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Plyant Mahon Petition (1889)

04 Sunday Feb 2018

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Plyant Mahon/Mayhorn, born c.1855, married Vicie Hatfield, daughter of Valentine “Wall” Hatfield in 1877 in Logan County, WV. He was an active participant in the Hatfield-McCoy Feud.

State of West Virginia

Logan County to wit

The Petition of Plyant Mayhorn filed in the Circuit Court of Logan County in vacation

To the Hon. Thos. H. Harvey, Judge of the Circuit Court of said County.

Your Petitioner would beg to represent unto your Honor that at the April term 1889 of the circuit court of Logan County he was indicted by the Grand Jury of said County there in session at said term of said court for unlawfully accepting a gift with the intent that he your said Petitioner should vote for one F.M. White at a general election held in this county in November 1888 that he was not apprised or notified of the finding of said indictment during the said term of said court that he was not aware nor had he any knowledge whatever of the existence of said indictment until a few days ago it then being fifty days after the finding of said indictment.

Your Petitioner would further represent unto your Honor that a few days since a capias was issued from the circuit court of this county in said indictment and placed in the hands of F.M. Chafins sheriff of said county who immediately and unceremoniously arrested your Petitioner, ruthlessly tore him from his home and family in the dead of night and hurled him into the Jail of this County where he is now ignominiously incarcerated.

And your Petitioner would still further represent unto your Honor that he is a husband and father with a wife in delicate health and five children of tender age looking up to him alone for bread, that he is a farmer without any other means whatever of support but the product of the soil of his little farm realized by the hard and continuous daily labor of your Petitioner, that this is the season of the year in which the husbandmen must attend carefully to his sewing or there will be no reaping next harvest, and that he is ready and willing to comply with any order made by the circuit court of this County or by your Honor in vacation.

Your Petitioner therefore prays that your Honor make an order in vacation directing the clerk of the circuit court of Logan County to admit your Petitioner to bail taking bond with good security in such sum as your Honor may see fit to fix. He also prays such other and general relief as your Honor may see fit to grant. And in duty bound he will ever pray etc.

Plyant Mahorn

Plaintiff

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State of West Virginia

Logan County to wit

Plyant Mahorn the Petitioner in the foregoing Petition being duly sworn says that the facts and allegations therein contained are true.

Plyant Mayhon (his mark)

Taken, sworn and subscribed before me this __ day of May 1889.

S. Kelly, Notary

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Source: Logan County Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV.

Banco News 07.02.1926

04 Sunday Feb 2018

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An unknown correspondent from Banco on Big Creek in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on July 2, 1926:

Rev. White of Henlawson delivered a delightful sermon in Banco last Sunday morning. A large audience attended. Those taking a part in the evening service were Rev. Gillenwater of Big Ugly, Rev. Elkins of Banco, and Rev. Vickers of Chapmanville.

Mrs. J.W. Miller of Big Ugly attended church at Banco Sunday and was the dinner guest of her brother, Howard Vanatter.

J.M. Harmon and Mrs. J.W. Harmon of Big Creek motored to Banco Sunday.

Earl Justice of Whitman was calling on homefolks on Elm Street Sunday.

Wonder how Hassel Vance and Basil Duty like Pumpkin Center?

Misses Eva Ellis of Ellis Fork and Edith Chapman attended church in Banco Saturday night and Sunday, and were all night guests of Mrs. E.C. Varney of Elm Street.

Luther Bias and Miss Ella Jane Toney of Chapmanville motored over to Pumpkin Center Tuesday.

Misses Mary and Jennie Thomas of Estep were shopping in Banco Tuesday evening.

Mrs. Ted Hager and Kathleen Hager were the dinner guests of Mrs. D.H. Harmon last week.

Misses Hazel Thomas and Nella Varney of Thomas Circle attended church at Banco Sunday and were the dinner guests of Miss Marea Lucas.

Gardner Baisden of Estep was in Banco Sunday.

H.F. Lucas and sister Marjory motored to Big Creek Saturday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Turner and children of Chapmanville were calling on Mrs. Turner’s father, who has been ill for some time.

J.A. Stone, Jno. Hager, and Misses Pearl and Kathleen Hager and Anna Ferrell motored to Blair Sunday evening.

Good luck to The Banner.

Banco News 06.29.1926

03 Saturday Feb 2018

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An unknown correspondent from Banco on Big Creek in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on June 29, 1926:

Up the poplar and down the pine

We sure do think The Banner is fine.

A large crowd attended the singing at Banco last Sunday.

J.A. Stone and John Hager motored to Huntington last Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Thomas and daughter Jenie of Estep were calling in Banco last Saturday.

Frank Pardue of Big Creek was calling on homefolks at this place Saturday and Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Thomas attended singing school at Banco Sunday.

Miss Ruby McGraw of Logan was visiting her mother, Mrs. Nora Gullett, on Ed Stone Branch Saturday and Sunday.

Mrs. L.A. Ellis of Needmore is visiting in Logan this week.

B.R. Lucas and son Fred and daughter Marea attended the business meeting at the Lane church Saturday night.

Mrs. C.E. Justice and son Charles Robert of Elm Street were calling on Mrs. John Workman in Lynn Street Tuesday.

Mrs. J.H. Workman of Estep was a business caller in Banco last week.

Mrs. Levi Duty of Squirrel Branch was visiting her sister Mrs. Samuel Pardue and other relatives at this place Sunday.

Clara Harmon was the Sunday night guest of her sister, Mrs. Myrtle Lucas.

H.F. Lucas and little sister Jean Eleanor were out joy riding Sunday afternoon.

Mrs. Ethel Ferrell and children of Estep and Mrs. Mary Hager of Banco were visiting Mrs. Hager’s mother, Aunt Rispa Stone on Big Ugly last Tuesday and Wednesday.

Master Willard Varney of Estep was the Saturday night guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Hager at this place.

Mrs. C.C. Varney and daughter Madeline, Mrs. J.B. Lucas and Miss Marea Lucas were the dinner guests of Mrs. D.H. Harmon Sunday.

The girls of Spring Dale and Banco can now don their traveling attire as Robert Gullet has bought a new 5-passenger automobile.

H.F. Lucas motored to the North Pole Sunday evening.

Rev. White will preach at the Ed Stone Branch next Saturday and Sunday. Everybody invited.

Bearwallow Gap at Piney Fork and Hugh Dingess Hollow (2018)

28 Sunday Jan 2018

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Dad and I recently cleared the Bryant-Dingess cemetery at Bearwallow Gap in the head of Piney Fork and Hugh Dingess Hollow on Harts Creek, Logan County, WV. I last visited this cemetery over twenty years ago. 27 January 2018.

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The cemetery was overgrown with saplings. Four persons are buried here: French Bryant, Burl Bryant, Auglin Watts, and Mosco Dingess. 27 January 2018.

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French Bryant (1855-1938), son of Rufus Bryant, is a major character in my feud book, “Blood in West Virginia: Brumfield v. McCoy.” My Kirk family liked French. 27 January 2018

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Burl Bryant grave (lower) and Auglin Watts grave. 27 January 2018.

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Looking downhill toward cemetery. 27 January 2018.

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Up above the cemetery are these magnificent rocks. 27 January 2018.

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Looking from the rocks down into Hugh Dingess Hollow of Smokehouse Fork of Harts Creek. 27 January 2018.

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The ridge above the cemetery. 27 January 2018.

 

Adam Waggoner Last Will and Testament (1785)

28 Sunday Jan 2018

Posted by in Montgomery County, Tazewell County

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During a recent visit to the Montgomery County Courthouse in Christiansburg, Virginia, I viewed the Last Will and Testament of my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, Adam Waggoner (c.1720s-1785):

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In the name of God Amen I Adam Wagonner being through the abundant Mercy and goodness of God tho weak of body yet of sound memory and perfect understanding do constitute this my Last will and Testament in manner following. Viz. first I bequeath my soul to Almighty God my maker beseeching his most gracious exception of it. My body to the earth to be buried Decently at the Discretion of my Executors hereafter named unto my Worldly Estate. I will and order that all my Debts be paid.

Item. I give and bequeath to my son George Wagonner one half of my Land on Wolf Creek containing near four hundred acres, him taking Choice for his part of the said Land To him and his heirs forever.

Item. I give and bequeath to my son Daniel Wagonner The Other half of my Land on Wolf Creek, only he is to pay to George Wagonner Twenty pounds in any thing to his Satisfaction.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Jacob Wagonner a tract of Land joining mine which he sold to Wm. Day.

Item. I give and bequeath to my son David Waggoner the Tract of Land I now life on to him and his his heirs forever, only my wife Jane Wagonner is to have her third out of it During her natural life.

Item. I give and bequeath to my Daughter Rebekkah Wagonner one brooding mare, two Cows and a good feather Bed, a good furniture or the value thereof.

Item. I give and bequeath to my Daughter Sarah Wagonner one brooding mare, two Cows, and a good feather bed and good furniture or the value thereof.

Item. I give and bequeath to my Daughter Christiner Wagonner one brooding mare, two Cows and a good feather bed and good furniture or the value thereof.

Item. I give and bequeath to my Daughter Susanna Wagonner one brooding mare, two Cows, a good feather bed and good furniture or the value thereof.

Item. I give and bequeath to my Daughter Anne Wagonner one brooding mare, two Cows, a good feather Bed and good furniture or the value thereof.

Item. I give and bequeath to my Son David Wagonner one brooding mare.

Item. I give and bequeath to my wife Jane Wagonner one brooding mare, two Cows, a good feather bed and good furniture or the value thereof.

Item. My will is that my young Children be School’d and raised out of the Estate.

Item. My will is that all the remainder of My Estate, viz. the Land where Henry Stogough Lives, the Land I purchased of Neman Cloyd, the remainder of my Stock, all the Cash and Debts due to be Equally Divided with my wife and all my Children, only pots and pewter and the necessaries for house keeping to my wife, and to my son David.

Item. My Daughters Rebekkah , Sarah, Christiner, Susanna and Anne Waggoner is to have each a good Saddle.

Item. My son David Wagonner is to have 100 acres of Land of a preemption, Joyning the other Tract, and a good Saddle.

Item I do appoint my wife Jane Wagonner Executor, Thomas Patton and William Cox my whole and Sole Executors of this my Last will and Testament.

In Witness whereof I have set my hand and seal this 23th Day of may 1785.

Adam Wagoner

Signed and Sealed in presence of

Wm. Day [his mark]

Tofan(?) Payn(?)

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Source: Wills Box (1791-1799), Montgomery County Circuit Clerk’s Office, Christiansburg, VA.

Burbus Toney Deed to Squire Toney (1854)

26 Friday Jan 2018

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Burbus Toney to Squire Toney Deed 1

Deed Book C, page 422, Logan County Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV. This property is located in present-day Lincoln or Logan County, West Virginia.

Burbus Toney to Squire Toney Deed 2

Deed Book C, page 423, Logan County Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV.

Banco News 06.10.1921

26 Friday Jan 2018

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A correspondent named “Brown Eyes” from Banco on Big Creek in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items dated June 7, which the Logan Banner printed on June 10, 1921:

Mr. and Mrs. W.B. Chapman have returned home from Logan where they have been visiting their daughter, Rosa Ellis.

Mrs. Bunce Queen was calling on home folks Monday.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Bob Baisden, a son.

We are glad to note that Miss Myrtle Duty is improving.

Mr. and Mrs. Bill Pauley were calling on Mrs. Bell Queen Saturday and Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Ellis were calling on the latter’s parents Wednesday.

Mrs. Tara Baisden was visiting Bunce Queen Sunday.

Nancy Duty has returned home after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. W.B. Chapman.

Good wishes to the Banner. I promise to come again.

Banco News 06.18.1926

21 Sunday Jan 2018

Posted by in Banco, Battle of Blair Mountain, Big Creek, Big Ugly Creek, Chapmanville, Hamlin, Huntington

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An unknown correspondent from Banco on Big Creek in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on June 18, 1926:

A singing service was given at the Banco school house last Sunday by Prof. Albert Estep of Limestone. A very good crowd attended. All reported an enjoyable day.

Mr. R.L. Lucas and daughter Beatrice of Pumpkin Center attended singing at Banco last Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Ferrell and little son Johnnie returned to their home at Huntington last Sunday by motor after a few days visit with Mrs. Ferrell’s parents on Big Ugly.

Wonder why Jesse Justice was looking so downhearted last Sunday evening? She’s gone, Jess, but she’ll come back.

Misses Pearl Hager and Opal Workman were the evening guest of Miss Maria Lucas last Sunday.

Wonder whose girl Hassel Vance was flirting with last Sunday? Be careful Hassell. Seybert might get mad.

Peter Pinder was seen going through Banco last week enroute to Big Ugly.

J.A. Stone returned to his home at Banco last Sunday after a few days in Huntington.

Mrs. R.S. Pardue of Big Creek was a business caller at Banco last Tuesday evening.

Mrs. J.A. Thomas and son Virgil of Estep was the Sunday and Monday guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Stone, at this place.

Miss Clara Harmon of Banco was a shopper in Big Creek last Thursday.

Fred Lowe of Kleenkoal who has been ill for a few weeks has returned to his home on Ed Stone Branch near Banco.

Mrs. Robert Chapman of Estep was a business caller in Banco last Tuesday.

Mr. Earl Justice of Whitman attended the singing school at Banco last Sunday and was also the guest of homefolks on Elm street.

Mrs. Polly Ellis of Big Creek, formerly of Estep, is visiting with her brother D.H. Harmon at Banco this week.

Mr. and Mrs. Ted Hager of this place were calling in Big Creek last Sunday morning.

Mrs. Rosa Ellis of Needmore was the guest of Mrs. D.H. Harmon last Monday and Tuesday.

Frank Chapman returnred from Hamlin to his home in Estep via Banco last Monday. There must be some attractions up there, such as the beautiful milkmaids, etc.

Mr. H.F. Lucas made a flying trip to Chapmanville last Sunday evening. Wonder if he saw Tiny?

Mrs. D.H. Harmon and Mrs. J.W. Hager of this place were the guests of Mrs. J.A. Varney of Thomas Circle last Saturday and were served with a nice chicken dinner.

Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Stone and children of Blair were the guests of Mr. Stone’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Stone, at this place last Sunday.

Mrs. Hattie Varney and daughter Nellie and Mrs. Etta Thomas and daughter Hazel, all of Thomas Circle, were callers in Banco last Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Lucas were calling on Mrs. D.H. Harmon last Saturday.

Good luck to The Banner.

Thomas Farley Last Will and Testament (1796)

21 Sunday Jan 2018

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During a recent visit to the Montgomery County Courthouse in Christiansburg, Virginia, I viewed the Last Will and Testament of my great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Thomas Farley (c.1730-1796). Thomas was a veteran of the American Revolutionary War.

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In the Name of God Amen

I Thomas Farley of the County of Montgomery and State of Virginia being sick in Body but of a good and sound memory calling to mind the uncertain estate of this Temporary(?) life and knowing that all flesh must yield to death when it shall pleas God to call. I commit my soul to almighty God that give it and my Body to be buryed as my Friends Shall See cause. In the first place I desire as much of my Estate may be sold as shall pay all my Just debts, Such things as my Dear wife shall think fit. Secondly I give and bequeath to my Dear wife three Negros and all my Pertional estate to dispose of as she Shall See fit and Likewise all Bonds Notes and demands. In the third place I give and Bequeath unto my Dear Sons Such Lands and I have heretofore given them agreeable to Such lines as I have directed and this I believe to be my Last Will and Testament this thirty first day of  May one thousand seven hundred and ninety six.

Thomas Farley

Signed and Sealed

In the presence

Test

John Kirk

John Farley

?Winney Thomp (her mark)?

I also leave Gordon Cloyd and John Kirk my true(?) Friend as Executors

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NOTE: Henry Farley, pioneer settler of Logan County, WV, is the son of Thomas Farley.

State v. Elias Hatfield (1897)

19 Friday Jan 2018

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Law Orders Book K (1897-1901), page 27, 3 November 1897, Logan County Circuit Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV. Elias was Logan County jailer and brother to Devil Anse Hatfield.

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Law Orders Book K (1897-1901), page 27, 3 November 1897, Logan County Circuit Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV. Note: This event was not related to the feud.

Banco News 06.04.1926

19 Friday Jan 2018

Posted by in Banco, Big Creek, Big Ugly Creek, Estep, Logan, West Hamlin

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An unknown correspondent from Banco on Big Creek in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on June 4, 1926:

Here we are back again into our friendly circle, The Banner family, with a few items from the progressive little town of Banco.

Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Stone and Mrs. Lizzie Perdue and daughter, Louise, of Banco motored to West Hamlin last Sunday and all reported a very enjoyable day.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Baisden and children of Needmore were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Duty of Spring Dale last Tuesday.

B.R. Lucas and son Freddie of this place attended church at Big Creek last night.

Mrs. Charles C. Varney and daughter Madeline were the all day guests of Mrs. J.B. Lucas at Pumpkin Center last Wednesday.

Miss Charlotte Chapman of Estep was a business caller in Banco last week.

Wonder who the girl was at Big Creek last week that laid her arm around a Banco Boy’s neck for a strawberry?

Miss Marea Lucas was calling on Misses Mattie and Ollie Varney last Sunday afternoon.

Wonder how Basil Duty would like another trip to Big Ugly? Why not call a taxi next time, Basil?

Okey Justice of Whitman was calling on homefolks on Elm street last Sunday.

Wonder if Frank Chapman and Jesse Justice are having much success at Spring Dale? We wish them the best of luck. Be careful boys and don’t go any farther than the mill.

We saw in last week’s letter from Shegon an item which read like this: “Fred Woolum sure does look sweet in his new straw stack.” We have a boy in our town whose name is Fred Woolum and he also has a new straw stack. Just ask the girls of Sutton. They will tell the rest.

Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Hager of this place was a business caller in Big Creek last week.

Miss Millie Lancaster, teacher of the Banco school left for her home in Martinsburg, W.Va., last week. She will be missed by her many friends.

Mrs. L.A. Ellis of Needmore is visiting friends and relatives in Logan this week.

H.F. Lucas and father motored to Big Creek last Sunday.

Miss Mary Thomas of Estep was a caller in Banco last Tuesday night.

“Just a little sympathy for a boy whom we know well

Who met a girl at church in the Sunny Dell

And in the parlor when the lights were burning low,

A girl who left for Braxton county some little time ago.”

Success to The Banner readers.

Baptist Fry Deed to Charles Lucas (1853)

19 Friday Jan 2018

Posted by in Big Ugly Creek, Guyandotte River

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Deed Book C, page 515, Logan County Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV. I descend from three siblings of Baptist Fry and also from Charles Lucas’ brother, William.

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Deed Book C, page 516, Logan County Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV. Today, this property is located in Lincoln County, WV.

Edgar Allan Poe v. Thomas Dunn English (1847)

19 Friday Jan 2018

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From the Logan Banner, of Logan, WV, comes this item of interest relating to Thomas Dunn English, former mayor of Logan, and Edgar Allan Poe:

EDGAR ALLAN POE AND DR. ENGLISH, LOGAN’S POET, HAD VERBAL DUEL

Some interesting matters are brought to light by Roy Fuller in an article titled “Edgar Allan Poe in West Virginia” in the January number of West Virginia Review.

Of special interest is what he writes of the hostility between Poe and Thomas Dunn English, who was probably the most widely known citizen this city or county ever had.

Fuller, a Charleston newspaper man of real talent, smashes the tradition that Poe visited St. Albans and wrote “The Raven” in a house long afterward named “Ravenscourt” by a resourceful real estate agent and still an object of reverent interest to credulous folk.

“Oddly enough, Poe really spent three summers in what is now West Virginia, but this is never mentioned if it is known here,” says the Review article. “The unsubstantiated tale has precedence over the truth, a situation not at all rare. He came into West Virginia not as a wanderer but as the recently adopted son of the Richmond tobacco merchant. The three summers following his adoption by the Allans he was taken to White Sulphur Springs, then the most popular resort in the south. This is the only claim that the State’s romantic folk can establish, so far as it can be learned from his biographers, except his dealings with Thomas Dunn English, whom West Virginians claim as one of their poets…

“As to ‘The Raven,’ it is generally believed that he wrote it while living near West Eighty-fourth Street, New York. It was published in the ‘Evening Mirror’ January 29, 1845.

Poe wrote “The Literati” condemning and puffing some thirty-eight of his contemporary New Yorkers, including Mr. English. Poe called him “Thomas Dunn Brown” and spoke further of him in such a light way that the author of “Sweet Alice” became peeved. The versatile gentleman lately of West Virginia poured out his heart in a few columns of “The Mirror.” Poe replied four days later in the Philadelphia “Saturday Gazette” and followed his answer with a suit for damage. He got $225 on February 17, 1847. Thus Poe got perhaps his greatest “stake” from Mr. English, an amount great in comparison with $10 he got for his greatest work “The Raven.”

“English also brought out one issue of the ‘Broadway Journal’ after it was given up by Poe. Thus good West Virginians may claim that one of their boys ran a Broadway paper–for a day.”

Source: Logan (WV) Banner, 18 January 1927.

Logan, WV (1917)

18 Thursday Jan 2018

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From the Logan Democrat, of Logan, WV, come these items of local interest dated 1917:

CHAIR CARS NOW ON ALL GUYAN RIVER TRAINS

In prompt response to their promise made a couple of weeks ago, the division officials of the Chesapeake & Ohio railway, on last Saturday provided an additional chair car for the Huntington to Logan service, and as a result Guyan river travelers are now more conveniently and satisfactorily provided for than at any time since the introduction of the railroad into this territory a little more than a dozen years ago.

The extra equipment now gives a chair car on all through trains, an to prove that it was needed and is much appreciated by the traveling public is the fact that on almost every trip since its installation the new car has been completely filled.

Travelers no longer need dread the long trip up or down the old Guyan, and the more satisfactory service is bound to result in many happy results for this section and our people.

Source: Logan (WV) Democrat, 1 February 2017.

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“OLD GLORY” RAISED

BIG BOOZE SHIPMENT

The C. & O. Monday night received a great quantity of liquor for consumers in Logan county. Monday night was the last chance for those whose wine cellars were slim and whiskey bottles were empty to get a supply before the state started on its on-quart of whisky a month. Under the old law a man could bring in as much liquor as he could carry in a suitcase and a great many evidently took advantage of this law before it was superseded by the new law.

Source: Logan (WV) Democrat, 3 May 1917.

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Big Flag Is Flaunted To Breezes Over Court House Before Big Crowd

A large “Old Glory” was flaunted to the breezes over the dome of the court house last Saturday before an immense crowd of citizens, a number of whom came quite a distance to view the ceremonies.

The raising occurred shortly after two o’clock. Previous to that time the Logan band reinforced by the musicians of Herbert’s Greater Shows rendered a few musical numbers. As the flag was raised the musicians struck up the Star Spangled Banner, a large number of people took off their hands and the ceremonies were over.

Source: Logan (WV) Democrat, 17 May 1917.

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WHO WILL BE FIRST?

Although flags are much in evidence on people and buildings in Logan, not a single bond of the “Liberty Loan” has been purchased here, according to the First National bank.

Source: Logan (WV) Democrat, 17 May 1917.