Fifty Years Ago in The Pocahontas Times

Thursday, February 27, 1969 Boys and Girls in Service Staff Sergeant Edward G. Rockafellow has been awarded the Air Force...

Thursday, February 20, 1969 Mother’s March ‘69 The efforts of the following mothers are much appreciated in the March of...

Thursday, February 13, 1969 The ice went out Friday after being jammed a week between Buckeye and Seebert. - -...

February 6, 1969 The groundhog certainly did not see his shadow here on Sunday. - - - The sleet storm...

January 30, 1969 Monongahela National Forest On December 20, 1968, the J. B. Belcher Lumber Company, of Kenova, was the...

Thursday, January 23, 1969 An audience of 1,000 appliance dealers and sales people, home-builders and contractors met in Clarksburg January...

Thursday, January 16, 1969 Great News A most welcome call came from the office of Senator Jennings Randolph last Friday...

Thursday, January 9, 1969 The ice broke up in the river on December 24. There is an old saying that...

Thursday, January 2, 1969 Boys in Service Richard Moore, U. S. Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Moore, was...

Additional articles from Thursday, December 19, 1968 Obituary of a Wise Old Buck Old Crooked Foot of Crooked Fork, born...

Thursday, December 19, 1968 Killed in Action Sergeant John Ray “Chipper” Williams, of the United States Army, died of wounds...

Thursday, December 12, 1968 Killed in Action Word was received last Friday that Sergeant John Ray “Chipper” Williams had been...

Thursday, December 5, 1968 Missing in Action Mrs. D. W. Williams was notified Tuesday morning that her son, John Ray...

Thursday, November 27, 1968 Eldridge McComb cut a white oak in Burr’s Valley last week, and the rings showed the...

Thursday, November 21, 1968 BEAR Richwood News Leader Editor Bronson McClung tells of Ed Buck’s encounter with a bear in...

Thursday, November 14, 1968 About four inches of soft wet snow Saturday, and then a heavy blanket Monday night from...

Thursday, November 7, 1968 A big pheasant flew through the glass in the front door at the home of Mrs....

Thursday, October 31, 1968 About an inch of snow accumulated on the mountains Friday night for the first snow. Someone...

Thursday, October 24, 1968 Mrs. Walls, of Seebert, found a hornet’s nest on her rose bush not over two feet...

Thursday, October 17, 1968 Someone brought in a big pullet egg last Wednesday while we were busy printing and no...