Thursday, March 2, 1899
Some parties about Marlinton supplemented their ample stores of ice by gathering some of the solid and beautiful crystal products of the late freezing. It would be hard to imagine how ice could be more solid or nicer, apart from a glacier, than what could have been taken from the Greenbrier last week.
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J. A. Rider is making a record as mail carrier between Warm Springs and Huntersville. February 21, he left the Springs with a leather pouch and two canvas sacks full up and tied on the horse, while the carrier had to walk and lead or drive. In moralizing on this hard way of getting along, the Enterprise pertinently observes, “That owing to mail contracts being let to lowest bidders, the rat with the shortest tail gets into the hole first.”
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One day last week, a man named Brooks, on Grassy Creek, about five miles north of Addison, went out to chop down a tree for firewood. He selected a large tree and felled it. It struck the ground and broke into several pieces, being hollow, and imagine Mr. Brooks’ surprise to see a large bear crawl from one of the pieces and make off. …
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Mrs. Catherine Burr, a very worthy aged lady residing at Burr Valley, came near being fatally injured by the deep snow. She was preparing for the weekly wash in the shed used for that purpose when the roof burdened with the snow, fell and would have crushed her to death had it not been for the crossbar on which the wash kettle was suspended over the fire. As it was, she was hurt considerably about the shoulders and temporarily disabled from her domestic duties in which she is so proficient and energetic. Mrs. Burr is the widow of the late John Burr, who died suddenly in F. J. Snyder’s law office at Huntersville several years ago, and the mother of Alvin Burr whose death was announced last week.
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A number of charitable Huntington citizens came upon a pitiable sight the other morning. A family of half a dozen children had gathered about a half peck of chicken heads and were engaged in cooking them, feathers and all, preparatory to eating with potato peelings, which the little ones had gathered from garbage barrels. The able-bodied, but drunken father, was taken to jail, and the little ones provided for by the kind citizens.
A HORSE FANCIER
Houston Fogus, of Greenbrier, was lodged in jail at this place last week for a few days as he was being taken to Greenbrier to answer the charge of horse stealing. About the first of January, it is charged, he broke the lock of a stable and took a horse belonging to a man named Walton. He clipped the tail and mane of the horse and traded it to a citizen on Droop for another horse which he disposed of on Swago. He hired to W. McClintic and since then has been in the woods at the camps on Williams River. Robert K. Burns arrested him and will receive the very liberal reward offered for his arrest. The prisoner is a man of little or no intelligence, not far removed from a state which would relieve him of the responsibility of his acts.
KNAPPS CREEK
News is scarce, but mud is plentiful.
Upton Sharp is off to the Hot Springs for dry goods for Hannah & Harper.
M. F. Herold caught his whiskers in a bear trap last week.
Brad Sharp and Price Moore boarded the train Thursday morning at Hot Springs for parts unknown.
DUNMORE ITEMS
About 20 head of cattle froze to death in this section during the cold snap.
Miss Lillian B. McElwee is on the sick list.
Fine weather for sugar making. Some of the sugar makers have to get out an injunction to stop the trees to keep them from running off.
J. L. Dysard spent Sunday in town. He is putting a phone in his store at Green Bank so he can talk to the girls. That will be very nice, indeed.
Joe Eiple and Sheriff Sheets were at Marlinton Saturday. Sam Sheets has more business on hand at this time than a Sunday school superintendent.
FROM ELK
L. D. Sharp is selling writing tablets of 20 leaves for 1¢ each.
J. W. Jackson gave his grey horse to Gay and Thompson. He says it is more blessed to give than to receive.
Gay & Thompson are horse trading in this neighborhood. Levi Gibson is also dealing in horses preparatory to going on the round up.
Randolph Hamrick and Jacob Beverage are fox chasing these days. They ran a fox all day and when they finally caught up with him, it proved to be a skunk.
