Thursday, October 14, 1949
No Sunday Movies Yet
At a continued meeting of the Town Council Monday night, the matter of Sunday moving pictures was up for discussion.
The council took the position that the present ordinance against Sunday movies was enacted following a decisive vote of the citizens of the town; that, before this action would be voided, the matter should again be referred to a vote, and the matter continued to the next regular meeting.
THE BUCKEYE
A lady writes in that a group of her friends have had the buckeye under discussion. Is there anything to the old saying that there is a good side and a poison side to the buckeye nuts, and the squirrel knows which side to eat and which side to leave alone?
The answer is that buckeye buds and buckeye nuts will poison cattle when eaten in quantities. It is a kind of a cheap drunk and the poor dumb brutes are liable to repeat it the next chance they get. With a good dose, they pitch and tumble something dreadful. Milk cows are dried up almost overnight, and a buckeye drunk starts the winter poorly for the victim.
As for squirrels knowing the right side to eat, this grew out of the fact that half eaten nuts are found under every tree which squirrels are attending. If hungry enough a squirrel will eat the whole of a buckeye. Sometimes a squirrel will accidentally drop a half-eaten nut, and sometimes he is scared away.
As an article of diet, leave the buckeye to the squirrels. It is poor eating and drinking for cattle and people. They do make doctor medicine out of extract of buckeye, and moonshiners have been known to put buckeyes in their runs.
FOREST FESTIVAL
The parade of the Forest Festival on Friday was full two miles long. An item of especial interest was the splendid floats numbering 35. The float entered by the Monongahela Power Company placed first in the judging, with the Monongahela National Forest in the third place.
The champion wood sawyers were Lewis Taylor, of Green Bank, and Harold Collins, of Durbin. They sawed through a 14-inch poplar log in 44 seconds. The number two place went to Fred Trainer, of Minnehaha, and Charles Rock, of Valley Bend.
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Among those from here attending the Forest Festival at Elkins were: Mrs. Jane Sharp and children, Basil Price, John Calvin and Janie, Don Bowers, Mrs. J. L. Hogsett and Charles Lowell Camper, Billy Evans and son, Ronnie, Mrs. Bob Fitzgerald and son, Emmett Lee, Misses Pat McNeill and Barbara Moses, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Anderson and family, Mrs. Claude Malcomb and son, Steve, Mrs. T. D. Moore, Mrs. Madge McClure, Miss Katherine McClure, Mrs. Carl Slavin, Roy Slaven, Mrs. Ray Rexrode and family, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Jackson and family, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Barlow and daughters, Carolyn and Marolyn, and Mr. and Mrs. “Tuck” Thomas.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Max Peterson, of Cass, a daughter, Sandra Lynn.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan William Geiger, of Cass, a daughter, Margaret Alice.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Clem Simmons, a son, Clifford Milton.
ANTICLIMAX
Two old gentlemen in wheelchairs on the porch of a hotel got into a conversation.
“What’s your trouble?” asked one.
“Can’t walk. Got rheumatism,” replied the other. “Tried everything for it, but nothing helps.”
“Then, let me tell you about the wonderful Recluse of Waste Mountain,” the first one said. “I couldn’t find a cure for rheumatism, either, until five years ago I heard about this fellow. I fitted out a safari and crossed the Gobi Desert. Had myself carried up to the baldest peak you ever saw. Here was this hermit, all hair and eyes, and he took one look at me and pointed his finger and yelled: “you are cured! Throw away your left crutch.”
“You didn’t do it, did you?”
I threw it on the ground. Then the hermit pointed at me again and yelled, “Now throw away your right crutch.”
“Did you do it?”
“Yes.”
And then what happened?”
“I fell flat on the ground.
