Thursday, August 8, 1974
Foodland Store
Worlledge Construction Company broke ground Monday for a building to house the Pocahontas Foodland, Inc. This new corporation was formed by Denzil Totten and Charles Fisher, and they will open a Foodland Store as soon as possible, probably in about three or four months. The building will be built by Fred Burns, Sr., and leased for the Foodland Store. It will be a steel building with 8,000 square feet of floor space.
Denzil Totten has been employed 22 years by the A & P Store in Marlinton. Mr. Fisher, formerly of Summersville, has been working for Smith’s Transfer Company. He and his wife, the former Mary Margie Kra-mer, live below Buckeye on the Kramer Farm, which they recently purchased.
WEATHER
Minimum temperature: 33 degrees.
Maximum temperature: 89 degrees
Average high temperature: 81.1
ABOUT THOSE SNAKES
Shades of the tradition of The Pocahontas Times, champion of conservation, and educator in ecology, long, long before the words became a part of the national vocabulary. My most interesting education in this was from the Field Notes of The Pocahontas Times; I used a scrap book of your father’s Field Notes for a class my first year of college in 1939…
I don’t know Peter Hauer, but that was a really fine letter about black snakes; I saw one today and for the first time in my life, I looked at a snake as a graceful, non-frightening creature.
Now, I would like for the good old Times to help get me educated even more on snakes. Last summer, West Virginia hill girl that I grew up as, I had my first encounter with a real live out in the open rattlesnake. The rather large snake made no aggressive move at all. I felt torn between a feeling of obligation to kill it as a dangerous creature, and wanting to let it alone. I had no weapons or instruments, so did not try.
I recently did the leg work for a sister buying an old farm which had been used as a camp by a hunting family. The wife told me she had shot six blacksnakes on the place (against her husband’s wishes). One apparently had been catching mice and starlings in a porch loft of the rarely used house. I was appalled at her shooting her own very best rat trap… ~ Virginia Steele
BIRTH
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Grimes, a son, named Randall Allan.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Beverage, of Marlinton, a son, named Johnnie Steve, Jr.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Workman, of Hillsboro, a daughter, named Amy Ellen.
DEATHS
Mrs. Hannah Jennie Heckler, 60, of Marlinton; funeral from the Big Spring Presbyterian Church with burial in the Gibson Cemetery.
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John Randolph (Bull Dog) Kenney, 66, of Pontiac, Michigan. Born at Marlinton, a son of the late John L. and Carrie Mundy Kenney. A veteran of World War II, having served with the U. S. Navy as a hospital corpsman. Burial in Perry Memorial Park in Pontiac.
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Mrs. Hulda Flerenda Huffman, 63, of Ravenna, Ohio; born at Mill Point, a daughter of the late John Coleman and Almanda Sturgel Coleman. Burial in Maple Grove Cemetery in Ravenna.
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Keith Allen Starks, age 14, died from accidental drowning. He was laid to rest in the Garden of Faith Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was a son of Jerry and Carol Starks, and grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Fenton Shue and Mrs. Neva Starks, of Droop.