10 Years Ago
Week of March 5, 2015
SUGAR GROVE
Homemade Remedies
Can Cure ‘What Ails Ya’
Folk medicine in this rural community was a system of healing made up of beliefs and practices that were transferred by oral tradition. It was developed in response to a lack of access to modern medicinal care and combines homemade remedies with superstition and religious beliefs. Some of the cures are as follows:
- Tie onions on the wrist to lower a high fever.
- Rub a stye with a gold wedding band.
- To relieve a headache, place a buckwheat cake on the head to remove the pain.
- To remove warts, cut an apple, a turnip or an onion into halves and rub the wart with the pieces and bury them under the eaves of the house.
- To cure a person of alcoholism, scrape the dirt that collects under his fingernails and put it in his whiskey.
- To cure sore eyes, melt snow from the winter’s first snowfall and wash eyes.
- To reduce inflammation, make a poultice of warm cow dung.
- To get rid of a corn, rub a wax candle on a corpse and then rub the same wax on the corn.
Times certainly have changed since the introduction of modern medicine. Very few, if any, use the old folk remedies, today. Instead, doctors are regularly visited.
20 Years Ago
Week of March 3, 2005
National Geographic
To Feature
Local Attractions
Seneca Rocks and Spruce Knob are on the map—an elite map of 356 sites selected as worthy visiting destinations in the 13-state Appalachian region of the eastern U.S.
Called the National Geographic Map Guide to Appalachia, the map will be featured in the April, 2005, edition of “National Geographic Traveler” magazine, which has a North American readership of 900,000.
The 356 elite Appalachian sites were chosen from more than 1,000 other worthy destinations and experiences.
It is intended to showcase Appalachia’s distinctive geography culture and heritage and was undertaken by the ARC to promote tourism in the 13-state region.
West Virginia is the only state wholly encompassed by the Appalachian region.
SUGAR GROVE
Readers Reminded that Time Marches On,
Waits for No One
One cannot manage time. It is a wild and uncontrollable thing. No matter what one does, it will pass. Rather than trying to manage time, one should embrace it, to ride it until one’s last gasp of air. The writer is reminded of what an 85-year-old Georgian lady once said if she could live her life over again.
“If I had my life over again, I would relax: I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this go-round. I would take more chances. I would take more trips. I would climb more mountains, swim more rivers and watch more sunsets. I would eat more ice cream and fewer beans. I would have more actual problems and fewer imaginary ones. I wouldn’t live so many years in front of each day. I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I wouldn’t work so hard. I’d ride more merry-go-rounds and pick more daisies.”
Pendleton Is a State Leader in Child Care
In several key categories studied to determine the well being of pre-school-aged children and also determine their readiness for the classroom when they begin school, Pendleton County is in many categories, a state leader.
30 Years Ago
Week of March 2, 1995
Dog Rex Helps Teach About Drugs
Drug awareness was the “Healthy Schools” target area for January at Seneca Rocks Elementary School. The month began with an opening assembly presented by Lt. Robert Simison, detective with the Zenia, Ohio Police Department. He gave a morning lesson on types of drugs and their effects to fifth and sixth graders. He spoke in the afternoon at the drug assembly for the entire school.
50 Years Ago
Week of March 6, 1975
Franklin Gets
Traffic Signs
A State Highway Department sign crew installed ten 25-miles-per-hour traffic signs and 11 Stop signs in Franklin last week.
Franklin Town Police Chief Jesse Crown said the speed signs were installed at all entrances to town and at several intersections within the town. The Stop signs were installed at street intersections.
Chief Crown said now that the signs have been installed, there is no excuse for speeding and the speed law will be vigorously enforced.
Crown said Larry Ours of Petersburg has been employed as an additional town policeman to provide more police protection. Ours was employed under a federal program and his salary will be paid with federal funds.
Pendleton Nursing Home Opens Monday
In Franklin
The Pendleton Nursing Home located on Maple Avenue in north Franklin began admitting residents Monday.
Three residents were admitted Monday, four more moved into the home Tuesday and others were scheduled to arrive during the remainder of the week.
Construction of the home was completed in January, and it was dedicated last December 15.
60 Years Ago
Week of March 4, 1965
100 YEARS AGO
By LON K. SAVAGE
Editor’s Note—The following is one of a series of articles on the Civil War. Each weekly installment covers events which occurred exactly 100 years ago.
Lincoln Inaugurated
For His Second Term
March 4, 1865, dawned dark and cloudy over Washington 100 years ago this week. Heavy rain fell and ran in rivulets through the muddy streets. Strong winds blew.
And on that day, the weather notwithstanding, Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated for his second term as President of the United States.
It was a day to be remembered not only for its historical importance but also because of the problems that arose.
The weather was the first one. In their best finery, the society, the sight-seers and the politicos of Washington turned out for the mid-day ceremony, and within minutes, their clothing hung on them limp and soggy.
But then the weather changed. The rain stopped, and the sky began to clear. On the east front of the capitol, a platform had been erected for the ceremony, and the capitol, itself, now was topped with a beautiful dome that had been constructed during the war years.
A new problem arose when Andrew Johnson was sworn in as vice president in a ceremony in the Senate chamber. Johnson had been ill and had come to the inauguration in a weakened condition. To fortify himself, he had consumed too much whiskey, and the combined effect of the illness and the whiskey was noticeable. Some who heard his rambling, maudlin speech wondered if he was drunk or crazy.
Everyone moved outside to the platform for Lincoln’s inauguration, and from there, things went well.
His inauguration address was the shortest in the nation’s history, and it attracted little attention at the time. Yet it included words that live still.
Lincoln first told his audience that having spoken often during the preceding four years, he now could present “little that is now.” Then he turned to the war and to the slavery issue.
“Both parties,” he said, referring to North and South, “deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came…” The sentence drew applause.
Turning to the “peculiar and powerful interest” of slavery, he said, “All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would renew the Union even by war, while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it already has attained.” This brought a cheer.
Lincoln then spoke of God’s will and its effect on the turn of events in American history and the Civil War. And he ended his speech as follows:
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for the widow and orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
He then began his second term—destined to last slightly longer than a month.
Next week: Sherman Enters North Carolina.
70 Years Ago
Week of March 3, 1955
Draft Call Is Lowest
Since September 1950
The Defense Department in Washington has issued a draft call for 8,000 men in April. This is the lowest monthly quota since Selective Service resumed in September 1950.
The April call is 3,000 lower than the 11,000 quotas previously announced for February and March. All April draftees will go into the Army.
The reduced April draft was attributed by officials to an unusually high recruiting record in January.
WILL INSPECT LOCAL ESTABLISHMENTS
FRIDAY
Representatives of the state fire marshal’s office will be in Franklin on Friday of next week, and in cooperation with the Franklin Volunteer Fire company, will inspect public lodging houses, amusement centers and some business establishments, it has been announced by Chief William Flinn. State laws designed to reduce fire hazards are on the books, and Friday’s examination will be made to ascertain if these hazards exist, and if so, recommendations will be made for their correction. Anyone wishing further information contact Chief Flinn.
HARPISTS APPEAR
AT HIGH SCHOOL
TONIGHT
The Pendleton County Family Concerts association will sponsor the appearance of a harp trio tonight at 8 o’clock in the Franklin High school auditorium. A spokesman for the association said, “We hope the price of admission will be 25 cents for students and 50 cents for adults. We would like to keep the price down at a level where most any music lover who really wants to attend can afford to do so; however, this price is subject to change without notice.”
80 Years Ago
Week of March 2, 1945
PERMANENTS
—vvv—
I will give at my home on North Fork until further notice.
Machine Permanents $4. $5. $6.
Machineless Permanents $6. $7.
Helene Curtis Cold Waves $10. $15. $20.
Please make appointment.
RONNA SPONAUGLE
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MORE WASTE FATS MUST BE SALVAGED
IN WEST VIRGINIA
MORGANTOWN, Feb. 20—J. O. Knapp, director of the agricultural extension service, West Virginia University, and chairman of the West Virginia salvage committee, announced here this week that vigorous campaigns are being organized through all county agricultural extension offices in the state to expedite the salvage of waste fats.
“The supply of fat is inadequate to take care of present demands,” Director Knapp pointed out, “and meeting of the increased demand in 1945 will materially lower existing stocks. The quantity of household fats collected from more accessible urban sources is declining, partly because of the smaller supplies of meat and edible fats available to civilians. Farm and small town families must be depended upon to increase the quantity of household fats collected for salvage.”
While the fat salvage program has been in operation for more than 2 years, the need for fat is more urgent now than ever before. Even a teaspoonful is important when multiplied by 12,000,000 farm and small town families.
Director Knapp reminded West Virginians this week that fats are used in the manufacture of many strategic war materials—synthetic rubber, protective coatings, pharmaceuticals and many others. Government requirements to meet these needs have increased. Fats also are used in the manufacture of hundreds of products for civilian use. And at present there isn’t enough to go around.
“Homemakers have already done a good job in salvaging a lot of used fat—170 million pounds last year—but more is urgently needed during 1945,” Director Knapp added.
For every pound of used fat that is salvaged, Mrs. Housewife will receive 4 cents and two (2) red points.