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Community news for #Spottswood, #WestVirginia in 1903. #Appalachia #history #genealogy

“DeLay,” a correspondent from Spottswood in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, dated October 12, 1903, which the Logan Banner printed on Friday, October 16, 1903:

As no one wrote to The Banner from this place last week, I will write a few items this week. Some of the correspondents from this place seem to write more to throw mud in their neighbors’ faces than to give the…

Community news for #Spotswood, #WestVirginia in 1903. #Appalachia #history #genealogy

“Jay,” a local correspondent from Spottswood in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, dated September 14, 1903, which the Logan Banner printed on Friday, September 18, 1903:

John Workman has gone down on Twelve Pole to haul timber for the C. Crane Co.

Major Adams is buying up a nice drove of calves.

The county surveyor, Alfred Buskirk, and A.Y. Browning of Oilville are…