Thursday, September 9, 1976
Sirs;
I am writing in regard to your railroad at Cass. I had the pleasure of visiting the weekend of August 22. As I was born in Cass, I knew about the railroad. I visited Mr. Winfred Foe, of Cass. I took some friends of mine with me. They really liked it. They said everybody in the world should take at least one ride on that train. I am now living in Baltimore, for the last 30 years, but go back often. What I am writing about is the advertisement about the rail. My friends would never have gone if it hadn’t been for me. I don’t see why they don’t advertise a little wider. ~ Ralph B. Rose
PCHS FOOTBALL
PCHS 6 – Nicholas 7
Pocahontas lost a hard-fought contest to a strong Nicholas County team Friday night.
Defensive starters were middle guard Kenny Cassell; left tackle Melvin Ricottilli; right tackle Mike Willliams; left end Mark Gum; right end Ronnie Mullens; R linebacker Fred Tibbs; L linebacker Rick Doyle; L half back Mike Buzard; R halfback Richard Oref; safety Keith Pondexter; rover back, Daniel Cassell.
Rick Doyle led the defensive team with 13 tackles.
Offensively the Warriors were without first team quarterback Tom Valencia, who received a broken leg in the Union scrimmage.
The Warriors gained 165 yards on the ground and 58 in the air. Albert Pondexter accounted for 75 yards against a defense set to stop him. William Dilley caught two passes for 49 yards.
Ronnie Sharp did well on the kickoff with a 45-yard average…
A TOMBSTONE FOR GRANDPA
By Annie L. Cromer
For many years, I wondered why no one marked the grave of my grandfather, Harvey Hevener. This bicentennial year made me ashamed that the father of my mother, Maggie Great-house, who had partially lost his arm in the Battle of McDowell, Virginia, about the year 1861, and thereafter until his death in 1915, wore his boneless forearm in splints and, yet, appreciation for his part in a cause for which he fought, had gone unrecognized by his family.
The excuse of not knowing where his grave was had been used. I know the plot because, when we were children, every spring our mother filled a little wagon with rich soil and flowers and some of us younger ones pulled the load the more than two miles to the Gum Graveyard.
Mother planted a bush given by Alec Lambert, afterward known to us as the Lambert Bush, on Grandpa’s grave. How she must have longed for a real marker. Anyway, this bush survived and always led me to the place. A few years ago, the cemetery was cleared of brush and weeds and the ground was plowed. Then I was told, “You don’t know where that grave is at all.” Last year, back came the Lambert bush with its pink, fuzzy flower. “I am going to put a stone there.”
Harvey and I picked a simple but good one and had it set. The I had a real sense of satisfaction thinking, “Someone thanks you, Grandpa.”
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Artie and Diana Barkley, of Arbovale, a daughter, Amy Lee.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Richard Carroll, Jr., of Stuarts Draft, Virginia, a daughter, Penny Lynn.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. James H. Hubbard, Jr., of Baltimore, Maryland, a son, Shane Matthew.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Simmons, of Marlinton, a daughter.
DEATHS
Oliver Watson Shue, 81, died at the home of his niece, Mrs. Daphene Grimes; born at Droop, a son of the late John P. and Elizabeth Scott Shue. Funeral service from Mt. Zion Methodist Church on Droop with burial in Whiting Cemetery.
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Mrs. Rella Sheets, 84, of Meadville, Pennsylvania; born at Dunmore, a daughter of the late Henry L and Early Tacy Taylor.
