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Fifty Years Ago
Thursday, October 17, 1968
Someone brought in a big pullet egg last Wednesday while we were busy printing and no one can remember who it was. However, the egg, laid by a five-month old pullet,...
Fifty Years Ago
Thursday, October 10, 1968
Work is progressing on a new home for Mr. and Mrs. Dharl Dever below Marvin Chapel Church.
Rev. and Mrs. Carl E. Boggs spent the weekend in Beckley. They were accompanied by...
Fifty Years Ago
Thursday, October 3, 1968
The Lewis Oak stump came tumbling down over the weekend. The tree died and was cut to about a ten-foot stump in the 30s; this was capped and filled with cement....
Fifty Years Ago
Thursday, September 27, 1968
Six yearling heifers belonging to John Wimer, near Hillsboro, were found dead Friday and it is believed they were shot.
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A car, belonging to William Hylton, of White Sulphur Springs,...
Fifty Years Ago
Thursday, September 19, 1968
Wounded in Action
Sp-4 Joel S. Callison was wounded August 22 in Viet Nam, receiving a grenade shrapnel wound in the left shoulder. He is recovering satisfactorily in the 91st Evacuation hospital...
Fifty Years Ago
Thursday, September 12, 1968
Mrs. Gerald McNeill, of the Hill Top Grocery, came in with this worm-like thing that stretched out to six inches. It was distinctly marked with stripes and antennae like a snail....
Fifty Years Ago
Thursday, September 5, 1968
Pulpyard to Open
John F. L. Bell, Wood Procurement Forester for the Covington mill of the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, has announced that the Company plans to re-open their Marlinton...
Fifty Years Ago
Thursday, August 22, 1968
The Buckeye Schoolhouse and lot were sold Saturday to Carl Gladwell for $1,400. No bid was received on the Marlinton school.
The Marlinton grades will be housed in the first floor of...