Thursday,
November 15, 1962
From the desk of Mrs. Jane Price Sharp
 
Bear
Reports of bear are coming in from all around.  Argile Arbogast and his dogs have been called out several times but so far they haven’t gotten the bears.
Earl Beverage, of Clover Lick, beat Goldilocks last week. He was out squirrel hunting on his land on Laurel Run and saw six bears, two big ones, two middle sized ones, and two small ones. Having only light shot, he just watched them for a long time.  But then he went back to the house and got his son, Richard, and another gun and this time Mr. Beverage killed one of the middle sized ones weighing 110 pounds and that finished one menace to his sheep.  The next time out he didn’t find any.
 
Turtle
Mrs. Rush McNeill found a small land turtle in the road last Tuesday.  I don’t know much about them but it seemed right small for this time of year.
 
Town Council
Motion was made by Fred C. Burns, and seconded by J. W. Moses, voted upon and carried to submit application for approval for three major work projects in the Town of Marlinton.  One for Streets. One for the Water Plant, and the largest for a municipal sewage treatment facility plant.
 
Election officials
The County Court wants to congratulate the election officials for their work on November 6.  After canvassing the votes on Tuesday they feel this was the best job of any election in their experience.
 
MHS Senior Play
The game between Hastings and Winnebagushi High has been postponed because of a peculiar illness which has overtaken the entire team at Winnebagushi High School.  Two members of the high school have been accused of poisoning the team and the plot thickens in the three-act comedy entitled, “Beauty and the Beef” to be presented by Marlinton High Senior Class, November 16 at 8:00 p.m. in the school’s auditorium.
 Delmos Barb as “Beef” Anderson, football captain at Winnebagushi High, makes up in persistence what he lacks in brilliance. 
Cast members: Sondra Nelson, Karen Galford, Paul Workman, Sue Ann Withers, Blix McNeill, Phyllis Friel, Effie Underwood, Sue Sparks, Linda Malcom, Charlotte Reed, Brenda Galford, Beth Kellogg, Kermit Friel, Christine Sharp, Brenda T. Galford, Sandra Walker, Bill Perry, Don Jackson, Harold VanReenan, Bill Morrison, Harry Kelley, Richard Morgan and Betty Mann.
 
 BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ray Friel, of Marlinton, a son, Daniel Ray.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Moore, of Marlinton, a daughter, Patricia Marlene.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Dice Sharp, of Clover Lick, a son.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. William Anderson, of Minnehaha Springs, a daughter.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. John Deputy, of Dunmore, a son.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Hanna, of Marlinton, a son, Samuel Wallace.
 
 
DEATHS
Jeffrey Allen Sewell, one day old son of Mrs. and Mrs. George Sewell.
Miss Willa Belle Cross, aged 79; former manager of the Alpine Hotel and Restaurant at Cass.
James Lee Gragg, aged 28, of Durbin; lifelong resident of Durbin, and a member of the Durbin Methodist Church; burial in the Arbovale Cemetery.
Ward Arnold Kiner, aged 62, of a heart attack; son of the late Ed and Martha Burgess Kiner; burial in Cochran Cemetery.
Herman Walter Young, aged 80, of Frank; employed by the Pocahontas Tannery as a millwright; burial in the Simmons Cemetery.