Bakerton, W. Va. – Aug. 16.
This section was visited by a very pleasant rain fall, which was a great benefit to the growing crops.
Geo. Trundle has been on the sick list since Friday. We hope for his speedy recovery.
Miss Alice Trundle, who has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Geo. Duke, for the past week, is now visiting Misses Daisy and Lulah Trundle. Miss Alice will leave Bakerton for Jefferson on Wednesday to visit her aunt, Mrs. Dade, where her mother is now visiting.
A very pleasant and enjoyable little sociable was held at the residence of Geo. Duke, on last Thursday night in honor of Miss Alice Trundle. The time was passed away very pleasantly by music and social games.
This evening a young man was seen going across the commons with a fine large watermelon on his shoulder and three young ladies following him and watching very anxiously for a place to partake of it. The last seen of them they were on Brother Strothers’ camp ground and seemed to be enjoying themselves hugely. Who they were, we were unable to find out. A certain very popular young man of Bakerton neighborhood has been so unfortunate as to fall in love, but fortunately it only affected him in one eye and we hope he will recover. He must have “gone one eye on that girl for sarten,” and it seems to affect him quite differently from what it did a certain young gentleman a few years ago who hugged a persimmon tree, which his lady love had leaned against, and he had the blues for several days after. Love strikes the Bakerton boys speechless when they go to visit their lady loves and have to be entertained by music. Love seems to be ever present in our midst about this time. Another Bakerton gent treated a young lady at a festival last Saturday night to ice cream and he was so engrossed in her company that he left the table without paying for the cream, he being a very conscientious young man, of course, went back and paid for it. Love also affects some young men so hard they feel so happy and not knowing what is the matter they think they have gotten religion and will go to praying and keep their brothers awake half the night. I am sorry to see that the Bakerton young men are not as gallant as they ought to be; two young gents took a young lady out to call on a lady last Sunday evening, who was visiting in the neighborhood, and when the time came for them to go neither of the boys seemed inclined to go and the gentlemen of the house had to escort her to her home. That’s pretty rough on Noble and Harry isn’t it, but Johnnie thought he was the soup. One young man, who wears a pencil behind his ear when he takes a city lady to camp-meeting, thinks the longest way around is the shortest way home, especially when he drives a new horse.
There is one young man of near Barnesville who is quite popular in Washington city and Bakerton, W. Va.
Miss Alice Trundle, who has been visiting relatives in this vicinity, will return to her home in Washington in a few days to the regret of her many friends here.
