Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821 - 2021

Thursday, January 29, 1897 THE HUNGRY PUBLIC clamors for more news. “Draw on your imagination!” they say. We wish the...

Thursday, January 22, 1897 THE HOLLANDERS who settled New York are well-known to our school children. Miles Standish, the Mayflower...

Thursday, January 15, 1897 LAST FRIDAY, January 8, was Andrew Jackson Day, in commemoration of his signal victory over the...

Thursday, January 7, 1897 IS THE general character of our climate on this planet changing? Neither summer nor winter seem...

Thursday, January 1, 1897 A case of litigation between J. J. McLaughlin and H. W. Bowling, of Summers County, promises...

Thursday, December 20, 1895 A SIDEWALK from the bridge to the courthouse is assured. The Development Company very generously gives...

Thursday, December 13, 1895 “My county, ‘tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing. Land where my...

Friday, December 6, 1895 THE melancholy days have come, The saddest of the year; Of freeze and sneeze and shaking...

Thursday, November 29, 1895 FIFTY men in these United States have it in their power, by reason of the wealth...

November 22, 1895 MESSRS. Austin Lightner and James Carpenter found a bushel and a half of choice hickory nuts stored...

November 1895 ONE of the most unfortunate events of recent occurrence is the fire that laid waste to so much...

Thursday, November 1, 1895   I LOATHE, abhor, detest, despise, Abominable dried apple pies. I like good bread, I like...

The Pocahontas Times October, 1895 Andrew Price, Editor It has been objected to the bicycle that it injures morals by...

The Pocahontas Times Mr. Andrew Price, Editor September 1895 The present month of September is one of the hottest on...

The Pocahontas Times John E. Campbell, Editor and Proprietor Huntersville, W. Va. October 1891 At a county court of the...

The Pocahontas Times John E. Campbell, Editor and Proprietor June 1892 The brilliant mischief of one’s own children is outright...

The Pocahontas Times John E. Campbell, Editor and Proprietor Huntersville, West Virginia Terms of Subscription: $1.00 per year April 1891...

The Pocahontas Times December 1890 SMALLPOX “The coward suffers a thousand deaths” is a saying as old as the hills....

Thursday, September 24, 1891 A CORRESPONDENT writing to us from Pocahontas county says, “Old Pocahontas has begun to come to...

The Pocahontas Times March 1891 At a County Court continued and held for the County of Pocahontas at the Courthouse...