Thursday, December 20, 1973
Rural Letter carriers get a full holiday and town letter carriers a half-holiday on Christmas day. The hours at our post office will be 9 to 12.
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Before this is read, we all may be in the midst of real winter – but as this is written, Pocahontas is enjoying the finest of fall weather. Six above is the coldest so far, and only a trace of snow at Marlinton. Plenty of rain to flush out the streams, and yet the roads are passable. While all of us forget the mild winters, records will show that this has been the finest open fall in many years. Cattle have just begun to eat their feed well. They gummed the ground as long as there was a spear of grass showing, and tramped the hay in the mud. They are coming to their feed now. They hay crop was short, and the farmers are usually heavily stocked with cattle, but the open winter so far has helped wonderfully to shorten a long winter.
STILLS CAPTURED
Sheriff Brown and State Constables Wooddell and Hissem captured a still near Thornwood Tuesday morning. It was a copper affair of about thirty gallons’ capacity. The officers also found two barrels of mash and some liquor. They arrested Carl Elza, of Winterburn, Baxter Darnell and Merl Adams, of Greenbrier county, all of whom were brought before Squire Smith on Wednesday morning. Their portions were $100 each and 90 days each.
On Monday night these officers got a still and a lot of mash on the Coal & Iron Railway. This was a gasoline drum rigged up for a still. They made no arrests in this instance.
CRADDOCK – HOOVER
Grover H. Craddock, of Whitties Depot, Virginia, and Miss Easter Belle Hoover, of Slaty Fork, were married Tuesday afternoon at the Presbyterian Manse… The groom is an employee of the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co. The bride and groom left on the afternoon train for a visit at the groom’s home in Virginia.
RAYWOOD
Miss Alice Friel spent her Thanksgiving vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Friel. While at home, she taught one day in the primary room of our school.
P. S. Warn has returned from Philadelphia where he spent his Thanksgiving with his family.
Mrs. A. H. Sharp and daughter, Lillian, spent a few days with Mrs. H. H. Schofield on the way home from the University hospital, Charlottesville, VA., where Miss Lillian underwent an operation for goiter.
BUNKERS HILL
Ben Campbell is logging in full blast with James Bird as cook.
C. W. Dilley is cutting timber for Ed Galford. Alva Bussard and Bill Carpenter are helping him.
C. W. Dilley killed a hog last week that weighed 552 pounds. Who killed a bigger one?
SEEBERT
Floyd Jones and little sister left Friday for Winchester, Ky., to bring their mother home, who has been a patient in Clark County hospital.
Miss Motie Kidd and Miss Anna Belle Clark were shopping in Marlinton.
There will be a Christmas tree and program at the Methodist church December 24 at 7:30.
A Merry Christmas to every one. Teachers, make it as happy as you can in the schoolroom for there are so many children who have no good times at all except what they get in school. Let us flood December with good cheer.
DIED
James Baker, aged 64 years, died very suddenly at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Bradley, at Spruce, Thursday, December 6. Burial on the Sunday following at Mingo. For many years, Mr. Baker was a resident of Mingo.
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In the early hours of November 19, 1923, George W. McPherson passed to the great beyond after only a few days of sickness from pneumonia. Funeral services were conducted at the home by the Loyal Order of Moose, assisted by Rev. Fred W. Gray… The burial was in the afternoon at the Ligon Cemetery, Cloverlick…
Mr. McPherson moved to Marlinton in 1906 and was married to Mary Lillian Wooddell, daughter of W. Amos Wooddell and Annie S. Wooddell, of Linwood…
Mr. McPherson was a sober, industrious and reliable citizen, and a kind, thoughtful and provident father and husband….
“In life we are in the midst of death.”
