“Ruben,” a local correspondent at Toney in Lincoln County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Lincoln Republican printed on Thursday, September 24, 1910:

The weather is fine.

The farmers are busily engaged in their tobacco and corn.

Mr. Stowers, the genial merchant at Ferrellsburg, is thinking of resigning the store business and taking up the study of medicine. His many friends will be sorry to see him depart for Louisville.

F.B. Adkins, prominent school teacher and business man, of Ferrellsburg, was calling on friends here Sunday.

Capt. Hill has just returned from a business trip to the Capital City, and made a fine horse trade on his way home.

Quite a number of people attended the funeral of Patterson Thompson at Low Gap Sunday.

M.C. Farley is attending Federal Court at Huntington.

The Lucas Bros.’ log job on Big Ugly is nearing completion.

Philip Hager, of Hamlin, passed through our midst last week, looking after road affairs.

The Green Shoal school is progressing nicely.

Miss Lottie Lucas was shopping in Ferrellsburg last Saturday.

Jim Brumfield had a barn raising Saturday in order to take care of a large crop of tobacco.