#dingess run

Community news for #Chapmanville in #LoganCounty #WV in 1926 #Appalachia #history #genealogy

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

William Boothe, an aged citizen of Big Creek, died on Dingess Run a few days ago.

Walter Dingess, who was operated on at the Kessler-Hatfield hospital for appendicitis, is at home again.

N.P. Butcher was looking after business matters in…

Logan, WV (1916) #Logan #WV #history #Appalachia

Logan–Now and What It Will Be When Its Destiny Is Fulfilled

by G.T. Swain

Situated here among the “Hills of West Virginia” on the banks of the beautiful Guyan lies the little city of Logan–our home. Time was when a few years ago Logan was a struggling little village trying to pull herself out of the mud and how well she succeeded is left to you, gentle reader, to judge. We now have nicely paved…

Community news for #Whirlwind, #WestVirginia, in 1911. #HartsCreek #LoganCounty #history #genealogy

“Red Eagle,” a local correspondent at Whirlwind in Upper Hart, Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items dated August 8, which the Logan Banner printed on Friday, August 18, 1911:

The ginseng diggers made their return Friday from Dingess Run, where they were digging the vile weed.

Wid Dalton is hauling for Mullins & Riddell.

Wayne Farley of Gay, was calling on his best girl of…