HARDWOOD.

  The Fourth passed off quietly; we did not hear of a drunk man being seen on our streets that day. .....Everything growing nicely;  corn, potatoes
and garden stuff is doing well.....We will not have very many apples in this part of the  country.....Mrs. Nannie Lepler and family, of Clarksburg,
was visiting her parents at Hardwood last week.  She left for home Monday morning.....Morgan Tyler and wife, Noah Green and wife and Mrs. Ella Adkison was visiting at Cowen one day last  week.....Curt Hickman, from Williams river, was in our place last night, and reports that they had a fine time on the Fourth at Haynes.....Samuel R.. Given was visiting his family at home Saturday and Sunday.  He has a large job of lumbering on Stony creek, Braxton county, which will take him some time to complete.....Harmon Lee is on Birch river this week.....Wm. Tanner, an old
gentleman who lives on Mack's run, is looking for his daughter from Pitsburg, Pa., this week  to pay him a  visit.....E. C. Morgan, of Halo,
passed through our place on his way home from Addison. .....B. F. Miller and Isora Whitehair were united in holy  wedlock on the Fourth.  Gideon
Springston officiated.....Uncle Lewis McElwain passed  through our place Monday for Pleasant  ridge.....How about that  dance at Hardwood?

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