100 Years Ago

Thursday, January 25, 1923 SEEBERT I wonder how many of our boys and girls know the robins are spending the...

Thursday, January 18, 1923 There is a suggestion from high authority to require a license to carry a high-powered rifle....

Thursday, January 11, 1923 In renewing her subscription to The Times, Mrs. Alice Brooks, of Dunmore, writes that she has...

Thursday, January 4, 1923 The old year faded away. It seemed to get away in a shorter time than usual....

Thursday, December 28, 1922 Christmas Day in Pocahontas was warm, sunny and spring-like, with a temperature of 50 degrees. This...

Thursday, December 21, 1922 To all to whom this message may come, greetings and salutations. A Merry Christmas and a...

Thursday, December 14, 1922 Local weather observer S. L. Brown reports 10 clear days in the month of November, 13...

Thursday, December 7, 1922 FROST Clay Dreppards house caught fire Friday morning and came near burning down. Through the aid...

Thursday, November 30, 1922 In connection with the wanderings of James Astin, read Robert Louis Stephenson’s “St. Ives,” and Bret...

Thursday, November 23, 1922 Married at the Methodist parsonage November 17, 1922, Tobias O. Moss and Miss Lora Jackson, both...

Thursday, November 16, 1922 I was initiated into the order of tourists, and went bowling along the Virginia roads like...

Thursday, November 9, 1922 The old weather prophets are already forecasting a hard winter and various reasons for it. To...

Thursday, November 2, 1922 Sheriff Brown Beard arrested and returned to the Monterey jail last week one, Ward Ryder, who...

Thursday, October 26, 1920 The campaign, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Every now and then we,...

Thursday, October 19, 1922 The word comes from Oley W. Jackson, who is at an army hospital at Ft. McHenry,...

Thursday, October 12, 1922 Fine showers have broken the long dry spell. The dry weather was really becoming a serious...

Thursday, October 5, 1920 After the manner of the sorrows of Satan is the predicament of the bootlegger at this...

Thursday, September 28, 1922 Wallace Phillips and Dewey Rose, who escaped from the Monterey jail, were captured near Elkins. They...

Thursday, September 21, 1922 There ought to be a law passed requiring all mountain men to go to waste places...

Thursday, September 14, 1922 The eight year old son of Page Friel had the terrifying experience of being bitten on...