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' 3?pt . Thft church.,of England, was the ea Williaetl church of the colonv at Vir ginia, lor maMr years a?t?.r the laitf lng at Jamestown- '? Tlje Inhabited parto of the country were laid off into parisha-j and the governing board, was called a vefclry-. Which was levied for upon the inhab fairs and the poor of the parish. The minister had a fixed' salary which wa sievied tor upon the inhab itants of the parish by the vestry, and was payable in tobacco. A -parsonage was provided for him and not less than, two hundred acres of land was set apart for his use, called a 'glebe." . Marriages were required to take place In the churches and to be cele brated only by the ministers of the established church. Catholic priest were not permitted to remain in the colony more than five days after -receiving notice to de part. All other ministers or non-conftrm ,i?ts were prohibited from teaching or preaching publicly or privately, and were liable to be expelled by the au thorities. : Severe, laws .-were enacted against Quakers on-account of their teaching *'ifals<f visions,- prophesies and doc trines and thereby disturbing'tbe pub lic peace/' At the coming'ot the revolution all prescriptive laws in reference to re ligious worship and for raising mon ey 4>y taxation jfor . the support of the established church were swept away, and absolute freedom and Hberty of conscience In matters of religion per mitted. The. strenuous and isolated life of the settler west of the mountains, his struggle to protect himself frotrik the Indians, procure subsistence and sub due the forest, gave him no time to pay attention to. religious matters and they of course were entirely neglected. Pickets on Frontier. ??But it was not long after settle ments west' of the mountains wern established, before the pickets o; Christianity were on the frontier, and In ~ the- neighborhoods where a few ?could be collected together, a travel ing nmdister, generally Methodist or < Baptist, would occasionally appear, deliver the cheering messages from the Master and recall to his hearers ^ the .teachings of the faith taught tbem in their earlier years. The pioneer preacher's lot was not an enviable one. nor free from dan ger, and in his long journeys through the dim forest trails on horseback he suffered many privations and discom forts. but his motto was "Onward Christian Soldier," and nobly did he fulfill his divine mission. The Reverend Francis Asbury bishop of the Methodst church, in bis ' journey, speaks of visiting Clarks burg in his official capacity in 178S. IH.e came on horseback from North Carolina by way of Bedford, Green brier and Pocahontas counties to Clover Lick, and from there his jour nal reads as follows: "Thursday, July T0.1788. "We had to cross the Allegheny mountains again at a bad passage. Our course lay over1 mountains and throjugh valleys, and the mud was sjioh ;a's might scarcely be expected in JJecember. Wo came to an old for saken habitation in Tyffart's valley. Here our horses grazed about while we boiled our meat. Midnight (brought us up at Jones's after riding forty OUR POLICY We are never forgetting your interest at this store. Whatever you buy here is guaranteed to be just what we say it is. If you appreciate econo my in buying?if you ap preciate the superior quality in meats, come to our store and let us show you that it is to your in terest to trade here. You'll Not Be Disap pointed. BROWN'S fflARKET Pioneers of Popular Prices 114 S. FOURTH ST. Sell Phone 648 Home Phone 30. Market House Will open in a few days in the Xatstetter Building, Third and Pike Streets. Watch daily papers. Goods will be sold at prices never before keard of. or perhaps fifty miles. The old ibmi, our host, was kind enough to waKe ns up at four in the morning, we Journeyed on through derfoua loMly wild# -where no food might he found except what grew in the woods .en was carried with us. TMe met wit two women *ho were going to see their friends and to attend the quar terly meeting at Clarksburg. IK** Set on Asbury. "Near midnight we stopped at A?s, who hissed his dogs at us, but the women were determined to go to toe quarterly meeting so we_ went_ In. Our supper was tea. Brother Phoe bus and Cook took to the woods old gave up his bed to the women. I lay al6ng the' floor on a few deer skins with the fleas. That n poor horses got no corn, and next morning had to swim across the Mo nongahela. After a twenty mile ride we came to Clarksburg and m^n and beast were so outdone that it took us ten hours to accomplish it. "I lodged with Colonel Jackson Our meeting was held ina,?"f room belonging to the BaptistS-On use of the house, it seems, gave of f 6 "There attended about seven hun dred people to whom. I preached with freedom, and I believe the Lords power reached the hearts of some. After ministering the sacrament, 1 was well satisfied to take my ^Te "We rode thirty miles .to Father Haymond's after 3 o'clock Sunday^af ternoon, and made it nearly 11 be came in. About midnight we went to rest and arose at S- o'clock the next morning. My mind lias been severely tried under the great fatigue endured both -by myself and my horse. On. bow glad I should be a plain, clean plank to lie on, as preferable to most of the beds, and where the beds are In a bad state the floors aire worse. The gnats are almost as troublesome here as the mosquitoes in the low lands of the seaboard. Ths country will require much work to make it tolerable. The people many of them are of the boldest cast of adventur ers. and with some the decencies of civilized society are scarcely regard ed The great land holders, who are industrious, will soon show the aris tocracy of wealth by lording it over their poorer neighbors, and by secur ing- to themselves all the offices of profit or honor. On the one hand savage warfare teaches them to be fcruel, and on the other the teaching on Antinomians poisons them, with er ror in doctrine. Good moralists they are not, and good Christians they cannot be unless they are better taught." Preaches in a Barn. Mrs. John MoCullough. maiden name Acres ,told Luther Haymond, who was born in 1S?9, that she, when a small girl rode on horseback from Zack's run to Clarksburg in 17S8 to hear Bishop Asbury in Darnel Dav issonis barn. ... This barn stood on the west side 01 Second street between Main and Pike streets. Lorenzo Dow, the great traveling preacher, preached in Clarksburg in the 30's. When he appeared at the court house he saw that it was not large enough to hold the crowd and he announced that he would hold the service out of doors. He led the way down Main street, followed by the large crowd across the bridge and preached his sermon in the grove near the Monticello spring. -- The history of the 'Methodist Epis copal church by Stevens states that the first local preacher of that denom ination in the neighborhood of Union itown was Robert Woo'ster and that the first conference was held there in 17&1-. 'I- _ . . This was koWn f.s the Redstone conference and was composed of ?western Pennsylvania and Virginia and in 17S'5 numbered 528 members. In 1'TSiO a society was organized at Calder Haymond's, on the Monon gahela river, about twenty miles above " Morgan town. Some fifteen or twenty miles up towards Clarksburg a good society was formed at the house of Jonathan Sh:nn, the father of the afterwards celebrated preacher, Asa Shlnn. Methodism could obtain no footing In Clarksburg for many years, but some eight or ten miles up the \\ est Fork was a flourishing society head ed by Moses Ellsworth. Methodist Societies. In this neighborhood was Joseph Cheuvront, a local preacher of great usefulness and much .loved by his people. Ho was a Frenchman. In V78!i there was also a society formed at Father Hacker's on Hack er's creek and -also at Buckhannon and in the Tygart's Valley. The Rev. Henry* Smith, who visited the Clarksburg circuit in 1794 speaks of finding a good society under chargs of Joseph Cheuront fifteen miles from Clarksburg. The congregation that attended to hear him preach were all backwoods peopl and only one man present wore shoes. The Rev. Mr. Cheiiyront wore Indian moccasins. All the rest of the audience men, women and chil dren. were barefooted. The elderly women wore short gowns. He speaks of traveling in ail kind* of weather and dangers, wading deep streams, having to cross the Monon cahela river seven times in his cir cuit and besides being ferried over several times; his f6od being mostly venison and bear meat, and the cab Ins in which he lodged were Uncom fortable. The following is an extract from a letter from Clarksburg in 1818. by the Reverend Ira Chase, a Baptist mis sionary 10 Dr. Sharp, of Boston, sec retary of the Baptist Missionary So ciety of -Massachusetts, which gives a description of the condition of the town from a relitsious standpoints , "Rev. and Dear Sir: "As I mentioned in my communi cation to you I arrived at this place on December 27, 1817. Clarksburg is the shire town, of Harrison county and situated on the west fork or the Mtonogahela river, which aflbrds water carriage to pl"?bu'f?. and thence down the Ohio. The distance from that city by land is upwards or one hundred miles. First Baptist Church. aBaptist church had once been constituted here, but many .yoars ago the pastor went to the West. No suc cessor was secured and the flock was SSdeSfm^tr from ,?i; "?ariv twenty years supporteo himself principally toy teachlng in SSdemy (the only of the state) and preached^ some p the time in the village to a few l?ea era but with no risible success. About two years ago he was called to a bet ?er world. The people were nowdes titute There >were. indeed, residing We two Paedobaptlst pr?? ?t there was no preaching and no reuS J^SStfo* One of the, men w? in the practice of physic and theower 0 nmntiate from New England, wa? 1 ? He had <tom0 ?ltlitln prcpsct ?' ??hi?sS tte mAT"^ts, to relinquish the academy for the present^ It -is not now in operation land for want of encouragement he Bad suspended hli ministerial la ? There was no church of aaydenom ? nntion and there were tot fevt. very few professors of religion, and some of'these were not . very correct in their morals. It was painful to see a village, containing so many J'111 tal ?souls, thus abandoned to ruio. Perhaps, thought I. it "?en. stop and endeavor to excite the atten tlon of the people to their eternal in terests In this I was encouraged by two "iiipt-st brethren who resrde In %>n*l?rd's day I ? preached in the court house to a very sipall assembly, and again in the evening. The next day one of the brethren, an amiable young man, undertook to ascertain tue wishes of the people with regard to n& topping and for this purpose circulated tiie following P^PeI - "Clarksburg, December -9, 1S17. "We the subscribers, as an expre Sion of our desire to have the gospel preached among us, P''??ise ^rthe tribute to the Rev Ira Chase for the use of the missionary society by which he is employed, the sums an nexed to our name:#. if he will con tlnue his ministerial labors in this P1S#=? of the subscript^ was upwards of $S0. The himself contributed my board, a deac on who resided a few miles in the country mv horse keeping, and the sons of the late tjie Rev. Mr Towers, the clergyman whom I mentioned as having cUe from England, gener ously opened to me their father s study and supplied me with other con veniences. ~ Clergyman Chase Stays. "My duty was plain. I stopped. The assembles, instead of as some had represented they would, Increased constantly. ?'Though I endeavored to make tne apostle my model as to the matter and plainness of rny discourse, yet instead of going away offended, they seemed conscious that what- I preached wa generally received with politeness and affection, and sometimes found an un expected willingness to converse on "Yesterday was the last Sabbath I was to continue hero and to me it was a most interesting day. As I was re turning from the first service, I was ! requested to call at a house and con verse with a woman under deep con iecrn for her soul. Upon leaving her 'and returning to my chamber I found ,a servant waiting for me and wish i ing to knowAf 1 would wait until this !evening so that he and some othdr ! blacks could come and talk to me on I religion. I readily told him I would I expect them soon. I "Last evening-1 met my aud.ence ! for the last timo. The house was crowded and all were attent.ve. 1 closed my message and bade them adieu. O my God, will not Thou-bless mv feeble labors? "9 . o'clock p. m.?The blacks have just gone. I am fatigued but I have a very pleasant season. There were fifteen in all, male and female. I conversed with them all individually. Six or seven of them were entertain ing a hope in Christ and had enter tained one for years. They gave a brief relation of the work of grace upon their hearts, and a heavenly joy beamed in their countenances. Others were inquiring with different degrv of anxiety the way of salvation. T j tears stole silently down the cheeks of some and nil were serious I di rected the mto come immediately to Jesus Christ, as 'the way and the truth and the life.' , "\fter endeavoring to impart to eacn the instruction they severally needed and then making an address to the ?whole, the interview was closed bv singing and prayer. I expect to de part on the morrow. iRA Bishop Meade Comes. Bishop William Meade of the Pr&t estant Episcopal church of the dio cese of Virginia In an address before the convention of his church at Staun ton in IS35, refers to his visit to ClarkBburg in 1854. and states that he remained there three days, preach led five times, baptised one adxilt and '.twelve children and . confirmed flie. The Rev. William X. Ward was as signed to have charge of the Clarks burg and Morgantown congregations tn the fall of 1334. ? The bishop in a subsequent address speaks of vls'ting Clarksburg in 1842, and that The Reverend Mr. M^Mechen had established a female seminary theme and used a portion oi the build ijjorg for public worship. During this visit he haptlsed one adult and several children and con fil*The Reverend Robert A. Castleman built the Episcopal church now (1909) still in use. -in 1?52 and '1853. For a long time there were no church buildings and re lgious meet ings were held in private houses, barns, court houses and frequently In shady groves. Later what was known as camp meetings were held by the Methodists and continued down to a recent period. Camp Meetings. ' These camps were composed of log cabins and were rude benches placed under trees and a primitive pulp! Quite a number of preachers and leading officials of the churchwould cather at these camps in the sum mer and hold service day and night a week at a time. They were well natronized by the surrounding coun try and accomplished much good. But as the county became more settled and sufficient churches built ^ac commodate the people, the camp mpftlnes were discontinued. . The earliest record of the building nf a church in Clarksburg is continued Z a deed from IXiniel Pavisson the original owner of Clarksburg, dai^d June SI. ITOO, which conveys to t%e "congregation of regular Baptist mem ,Tj.T? M&i ^Thti-tlot la located on the soutti ?We of what la now Main" street JuBt west 'of Chestnut, and wasused as a bur sal ground from 1<2?J down to shortly after the close of this Civil wajv .. In a d#ed, ma4e. by the- game party on May & 1S0?- reference is made, to ( the "little stream that runs dowaM, (the south side of the meeting house. , Th:s proves that sometime, prior. |o ? the 1800 a. church, building lis lot but its eract locaton and ..t^e j time of its construction is not kngwn. First Methodist Church. . ... ! The Method'iat :EpiscoJfal chiurch built a* small brick, church _ 1 on the ground' of the Randolph acad emy ou the brow of.thehill east-of ithe present 'public school building I overlooking Firs* street where they i worshipped for many years. The daw : this church was. built Is not ^xown. !It is certain, however, tta^it was ! used as a house of worship,in. *827. j m 18C8 they: built, a new church 'building on "the^ south--side, of Plfce street east of Second, Mfl aLre,,?w^ (1300) constructing another building on the northeast corner of Second and ;P!ke streets at th.e oWL milestone. Presbyterian .Church, i The Reverend Asa Brooks under took the building. Of a Presbyterian! church in 1S39 In Clarksburg, but he died before Its completion and was | buried under the buildfog^ This church stood on the southeast corner of sec iond and Main streets where the^pres ielft church, built in 1893. now stands^ on the site of the first jail. Tlie Catholic Church. The first services of the Catholic church in Clarksburg were held along in 1862 and 1?5S.. when thp Baltimore and " Ohio Railroad '.Company began the construotion of its' road, for benefit of the Irish laborers. For some time the congregation me.. in a building that where the. Waldo hotel Is now located. Father Brannon is remembered as among t nriests The present, church I building was built in i th? lot having "beep deeded by James M. Jack 1 son in 1|S64. . Father Daniel O'Qpnner was m charge of the congregaCon or naw years prior to his death in 1903- He was a man of great executiv^abHity. accomplished great good in his> long pastorate, stood h:gh with the.offirialB of his church, and was ?uch to?1 and esteemed by all who him, irrespective -of religious belief. i m 18-0.1 David Davlsson conveyed 'two and one-half acres "to the .pres ! ent members of the Baptist me?t.ng house on- Simpson's creek, adjoining ?lands surveyed for Joseph Wilkins and their successors, and to all other (persons adjoining thereto "for a house | of divine worship to be erected there on and for a burial-yard, they to_have the choice in the ground tor that de nomination to erect their ^meeting < house thereon, and a second choice j f0r a Presbyterian meeting house for ldivi.no worship." , . , I This plot of ground is included in the 400 acres patented to Andrew, the father of Davd; in the year 1774, and near the present town of Bridgeport. At the time ths deed was made, the I meeting house was already built, bu 'the time of its construction is not known geTcnjjj pay Baptists. In 1S01 the Seventh Day Baptists j built a log church at Salem, two stories high, of hewed logs. In 13SS this building gave way for a frame one, and in 190D the present ; brick building was constructed on the SaiJf 1808-09 a church was built at Lost Creek by the SeventhJDay Bap tists .which was replaced by a brick Epi-cop.. ; South, was built in Clarksburg on the corner of Chestnut and Main streets. in 1Q54. __ 1 Preacher Clawson. i Samuel Clawson was an old rasn ioned regular fire and brimstone kind of a preacher, and his lurid styl?*? f vivid descriptions stirred the souls of k'upon^one occasion while preaching a sermon, one of the congregation smiled , at his comments on the devil. 1 Turning to him the Prea^er aaid. -I suppose you do not believe In a devil but thank God the time is not far distant when you shall be chained down to hell's brazen floor and the devil with his harpoon shaUpierce vour reeking heart, and pile the red "hot cinders of damnation upon you as tall as the pyramids of Egypt until it shall fry out the pride ?f y?uJ fat to grease and gudgeons of hell. In 1S52 a Baptist brick church was built on Pike ^reet. CTarksburg which is still standing, but not used for worship, the congregation oe Traffic Tied Up By Goat "Billy" Holds His Ground against Attacks of Police and Carmen. i ago as effectively as the street cai strike did in Chicago. The goat broke away from a colored man who 1 was leading it at the transfer corner. The conductors of tw? ^".jf at thl ;?r The goat turned his attention frnimln Elkins and Webb came along. "laswsa!. <?? *r.: several mindtes, afraid to l?t go. til the owner of the goat relieve him. ? " Extensive Operations Reported in - his" State by the Con struction Record. * '?*' . ?4'-'"-. ?.! Building operations In Kest Vir ginia are reported as'follows by-the Construction Record:* ' . Simpson?the board of education is taking bids to close July 26 on ercttng a two-story frame grade school building addition, to cost $3, 500. Plans by Architect S. W. Ford, of Clarksburg. ' ? ? Wheeling?Architect Paul Gehr hart, 64 West Randolph street, Chica go; 111., is preparing preliminary sketches for a six-story press brick and reinforced concrete and steel fireproof storage warehouse to be constructed for the Wheeling Corru gating Company, to cost about $300, 000. The. architect expects to have sketches returned shortly and have plans completed ^.bout July 28. Follantbce?Thomas and Lott will start, work at once on the erection of eight two-story fram residences on Main street, for B. P. Murphy, of SteubenvHle, O. Cost, $20;<55&. Moundsvllle?The State Board ot Control is taking bids to close August 2, on erecting a two' and one-half story and basement brick farm res idence at the county farm, to cost $3,000. Plans by Architect L. J. Dean, of Huntington. Shepherdstown?-Architect R. Rus Warne, of Charleston, is drawing plans for a t^o-story brick,and rein forced concrete girls' dormitory to be constructed for the State Board of Control, to cost $18,000. Details not decided. Pnrkersburg?The board of edu cation will toon take bids on con structing a three-story and basement brick, stone and concrete high school building on the Jackson plot, to cost $250,000. Plans byp Architect Prank H. Packard, of Columbus, O. The city contemplates constructing a hospital building to cost $100,000. Architect not selected and details not decided. The Board of Trade contemplatoo constructing a brick and steel mar ket house and armory building* to cost about $20,000. Architect has not been selected. Definite data about August 1. Architect R. H. Adair, Julian and I1 ifth streets, will rec'oive plans for a two-story stone and brick store and office building on Market' street, for Walker and Hoteskrew, to cost $16,000. Will take bids shortly. Foundations are in for a two story and basement brick and hoi tile residence, to be erected on St Mary's street for W. H. Dunbar to cost about $6,000. Plans by Archi tect William Howe Patton, Union | Trust building. i Architect J). W. Bailey, Lynn street, has plans nearly completed for a two-story brick residence, to ** erected on Avery street, for Prank G. Davis, to cost about $$10,000. j WilL'amson?Competitive sketches are being submitted for a two-story stone church, to be erected for the EPiscopal congregation to cost $10. st- Albans?Architeot David Dick, Charleston, has plans about com* pleted and will take bids August 15 on constructing a two-story brick and terra cotta store and lodge build ing for the Masonic Association to cost about $20,000. Ridgley?The People's National .Bank of.Ridgley, contemplates erect i"/ * bank ,<uilding to cost $4,000. Plans will probably be drawn by Architect George F. Sans oury. of Cumberland, Md. Princeton?Architect A. F. Wy song has plans in progress for a three story brick and concrete store build , ing and apartments, to be constructed on Mercer street for Brown Broth ers. Cost $10,000. Williamsota?Architect W. E. Ells jinick awarded to the Acme Construc tion Companyq the contract for con : strttcting a two-story brick and con ! Crete store and apartment building. 000 Goodykoontz, to cost $9, Huntington'-?Architect ames W. Sweeney and Meanor, R. and P. | building, awarded to Henry Persum ! ???,tra.ct r?1 erecting a two- and story brick and terra cotta I residence for St. Joseph's Roman j J-atholic congregation. Cost $10. 000. Charleston?Foundations are in for a brtck and tile residence to bo ; erected on Delaware avenue for H A. Walkor. to cpst about. $5,000. Gen eral contract awarded to H. F. Ag St^n?' who w111 awal"d sub-contracts. , The United Brethren congregation is taking bids on material for a two story brick and hollow tile church, to be ercted on Tenness street, from plans drawn by Architect H Rus Warne. Cost $20,000. Building will contain Sunday school room, kitchen and dining room in basement. Owner builds and George B. Hendricks su perintends. Architect James L. Montgomery has plans in progress for a two story brick and tile residence to be erected on 1224 Virginia street for W. H. Thompson. -1322 Kanawha street. Cost $5,000. Architect A. G. HIggihbotham Morrison building, has revised plans nearly completed for a two-stroy stone and brick apartment building to be ercted on Washington street for W. C. Wasner, of Beckwith. W. Va. Cost $15,000. The same architect has plans in progress for a two-story brick resi dence to be erected on Quarrier street for Mrs. Branston; cafe architect. Cost $6,000. . Architect Paul Eagan has plans about' completed for a three-story brick, stone and vterra cotta bank building to be constructed for Dr. A H. Boyd. Cost $40,000. Architect James. L. Montgomery has plans completed and is ready for bids on erecting a two-story brTcfc and tile laundry and office building on Virginia street and Graham ave nue for the American Steam Laun dry Company- Cost $15,000. Archotect David Dick has plans in progress for a two-etory and base ment stone and reinforced concrete court house addition, to be con structed for the board of county com missioners, to cost about $80,000. Architect will build and buy material. Madison?Architect H;. Rus Warne <*f Charleston, has plans in progress Cor * three-story and baaewpnt stone ^;Be^r^APddteet A. F. Wlsong, of Princeton, awarded t? Crorier *nd Freeman the contract forerectoS ?; four-story and basement brtck hotel and' store bull ding for the Hotel Raleigh Company. Cost '^Iiofran?Thomas Browning templates the eretion ol a two-Bto^ brick residence from private Pl*n? Same will contain eight; rooms and C?BliMHie^?Fo un d atlons have been , started for a tw?-8t?ry dence to be erected on Tiweweu street tor H. E. Moore. 206 Tazewell street. Cost $3,000. Field Secretary of the National Association is Now in the City. ' GRAFTON. July 24?Mlss_Lavina Englq, fleld secretary of the National American Woman's Suffrage Associ ation. Is here making an effort^to or ganize each district of the county, preliminary to the beginning of the campaign for 1916. Mlss Engle ls la guest of Mrs. Gene W. Ford while ihere. The worst accident on the Balti imore and Ohio lines in this city for many years.took place Friday nigh , when Walter Peters was killed and. his brother, T. S. Peters, badly in-j iured while at work in the local, yards They were both Baltimore land Ohio trainment and w?Sre work- j 'ing on a broken car. wbenan engine Iran down upon them, killing one and dangerously wounding the other. The injured man will likely recover. After having been postponed' for two weeks the sale of the real of the Columbia Tile Company has been made by the trustee for the bankrupt concern. The . P were the bondholders, who bid $15, : 000. An outside firm is considering the purchase of . the plant, it is said, I at this timei. ' | Sunday school institutes wilV be I held in twelve of the principal cities lot West Virginia as follows: Hunt ington, Charleston, Grafton, Wells burg, Cameron, Mannlngton, Morgan town Weston, Sutton, Elkins, Par ! Surg and' Wheeling. The aa nuoncoment has Usen made by A..T, i Arnold, secretary of the state Sim day School Association, that this new list has been prepared to use instead of the former arrangement, which in eluded but six cities. At a special election held Tuesday at Fhilippi, Barbour county, a $20 r 000 bond issue was voted to cover the expenses of general repairs improvements. Extension of the trie lighting system, putting sanitary sewers and Paving certain streets are the items that will tak 1 most wf the money. A special levy of 15 cents will be laid to cover th i additional expense. |.: Two miners, or/5 foreigner and one ! American, were killed this week in coal mines of the county near Graf ton. both being caught under slate, rock and coal falls. Edward Cwtel lo one of the men, leaves a wife and three chUdren. His . home was near Fairvlew. , The county court is now at work making the annual settlement of the accounts of Sheriff Bennett. TMsls the first year that a-epecial auditor was pot employed by the county. - Three robbers, supposed to have all been vo.ung men who had escaped from the West Virginia Industrial School for Boys at Pruntytown robbed the store of Mrs. Finch In the First ward this week. -Tiur^ made good their escape, after secur Ing a small quantity of . booty. Two bootlegging outfits were found this week by police officers i two houses in the city. A total jof six gallons of beer and forty-six, pints of whiskey were poured into the gutter by the police after the raid. The week stand of the Chautauqua opened here Thursday with large and enthusiastic crowds; Many J?*0?1?1 are coming in from neighboring towns for the fine attraction. Local Baptists in force will attend the Baptist assembly, which will b . held at Phillppl at the Broaddus :lnn stitute. beginning Tuesday, July 27. and continuing two weeks. ^Several ^hundred will attend the conference of church leaders. / Addison Bolbert died: this week at [day at bis home i 186 years.- after a ?.?taC<.... | the county. Daniel M. Wolf I Wednesday evening In | bis home of organic ~ I upon his return from a trip to (several miles away. Be I years eM. Marlon W. Blair has arrived I from Kuskegan, Pa., where-hei I with the Kuskegan Ker&mJc Ipany, to take charge of the Tho | Fire Brick Company, near t gap-s. % ft'Sflsf - ^SSgp Wife Slayer and Prison's ? Man" Take the Final Drop. ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 24.? . liam H. Sprouse of East St. Lot was hanged at Clayton, Mo.? for murder of his wife. To the Sprouse maintained his Innocencel His last request war to see his children, who had testified ag [him, but they refused to come'to ? I him. ,-v ... _ . - Forty-five minutes before he-mi:w-| I to be hanged Sprouse attempted to. -1 I commit suicide by hashing his.throat- -! (with a sharpened steel spring taken*', | from his shoe. i ?ajsg ?t'-tyiSs Prompt action of Sheriff Bode arid Pi the. physicians who were to ?witness I the banging foiled the prisoner's plan I to escape the gallows. He alto had [eaten half a bar of soap during the , night in an attempt to die. , ????? I Frank Repetto, slayer of Charleti^j Masters, another convict and bell -"] mate, -whom he stabbed to death In-"-; the dining ball of the Joliet penlten- I f tlary on September 17, 1914, was ! ' I hanged Friday morning in the- in ItloSea courtyard of . the Will county.,- I | Jail In' Joliet. Jailer Davles, who superintended I the execution, said the convict mur-i [ derer died like a mat ?rf'^ipS One hundrod persons, weltering in I the sun which beat down on the court yard. saw the former prison . "wild | man" go to his death. ,} , ^ [ Both Get to Crossing at /Who ? Time and Motorcyclist i&n is Kitted. Pueblo, coio., July 24.? | Walker, 30, a prosperous farmer, llv--":-i ling at Plnon; fifteen miles north if :| I Pueblo, raced with a Denver and RIO ' . ' ? Grande passenger train fpr a cross-'; I lng at Monument on the highwayr^0^W|jj I tween Pueblo and Denver and lost; ? v>: J The motorcycle upon which he <"'% I was speeding at a mile a minute clip '''*? (was struck by the pilot of the fajst [train and he was hurled against the J cab of the locomotive of a freight ? .t I train which was standing on a sld- "I lng Some distance away. His body-fSf was crushed almost beyond recofe nltlon. The train stopped and took. him back to Monument. J ' SCROLL WORK [Of Prisoner in Illinois State Penitentiary Wins Him a . . Pardon. - JOLIET, ill,, July 24 ?When James Formby entered the Joliet ? penitentiary nine years ago to begin ' serving an indeterminate sentence fpr complicity In murder he was only - sixteen years old and etnifd nHther read nor write. He spent his "" ' in prison learning both thes&'ae plishments and studying art bestae For months be worked on a plea fc a pardon done by hand in scroll wo* and embellished with landscapes i ' colors. . V Today the scroll work an artistic ' mastern.'ece, hangs in Governor Dun> ne's office it Springfield and the s*-*- ' executive, before leaving for."the' Francisco fair, commuted the yoj man's, sentence and those olflvei ?? prisoners. Formby. and three Ok ler boys participated in a saloon hoi tip In Chicago In which the saloc keeper was killed. It was"~prov Formby was unarmed and was a " block, away from .the place when ; t shot was fired, but he was sentenc |t?r his ^to th^agi^r. ( BIO WAGES. I ?- LARNED, Kan.,. 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