Thursday, August 11, 1949
FIELD NOTES
This being dog days, it is the time when rattlesnakes do their traveling around. One day last week, one big rattler started across this town of Marlinton and got himself killed at the corner of 9th Street and 3rd Avenue by Mrs. Charles Roman.
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Arnold McLaughlin was in from Akron with home people about Dunmore last week. The hot weather brought up the subject of the cold winter of 1910-11. Arnold worked that year on the Horton Line under the late Jesse McLaughlin, the woods foreman. How cold it got there was never really known as all the available thermometers froze up and burst at 25 degrees below zero. The coldest day, Jessie had to go and call him in as the last man and team out. Ears, cheeks and chin were frosted a bit. That year, he stayed in camp over 100 days. He said he was just a little nervous about walking over the mountains home as five men froze to death on Horton Line that winter… One year, on Cheat mountain, he attended his team of horses for five months without missing a single day.
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J. E. Buckley saw one able varmint on the west side of Back Creek Mountain while returning from a trip in Virginia one day last week. This was in the day, the light was still good, and the varmint trotted across the road something more than 100 feet in front of the car. If it saw the people in the car, it paid them no mind. Bay in color, it had all the marks of a wild cat, but what a wild cat! Any ordinary wild cat could walk under this varmint with room to spare. Nearly 30 inches high at the shoulders, its legs were long, its body able, its tufted and bewhiskered head massive and its tail short. All these bear out the book description of the Canada lynx – the great big cousin of the bay lynx, our common wild cat. Once in a long while, a Canada lynx is killed in these mountains.
The only peace of mind disturbing element in Mr. Buckley’s report is the fact that on this same road, and about the same place, three reports have come of panthers being seen and heard.
WEDDINGS
On Sunday, August 7, 1949, in Elkins, Miss Hildreth Virginia Townsend, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Townsend, of Hunt-ersville, became the bride of Mr. Rudolph L. Meadows, son of Mr. and Mrs. Beecher Meadows, of Marlinton. Af-ter a wedding trip to Canada, the couple will reside in Marlinton, where Mrs. Mea-dows is deputy county clerk and Mr. Meadows is employed by Moses and Meadows.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Gray, a daughter, Joyce Ann.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. William Delbert Cassell, a daughter, Judith Ann.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Kenny Robert Beverage, a son, Jerry Kenny.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond A. Grimes, a daughter, Naomi Lavonna.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Michael Andrew Murphy, a daughter, Joyce Ann.
DEATHS
Mrs. Lucy McNeill Overholt, aged 73 years, wife of Albert S. Overholt; funeral held from the home with burial in Mt. View Cemetery. The deceased was a daughter of the late William and Susan Buckley McNeill, of Swago…
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Okey Ward Walton, aged 43 years, a son of Mrs. Laura Walton Miller and the late H. A. Walton. Funeral service was held from the Marlinton Presbyterian Church with interment in the family plot in Mt. View Cemetery with Masonic Honors.
BITS AND PIECES
“My son went to the United States 10 years ago to make his fortune.”
“And, what is he worth now?”
“I really don’t know for certain, but the State of New York is offering $20,000 for information about him.”
