Thursday, June 1, 1949
FARM Women
The Hillsboro Farm Women’s Club met at the home of Mrs. John Chappell on May 26. Twelve members and four guests were present. A well planned lesson on “Houses for Happy Family Memories” was led by Mrs. Eric Clutter.
GIRLS STATE
Miss Carolyn Lang Thomas, member of the Junior Class of Marlinton High School, and a niece of the Misses Fleeta and Mabel Lang, and Miss Ann Yeager, also a member of the Junior Class, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Yeager, have been selected to attend the Seventh Annual Session of Girls State Citizenship Training School to be held at Jackson’s Mill…
CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY
Julian Ann Lockridge celebrated her 8th birthday Saturday, May 7, with a party at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Julian Lockridge. Games were enjoyed and refreshments served to the following guests: Loretta Townsend, Sharon Kelly, Kay McLaughlin, Marolyn Harper, Nancy Jo Morgan, Stephany Morgan, Margeret Ellen Bussard, Gail and Jean LaRose, Brenda Anderson, Ann Gay Mason, Jane Sharp, Carla and Sharla Gladwell, Jimmy Judd Howard, Janice Tallman, James Shisler, Mrs. Edna White, Mrs. Reta Bussard, Mrs. Jane Sharp, Mrs. Robert Gay, Mrs. Carl Gladwell, Mrs. Ben Morgan, Mrs. Bly Dever Shisler, Miss Eleanor McLaughlin and Mrs. Ester LaRose.
FIELD NOTES
On Tuesday, Austin and Oscar Sharp were down on Anthony Creek to chase an old sheep killing bear. They had him up and going. Then the big storm put an end to the proceedings.
On Wednesday, there came a call from the Sweckers on Point Mountain in Valley Fork of Elk. A bear had made raids on their sheep and was probably still in the neighborhood. Oscar Sharp took his young cousin, Joe Sharp, and responded to the call. After a two-hour chase and running fight, the bear was put up a tree of the Gauley Mountain, down close to Elk River on the mouth of Dry Branch. This was a male bear, lumped off at 300 pounds. His age was estimated at four years.
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For a month and more, Elmer Sharp has been missing sheep and lambs on his big farm on Bucks Mountain near Marlinton. He found where a bear had killed and eaten three ewes. In addition, at least 15 head of lambs are missing.
Last Friday, Mr. Sharp brought all his sheep into the barnyard, to be penned for shearing on Saturday. Out in a pasture field in plain view, came a large catlike varmint. It was apparently following the sheep.
At first, Mr. Sharp thought it a wild cat, but it was most too large; the size of a big dog. Then too, it had a large, long tail which hung down toward the ground and turned up at the end. In color, it was a dirty brindle, between the bay coat of a wild cat and the gray of a fox. It had a decidedly cat-like head and a cat-like walk.
While it might so happen, the varmint was a wolf, but from Mr. Sharp’s accurate description, I put it down as a panther.
Austin and Oscar Sharp were up Greenbank way with their bear fighting dogs, so Elmer had only a couple of fox hounds to lay on the trail. One good dog flickered, and the other was only half-hearted in the matter. She showed and expressed no desire to catch up with the varmint.
WEDDING
McNeel – Cutlip
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Cutlip, of Hillsboro, announce the marriage of their daughter, Elma Virginia, to Moffett McNeel, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Moffett McNeel, of Hillsboro.
A quiet ceremony was performed at the manse by the Rev. O. L. Jones, pastor of Oak Grove Presbyterian Church Friday, May 27, 1949…
They will be at home in Hillsboro, where the groom is a prosperous young farmer.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Roberts, of Marlinton, a daughter, named Rebecca Elaine.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ray Price Warren, a daughter, named Brenda Lou.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Jackson, of Marlinton, a son, named Randall Edmond.
DEATHS
Luther Russel Campbell, aged 63 years, died at his home at Dunmore, May 25, 1949. On Saturday afternoon, his body was laid to rest in the Dunmore cemetery. The service was held from Baxter church…
For many years, Mr. Campbell was a civil service employee, a carrier on a rural mail route. He retired a number of years since. In religion, Mr. Campbell was a member of the church of his fathers, the Presbyterian. For many years he had served faithfully and well as a Ruling Elder of Baxter Church.