Poetic New Year Cheer From Savage to Local Friends
A New Year greeting poem by Joe W. Savage offers warm wishes to a long list of local figures. The poem calls out officials, doctors, merchants, and neighbors, extending seasonal cheer and hopes for prosperity and good health in the coming year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savage
Joe W. Savage
Childering
Lillian Gish
Gloria Swanson
Okey Johnson
Justice
Harry Thayer
Ruge DeVan
Kump
Koontz
Kelly
Frank Blair
Braxton County
O'Flannahan
Preston
Burke McClannahan
Monty Evans
Joe Dolans
M. Steiger
Anne Young
Ella Kiger
Buford
C. W. Stallard
Sherman Ballard
Horace R. Hicks
Killarney
Roger Creel
Briscoe Peytons
Roy Bird Cook
John Britton
Wehrle
Jack Altizers
Dr. Rucker
Statehouse
Carr M. Tucker
Roosevelt
Raymond Moley
Fannie Obley
Charles
William
Holley
B. D. Grill
Capitol Hill
S. Spencer Moores
Woodrump
Kaufmans
H. C. Bakers
Cooke’s
Ulysses
William Billings
Clayton Carsons
Parsons
Father Ferdinand
Reverend Gass
Montan Semper
B. F. Sperow
Doctor Kemper
Pirate Captain Gow Waits for Wedding at Orkney
The pirate John Gow returns to his home islands after a looting voyage aboard the Revenge. He plans marriage to Mary Gordon but delays due to her father’s insistence on papers. News of Gow’s piracy spreads as a raid targets the Honeyman home and nearby farms, forcing Gow back toward his ship amid mounting danger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Gow
Revenge
Orkney Islands
Mary Gordon
Mary
John
Gow
Cariston
Father Gordon
Gordon
Houes
Kirkwall
Isles
Sherrif Honeyman
Gordons
Honeyman
Margaret Honeyman
Fils Villians
Farmer Outwits Pirates and Hangs Gow Crew
In 1725 on a Scilly island Gow and six pirates plan escape after a friendly visit to a Scotch farmer Fea. Fea hides armed farmers, captures Gow and crew, then hands them to authorities. Gow and his men are executed at Execution Dock, Wapping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gea
Fea
Als Nouse
Fen
Gow
Fean
Gaya
Wapping
Thames
Gopsright
Charles B. Driscoll
Gould Wedding Plans Finished
Eleanor Gould’s January 18 wedding to Ludlow W. Stevens is fully planned at St Thomas Church. A small, intimate ceremony will include family and close friends with maid of honor Anne Gould and bridesmaids Frances Graham Edith Cram among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chelly
Eleanor
Anne Douglas Gould
Luis Franke, Jr
Dorothy Spraker
Frances Graham
Tendurs
Henry S. Cram
Edith Gould
Arthur Ryle, Jr
Edith Cram
Roelif H. Brooks
St. Thomas
Adventures of Old Man Heck in the Oilend Gas Exchange
In this instalment Dr G C Schoalfield appears with prominent citizens including Jim McFarland John Winks Ter Okey Johnson Paul Revere Judge Arthur Hudson Old Mis Heck Clarence the skunk Fritz Wisamer George Beller Judge A D MacCorkle Grant P Hall W E Byrne Simon Moses Lis Young John Gillese pie Old Mis Hech Ed Gobhart and Harold Mathews Speckin of policies sums up the scene in a local Oil and Gas Exchange discussion as Sim McFarland questions who is strongest in town and Join Winkler adds his tale of the Sand Book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. C. Schoalfield
Jim McFarland
John Winks
Ter
Okey Johnson
Paul Revere
Arthur Hudson
Mis’ Heck
Clarence the Skunk
Fritz Wisamer
George Beller
A. D. MacCorkle
Grant P. Hall
W. E.R. Byrne
Simon Moses
Lis Young
John Gillesepie
Mis’ Hech
Ed Gobhart
Harold Mathews
Speckin
Sim McFarland
Winkler
Everbody
Old Man
Grant Hall
Grant
Will Byrne
Cap'tol Street
Bill
Simon Moseses
Heck
Fritz
Clarence
John Gillespie
Mark
Piercin
Mis
Remembering 1910 Wrecks and Local Brotherhood Tales
Narratives recount a 1910 Little Coal railroad wreck near Pinnacle tunnel where an engineer stayed at his post to avert disaster after a rock blocked the track. Other scenes cover a Washington’s Birthday meeting of the Ladies Aid Society, streetcar fires, and a satirical tale of Old Man Heck’s skunk politics ending in a fatal shooting at a voting triangle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Coal
Pinnacle Tunnel
Bhears
St. Albans
Washington
Lades Aid Society
Woman's Home Missionary Society
First
M. 5
Church
South
Ira Robinson
State Supreme Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
Williams
J. G. Vaughan
A. EB. O'Dell
John Wesley
R. H. Alderman
Morris-Harvey College
Conference College
Robert Poffenbarger
Samuel Stephenson
J. S. Hill
Wesley Brotherhood
Judge Williams
Robert Pottenbarger
J. 3. Hill
Also Mentioned on This Page
Senator Chilton
J. L. B. Cheetham
Doctor Schoolfield
Charlie Warner
John Nance Garner
H. L. Snyders
Johnnie Harts
Osman Swerts
Hawthorn Battles
Horner Davis
George Couch
8. B. Avis
Silas Pickering
Francis Perkins
Admirel Byrd
Jack Diamond
Pirates
John Fea
Eda
Baa
Gozw
Tushing the
Gould
L. W. Stevens
Endicott Peabody
Tuckerman Draper
Cadlan Wright
Gobing
London
Paris
Adventures of
Old Man Heck
Harry L. Flournoy
Mrs
Billie Richardson
Virginia Street
Central
West Side
Monongahela Avenue
Mary Ashby
Edgewood Country Club
Miss Bradley
Denver
Colorado
Blanche Thompson
Charlotte Woodman
Evelyth McConshay
Margaret Wood
Mary Rogers
Almeda McWhorter
Lillian Carver
Hazel Shanklin
Ethel Ruffner
Elizabeth Peyton
Katherine Dyer
Mildred Bradford
Nan Wilson
Olive Glennan
Norfolk
Nan Nash
Elma Smith
Marion Briggs
Tomaso Stiles
Margaret Oracraft
Sydney Arthur
Covington
Mac Flynn
Ine McDonald
Kanawha County
Republican Club
Capitol
Fred Paul Grosseup
Malcolm Jackson Q. A. Petty
G. A. Bolden
John R. Foster
Joseph H. Gaines
S. B. Avis
S. P
Bernard
Ralph Mayer
Summers Street
Harvey Olcutt
Ruth Mayer
Okey Johnsen
Pius
Paul
Kanawry Street
Hale House
Doc Scheelfiell
Arthur Woodson
Bor
Wen
Doc
Heck Allua
Mini
Baker Piark
Fom
Old Munn Heck
United States Senate
Justice of the Peace
Holt
George Hellsaloon
George i
Jedge McCorkle
George
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