Thursday, February 21, 1946
Our Army and Navy Boys
Fairmont – Charles Wallace Gun, of Millpoint, a veteran and a junior at Fairmont State College, was one of seven men and women to make a straight “A” average at the school… A son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Gum, the young man was in the service four years and a half, and was a sergeant in the Army… He thinks it is fine to be a civilian again and very interesting to be in college. He is majoring in biology.
Johnny LaRue, of Hillsboro, and Ray Irvine and Joseph Smith, of Marlinton, have returned to their homes with honorable discharges from the Navy after long and hard service.
Captain Harry Lynn Sheets, of the Army Air Corps, has returned to his home here with an honorable discharge after long and hard service.
Boyer – Mrs. Charles Lee Nelson has received a telegram from her son, Corporal Johnny C. Nelson, stating he has landed back in the States. He has been in the Army about three years with 22 months in the South Pacific.
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Pearl Harbor – John Ralph Dilley, F 2-c, husband of Mrs. Jane V. Dilley, of Marlinton, is returning to the States aboard the U. S. S. Sarasota, an attack transport of the “Magic Carpet.” This ship left Peleliu January 30 and is scheduled to arrive in San Diego about February 21. The U. S. S. Sarasota is one of the Navy’s vast fleet of cargo and transport ships which maintained long and often hazardous supply lines throughout the Atlantic and Pacific during the war.
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Lt. Ethel D. Taylor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell W. Taylor, of Greenbank, has written to her parents that she is on her way to the South Pacific.
Lt. Taylor, a graduate nurse of Elkins City Hospital, entered the Army Nurse Corps April 12, 1945. She did work at Valley Forge General Hospital, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for four months.
She left the States from Port of Embarkation, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 4th and spent some time in the Canal Zone, Panama.
She returned to Southern California the latter part of October. On January 18, she sailed on the U. S. Republic as one of its Complement Nurses. This is the largest Army Hospital Ship afloat and is equipped for a capacity of 12,000 patients.
During this trip, the Republic is expected to stop at many places, its main point being Manila…
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor also have two sons in service. Bedford, who has been in the Maritime Merchant Marines since March, 1942, has made many trips to foreign countries. Raymond enlisted in the Navy in September 1945, and is now stationed at Jacksonville, Florida.
LETTER
Dear Mr. Price;
I just read in your grand paper of the plight of the Pocahontas Memorial Hospital. It seems a shame that such a necessary and worthy institution should be closing for lack of funds. If a tax levy is necessary to keep it going, then I’m in favor of it.
Please pass on the enclosed check to the subscription committee.
With best regards,
Maj. Meade L. Waugh
Ft. Benj. Harrison,
Indiana
FIELD NOTES
L. A. Buzzard was over from Mt. Grove the other day, and reports the good sale of his famous Demey Coon Hound to J. W. Ramsey, manager of the Morning Valley Blue Tick Coon Hound Kennels, of Alliance, Ohio. The price paid was $250, and cheap at that. Mr. Buzzard got the hound down in Kentucky and trained him by his own hand. Incidentally, he trains but one coon dog at a time.
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J. S. Cook reports seeing panther sign in the Buckley Mountain. One day last month in walking his trap line, he came upon the track of a big panther – its stride was a full thirty-six inches. Following on the trail, Mr. Cook came to the place the panther had stalked and killed a big doe. The varmint had eaten a full meal and then moved on. The scene of the kill was on Improvement Lick Run, above the forks, up toward the head of Jake’s Run. Mr. Cook followed the panther across Beaver Creek. It had made a bed under a hemlock on the north of Pyles Mountain. Going on, the trail was lost on the south of the mountain, which was bare of snow.
LOCAL OPTION ELECTION
In this paper is published the call for the local option election to be held on March 18 in the Town of Marlinton for the purpose of voting on the question of whether the municipality will continue to endure the nuisance of a state liquor store. It is asking just a little too much of a community to be the drinking ground of the alcoholics and the punks who cannot carry their liquor from a big countryside. I am getting good and tired of Marlinton and Webster Springs being referred to in police circles as two outstanding bad examples of the whole state for really bad conditions as regards drunks and their out-breakings.
WEDDINGS
On Tuesday, February 12, 1946, Miss Mary Mildred Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Brown, of Arbovale, became the bride of Yeager F. Gum, son of Mr. Dyer Gum and the late Mrs. Gum, of Leesburg, Virginia.
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Miss Virginia Lucille Burner, of Durbin, became the bride of Thuri William Barkley in a quiet wedding ceremony at the Methodist Parsonage in Monterey, Virginia, February 9, 1946… The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Burner, of Durbin, and the groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Barkley, of Blue Grass.
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Jesse Myers, of Boyer, and Miss Mary Lou Cosner, of Greenbank, were united in marriage at the Methodist Parsonage in Monterey on Tuesday, February 5, 1946… The groom has recently been given an honorable discharge from the Army. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Myers.
