Thursday, August 23, 1951
OUR ARMY AND NAVY BOYS
Karl Pritt is home on a 30-day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andy Pritt, at Lobelia. Karl is home from long and hard fighting in Korea. His bro-ther, Corporal Donald S. Pritt, of Fort Knox, Kentucky, was also home on furlough last week.
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Sandy C. Rose, aviation machinist mate, third class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Rose, of Marlinton, is attached to Air Anti-Submarine Squadron 21, at the Naval Air Station, San Diego, California.
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Marine Private First-Class Louis McClure, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry McClure, of Marlinton, climaxed his recruit training by winning the marksman medal in the rifle range when he fired a score of 207 out of a possible 250 during his weapons training.
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Corporal Russell S. Cassell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Brice Cassell, on Back Alleghany, is home on a 20-day furlough. He is a member of the Air Force, stationed at Biggs Field, Texas. He is a graduate of Green Bank High School, class of 1947. He has had 15 months service. His brother is Corporal Alvin Cassell of the Army, now in Korea.
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Private Royal Kershner, of Droop, has landed in the States after serving with the U. S. Army in Korea.
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Private Lyle K. Birchfield, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rose Birchfield, of Huntersville, now of Co. B 110th Infantry 28th Division, has arrived at Fort Bragg to take part in the huge exercise “Southern Pine” now in progress on the sprawling maneuver area there… Southern Pine is the largest routine training maneuver of its type to be held in the United States since World War II.
DEDICATION SERVICE
The fine new parsonage of the Levelton Charge of the Methodist Church at Hillsboro will be dedicated with a fitting service 2 p.m. Sunday, August 26, 1951. Homecoming service at 11 a.m. Basket dinner; bring your lunch.
FIELD NOTES
D. S. Hamrick, of Monterville, was a caller at this office last Wednesday. He has just returned from a fishing trip to Michigan for pike and bass and up in Canada for trout. He has the distinction of killing the last big timber wolf in these parts as a boy of 18 years, back in 1908. This was a lone wolf which ranged the Gauley and Elk and Point Mountain country, taking heavy toll of sheep. Webster County offered a reward of $100 to kill the varmint. A hunt was organized and on the 8th day, young Daniel Stover Hamrick got the chance and killed the wolf. The Webster court refused to pay the reward under the too-thin point that the actual killing of the wolf was across the imaginary line into the county of Randolph. A lawsuit brought the money.
Five or six years before, John Gregory had killed the mate of this wolf and her two pups.
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The following adventure with a rattlesnake did not happen this berry season, but it did happen some years since. The scene was in upper Pocahontas County and the time, berry season. A lady and her sister and her little daughter went a berry picking. The little girl came onto some especially fine vines overhanging a hole in the ground. She jumped down in the depression for to reach the berries. Her horror is better imagined than described when a great rattlesnake sounded his warning and tried to wiggle out from under her feet. However, she stood pat, with one foot just back of the snake’s head. Mother and aunt rushed to her assistance. There was no room for to reach the snake and kill it. Taking a chance, the ladies each grasped a hand of the little girl. With a pull and jump the young lady came out of the depression like she was on a spring. It was all too quick for the snake to coil and strike. The rattler was killed and it proved to be one of the largest of its kind.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Clawson Sheets, of Bartow, a daughter, Donna Faye.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Franklin McCarty, of Frost, a son, Lanty Franklin.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Tincher, of Mill Point, a daughter, Carolyn Sue.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Burks, of Mill Point, a son, Gary Ray.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. William Simmons, of Hillsboro a daughter, Kathy Ellen.
Born to Major and Mrs. R. K. Moore, a daughter, named Marianne. The Major is the son of Mr. Elihu Moore, of Huntersville.
DEATHS
Steve Nick Barnasky, 63, of Frank. Funeral service from the Brethren Church.
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Lana Varner Curtis, aged 68 years, widow of the late Charles L. Curtis, died at her home in Blue Jay August 12. Burial in the Blue Jay cemetery, the service being conducted from the Methodist church. The deceased was a daughter of the late Rev. John P. and Dianna Varner, of Bartow.
