Thursday, July 10, 1949
You know how it is with a mule – he will patiently wait years to even the score. The other day, that good span of mules belonging to Zed Smith, Jr., got out of the pasture into the bumper field of corn – K24 shoulder-high. They never bit off a dozen stalks, but they did have their fun rolling over and rolling down a full acre of this fine corn. Of course, they were taking their pay for their hard, hot work in cultivating this field.
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It is with satisfaction I here report the appointment by Governor Patterson, of Attorney Nickell Kramer as Judge of the Eleventh Circuit…
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I thoroughly approve of the appointment of William Evans as manager of the Marlinton trout hatchery, as announced last Thursday by the State Conservation Commission. He succeeds the late Porter M. Atkinson, who passed away last Tuesday.
Mr. Evans has had years of experience as a worker in this trout hatchery, and has proven himself capable and efficient. During the war, he served with the Marines. He is a native of Pocahontas County, the son of Mrs. Mary Evans and the last Clyde Evans.
Big Fish
Stanley Loudermilk, of Swago, caught a walleyed pike, which measured 28 inches long, and weighed seven and a half pounds. He took this fine fish on a light tackle in the Greenbrier river below Buckeye. A chub minnow was the bait used.
KITCHEN TOURS
Pocahontas County Farm Women’s Club members will hold district kitchen tours in the county next week. The first tour will start at the home of Mrs. Ralph Burns in Hillsboro. Other homes to be visited during the day are those of Mrs. T. R. McClure, Marlinton; Mrs. Arndt White, Mrs. Clyde Bussard and Mrs. Ernest White, Minnehaha Springs; and will conclude at the home of Mr. Julian Lockridge on Knapps Creek.
FIELD NOTES
Winfred Sheets, of Greenbank, sends in an unusually long root of the sour dock or yellow dock. It measures 54 inches in length. It is listed under the science name of rumex. Mr. Sheets plowed this long root up in a piece of ground which had not been broken for several years.
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Beard – B. B. Shields has a fine buck fawn growing fat and fine on a nanny goat as a foster mother. Dogs killed the mother deer and Mr. Shields found the fawn in a starving condition. Deer and goat took kindly to each other.
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Over at the home of Paul Crouch, in Tygarts Valley, peculiar sounds were coming up the drain of the kitchen sink, which was not flowing any too freely. A little job of digging appeared to be in order. You would never guess the cause of the trouble. A ground hog had crawled up the six-inch drain tile, and could not back out.
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A neighbor took his Fourth in the way of an outing with picnic dinner and trimmings, down on Little Creek. The meal was bountiful, the appetite hearty and the day was warm. The next thing was to recline in a grassy nook in the grateful shade of a wide spreading tree. There was gentle breeze to blow the flies away. Soon he was a noddin’ and then came the kindly dew of sleep. Seemingly he had hardly slept a wink, when he awoke with a weight on his chest. In horror, he beheld a folded rattler there. He paused not to awake its slumbering venom. With bare hand he flung it far. Then on his feet instantly, to bash it to death with stones. The rattler, though a large one, carried a string of only eight rattles.
BIRTH
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Grady Burton Green, of Marlinton, a son.
DEATHS
Kenna Rexrode, age 76, of Durbin. The body was laid to rest in the family plot in Arbovale Cemetery with Masonic honors; the funeral being conducted from the home.
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Robert Scott LaRue, aged 65 years, of Hillsboro; burial in Oak Grove Cemetery with the service being held from the home.
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Durbin – Austin E. McNutt, aged 20 years, of Zoar, Ohio, was killed in an automobile accident July 7, 1949. The car in which he was riding plunged over a 90-foot embankment at the Narrows below the Pocahontas Tannery.