Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821-2021
December 8, 1927
Game Notes
The other night some citizens of the Frost neighborhood were coming from Highland county. As they topped the Alleghany they noticed in the moonlight something coming down the path which follows...
Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821-2021
November 1927
Sherman Gibson, of Knapps Creek, grew over a thousand bushels of corn on nine acres of ground this year. This field, some years ago, was considered poor land, but through the judicious use...
Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821-2021
November 1927
Edgar Varner, who broke jail at Marlinton a few weeks ago, was shot and killed by an officer in Highland county last Wednesday, in resisting arrest. After Varner had broken jail, he stole...
Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821-2021
November 1927
Hunting is the order of the day. That phrase used to be a convention with the staff of Times writers. Forty years ago when we would write a piece for the paper, and...
Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821-2021
Thursday, November 14, 1927
Withrow McClintic saved and counted the beans from one stalk in his garden this season. The number was 1,393.
PANTHER
Editor, Pocahontas Times;
The more chapters I read of this Panther Story now appearing...
Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821-2021
Thursday, November 5, 1931
OLD GRIST MILLS
Under the caption “Our Old Grist Mills,” Charles Carpenter writes a piece for the November number of the West Virginia Review. He writes as follows about the McNeel mill...
Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821-2021
Thursday, May 28, 1925
THE BIG BEAR
Continued…
There was some fear that the old bear had moved out on Sunday, as the two hounds from the lumber camp had run a fox all around and through...
Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821-2021
May 28, 1925
The champion fish taken so far was caught by Gene Kinnison at Kinnison Station – a blue cat, 34 inches long, weighing 40 pounds. Jim Workman and Gene Kinnison cut a bee...