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“Ruben,” a local correspondent at Toney in Lincoln County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Lincoln Republican printed on Thursday, October 13, 1910:
Farmers are nearly finished saving their corn and tobacco.
A large crowd of people from different sections attended the funeral of Mr. Adkins on last Sunday. Dinner was served on the ground.
D.C. Fry has just returned from a business trip up the N. & W. Railroad.
Misses Fay and Bessie Gill, from Gill, were visiting at B.B. Lucas’ Saturday and Sunday.
A number of our young people attend the closing of a very successful singing school at Rector, taught by Zatto Cummings.
Wilburn Adkins has purchased a Camera.
Ed. Reynolds, a jovial republican of Leet, spent Sunday with friends in our midst.
Owing to the scarcity of mills, B.B. Lucas is working night and day trying to save the cane crop in this section.
M.C. Farley has just returned from the County Seat.
Clerk Lucas has just returned from “Pumpkin Center” and reports a delightful time.
Brandon Ray Kirk 