Thursday,
October 28, 1965
Big Pumpkin!
A yellow sweet pumpkin is on display at C. J. Richardson’s Hardware Store. It weighs 85 pounds and was raised by Oren Nelson, Marlinton, Route 1. This seems to be about the largest ever raised around here.
Punt, Pass and
Kick Winners
Age 8
First – Keith Burgess, Buckeye; second – Eddie Vaughan, Hillsboro; third, Martin Carr, Marlinton.
Age 9
First – Bobby Long, Buckeye; second – Gary Sharp, Clover Lick; third – Kenny Burgess, Buckeye.
Age 10
First – Kenneth Kellison, Marlinton; second – Thomas Moore, Marlinton, (Melvin’s son); third – Thomas Moore, Marlinton, (Tom’s son).
Age 11
First – Roger Sharp, Clover Lick; second – David Cain, Marlinton; third – Terry Richardson, Marlinton.
Age 12
First – Tommy Workman, Hillsboro; second – Johnny Baxter, Clover Lick; third – Frankie Long, Buckeye.
Age 13
First – Russell Dunbrack, Marlinton; second – Ray Taylor, Dunmore; third, Roy Taylor, Dunmore.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. William Lee Keene, of Renick, a son, named William Darian.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Hamrick, of Hunt-ersville, a son.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Russell D. Jessee, Jr., of Atlanta, Georgia, a son, named Christopher Edmund.
DEATHS
Timothy Earl Workman, age six, of Stony Bottom; burial in the Wanless Cemetery on Back Mountain.
Alonzo D. Evan, 73, of Monongahela, Pennsylvania, formerly of Buckeye; a son of the late William and Amanda Wood Evans.