100 Years Ago

Thursday, February 18, 1926 More than three score years ago, this country divided upon a sectional issue and a fearful...

Thursday, February 11, 1926 DEEP SNOW In the year of 1880 or 1881, the deepest snowfall fell. Probably this was...

Thursday, February 4, 1926 Sometime in the 1850s, a teacher appeared in the upper part of the county and taught...

Thursday, January 28, 1925 RAILROAD NEWS The morning passenger train from Durbin struck a rock on the track a short...

Thursday, January 21, 1926 Last Monday, when Mr. and Mrs. William Puffenbarger were returning from their wedding trip, their automobile...

Thursday, January 14, 1926 Six degrees below zero sometime Tuesday night. Zero at 7 o’clock Wednesday morning. - - -...

Thursday, January 7, 1926 At the meeting of the Marlinton and Stony Creek Mutual Telephone Company held at Onoto last...

Thursday, December 31, 1925 The Farm Bureau officers elected for the year 1928 are J. H. Buzzard, president; W. L....

Thursday, December 24, 1925 On Monday morning, Officer Lincoln S. Cochran brought a batch of prisoners to Marlinton to be...

Thursday, December 21, 1900 Col. John H. Popham, who was prominent in Highland and Bath affairs during reconstruction times, fell...

Thursday, December 17, 1925 BEAVER CREEK Our school is progressing with A. C. Harford, teacher. Mr. Harford tells he taught...

Thursday, December 10, 1925 I come to you with this message: I am here to listen to your wrongs and...

Thursday, December 4, 1925 Here is my alibi. I was off on a jamboree at the University during the week...

Thursday, November 26, 1925 THANKSGIVING The harvest is home; the bins are full, The barns are running o’er. Both grains...

Thursday, November 19, 1925 Last Friday was turkey-day in Marlinton. Frank P. McLaughlin shipped a car of 900 live turkeys....

Thursday, November 12, 1925 The best football game of the season at the fairgrounds was the one between Green Bank...

Thursday, November 5, 1925 In the fall, the old man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of hunting, and the question...

Thursday, October 29, 1925 J. L. Sharp, of the Dry Branch of Elk, recently cut an old bee tree on...

Thursday, October 15, 1925 Pocahontas County welcomes the opening of the hunting season, when the frost is on the pumpkin...

Thursday, October 8, 1925 ABOUT THE COUNTRY Last week, I took a trip down North Carolina way to put the...