Thursday, June 8, 1949
The trip last week was up to Greenbank. This is a short trip of one hour now, but my mind continually goes back to horse and buggy days when it was a good day’s drive to go, and another in which to return.
The occasion last Friday night was a District gathering of members of the Lions Clubs at Marlinton, Durbin, Franklin and Beverly.
Let it be said at this place, the Lions Club is a social and service organization made up of doers of good works. The local clubs do the good work of promoting good understanding, good feeling and effective cooperation between neighbors.
All too often conniving politicians, to perpetuate themselves in office and power, set people at cross purposes in order to gain selfish nefarious ends through discord and strife.
In these latter days, we have the service clubs to minimize differences and to play up principles of right living on which we all can and do agree. Such can well be termed Golden Rule organizations.
FIELD NOTES
Speaking about soil conservation, you all have heard the gag about it taking China 5,000 years to well nigh ruin their country, while the United States had made a considerable stab in the same sad direction in considerably less than 500 years.
In the matter of wrestling a living direct from the soil, you all too have heard tell the difference between a farmer and an agriculturalist. The farmer makes his money on the farm and spends it in the town, while the agriculturist makes his money in the town and spends it on the farm. …
You all have heard tell that poor ground will not produce good people any more than it will grow good stock. Every fertile producing acre is an asset to the whole common wealth, while every poor, poverty stricken, eroded acre is a liability to us all.
The farmer with an eye for business and the agriculturist alike, cooperate in the land saving, soil conservation movement.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert G. Hill, a son, named Richard Gilmore.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sharp, a daughter.
DEATHS
Pearl Aberdeen aged 62 years, of Marlinton, died Friday, June 3, 1949. On Sunday afternoon, the funeral was held from the Methodist Church with burial in the family plot in Mt. View Cemetery. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ella O’Ferrel Aberdeen.
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Mrs. Roxie Rogers Fay, aged 69 years, widow of the late Ed J. Ray, died June 6, 1949. The funeral was held from the Marvin Chapel with burial in the McNeill Cemetery near Buckeye. Mrs. Ray was a daughter of the late Squire Newton C. and Fredrica Kellison Rogers.
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Mrs. Blanche Moore Timbers, widow of the late Reuben Timbers, of Charleston, died Wednesday, June 1, 1949. On Friday the funeral was held from the Methodist Church with burial in the family plot in Mt. View Cemetery. The deceased was a daughter of the late Charles L. and Mary Moore, of Browns Creek.
