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The Martin and The McNeely are the principal hotels.
There are several stores, but no manufacturing establish-
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ments. The town is fairly well equipped with side-walks, but as yet no streets have been paved.
Madison has a small school, the total enrollment being only 73 for the year 1913-14. The school term is 6 months. Luther R. Jones, principal, and W. W. Fulton and Lora Lilly make up the faculty.
MANNINGTON.
Mannington-the second city of Marion County in popu- lation and industrial enterprises-is located at the mouth of Pyle's Fork of Buffalo Creek, on the Grafton and Wheeling Division of the B. & O. Railroad. In addition to this road, it is also connected to Fairmont-the county seat-by an electric line. The town was incorporated March 4, 1856-four years after the completion of the B. & O. Railroad. Until 1891 the town made slow growth, the population then being less than 1,000, but in that year oil was struck near by and from that time on there has been a steady growth, the population in 1900 being 1,681 : in 1910, 2.672, and on January 1st, 1914, there were over 3,500 people within the corporate limits.
Mannington has not only grown in population, but in all lines of progress, and to-day there are not many towns, of equal population, that possess so many and so varied manu- facturing establishments and business enterprises.
As a rule, great industrial improvements are brought about by the infusion of new blood into a town, city or com- munity and the relegation of the old. Not so in Mannington's case. The early settlers were the Burts, the Pritchards, the Snodgrasses, the Millens, the Furbees. the Bartletts, the Rymers, the Beatys, the Blackshires, the Wells, the Martins, the Phillips, the Freelands, the Claytons, the Bassnetts and others, and these are the people who are still the bone and the sinew and the ruling spirit of the old town to-day.
City Officials.
The present city officials are as follows: F. W. Vance. Mayor ; J. H. Hellem, Chief of Police ; Guy Clayton, Recorder ; Charles Faulkner, Collector.
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Churches.
Methodist, Rev. E. E. Goodwin, pastor.
Baptist, Rev. W. J. Stiff. pastor.
Christian, Rev. Robert Houston, pastor.
St. Andrew'Episcopal, Rev. A. H. Bevins, pastor.
Roman Catholic, Rev. C. J. Kluser, pastor.
Banks.
First National Bank, E. C. Martin, president: W. S. Furbee, vice president, and G. S. Furbee, cashier.
Exchange Bank, C. E. Wells, president; P. I. Pitzer. cashier.
Bank of Mannington, C. A. Snodgrass, president; M. F. Hamilton, vice president, cashie: .
Newspapers.
Evening Telegram, Marion Shaw, editor.
Manufacturing Establishments.
Bowers Pottery Co., Charles Phillips Tool Works, South Penn Oil Co. Tool Works, Mannington Art Glass Co .. . 1. Delisca Glass Co., Frank Hawkins Plumbing Establishment. Mannington Boiler Works, Mannington Planing Mill. I. S. Furbee Flour and Feed Mill. M. F. Freeland Flour and Feed Mill, Stewart Granite Works. T. W. Beall Carriage and Black- smith, J. S. Pitner Carriage and Blacksmith, L. H. Hess Harness Co., Huey Munnell Boiler Mfg. Co., Eureka Pipe Line Shops, Hope Natural Gas Shops.
The Bowers Pottery Company is reputed to be the largest of its kind in the world.
Hotels.
The Bartlett and The Arlington are the principal hotels of the city.
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Retail Stores.
H. R. and F. E. Furbee, clothing, shoes and furnishings; H. C. Anderson, general grocery ; T. L. Masters, meat market and groceries; Frank Cook, groceries: S. E. Phillips & Co., jewelry ; H. B. Beaty, clothing ; Tine Bros., clothing; A. Paul, groceries; E. C. Martin, ladies' goods; John Modi, grocery and meat market; John Haskins, grocery and meat market ; Carl Busby, carpets, rugs and wallpaper; Burt Bros., gro- ceries; T. L. Sturm, general store; L. Snyder, hardware; Hamilton Furniture Co.,; Bassnett & Mockler, gents' furnish- ings; A. Modi, ladies' furnishings; Joe Modi, groceries ; Furbee Furniture Co. and undertaking ; E. F. Mellan, variety store; Fred Barlow, news and confectionery ; Enoch & Dent, millinery ; Humes & Morrison, millinery; Burt Sisters, mil- linery; Pritchard Supply Co., oil well supplies; Oil Well Supply Co., oil well supplies; National Supply Co., oil well supplies ; H. J. Mathews, drugs; A. L. Parrish, drugs; Pre- scription Pharmacy, drugs ; Charles and James Phillips, auto- mobiles ; William Michael, automobiles : Boor & Davis, flour and feed.
Mannington School Faculty.
David A. Ward, Superintendent.
SPECIAL-Helen Barnes, Music ; Don O. Pullin, Manual Training; Elva Stalnaker, substitute; Bessie Mockler, libra- rian.
HIGH SCHOOL-C. L. Broadwater, principal, History ; Edna J. Scott, Mathematics; Emily S. Milburn; Hilda R. Bronson, English; Clarence M. Finney. Phys, and Chem .; Margaret Eleanor Mockler. Latin and German; Roy C. Con- over, Biology.
CENTRAL BUILDING-Mrs. Mary F. Simmons, David M. Finney. Tocie Moore, Aeleta Van Tromp, Mary Gaughan : Frances Rose, Florence H. White. Effie Johnson. Adaline Johnson. Anna M. Faulkner, Alice Parker, Virginia Curry, Maude M. Wolfe, Julia Dotts, Sadie Gaughan, Charity John- son, teachers.
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JERICHIO BUILDING-Athur L. Jones, Ada Wilson, Katherine Taggart. Elverta Groves, teachers.
Total enrollment, 1913-14, 858. Term, 9 months.
MARTINSBURG.
Martinsburg, the seat of justice of Berkeley County, is located in the center of the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, at an elevation of 650 feet above tide water. Tus- carora Creek flows through the town : near by is Opequon Creek, while seven miles to the east sweep the waters of the historic Potomac. Seventy-eight miles distant, on the south- east, is Washington ; westward 228 miles is Petersburg: 100 miles to the north is Harrisburg, and 115 miles east is Balti- more. The North Mountain, a few miles west, affords pro- tection against the more violent storms from the west. The town was laid out by Gen. Adam Stephen, who gave it the name of Martinsburg in honor of Col. Thomas B. Martin, and was incorporated in October, 1778.
The first market house was erected in 1793. The Mar- tinsburg Academy was established January, 1822.
In 1910 the city of Martinsburg was granted a special charter by the State legislature. The city is divided into five wards, each represented in the central governing body, known as the common council, by one member duly elected by the people of that ward every two years. Another co-ordinate branch of the city government is the Board of Affairs, con- sisting of three members appointed by the Mayor, with the approval of the city council. All legislation for the city, im- provements, revenue measures, etc .. are initiated by the coun- cil, and passed upon by the Board of Affairs before becoming effective. Regular meetings of the two bodies are held, and the affairs of the municipality are conducted with care, thor- oughness and dispatch.
The city officers are :
Mayor-Peyton R. Harrison.
City Coucil-First Ward. J. Frank Seibert ; Second Ward. Frank J. Zill : Third Ward, Daniel J. Heiston : Fourth Ward. W. O. Shoapstall : Fifth Ward. Robert L. Kerfoot.
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Board of Affairs-Charles G. Cusha, president; L. H. Thompson and T. P. Licklider. City Recorder and Police Judge, P. W. Leiter. City Tax Collector, S. A. Westenhaver. City Attorney, C. M. Seibert. City Treasurer, A. M. Gilbert. City Auditor, Lee Siler. . City Engineer and Street Commis- sioner, Henry H. Hess. Superintendent Water System, George H. Shaffer. President of Board of Health, Dr. C. E. Clay. Chief of Police, P. M. Hollis. Chief of Fire Depart- ment, Martin Quinn.
The city has a fine water system, with a capacity of over four million gallons every 24 hours. For heating and lighting purposes gas and electricity are principally used. The streets are broad, well graded, and a system of paving with vitrified brick is now in operation. A complete modern sewerage sys- tem is now being provided for, and will soon be installed at an estimated cost of $300,000. The fire department is up-to-date. The population in 1900 was 7,564; in 1910 it was 10,698, and at the present time is nearly 12,500.
With an ample supply of pure water, a fine sewerage sys- tem and an equable climate, Martinsburg is one among the most healthful cities in the State.
Martinsburg is in the heart of a great agricultural and fruit-growing region, which, together with the limestone in- dustries, contributes largely to the city's progress.
County Officials.
Charles W. Thatcher, president county court ; George A. Whitmore and John C. Lloyd, commissioners: IIon. John Mitchell Woods, judge circuit for Berkeley, Morgan, and Jefferson Counties; L. DeW. Gerhardt, clerk circuit court ; William W. Downey, prosecuting attorney, and E. L. Luttrell, assistant: Edward H. Tabler, sheriff; M. S. Miller, D. O. Bartles, Oscar Miller, Charles Miller and S. A. Sprinkle, depu- ties : E. A. Hobbs, clerk county court, and Miss Hattie Snyder, deputy ; John W. Dodd, assessor, and S. L. Dodd, Taylor Jefferson, L. C. Hoffman, deputies.
County Board of Equalization and Review-J. T. Catrow, Jacob Sites and John H. Lemen.
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County Superintendent of Schools-E. N. Zeiler.
County Road Engineer -George E. Showers; assistant, Joseph Miller.
County Health Officer -- Dr. W. T. Henshaw.
Banks.
The Citizens National Bank, Dr. James Whann MeSherry, president ; Edward Dutledge, cashier, and Charles .\. Young, assistant cashier.
The Merchants and Farmers Bank, Dr. S. N. Myers, president, and John T. Nadenbousch, cashier.
The Old National Bank of Martinsburg, established in 1865.
The Bank of Martinsburg, C. A. Weaver, president ; M. L. Dorn, vice president : . A. D. Darby, cashier, and E. M. Amick, assistant cashier.
Newspapers.
The Martinsburg Evening Journal, Berkeley Republican, and Democratic Sentinel.
Manufacturing Establishments.
Interwoven Mills, employ 1,100 persons ; Auburn Wagon Works, employ a large number of people; Berkeley Pants Company, 100 persons; Crawford Woolen Mills, 500; Perfec- tion Garment Company : Martinsburg Worsted and Cassimere Co., and others of less importance.
Among the wholesale establishments are the National Commercial Company: John W. Bishop, wholesale grocer, and the C. A. Miller Grocery Company. The retail stores are very progressive and complete, and many of them carry stocks that would be a credit to like establishments in cities of much larger population.
Martinsburg has some as fine building blocks and resi- dential buildings as are found anywhere in the State.
Among the largest and most important institutions in the city is the City Hospital and Nurses' Training School. This
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is a handsome, four-story building erected of concrete blocks, located at the corner of Burk street and Maple avenue. Sena- tor Gray Silver is its president ; Dr. C. W. Link, vice presi- dent : Dr. T. K. Oates, superintendent and treasurer, and R. S. Bouic, secretary.
The Baltimore & Ohio and the Cumberland Valley Rail- roads furnish excellent transportation facilities to and from points north, south, east and west.
Churches.
The First Baptist : the Second Baptist: Methodist Epis- copal; Trinity Methodist Episcopal South; Trinity Protestant Episcopal ; St. Joseph's Catholic ; Christ Reformed ; St. John's Lutheran; Presbyterian ; Christian; First United Brethren ; Second United Brethren ; Holiness ; Bash Yonkey Synagogue ; Dudley Free Will Baptist (colored) ; Mt. Zion Methodist Episcopal (colored) ; and the Dunkards.
Out of 12,500 inhabitants of the city, over 9,000 are regu- larly affiliated with the churches and Bible schools.
Schools.
The public and private schools of Martinsburg are the particular pride of the city, the corporate limits composing an independent school district, under the present supervision of the following Board of Education : James W. Barrick, Harry Kuhn, M. G. Tabler, Edward H. Barton and Charles W. Siler, Mr. Barton being president and William A. Pitzer secretary. The following named persons compose the public school faculty :
William C. Morton, superintendent.
HIGH SCHOOL -- M. L. Wachtel, principal, Science and Math. ; H. E. Hannis, Latin and Math .; Lucetta S. Logan, Eng. ; M. Ella Aldridge, Ger. and Math. ; Gloria R. Severence, Com. Bre; William J. Flagg, Eng., French and Math .; Boyd H. Lamont, History.
BURKE STREET SCHOOL-W .A. Pitzer, principal ; Lula V. Muth, Frances E. Hergesheimer, Lorena J. Mason,
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Mollie E. Ryneal, Annie H. O'Neal, Florence M. Curtis, and Grace Bird.
JOHN STREET SCHOOL-Lee Siler, principal : Berta Sharff, Grace E. Lindsay, Frances 1. Henshaw, Nancy Am- brose. Vannetta M. Chambers, Alice M. Bowers, Edna May Siler, Dora E. Wolfensberger, Jennie MI. Dutrow, and Maude G. Kuykendall.
IHIGH STREET SCHOOL-D. H. Dodd, principal ; Lottie V. McKee. Laura Homrich, Nannie B. Small, Mildred Aler. Bessie K. Etchberger. Sallie V. Aler, Ella E. Swartz.
HOOGE STREET SCHOOL -- O. L. Snyder, principal : Clara V. Cutting, Della B. Ilill. Josina T. Showers, Ada Wiebe. Louise S. Harrison, Mollie E. Martin, and Fern H. Roush.
SUMNER SCHOOL (Colored)-Fred R. Ramer. princi- pal ; Edena R. Roberts and Mattic E. Corsey.
SPECIAL-Mary M. Betz, Drawing : Lillie D. Mullen and Jessie B. Smith.
Total enrollment for 1913-14 term. 1,561. School term, 10 months.
MARLINTON AND HUNTERSVILLE.
Pocahontas County was formed from parts of Bath. Pendleton and Randolph Counties by an act passed by the General Assembly of Virginia. February 5, 1822. The first county court was held the following month, at the home of John Bradshaw, one of the carly settlers of the county, where Huntersville now stands. At the following May term of court. Levi Moore, Jacob Mathews, William Cackley. George Poage. Abraham McNeel, and Benjamin Tallman were appointed commissioners by the court to let the contract for the con- struction of a brick court house and jail at Huntersville. and in the year 1827 the buildings were completed, at a cost of $2.729.66.
The first court of Pocahontas County was composed of the following justices of the peace: John Jordon, William Poage, Jr., James Tallman, Robert Gay. George Poage, Ben- jamin Tallman. John Baxter and George Burner. The last
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named gentleman served as first clerk of the county, John Jordan was the first sheriff, Johnston Reynolds common- wealth attorney, and Sampson L. Mathews county surveyor.
Concerning the early setlement of Huntersville and the heroic efforts of the clerk to preserve the county records through the Civil War, we quote the following from "West Virginia and Its People", by Miller and Maxwell :
"It was here that Bradshaw built his rude log cabin, and " soon after the people of Bath County constructed a wagon road from the Warm Springs through the mountains to his house, and a man named John Harness began hauling goods from Staunton into these mountains for the purpose of trading with the settlers. IIe made Bradshaw's house his headquar- ters, and here he was met by hunters and trappers who brought him their pelts, venison and other products of the forest. to exchange for goods. From this the place was eventually known as Huntersville. It was established as a town by the legislature, December 18, 1822. Among institu- tutions of learning was the Little Levels Academy, founded in 1842, under State charter of Virginia. It was bought in 1865 by the county, and later used for public school purposes. This was the first school of a high order within the county.
"When the rebellion broke out, in 1861, William Curry was county and circuit clerk. Finding that the Federals were likely to invade the county, he took the records to a place of supposed safety-the residence of Joel Hill, on the Little Levels ; here they remained until January, 1862, when Mr. Curry became alarmed for their safety and removed the same to Covington, Virginia, where for a short time they were in the Allegheny County court house. From there they were taken to the storehouse of Capt. William Scott. In Septem- ber, 1863, General Averill's command reached Covington, and Mr. Curry again removed the records, first to the home of William Clark, then to a stack of buckwheat straw, in which they lay concealed for three weeks, and were then conveyed into the mountains and stored away in the house of a Baptist minister, where they remained until the surrender of Appo- mattox. The war having ended, Mr. Curry, in June, 1865, returned the records and deposited them at the house of Joel
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llill. A month later they were taken to a vacant house be- longing to Rev. Mitchell Dunlap, and there left until Septem- ber, 1865, when the first court after the war convened, Novem- ber, 1865, in the Methodist Church at llillsboro. From that time they were kept in the old Academy building until June. 1800, when they were taken back to the county seat and de posited at the house of John B. Garrey. More than five years had elapsed since their first removal for safety, and, strange to relate, through all these various changes, not a book or paper was missing save one record book which was of no value to the county."
The land on which Marlinton now stands was purchased and laid off in town lots by John T. McGraw and J. W. Marshall in the year 1821 in anticipation of the coming of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, which was built through the town seven years later.
On October 6. 1891. a petition, signed by 697 voters of the county, was presented to the court, asking that a vote be taken on the proposition of removing the county seat from Huntersville to Marlinton. In compliance with that petition an election was ordered held on December 8, 1891, which re- sulted in an overwhelming majority in favor of the removal. Thereupon the county court ordered that the people's will be carried out and directed the clerk to advertise for plans and specifications for a court house and jail. But, at an election held on May 16, 1893, on the question of a $20.000 bond issue for the purpose of raising funds with which to meet the cost of the proposed new buildings, the majority went against the bonds. However, the county court, on July 12, 1893, awarded the contract for the construction of the court house and jail to Manly Manufacturing Company. But before the buildings were completed, in compliance with a petition by the tax- payers of the county, the court ordered a vote to be taken on the question of changing the county seat back to Huntersville. This proposition, however, was voted down by a large ma- jority, and work on the court house was resumed and the building completed in 1895 at a cost of $18.117.26, the amount being raised by direct taxation.
The first term of circuit and superior court in Pocahontas
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County was held on the 23rd day of May, 1831, Hon. Allen Taylor being the judge; William Taylor, commonwealth at- torney, and Henry M. Moffett, clerk.
The town of Marlinton was incorporated on the 4th of April, 1900, Andrew Price being the first mayor and F. H. Kincaid first recorder.
Marlinton has four churches, namely: Presbyterian, A. S. Rashal, pastor ; Methodist Episcopal South, J. Herbert Bean, pastor ; the Episcopal and Colored Baptist Churches, having no regular pastors.
Banking Institutions.
Bank of Marlinton-M. J. McNeel, president, and Hubert Echols, cashier.
First National Bank of Marlinton-George P. Moore, president, and J. A. Sydenstricker, cashier.
Stores, Shops, Etc.
Marlinton has six dry goods stores, four groceries, two drug stores, two hardware and two furniture stores, two bakeries, two grain and two feed stores, one wholesale drug store, one news stand and one shop for mill supplies.
Manufacturing and Other Plants.
A tannery, a water and light plant, an ice plant, and two planing mills.
Newspapers.
Marlinton has three newspapers : The Pocahontas Times, C. W. Price, editor ; The Republican News. Floyd Dilley, manager, and The Pocahontas Independent, R. A. Kramer, editor.
In addition to the above, there are four good hotels and several restaurants in the town ; also a city hospital and fine school buidilng.
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The population of Marlinton in 1900 was only 171; in 1910 it was 1.045, and on January Ist, 1914, about 1,200.
The town is located on the Greenbrier River and the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, 190 miles from Charleston by rail.
School Faculty 1913-14.
HIGH SCHOOL-C. B. Cornwell, principal, Science and Mathematics; Elizabeth Roads, Latin, History and English.
GRADES -- L. J. Moore, Virginia Shields, Anna Lee Irvine, Sallie W. Wilson, Anna L. Sullivan, and Anna Wal- lace, teachers.
Term, High School, 9 months ; Grades, 8 months. Enroll- ment, 240.
MIDDLEBOURNE.
Middlebourne was established January 27, 1813. on lands of Robert Gorrell; Abraham S. Brickhead, William D. Delashmult. Daniel Haynes, Thomas Grigg, Joseph Archer, Joseph Martin and William Wells, Sr .. being the trustees ; but it was not incorporated as a town until February 3rd. 1871.
Tyler County was formed from Ohio County in 1814 and ever since that time Middlebourne has been the county scat. The present court house at that place was erectd in 1854. The town is most beautifully situated on a large plateau within and overlooking the picturesque semi-loop or ox-bow bend of Middle Island Creek. Middlebourne, although the county seat for a full century, has been of extremely slow growth. the population in 1910 being only 546. This, perhaps, was due to the town's lack of transportation facilities, Sisters- ville-ten miles away- being the nearest railroad or river shipping point. This great draw-back, however, has been overcome, as Middlebourne now has two railroads an elec- tric line from Sistersville and the Clarksburg-Northern Rail- road from New Martinsville the former having been in oper- ation about one year, and the latter was completed and ready for traffic about the middle of February, 1914, which latter event was duly celebrated at Middlebourne on Thursday,
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February 19, 1914. On that day the first passenger train, consisting of Engine No. 1, combination baggage and passen- ger car No. I and passenger coach No. 2, in charge of Pete Moore, engineer, and Charley Walton, conductor, left New Martinsville at 10:30 a. m., having on board the following New Martinsville citizens enroute for Middlebourne: Joseph Fuccy, president of the Clarksburg-Northern ; John F. Loehr. John Shiben, A. C. Chapman, J. W. McIntire, John Stamm, J. B. Clark, W. Mac Snodgrass, S. R. Martin. W. E. Whorton, Edward Scalley, J. K. Denny, H. N. Pyles, E. A. Philblard, Ralph White, J. C. Close. Mr. Bates, Levi Berger, J. H. Sharp, M. D. Potts, Walker Clark, H. S. Mcclintock, W. M. Pyles, Dr. F. E. Fankhouser, John Heber, Thomas Burlingame, Jr., Charles W. Travis, Charles Boggs, George P. Umstead, Sylvester Myers, Ralph Miller. W. E. Roth, Dana Bartlett. James A. Pyles, Guido Probst, S .G. Combs, Charles Higgin- botham, Daniel Ritchie, Clarence M. Stone. James A. Bowen, A. J. Ferrell, U. S. VanCamp, Charles J. Beck, C. S. Farmer, F. F. Pyles, John Widmer, C. W. Duerr, F. S. Duerr, Thomas Allen, J. E. Bartlett, C. M. Founds, James Bishop, John H. Dixon, Theodore Hornbrook, William Culp, Rev. J. H. Jackson, J. W. Stone. J. W. Schamp. J. K. Gorby, C. T. Gorby, Leo Herrick, Frank Berger, Rev. ?. ?. Bumgardener, W. S. Campbell, John Robinson, Lloyd V. McIntire, A. C. Chapman, William Ankrom, Harry Winer, John F. Martin, W. J. Postle- thwait. F. C. Wells. Several persons were also picked up enroute, and when the train arrived at the "Old Toll House"- the present terminus of the new road -- there were on board some eighty people. Here, 'midst a heavy down-pouring of rain, were waiting what appeared to be about half of Middle- bourne's male population- both old and young-accompanied by a brass band, waiting to greet the visitors as they stepped off the train. Quickly forming in line, the large crowd, led by the band, marched to the court house, where the following address of welcome was given by Hon. Thomas P. Hill, on behalf of Mayor Thomas J. Sellers :
Ladies and Gentlemen : This is surely a grand occasion. Middlebourne has been on the map as an incorporated town for more than a hundred years, and never before in it has a
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man, woman or child ever had the privilege of participating in an event of this kind.
This is an event that will go down in the history of the interior of our county as the beginning of a new epoch-that of the enjoyment of the opportunities and blessings afforded by the steam locomotive.
The opening to-day of the Clarksburg-Northern Railroad between this place and the city of New Martinsville is a reali- zation, Sirs, of the dreams of many years, and to us it seems too good to be true. But when I say that it is a realization of dreams I would not have you get the idea that it is merely the work of chance, or that by some mere accident this occasion has been made possible, for such is not true. It has cost money, it has cost muscular effort, it has cost mental vitality. and I might further add, gentlemen, that it has cost the life of one of West Virginia's most highly respected and honored citizens. And may we not forget to-day to cast a rose upon his grave-that of Col. T. Moore Jackson.
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