100 Years Ago

Thursday, August 19, 1920 Word was received on Monday that Chauncey Goodwyn had been killed in a mill in Pennsylvania....

Thursday, August 12, 1920 Thomas J. Doyle, a disabled soldier, is opening a vulcanizing and retreading shop for the repairing...

Thursday, August 5, 1920 Andy Hefner, of the Levels, suffered a badly broken leg by being kicked by a horse...

Thursday, July 29, 1920 The body of Sergeant Lloyd Buzzard arrived from overseas and was brought to Marlinton on Wednesday....

Thursday, July 22, 1920 Holmes Sharp and Si Bowers came to Marlinton last Friday and surrendered and were admitted to...

Thursday, July 15, 1920 A report issued today by the Rev. W. A. Snow, general secretary of the West Virginia...

Thursday, July 8, 1920   Constable Frank Ashford brought two prisoners to jail on Tuesday morning from Squire Hudson’s court...

Thursday, July 1, 1920 People who give the square deal to the lower animals will be all the more likely...

Thursday, June 24, 1920   A gigantic sang root was found on Thorny Creek Mountain. It was 16 inches long...

Thursday, June 17, 1920 Raleigh county did Pocahontas an honor when it entrusted the trial of one of its citizens...

Thursday, June 10, 1920 The Eighteenth Amendment to the constitution has never been accepted cheerfully by all the people. If...

Thursday, June 3, 1920 The frame warehouse of Williams & Pifer Lumber Co. is being torn down to be replaced...

Thursday, May 27, 1920 The clean up Marlinton effort by the Board of Trade on Monday was a great success....

Thursday, May 20, 1920 In the first seventeen days of May, there were fifteen frosts. A number of mornings last...

Thursday, May 13, 1920 Mrs. Mary McGraw, of Grafton, mother of the late John T. McGraw, died last Saturday, aged...

Thursday, May 6, 1920 Last Thursday night, the mighty southbound train out of New York thundered through the night, and...

Thursday, April 29, 1920 It turned out to be a pretty fair sugar year after all, and a lot of...

Thursday, April 22, 1920 It is hard for a poor candidate to keep unspotted from the World. Having nothing else...

Thursday, April 22, 1920 It may be that each year brings less summer cheer, and that is to be expected,...

Thursday, April 8, 1920 The famous Wm. H. Sawyers, of Hinton, writes to the West Virginia News, the suffrage question...