100 Years Ago

Thursday, December 5, 1918“The Rhine! The Rhine! The German Rhine! Who guards today that stream divine? The answer to the impassioned shriek is: Men from off of Bruffeys Creek And Briery Branch and Rosin Run And towns like...

Thursday, November 28, 1918The State of West Virginia will decorate a block of New York’s Fifth Avenue to welcome the incoming soldiers who will begin to arrive soon.- - -The government has raised the...

Thursday, November 21, 1918“What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings, Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his penny and pocket your shilling.”We do not...

Thursday, November 14, 1918WAR OVERThe Great War ended on Monday at eleven o’clock when Germany agreed to all the terms laid down by the Allied Commander, General Foch.The Local Board has been notified not...

Thursday, November 7, 1918Mr. and Mrs. Wm. C. Gardner have returned from Baltimore, where they were married on October 19, 1918. Mrs. Gardner was a Miss Cocke, of Baltimore. Mr. Gardner is a large...

Thursday, October 31, 1918The eastern proverb is that you should sweep your house seven times before you accuse your neighbor of theft. Along the same line, you should see that there is no mink...

Thursday, October 24, 1918If it were not for the statutes in the case made and provided, there would be no elections this year. As it is, we take our biennial political mud bath, but...

Thursday, October 17, 1918We can assure our political editors that their political editorials do no harm. They are not read. Mr. Common Man has grown very adept at skipping this class of literature.- -...