Thursday, December 1, 1949
OUR COUNTY AGENT TOPS
Morgantown – In the Extension Animal Husbandry Programs Contest for county agents, our own Walter Jett was away out in front with nearly fifteen thousand points for this year and last. The runner up was the agent from Randolph with a score of nearly eleven thousand.
The prize money is to be used toward defraying expenses to the International Livestock Show and National 4-H Congress in Chi-cago. Mr. Jett is there this week…
Among the Pocahontas County stockmen at Chicago this week attending the International Stock Show and the National 4-H Congress are Moffett McNeel, Jr., Richard McNeel, Robert McLaughlin, Hal Moore, Ben Morgan and Remus May.
FIELD NOTES
For the sake of the record, on November 13, there was a heavy thunder and lightning storm in these parts. The day following, a hop toad was seen on a street in Marlinton. He was headed for a garden, presumably to hole up for the winter. That night, it came on to snow and for two weeks we have had regular November cold weather.
On Friday, November 18, Henry Perkins, of the National Forest Service, tracked around in nine inches of snow on Cranberry River. On Saturday, the wind blew and melted it all away.
Tuesday, November 22, at bedtime, the thermometer registered 18 above zero. On Wednesday morning, the temperature was the same. At the prison camp on Cranberry at bedtime Tuesday night, the thermometer registered 10 above zero, but on Wednesday morning, the temperature had risen to 30 degrees. In this country, the higher grounds get the weather first.
PERSONAL NOTES
On Sunday afternoon, November 20th, a beautiful Baptism and Christening took place in the Catholic Church in White Sulphur Springs, when the children of Dr. and Mrs. T. R. McClure were baptized by Father Edward Balanger. Heather Rosemary, infant daughter of the McClures, was christened, and Alice Elizabeth and Theodore Russell, Jr., were baptized. Miss Mary Ellis, of Ronceverte, was godmother, and Louis Cross, was godfather.
Richard F. Currence and family spent Thanksgiving in Clarksburg with Dr. Currence.
Miss Jewel Hiner, of Washington, D. C. spent the weekend with her mother, Mrs. Tate Hiner.
Ollie Meeks, Margaret Tallman and Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Meeks were guests at the home of S. A. Meeks, at Stony Bottom, Thanksgiving for a turkey dinner. Lyle Meeks is opening his barbershop at Durbin on December 1.
Mrs. and Mrs. Arnott McNeill, of Edray, Mrs. Devon Johnson and daughter, Delores Ann, of Freeport, New York, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Lee Kramer, at Campbelltown.
DEATHS
Fred L. Sheets, aged 57, a son of John and Emma McAlpin Sheets, died at his home in Marlinton. The funeral was held from the Methodist church with burial in the family plot in Mt. View Cemetery. For a number of years, he was Superintendent of Roads in Poca- hontas County.
WHO ELSE
A young woman went into a large London store to buy a pair of birds. She told the salesman the variety she wished, and that she desired a male and a female. The birds were finally selected and handed to her.
She then asked the salesman how she could tell the difference between the two. He instructed her to go to another store to buy a supply of male and female worms and told her that when she fed the worms to the bids, the male bird would always eat the female worms, while the female birds would eat the male worms. She thanked him and went on her way.
When she got to the door, she turned and came back to the salesman and said: “I must be stupid, but how am I going to tell which are the male and which are the female worms?”
And his reply was: “Madam, I am only a bird expert; you will have to see a worm expert about that.”
MISTAKE
A rookie in the cavalry was told to report to his lieutenant.
“Private Jones,” said the lieutenant, “take my horse down and have him shod.”
After three hours’ wait, the officer hunted up Jones and found him cleaning his gun.
“Jones,” he said, “where’s the horse I told you to have shod?”
The private turned pale and gasped, “Oh, did you say shod?”
