Thursday, March 10, 1949
During the past year, a leading churchman of Virginia attended a conference in England. At this meeting he tried out the children on their knowledge of places in America, particularly of the land south of the Potomac. One question was, what did they know of Virginia? After due consideration, a bright youngster replied Virginia was a state near West Virginia on the map.
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On Sunday afternoon, a flock of perhaps 150 wild geese was seen from Marlinton by Mrs. Kenny Burgess. The fowls were honking their way north at a high altitude, apparently in the face of a heavy wind.
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Louis Colson is home from a visit to his home in Italy, between Rome and Naples. This was his first visit back to Italy in 49 years.
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Luster Shrader, of the Browns Mountain Fox Club, reports the bagging of 26 foxes to date – 21 reds and 5 grays.
FIELD NOTES
Last Wednesday afternoon, I was called out on the street to view a strange white streak in the sky stretching from horizon to horizon. I was a telling people it was a sun dog – parhelion – or weather gall, and to look out for snow squalls. About that time, Mrs. Les Kennedy came by to tell me she had seen the fast flying airplane which had left the strange, straight streak across the sky. Then Dewey Stemple stood to testify for the selfsame truth. The plane had come out of the west.
It was then up to me to consult an authority and I called on Harry Lynn Sheets. He piloted great planes across the great Himalayan Mountains month after month during the late war, delivering military supplies into the back door of China.
Mr. Sheets said “vapor trail.” The hot engines encountering extremely cold air carrying the proper amount of moisture would cause a vapor. He said he had made such trails across the sky but never looked back to see how long such a path stretched behind him…
FARM COOPERATIVE
Last Wednesday, Charles A. Sharp, Walter Jett, O. W. Jackson and Hal Moore, of the board of directors of the Pocahontas Producers Cooperative Association, were in Lewisburg to attend the annual meeting of the Greenbrier Valley Cooperative Livestock Association. The association embraces the counties of Pocahontas, Greenbrier, Monroe, Mercer, Raleigh, Fayette and Nicholas. The reports showed a total of about a million dollars in cooperative sales of farm products by members in the eight counties.
Of this amount, over six hundred thousand dollars represented the sales of the Pocahontas Producers Cooperative Association. The only cooperative auction sale of livestock in West Virginia is the one in Pocahontas County.
BASKETBALL
Greenbank High School won the basketball tournament at Hillsboro last Saturday night by defeating Hillsboro in the finals. Marlinton won third place by defeating Renick in the consolation game. Other awards were: Team sportsmanship, Greenbank; Individual sportsmanship, Dan Moore; Cheering, Marlinton; best cheerleader, Peggy Clutter, Hillsboro; Carolyn Thomas, Marlinton; Della Graybeal, Renick; High Point Man, Robert Dilley, Best Foul Shot, Robert Hinkle, Renick.
All tournament team: Ralph Hollandsworth, John Fleming, Hillsboro; Bill Smith, Robert Hinkle, Ren-ick; Jack Moore, Bruce Bosley, Bill Arbogast, Greenbank, Jim Moore, Robert Dilley and Dan Moore, Marlinton.
WEDDING
Miss Birdie Ellen Taylor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Taylor, of Greenbank, was married to Esco Carl Johnson, son of Mrs. Birdie Sharp and the late E. Carl Johnson, of Marlinton, in a double ring ceremony performed at the Methodist parsonage in Staunton, Virginia October 28, 1948. … Mr. Johnson served five years with the Marines, two and one half years being spent overseas.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Hubert VanReenen, of Beard, a son.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Damon Landis, of Marlinton, a daughter, Kay Frances.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Daughterty, twins, a daughter and a son.
COMING HOME
Services will be held at the Frost Church March 13, 1949 for Corporal Letcher McCarty, son of Mrs. L. S. McCarty, who was killed June 29, 1944, in the English Channel, while serving with the 12th Field Artillery. Burial will be in the Mt. Zion Cemetery.
Corporal McCarty entered the service April 29, 1942, and went overseas in January 1944.
The body will be taken from the Smith mortuary Saturday to the home of his mother at Frost.