Seventy-Five Years Ago
Thursday, May 31, 1948 FATAL SHOOTING Boyd Luther Gainer, aged 21, of Kerens, died in an Elkins hospital last Wednesday...
Read moreThursday, May 31, 1948 FATAL SHOOTING Boyd Luther Gainer, aged 21, of Kerens, died in an Elkins hospital last Wednesday...
Read moreThursday, May 27, 1948 Among the stores in Marlinton to be closed on Monday, May 31, for Memorial Day are...
Read moreThursday, May 20, 1948 FIELD NOTES For several years now, Harry Whiting, of the Spruce Flat, has had a most...
Read moreThursday, May 13, 1948 Golden Horseshoes The eighth-grade pupils from Pocahontas County winning Golden Horseshoes for proficiency in West Virginia...
Read moreThursday, May 6, 1948 There is one habit which will do much toward making bad men good and good...
Read moreThursday, April 29, 1948 Registered Voters Returns just completed in the County Clerk’s office give registered voters as 4,025 Democrats;...
Read moreThursday, April 22, 1948 FIELD NOTES Again, for the sake of the record, let it be printed that the highest...
Read moreThursday, April 15, 1948 Each year, I watch the surrounding hills for the first sign of the white flag of...
Read moreThursday, April 8, 1948 The United States Army Transport, the John L. McCarley, is due at New York at the...
Read moreThursday, April 1, 1948 You Can’t ‘Try’ Communism One important difference between the American Way of Life and the communistic...
Read moreThursday, March 25, 1948 FIELD NOTES Grey K. Woods, of Dunmore, reports a good view of a magnificent bald eagle,...
Read moreThursday, March 18, 1948 For fear of embarrassing our President Truman by subjecting him to undue pressure, I have consistently...
Read moreThursday, March 8, 1948 MARLINTON HOMEMAKERS “Room Arrangement” was the subject of the lesson discussed under the leadership of Mrs....
Read moreThursday, March 4, 1948 OLD VIOLIN My young friend, Layton R. Shelton, of Beard, reports the possession of an ancient...
Read moreThursday, February 26, 1948 On last Thursday afternoon, an immense boulder broke loose from Kee’s Rock and rolled many hundred...
Read moreThursday, February 19, 1948 Again, for the sake of the record, let it be put down that the ice broke...
Read moreThursday, February 12, 1948 Again, for the sake of the record, let it be said that Monday of this week,...
Read moreThursday, February 5, 1948 Eight and ten degrees below zero at Marlinton Tuesday morning. G. A. Hull came to town...
Read moreThursday, January 29, 1948 Postmaster Kerth Nottingham has received notice from the Department that Spanish Prisoner Swindle letters are again...
Read moreThursday, January 22, 1948 Eight and ten degrees be-low zero in Marlinton Monday morning, with tempera- ture as cold as...
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