100 Years Ago
Thursday, April 25, 1918
The word was circulated here last week that Miss Carrie Overholt had been killed when the Germans blew up a hospital in France. This is put down as a mistake by...
100 Years Ago
Thursday, April 18, 1918
DISASTROUS FIRE
C. A. YEAGER’S FINE RESIDENCE BURNED
On Thursday night, April 11, the fine residence of C. A. Yeager was burned, entailing a loss of twelve to fifteen thousand dollars.
About eleven o’clock...
100 Years Ago
Thursday, April 11, 1918
Trade, it may help society extend,
But lures the Pirate, and corrupts the friend;
It raises armies in a nation’s aid,
But bribes a senate and the land’s betrayed ~ Pope on Money
At the...
100 Years Ago
Thursday, April 4, 1918
The daylight saving bill worked all right in this part of the country. It came on Sunday and that is naturally a day of rest and adjustment. People went to bed...
100 Years Ago
Thursday, March 28, 1918
Word was received on Monday that Mrs. Maggie Sharp, of Edray, had been very seriously injured in a run-away on the Warm Springs pike just east of the Price place on...
100 Years Ago
Thursday, March 21, 1918
The Marlinton Auto and Supply Company has moved its garage to the Marlinton Opera House.
MINNEHAHA SPRINGS SOLD
Washington D. C. – L. M. Stephens prominent businessman of Wheeling and New York, and...
100 Years Ago
Thursday, March 14, 1918
Question: Is it better to be single and go to war, or be married and stay at home.
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Blow, bugle, blow, thy faint, far tones are wailing;
Blow, bugle, blow, the...
100 Years Ago
Thursday, March 7, 1918
The law firm of Price & McNeel has been dissolved. Andrew Price will continue the business, and T. S. McNeel will move to the Levels, to the home of his uncle,...