VALENTINES , SENTIMENTAL AND COMIC,
THE MARIilNTON DRUG STORK.
Mra. Lucy Gay is very sick, Buffering from an attack of the grip. '
GHOST IN MARUNTON.
Born, to ,Mr. and Mra. J. T. Knight, Saturday, February^th,
l -.MI;., a daughter.
Born, to Mr. and Mra. Kenney, February 3rd, a daughter.
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Lowiabarg, was in Marlinton on Tuesday between traina.
A aleigh with body woven-of hickory withes was oue of the nt,^l featurea on oar atroets Tuea- day^'^**ssw .
G. E. Miller, manager of the Marlinton Furniture Company's store, was in Louisville, Ky , this week.
Myrl Irvin skated from Cass to Marlinton, a distance of nearly thirty miles, in two hours last Saturday.
The Baltimore Suq says two attempts havo been made by in- cendiaries to burn the college buildings at Elkfhs.
Mrs. Joseph Sharp, of Wvo- mitg, who has spent some montha at the home of her mother, Mrs. Clark, at Academy, started for home on Wednesday.
The Marlinton Orchestra gave ♦he second entertainment of the series to a large '•and appreciative audience Saturday night. It is to be hoped that these musicales will continue through the summer sea- son. -
At the Council meeting Tues- day night little was done other than to arrange for a settlement with F. P. Anderson, late ser- geant, and prepare to build and make some much needed repairs in the walks. A called meeting will be held shortly.
For twc weeks a sensational murder trial was held in Roauoke, Va., involving two or more prom- inent families of that city, the Fishburns and Lefews. Charles R. Fishburn was on trial for kill- ing Dr. Fred Lefew. The ver- dict Was voluntary manslaughter and a term of five years in the penitentiary.
The new town of Spruce is rearing completion. Many of the houses are now ecctfpled, the .stores are being fitted' up and ^he mill is soon to be in operation. The old town of Spruce has been
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The Bank of Marlinton. At the annual meeting of the
etockholders of the Bank of Mar- linton held last Monday the fol-
- lowing directors wero elected for the ensuing year; M. J. McNeel, 1'resident; M. L. Beard, Vice- President; E. W- Campbell, J. C Gay, Isaac McNeel, W. W, Beard, B. F. McElwee and An- al row Price.
All but seven shares of the trtoek were represented and
The Spirit of Warwick RcnkkaResta Uneasily.
Warwuk Renick, the faithful janitor ot the Bank of Marlinton Building, whose death occurred eonio weeks since, has "beer. Been by a number of persona the paat wcok. He is ever going about his one time accustomed haunts, apparently attending the duties he once performed so dilligontly.
As Gco. W. Ashcraft, proprie- tor of a restaurant on Main street, was oppoaite the Bank of Mar- linton building, going to the meat market Wednesday morning be- fore daylight, he saw Warwick come from behind the preacrip tfon case in the Marlirtyn Drug store, examine the lights whieb are kept burning all night, unlock the front loqr, and pass along the walk to the banking'room* door which he unlocked. Mr. Ash- craft distinctly hoard the key turn in the lock. A few seconds elapsed and Warwick was again aeon at the Cashier's desk. He next approached the door which he locked from the inside and again Mr. Ashcraft heard the squeak of the Key.
Mr. Ashcraft thought nothing of the occurrence while it was transpirn g, and wondered at him- self for paying so minute atten- tion to a scene he had witnessed daily for the number of years Warwick had been janitor. As Warwick locked the bank door from the inside it dawned on Mr. Ashcraft that Warwick was dead and had been buried. Warwick was then seen no more and Mr. Ashcraft went on the meat shop.
A popular salesman traveling for a wholesale shoe house came to town early in the week. This is his first trip here since War- wick's decease, whom he knew well. Ao came on the evening train and the day being bad few people were there. . He saw War wick spoke to him and asked that he carry his grip. He received no response, and while hunting foi check, Warwick disappeared. Shortly after he heard that War- wick had died and experienced a revulsion of his views upon things supernatural.
R. M. Beard has.alsosecnRen- ick cutting up wood at his cabin several nights since his death, the same as he.has been doing for the past yearB. He is positive it was Warwick. Mr. Beard is no be- liever in ghosts and is very much worked up over the vision.
Harry McDowell, a highly res- pected colored man, has also seen Warwick on a number of occasions Unolo Harry was born with a cowl and consequently is embued with the power of second sight and is a medium through whom commu- nication can be had with the de- parted .
There are many who are not at surprised at Warwick's return, and some who actually expected it, inas much as he was a man of property and bis affairs were in a very unsettled condition. Fur- ther manifestations are looked forward to with breathless inter eat.
Warwick is know to have had a largo sum of money in gold. Since his death no trace can be
Musk There are many kinde of music,
but why is it that it is so seldom one hears music that appeals to himf It is not altogether the fault of his ear, surely, for there have been occasions when he has been lifted entirely above self and for the time being waa a good man, if transient desirta and incl-na- ttona to live a naef ul life connt for anything. Some music inspire8, other muaic aoothea, there ia a great deal that neither stirs nor aoothes, though'lt may be mechan- ically perfect, while there has been a vast volumu cf sound palmed off to us in the form, but not with the effect of music.
Maybe we aro not possessed of that mysterious substance com- monly known as a higher nature, bnt if we have one, know assuredly that our artistic sense has not been cultivated to that degree of feather edgeneaa required to take hold and separate the beautiful from the discord which so oftentimes aur- rounda and covers up. Neither lias our education gone far enough to know what we should commend or what to ridicule in order that our views may coincide with those of an accepted authority whose taste U pampered and brashyfrom being tempered to a higher ten- sion than the material warranted.
We are told that there is really music in all the different produc- tions of the masters if it can be gotten out. but the gift of repro- duction is to but one in ten thous- and and only then after a life time of assiduous application is he able to render tho music,, not alone as it is written, but as it was realized in the soul of the compo- ser.
There is more poetry in the free running of a single water wheel than the finest piece of machinery in the bands of one inexperienced in the ways of the machine, who starts it with a jar and stops it with a jolt.
Our church services are woefully lacking for music. The latter day books either despise the simpler hymns of our fathers Or have so changed the tunes that it is hard to recognise the hymns as the same. As a consequence congre- gational singing has become a mi- nus quality and the choir itself is oftentimes" mouthing something it really does no^ understand. We do not pretend to say that all the new hymns are bad for many are sublime, but the change has tieen too radical, and we not wonder at the minister omitting the third and fourth stanzas. Were we in charge we .might oliminate the whole.
The most ploasing music we have heard recently was that at a negro service where the leader lined out the hymn, two lines at a time, and every one sang with a zeal and understanding; perhaps" not the words, but certainly the sentiment was not lost by any. The same day we were at a church where there wero perhaps ten tjtnes the number of persons pres- ent, and we could not help but mark the contrast between the singing in the poor dilapidated school house of the qegro settle- ments and the pretentious meeting house of the white* folks, where a grand old hymn of the Scottish Highlands barely lived to_ see its
A New Fad In Sight.
One of the pleasant thinga ofrr- cent occurrence waa an interview with a gentleman holding a prom- inent position with one of the lead- ing industries of our vicinity. His apecial dutiea require his preaonce in several atatea at frequent inter- vale and hia opportunities for dis- cerning the signa of the times and testing the temper of the voting element are exceptionally favora- ble.
He ia an enthusiastic admirer of Mr. Rooaevelt and regarda him as the friend of the American peo- ple, in a senae not fully realized since the ada iniatration of Abra- ham Lincoln, or even of Washing- ton himself.
From "what this gentleman has seen and heard, North. East, South and West, since the ides of No- vember, he feels sure that the time is just about at hand, that seats in the Senate, Congress and Legislature wilfsoon be too hot for anybody but the conscien- tiously honest and patriotic ele- ments of the younger citizenship with unblemished personal records aa to character, without special reference to political or partisan affiliations.
Or in other words, tho coming fad will be honeaty, pure and ab- solute, in thought, word and ac- tions and fortunate will be . the caudiJate, young or elderly, who c in pass the requisite ordeal, de- manded by the patient, patriotic and much suffering people, seek- ing relief. .
Since hearing such talk I lave read an editorial in one of the
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discovered of his savings, thougl every place has been ransancked. eecond stanza mutilated. thoroughly. Even the soil in the boiler room where he spent much of hia time has been turned up.
decision waa made to increase the capital stock from f25,000 to $50,000 on account of the largely increased volume of buaineaa. The
_ •rear paat has been the most pros- perous one of its history, the in.j
. atitution yielding net dividends of . ihirty per cent.
Mra. V»fRtn»* R Mallory. Mrs". Virginia R. Mallory, of
Richmond, Va.. died Wedneaday, February 8th, aged sixty fopr years, of pneumonia. She waa the only survivirg sisrer of Mra. William T. Price, of Marlinton. She leaves aurviving her three Rons and one daughter.
Linnwood. Stock looking very well and hay
plentiful. Some sickness in this vicinity.
Franklin Tracy is quite ill at pres-
ents. Patrick Hamilton is yet unable
to work, from rheumatism. Mrs. Susan Wooddell has been
sick with la grippe. Willie Wooddell averages a
skunk a day. * E. F- Curry b buying up^ fur
and giving a go™d price. Ken Meeka and* lady passed
throngh this vicinity returning from her father's, G. C. Hoover.
Meaara. John Tracy, and Dick Randolph and Calvin W. ghowgUeP, alidded to plover
Wed" Cick and returned with a corn Price, her nephews, left on nesday evening'* train to attend the funeral. The aflhool at this place taught
by H. M. Dodrill cJo«ed the 8rd
inst. Dr. M. Dodrill •" UP from
Bank at Dorbin- A charter ha' been iaaued to E.
D.T.lbotand o'.her Elkio. men Count, to .ee .ome p. lor a State Bank at Durbin, cap-!W , ' rl_ Italired at $30,000. The instil.- tie** recently tion will opened at an early date*, | The <noW 0f Wednesday block- «. soon as a 'building can be ^ (rgffic on tbe Greenbrier Divl- •erected.. The banking bastoer* of ^. « R11 0f the trains being that tection is largely controlled ^^j i„ between here and Ro'n- •by Elkins banka at present, owing eeverte. A anow plow w« pat on
Eo a jpcrior railway toil it let. • the rotdTharaday morning.
Huntersvilie. A. S. Hoover of Princess Ann,
Md.. yisited his uncle, J. D. Dil- ley, several days last week.
Dr. Patterson was called in to see J. W. McCarty who is quite sick, but is leported better at this time.
8. R. Hogaett was visiting at Coe Beverage's last Sunday. - Mrs. Walter Cole and Mrs. El- len Phillips are on the sick list.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gooth, Jan. 22, '05,.twin boys, all doing well.
J. S. Moire was around last week buying fur.
The String Band of. Brown's Creek gave H. P, McGlaughlln some fine music last Friday.
Frank Moore says he knows where to go to start a fox.
Jasper Dilley baa been hauling lamber from Knapps Creek.
J. O. Carry and daughter of Hunteraville, were visiting at Mr. Bhsldon Moores laat Sunday.
Sheldon Moore, J. D. J>llley, Henry Sampson and ton, and E. H. McGlaugMin, made a buaineaa tr!p to Marlioton laat Tuesday.
H. P. MeGlaugblin waa calling on bla old frendi in the Hills one day last week.
Hevener Dilley eays the tied ride st Frost wu juat O. K.
ablest papers published in Boston, whose editor never cast a Demo- cratic vote, so called. He admon- ished his readers to consider for a moment certain happenings of the past few weeks, with their impli- cations. One of the happenings, was that of the Supreme Court of the United States in granting a a new trial to Senator Burton of Kansas on a technicality of law, practically re-affirmed his guilt aa a man who used his place to en- rich himself.
Senator Mitchell of Oregon made a speech and shed some tears, when charged with being in connection with the sale of public lands in Oregon and now with- draws from the Senate to await the verdict of the csurts.
Congress has voted to impeach a Federal Circuit Court Judge. One charge is the filing of vouch- ers for expense incurred while Judge which he never incurred, and it is said that the custom is common among the Federal judges who take the limit allowed wheth- er earned or not.
In Missouri disclosures brought out an alliance between one of the leading Republican candidates for the United States Senate and the brewers of St. Louis in raising funds with which it is alleged the recent political victory'was gained and the obligations incurred by this senatorial candidate in 'conse- quence of the compact led to an Investigation and to his technical clearance by a legislative commit- tee but also to his moral condem- nation by the people and their representatives in the Missouri Legislature.
Such are some of the things of recent disclosures that are putting an immense and really controlling element of American citizenship to their studies.
For as the Boston Editor re- marks, these are typical disclos- ures of actual or allegad graft in high places, of the existence of a conception of public office as a place to further personal or fac- tional ends.
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Saturday, February 4th, was an exciting day in Chicago, aa thou- sands of people gathered at the down-town corners and watched the sun for hours through the mist and amoke. The object of all this Interest waa a large round ipot, estimated at about one-twen- tieth the aiie of the euu's disc, moving on a lino from the center of the sun to Its western edge, and then back again to tbe cen- ter. At times this apot disap- peared and another appeared. Many theories have been advanced for the explanation of what ex- cited ao much interest.
Dunmore. in on ground hog day, and now town last week. And then it snowed again. see what weather we are having. The Allegheny Mountain Hard- The boys have slid down hill We have some ladies in town wood Lumber Company employes
ao much that the signal of die- go handsome they make a mash are on a strike. tress is hanging out of the seat bf on anything. All they have to do 8. R. Pritcbard made a trip to ceiebrated In the library of the their pants. is to smile in a pot of potatoes Covington recently. Inframonfe Cottage, West Marlin
Dr. J. L. Lambert has a -very and they are mashed. If nothing prevents, Mr. and ^ sick child. . Mrs. Macca Smith and Miss Mrs. J. F. Patterson will on the
McCoy—Waugh.
Wednesday, at half-past three p. m., February 8th, 1905, a ijuletly arranged marriage was
when Mr. Charles^ Herbert McCoy and Miss Stella Susan
We understand that Aunt Lizzie Bertha Bosworth have returned 15th instant celebrate the fiftieth Waugh were unitod in ho]y matri
i. not so well. home. anniversary of their married Mb.
Burlin Flusher baa filled hia ice house.
anniversary of their married lite. monV) William T. Price, D. D., ie Capt. J. R. Warwick is selling offici'ating. The bride is the eld-
Mrs. Sidney Oliver's house ,""'""0 T A U„„I,~ ""*V1-""B' " " u unm*A ™ «««, *he llfo of GeD- Lee' a 8ood book- est daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
re, T hTl • P Undertaker Swecker furnished £ J * ^ ^ p££ Mrs. GeorgieMyeisand d.ugh- **J* ™* £ »« «"« a burial outfit for Mrs. Preston ** Wj£ ^ fa J ^ ^
ter, of Staunton, are here. Miss Gertrude Yeager spent a
night in town laat week. The sale at Frost last week waa
la-gely attended. Everything was sold.
matches in a lot of cotton and jjrwin, who died at her home near clothing. Arbovalo., Mrs. Ervin was an ex-
Mrs. Oliver fell the other day ^n!.wo^*l*^nK*^„a hu8' and badly hurt herself.
ant vicinity, and is teemed young lady.
band aud grown-np children.
Mrs. Lillian Carpenter has gone to Hamilton to stay the balance
Auctioneer Swecker will sell out of the winter. J. 0. Harper's entire stock "of Ellia Curry had a fodder atack gooJa and atore fixtures on March burned Monday night. Cause un-
known.
J. A. Arbuckle.A. B„ H. D. Specialty,
EYE, EAR, NOSE anJ THROAT, Will be in Marlinton 1st Friday, Sat urday and Sunday of each month.
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Announcement. J
We desire to announce to the public generally that we are in, better position now than ever to sell your farms or timber.
Call and aee us in The First National Bank Building, Marlin 1st.