The Hur Herald

DAVE PEYTON: WEST VIRGINIA GETS WORSE, DESPERATE AND DEADLY - Innate Fatalism? (08/22/2026) 2026 - My longtime friend Dave Peyton has passed to the great beyond, we recall this story he wrote for the Hur Herald in 2016, as WV faces the coming of the latest Goliath power lines ever erected in the eastern USA.

TWISTED VINES USE CHOKE-HOLD (08/21/2026) Twisting vines choking a tree on Barnes Run Hur Herald ®from Sunny Cal The information on these pages, to the extent the law allows, remains the exclusive property of Bob Weaver and Dianne Weaver The Hur Herald. All information may be freely used but must not be sold or used in any type of commercial endeavor, or used on any web site without the express permission of the owners ©Bob and Dianne Weaver, The Hur Herald, 1999, 2000, 2001

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DANIELS RUN NEWS 1901 - "Crawford Out For Matrimony," Typhoid Fever Rampant (08/19/2026) Several cases of typhoid fever are in our community. J.J. Starcher and Miss Bertie Nester still remain in a critical condition. J.W. Bailey and son contemplate sowing 25 acres in wheat and grass. N.J. Whytsell, of Altizer, is having a coal bank opened on his farm. Rev. Fitch preached his farewell sermons at the Mouth of Daniels run last Sunday. A. Gunn and Malissa Tanner are doing a thriving mdse.

ALBERT BALL: DEADFALLS AND FUR TRAPPIN' ON BARNES RUN - "Mashed Flat As A Fritter" (08/19/2026) By Albert Ball 2008 As a boy on the farm, I dreamed of having a way to earn money. The boys in the cities had paper routes. My cousin Jack in Spencer had a Grit delivery route. When we visited his family I would sometimes accompany Jack on Saturday when he collected the money for his efforts. I don't remember all the kid dream-jobs that I created in my imagination, but one stands out in my mind.

HUR NEWS - New Mayor A Visionary, Stimulus Cash Will Build Hur's Liposuction And Soap Factory (08/18/2026) By Bob Weaver 1999 HUR'S NEW MAYOR DECLARED A VISIONARY There is big economic development news this week in Hur. "I'm excited about the Supreme Court ruling that government can take just about anyone's property for almost any reason," said Mayor Neville Nitz.(*1) "It's about time grumpy citizens who hold up progress learn their lesson," he said.

DUSKEY'S 1975 DEATH AMONG CALHOUN'S MOST GRUESOME MURDERS - Convicted Murderers Themselves Shot To Death Years Later (08/18/2026) George Duskey By Bob Weaver The 1975 murder of George Duskey, 84, at Richardson is one of the most brutal murders ever committed in Calhoun County, excluding the decapitation of Peter Sauborne during the Civil War and the 50-plus stab wound murder of Irene Wilson in 1963.

REV. BARNABUS COOK EARLY CALHOUN MINISTER - Cook Traveled From Maine To Calhoun Backwoods 1820 (08/18/2026) By Bob Weaver Rev. Barnabus Cook made a long journey to the hills of West Virginia to what what would become Calhoun County, then Kanawha County, about 1820. He's said to be among the first ministers to preach a sermon in Calhoun's Washington District.

MINNORA'S HISTORICAL HOUSE ON LAST LEG - "If We Could Hear The Voice Of The Grand Old Lady" (08/18/2026) THE HOUSE WAS RAZED IN 2025 The old Minnora Knotts Proudfoot house is on its' last legs, crumbling into history, in later years the house was occupied by the Homer Witt family Many of the Knotts family rest on the hill in the Prudence Chapel Cemetery, above the house, view down the West Fork, Rt. 16 By Bob Weaver The Minnora Knotts Proudfoot house along Rt. 16 at Minnora is crumbling to...

OLD WELLS FADING RELIC OF BOOM DAYS (08/15/2026) Old rigs are fading from the horizon, always hopeful that a citizen with some extra cash would fund the moving of a rig to Calhoun Parks Heritage Village, helping the highly under funded Calhoun Historical Society. A fading oil boom days relic on Sycamore, not far from Rt. 16. (Photo courtesy of Paul Webb) An oil rig off State Rt. 5, the Bull River Field See WHO REMEMBERS BULL WHEELS?