Thursday, November 14, 1974
After the beautiful fall weather, a cold rain and snow came Tuesday night. Snowshoe has a weather station and, Wednesday morning, they reported 35 high Tuesday and 19 low with two and a half inches of snow.
ELECTION
Approximately 33 percent of Pocahontas County voters turned out for last Tuesday’s election. This was below the national average of about 38 percent, both percentage being far below what they should have been.
You Are Invited
Snowshoe is opening its gates to the people of Pocahontas and Randolph counties November 16 from 1 to 4 p.m.
At that time, the unfinished Resort Center will be open for viewing and Snowshoe staff will be on hand to answer questions for local persons interested seeing the resort at this stage of its development.
Snowshoe plans to open to skiers December 13… The new six-and-a-half-mile Snowshoe gravel access road is now open, and persons can drive their cars to the summit facilities.
WEATHER-WISE
The average rainfall on the Cranberry River Watershed for the month of October was 3.47 inches.
High temperature for the month was 84 degrees at Aldrich Branch on October 6. Low for the month was 6 degrees at Black Mountain on October 20.
MAIL HACK
Otis Waugh brought in a photo, above, of the mail hack or buggy used for many years on R. F. D. 1 Marlinton, by the late Floyd Dilley. The buggy now belongs to R. H. Green, of Belle, who has a summer home at Seebert. …
reins, so the driver was protected from the weather. In winter, the wheels could be taken off and the buggy mounted on runners. However, there was also a sleigh, and this, we understand, belongs to the Reid Mitchells.
Floyd Dilley carried the mail about 30 years, until he gave it up in 1942, about a year before his death. Of course, he had given up the buggy earlier. His son, Harold, says he traveled about 18 miles a day, going to Campbelltown, through the Brush Country to Edray, out to Onoto and Woodrow, and then down Price Hollow.
DEATHS
Bruner Kirk Coffman, 80, of Marlinton, died in the United States Soldiers Home in Washington, D. C. He was a son of the late John Wesley and Nancy Elizabeth Lyons Coffman. Funeral service from the VanReenen Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Mountain View Cemetery.
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Mrs. Noble P. Moore, 61, of Marlinton, a daughter of the late Albert S. Moore, Sr. and Myrtle Mays Moore. She was a bookkeeper at C. J. Richardson’s Hardware for 28 years. Funeral service from the Marlinton United Methodist Church with burial in Mountain View Cemetery.
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Mark Allen Means, 19, of Durbin; funeral service from the Bethel United Methodist Church with burial in the church cemetery.
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Asa E. Bailey, Sr., 89, of Marlinton, a retired farmer and member of Sinking Creek Baptist Church. His son, Asa, Jr., is manager of the Marlinton A & P Store. Service and burial in Glenville.