Thursday, April 28, 1949
NOTICE
Of Motor Carrier Hearing
On the 10th day of May 1949, at 10 a.m. in it offices at the Capitol in the City of Charleston, the Public Service Commission of West Virginia will hear the appli- cation of the undersigned for a certificate of convenience and necessity to operate as a common carrier by motor vehicle in the transportation of commodities generally and heavy equipment within Marlinton, Pocahontas County, and a radius of twenty-five miles thereof, at which time objections may be made thereto.
Fred C. Burns
Marlinton, Pocahontas County West Va.
SADDLE DAYS
Gray Loury, of Huntington, sends to his old home paper a handbill advertising “The celebrated Wilbourn Saddle, manufactured by the Buena Vista Saddle and Harness Company.”
The date is July 16, 1890. The selling talk is plenty strong: No matter how heavy the rider, how hot the weather or how long the ride, it never hurts the horse. It makes a natural seat to furnish a rest to the muscles of thigh and leg. It is like a comfortable buggy seat.
The certificates of praise were somewhat fulsome, too. One heavyweight wrote he used a blanket to protect saddle and not the horse. An enthusiast from Rockingham went so far as to certify he would not take a thousand dollars for his Wilbourn saddle if he could not get another… The saddle and horse days brought to mind a tale of sixty years ago. Pocahontas County Singing Association met in annual meeting at Edray Church. Horses were hitched to racks, fences and trees. There were perhaps a score of nice buggies parked in the church yard. Four prominent citizens, who were the local bankers of their day and generation, looked with jaundiced eye on those shiny surreys, carry-alls and buggies – representing an investment of perhaps as much as five thousand dollars. It was consensus of opinion that no county could remain financially solvent in the face of such reckless outlay of funds.
FOUR-WAY BIRTHDAY PARTY
A four-way birthday party was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Merl Cloonan at Millpoint on Easter Sunday, April 17, in honor of Miss Dotty Cloonan, Elmer David Workman II, Mrs. Elmer Workman and Mrs. Merl Cloonan…
BIRTH
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Boggs, a baby girl named Inez.
COMING HOME
Sergeant William Marvin Jeffries, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Jeffries, was wounded in the landing on Luzon and died February 20, 1945. His body is expected to arrive in Marlinton Thursday, April 28. The funeral will be held from the Marlinton Metho-dist Church Sunday afternoon. His body will rest in the family plot in Mt. View Cemetery.
DEATHS
Mrs. Lena Galford Knecht, 41, a daughter of Mrs. John Galford, of Cass, and the late Mr. Galford. Funeral service was conducted at the home of her mother Monday afternoon with interment in the Wanless Cemetery. She is survived by four children, Mrs. Lester Turner, Mary Frances, Danny and Connie.
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Mrs. Maggie Wade Alderman, 84, died at her home on Douthards Creek Her body was laid to rest in the Alderman family cemetery, the service being conducted from the home. The deceased was a daughter of the late George W. and Mary Ryder Wade.
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Robert W. Barnett, aged 33 years, died at his home at St. Francis, Kansas. His body was laid to rest in Hillcrest Cemetery at McLean. The deceased was the son of Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Barnett, of Cloverlick.
During the late war he saw three years of honorable service in the United States Army; mostly in the Southwest Pacific area.
