Thursday, August 17, 1899
Grandpap McLaughlin went to the huckleberry woods on Thomas Creek last week and picked 33 gallons of huckleberries, and brought them to the McLaughlin house. He did not kill, see or hear any rattlesnakes on his itinerary.
It is not the noise of the cannon that kills, but the shot. It’s not brag that gets us your trade – it’s our prices. Mason quart jars 65¢; one-half gallon jars 80¢ per dozen. Best granulated su-gar 6 1/2¢. Other goods proportionately low. L. D. Sharp, Linnwood, W. Va.
The new Methodist church to be erected at Academy is to be a frame building, extreme dimensions 48 x 93 feet. The plans of W. A. Cann, architect, of St. Louis, are to be used. Joseph Knapp is the contractor and the cost of the church is to be $3,300. The cornerstone is of Pocahontas marble.
Grady McNeel, the eight year old son of John A. McNeel, of Farmington, Washington, met with a serious misfortune in the loss of his remaining eye. When a very young child, he upset in his face a can of liquid potash destroying the sight of an eye. A week or so since, when playing with hammer and nails, a nail flew up and struck the pupil of the other eye, destroying the sight.
GREEN BANK
Dry and hot. Water getting very scarce both for man and beast. Corn and buckwheat ruined; sod dying.
The Ballenger Family Show at this place was largely attended. One of the showmen said there was 600 people there at 2 o’clock.
The North Fork is dry, with the exception of a few ponds for some distance, and there is a stench along the bed of the creek caused by dead trout. The surface of some of the ponds are white with dead fish of many sizes. We fear disease will break out if we don’t soon get rain.
NOTICE
To the Brethern of the Huntersville Lodge, No. 65. A. F. & A. M. and all Masons residing within its jurisdiction. A special communi- cation of the M. W. Grand Lodge of West Virginia will be convened in the town of Hillsboro (Academy) W. Va., Saturday, August 26th for the purpose of laying the cornerstone of the M. E. Church South, at which time and place you are urged to attend. Time of meeting 10:30 a.m. Cornerstone Laying 2 p.m. ~ J. Willis Baxter, W. M.
DEATH OF JOHN BURGESS
Last Saturday evening, John Burgess, of Mill Point, died suddenly of heart disease, for which he was being treated.
T. S. McNeel and J. F. Hill were on their way to Marlinton and found him lying in the road near the Steven Hole Run. Thinking there was nothing serious the matter with him they carried him to the side of the road, and rode up to his nearest neighbor, Frank Thomson, and told him. He was not dead at this time, as he muttered something which they could not understand. Late in the evening, Frank Harper came by on his way home from Webster Court. He examined him and not finding any sign of life became alarmed about his condition and had him carried into Ellis Stewart’s house which was close. The point where the body was found was not over a quarter of a mile from his own home…
The remains were buried in the McNeel graveyard last Sunday. Service were held at the Marvin Church.
The deceased was about 35 years of age. He leaves surviving him a wife and two children, one a baby just two weeks old. He was a son of William Burgess, of Academy. He had been twice married. His first wife was a Miss Rock. After her death, he married a daughter of Michael Scales, who survives him.
