Fifty Years Ago in The Pocahontas Times

Thursday, January 4, 1973 The following incident is an example of what invariably happens when you start to tell a...

Thursday, December 21, 1972 Winter arrived a few days early with a sudden drop in the temperature from the 40s...

Thursday, December 14, 1972 Around the County By Beth Barrell I thought I would write about the November meeting of...

Thursday, December 7, 1972 Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Cochran, of Hillsboro, had as Thanksgiving guests, Alice Cochran Laube and sons,...

Thursday, November 30, 1972 DEER HUNTERS Wayne Jackson decided he wouldn’t go deer hunting this year, but his son finally...

Thursday, November 23, 1972 Mrs. Nowlin Sheets, of Huntersville, said they have checked 54 turkeys and one deer with a...

Thursday, November 16, 1972 Dandelions and forsythia are blooming, grass is growing and June McCloud says he saw three ground...

Thursday, November 9, 1972 Children are at play in the small park by the bridge, close to the hospital in...

Thursday, November 2, 1972 Hulett Dolan, of Buckeye, stopped by the Times office Thursday to show us the big turkey...

Thursday, October 26, 1972 Sue Hollandsworth has been appointed Justice of the Peace for Edray District. Harvey Galford did not...

Thursday, October 19, 1972 Saturday was birthday time and here comes a beautiful flower arrangement – and do you know...

Thursday, October 11, 1972 Ted McPaters has purchased Brill’s Esso Servicenter from the heirs of Mrs. Lura Brill. Ted has...

Thursday, October 5, 1972 A few reports on wooly worms that make it look like a mild winter. Mrs. Shannon...

Thursday, September 28, 1972 September 25, 1972, marks the 240th anniversary of the landing of the Waybright families in America....

Thursday, September 21, 1972 Homecoming Miss June Starks, daughter of Mrs. Neva Starks, of Droop, will reign as Homecoming Queen...

Thursday, September 14, 1972 Neal Baxter reported 38 on Williams River last Wednesday morning. - - - A huge rock...

Thursday, September 7, 1972 Monk Small was senging last Wednesday and got two big yellow rattlesnakes and into two big...

Thursday, August 31, 1972 Our Army and Navy Boys Marion Max Kirkpatrick, fireman, second class, son of Mr. and Mrs....

Thursday, August 24, 1972 Clarence Davis went to feed his hogs Thursday afternoon; right by the pen was a mighty...

Thursday, August 17, 1972 My mind runs back to when I was a small boy, down on Loop Creek, when...