All the gasoline boats came in last week, heavily laden with
freight for local merchants.
L.L. Collins passed through here on Sunday with his blood
hounds, enroute to Mrs. McDonald’s, having been called to run down a burglar who
was trying to break into the house the night before, but on account of rain they
could not follow a trail.
Ed Morgan, with
the Harry F., is supplying Russett
and the neighborhood with coal from Glenville.
A.S. Stump, one of Sycamore's good citizens, was in town on
Saturday on a business mission. He has purchased the store at Sycamore of B.M.
Trippett and will re-engage in the mercantile business.
O.J. Gainer has moved from his former home on Pine Creek to the
farm purchased by him from Roy Plant on Hog Knob. He has a quite a large amount
of timber on his new farm and is busily engaged in getting it out to market.
Art Huffman has his mill in sawing condition and will proceed to
go to work, if weather permits.
When arraigned
before Justice Butcher of
Parkersburg
on a charge of stealing a pair of felt boots from in front of a store, Mike
Kelly pleaded that he had always been under apprehension that this was a free
country and that the boots were free for anyone who happened along to take them.
Mrs. Era Stump, who was visiting relatives at Creston for two
weeks, has returned home.
Pollution of the Little Kanawha River
with coal wastes has been occurring in the past few days, and the river has
taken on a dark color.
Cause of the pollution was said to be breaking of a dam on Bear
Run, above Glenville, which was used to hold back coal dust, allowing it to
settle.
Many dead fish were spotted in the river, especially in the
Glenville area, presumably the coal dust killing the fish.
Mayor Orville Barnette said that he did not feel there was any
danger to the water supply in Grantsville. He pointed out that the water is not
poisoned, that it was greatly diluted by the time it reached Grantsville, and
that the water was extensively filtered at the local water plant.
As far as could be determined no repairs have been made at the
coal mine in Gilmer, which is causing the trouble, and the coal dust is still
emptying into the river.