The comment about the present-day styles reminded grandmother of the time about 30 years ago when young men first began wearing their shirts with the opening down the front. The older generation was shocked and scandalized. They predicted a quick slide down the toboggan board of immorality, straight into the region where snowstorms never occur. So, we should not feel so pessimistic when it seems as if the bobbed hair, low neck and short skirts have come to stay. All are sanitary.
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O. D. Moore, of Knapps Creek, reports the loss of eight fine turkeys by thieves one night last week. Other farmers on the Creek have also had turkeys and chickens stolen. Chicken thieves have been active in Marlinton too.
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Russell Geyer and Frank McLaughlin shipped a carload of live turkeys and chickens to the eastern Pennsylvania markets last Friday. There were nearly a thousand turkeys in the car. Turkeys are not bringing as good a price this season as in the past few years.
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Monday morning, the mountains round about Marlinton were white with snow, Monday, all day, there was a snow air and on Tuesday we awoke to find the ground white with a three-inch fall of snow.
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Samuel N. Williams has moved from Morgantown to Cass and opened a meat market. Associated with him is Mike Mauzy, and the business is carried on under the name of The City Meat Market. Mr. Wiliams has had considerable experience as a butcher and meat cutter, and the new firm is already doing a big business.
THE SENECA THEATRE
The Amusu Theatre is now the Seneca Theatre. On Saturday night, the first show was given in the fine new room in the Marlin Sewell Hotel building. This is about as good a theatre as this writer ever saw. It has seats for nearly four hundred people, broad aisles, plenty of air space, good ventilation, good heat and comfortable chairs.
This writer likes the new name. Of late years, it has occurred to us that the old Indian trail north and south through Marlinton was the Warriors Road of the Seneca Indians. The new name of this theater is a good marker for this historic road. As large as the new room is, opening night there was a capacity crowd with standing room only.
OUR DEADLY ENEMY
Man-eating germs for all their hunger and vengeance are not as great a menace to man as is one of his common habits – plain, ordinary laziness…
The cells of the liver in human beings, the kidneys, the glands, the pancreas, with all their functions essential to life and health, need shaking up and they don’t get it under modern living conditions.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Pyles, a daughter.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kelley, a son.
DIED
Robert Alexander Gragg, 20, of Durbin, oldest son of French Gragg. Robert was a kind, loving boy, all who knew him were met with a smile. He had reached the bloom of life when God called him. The funeral was conducted by Rev. John Hevener; a large crowd of weeping friends attended.
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E. D. King, 74, of Marlinton, died Tuesday morning, November 18, 1924. He was one of the best citizens of Pocahontas County… When he first moved to Pocahontas County he lived at Linwood.
When Marlinton first started, he came here and, as a building contractor, he built most of the businesses and public houses and many of the residences of the town. … Mr. King was of a deeply religious temperament. For more than 30 years he was a Ruling Elder in the Marlinton Presbyterian Church. For nearly 20 years, he was superintendent of the Sunday School. He took great delight in Christian work, and largely through his efforts, influence and example, he saw his church grow from a handful of faithful members to a large and influential church…
Though he never sought public office, the people of Marlinton elected him mayor and councilman time and again.
When he was just a boy in his teens, he volunteered for service in the army of the Confederate States of America. He was assigned to Mosby’s Battalion and then followed that military genius through some of the hardest fighting of the war…
Mr. King always stood as a stone wall for whatever he believed to be right, and in him there was neither wavering nor shadow of turning. He exerted a positive influence for good in every walk of life. Honesty and integrity of purpose characterized his every move.
The funeral service will be conducted from the Marlinton Presbyterian Church.
