Thursday, May 19, 1949
Hillsboro High School Class of 1949
Calvin R. May, Mary Lydia Hill, Eileen McMillion, Clarence Neal Dorman, Richard P. Arbogast, Leona May Carpenter, Frances Jean Clutter, Margaret Ann Clutter, Shirley Elmore Dalton,
Nancy Jordan Fowler, Gene W. Hayes, Marion E. Hill, Edna Mae Rose, Norma Jean Rose, Dortha Arlene Scott, Mary Frances Scott, Mary Ann Simmons, Mildred Marie Snedegar, Lanty E. Thompson, Virginia Lee Workman and George D. Thompson.
Green Bank High School Class of 1949
Mildred Chapel, Hubert Conrad, Mary Curry, Arnold Galford, Dollie Galford, David Gragg, Betty Grimes, Robert Gum, Joyce Hamrick, George Kane, Paul Kesler, Leonard Meador, Mildred Michael, Mary Miller, Jack Moore, James Nottingham, Martha Nottingham, Betty Orndorff, John Ralston, Jeanette Ran-kin, Arlie Rexrode, Jr., Amy Riley, Kathleen Ryder, George Sheets, Eleanor Shields, Gale Shinaberry, James Shores, Shirley Simmons, Luster Simmons,
Clara Sutton, Lake Sutton, Hubert Taylor, Jesse Taylor, Jr., Peggy Taylor, Zula Taylor, Albert Tenney, Mildred Tracy, Maxine Vandevander, Thelma Varner, Bob Waugh, Patricia McPherson, Joseph McLaughlin, William Arbogast, Gertrude Blackhurst, Anita Buterbaugh, Mary Campbell Gay Cargile and Edward Plyer.
Golden Horseshoes
The Knights and Ladies of the Golden Horseshoe from the eighth grades are: Basil Price Sharp, of Marlinton, James Virgie Curry, of Marlinton, Elizabeth (Betty) Beard, of Hillsboro, and Paul S. Stewart, of the Cass Elementary School.
Field Notes
A gentleman from Pennsylvania recently made inquiry of Henry Perkins, National Forest wildlife custodian, as to the kind of animals to be found in the Black Forest. Henry’s reply was, many kinds, ranging from mice and shrews to bears and panthers. The gentleman was fishing on Big Elk, down about Whitaker Falls. He had stopped to rest beside the stream and a roadway. A great cat-like animal approached, and the man laid low. The animal stopped a short distance away. Cat-like, it began to scratch dirt, preparatory to response to a call of nature. There was the cathead, the long body, much larger than any wild cat, dark yellow in color and a long tail. Mr. Perkins said panther. How he wished the word had come to him in time to have put the bear dogs on the trail.
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At last report, Elmer Sharp had five ewes and their lambs missing from his McCollam place on Bucks Mountain, just west of town. There has been bear sign on this mountain all spring.
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Neighbor John W. Moore found three pet lambs – triplets – with their throats nearly cut. The guess would be a fox, if dog tracks had not been showing.
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Friend George Gay observed a big fox dodge into his flock of sheep; kill a lamb and start to carry it away.
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Last Thursday, Austin and Oscar Sharp chased down and killed a big bear on the Beaver Lick. For several weeks this bear had been killing sheep on the Beaver Creek side.
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On the first day of the trout season, Gilbert Payne and Ray Starcher were fishing on the South Fork of Cranberry River. While walking the road along the lower end of the Glades, a panther crossed the road a few hundred feet in front of them. The big cat had come out of the Glades, heading for Kennison Mountain. While it crouched close to the ground in crossing the open forest road, it was in plain view, long tail and all.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. E. J. McCarty, of Hillsboro, a son.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Dilley, of Huntersville, a daughter, named Pamela Sue.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Omar Smith, of Dunmore, a son.
DEATHS
J. W. Grant Smith, aged about 84 years, died in a Charleston hospital Monday night, May 16, 1949. His body has been brought back for burial in the Cochran cemetery on Stony Creek. Born on Stony Creek, he was a son of the late John and Nancy Duncan Smith.
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Mrs. Bessie Kee Blackhurst, aged 59 years, wife of Allan J. Blackhurst, of Cass, died May 14, 1949 after a long invalidism. On Sunday afternoon, the funeral was held from the Cass Presbyterian church, with burial in the family plot in Arbovale cemetery. … The deceased was a daughter of the late George M. and Rachel Moore Kee.
