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Alex Henderson, Alex Hensley, Budda Carter, Burlie Riddle, Charleston, Dingess, Frank Adams, genealogy, history, influenza, Joseph Blair, Kentucky, Logan County, Logan Democrat, moonshining, Moses Tomblin, Mud Fork, South Carolina, Wes Vance, West Virginia, Whirlwind, World War I
“Blue Eyed Beauty,” a local correspondent at Whirlwind in Upper Hart, Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Democrat printed on Thursday, January 9, 1919:
We are having some real winter weather here at this writing.
Alex Hensley, who has been in the training camp at Charleston, So. Car., arrived home Sunday.
Joseph Blair is staying with the homefolks, helping nurse him through the influenza.
Alex Henderson is spending the winter with “Budda” Carter.
We hear that Burlie Riddle will leave in a few days for an extended visit with relatives in Kentucky.
Frank Adams, mail carrier, became water bound and was unable to make his usual trip between Whirlwind and Dingess Wednesday and Thursday.
United States marshals were in this vicinity Wednesday looking for illicit stills. It is said they failed to find any, but arrested Rev. Wese Vance for harboring deserters.
Mrs. Mae Thompson is staying with her mother, Mrs. Ona Blair.
Moses Tomblin quit his work on Mud fork Thursday on account of bad weather.