Thursday, January 8, 1925
Word has been received that the venerable Gatewood Potts is in a hospital in Elkins for treatment for kidney trouble. His wife, Mrs. Anna Waugh Potts, though eighty years of age, walked the two miles from their home to Elkins to see Mr. Potts. Mrs. Potts is a sister of Chief of Police John Waugh, of Marlinton.
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The first unit of the State Capitol building is to be ready for occupancy March 1. This unit is four stories and a full basement. It is 60 x 300. It has about two acres of floor space divided into 121 office rooms.
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Thomas McElwain, of Ottawa, W. Va., was brought to the Marlinton Hospital Monday morning from Cass, with a bad case of pneumonia. He is a man of about 46 year and has wife and five children. He had come to Cass looking for work. When he became sick, the Moose Lodge cared for him and sent him here to the hospital.
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Pocahontas ranks nineteenth with a core of 64.5 points out of a possible 100 in efficiency in her public schools among the 55 counties of the state.
SCHOOL REPORTS
Report of Oak Grove school, Ruth J. Curry, teacher – John Fogus, Johnie and Marshall Hill, Earl and John Long, Mack Simmons, Ora Brown, Helen and Ina Curry, Virginia Fogus, Mazzie Long, Stella Morrison, Idella Simmons and Dae Sullivan.
A Pupil’s Reading Circle has been organized, and pupils are enjoying the books.
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Report of Buckeye school, Advanced room – perfect attendance: Ruth Hinkle, Amelia Heckert, Beatrice Howard, Ida Morrison and Glen Rucker. Faithful attendance, Ruth Rucker, Audrey Rucker, Jane Kennison, Margaret Moss, Georgia Weiford, Lou Morrison, Pearl Auldridge, Stella McNeill, Lottie Taylor and Elva Auldridge.
Primary room, Goldie McNeill, teacher. Perfect attendance: James Miller, Everette Young, Jay Graham, Bernard Hinkle, Ross Miller, Jesse Bostic, Gladys Barnes, Madaline McNeill, Martha Bostic. Faithful attendance: Paul Duncan, Leslie Rose, Alex Lane, Jasper Lane, Joe Bostic, Edna Gladwell, Helen Young, Mary Graham, May Miller and Glen Duncan.
The advanced pupils have organized a Pupil’s Reading Circle, 4- H Club and Health crusade.
125 small classics have been added to the library.
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Report of Douthards Creek school. Clara L. Palmer, teacher. Honor roll: Nellie Alderman, Jewell Kincaid, Annie Wade, Camie Wade, Hazel White, Arlie White, Herbert Sharp and Raymond Alderman.
Our “Reading Circle” is making good progress. The entire class has reported on two books and others have been read. Six new volumes have been added to the library.
HARDING MEMORIAL
Chicago, Ill. – Active work on a granite and bronze memorial to the late President Harding which will also symbolize the friendship between the United States and Canada will be started in a short time by the Kiwanis clubs of both countries. This memorial is to be placed in Stanley Park, Vancouver, B. C., the scene of the late President’s last address during his Alaskan trip…
“What an object lesson of peace is shown today by our two countries to all the world. No grim-faced fortifications mark our frontiers, no huge battleships patrol our dividing waters, no stealthy spies lurk in our tranquil border hamlets. Only a scrap of paper recording hardly more than a simple understanding safe- guards lives and properties on the Great Lakes and only humble mile posts mark the inviolable boundary line for thousands of miles through farmland and forest. Our protection is our fraternity, our armor is our faith, the tie that binds more firmly year by year is ever increasing acquaintance and comradeship through interchange of citizens and the compact is not of perishable parchment, but of fair and honorable dealing which God grant, shall continue for all time.”
DIED
On the morning of December 24, 1924, Mrs. George Henry Moffett died at the home of her son, George Hoxie Moffett, Independence, Missouri. Burial in Washington Rock Creek Cemetery by the side of her husband and their two daughters. Mrs. Moffett was a daughter of the late Isaac and Alcenda Moore, of Pocahontas county. She was born at Dunmore February 14, 1851… Hoxie Moffett is the only survivor of a family of six. He has a responsible position with the Standard Oil Company. A little brother died at Huntersville and is buried at Glade Hill.