100 Years Ago

Thursday, August 18, 1922 Prof. Amos L. Herold, head of the English Department of Bucknell University, is at Columbia University...

Thursday, August 10, 1922 While on Knapps Creek last week, county agent Willey got an old bear trap from Hon....

Thursday, August 3, 1922   The far-famed “Belled” buzzard, claimed by pioneer residents to be more than one hundred years...

The Pocahontas Times didn’t publish the week of July 27, 1922 ~ so, will take a look back to July...

Thursday, July 20, 1922 Socrates remarked: Wo-man, once made equal to man, becometh his superior. Moses was a wise man....

Thursday, July 13, 1922   Mrs. Margaret Barlow is visiting at the home of Mrs. Wallace McLaughlin on Browns Creek....

Thursday, July 6, 1922 In the first place, I would take up with you a literary dilemma in regard to...

Thursday, June 29, 1922 Next Sunday is the day set apart by the Governor of West Virginia for the people...

Thursday, June 22, 1922 I have heretofore remarked in this presence that our family are great walkers. It is under...

June 15, 1922 At the June term of the circuit court, the most interesting case put on the stage was...

LAST WEEK’S 100 years ago column mentioned a churn designed and patented by Henry Poage, of Mill Point. Thanks to Patty Tripplett,...

Thursday, June 1, 1922 Locally, the news of the week was that the moon changed with the sign in the...

Thursday, May 25, 1922 A.C. Barlow has a bunch of tractors and thirty or forty men at work making the...

Thursday, May 18, 1922   Attendance at the Marlinton Methodist Sunday School last Sunday was 224, which was 22 more...

Thursday, May 11, 1922 A herd o’forty fat sheep, guarded and urged forward by a huge sheep dog, returned to...

Thursday, May 4, 1922 Government surveyors were in the Sinks last week running some lines on land that has been...

Thursday, April 27, 1922 There has been a lot of moonshining going on on Elk. Some men are too lazy...

Thursday, April 20, 1922 Last week, we reviewed the case of Roy Houchin and the killing that followed a pleasant...

Thursday, April 3, 1922 We have never seen such an unhappy example of the effects of liquor than was developed...

Thursday, April 6, 1922 SITLINGTON They are dragging the Sitlington Dunmore road, dragging the mud up so the first rain...