Word: chafin
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...confused with the ramifications of the feud), it summons up the life of the mountains in the days before the fighting began: little streams, dropping 25 feet to the mile, with names like Grapevine, Blackberry, Sulphur, Sycamore, Turkey and Buffalo; old families of English stock bearing names like Vance, Chafin, Smith, Weddington, Varney, Cline and Trent; forests of oak, cherry, walnut, hickory, linden, beech, sycamore; cabins with quiet hospitality, plenty of food, and courteous, high-strung, honest and proud people...
...past CRIMSON straw ballot figures mean anything, Harvard politics are largely in the hands of the Republicans. In the CRIMSON poll of 1912, however, when 1608 votes were cast, Wilson obtained 735, Roosevelt 475, Taft 365, Debs 25 and Chafin 8. No candidate secured a majority vote...
...they did was to hold an open meeting at Logan, in the heart of the non-union coal country, closed for years to free speech on coal questions, and discuss the subject: " What Shall the Federal Coal Com-mission Be Told About Logan?" Application was made to Sheriff Don Chafin for use of the court house as a meeting place, but it was refused (Chafin being in the pay of the operators) and the meeting had to be held on private property...
...straw ballot taken before the Presidential election in 1912, out of 1,608 votes cast, Wilson obtained 735. Roosevelt 475, Taft 365, Debs 25 and Chafin 8. No candidate secured a majority vote. The straw ballot last spring, however, showed a plurality of the votes for Roosevelt, but again, no candidate obtained a majority. 1,788 votes were cast in all, 660 for Roosevelt, 591 for Wilson and 348 for Hughes...
...straw ballot held in 1912 showed a total of 1,608 votes cast, of those 735 being for Wilson, 475 for Roosevelt, 365 for Taft, 25 for Debs, and 8 for Chafin. The voting last spring at the time of the Republican Convention reached a total of 1,788 votes cast at this time Theodore Roosevelt '80 received the highest number of votes, with a total of 660. President Wilson ran a strong second, receiving 591 votes, while Justice Hughes received the third largest number with 348. Of the total number of votes cast, 1788, 52 were unsigned anad were...