Thursday, March 31, 1949
Along with the Oklahoma cow in the silo and the 400 pound Indiana turtle, this editor and his Pocahontas Times is again news in a city paper. This time it is the top-notch New England daily, The Christian Science Monitor, of Boston. Under the heading “Hand Set Paper Keeps Personal Touch:”
“Personal Journalism flourishes in the beautiful, rugged hills of Pocahontas County, West Virginia.
“The Price family has operated The Pocahontas Times there for generations, and, today, Calvin W. Price is editor-owner. Mr. Price is a member of the Fifty-Years Club of the West Virginia Press Association. The paper is one of the few completely hand-set operations in the United States where Mr. Price and two assistants work at the cases and “stick” all the stories with their own hands.”
…“Today’s news today” is no problem. The editor can report, as in the issue of February 24, for instance, that “The Seneca Trail Farm Women’s club met February 10 for an all day work meeting at the home of Mrs. C. C. Beale. The meeting was on how to make pocketbooks.
“And if learning to make pocketbooks is dull, The Pocahontas Times reader can turn to the advertisements and find that Mrs. Lillie Gibson, of Cloverlick, has for sale “ A Pearless (sic) Parlor Organ which I will sell or trade for a work horse…”
‘Hear a Pin Drop’
The expression, “Hear a pin drop,” is derived from the method used in 17th century coffee house auctions, according to Kemper insurance historians.
A pin was inserted an inch or so below the wick of a lighted candle. The highest bid when the pin fell secured a ship or other goods for sale.
DEATHS
Elmer H. Wade, aged 71 years, died at his home in Marlinton Tuesday morning, March 29, 1949… Funeral service will be held from the Marlinton Presbyterian Church Thursday morning. Interment will be in the family plot at New Providence church in Rockbridge County, Virginia.
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Mrs. Margie Patterson Baxter, aged 80 years, of Charleston died Saturday morning, March 26 1949. On Monday afternoon her body was buried in the family plot in Mt. View Cemetery, the service being conducted from the Marlinton Presbyterian Church. … She was a daughter of the late Dr. S. P. and Elizabeth Campbell Patterson, who lived in Huntersville.
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Clarence Rockford Er-vine, aged 33 years, died at his home in Greenbank Tuesday morning, March 15, 1949. On Thursday afternoon the funeral was held at the Greenbank Methodist Church. Burial in the Arbogast cemetery. He was a 1940 graduate of Greenbank High School and was owner and manager of the Cass Taxi Co.
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Mrs. Lela Hollandsworth Cutlip, aged 39, widow of the late Lake Cutlip, of Droop, died Thursday, March 24, 1949. She is survived by her three children, Mrs. Lela Faye Pritt, Anita and Foster and one granddaughter… She was a daughter of the late S. P. and Georgia Cutlip Hollands-worth. Service was held at the Log Church with burial in the Whiting Cemetery on Droop Mountain.
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Joseph Henry Slayton, aged 76 years, died at his home in Durbin Friday, March 25, 1949. On Sunday afternoon, the funeral was held from the Methodist church, with burial in the Boyer cemetery.
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Junius Summerson, aged 32 years, died Tuesday, March 22, 1949. On Thursday afternoon the funeral service was held from Liberty Church at Greenbank with burial in the Fairview cemetery at Roanoke.
DANCE
9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Friday, April 15th
At HOPIES
1 mile south of Marlinton on U. S. Route 219
MUSIC BY
Paul Mason
and His Orchestra
ADMISSION: $1.50 per person
