Thursday, January 21, 1950
Another Killing
Guy Barnes, aged 40 years, died of knife wounds Sunday afternoon, and Alice Knapper Walker is being held in jail for grand jury investigation. This is a result of a fight at the home of Henry Knapper, who lives near the light plant.
The deceased is a son of Richard and Ida Barnes… He and his wife have not been living together. During the war he served in the Navy.
On Wednesday afternoon, the funeral will be held from Mt. Zion Baptist Church.
Over to Randolph County
Dr. Calvin Price, Harper Smith, Kerth Nottingham and Billy Evans, all of Marlinton, were here Monday for a fish and game meeting.
Dr. Price is the widely known editor of the Pocahontas Times.
Kerth Nottingham is the postmaster at Marlinton.
Harper Smith is very well known to the older generation of citizens having conducted a jewelry store in Elkins for many years. He moved to Pocahontas County where he ultimately became a banker with the First National Bank of Marlinton.
Having been elected to the office of justice of the peace in the district of which Marlinton is a part, Mr. Smith retired as a banker to dispense justice and is giving a very satisfactory account of himself as a justice of the peace, for possessing a great deal of common sense and having an excellent knowledge of human nature as well as of the State Code.
Mr. Evans is the Superintendent of the Marlinton Fish Hatchery. – Randolph Review
County 4-H Enrollment
A total of 568 projects are being carried by 442 Pocahontas county 4-H boys and girls, reports Lil Dawson, 4-H Club Agent. Of this total, 92 are livestock, 14 poultry and 27 crop production; the remaining can be divided into homemaking and other non-production categories.
Those present at the Leaders Association Meeting were: Mrs. Bee Gladwell, Mrs. Robert Gay, Miss Madaline McNeill, Miss Barbara Harper, Moffett McNeel, Miss Margaret Irvine, Mrs. Esther LaRose, Porter Smith, Walter Jett and Miss Lil Dawson.
TOP NOTCHERS
Greenbank Graded – Jean Clarkson, Gaytha Gutshall, Nancy Nottingham, Patsy Hefner, Patsy Burner, Jean Carpenter, Eileen Duffy, Mary Ryder, Joyce Waybright, Mary M. Wooddell, Anna Belle Sheets, Bettie Ruth Tenney, Nancy Wenger, Dickie Galford, Wayne Sheets, Maxie Gum, Billy Halterman, Donald Mullenax, James Sutton, Nancy Gillispie, Barbara Gum, Peggy Sheets, Patty Simmons, Kirk Kerr, Billy Orndorff, Donna Brubaker, Pat- sy Hall, Sue Keys, Rachel McCutcheon Mullenax, Nancy Nicely, Barbara Nottingham, Bunny Turner.
Hillsboro Graded – Edith Farmer, Shirley Pritt, Myrtle Scott, Joyce Weatherholt, Ardis Wiedewitch, Floyd Copen, David May, Edward Rock, Deloris Arbogast, Mary Carpenter, Patricia Lewis, Jane Ruckman, Sandra Traudt, Lewis Cooper, Bernard Hamrick, Jerome Johnson, John Johnson, Elbert Kellison, Charles Weatherholt, Twyla Anderson, Dorothy Dever, Anne Farmer, Carolyn Hodges.
Huntersville – Kay McLaughlin, Keith McLaughlin, Tommy Gum, Danny McComb, Dale Shinaberry, Dwain Wilcox, Marilyn Harper, Sylvia Kelley, Margaret Ella Bussard, Orean Scott, Robert Kelley.
Marlinton Graded – Brooks Barnett, James Simmons, Phyllis Rucker, Wynona Sparks, Linda Clutter, Dorothy Cornell, Robert Madison, Billy Jo Mayse, John C. Sharp, Louise Currence, Margaret F. Johnson, Jo Ann Kelley, Lockie Moore, Beverly Nottingham, Judith Sharp, Ann Waugh, Billy Joe Broyles, Patricia Sharp, Polly Astin, Eugene Stuart, Norval Waugh, Kyle Hause, Carolyn Curry, Jeanna LaRose, Shirley Malcom, Naomi Shannon, Nan-cy Gay, Dorothy Shinaberry.
Minnehaha Springs – Helen Wanless, Barbara Palmer, Gayle Buzzard.
Mt. Lebanon – Linda McMillion
Pleasant Hill – Alice Faye Nelson
Seneca Trail – Larry Gibson, Eleanor Hannah, Tucker Reynolds, Robert Cross, Ernest Shaw, Mary Jane Vandevander, Robert Channell, Allen Gibson, Naomi Gibson, Alberta Jordan, Shirley Mace, Roy Pennington, Ruth Thomas, Harold Beale, Harold Channell, Rella Mace, Amon Tracey.
Stark – Lyda Warner, Buford Johnston, Ronald Warner
West Droop – Jack Hollandsworth, Eddie Wiley, Nancy Hollandsworth.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Mullins, of Hillsboro, a daughter, Marlene June.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Denver Sharp, of Mingo, a daughter, Ellen Louise.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Dale Fowler, of Hillsboro, a daughter, Donna Sue.
DEATHS
Elmer Wade Rider, aged 75 years, died from effects of a fall from a truck the night before.
The funeral was conducted by Rev. T. E. Painter, and burial was made in the Ruckman Cemetery. The deceased was a son of the late W. W. and Alcinda Alderman Rider…
– – –
Mrs. Evelyn Livesay Smith Weese, aged 59 years, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Hubert Fleming, of Fallston, Md. Burial in Friendship Methodist cemetery at Fallston. She and her first husband, Henry Smith, lived at Beard for a number of years.
– – –
On Monday afternoon, the body of Charles W. Gatewood, aged 41 years, of Pulaski, Va., was laid to rest in the family plot in Mt. View Cemetery. Mr. Gatewood died January 13, 1950, in Richmond at a Veterans’ Hospital. The deceased was a son of the late William B. and Goldie Yeager Gatewood.
