Thursday, December 8, 1949
BIG FIRE
On Thursday afternoon, the big sawmill of W. W. Harper and Son on Stamping Creek was destroyed by fire. Sparks from the engine or sawdust burner set the planing mill shavings on fire. A heavy wind was blowing, and the mill was completely destroyed. The loss is estimated at $20,000. There was no insurance.
Prompt and effective response for help on the part of farmers and men from the Federal Prison under Superintendent Thieman kept the fire out of the yards where a half million feet of lumber was on sticks.
PROFITABLE EWE
Edray – Clarence L. Barlow is one farmer who keeps books on his sheep, and the report of one ewe is a bit surprising. This year the income from this ewe amounted to $84.29. To begin with, this sheep clipped six pounds of wool. Selling through the pool, it brought 53 cents per pound, for a total of $3.18. Then this fall, the three lambs this ewe raised averaged better than 100 pounds each to sell at 24 cents for a total of $81.11 This is a western range ewe. Three other ewes in Mr. Barlow’s flock of nearly forty sheep raised triplets this season.
SEEBERT NEWS
There will be a Guess Social given at the home of Mrs. Eddie Washington at Seebert December 16. There will be three prizes given. Benefit for the Pleasant Green Choir. Sponsored by Eddie Washington and Lucille Smith.
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Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jones and son, Macon, of Clifton Forge, Va., and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rose and Sallie, of Webster Springs, were here last week to see M. B. Jones, who is ill at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Earle Slaven.
FIELD NOTES
Ellis Grimes, of Waynesboro, sends in the picture and newspaper story of the killing of a timber wolf in Augusta county near Staun-ton November 27. The var-mint was killed by Clarence Eddy, a farmer, almost within the city limits. He saw his sheep running in the early morning. He took his gun and went out to see what the trouble might be and saw a wolf attacking his sheep. Well placed bullets put it out of commission. It had killed nine sheep for Mr. Eddy and two for a neighbor, Houston I. Todd. The animal was identified as a timber wolf, a male of about 30 pounds in weight. The hair was the color of broom sage; its head was flat, and its molars were so broad they appeared like two sets of teeth.
It is anybody’s guess from whence came this wolf. About ten years ago, a timber wolf was killed in Bath county, and some years later a coyote was killed in Pocahontas county.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Fountain Hill, of Dunmore, a daughter, Brenda Joyce.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Lacy Denton Sharp, a son, Thomas Dale.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. James Judy, a daughter, Sandra Kay.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Julian Virgil Shrader, of Huntersville, a daughter, Donna Marie.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. George Earl McNeil, of Renick, a daughter, Brenda Kay.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Claude Bruffey, of Hillsboro, a son, John Gerald.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. John Randolph Bostic, of Marlinton, a daughter, Ann Randolph.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Patrick H. Bruffey, a son, Patrick Rupert.
Born To Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Kelley, of Minnehaha Springs, a daughter, Eileen Kay.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Everette McLaughlin, a daughter, Alice Jane.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Wimer, of Hillsboro, a daughter Mildred Dianne.
DIED
Okey Lewis Kennison, aged 70 years, of Hillsboro died December 4, 1949. Funeral service was held from the Hillsboro Methodist church with burial in the family plot in Oak Grove Cemetery. The deceased was a son of the late D. C. and Rebecca Lewis Kennison. He never married.
