Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821 - 2021

Thursday, April 25, 1901 Main Street needs improving very badly. It has nice buildings on both sides and is really...

Thursday, April 18, 1901 Work has begun on a siding at Burnsides, the point nearest the village of Academy on...

Thursday, April 9, 1901 The snow of last week was a record breaker. Fifty years from now, the old men...

Thursday, April 4, 1901 STAMPING CREEK Stamping Creek has gone Democratic; all except Mrs. Fair Play, and the last we...

Thursday, March 28, 1901 One of the most eminent and popular literary characters of our time was Maurice Thompson, whose...

Thursday, March 21, 1901 Sixteen carloads of pulpwood passed Marlinton Friday. Some of the logs looked as though they might...

Thursday, March 14, 1901 DRIVING BEGINS Rain fell Saturday, and Sunday night there were violent thunderstorms, loud claps of thunder...

Thursday, March 7, 1901 Jeff Killingsworth & Co. has completed Richardson’s large building west of the bridge and a hardware...

Thursday, February 28, 1901 February 22, last Friday, was “bee day.” The beekeeper, in order to have luck with bees,...

Thursday, February 21, 1901 Last week, two gentlemen drove up to Frost and inquired if we had any road laws...

Thursday, February 14, 1901 SHOOTING AT DURBIN Mrs. Mary Young and John Taylor held for murder Tuesday last week, Geo....

Thursday, February 7, 1901 COUNTY SKETCHES THE FORGER Jonathan Harbrugh was about 40 years old when he signed Thomas Dunstable’s...

Thursday, January 31, 1901 On Tuesday evening, January 22, Queen Victoria passed quietly away, leaving a whole world in tears....

Thursday, January 24, 1901 THE UNIVERSITY Every two years the proud University officials get down on their knees to the...

Thursday, January 17, 1901 A man fell into the water tank last week and was hurt. He was at work...

Thursday, January 10, 1901 A new variety of bread is being introduced by our Hebrew housekeeper at Marlinton. It is...

Thursday, January 3, 1901 HIS THEORY Sometimes children show an instinctive sense of the finer relations of moral obligations that...

Thursday, December 28, 1900 Price Brothers, Editors Editors sometimes get into trouble when no trouble is dreamed of, as did...

Thursday, December 13, 1900 Snowden Hogsett, one of the Golden’s clerks has smallpox and is in the quarantine where he...

Thursday, December 7, 1900 There is no need of any panic about the smallpox. It does not amount to much...