Thursday, June 4, 1925
The champion fish taken so far was caught by Gene Kinnison at Kinnison Station, a blue cat 34 inches long, weighing 40 pounds. Jim Workman and Gene Kinnison cut a bee tree and took nine gallons of honey, and they used the wax for bait and got this big fish.
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Rev. John C. Brown McLaughlin arrived last Thursday to serve the Swago Presbyterian Church for the summer season. He is a son of Rev. Henry W. McLaughlin, of Raphine, Virginia, who was born and raised on the farm that it now Marlinton. On his mother’s side, Mr. McLaughlin is from a line of distinguished ministers, his grandfather being Rev. John C. Brown, who is remembered by many Pocahontas people. He is a graduate of Davison College, and of his class of about 80 members, nearly 30 are preparing for the ministry.
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Squire A. E. Smith is making preparations to take a trip next month to his old home at St. John, New Brunswick. Fifty-eight years ago, he left home to seek his fortune in the United States, and he has been back home only once and that was 38 years ago. Forty-three years ago, Captain Smith came to Pocahontas County. For the 12 years he has been in public office, he has been out of his office less than that number of days and he deserves a month’s vacation.
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Our friend Alex Stuart was here from his home at Julia, last Friday. Forty years ago, he came to Pocahontas County to help cut the white pine. There was timber and men in those days. Mr. Stuart says the record days’ cutting so far as he knows was 122 feet of logs for two cutting crews of three men each, two sawyers and one axe man. The winning crew scaled up 63,000 and the other 59,000. Ten to 12,000 is considered not a bad day’s cutting at this time. The above record was made on Anthonys Creek.
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Attendance at Marlinton Methodist Sunday school was 295; at the Presbyterian 219.
100th BIRTHDAY PICNIC
On Wednesday, June 24, at the home of W. C. Buzzard, near Frost, the family of Mrs. Ellen Buzzard will celebrate the 100th anniversary of her birth by a picnic in the beautiful sugar grove…
Mrs. Ellen Buzzard was born June 24, 1825, on Greenbrier River near Clo-ver Lick. She was a daughter of Caleb Knapp. She married Sampson Buzzard, who has been dead about 25 years. They were the parents of 11 children … There are 82 grandchildren…
Mrs. Buzzard is hale and hearty and retains her mental faculty to a remarkable extent.
NARROW ESCAPE
On last Sunday afternoon, a big sugar tree fell upon an automobile driven by Misses Edith and Edna May, the daughters of R. C. May, on the Seneca Trail where the road turns off to the County Fairgrounds. Both were painfully bruised and scratched, and Miss Edith suffered a broken shoulder and a fractured rib. The machine was badly wrecked.
Without warning, the big tree turned out of root and crashed across the automobile. Both young ladies were in the front seat, and the tree struck in the back of the seat and mashed into the floor of the car. The tree broke into a number of pieces, and one of these pieces, ten feet long and fifteen inches or more through, lay across the girls. This was an aged tree, far past its prime, but there was no apparent reason for its going down at that time as there was no wind.
HOW MANY BIRDS HAVE YOU SEEN
Dr. Hunter Kee very kindly let us look over the list of birds he has seen and noted so far this year of 1925.
The list includes 60 varieties. All of us see birds, but many of us really do not see them. The average man will be surprised to find how few birds he knows by name. Happily, this does not apply to the schoolboy, as the schools are teaching our children to know and appreciate the beauty and economic importance of birds. Dr. Kee’s list follows:
English sparrow, crow, junco, titmouse, nuthatch, song sparrow, siskin, cardinal, southern downy woodpecker, robin, pileated woodpecker, blackbird, king fisher, house wren, Bewick wren, Carolina wren, winter wren, red headed woodpecker, ruby crown kinglet, golden crown kinglet, blue jay, merganser duck, buzzard, brown grackle, meadow lark, killdeer, pied grebe, flicker, American bittern, field sparrow, chipping sparrows, wood pewee, phoebe, purple grackle, rusty blackbird, little green heron, pheasant, sandhill crane bufflehead duck, gold finch, yellow warbler, clay colored sparrow, rough wing sparrow, white throated sparrow, Maryland yellow throat, barn swallow, catbird, bank swallow, parula warbler, vesper sparrow, least fly catcher, scarlet tanager, red start, black and white warbler, myrtle warbler, dove, blue bird and Che wink.
DIED
Mrs. Nora May, wife of Oscar May, of near Dunmore, June 2, 1925, aged 28 years. She is survived by her husband and their three children. Burial at Mt. View Cemetery, service being conducted from the Marlinton Methodist Church.
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Mrs. Cinda A. Shinaberry, wife of E. P. Shinaberry, was born in Buzzard Valley near Dunmore, March 14, 1870, and died at her old birthplace June 6, 1925. She and her family lived at Clover Lick from 1887 until about three years ago when they went to live at her old homeplace. … She was buried on the homeplace Monday afternoon, the funeral service being conducted by Rev. Gray, of Cass.
