1924– 100 Years Ago
Horse Sells For Nickel
Here is a sample of what the automobile is doing to the horse. At a public auction sale at Terra Alta one horse sold for a nickel and another for ten cents. At Kingwood recently a horse was sold at auction for a quarter, another for fifty cents and the third for fifty cents.
Alderson To Get Prison
E. Dudding, as president of the Prisoners National Relief Society, is taking great interest in the government plan to provide an institution for women prisoners separate from the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, GA, and he expresses confidence that the Alderson site will be finally chosen.
Woman’s World Is Wider
Women are now enfranchised and enjoy almost equal educational opportunities with men. They may enter practically all professions and trades, and 21.01 per cent of them are gainfully employed.
1949 – 75 Years Ago
School Burns
The Maxwelton school house burned to the ground early Wednesday morning. The Lewisburg Volunteer Fire Department went to the scene but due to the lack of water could not save the building and contents.
Dear Returned
Remains of 5,205 Americans who lost their lives during World War II have been returned to the United States from the Mediterranean area aboard the United States Army Transport. Armed forces dead originally interred in temporary military cemeteries in Italy and North Africa are among those brought back to this country. A total of 102 remains were returned upon instructions of next of kin residing in West Virginia.
Speaking Of Averages
The average cow eats 100 pounds of food daily to produce from 20 to 25 pounds of milk. An average American family owns 3 beds. The average American uses 26 pounds of soap a year. The average beehive produces 17 pounds of honey annually. The average housewife washes 6 tons of dishes a year.
1974– 50 Years Ago
Demands Made For Release Of Daughter Of Newspaper Publisher
Publisher Randolph Hearst was faced today with the bizarre ultimatum of arranging to provide $300 million worth of free food for 4.9 million needy Californians as a first step in the release of his kidnaped daughter (Patricia Hearst).
Final Stage Of Withdrawal Begins
Israeli forces that rumbled across the Suez Canal in the waning days of the 1973 Middle East War today pulled out of the West Bank, marking the start of the final stage of their negotiated withdrawal from the Suez front. In Cairo, the influential newspaper Al Ahram said U. S. Secretary of State Henry S. Kissinger has worked out a compromise disengagement between Israel and Syria on the tense Golan Heights.
Know Your State Government Day
H. Law, head of the special studies department of Greenbrier East High School and five students attended the “Know Your State Government” event at the Charleston Civic Center. The students were chosen because of their outstanding scholastic achievements.
1999– 25 Years Ago
Local Students Volunteer For Habitat Challenge
More than two dozen Bridgewater College students will be devoting their spring break to volunteer efforts as construction workers for Habitat for Humanity’s Collegiate Challenge Spring Break ’99. Participants from the local region are Amanda Childers, a freshman psychology major from Frankford, and Kimberly D. Hendrick, a freshman chemistry major from Marlinton. To raise money for the trip and awareness about homelessness, 20 members of the Bridgewater College Chapter of Habitat for Humanity slept in boxes on the campus mall on January 15.
Elks Lodge Donates To VA Hospital
Keeping the promise that “So long as there are veterans in hospitals, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks will never forget,” four members of Lewisburg Elks Lodge #1758 traveled to Beckley recently to deliver items to the VA Medical Center there. Among the items donated by the lodge were 200 sets of toiletries for male patients, 100 sets for female patients and 50 decks of playing cards. In addition, the lodge gave $100 to the hospital’s “haircut fund.”
Special Program At WVSOM Honors Gandhi And King
L. Seshagiri Rao, Ph.D., presented a program on Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. at WVSOM. Dr. Rao is professor emeritus in the department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He received his doctorate in Comparative Study of Religions from Harvard University. The program was sponsored by the WVSOM Committee on Social Justice and Ethnic Diversity.
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