20 Years Ago
Week of November 24, 2005
NWTF Distributes 100 Thanksgiving Turkeys
One of the many pure expressions of the true meaning of the holiday season, the act of giving and being of service to one’s fellow man, occurs every year at the Christian Assistance Network building in Franklin and is conducted by the National Wild Turkey Federation, Potomac Headwaters chapter.
On Thursday morning, NWTF members, assisted by CAN volunteers, gave 100 turkeys to the needy.
It is the third consecutive year that the local NWTF chapter has given out turkeys for Thanksgiving.
It is the local chapter’s annual JAKES event for young hunters and annual record-setting banquet in June that make the organization’s several charitable activities in this community possible.
Cut Home Energy Bills By Adding, Cleaning And Changing
Working to help Americans save energy and save money, the Alliance to Save Energy and the U.S. Department of Energy suggest these steps:
•Clean or replace air-conditioning and heating filters monthly;
•Check the furnace or heat pump to make sure it’s running properly;
•Wash clothes in cold water.
•Do full loads of laundry;
•Air dry dishes;
•Install proper insulation in attic, ceilings, floors and crawl spaces;
•Clean the dryer’s lint filter to quicken drying of clothes;
•Install low flow shower heads;
•Fix leaky faucets;
•Turn off and unplug all appliances that are not in use; and
•Install a programmable thermostat. Program heat down from 72 degrees to 65 degrees for eight hours a day. This will reduce the heating bill up to 10 percent.
30 Years Ago
Week of November 23, 1995
Pendleton County Is Leader in Adopt-A-Highway Program
Pendleton County residents are among the most civic minded in the state when it comes to removing litter from highways. Pendleton with one of the smallest populations in the state and one of the largest areas has perhaps the largest number of individuals and groups participating in the Adopt-A-Highway Program in proportion to its population of any county in the state.
Pendleton County has 36 family groups and organizations working to keep the roads clear of litter.
The trash from the April 25, 1995, Statewide Adopt-A-Highway Spring Clean Up has been weighed, and the totals are impressive, according to Anna Shahan, Adopt-A-Highway coordinator. All 55 counties participated, with 572 volunteer organizations picking up 12,228 bags of trash totaling 424,980 pounds.
Marshall Cited For Building Character
Marshall University has been elected to join institutions such as Yale, Notre Dame and Baylor on the 1995 Templeton Honor Roll for Character Building Colleges, a poll of colleges and universities which recognizes those institutions that promote the development of character.
Criteria for selection for the honor roll are: Encourage students to explore individual moral reasoning process, foster positive attitude and overall well being, encourage spiritual growth and moral values, promote community building values, and advocate drug-free lifestyle.
A total of 124 schools in 33 states was selected for the honor roll. Marshall was the only West Virginia institution selected.
Week of November 30, 1995
2,241 Bucks Killed First Week In Pendleton County
474 Higher than Last Year’s Kill
Deer hunters killed 2,241 bucks in Pendleton County during the first week of the annual two-weeks bucks only hunting season.
This year’s kill continues a rebound from the 1993 harvest of only 1,485 which was the lowest in a number of years, but it still is considerably short of the high recorded in 1992 when 2,747 bucks were checked the first week of the season.
50 Years Ago
Week of November 27, 1975
Local Residents Favor 55 mph Speed Limit
The results of a public opinion survey of Pendleton County residents announced today by Congressman Harley O. Staggers show overwhelming support for continuing the nationwide 55 m.p.h. speed limit. A resounding 88% of the local citizens responding to the poll favor the lower speed.
Pendleton Countians also said they favored limiting the amounts of medical malpractice awards (90%), support a federal public works program to provide jobs (75%), want the imposition of wage, price, rent and interest controls to stop inflation (58%), and would like to see the federal government buy and rebuild railroad tracks and roadbeds (54%).
When asked to choose among several rather unpleasant proposals for discouraging gasoline consumption, county voters picked rationing as their first choice.
Space Sought for New Seneca Post Office
The U. S. Postal Service has announced that it is seeking space for a post office at Mouth of Seneca in Pendleton County. The site size is to be 85 feet by 110 feet and the post office is to have a net interior of 1,046 square feet.
The Postal Service will lease the facility from the successful bidder for a basic term of 15 years with three successive five-year options to renew.
DAHMER
The old McCoy Mill took on a new look recently with the addition of a picturesque old rail fence. Construction began on this present mill about 1845. The first mill to be built was in 1766 by Ulrick Conrad, Sr., who came from Switzerland. A mountain to the east of the mill still bears his name Ulrick’s Mountain. The present mill has seen many changes, some good, some not so good. Perhaps this summer and fall is the first time the American flag displayed its colors at the mill to the races of man that go by. This was made possible by Jeannye W. Wehner.
British Soldiers Respected Power Of American Women
Two centuries before women’s lib, British soldiers respected the power of American women.
Writing from Charleston, South Carolina, in 1781, a Redcoat lamented to the folks at home: “An officer told Lord Cornwallis . . . that he believed if he had destroyed all the men in North America, we should have enough to do to conquer the women.”
Side by side, women fought with their men on battlefields of the Revolutionary War. They carried water for drinking and for swabbing the cannon barrels, served as nurses to the wounded, and sometimes even joined their menfolk on the firing line.
80 Years Ago
Week of November 23, 1945
MOUTH OF SENECA
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THANKSGIVING
How time flies! Thanksgiving season is with us again.
By the grace of God, we won the war, the most horrific, the most savage, and the most terrible war of all history. We should thank a kind and beneficent providence that not a city in America was bombed, not a house was burned down, and not even a field of corn was destroyed by the enemy.
Bruin Comes Down
You know I was telling you about Thompson, Butcher, and others bear hunting. In driving by Mr. Thompson’s place to my surprise, there in the gable end of his house is a big black bear hide tacked up in plain view for everyone to see, and he yelled at me, “now call your dog back and strut your stuff!” They did not give up, but tried again and again, and last week they chased him through the underbrush, briars, and laurel thickets to the head of Seneca Creek, and there on sentinel duty was Thompson with his old trusty rifle, and his deadly aim brought him down and he was a monster weighing more than three hundred pounds.
The boys didn’t forget the excellent advice I gave them and remembered me by rewarding me with a nice loaf of bear steak, for which they have my thanks.
Week of November 30, 1945
MOUTH OF SENECA
Well, it has come and gone with the wind. It was simply gorgeous with its radiant sunshine, harvest moon, and brilliant stars. Some one has said it is an ideal period of the year—so weird, so fascinating and perfect—not too hot and not too cold.
After the spring flowers, heat and harvest of summer, after leaves are mantled in crimson fire and gold, and when chilly winds and snow flurries warn of the approach of slippery creeks and snowbound winter, then and then only, some invisible hand seizes the galloping steed of the seasons and reins him up suddenly for a season while earth, air and sky weave around the weatherbeaten brow of the year, a golden crown of “Indian Summer.”
The sun pours down a soft and dreamy golden light, the moon adds its bit, the sky is filled with fleecy white clouds and now we see a purplish gauze that seems to float everywhere. The air is bewitching and charming, yet balmy and caressing, and this is the end of Indian Summer. Dedicated to Attorney Hodges.
The first Ford passenger car produced in this country since February, 1942, was presented to President Harry Truman. It was a Super Deluxe Tudor Sedan and it was accepted by the President as a personal gift from Henry.
You have often heard the story of the time when Messrs. Ford, Edison, Firestone, and Burroughs got stuck up in a muddy West Virginia road. Well, I saw a picture of them the other day and Mr. Burroughs really looks like “Santa Claus.”
Yours—Katinka
FRANKLIN HI LIGHTS
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school overcrowded
A. J. Gibson, State Supervisor of high schools, visited the school October 30 and in his report states: “I believe your building is one of the worst overcrowded in the state. I hope that the revised formula for the distribution for state aid will make it possible for you to add some additional rooms to your school plant.”
Neighboring states of Ohio and Kentucky took advantage of the aid for school buildings offered prior to the war. Is West Virginia ready to take advantage of the post war works program?
105 Years Ago
Week of November 19, 1920
COMMUNITY LEARNS OF THE
TOWN OF FRANKLIN CONSTITUTION
Article 1.
The name of this organization is “The Community League of the Town of Franklin.”
Article 2.
Object.
The object of this organization shall be to improve the scenic, physical, hygienic and moral conditions of the community.
Article 3.
Nature of the Organization.
While reporting that every member of this organization shall perform his or her full duty as a citizen according to his or her own conscience and understanding, the organization shall be absolutely non-partisan, and shall not be used for the dissemination of partisan principles, or for the promotion of any selfish purposes whatever.
Article 4.
Membership.
All persons who are willing to faithfully carry into effect all of the foregoing and following articles are eligible to membership in this organization.
Article 5.
Charter Members.
Members who join this organization prior to Nov. 2, 1920, shall be known as charter members.
Article 6.
Headquarters.
This organization shall have headquarters in the Town of Franklin, Pendleton County, West Virginia.
Article 7.
Officers.
The officers of this organization shall consist of a chairman, vice chairman, secretary, treasurer, who shall be elected by a majority vote of the members of the organization at its annual meeting hereinafter provided for. Said officers, together with five members to be appointed by the chairman, not later than the next regular meeting after said annual meeting, shall constitute the executive committee.
Article 8.
Membership Fees.
The annual membership fee for each member shall be 50 cents payable on becoming a member, and thereafter at the beginning of the fiscal year.
