Fifty Years Ago in The Pocahontas Times

Thursday, April 22, 1976 PANTHER “If only Cal Price was alive,” is what everyone has been saying since Sunday afternoon...

Thursday, April 25, 1976 MARLINTON TOWN COUNCIL The sewer treatment system has been operating three weeks, and the Department of...

Thursday, April 8, 1976 Charles Benjamin Cromer Charley B. Cromer, of Durbin, will be 91 years of age April 5....

Thursday, April 1, 1976 On March 26, a four-foot blacksnake mysteriously got into the back of a pickup truck owned...

Thursday, March 25, 1976 Ham and Bacon Show and Sale Lowell Galford, a Pocahontas 4-H member had the Grand Champion...

Thursday, March 18, 1976 50th Anniversary March 13, 1976 marks the 50th Wedding Anniversary for Mr. and Mrs. Roy VanReenen,...

Thursday, March 12, 1976 MATH FIELD DAY 125 students, numerous teachers and many helpers from Pocahontas County High School participated...

Thursday, March 5, 1976 March came in like a lamb. February closed with unusual temperatures in the high 60s. Colt’s...

Thursday, February 26, 1976 SNOWSHOE Snowshoe had six or seven inches of new snow Sunday, and the skiing has been...

Thursday, February 19, 1976 ARKANSAS GEMS Those darlings of the basketball court, the world famous “Arkansas Gems,” are heading this...

Thursday, February 12, 1976 1927 BEAR HUNT A big Allegheny Mountain sheep killing bear measured eight feet and more from...

Thursday, February 5, 1976 GROUNDHOG DAY Not a cloud in the sky on Monday, February 2, so there is no...

Thursday, January 29, 1975 IT’S FUN TO REMEMBER I remember when Howard McElwee was jailor at Marlinton. He let me...

Thursday, January 22, 1976 Monday was c-c-cold. The report is 27 degrees below on one thermometer and 30 below on...

Thursday, January 15, 1975 Last week’s reminiscing was centered on the smokestack and wasn’t intended to be a complete story...

Thursday, January 8, 1975 BLOW THE STACK It was learned last week that the Martin Explosive Corporation, of California, will...

Thursday, January 1, 1976 The ice in the Greenbrier and Knapps Creek went out Friday, December 26. SNOWSHOE Snowshoe opened...

Thursday, December 18, 1975 4-H OFFICERS MEET Four-H members, representing six 4-H clubs in Pocahontas County attended the officers’ training...

Thursday, December 11, 1975 Fred and Hazel Sherbs honored us with a Christmas greeting in the form of a cherry...

Thursday, December 4, 1975 END OF TRAGEDY A skeleton hanging high in a tree was found Thanksgiving afternoon and apparently...