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Harts News 10.22.1926

20 Tuesday Jun 2017

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An unknown correspondent from Harts in Lincoln County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on October 22, 1926:

Grover Gartin of Ranger was calling on Miss Nola Adkins Sunday.

Herbert Adkins was transacting business in Huntington Monday.

Ward Brumfield was looking after business matters in Hamlin Tuesday.

Earl Wysong and Miss Bertha Haines of Logan were visiting friends and relatives at Harts Saturday and were entertained by Miss Jessie Brumfield.

Miss Cora Adkins spent Sunday at Gill.

Mr. and Mrs. Toney Johnson of Columbus, Ohio, spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Chas. Brumfield of Harts.

Mrs. Ellis Hans Isaac of West Hamlin was calling on friends here Sunday.

Miss Pauline Scites and little sister Virginia of Huntington were the guests of Miss Jessie Brumfield Sunday at Harts.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dingess of Whirlwind passed through Harts Saturday evening enroute to Logan.

Jack and Mary Marcum of Ranger were in Harts Sunday.

Mrs. C.C. Pack and Miss Jessie Brumfield and little sister, May Zell, attended the funeral of Mrs. Wesley Tomblin, which took place at the Browning cemetery on Harts Creek Tuesday.

Ira Tomblin is very ill at present with typhoid fever.

We are very sorry to announce the death of Mrs. Wes Tomblin, who died at her home on Harts Creek Monday morning of pneumonia fever.

Mrs. Jas. Porter is very ill at this writing.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Adkins and Mrs. Brooke Adkins of Hamlin were calling on friends in Harts Sunday afternoon.

Ward Brumfield, deputy sheriff of Lincoln county, is loading ties today (Wednesday).

Fisher B. Adkins, Republican nominee for county clerk, is making a progressive campaign. Go to it, Fisher. We are going to elect the whole ticket this time.

Dr. Ferrell of Chapmanville was calling on patients in Harts and on Harts Creek Saturday.

School is progressing nicely here with Mrs. Nora Brumfield for teacher.

Good luck to The Banner!

Harts News 10.19.1926

18 Sunday Jun 2017

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An unknown correspondent from Harts in Lincoln County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on October 19, 1926:

Misses Pearl and Vergia Bell of Big Creek were the week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. S.H. Adkins and family.

Dr. J.T. Ferrell of Chapmanville passed through our little town Tuesday evening to see patients on Harts Creek.

Mrs. Wes Tomblin is very ill with pneumonia fever at this writing.

Ira Tomblin is very low with typhoid fever.

Miss Cora Adkins was visiting friends at Gill Sunday afternoon.

Herb Adkins, merchant of this place, made a business trip to Huntington recently.

Philip Hager of Hamlin was in Harts Tuesday.

Miss Iris Holton of Charleston is visiting relatives here.

Mrs. Nora Brumfield is ill at this writing.

Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Mullins of Big Creek were visiting relatives in Harts Sunday.

Bill Hart went to Logan Saturday.

Harts News 10.08.1926

17 Saturday Jun 2017

Posted by in Barboursville, Chapmanville, Gill, Hamlin, Harts, Huntington, Logan, Ranger, Toney, West Hamlin

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An unknown correspondent from Harts in Lincoln County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on October 8, 1926:

Rev. Grover Gartin of Amherstdale was calling on Miss Nola Adkins Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Drew Adkins and children of Logan have been visiting the latter’s sister, Mrs. R.L. Powers, of this place.

Miss Blanch Lambert of Toney has been calling on Miss Cora Adkins.

Mrs. Nora Brumfield is teaching a very successful term of school here.

F.B. Adkins, Republican nominee for county clerk, was taken to the Kessler-Hatfield hospital on Monday night with an injured arm.

Miss Sylvia Cyfers of Gill was the guest of Miss Cora Adkins Saturday.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Watson Adkins a fine boy named Thomas Watson, Jr.

Misses Nannie and Vergia Fry of Barboursville were the weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. S.H. Adkins and family.

Mr. and Mrs. Herb Adkins have moved into their new home which was completed only a few days ago.

Mr. and Mrs. Dallas McComas of this place were visiting home folks at West Hamlin Saturday and Sunday.

W.M. McCann of Logan was the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Watson Adkins, one day last week.

O.E. Bias, C. & O. operator of this place, is working at McConnell for a few days.

Dr. Taylor of Huntington made an eloquent speech here one day last week.

Bill Adkins and M.C. Farley made a flying trip to Ranger Wednesday.

Clyde Rutherford was seen in Harts this week.

Miss Mae Caines of this place made a trip to Logan one day last week.

Mrs. F.B. Adkins was visiting relatives in Harts Sunday.

Mrs. Fred Adkins and Florence Davis have been calling on Rev. and Mrs. Jas. Porter.

Miss Jessie Brumfield was in Harts Saturday evening.

J.M. Marcum of Ranger, Democratic nominee for county clerk, was in Harts Wednesday.

Dr. J.T. Ferrell of Chapmanville and Miss Rine Browning were seen out car riding one day last week.

Dr. J.T. Chafin of Hamlin was in Harts Wednesday.

Eden Park Coal Company (1922)

13 Tuesday Jun 2017

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Eden Park is an extinct coal town located between Harts and Atenville along the C&O Railroad and Guyandotte River in Lincoln County, WV. Eden Park Coal Company created the town in the early 1920s. What follows is the company’s founding document:

Eden Park Coal Company

Date: August 24, 1922

Headquarters: Atenville

Chief works: Eden Park

Capital stock: $50,000

500 shares of $100

Incorporators:

Dr. D.P. Crockett of Big Creek, WV: 45 shares

Mrs. D.P. Crockett of Huntington, WV: 5 shares

John D. Shelton of Sand Creek, WV: 50 shares

Philip Hager of Hamlin, WV: 50 shares

Shelby Shelton of Sand Creek, WV: 50 shares

Note: Corporation will expire in fifty years.

Source: Corporation Record Book 2, Lincoln County Clerk’s Office, Hamlin, WV.

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Eden Park hosted at least two murders, one of which essentially closed the mine. Reportedly, the company left much of its equipment inside of the mine. Photo by Mom.

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Mr. Silas Gibson, in an interview conducted on 1 August 1927, stated that J.X. Hill sold his property at present-day Hadley, WV, and moved here…where he was killed by Green Porter. Photo by Mom.

Jane Dingess Estate (1909)

06 Tuesday Jun 2017

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Jane R. (Adams) Dingess, the daughter of John Washington and Mary “Polly” (Hall) Adams and wife of Peter C. “Coffee Pete” Dingess, was born in June of 1830 and died in the fall of 1909. What follows are excerpts from her estate settlement:

The bill of complaint of Martha A. Fowler and John Dingess, Allen Dingess, Josephine Adkins and Linnie Mitchell, by Ward Mitchell, their next friend, plaintiffs, against Lewis W. Dingess, John S. Dingess, David Dingess, Mary Scaggs, Ada Scaggs, Minnie Ferrell and J.W. Chambers, Sheriff of Logan County, and as such Administrator of the personal estate of Jane Dingess, deceased, defendants, filed in the Circuit Court of Logan County, West Virginia.

The above named plaintiffs complain and say that sometime early in the Fall of 1909, Jane Dingess, their ancestor, departed this life intestate, leaving as her children and heirs-at-law, her surviving, the plaintiff, Martha A. Fowler, and her co-plaintiffs, John Dingess, Allen Dingess, Josephine Adkins and Linnie Mitchell, the latter four minors under twenty-one years of age, children and heirs at law of Calvin Dingess, deceased, a brother of the said Martha A. Fowler, and defendants, Lewis W. Dingess, David Dingess, John S. Dingess, Mary Scaggs, Ada Scaggs, and Minnie Ferrell; that the said Jane Dingess was the owner in fee simple of one undivided one-eighth interest of a certain tract of land, situated on Crawley’s creek in said Logan County, which tract of land was decreed to be sold in the lifetime of said Jane Dingess, in a partition suit brought by the heirs-at-law of  a deceased child of the said Jane Dingess, who died intestate without issue, leaving her said brothers and sisters and her mother, the said Jane Dingess, as her heirs-at-law, her surviving, but the said land has not yet been sold; and the said Jane Dingess was also the owner in fee simple at the time of her death, of about $2200.00 cash, and the following other personal property: one mare and a colt; one yearling and a calf; five milk-cows; five hogs; twenty-five geese; fifty chickens; four bedsteads and bedding for same, including pillows and bed-clothing; household and kitchen furniture, the latter worth about $100.00; and as plaintiffs are informed several other articles used in farming and housekeeping, worth in aggregate, not including the cash, at least $800.00.

Plaintiffs further say that they are credibly informed, believe and here charge as true, that immediately after the death of the said Jane Dingess, even on the night of her death before she was laid out preparatory for burial, the defendant Lewis W. Dingess and David Dingess colluded, combined and confederated together for the express purpose of cheating, defeating and defrauding the other heirs of the said Jane Dingess, deceased, out of their just portions of the said money and other effects of the estate of the said Jane Dingess and that in pursuance of the said fraudulent combination and scheme, the said Lewis W. Dingess and David Dingess, did hunt up, procure and take into their possession all the money of their dead mother, for the express purpose of converting the same to their own use, and that a short time afterwards, on the same night, as plaintiffs are informed, the defendant, Mary Scaggs, caught onto the said scheme, or received information in some way of the intention of the said Lewis W. Dingess and David Dingess, of converting said money to their own use; and the said Lewis W. Dingess and David Dingess, being aware of such knowledge of their said sister, Mary Scaggs, as a matter of caution and policy on their part, they took the said Mary Scaggs into their said scheme and did then and there give her, the said Mary Scaggs, $500.00, of the said money, and then the said Lewis W. Dingess and David Dingess, then and there divided the residue thereof, which was $1700.00 equally between them.

Plaintiffs are informed, believe and here charge as true, that with the consent of the said Lewis W. Dingess, the said David Dingess, deposited the whole of said money, after deducting the part they gave to Mary Scaggs, in the Guyan Valley Bank, at Logan, West Virginia, in the individual name of the said David Dingess, and as plaintiffs are informed, the said Bank refused to give information relating to the same.

Plaintiffs further say that they are informed, believe and here charge as true that the said Jane Dingess, at the time of her death, did not owe anything to anyone, and they are advised it is right and proper that the estate of their said ancestor be settled up and that the property be sold, and the proceeds thereof, as well as the said $2200.00 in cash, be divided among the heirs-at-law of the said Jane Dingess, deceased.

NOTE: Defendants Lewis W. Dingess, David Dingess, and Mary Scaggs denied all charges against them.

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It was this day suggested to the Court that the Defendant, David C. Dingess, has become demented and is now at Huntington, West Virginia, in the care and custody of the West Virginia Insane Asylum, and that he became insane about the 1st day of January, 1911; therefore on motion of the Defendants, by their attorney, Lewis W. Dingess is hereby appointed as a committee for the said David C. Dingess, and thereupon the said Lewis W. Dingess this day filed an answer as committee for the said David C. Dingess, to which the plaintiffs generally reply.

NOTE: David Dingess died in January of 1921 without issue.

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Jane Adams Personal Estate and Real Estate (January 12, 1911):

Cash belonging to Jane Dingess at the time of her death now deposited in the Guyan Valley Bank on certificate of deposit in the name of David Dingess, $93.00

The following household goods valued as follows:

1 feather bed, $10.00

1 feather bed, $3.00

2 pillows, $1.00

1 quilt and 1 sheet, $1.50

1 bedstead, $4.00

7 old quilts, $3.00

3 pillows, $1.50

2 straw ticks, $1.00

1 feather bed, $6.00

1 feather bed, $6.00

1 straw tick, $1.00

1 quilt, $1.50

7 old quilts, $3.50

4 old quilts, $5.00

2 blankets, $1.50

1 bunch old carpet, $2.00

1 feather bed, $6.00

4 quilts, $5.00

2 pillows, $1.00

1 sheet, $0.50

1 desk, $1.50

1 falling leaf table, $0.50

1 pot table, $0.25

1 Goble, $0.50

1 cupboard, $0.50

Dishes, $2.00

1 old stove and vessels, $2.50

Total: $71.75

Jane Dingess was the owner of an undivided one-ninth interest in and to a tract of 74 2/10 acres of land surface, situate on Crawley’s Creek, and being the same inherited by her from her deceased daughter, Chloe Dingess. This land is to be sold.

Said decedent had no creditors.

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Source: Martha A. Fowler, et als. v. Lewis W. Dingess, et als. (1910), Logan County Circuit Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV.

Interview with Frank Hill of Big Creek, WV (2004) 2

20 Saturday May 2017

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On June 2, 2004, Billy Adkins and I visited Frank Hill. Mr. Hill, a retired farmer, bus driver, and store keeper, made his home on Ellis Fork of North Fork of Big Creek in Boone County, West Virginia. Born in 1923, he was the son of Edward W. and Annie Elizabeth (Stollings) Hill. Billy and I were interested in hearing about Mr. Hill’s Fowler ancestry and anything he wanted to share about his own life. We greatly enjoyed our visit. What follows is a partial transcript of our interview:

FRANK HILL

I was born April 22, 1923 up the Ellis Fork Road. When I was born there, we had a four-room Jenny Lind house. It was an old-timer: double fireplace that burned coal and wood, you know. My mother had eleven children and I was the last one. When she saw me, she give up.

EDUCATION

I went to the Stone School, a one-room school just up Ellis Fork. My wife’s grandpa, Albert Stone, gave them land to build this school. It wasn’t a big lot – it might have been 300 feet square. We played ball there in the creek. We didn’t have much dry ground. Well, I went through the 8th grade around there. Arithmetic was my best subject. I had good handwriting, too. I thought I could go into the 9th at Chapmanville but they wouldn’t let me. They said I hadn’t took this test you were supposed to take as you left the 8th grade.

I walked a mile and six-tenths to school. We’d had bad teachers. They couldn’t get no control over the students. Dad got this old fellow from Madison and he said, “Now, I’ll give you ten dollars extra on the month.” I think the board paid fifty dollars a month. Back then, young men and women went to school. Twenty, twenty-five years old. They were so mean the teachers couldn’t hardly handle them. I had an older brother that was one of them. A teacher whipped a younger brother he had one day and he said, “Old man, wait till I catch you out. I’ll give you a good one.” And he meant it, too.

JOHNNY HAGER

Little Johnny Hager was a fiddle player. He was a little man, never was married. And he never had a home. All he had was a little suitcase with a few clothes in it. He’d stay with people maybe a month or two and the way he paid his keep was he whittled out lids or fed their pigs and stuff like that. He’d stay there a month or two till he felt he’d wore out his welcome then he’d go to another house. He was a well-liked little guy. Us boys, we followed him wherever he went cause he could sure play that fiddle. He played one tune called “Hell Among the Heffers”.

DEPRESSION

We had a hard time in this world. You couldn’t buy a job then. I had a brother-in-law that worked for the Pure Oil Company in Logan that was the only man that had a public job in this whole hollow. People grew tobacco to pay their taxes and bills they had accumulated. It was terrible. I remember my daddy had a little barrel of little potatoes when spring come and this old fellow lived above us, he was a musician. His name was Carlos Clark. He’d come out of the coalfields in Logan and he lost his home. His wife was a cousin of mine. He was trying to teach me to play the guitar. I’d go there and she’d lead the singing and he’d pick the guitar and I’d try to play second. He give me eleven lessons for that barrel of potatoes.

We had two or three around here that went to work in the CCC camps. Lloyd Ellis from Whitman’s Creek was one of them and Seymour Ellis was another one from Six Mile. In his last days, that was all he wanted to talk about. They went plumb into California in the CC camps. Then war broke out and they just switched them camps over to the Army. The Army operated those camps anyhow. That’s why they was so successful. They had control over boys to teach them how to do things.

DANCES

We got just as wild as any of them. Ed Haley used to come over here and play. The Barker family had a full band. Now, they could make the rafters roar. There was an old lady lived in here married to Walter Fowler who called the dances and there wasn’t a one of us really knowed how to dance but we put on a show anyhow. They had them in people’s homes. No drinking allowed but there was always a few that did. They always had a lot of good cakes.

CHURCHES

It was mostly Church of Christ around here. The main preacher up here in these parts was Pope Dial from Huntington. I’ll tell you another one that came in here that followed him sort of was Melvin White. Vernon Mullins followed up years later when he preached in here. I remember the first sermon he ever preached was around here in the one-room Stone School. He established a lot of different churches in the country but that was the first one. He’d talk about how he started here, preached his first sermon. Every funeral he conducted on this creek, he’d tell that story.

Chapmanville News 04.30.1926

16 Tuesday May 2017

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An unknown local correspondent from Chapmanville in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on April 30, 1926:

Here we come with a rush and a roar Chapmanville more and more.

Misses Agness Whitman, Hazel McCloud and Nilla Lowe were out strolling Sunday afternoon.

Miss Ruby Blankenship of Huntington was visiting relatives of this place through the weekend.

Sarless Ferrell escorted Miss Inez Barker home from church Sunday night.

Misses Opa Johnson, Lillian Johnson, and cousin were out walking Sunday.

Miss Gracie Johnson, Broda Johnson, and Minnie Workman were visiting in Stone Branch Sunday morning.

Oza Workman hasn’t been calling on Miss Beulah Ballard lately.

Miss Gracie Workman made a flying trip to Logan Sunday evening.

Wonder who Miss Thelma Scaggs and Blake Bentley are getting along these days?

Wattie Workman was visiting home folks Saturday and Sunday.

Wonder why Biss Beulah Ballard is so downhearted these days. Cheer up, Beulah. He’ll be back.

Mason Rowsey was calling on Miss Margaret Ballard Sunday night.

We are glad to say that Miss Marie Lucas is able to get out.

Otto Shuff was visiting Ed Johnson Saturday night.

We are sorry to report the death of Mr. Ike Jeffrey.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Lee Jordan, April 26, 1926, a girl.

Miss Reva Childress was seen at church Sunday night.

Daily scenes: Thelma and her new dress; Broda and her new hose; Opal and her shingle  bob; Lillian and her new dress; Margaret staying with Gladys; Carless going to see Inez; Susie and her spring coat; Tom and his prize; Beulah and her smiles; Gracie and her knickers; Wattie and his white hat; Minnie and her blues.

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Naaman Jackson, G.R. Claypool, A.D. Cook, and W.J. Bachtel were here on business last Saturday.

Space will not permit a list of those politically ill, as we promised last week from this town.

It is reported they had an old fashioned head-skinning on Crawley’s Creek Sunday evening near the mouth of Pitt Branch.

Mrs. Burns, the district music teacher, left on Tuesday of this week for her home in Pittsburg, Pa.

Everything seemed to be in the clear here on Saturday night when the state police were here. Come again, boys. Better luck next time, we hope.

First meeting of the Chapmanville Water Works Co. was held last Tuesday. The time was mostly consumed by listening to appropriate estimated for material.

A goodly number of circus fans attended the circus at Logan Monday evening from this place.

Dr. Ferrell seemed to be the only Democrat here that got anything out of the last election. He has issued over $100 worth of pills to sick Democrats since the Supreme Court’s decision. Some of the boys though are convalescing.

Banco News 05.14.1926

13 Saturday May 2017

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An unknown local correspondent from Banco in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on May 14, 1926:

Rev. White of Henlawson delivered a very interesting sermon at the school house at Thomas’ Circle last Sunday morning. A good crowd from adjoining towns attended. Among those who attended church at Thomas’ Circle from Banco were: Mr. and Mrs. B.E. Ferrell, Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Hager, Clara Harmon, Mr. B.R. Lucas and son H.F. Lucas.

Jesse Justice of Elm street went to Logan last Wednesday to have some dental work done. Jesse will go back to Springdale with a smile.

Mr. A.S. Lowe was a business caller in Banco last Wednesday.

Messrs. J.A. Stone and Samuel Pardue motored to Huntington last Sunday and arrived back in Banco Monday.

Clara Harmon of this place was the all night guest of Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Lucas last Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Thomas of Estep were shoppers in Banco last Tuesday.

Mrs. Wallace Toney and children of Chapmanville was visiting Mrs. Toney’s father, Mr. F.D. Lucas on Trace Fork, who has been ill for some time.

Miss Effie Carter returned to her home at Milton after a week’s visit with her grandparents on North Fork.

Miss Ella Jane Toney of Chapmanville was the Sunday guest of Miss Maria Lucas of this place.

Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Justice and son Charles were business callers in Banco last Saturday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Lucas were calling in Banco last Sunday evening.

Robert Gullet of Spring Dale and Jesse Justice of Elm street seemed to be enjoying themselves immensely last Sunday afternoon as they had two girls in their roadster. Don’t tell Frank, boys.

Miss Opal Workman returned to her home in Banco after several days in Pumpkin Center.

Miss Angie Lucas was calling at the Banco post office last week. Wonder who she was looking for a letter from?

Mr. H.F. Lucas was a business caller in Big Creek last Monday.

Miss Hazel Thomas and Mrs. J.A. Varney of Thomas’ Circle were in Banco last Wednesday.

Good luck to the Banner.

 

Chapmanville News 04.20.1926

11 Thursday May 2017

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An unknown local correspondent from Chapmanville in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on April 20, 1926:

The Hugh Thompson school is progressing nicely under the tutorship of Mr. Bernard Forbes.

Dallas Hollingsworth of Tim’s Fork has left for his home in Bethesda, Ohio.

Peter Dingess was seen looking at a barber shop. Wonder why?

O’Dell Butcher is visiting Chapmanville this week. O’Dell Butcher is the best marble player in Chapmanville.

J.D. Price of this place died in a Huntington hospital last Saturday night. Interment was made in the Godby Branch cemetery on Tuesday.

Mr. Bias, the ladies man, is back on duty with the C. & O. this week.

The Vickers mines are resuming work after being closed down for quite a while.

H.T. Butcher is attending federal court at Charleston this week.

The high school is up to the voters now. The election has been called.

There were five transactions in real estate here last week. Pretty good for a village like this.

W.A. McCloud is planning a trip to Columbus, O., in the next few days.

Prof. L.H. Strader of Philippi was visiting friends here last week.

Now that the election contest is over, the people are expecting great things from Sheriff Hatfield and the county court. No further reason why this district should not have a member to represent us.

Next week I will give a list of all whom are sick, unless the list is too big for publication.

 

Chapmanville News 04.16.1926

05 Friday May 2017

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An unknown local correspondent from Chapmanville in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on April 16, 1926:

Carless Chafin of Huntington was visiting homefolks of this place Sunday.

Miss Inez Barker and Miss Susie Carper were seen out walking Sunday afternoon.

Oza Workman was calling on Miss Beulah Ballard Sunday night.

Mrs. Lizzie Thomas and her daughter Marie, Vivian Johnson, and Hattie Shepherd were seen at church Saturday night.

Miss Beulah Ballard, Broda Johnson, and Gladys Lowe were visitors of Mrs. Brookie Rowsy Sunday afternoon.

Mr. and Mrs. Lunsford and Miss Gracie Ferrell were out strolling Sunday afternoon.

Nelson Bentley was calling on Mrs. Brookie Rowsy Sunday afternoon.

Miss Laura Workman of Logan was visiting her parents over the week end.

Mrs. Brookie Rowsey made a flying trip to Logan Friday.

We are glad to say that Miss Marie Lucas is progressing nicely.

Mrs. Ernest Jeffrey and children of Peach Creek were the dinner guests of Mrs. Martha Whitman Sunday.

Frankie Kessler was calling on Miss Mildred Coberly Sunday afternoon.

Misses Opal Johnson, Agnes Whitman, and Lillian Johnson were visiting Mrs. Brookie Rowsy Sunday.

Miss Thelma Scaggs was busy answering Johnnie Pauley’s letters last week.

Miss Goldie Rowsey was visiting Mrs. Ed Johnson Sunday afternoon.

Miss Thelma Scaggs was seen going to meet 51 with a hello and a hi.

Mr. Roy Jeffrey delivered a fine sermon at the Holiness church Sunday night.

J.D. Price of Phico is very ill at this writing with side pleurisy. But we hope he will soon recover.

Wonder what is the matter with Chapmanville boys as they haven’t been seen riding the freight trains nowadays.

Daily scenes: Susie and her hat; Inez and her new suit; Carless and his smiles; Willa and her sweetie; Beulah and her new hose; Gladys and her new dress; Broda and her new hose; Nelson going to see Brookie; Lizzie and Russell; Hattie and her new hat; Vivian and her smiles; Andy and Grace; Brookie going to Logan; Opal and her pearls; Lillian and her watch; Agnes and her new dress; Hazel and her stories; Minnie and her diploma test; Grace looking downhearted; Dan and his girl; Hazel and her dress.

Early Newspapers of Lincoln County, WV

03 Wednesday May 2017

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The following newspapers have existed in Lincoln County, WV:

Lincoln Clipper (1881-

“The publication of the Lincoln Clipper, a five column folio newspaper, was begun at Hamlin on the 15th day of September, 1881, by Messrs. C.M. Hall and T.T. McDougal, editors and proprietors. They continued it for several months, when Hall sold his interest to McDougal, by whom it was published until January, 1882, at which time he sold a half interest to Messrs. Joseph E. Chilton, C.W. Campbell and B.H. Oxley, and under the name of the Clipper Publishing Company they issued it until August, 1882, when Edward I. Holt purchased the press and office material, and by him it has been published since. Under his management it has constantly improved and enlarged. On the 18th day of October, 1883, it was made a five column quarto.” Source: Hardesty’s History of Lincoln County, WV (c.1884), p. 97.

“The Lincoln Clipper has again changed hands and is now published by the Lincoln Clipper Publishing Company. The capital stock is not given, but it is something less than $1,000,000.” Parkersburg Sentinel, 4 February 1882

 

Lincoln Citizen (1886-

“Mr. W.M. Workman will begin the publication of a newspaper called the Lincoln Citizen at Hamlin, Lincoln County, about the 20th inst. We presume the object of its publication is to fill the usual long-felt want, and incidentally to reap the golden reward of West Virginia journalism. We hope Mr. Workman may be successful in his enterprise.” Huntington Advertiser, 10 April 1886

“J. Jerome Haddox is again editor of the Lincoln Citizen. It is needless to say the Citizen is turned up to bold and brilliant things.” Logan County Banner, 18 September 1895

“The History of Logan County, by Hon. Henry Clay Ragland, has begun in The Logan Banner. He starts off like a true historian, and with a master pen blends romance and history together. He begins with the brave little Jamestown colony in 1607, and with a skillful pen and accurate knowledge of the footprints of colonial characteristics is bringing his readers gradually down to the settlements and formation of Logan.” Logan County Banner, 15 January 1896 (via Lincoln Citizen)

“Mr. J. Jerome Haddox, editor of the Lincoln Citizen, was married Sunday afternoon to Miss Linnie Mahone, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil H. Mahone, prominent and well-to-do people of that county. The Banner extends congratulations.” Logan County Banner, 19 February 1896

“The Lincoln Citizen is the only exchange that comes to our tables that has the gall to try to keep alive that defunct Populist party. From the look of its dress it may be surmised that the Citizen will soon sink into its predestined grave to sleep until the vision so graphically pictured by Mr. Bellamy arrives which will perhaps be realized about the year 4000 A.D. One by one the ‘pop’ organs have dropped from the ranks until now to see one is a curiosity The Citizen may aptly be styled the last rose of summer in the West Virginia Populist garden.” Huntington Advertiser, 9 May 1896 (via Southern West Virginian)

“The populist convention of Lincoln county instructed their delegates to the State district convention to vote for Jerome J. Haddox, editor of the Lincoln Citizen, for delegate to the National populist Convention at St. Louis. Mr. Haddox was here today and thinks his chances are favorable. He is accompanied by his estimable wife and they will probably remain here for several days.” Huntington Advertiser, 8 June 1896

“The Lincoln Citizen, edited by the only Jerome Haddox, came in on time last evening and was as bright and newsy as ever. Mr. Haddox’s paper always contains some rich, rare, and racy effusions which will bring smiles to the countenance of the most disconsolate.” Huntington Advertiser, 29 January 1897

“Jerome Haddox, the populist editor, of Lincoln county, who has many friends in this city, is the happy father of a nine and one-half pound boy. It was born last Wednesday and Jerome says: ‘He is a middle of the road populist possessing oratorical abilities.'” Huntington Advertiser, 16 March 1897

“Editor Jerome J. Haddox of the Lincoln Citizen has sold out his plant and good will to Elbert R. Hoffman of the Lincoln Guidon but the paper will be known in the future as the Lincoln Citizen and will be republican in politics. Mr. Haddox is one among the most interesting writers in the state and the press generally will be sorry to lose him from the profession. Mr. Hoffman was formerly a well known Charleston newspaper man and will evidently make a success in his new field.” Huntington Advertiser, 26 July 1898.

Lincoln News (1894-

“We notice in the Lincoln News that John H. Sanborn and David Laird, of Dunlow, were in Hamlin a few days ago and subscribed for the Lincoln News. Frank says the sign was the special attraction.” Logan County Banner (Logan, WV), 21 June 1894

“Editor Van Zeveley of Hamlin, is here for a day or two after looking after the interests of his paper, The Lincoln News.” Huntington Advertiser, 10 March 1898

“The Lincoln News comes out this week in new dress and greatly enlarged. We are glad to chronicle the success of Mr. Van Zeveley its editor and owner. The News is doing good for the democracy in Lincoln.” Huntington Advertiser, 15 April 1898

“Editor Van Zeveley of the Lincoln News is in the city and is accompanied by Mrs. Zeveley. They will remain in Huntington over Sunday.” Huntington Advertiser, 13 May 1898

“Van Zeveley of Lincoln who has been in the city for a few days received a telegram yesterday afternoon that his wife who had been visiting out in the interior of the state was very ill and had been taken to the hospital at Wheeling for treatment. Mr. Zeveley left this morning for her bedside. It is hoped that he will find her much improved.” Huntington Advertiser, 6 July 1898

“Van H. Zeveley, the editor of the Lincoln news, is spending a few days here in company with his wife. Van was one of the secretaries of the Spencer convention, and a good one he was too.” Huntington Advertiser, 3 September 1898

“Van Zeveley, the well known editor of the Lincoln News, came in last night from Charleston where he has been spending a few days looking after some business matters. Mr. Zeveley will return home tomorrow morning.” Huntington Advertiser, 14 March 1899

“Editor Van Zeveley of the Lincoln News arrived in the city at noon today from Hamlin, accompanied by his wife. They will remain here until tomorrow morning, when they will leave over the Ohio railroad for Ritchie county, where they will spend a few weeks. Mrs. Zeveley has been in ill health for almost a year past, but is now much improved.” Huntington Advertiser, 20 July 1899.

“Editor Van Zeveley of the Lincoln News arrived here this morning and left this afternoon on the White Collar line steamer for Cincinnati.” Huntington Advertiser, 9 August 1899

“Van Zeveley, Editor of the Lincoln News, one of the leading democratic weeklies in the state, is in the city today looking after some business matters. The many friends of Mr. Zeveley will be sorry to learn that his health has been failing for a few months past. Mr. Zeveley will remain here until the middle of the week.” Huntington Advertiser, 18 September 1899

“Editor R.E. Hardwicke of the Lincoln News and several other prominent citizens of Lincoln are here today and will remain until tomorrow, when they go to Charleston to attend the Western Davis meeting.” Huntington Advertiser, 15 August 1900

“Editor R.E. Hardwicke of the Lincoln News came in from Charleston this morning and will spend a day or so here before returning to his home at Hamlin.” Huntington Advertiser, 21 September 1900

Van Zeveley was the son of E.S. Zeveley. The elder Mr. Zeveley was born in North Carolina in 1818 and began a newspaper called the Greensboro Beacon in 1836. In 1877, he founded the Ritchie Democrat and Beacon Light at Cairo, WV. His son, Van, began a newspaper called The Walking Beam in Volcano, WV. Following the elder Zeveley’s death in 1884, the Democrat passed to his son, Van. Van operated the Beacon Light (renamed and relocated to Pennsboro) until 1893, when he moved to Lincoln County. He edited the Lincoln News for six years until his poor health forced him to retire from the newspaper business. Sources: History of Ritchie County by Minnie Kendall Lowther (1911), p. 454-455; West Virginia and Its People by T.C. Miller and Hu Maxwell (1913), p. 304.

The Institute Daily Lincoln News (1895-

“We are in receipt of several numbers of The Institute Daily Lincoln News. This is the first daily ever published in Lincoln county, and it is bright and newsy and reflects much credit upon the management of the News.” Logan County Banner, 17 July 1895

Lincoln Guidon (1895-

Note: This is a “working” entry and will be updated periodically.