Thursday, January 30, 1975
At Edray Saturday, there were reported two rainbows, thunder, rain and snow, all in one day, in addition to the wind that almost blew the place away.
Snowshoe Dedication
Pocahontas County now has a new branch post office, Snowshoe Branch 26209, a contract branch office of Buckhannon. Envelopes with a copy of the becoming-famous Whitlatch Snowshoe painting were available Saturday at the official dedication of the resort. The first canceled cover, framed, was presented to Dr. Tom Brigham, president, by postal officials.
The weather was something else. The rain fell, the wind blew (70 mile an hour gales), and finally the snow came late Saturday. The several hundred skiers stayed on the slopes until the high winds forced the chair lifts to close for safety reasons.
Governor Moore and other state officials planned to be present, but the weather was such that helicopter travel was out of the question…
GIFTS
Last October a Buckhannon woman took a tour through the “Stulting House” which is the birthplace of Pearl S. Buck in Hillsboro. As the attractive guide, dressed in a period costume, reflected upon the life of the Stulting family and pointed with pride to the original furniture on display and to the construction of the house itself, she spoke repeatedly of Pearl Buck’s grandfather, Hermanus Stulting, as a fine carpenter.
For the first time, Mrs. Harry Zinn, of Buckhannon, began mentally to compare the work of Stulting to that of another pioneer of Pocahontas County – her great-grandfather, David McGlaughlin, who lived near Cass. She was surprised when she saw two empty bedrooms and was told that efforts were being made to locate furniture of that period. She admits that by this time, during the tour, she was not as attentive as she should have been, because the overpowering thought she had was the unexpected idea of donating the solid cherry bed and solid cherry chest of drawers that David McGlaughin had made near Cass in the 1850s.
She acquired them after the death of her Grandmother McLaughlin at Stony Bottom in 1939…
OLD OPERA HOUSE
Mrs. Frances Eskridge has volunteered to seek the history of the old Opera House in Marlinton, the big cement building now occupied as a storage building by Williams Supply.
She is interested in getting every bit of information possible about activities, etc….
PCHS Basketball Team
Gary Sharp, Mike Collins, Jimmy Cutlip, Kenny Thompson, Steve Gillispie, David Jonese, Jim Ryder, Bard Thomas, Ricky Doyle and Gary Cassell. Coach Dick Groseclose.
SHAVERS FORK
This stream begins in Pocahontas County and flows through Randolph County into Tucker, where it unites with the Blackwater River to form the Cheat.
This name is for some member of the pioneer Shaver family. Lucullus Virgil McWhorter (Border Settlers) relates that Paul Shaver was born in Pendleton County in 1739 and was a spy or Indian scout near Westfall’s Fort in Randolph County in 1776 and 1777.
And Judge J. C. McWhorter (Scout) thickening fancy with fact, relates: “Among the new arrivals in the early spring of 1774, drawn hither by this wilderness lodestone, were Thomas Drennen and Paul Shaver, two sturdy adventurous youths who, with others, left the more populous settlements east of the mountains… to cast their fortunes with the isolated wilderness dwellers of the Monongahela.”
Note that Shaver is a rare variant of the more common Schaffer.
WEDDING
Phyllis Ann Hill and Harlan Wesley Kinnison were united in marriage Saturday afternoon, January 25, 1975, at two o’clock in the Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church at Hillsboro, by the Rev. Maynard Crawford.
BIRTH
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Gary McKenney, of Buckeye, a daughter.
DEATHS
Page Friel, 84, of Marlinton, a retired C & O employee and farmer. Funeral service was held from the Central Union Church with burial in Fairview Cemetery.
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Mrs. Grace Craddock, 79, of Marlinton a daughter of the late George Hoover and Bertha Alderman Hoover. Funeral from VanReenen Funeral Home Chapel with burial in the Slaty Fork Cemetery.
