Thursday, August 5, 1976
INDIAN DANCING COMPETITION
Buckskin Scout Reservation will have Statewide Indian Dancing Competition Saturday night.
The dances will be held in the center of the open field near the Trading Post, easily accessible.
See team dancing and individual dancing, old style, straight dancing, Oklahoma, Southern, feather dancing. There will be costume awards.
There will be about 200 Scouts attending the EC-6B Conclave.
Those attending the competition will come from Bluefield, Wheeling, Huntington, Parkersburg, Fairmont, Clarksburg, Buckhannon, Charleston, and other places around the state.
There will also be social dancing and other entertainment.
All day Saturday, there will be displays of Indian costumes, ceremonial dress, war bonnets, pictures of various tribal members, etc.
APPROACHING WEDDING
Mr. and Mrs. Hunter Hiner, of Marlinton, announce the approaching marriage of their daughter, Lynette Kay, to Michael Linn Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Anderson, of Marlinton.
REMINISCING
Hi, this is Frank Colson, Tony’s older brother, sons of Louis and Lena Colson.
Jane, when I get your newspaper, The Pocahontas Times, and read up on those tales of the past that many people remember and are telling you about, it brings back memories, tears to my eyes and sadness to my heart, Ah, where have all the years gone?
It’s been so long ago that my memory is fading away of my wonderful childhood days in Marlinton. I guess those young years are the most wonderful and important years of our lives.
I remember faintly of going to grade school across the street from my house on Court Street near the Metho-dist Church…
I remember several times a group of us kids would go to Stillwell on Sunday with sling shots (gravel shooters is what we called them) and battle with the kids from Stillwell. That’s when the old sawmill was located there, they used to have stacks or piles of lumber about twenty feet high with small rail tracks running out to the end. We would spend all day running, jumping, playing hide and seek and battling a Stillwell gang.
Jim McGraw would probably remember about those good old days. I spent many a day picking blackberries, hunting lizards, sassafras roots or fishing up and down Knapps Creek with Jim. I felt like Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer with Jim when we did things together. The truth is we used to make Jim McGraw bat left-handed when we played baseball because he was so much better than the rest of us.
In winter we would sled ride on Stillwell Road. We would come shooting down the road with our homemade chargers out onto Knapps Creek which would be frozen over…
In the fall, we hunted chestnuts on the hill back of the courthouse. They were the best in the world. Black Walnuts were everywhere. We were like squirrels, getting ourselves a big supply of them for winter. Our hands would be dark brown with stain, but what mattered? It was fun and we were young…
There are so many things to remember – a quiet peaceful evening of relaxation at Wilbur Sharp’s Pool Room or having a coke at Harry A. Sharp’s when Tony worked there. …
You know, Jane, if we could turn back the pages of time and live our lives over again. All those things make Marlinton the world’s most wonderful “little country” within a country in the U. S. A.
The people of Marlinton – you will never find those wonderful people anywhere else in the world. They are all heart, friendly and interesting. I am grateful to all of them. They all made Tony, Father, Mother and me feel like one of them, even though we were Italians. We were treated with respect and kindness, and I love them all for that.
Tony feels the same way, although he lives in Florida, his heart is in West Virginia. I told my wife, when I die, to ship my body back home to West Virginia…
DEATHS
Jimmy Varner, 14, of Durbin, a son of Lawrence and Lennie Varner. Funeral service from the Durbin Church of God with burial in the Bethel Cemetery at Durbin.
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Judy Lynn Sheets Moore, 22, of Marlinton, died in a car accident July 31, 1976. She was a daughter of Clarence C. and Wanda Jackson Sheets. Funeral service from VanReenen Funeral Home with burial in Mountain View Cemetery.
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Joseph Cassell, 75, of Cass, a lifelong resident of Pocahontas County and a retired employee of the C & O Railroad.
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Lemuel Hoover, 76, of Langhorne, Pennsylvania, a former resident of Marlinton. Born at Dunmore, a son of George and Lucy Curry Hoover. Funeral from VanReenen Funeral Home with burial in Mt. View Cemetery.
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Annie Crickard Swecker, 67, of Valley Head, born at Mingo, a daughter of the late John R. and Alberta Bell Crickard. She was the widow of Orion Swecker.
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Ulric W. Grimes, 85, of Rainelle; born at Lobelia, a son of the late Barnet Grimes and Sérene Bruffey Grimes. Funeral service from Wallace and Wallace Chapel at Rainelle with burial in the Trail Cemetery at Clintonville.
