Thursday, July 26, 1949
Friend of the family, John Buckley, of the Buckleys at the mouth of Swago since 1773, was in this office recently. He came to pass the time of day, and renew his subscription for another year. If I can fulfill the contract, come next June, it will be the 68th consecutive year a Pocahontas Times will have come each week into his family – from its first copy, in fact.
A managing farmer since he was 12 years of age, Mr. Buckley will lay by his 75th crop this season. Being about wheat harvest time, the conversation turned to this staff of life crop, and its importance, locally, a generation or two back. There was comparison of the 12 bushels an acre once considered a good average yield on the Buckley and other good farms here, to the 30 to 40 bushels now expected.
In those early days, there was more than a sprinkling of rye among the wheat. The thinner clay soils were reserved for wheat, with corn in the river bottoms.
Naturally, the matter of cutting wheat with a cradle came up for consideration. Mr. Buckley said he was a good ordinary cradler, but did not recall that he had ever cut quite four acres of wheat in a day. Four acres and more of heavy wheat in a day was getting into championship class. He remembered one of the Auldridge men walking up from Millpoint to the neighboring Amiss farm one morning, cutting over four acres of wheat, and then walking back home after supper. For his time and work and walk, he got two good meals and 50-or-75 cents in cash…
FIELD NOTES
Conservation officers John Casto and R. J. Holder-by got a 42-inch yellow rattlesnake at a fishing camp on Cranberry River, below Dogway. The snake had been living under the camp, and when fishers moved in, he started to move out. It is always just as well to keep a weather eye out for snakes most anywhere this time of year.
WEDDING
The wedding of Betty Ruth Conrad and Harold Crist took place at 4 o’clock p.m. Saturday, July 23, 1949, in the country home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Conrad, of Arbovale…
The ceremony was followed by a reception in the dining room, which was decorated in a color scheme of green and pink with white candelabra…
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Long, of Marlinton, a son, Douglas Ralph.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. James Harlan Gibson, a son, Jackie Lynn.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Norman Friel, a daughter.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Mace, a son, Bobby Ray.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hill Boggs, a son, Jimmy Wayne.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Milburn Sharp, a son, John Patrick.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Denver Carl Davis, a daughter, Linda Lucille.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Loren Kelley, a daughter.
DEATH
Theodore Darius Moore was born September 23, 1878, and died at the Pocahontas Memorial Hospital July 20, 1949.
On Friday afternoon, his body was laid to rest in the family plot in Mountain View Cemetery. The funeral service was held from the Marlinton Presbyterian Church. The pall bearers were: Ernest Weiford, Melvin Anderson, S. J. Sharp, Sampson Goldizen, H. A. Yeager and Sam Gibson…
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Kenna Rexrode, a well-known merchant of Durbin, aged 76 years. The funeral service took place from the late residence on Monday afternoon, officiated by ministers of the Methodist chur- ches of Durbin and Marlinton. Hymns were played during the service by Miss Peggy Robertson, and a solo, “Some Bright Morning,” was sung by Mrs. Rexrode’s niece, Miss Louise Vanosdale, of Detroit Michigan… Mr. Rexrode was a member of the Riverside Masonic Lodge at Cass, and his brother Masons formed a double line as the body was carried from the home to the hearse. Interment took place in the Arbovale cemetery…