From: The Webster Echo; July 13, 1900. 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? TRY ME.