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Seventy-Five Years Ago

August 27, 2025
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Thursday, August 31, 1950

Not all trouble is found in town; the farm still has its tribulations and trials. My friend Beverage lives at Rocky Point on Dry Branch of Swago. This spring, they outfitted themselves with a big lot of factory hatched Leghorn chicks. There were 234 chickens when large enough to turn out of the brooder pens to fend for themselves. Then the foxes began to live high on poultry. One day the children saw a fox make a run into the flock and kill five chickens in that many bites. Finally, two foxes, male and female, were killed. The sign showed the mother fox was nursing six little ones. Both were fat and fine and no wonder, young chicken meat is nourishing food, and no less than 125 were missing from the flock. The Beverage family figured it might be good business to put the remaining chickens on the market.

CHARLESTON – Old age has claimed the conservation commission’s prize rainbow beauty which for years disported herself in the display basin at the Marlinton trout hatchery to the delight of thousands of fisher- men and others.

This fish was one of several kept in a small pool as an attraction for visitors to the hatchery. Thirty inches long she was, and when in good condition, she weighed all of eight pounds. But for a month before she died, according to hatchery attendants, she had eaten almost nothing and at her death she weighed only 5 3/4 pounds. Although she was not kept for brooding purposes, she was stripped for the first and only time last spring and 5,000 eggs were obtained. There are other rainbows in the pool – nice, large, fat ones – but none of them approaches the perfection of the old lady whose age is said to have been at least seven years. And this is a very ripe old age for a rainbow, say technicians.

FAMILY REUNION

Nearly three hundred descendants of Richard Hill, Revolutionary soldier and pioneer settler, and his wife, Nancy McNeel Hill, gathered at Droop Mountain State Park last Sunday for the first Hill Family reunion. It was proposed to make such a gathering of the relationship an annual event. Johnny Hill was elected president and Ruth Hill Secretary. These will name members of necessary committees.

The oldest one present was Joseph Hill, of Nicholas County, who was born in February 1852. His son is Ira Hill, County Clerk of Nich-olas County. He was also present.

The morning worship service was led by Rev. Nelson Hill, of Dunbar. Dr. Calvin W. Price spoke on Hill family history and traditions in the afternoon.

KILLED A BEAR

Oscar and Austin Sharp killed one big old sheep thieving bear on the forest road up Black Mountain near the Dead Water the first of the week. Leonard Sharp, of Woodrow, had a sheep killed near his house. The Sharp twins were called to bring their pack of bear dogs. The bear was jumped out of a briar patch on Day’s Run. The dogs fought him to the top of Spruce Knob. He then turned back toward Black Mountain and they held him for a fight on the forestry road near the Meadows.

This was a big old bear, lumped off at 400 pounds. There were signs he had enjoyed a hard social season in fights with other bears. He was all clawed up.

BIRTH

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Madison Warren, Jr., of Marlinton, a son, Lewis Franklin

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