75 Years Ago

Thursday, August 7, 1947 STATE SHEEP SHOW A big feature of the Pocahontas county Fair next week will be the...

Thursday, July 31, 1947 In a thirty-acre field of dead ripe wheat, a combine was harvesting. Following the combine was...

Thursday, July 24, 1947 FIELD NOTES Fred Shinaberry, of Hunt-ersville, brought in a silver half dime, coined in the year...

Thursday, July 17, 1947 From Pennsylvania Dear Editor – Not long since, I was starting in my mind to build...

Thursday, July 10, 1947 Loses Arm On Thursday, July 3, Michael Gibson, aged 13 years, lost an arm in an...

Thursday, July 2, 1947 Our Army and Navy Boys Kenneth P. Forren, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Forren,...

Thursday, June 26, 1947 VISITING The little Misses Currence, (Mary Jarvis, Nancy Ward and Louise) are spending the week with...

Thursday, June 19, 1947 WILLYUM’S LETTER Clarksburg Exponent Dear Cal; I got the idea maybe you should change the name...

Thursday, June 12,1947 BEAR KILLED Woodrow Kershner killed a big bear in the Knobs country, west of Jacox, on Monday...

Thursday, June 5, 1947 FIELD NOTES On last Saturday, Fred Galford was called to Elk, with his bear dogs, to...

Thursday, May 29, 1947 Miss Anna Thiede, now of Berlin, Germany, daughter of the late W. A. Thiede, of Marlinton,...

Thursday, May 22, 1947 EIGHTH GRADE GRADUATES Mt. Lebanon Randall Curry Cutlip, Richard Hill Cutlip, Robert Lowell Cutlip, Naomi Dean,...

Thursday, May 15, 1947 BEARS Oscar and Austin Sharp are raising themselves a pair of little bears under the rules...

Thursday, May 8, 1947 Private Elmer Arbogast is serving in the armed forces in Tokyo, Japan, with the 8th Engineer...

Thursday, May 1, 1947 WEDDING Curry-Workman Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Workman, of Huntersville, announce the marriage of their daughter,...

Thursday, April 24, 1947 Our Men in Service Private James Y. Pritchard, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Pritchard,...

Thursday, April 17, 1947 The past week, there have been in Pocahontas County a number of state trappers who have...

Thursday, April 10, 1947 FIELD NOTES Last Sunday, Charles Edward Hogsett, son of Mrs. Charles Hogsett, aged 11 years, of...

Thursday, April 3, 1947 Greenbank Girl Honored Miss Jeanne Sheets, a junior in Greenbank High School, was elected national vice-president...

Thursday, March 27, 1947 NEW DENTIST Dr. J. M. Mallow, of Petersburg, has opened a dentist office in the Rexrode...