Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821 - 2021

Thursday, August 13, 1897 NEAR THE road on the farm of Mr. Tom Callison at Locust, may be seen the...

Thursday, August 6, 1897 THERE SEEMS to be sorrow in the Mingo County jail over the escape of the notorious...

Thursday, July 30, 1897 A SINGULAR phenomenon is interesting the people of upper Elk. Last Saturday the water below Gibson’s...

Thursday, July 21, 1897 MR. J. J. BEARD, of Huntersville, has in his possession a Bible with marginal references that...

Thursday, July 14, 1897 MRS. Jane Simmons, relict of the late John Simmons, is living with her son, Robert, at...

Thursday, July 9, 1897 A Metamorphosis Oh, he preached it from the housetops, And he whispered it by stealth; He...

Thursday, July 2, 1897 BIOGRAPHIC NOTES William Auldridge, Senior, the ancestor and founder of the family relationship of that name...

Thursday, June 25, 1897 From what Mr. C. P. Jones, of Monterey, Va., said while at court last week in...

June 18, 1897 THE DELINQUENT tax list of Monongalia county shows a total of only 160 names. The list recently...

Thursday, June 11, 1897 THE EARTHQUAKE is said to be causing trouble in Giles County. The mountain in which a...

Thursday, June 4, 1897 MRS SUSAN HOUDYSCHELL, who was arrested as accessory to the Frost burglary for concealing stolen goods,...

Thursday, May 28, 1897 A WIFE-BEATER at Centreville, Maryland, was sentenced to receive fifteen lashes on the bare back at...

Thursday, May 21, 1897 HIGH WATER INFORMATION Last Thursday morning found the town of Marlinton humid, and the inhabitants in...

Thursday, May 13, 1897 CUBA and Spain are still at it. Spain can never vanquish these brave Cubans. It is...

Thursday, May 7, 1897 Now comes the gladdest month of the whole year. May is the month of the apple...

Thursday, April 30, 1897 GEROGE W. ROBERTS, who is in jail charged with cutting his wife with intent to kill,...

Thursday, April 23, 1897 THE EASTER storm came as usual as a kind of judgment on the pride evinced in...

Thursday, April 16, 1897 THE WEEKLY LETTER Continued… Having duly recorded the names of points of interest on the river,...

Thursday, April 9, 1897 APRIL, derived from the Latin word aperio – to open. With the coming of April, Mother...

Thursday, April 2, 1897   THE RECENT stand tak-en by King George to defend the Christians of Crete against Turkish...