Thursday, April 13, 1950
Corporal Forrest Kellison of the Air Force, stationed at Rapid City Air Force Base, Weaver, South Dakota, writes of his safe return after a short furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Kellison, of Buckeye. He enclosed a number of pictures of the blizzard they experienced March 21. Roads blocked with drifts 8 feet to 23 feet deep, covering automobiles and banked high against houses. However, the temperature did not go below 20 above zero.
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Levi V. Gay brings in an old Home Comfort Range Cook Book for the year 1897. In it are pictures of two Culver brothers, founders of the Wrought Iron Range Company, of St. Louis. … What a list of cooking recipes to please most any lady. There are home remedies, too.
I started to get interested in a dollar dinner for a family of five. I looked no farther than the first item on the menu – 5 pounds of corned beef, 50¢ – and felt no further interest. Another such dinner was built around two fried chickens, 65¢. The 75¢ dinner started out with 3 pounds of roast beef, 30¢…
A Thanksgiving dinner menu is suggested for persons of moderate means. It only includes turkey, oysters, gravy, potatoes, sweet potatoes, canned corn, green peas, celery, cranberry pickles, sweet pickles, olives, pumpkin pie, mince pie, lemon jelly, chocolate cake, sponge cake, fruit, nuts, raisins, coffee.
The Home Comfort Range was delivered in those days by wagons. I suppose such special deliveries are still made. Anyway, it has not been so many years since their trucks were again in the Greenbrier Valley.
WEDDING
Mrs. Margie Kershner, of Droop, announces the marriage of her daughter, Jane, to George W. Duncan, son of the late Austin H. and Mrs. Duncan, of Buckeye. The ceremony was performed at Charleston, March 25, 1950, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Duncan.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Beverly C. Kenney, of Marlinton, a son, John William.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Pyles, of Seebert, a daughter.
DIED
Anthony David Kershner, aged 70 years, died at his home on Droop Mountain Friday, April 7, 1950. Burial in the Whiting Cemetery Sunday afternoon, the service being held from the Mt. Zion Church… The deceased was a son of the late Royal P. and Nancy Johnson Kershner. He was a good, upright citizen.
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Mrs. H. M. Moore, who died March 31, 1950, was born June 21, 1868, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. H. H. Jones, of Doe Hill, Va….
In the town of her birth, she early professed an expression of belief in Christ, whose death we soon are to commemorate. Later, she prepared herself for the teaching profession where upon she came to Dunmore, for her first position…
Her fidelity to the higher spiritual values of life is exemplified in the fact that she was a member of Women Society of Christian Service for 45 years, being the president of this organization for the same period. During this time, she was only absent on two occasions.
These are but a few of the biographical facts of her life and which in no way portray the full illuminative radiance of her presence to those who knew her. Her greatest life achievement was not in the realm of professional or vocational success but in the more vital area of human relations. Here, truly was an artist’s life – an artist that could paint the most touching morals of loving kindness from which radiated only beams of sparkling sunshine in which never a blotch of bleakness was ever portrayed. …
Those her relatives, and those her friends, continue into the future by the acceptance of the words expressed by the great English poet:
“Our cause of sorrow must not be measured by her worth, for then it hath no end.”