Thursday, April 6, 1950
The influenza has nearly paralyzed business in Pocahontas. Hardly a family has escaped. It has been with extreme difficulty that we have been able to get the Times out for the past two issues.
J. H. G. Wilson was found about half killed in Golden’s warehouse last Friday. He had a number of severe contusions on the head and face and has since been very sick. He does not know who hit him.
J. A. August, Jr., bought a fine Kentucky saddle horse and had it shipped to Ronceverte. The horse was taken off the train sick and died in Ronceverte. A veterinary surgeon pronounced the horse organically unsound.
GRADE SCHOOL OPERATTA
On Tuesday, April 11, at the high school auditorium, the Marlinton Graded School will present “The Land of Dreams Come True” a three-act operetta under the direction of music teacher Miss Edith May.
Students who will portray the characters:
School children on Holiday: Violet McNeill, Sterl Edward McElwee, Margaret Ann Eubank, Billy Davis, Creola Jackson, Martha Coffman, Marlene Lovelace, Kelly Mason, Mary Price, Ray Sage, Shirley Akers, Dharl Sharp, Kay McLaughlin, Sonny Hogsett, Patty Sharp and Harold Alderman.
Pixie Chorus: Charles Camper, Billy Clarkson, Judson Howard, Gerald Richards, Thomas Sharp, Jimmy Yeager, “Butch” Yeager and Lewis Waugh.
Playmates Chorus: Wanda Defibaugh, Ronald Evans, Gail LaRose, Shirley Malcom, Jimmy Mason, Lockhart Moore, Beverly Nott- ingham, Ann Waugh and Johnny Weatherholt.
Rose Chorus: Brenda Anders, Polly Astin, Alice Carpenter, Louise Currence, Carolyn Curry, Nancy Defibaugh, Jane Sharp, Luna Belle Sharp and Phyllis Weatherholt.
Blue Bell Chorus: Terry Beard, Helen Clutter, Linda Clutter, Dorothy Cornell, Frances Harper, Barbara Jackson, Kay Kershner, Rebecca Wimer, Peggy Willi-ams and Trudie Workman
KNAPPS CREEK
The geology of the Knapps Creek Valley is a book in itself. To be plainly honest, I must admit I do not have any too secure a grasp on it. The creek cleaves the Northwest Passage, between the folded mountains of Brushy and Browns. Exposed for all to see and read are layers of sedimentary rock which lie so many thousands of feet down under the Greenbrier River – where begins the Alleghany uplift.
There is the oil-bearing sand high on the mountain top which brings great returns when drilled into a depth of about two miles down Charleston way.
There are the dry Greenbrier Mountains of Marlin and Buckley to the west, and the equally dry Alleghany to the east. In between is the great heave of Brown and Beaver Lick Mountains. These have ever-living springs and great underground streams of not too warm water.
The big fold, the Huntersville Anticline. I prefer the more common name of dome. The geology books produce no pictures of a finer one.
Then there is the quartz like rock at Minnehaha. This is so hard that a North Carolina road hand said he and his sidekick had drilled on it for two long days. All they had to show for their work was a wart on the rock about the size of an orange.
A truly great geologist once told me to carefully consider this quartz site rock as proof of the truthful, concise treatise on geology, the first chapter of Genesis. It was laid down in an ancient sea, barren of animal life. Seaweed fossils yes, but go to higher, later layers for fossil forms such as brachiopods and trilobites. Being interpreted, mean clams with an arm like leg and crawfishes…
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. William Lawrence Kyle, a son, Raymond Patrick.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Taylor Shinaberry, a son.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Clawson Emerson Sheets, Jr., a daughter, Sandra Jean.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Sterl Wesley Hively, a daughter, Diana Sue.
DEATHS
Mrs. Cora Jones Moore, aged 82, years, widow of H. M. Moore, died at her home at Dunmore March 31, 1950. Burial on Sunday afternoon in the family plot in Dunmore cemetery, the service being held from the Methodist church. The deceased was a daughter of the late Dr. Harrison H. and Minnie Eagle Jones.
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J. B. Nottingham, aged 71 years, died at his home near Durbin March 28, 1950. His body was laid to rest in the Hosterman cemetery beside the grave of his brother, W. W. Nottingham.