100 Years Ago

Thursday, September 27, 1923 It was announced last Sunday that the last service had been held in the old Methodist...

Thursday, September 20, 1923 Among the students off for college this week are Miss Genevieve Yeager, Miss Alice McClintic, Miss...

Thursday, September 16, 1948 H. Lee White was over at his old home in Crabbottom last week. On his return...

Thursday, September 6, 1923 COUNTY RACE DAY Arrangements are being made to have a day or two of racing at...

Thursday, August 30, 1923 The county fair was held and a great number of thousands came in cars and beheld...

Thursday, August 23, 1923 Last week was fair. The county fair was held and a great number of thousands came...

Thursday, August 16, 1923 Dog days ended August 11th and those of us who were awake Sunday morning at break...

Thursday, August 9, 1923 For as the heavens are high above the earth, so are my ways higher than your...

Thursday, August 2, 1923 SUICIDE NEAR CASS Clarence Wamsley committed suicide in a cave on the farm of Joe McLaughlin...

Thursday, July 26, 1923 J. C. Wiley, a Confederate veteran still living in this county, was present at Droop Mountain,...

Thursday, July 19, 1923 An automobile party from Lexington ate a picnic dinner at the Fair Grounds one day this...

Thursday, July 12, 1923 After about four false starts at different times in the last year or two, I finally...

Thursday, July 5, 1923 Deputy Sheriff Elmer Moore, Special Officer L. S. Cochran and Constables Charles K. Butler and Upton...

Thursday, June 28, 1923 “Rimfire (Eli) Hamrick, chief game and fire protector for Webster county, came down from this lair...

Thursday, June 21, 1923 The old reliable June flood showed up in due form. It started to rain Monday the...

Thursday, June 12, 1913 Maj. W. J. Cackley has returned from the Confederate Veterans Reunion at Chattanooga, and reports a...

Thursday, June 7, 1923 In the season of 1922, sheep to the number of 135 were stolen from the Alleghany...

Thursday, May 31, 1923 Received of C. M. Elliott, of the Huntersville district, fourteen pieces of wampum on the 26th...

Thursday, May 24, 1923 The word came the other day that there had been another record made in marathon work,...

Thursday, May 17, 1923 A big snowstorm came to Pocahontas last Wednesday and Thursday, with unusually low temperatures. With the...