75 Years Ago

Thursday, May 31, 1948 FATAL SHOOTING Boyd Luther Gainer, aged 21, of Kerens, died in an Elkins hospital last Wednesday...

Thursday, May 27, 1948 Among the stores in Marlinton to be closed on Monday, May 31, for Memorial Day are...

Thursday, May 20, 1948 FIELD NOTES For several years now, Harry Whiting, of the Spruce Flat, has had a most...

Thursday, May 13, 1948 Golden Horseshoes The eighth-grade pupils from Pocahontas County winning Golden Horseshoes for proficiency in West Virginia...

Thursday, May 6, 1948   There is one habit which will do much toward making bad men good and good...

Thursday, April 29, 1948 Registered Voters Returns just completed in the County Clerk’s office give registered voters as 4,025 Democrats;...

Thursday, April 22, 1948 FIELD NOTES Again, for the sake of the record, let it be printed that the highest...

Thursday, April 15, 1948 Each year, I watch the surrounding hills for the first sign of the white flag of...

Thursday, April 8, 1948 The United States Army Transport, the John L. McCarley, is due at New York at the...

Thursday, April 1, 1948 You Can’t ‘Try’ Communism One important difference between the American Way of Life and the communistic...

Thursday, March 25, 1948 FIELD NOTES Grey K. Woods, of Dunmore, reports a good view of a magnificent bald eagle,...

Thursday, March 18, 1948 For fear of embarrassing our President Truman by subjecting him to undue pressure, I have consistently...

Thursday, March 8, 1948 MARLINTON HOMEMAKERS “Room Arrangement” was the subject of the lesson discussed under the leadership of Mrs....

Thursday, March 4, 1948 OLD VIOLIN My young friend, Layton R. Shelton, of Beard, reports the possession of an ancient...

Thursday, February 26, 1948 On last Thursday afternoon, an immense boulder broke loose from Kee’s Rock and rolled many hundred...

Thursday, February 19, 1948 Again, for the sake of the record, let it be put down that the ice broke...

Thursday, February 12, 1948 Again, for the sake of the record, let it be said that Monday of this week,...

Thursday, February 5, 1948 Eight and ten degrees below zero at Marlinton Tuesday morning. G. A. Hull came to town...

Thursday, January 29, 1948 Postmaster Kerth Nottingham has received notice from the Department that Spanish Prisoner Swindle letters are again...

Thursday, January 22, 1948 Eight and ten degrees be-low zero in Marlinton Monday morning, with tempera- ture as cold as...