Thursday, August 21, 1924
Editor Times:
We have had some interesting chapel periods at C. T. C. There are two that I think were especially good, and one of those I know would interest the home folks because it was a talk given by G. D. McNeill. He told of a storm at sea which he remembered about being in somewhere off the coast of New Zealand. I looked about over the chapel hall to see how his listeners were enjoying his descriptions. If you can imagine a body of several hundred students and the faculty almost holding their breath and swaying their bodies as he told of the rocking of the ship you will know what I saw…
Glenn Barlow
Athens
FAIR NOTES
T. S. McNeel, veteran superintendent of the pioneer exhibit and the Homecoming features of the Pocahontas Fair, announces the following speakers as an added variation and attraction from the usual program of past years.
Tuesday, “The Homecoming Address” will be delivered by one of our favorite sons, who has gone from our midst, the Honorable Davis L. Barlow.
Wednesday, the Honorable Howard M. Gore. The Republican candidate for governor of this state.
Thursday, the Democratic candidate for governor, Judge Jake Fisher.
Friday, W. D. Zinn, West Virginia’s most practical and widely known farmer. Also Nat T. Fane, Director of the Extension Division of the University.
UNION AND CONFEDERATE VETERANS
The Pocahontas County Fair extends to all Union and Confederate Veterans of the Civil War, living in Pocahontas county, an invitation to attend the opening day of the Fair as guests of the management.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moore, of Marlinton, a son.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Hoover, at Stillwell, a son.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Townsend, of Durbin, a son.
DIED
Lena Isabella Deputy, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Deputy, of Cloverlick, on August 5, 1924. Her age was eight months, having been born December 13, 1923. Burial at the McLaughlin graveyard near Dunmore, the services being conducted by Rev. O. M. Miles.
“Suffer the little children to come unto Me and forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven.
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Samuel Ellis McNeel, a prominent farmer and stockman of the Little Levels died at the Ronceverte Hospital Sunday night of blood poisoning. He took sick last Sunday week and grew rapidly worse and was taken to the hospital on Tuesday of last week where he was operated on for the trouble, but nothing could be done for him to save his life. He was about 58 years of age and was born and reared on the farm on which he lived. He was the son of the late Jacob and Mary J. McNeel. He is survived by his wife, who was Mary Beard, and two children, J. Moffet McNeel and Mrs. George B. Bar-tholomew… He was buried Tuesday afternoon in the family plot of the old McNeel graveyard which is located on the farm of the deceased.
He was a member of the Oak Grove Presbyterian church and had been a deacon of the same for a number of years. No one in the community has had a higher sense of responsibility to the service of the church than he and his good wife. Through winter’s cold and summer’s heat, through mire or snow and sometimes both, they could always, barring sickness, be depended upon to be in their pews. Indeed, it was often observed that they were more regular and prompt than those who lived under the very shadow of the church. In this day of laxness in attendance upon church worship, such an example as this is to be loudly commended.
Mr. McNeel was a man of cheerful temper. He had an abundant store of the sense of humor which made him cheerful under all circumstances. In his last illness, this faculty did not fail him, but in all his conscious moments he took the cheerful view and met the conqueror Death with a smile.
One who knew Mr. McNeel intimately for some years said of him, that he had never seen a more equable temper in the home than he displayed.
