Thursday, October 7, 1976
Agnes McCloud was on her way to work at Denmar a couple of weeks ago, and when she came across the top of Buckeye Hill in front of Jim McNeill’s, the movement of sheep running around the opposite hill directly in front of her caught her eye. They were running so recklessly that she wondered what had scared them so badly. The thought had hardly crossed her mind when she saw a panther come loping into view along the same path the sheep had come along. She watched it run around the hill from left to right for several hundred yards before it disappeared from view in the same direction the sheep had gone. She stopped at the foot of the hill and told Mrs. Anna McNeill that a panther was chasing her sheep around the hill. About that time, a small bunch of sheep came tearing down out of the brush where they had disappeared a few minutes before and ran below the house next to the road. Mrs. McNeill said she would get in touch with someone and Mrs. McCloud started to pull back on the road. Just then, a vehicle of forestry or conservation workers passed, and she stopped them and reported what she had seen. There was some attempt made to locate the panther but without success.
A panther had reportedly been seen on Caesar’s Mountain a few days before this, in the vicinity where the one was killed and another captured a short time ago.
ADMITTED TO THE BAR
Martin Saffer, of Hillsboro, recently passed the Bar Examination and has been admitted as an attorney to the Bar of West Virginia. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and his Law Degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law. He was admitted to the practice of law in Maryland in 1970. Since 1972, he has lived on a small farm near Hillsboro where he is an avid organic gardener.
4-H LEADER BEING HONORED
The Annual Pocahontas County 4-H Achievement program will be held Saturday evening, at Pocahontas County High School. Beatrice Gladwell, of Buckeye, will be honored for her 45 years of service as a volunteer 4-H leader…
WEDDING
Debra E. Mullenax, daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mullenax, of Arbovale, and Robert F. Ervine, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Ervine, of Green Bank, invite their friends and relatives to share with them their joy and to witness their vows when they will be united in marriage at the Arbovale United Methodist Church on Sunday, October tenth, at one-thirty o’clock in the afternoon.
BIRTH
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Lester, of Buckeye, a son, Gregory Anthony.
DEATHS
Lawrence Neal Beverage, 81, a retired farmer and blacksmith and a member of the West Union Methodist Church.
Born at Onoto, a son of the late Uriah W. and Virginia E. Townsend Beverage. Funeral from VanReenen Funeral Home with burial in the Cochran Cemetery.
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Ernest H. Sams, 72, of Fort Spring, died Monday, October 4, 1976, while walking in the woods. He was a retired employee of the C & O Railway and a member of the Brotherhood of C&O Workers.
