Thursday, October 25, 1951
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Copenhaver and family of six children are in town on two weeks’ vacation. They left West Virginia nine years ago to live in Eastport, New York. They expect to return to their home Friday. Mr. Copenhaver is employed on a duck ranch. The output this year was 196,000 head. These ducks are killed and marketed at eight weeks of age, when they dress out seven to eight pounds each.
FARM NEWS
County Agent Walter Jett was initiated into Epsilon Sigma Phi, national extension workers honorary fraternity, at the state extension workers conference at Jackson’s Mill last week.
Arbovale – The Farm Woman’s Club met at the home of Mrs. Adolphus Shears for the October meeting. The lesson “Our Responsibilities as West Virginia Citizens” was presented by Mrs. Homer Sutton. This club will send a package of gifts to the West- on State Hospital to be distributed at Christmas.
Hillsboro – at the October meeting of Pep-to-Win 4-H Club, held at the Hillsboro High School, one of the community projects was completed with each member being given a sign to be put at the homestead: “A 4-H member lives here.”
This was a reorganization meeting with the following officers being elected: President, Nancy May; vice president, Linda Clutter; secre- tary, Mary Vaughan; song leaders, Linda Clutter, Martha McNeel.
SAW A PANTHER
Durbin – Ergle Vance, of this place, was back over in his old home county of Pendleton for the opening of the squirrel session. He picked as his hunting ground, the Swartz Place, back in the Snowy Mountain Region. As he sat and waited in approved squirrel hunting procedure, Mr. Vance heard a noise in the dry leaves, and soon a fine doe passed on, a few paces away. Then quietly following the track of the doe came a great black panther. It too, passed on by the hunter with a distance of 50 feet.
Mr. Vance used good judgment in holding his fire on the great varmint. A small gauge, single barrel shotgun, loaded with number sixes, has not the fire power to be turned on a varmint which was out to knock down a 150-pound deer for his breakfast.
In reporting his experience, Mr. Vance was told by his uncle that the panther had been heard in the neighborhood for some weeks.
ACHIEVEMENT DAY
“The Homemaker, an Alert Citizen,” was the theme of the Sixteenth Annual Pocahontas County Farm Women’s Achievement Day at the Marlinton Methodist Church.
“Latest News from the Party Line,” county and club reports, was the main feature of the business session in the afternoon with Mrs. C. M. Pritchard…
Developing the main theme of Citizenship through the Church, Home, School and Community, short talks were given by Mrs. Pritchard, Clyde Busszrd, Walter Jett and Mrs. C. C. Cutlip. Patriotic songs and other group singing was led by Mrs. R. W. Bailey…
A skit, “Selling the Men of the Family on Farm Women’s Club Work,” demonstrating the old and new method of baking cakes and preserving food, was presented by the Edray club to close the program.
One hundred and forty-seven members and guests from 18 of the 19 county Farm Women’s Clubs were present for the evening.
WEDDING
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Denison, of St. George, announce the marriage of their daughter, Eleanor McNeill Denison, to Harlan Harper Lambert, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon G. Lambert, of Parsons.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Glen Ware, of Valley Head, a son, Gary Danier.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Hoover, of Clover Lick, a son, Steven Jewell.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hevener, of Arbovale, a son, William Howard, Jr.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Summerfield, of Cass, a daughter, Nancy Gail.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Boggs, of Lobelia, a son.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cain, of Marlinton, a son.
DEATHS
John A. Kershner, 62, of Bacova, Virginia, a son of the late H. M. and Betty Gardner Kershner. Burial at Warm Springs.
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Thomas Nelson Miller, aged 48 years, of Dunmore; service from the Good Hope Church at Dunmore, with burial in the Brick Church Cemetery.
