Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821 - 2021

Thursday, May 27, 1898 It has been so long since there was a well authenticated case of a panther being...

Thursday, May 20, 1898 MARLINTON should form a spectacle club. Only those who wear spectacles should be allowed to join....

Thursday, May 13, 1898 The great Manilla naval engagement took place Sunday, May 1, and it was not until Sunday,...

Thursday, May 6, 1898 ONE THING is certain, war is on. It is difficult for us, at this distance from...

Thursday, April 29, 1898 TALK OF WAR WHILE THE American army is campaigning in Cuba, every soldier will be required...

Thursday, April 22, 1898 A BAND of Gypsies passed through Marlinton Monday and camped at the mouth of Stony Creek....

Thursday, April 15, 1898 DRS. CUNNINGHAM and Price went to Buckeye Tuesday to amputate Mrs. Jonathan McNeil’s arm. She is...

Thursday, April 8, 1898 COL. LEVI GAY brought his cattle home from Rockbridge the other day. He will continue to...

Thursday, April 1, 1898 NEW YORK NEWSLETTER Pearl Eytinge, the actress, has gone crazy through the excessive use of morphine....

Thursday, March 25, 1898 A YOUNG preacher of the county who was about to start for Conference, is said to...

Thursday, March 18, 1898 MISS HATTIE PATTERSON was thrown from a horse near Edray last Sunday, and rather severely injured....

Thursday, March 11, 1898 LAST Wednesday, the heaviest snow of the winter fell. The trees on Black Mountain had been...

Thursday, March 4, 1898 FIVE YEARS pass away, an eventful five to that part of the world branded as Marlinton....

Thursday, February 25, 1898 HENRY GRADY said of the demon, liquor: “It is the moral enemy of peace and order,...

Thursday, February 18, 1898 THREE riders raced on the broad highway – The devil, a woman, a man – And,...

Thursday, February 11, 1898 SEVERAL persons were trying to locate the direction of Cuba the other day. They all agreed...

Thursday, February 4, 1898 TEN degrees below zero Wednesday morning at Marlinton. - - - IT IS intended by the...

Thursday, January 28, 1898 A STRANGE rig struck Marlinton last Tuesday. It seemed to be a little cabin built on...

Thursday, January 21, 1898 THE report was prevalent here last Monday, that immediate preparations were being made to move the...

Thursday, January 14, 1897 MR. LEE BURNER, of Travelers Repose, can say as the patient man of the Bible once...