Thursday, May 9, 1974
A pigeon has been at Mrs. Mabel Irvine’s place at Edray for two weeks and eats with the chickens and roosts in the chicken house.
Golden Horseshoe
The 1974 Golden Horseshoe winners are Jane A. Jeffries, Kimberly S. Nottingham, both of Green Bank Elementary; Anita J. Pritchard, Hillsboro; and Rebecca A. Sharp, Marlinton.
Jane Jeffries’ father, Ross Jeffries, was a Horseshoe winner, and two of Rebecca Sharp’s sisters, Darlene and Vivian, were winners.
They will go to Charleston May 17 to be dubbed Knights and Ladies of the Golden Horseshoe.
Hillsboro Alumni Banquet Toastmaster
Harlan W. Kinnison graduated from Hillsboro High School and West Virginia University. He later served in the Armed Services and spent four years in Vietnam as an advisor to the Vietnamese on tactics, economics and political development.
He received numerous decorations during the Vietnam War from both the U. S. and Vietnamese Governments.
Harlan now resides in Hillsboro where he raises cattle and sheep on the family farm.
Pearl Buck Birthplace
Grand Opening
Saturday was a most beautiful day and the activities at the Pearl Buck Birthplace were highly successful. Between 1,500 and 1,800 people registered to go through the house and many did not get time to sign the book. It is estimated there were 3,000 people at one time or another over the weekend…
Pearl S. Buck was a native daughter of West Virginia who, in her long and fruitful life, became a true citizen of the world and a servant of all mankind,” so stated U. S. Senator Jennings Randolph here Saturday afternoon.
In remarks at the grand opening for the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Museum where she was born June 26, 1892, Randolph said, “The 116 year old restored structure we see here today is the product of a thrifty and hard working people. They built the basement and lived in it until they could accumulate enough money to complete the first and second floors.”
Carrie Stulting, Pearl Buck’s mother, met young Absalom Sydenstricker, of Lewisburg, in 1879. “He had just been ordained as a missionary to China from the Old Stone Presbyterian Church in Lewisburg, and soon they were married and sailed for the Orient, a land of unimaginable hardships, of endless privations and strange diseases to dispirit the hardiest occidental,” the Senator noted.
“They knew heartbreak and misery for the next 12 years. Three of their four children died during their mission to China, so, in 1892, the Sydenstrickers returned to the pure environment of West Virginia to await the birth of another daughter, Pearl, in the homeplace where Carrie herself was born…
APRIL WEATHER
Minimum Temperature – 17 degrees on the 7th.
Maximum Temperature – 81 degrees on the 1st.
Rainfall – 2.63 inches
BIRTH
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Geral Barnett, of Stony Bottom, a son, named Owen Robert.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Long, of Weirton, a son, named Christopher Thomas.
DEATHS
Mrs. Madge Ruckman McClure, 84, of Mill Point, a daughter of Matthew and Mary Lilly Ruckman. She is survived by her daughter, Katherine McClure. Funeral service from VanReenen Funeral Home Chapel with burial in the McNeel Cemetery.
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Mrs. Mary Shields Ervin, 64, of Fenwick, born at Stony Bottom, a daughter of Austin and Savilla Wilfong Shields. Funeral from Simons and Coleman Funeral Home in Richwood, burial in Stony Bottom Cemetery.
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Harold Eldon Wilfong, 40, of Baltimore, formerly of Bartow, a son of Gray and Kathleen L. Wilfong, of Bartow. A graduate of Green Bank High School.
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Howard Lee Miller, 38, of Markleysburg, Pennsylvania; born in Dunmore, a son of Goldie Miller Sharp and the late Thomas H. Miller. Funeral from Union Chapel with burial in Mt. Washington Cemetery.
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Mrs. Zettie Virginia Smith, 68, of Slaty Fork; born at Brady, a daughter of the late Ernest O. and Mary Ware Sharp. Funeral held from Tomblyn Funeral Home in Elkins with burial in the Mingo Cemetery at Mingo.
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Mrs. Maude Myles Hinkle, 98, of Renick, a lifelong resident of Renick and member of Spring Creek Presbyterian Church. Funeral service from Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home in Lewisburg, with burial in the Morningside Cemetery at Renick.