Thursday, April 14, 1949
Ruth Turner, aged 7 years, and Mary Margie Kramer, age 8 years, of Millpoint, have recently finished three months of perfect attendance at the Marvin Chapel Sunday School. This is the record perfect attendance at this Sunday School in several years. Miss Ruth Waugh is the teacher of these young girls’ class.
SOME RECORD
Charles Nottingham, of this town of Durbin, is a fireman at the big Pocahontas Tannery plant at Frank. He has the unusual record of having worked every day beginning December 10, 1944 to the present. It totals up some 1,590 days. This is not counting work days, for the fires must be kept under the big boilers of a tannery all the time. Tanning leather is a continuous process. So, Sundays and Mondays, holidays and repair days, Mr. Nottingham has been on the job every day recorded on the calendar for nearly four and a half years. Part of the time, too, he walked the seven miles from his farm home to the plant. How old is this steady workingman?
Why, just in his prime, along in the middle sixties.
A NICE STORE
Monongahela News
The “small businessman” is often referred to as the backbone of the American Economy, and there is no disposition here to dispute it. In fact, there is a reason to believe that the subject at hand gives strength to the belief.
At Marlinton, a delightful small town of 2,000 population within the shadows of the Appalachian chain in southeastern West Virginia, there’s a merchant named P. C. Curry, and he’s known to everyone in the community and the surrounding country. Mr. Curry is no ordinary merchant, content to do things as they were done at the turn of the century. He believes in progress, once he’s convinced that it is economically sound and socially desirable.
Such a thing as a complete installation of fluorescent lights would have been scoffed at a decade ago, but the world moves at a fast pace and Mr. Curry is determined to keep up…
Mr. Curry handles groceries, clothing, hardware and a little bit of everything one would expect to find in a community shopping place, and it is as well lighted as one will find anywhere.
His storeroom is actually two rooms thrown into one by eliminating a dividing partition. The store windows have open backs, giving passersby a direct view of the well lighted interior. …
Mark up another A-1 commercial lighting job for Monongahela’s commercial staff and another success for a small town merchant who finds that good lighting is one of his best investments. Mr. Curry is thoroughly pleased with the installation.
Incidentally, Carlisle Wade, the company’s commercial lighting chief, got a special “kick” out of the Marlinton job because he is a Marlintonian.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Odell Grimes, a son, named Ronald Odell.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Warren Sheets, a daughter.
Born to Lt. and Mrs. A. C. McLean, of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, a son named John Carl. The mother will be remembered here as Miss Phyllis Sheets, daughter of Carl. L. Sheets.
DEATHS
Henry Higgins, aged 69 years, died Monday night, April 11, 1949. The funeral will be held from the Edray Church on Thursday afternoon. His body will be laid to rest in the cemetery at Poage Lane. He was a son of the late Samuel and Rachel Higgins.
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Doctor Wallace Cutlip, aged 78 years, died at his home at Droop Friday, April 8, 1949. On Sunday afternoon, the funeral service was held from the old log church on Droop with burial in the Whiting Cemetery. The deceased is survived by two sons, Verner and Okie; and three daughters, Mrs. Audra Dean, Mrs. Olive Hollands-worth and Mrs. Neva Starks.
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Oliver E. Wilson, of Millpoint, departed this life April 5, 1949. The funeral service was conducted Thursday afternoon at Marvin Chapel with interment in the Ruckman Cemetery. His age was 76 years. He was born at Clawson, a son of the late Ben and Nancy Wilson. …
For over forty years, Mr. Wilson worked as a miller. He spent his entire life in the Millpoint community. He often used to speak of his experiences at log driving on the Greenbrier River, riding the logs to Ronceverte and walking through the country back to his home. He was a friend to all who knew him and a special friend to the little children of the community…