Thursday, July 13, 1899
We learn from the Randolph Enterprise that Lee Bowers was killed at Pickens July 3, by James Alkire, in a fight. They had been drinking together and Alkire took a piece of tobacco from Bowers’ pocket who accused him of stealing it. Bowers’ head was crushed with a piece of steel about four inches long. Alkire is in jail in Beverly.
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The rural mail delivery system has been in operation about Harrisonburg for several months and has caused universal dissatisfaction. It restricted the people to the use of the delivery wagon and they were hampered by waiting until it came. They also objected to the red tape required of the delivery man. The people have signed petitions to have it discontinued.
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Mrs. Sarah Gay died at her home near Frankford, July 8th, 1899, after a season of distressing nervous prostration from a complication of ailments. She was the daughter of the late John Auldridge, of Swago, and the wife of John J. Gay, who survives along with three sons and two daughters…
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Wilbur Sharp, aged 8, runs the engine at his father’s planning mill. He is often left in charge of the engine. Ten cents a day he thinks a very reasonable charge for a planning mill engineer. He also runs a bank account, and is probably the youngest man in the county entitled to draw a check.
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A cattle man says that on one occasion he took a bell from the neck of a steer which had been wearing it for some time, and put it on another one of the herd. The steer which had been deprived of the bell bawled and showed signs of great distress and for some time after being deprived of the trinket did not thrive.
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A snake killing contest is in progress on a Greenbrier farm, the score standing now among the four engaged in the righteous warfare: 21, 20, 20, and 19. One scored an unexpected point by discovering a snake in a sheaf on which he was sitting on top of a load of wheat. It was killed and scored and coiled in a life-like position and the driver of the next load of wheat nearly broke his neck climbing down to get it.
FATAL ACCIDENT
Tuesday evening Dr. Cunningham found William Galford, of Linnwood, lying dead in the road between Dunmore and Huntersville, at the upper end of Perry Hogsett’s place. Later, the body was identified as that of William Galford, who has been driving a team for B. F. Hamilton, a merchant at Linnwood. His head was badly crushed. Amos and Joe Dilley came up shortly and W. J. Grose, Justice, went up from Huntersville to hold an inquest if necessary.
Galford had left Linnwood in the morning and stopped for dinner at Henry Rider’s near Dunmore. He was on his way to Hamilton’s farm in the “Hills.” At the place he was found is a short steep hill. The signs showed that the wagon had been run upon the bank and upset and then dragged to the foot of the hill, where the team was found. One horse was down with the other standing over him.
Galford was a widower and leaves one child.