75 Years Ago

Thursday, November 24, 1949 TOO MUCH Drink costs the American people too much. It causes too many alcoholics – hundreds...

Thursday, November 17, 1949 Against my advice and without my consent, the Town Council of Marlinton, by a divided vote,...

Thursday, November 10, 1949 ANOTHER SCORPION Dear Editor; Reading your article in the November 3, issues of The Pocahontas Times,...

Thursday, November 3, 1949 HUNTING ACCIDENT Wallace Underwood, aged 15 years, lost his left hand in a hunting accident Monday...

Thursday, October 29, 1949 BEARS Carl and Keith Wooddell and some of the neighbors on Elk killed about the biggest...

Thursday, October 22, 1949 STARTING UP The Marlinton Tannery began laying hides last Friday after two weeks slacking off. The...

Thursday, October 14, 1949 No Sunday Movies Yet At a continued meeting of the Town Council Monday night, the matter...

Thursday, October 6, 1949 Sunday Movie Agitated Again At the Town Council on Monday night, all unbeknown to us all,...

Thursday, September 29, 1949 Weston – Top winner in the State 4-H Sheep Shearing contest was Moffet McNeel, Jr., of...

Thursday, September 22, 1949 This week, French Johnson and Lanty Gilmore will be getting their steel house ready for their...

Thursday, September 15, 1949 FROSTS Frosts and even freezes were here in our county last week. Not much damage as...

Thursday, September 8, 1949 LEGAL HOLIDAYS As this is written on a Friday morning, it is proper to put down...

Thursday, September 1, 1949 PHYSICIAN HURT Durbin – On last Tuesday night, Dr. George F. Hull suffered serious injuries when...

Thursday, August 25, 1949 Some weeks since, this paper copied an item from the 50 years ago notes of the...

Thursday, August 18, 1949 PERSONAL NOTES Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bob Meadows have returned from a wedding trip to Niagara...

Thursday, August 11, 1949 FIELD NOTES This being dog days, it is the time when rattlesnakes do their traveling around....

Thursday, August 4, 1949 Last week the trip was over to Jackson Mill, to commingle with fellows of my printing...

Thursday, July 26, 1949 Friend of the family, John Buckley, of the Buckleys at the mouth of Swago since 1773,...

Thursday, July 21, 1949 Bernard Rose was laid off from work recently by injuries received on a sawmill. To be...

Thursday, July 10, 1949 You know how it is with a mule – he will patiently wait years to even...