Thursday, August 10, 1950
MERCHANTS MEETING
The Pocahontas County Merchants Association held its annual election of officers in a meeting held at the courthouse in Marlinton last week. The following were elected:
President: H. H. Thompson, of Cass; vice president: W. E. Moore, of Hillsboro; vice president: Dwight Orndorff, Arbovale; secretary and treasurer; O. B. Curry, Marlinton.
Directors: Forrest A. Pritchard, Dunmore, Mrs. Lura Brill, James Michael, Wilbur Sharp, E. Paul Harris, Glen Shrader, Edward Stemple, of Marlinton; Archie Walker, Hillsboro; T. B. Adkins, Droop; John Pritchard; Paul Hoggsett, M. B. Wilson.
FIELD NOTES
Last Friday night, the moon changed. As it was a near midnight change, us old timers said it was a good omen for good weather. It was followed by one hay day. I will again remark that no one can miss his guess more often than I do unless he guesses oftener.
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H. E. Sipe, of Bartow, was in town last Monday and made report of the killing of a 311-pound bear by a neighbor up on Elk Mountain, at the head of the Greenbrier. The bear had come close to the home to kill and eat a sheep. A taxidermist down in the settlement had spread word he would pay well for a fresh bear skin for to mount. Mr. Sipe, as a good neighbor, proceeded to tie up the bundle, put it in a sack and store it in a corner of his deep freeze. It froze so tight and hard it took three days and nights to defrost the bear skin package soft enough to be worked out of the freeze.
WEDDINGS
Rev. Quade R. Arbogast officiated at the wedding of Miss Beulah Lorraine Dahmer and Samuel Reid Moore, Jr., a son of Mr. and Mrs. Reid Moore, of Marlinton. The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Dahmer, of Cass, was attired in a princess gown of embroidered white organdy over satin and her shoulder length veil was attached to a cap of illusion. Her white prayerbook was embellished by an orchid.
Her attendants wore pink, Nile green and yellow marquisette frocks and carried nosegays of summer flowers…
Mrs. Moore, an alumnus of the Green Bank High School, has a position with the Mower Lumber Company, at Cass, and her husband, a graduate of Marlin- ton High School, is employed by the Shafer Sales and Supply Company.
For a northern honeymoon, Mrs. Moore’s traveling costume was a pink sharkskin suit, black accessories and she wore an orchid corsage.
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The Sharon Methodist Church was the scene Saturday July 15, 1950, of the marriage ceremony of Miss Joyce Olive Jackson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Jackson, of Beard, to Floyd Gene Stanley, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Stanley, of Beard…
Approaching the altar on the arm of her father, the bride wore a wedding gown of white satin. Her head dress was of a white beaded crown, from which fell a fingertip veil of illusion. She wore a double strand of pearls, a gift from the groom and carried a white Bible topped with a gardenia and satin streamers…
Miss Juanita Howard, of Buckeye, Miss Priscilla Ruckman, of Hillsboro, and Misses Mazie and Martha Lee Stanley, of Beard, served as bridesmaids. They wore floor length gowns of pink taffeta and carried bouquets of pink rosebuds and baby’s breath from which fell matching satin streamers…
For her traveling suit, Mrs. Stanley chose a suit of white gaberdine with navy blue accessories and a corsage of gardenias…
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Darrel Arden Friel, of Clover Lick, a son, Floyd Arden.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Wiliam Lee Kramer, of Marlinton, a son, Eugene Ray.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Edward Lane, of Marlinton, a son, Edward Allen.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dewey Sexton, of Marlinton, a daughter, Susan Louise.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. John V. White, of Marlinton, a son, William David.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Norman Roy Gaylor, of Cass, a daughter, Shirley Marie.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Bedford Herold, of Huntington, a daughter, Stephanie Rose.
DEATHS
Margaret Elizabeth Daug-herty Jackson, daughter of Boyd Daugherty and the late Mrs. Belle Daughtery, was born August 20, 1920, and passed away July 17, 1950. Her early carefree days were spent in Marlinton.
In 1937, she became the wife of Sidney Jackson, of Frank…
She was loved by all who knew her, a faithful friend with a generous and sunny disposition. These were the characteristics of our loved one. These are the things which death cannot take away.
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Robert Samuel Jordan, aged 74 years, died at his home in Marlinton Saturday, August 5, 1950. On Monday, the funeral service was held from the Marlinton Presbyterian Church with burial in the family plot at Mt. View Cemetery. The deceased was a son of the late William D. and Rebecca Gay Jordan, of Elk. Mr. Jordan was twice married. His first wife was Miss Ava Wanless, who has been dead for many years. His second marriage was to Miss Flora Moore. She and their four children survive: Robert, Mrs. Irene Dowden, Mrs. Ruth Messick and Mrs. Thomas Edgar.
Thus, is noted the passing of a solid, substantial citizen and honest upright man.
