Thursday, August 25, 1949
Some weeks since, this paper copied an item from the 50 years ago notes of the Greenbrier Independent about the big safe of the then new Bank of Marlinton being hauled through Lewisburg by four big horses. O. B. Spitzer, of Renick’s Valley, tells me to correct the statement by adding two more horses. It was a six-horse team, and he was the young driver.
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They are telling me now about all the new front and back porches, concrete walks and approaches, additions and contractions and things missed in new building notes. All I can say is that I failed to mention the new dog house down home, and all the foregoing sins of omission put me into it deeper than ever.
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Of course, every nice little girl enjoys the trip and visit to grandfather’s farm. However, it seems to me that a little Marlinton girl of 8 years, gets more than average joy out of the 10-mile trip from father’s home in Marlinton to grandfather’s farm on Laurel Creek. The little Miss is Ann Gay Mason. The parents are Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mason and grandfather is T. J. Mason. By inheritance and bringing up, the little girl is air-minded; her father flies a plane and grandfather has bulldozed out a big long strip in his best meadow field for a flying field with wind stocking and all. The elapsed time from home to the farm is about 15 minutes with about 3 minutes in the air.
STUDENTS
Robert Clay Kellison, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Kellison, of Marlinton, has been awarded a $200 scholarship from Davis and Elk-ins College. He is a grad- uate of Marlinton High School, Class of ’49, with high scholastic achievements…
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Joel Hannah, of Arbovale, has been awarded one of the four summer fellowships by the Danworth Foundation to West Virginia University students. The award includes two weeks of camping at the American Youth Foundation Leadership Training Camp at Shelby, Michigan.
WEDDING
Announcement is being made of the marriage of Miss Leona Marie Landis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lanty Landis, to Beverly C. Kenney, son of Mrs. J. L. Kenney and the late Mr. Kenney, all of Marlinton. The wedding took place at the Marlinton Methodist Church Monday evening, August 15, 1949, with Rev. R. H. Skaggs, officiating…
CAMPING
Rev. John B. McLaughlin and son, Bill, of Keyser, have been camping at the lower end of Austin Duncan’s sugar camp at Buckeye. This is their 16th year of camping and fishing there. On Friday night, a picnic supper was enjoyed at the “preacher’s camp” by the following: Mr. and Mrs. Jess McNeill, Mrs. Fred Barlow, Mr. and Mrs. Verl Loudermilk and Stanley, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Duncan and Jerry, Mr. and Mrs. Austin Duncan and George, Addison Pennel, Taylor Morrison, Lus Wooddell, Mrs. Edd Loury, Mrs. Jack Duncan and son, John Lee, and nephew, Johnie Fenwick.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Shrader, of Marlinton, a daughter, named Sharon Roberta.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Guy Sharp, of Huntersville, a daughter, Sharon Rowena.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Lee Rose, of Hillsboro, a daughter, Patricia Margaret.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Mullenax, of Boyer, a daughter.
DEATH
Samuel Peter Landis, aged 70, died at the home of his brother, John. On Monday afternoon his body was buried in Indian Draft Cemetery, the service being held from the church… The deceased was a son of the late John H. and Mary Ann Douglas Landis.
