Thursday, February 13, 1947
The weather for February has been one cold wave after another, with more promised from up Canada way. About four below zero has been the coldest recorded here, with wind blowing. It has been down to twelve below on higher grounds.
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Staff Sgt. Dennie F. Galford, of the Air Force, arrived home Monday from Straubing, Germany, to be with his wife and small son, Frank Richard.
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T-5 Harold L. Shifflett is at home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Shifflett, of Marlinton. T-5 Shifflett served nineteen months in the Army with eleven months overseas with the 61st Station Hospital Medical Detachment.
The Living Fence
The passage of the For-estry Amendment during the last election, permits the legislature to exempt from taxation, land the farmer has set aside to produce timber, and fenced to protect it from grazing.
Farmers of Pocahontas County should be much interested in experiments carried on by the Soil Conservation Service nursery at Elsberry, Missouri, to find a low cost barrier to protect from woodland and wildlife areas against livestock.
Rose multiflora commonly referred to as multiflora rose shows considerable merit for such fence use. Indeed, the prospect of multiflora rose hedges as a general field divider far outweighs its potential barrier for woodland and wildlife areas…
Probably the first question asked by farmers will be whether multiflora rose will spread by suckering, layering or seeding; it does not sucker and does not propagate by layering but, like most woody plants, will layer if a branch is covered by soil for some time. Seeding regeneration does occur under favorable conditions but not to the extent of being a nuisance…
WEDDINGS
Kincaid – Riley
A very quiet wedding was solemnized at the home of Rev. R. E. Bussard, in Bolar, Virginia, on Thursday, January 30, 1947, at two o’clock p.m. when Miss Patricia Jean Riley became the bride of Glen B. Kincaid.
The bride is the attractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John William Riley, of Arbovale, and the groom is a son of Mrs. Stella M. Kincaid and the late William Kincaid, of Headwaters, Virginia…
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Cyrus – Campbell
In a candlelight setting of gladioli and greenery at Baxter Presbyterian church, Miss Marilee Josephine Campbell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Campbell, of Dunmore, was married Saturday afternoon, February 1, 1947, to Clarence Huntington Cyrus, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Cyrus, of Huntington…
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Worstell – Barkley
Mr. and Mrs. Claude L. Barkley, of Greenbank, announce the marriage of their daughter, Pauline, to Bill J. Worstell, son of Mrs. Faye Worstell, of Akron, Ohio, which took place Thursday, January 30, 1947.
Hospital Patients
Mrs. Blanche Wymer and baby boy.
Mrs. D. W. Williams and baby boy.
Mrs. Walter Shafer and baby girl.
Mrs. James Hannah and baby boy.
OBITUARIES
David Cecil Dean was born on March 24, 1884, and departed this life on January 22, 1946; aged 62 years, nine months and 28 days. He is survived by his sister and brothers, Blanche and Forrest, of Rimel, and James, of Marlinton. His children are Ulysses, Alvon and Harry, of Marlinton; Mrs. Iris Keirns, of Maryland, and Mrs. Edith Cain, of Cass.
So sad and sudden was the call of one so dearly loved by all; a bitter grief, a shock severe, to part with one so dear.
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Mrs. Nannie B. Wilfong, aged 81 years, died at the home of her son, Lee B. Wilfong, at Buckhannon, February 1, 1947… Burial in the Hevener cemetery. The deceased was a native of Pocahontas County, having been reared on Burner Mountain…
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Mrs. Anna Duncan Hill, wife of R. W. Hill, of Dunmore, departed this life on Sunday morning, January 19, 1947. Mrs. Hill was born on Stony Creek, November 27, 1882, the daughter of the late James H. and Mary Ann Wilson Duncan… Funeral service was conducted from the West Union Church. Her body was laid to rest in the Cochran cemetery.