Fifty Years Ago
Thursday, June 27, 1968
Jack Smith got two ripe tomatoes from his garden on June 24, one day later than last year. Jack is usually first with tomatoes, but we want to hear if anybody...
Fifty Years Ago
Thursday, June 20, 1968
Pioneer Days
Now is the time to start preparing for the Pioneer Days Parade. In these times of rockets going to the moon, it is interesting and worthwhile to show the youngsters...
Fifty Years Ago
Thursday, June 13, 1968
Lightning struck twice in Marlinton Tuesday afternoon, hitting the Marlinton Hotel around the chimney, knocking a little plaster loose, with smoke but no fire, and knocking Tom Long from the bathroom...
Fifty Years Ago
Thursday, June 6, 1968
Last Friday, four canoes and a kayak carried a National Geographic expedition of ten men down the Greenbrier, starting from Marlinton about 8:30. The group was from Ohio and Washington.
Green Bank...
Fifty Years Ago
Thursday, May 30, 1968
Hominy Falls
When we went to hear Junior Moore tell of his harrowing experience underground, he was soaking his feet to relieve the arthritis all six men had developed. Otherwise, he looked...
Fifty Years Ago
Thursday, May 23, 1968
Hominy Falls
John Moore, Jr., of Buckeye, and Joe Fitzwater, of Rupert, were two of six men who miraculously survived the mine disaster at Hominy Falls and were brought out last Thursday....
Fifty Years Ago
Thursday, May 17, 1968
Killed in Action
George W. Darnell, 26, was killed in Viet Nam on Thursday, May 9, 1968. He is the son of Mrs. Carrie Darnell, now of Warren, Ohio, and the late...
Fifty Years Ago
Thursday, May 9, 1968
Mine Accident
John Moore, Jr., of Buckeye, was one of twenty-five men trapped in a Gauley Coal and Coke Mine at Hominy Falls, Nicholas County, Monday when miners broke through a wall...