100 Years Ago
Thursday, July 5, 1917
The most we local people know about Russia is what geography taught us in the school and that was only a lick and a promise then, and has been mostly forgotten...
100 Years Ago
But I have also the fancy that there is something in this particular locality which makes for long years in man and woman – that a business-racked, nerve-worn world will discover it – and...
100-Years-Ago
Thursday,
June 21, 1917
The curtailment of the number of passenger trains going over the country finally hits the C & O and the service up and down the Greenbrier division suffers even out of...
100-Years-Ago
Thursday,
June 14, 1917
A Canadian lynx was killed at Split Rock, on S. S. Varner’s place. Early Monday morning while John Slanker was eating his breakfast, he heard a fuss among his chickens. On...
100 Years Ago
Thursday,
June 7, 1917
The events of the past few months have reminded men of the fact that the great majority of the people in times of peace do not come in conscious contact with...
100 Years Ago
Thursday, May 31, 1917
Robert Coberly, a brakeman on the Greenbrier and Cheat Mountain Railroad, had his leg cut off by falling under his train on Cheat Mountain Tuesday night. He was brought to Cass....
100 Years Ago
Thursday, May 24, 1917
Idleness and vagrancy in West Virginia are prohibited under the terms of the measure passed by both houses of the state, requiring ever able-bodied citizen, between the ages of 16 and...