absented himself from the county, but returned to visit his parents who live on Valley Mountain in the Levels. There he was nabbed by a deputy sheriff.
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M. W. Gordon, of Beaver Dam, a Confederate Veteran who saw two brothers die in the war, was a welcome visitor to The Times office last Friday. He was accompanied to Marlinton by Mrs. Gordon who was taken suddenly ill and had to wait some hours before she could return home.
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Renick Kerr started to Staunton one day last week and got to Green Hill and one of his horses dropped dead in the wagon. This is a great loss to Mr. Kerr.
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John West Carpenter lost a fine cow. She died for want of breath.
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John Lange, who had been confined in the asylum and dismissed as cured, was again committed to jail as a lunatic.
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A young man named Riley, of Green Bank, was arrested last week and while waiting to be examined by the justice, he made his escape and has not been retaken.
LOBELIA ITEMS
W. B. Hill is in the eastern markets to buy goods for the Lobelia store. He will visit the Capital while gone.
Fine growing weather. Corn looks well, wheat good. Road working has been the order of the last few days.
Mumps are a thing of the past here. The report of Mount Lebanon and the surrounding country, where our Musical Association was to have been held, was dealt a death blow by one of our county boys so we learn. The report was this: that we could not accommodate more than fifteen persons and the place where the church was situated was not fit for a pauper’s grave yard. We hope this gentleman will find something else to talk about at leisure hours.
Come one and come all.
A Bee is Kept
A girl from town is staying with some country cousins who live at a farm. On the night of her arrival she finds, to her mortification, that she is ignorant of all sorts of things connected with farm life which to her country cousins are matters of every day knowledge. She fancies they seem amused at her ignorance.
At breakfast the following morning, she sees on the table a dish of very fine honey, whereupon she thinks she has found an opportunity of retrieving her humiliating experience of the night before and of showing her country cousins that she knows something of country life after all. So, looking at the honey, she says carelessly:
“I see you keep a bee.”
OBITUARY
Died, at Weston, May 24, 1898, Andrew J. Smith, son of A. J. Smith, of Edray, in the 25th year of his age. His illness was measles, complicated with acute gastritis and was of brief, but painful duration.
He was a very exemplary young person and his habits of industry gave promise of a useful and successful life. He was a skillful shoe and harness maker, and had recently turned his attention to photography and was succeeding quite well. A few years since, his mind became impaired and he was placed in the Weston Hospital…
He took an interest, when in health, in the literary society, so efficiently conducted at Edray for years, and was an expert in the use of firearms. One of his last feats of marksmanship was last August when he stood at the door of his shop and brought down a hawk, soaring far above, which measured four feet and two inches from tip to tip…
He had never formerly united with any church, but persons say that in conversation with him, he told them his heart was changed and that he was satisfied of being in a saving state of grace, through his trust in Christ. This testimony was given before his first mental illness…