From: The Webster Echo; Sept. 15, 1899. WAINVILLE Mrs. B. F. Fleming was bit by a copperhead snake last Friday, but not seriously. Peck Berry was in our town Friday. G. F. McElwain returned from the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, almost blind, and reports his case incurable. Mr. Wallace, who travels for the Delaplain Dry Goods Company, called on the merchants at this place one day last week. The boys are having fun learning to ride their bicycles. James B. Haynes & Son's traveling man stopped with us last Wednesday. Lewis McElwain and A. G. Cogar and their ladies have returned from a trip to Atlantic City. B. F. Blankenship and Luther Weese started for the Black Mountains last Monday, to dig ginseng. We hope they will come back loaded down with the article. They had nothing to fear from snakes, as they had plenty of the medicine with them. LONE STAR.