Thursday, October 22, 1949
STARTING UP
The Marlinton Tannery began laying hides last Friday after two weeks slacking off. The daily chore is 800 hides.
OUR ARMY AND NAVY BOYS
Erding, Germany – One of the three fullbacks of the 33-man Arrowhead football squad is FEC Forrest H. Wooddell, of Greenbank, Pocahontas County. There were over 60 aspirants for places on the squad. The squad has been weakened by many men returning to the States. However, many outstanding newcomers bright-en the future by keeping the team up to the high standard of efficiency.
Fullback Wooddell is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Wooddell, and is a graduate of Greenbank High School. He entered the Air Force in May 1928, and has spent the last five months in the U. S. Zone of Germany.
FIELD NOTES
Most everybody got squirrels almost everywhere on opening day. Harry Lynn Sheets got a black squirrel on Elk and Kermit Akers, a black squirrel on Beaver Dam of Williams River. The old belief was that black squirrels migrated here from the Ohio Valley.
Among those who got turkeys are Frank B Hannah, L. E. Montgomery, Rev. Don Taylor, Ben Waugh, William Akers and Edward Boggs.
I see in the papers where a couple of short sports were found with sixty odd squirrels down Rainelle way. Their portion was fines aggregating $1,200 and eight months in jail.
Fred Trainor and Andy Gum cleaned up on the copperheads on Laurel Run in the Rimel game area. They found and killed 22 around some rocks on Lockridge Mountain. This makes a season kill of 15 rattlers and 35 copperheads.
DEATHS
Mrs. Myrtle Herold Moore, aged 73 years, widow of the late Price Moore, died at her home on Knapps Creek October 16, 1949. The body was laid to rest in the family cemetery, the service being held from the home. The deceased is survived by one son, Price P.; and three daughters, Genevieve, Mrs. Hollis Guthrie, and Mrs. Carl L. White. She was a daughter of the late Andrew and Amaria Seybert Herold, and the last of a family of eleven.
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Mrs. Susie Walker, aged about 80 years, died at her home on Lower Third Avenue, October 15, 1949. The body was laid to rest in Mountain View Cemetery, the service being conducted by her pastor, Rev. Roger P. Melton. The deceased was the widow of the late John Walker. She was a daughter of the late John W. and Sarah Carroll Robbins, of Bath County.
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Mrs. Mary Beaty Marshall of Mingo, aged 80 years, died in Louisville, Kentucky. Her body was laid to rest in the Mingo Cemetery. She was a widow of the late Piatt Marshall. She was a daughter of the late George and Anna Eliza Simpson Beaty.
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William Franklin Simmons, aged 53 years, of Durbin; funeral was held from the home with interment in the Durbin cemetery. The deceased is survived by his wife, Mrs. Jessie Varner Simmons, and their six children.
More History
From a paper by H. A. Yeager
So far as history records, Henry Baker, of Richmond, Virginia, was the first teach-er to cross the Alleghanies, and the school taught in the Drinnen cabin was the pioneer of pioneer schools.
A few schools were established by the State of Virginia for the people “beyond the mountains,” but because of the distance and the danger from the Indians, the people of the community established what were known as subscription schools. Each family paid according to the number of children they had enrolled.
Following the Drinnen raid and death of Henry Baker, the school moved to a point near the Stony Creek bridge near Marlinton. The school term was three or four months, usually held during the summer. The teachers were local citizens, and the qualifications were that they could “read, write and be able to cipher,” and “be respected citizens of good moral character.” These teachers were paid the equivalent of five or ten dollars a month in furs or grains and were boarded by the patrons…
About 1880, a school was established in a one room building in Price Hollow, the land was given by Andrew McLaughlin, and it was called the Marlin Bottom school…
One of the most interesting teachers was Charles Cook, of Boston, who was a graduate of Brown University. He came south during the Civil War and after the war settled near Edray… The story is told of him that upon one occasion they were having a community meeting and a “question box” was being conducted. The idea was that certain questions should be asked, and someone called upon to answer the question with a speech. Mr. Cook drew the question, “What can be done to improve this community?”
He arose and said, “Eight or ten first class funerals,” and sat down.
Needless to say, the meeting broke up…