Seventy-Five Years Ago
Thursday, October 29, 1949 BEARS Carl and Keith Wooddell and some of the neighbors on Elk killed about the biggest...
Read moreThursday, October 29, 1949 BEARS Carl and Keith Wooddell and some of the neighbors on Elk killed about the biggest...
Read moreThursday, October 22, 1949 STARTING UP The Marlinton Tannery began laying hides last Friday after two weeks slacking off. The...
Read moreThursday, October 14, 1949 No Sunday Movies Yet At a continued meeting of the Town Council Monday night, the matter...
Read moreThursday, October 6, 1949 Sunday Movie Agitated Again At the Town Council on Monday night, all unbeknown to us all,...
Read moreThursday, September 29, 1949 Weston – Top winner in the State 4-H Sheep Shearing contest was Moffet McNeel, Jr., of...
Read moreThursday, September 22, 1949 This week, French Johnson and Lanty Gilmore will be getting their steel house ready for their...
Read moreThursday, September 15, 1949 FROSTS Frosts and even freezes were here in our county last week. Not much damage as...
Read moreThursday, September 8, 1949 LEGAL HOLIDAYS As this is written on a Friday morning, it is proper to put down...
Read moreThursday, September 1, 1949 PHYSICIAN HURT Durbin – On last Tuesday night, Dr. George F. Hull suffered serious injuries when...
Read moreThursday, August 25, 1949 Some weeks since, this paper copied an item from the 50 years ago notes of the...
Read moreThursday, August 18, 1949 PERSONAL NOTES Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bob Meadows have returned from a wedding trip to Niagara...
Read moreThursday, August 11, 1949 FIELD NOTES This being dog days, it is the time when rattlesnakes do their traveling around....
Read moreThursday, August 4, 1949 Last week the trip was over to Jackson Mill, to commingle with fellows of my printing...
Read moreThursday, July 26, 1949 Friend of the family, John Buckley, of the Buckleys at the mouth of Swago since 1773,...
Read moreThursday, July 21, 1949 Bernard Rose was laid off from work recently by injuries received on a sawmill. To be...
Read moreThursday, July 10, 1949 You know how it is with a mule – he will patiently wait years to even...
Read moreThursday, July 7, 1949 Pioneer Conference Those in attendance at the Pioneer Group Conference of Greenbrier Presbytery from Marlinton this...
Read moreThursday, June 30, 1949 Canada Fishing Trip Charles A. Sharp and James D. Davis have returned from a fishing trip...
Read moreThursday, June 22, 1949 The old settlers’ refuge of the Greenbank community back in Indian times was Warwick’s Fort at...
Read moreThursday, June 15, 1949 COMING HOME Word has been received by Mrs. Eleanor Howard McNeill that the body of her...
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