From: The Webster Echo; Oct. 27, 1899. WAINVILLE. Ai Chipps has taken charge of the Wainville postoffice. Miss Maggie Davis, of Cowen, is here, the guest of Mrs. L. White. Dr. D. P. Kessler, of Cowen was in our town one day last. Geo. W. White and M. T. Hoover were at Cowen on business Wednesday night of last week. L. M. Green has been busily engaged supplying the people of our town with coal. C. W. McCormick, representing the Equitable Life of New York, was here Wednesday of last week and wrote up three policies. Jerome W. Stewart, traveling salesman for a New York firm, was interviewing our merchants one day last week. The Webster Lumber Company have closed up business at this place and sold there remaining stock to Meade and Spear, and Esker Mearns is now cleaning up the mill-yard. L. White has the contract of cutting, sawing and delivering to the railroad the timber on 1500 acres of land at this place, known as the Kunst land. Some one broke all the front windows out of L. White's store Wednesday night of last week. F. F. Robertson, of Birch River, was here last week selling electric belts and other medicines for the benefit of all ailments and diseases. "Beri" Harrison Woods is the boss squirrel hunter in all these "diggins," he gets four or five of the pesky creatures every day. The forest fires have been raging on thel mountains of Birch and Laurel creek for several days, and have already done a vast amount of damage. Mrs. Lewis McElwain and Wayne Hoover, who has been employed as a farm hand by Mr. McElwain, attended the quarterly meeting at Cowen last Sunday. Success to the ECHO. BLUE JAY.