100 Years Ago

Thursday, October 20, 1921 Reports of an epidemic of diphtheria are still heard from many parts of the country. Thousands...

Thursday, October 13, 1921 A fine snowstorm on Saturday and a big freeze Sunday morning laid low the late garden...

Thursday, October 6, 1921 The season has been marked by a general widespread epidemic of sore throats. The town of...

Thursday, September 29, 1921 “Speak gently to your bootleg friend, Your kindness may prevail; Tell him of his bitter end,...

Thursday, September 22, 1921 Sheriff B. B. Beard brought Arthur Dehaven to jail on Monday morning. The prisoner is charged...

Thursday, September 15, 1921 MINGO TRIAL (From Williamson Daily News) Emory Adkinson, lumber inspector. Fred Wade, farmer. Clark Young, farmer....

Thursday, September 8, 1921 A number of cases of scarlet fever have been reported in the West Union neighborhood. Three...

Thursday, September 1, 1921 Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown, And the grass and...

Thursday, August 18, 1921 Spreading of the tracks caused a big steel car loaded with rails to go over into...

Thursday, August 11, 1921 Johnson and Bessling have commenced work on the contract to lay the pipeline to drain the...

Thursday, August 5, 1921 Honorable. Geo. W. McClintic has been appointed by the President to be judge of the United...

Thursday, July 28, 1921 The result of the election puts the question of maintaining the schools of this town up...

Thursday, July 21, 1921 I will arise and go now – go to White Sulphur Springs, And stay there till...

Thursday, July 14, 1921 Ten men in the county jail. Five moonshiners, 4 pistol toters, and one for the grand...

Thursday, July 7, 1921 A big crowd visited Marlinton on the Fourth. Squire Bird sat on his porch on the...

Thursday, June 20, 1921 PRINCIPAL EVENTS of the year 1898 in Pocahontas County From the files of The Pocahontas Times....

Thursday, June 23, 1921 CIRCUIT COURT Circuit Court finished with the jury late Saturday afternoon. One man, James Stopher, was...

Thursday, June 16, 1921 STAMPING CREEK The health of the people is good at this writing. Most of the farmers...

Thursday, June 9, 1921 If the truth was always written on tombstones, the most frequent legend that would appear among...

Thursday, June 2, 1921 In Squire Sutton’s court at Cass on Saturday, Tony Sgattone was held for the grand jury...