Thursday,
February 21, 1963
From the desk of Mrs. Jane Price Sharp

Leo Mace, of Riverside, reported Saturday they had an icicle over a foot thick at their home.

1962 Bear Kill
West Virginia hunters reported killing 64 bears during the 1962 season. This is more than double the 29 bears reported killed in 1961.
In 1962, Randolph County alone reported 25 kills. Pocahontas County was next with a reported kill of nine bruins. Included in this Pocahontas County tally was West Virginia’s first known bow kill of a bear, taken by Joe Roy, of near Marlinton. Roy made the kill with one well placed arrow fired from a tree stand.
In addition to this seasonal harvest, 18 bears were known to have been killed at other times of the year. This represents a 50 percent decrease from 1961.

Cheat Mountian
by Rev. W. W. Sutton
excerpt
Toward fall I began to plan to go to school to study for the ministry. We spent four years at Tennessee Wesleyan College. Upon returning and stopping at Cass, I saw an old buddy and friend, Burl Adams, standing on the platform. He was one of the best buddies on loading logs I ever had. I saw him as we were breaking down logs from a skid-way while loading get a bone broken below the knee of left leg. There he was and one arm gone. He said, “Sutton, you see I have had some more bad luck.” My heart ached for that old friend.
He told me one day that he had a sister in the Nunnery of the Roman Catholic Church. We all are human and inclined to genuine sympathy; may it ever be so.

BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Ober, of Bartow, a son, named Roger Lee
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Grady Eugene Mullens, of Huntersville, a daughter, named Cynthia Ann.

DEATHS
Mrs. Margaret Brill Reinert, aged 49, of Effort, Pennsylvania; daughter of Mrs. Lura Moore Brill and the late Ira D. Brill. Burial in Mountain View Cemetery.
J. E. Buckley, aged 73, of a heart attack, in Tampa, Florida, Tuesday, February 19. Funeral service in Marlinton Methodist Church.
Mrs. Elzina Perry Woods, aged 84, of Marlinton; a daughter of the late Andrew and Susan Margaret Perry; burial in the Clawson Cemetery.
Leonard F. Cutlip, aged 67,of Marlinton; a son of the late Phillip Sheridan and Elizabeth Susan Cutlip. Burial in the Emmanuel Cemetery on Bruffey’s Creek.
J. Earle Hoover, aged 75, of Staunton, Virginia, of an apparent heart attack while cleaning snow from the steps of his home. He was the uncle of Callis Hoover, of Marlinton.
Albert Wade died at his home on Douthards Creek Tuesday night.
Merril Peacock was called to Crescent City, Florida, on Tuesday by the death of his father, John Peacock, aged 74.