1924– 100 Years Ago
Scott Taken
Jess Scott, mountain outlaw and moonshiner, was captured last Monday afternoon by a posse of West Virginia State Police in a barn on Anthony’s Creek, about three miles from Neola, this county. He has been a fugitive from justice for six months during which time he was implicated in the shooting of five officers, one of whom was killed.
Rainelle News
Mr. Hugh Brown and L. L. Graybeal have formed the Rainelle Motor Co. and are putting up a garage and sales rooms in East Rainelle. They have the Ford Agency for this territory.
Feature At Grand
The management of The Grand Theatre takes pleasure in announcing the arrival of the Harry Shannon Carolina Beach Orchestra – 10 people strutting their stuff. This is more than a mere theatrical occurrence, it is a joyous, momentous occasion. This company will sing and play with equal brilliance. They will play in conjunction with the picture “The Red Warrning.”
1949 – 75 Years Ago
Car Using Less Gas
Imagine a car, within the reach of everyone, without gear shifting, the speed of 80 miles an hour and gas consumption 35 miles per gallon. Can such a car be built soon? An enterprising German engineer thinks so. Hans Harmsen, 24, claims he has invented the motor which will revolutionize the automobile industry. He says his motor works on the principle of a turbine and is better, cheaper and more economical than any existing motor.
Sweet Lucy Campaign
Mayor W. W. Payne of Huntington called on Police Chief Hercil H. Gartin to clear the street corners and other loafing spots of what he called Sweet Lucy drinkers. His honor explained that the term is sub-world jargon for cheap wine, sometimes with sleeping tablets or headache pills in it. Some of these characters, he added, even drink paint thinner, and they become so sodden they can sleep standing up.
Band Concert
The 90-piece band of Virginia Polytechnic Institute will give a band concert on the campus of Greenbrier College, May 7. Members of the band will be guests of the college at a buffet supper following the concert. Saturday evening the junior class will hold its annual formal prom in the college gym. Music will be furnished by Jimmy Loving’s “Aristocrats.” The VPI cadets will also attend the dance.
1974– 50 Years Ago
New Evidence Appears After First Hearings
Only one day into its impeachment hearings, the House Judiciary Committee has been told that President Nixon may have been more intimately involved in Watergate that he ever has acknowledged. The inference that Nixon had at least general knowledge of the Republican’s illegal plan to conduct espionage against the Democrats came behind closed doors from John M. Doar, the committee’s chief impeachment counsel.
Calley Awaits Prison Decision
Six years after the My Lai massacre, William L. Calley, Jr. anxiously awaits a decision on whether he will finally be imprisioned for the slaughter of at least 22 civilians in the South Vietnamese hamlet. It was March 16, 1968, when Calley’s platoon of the American Division’s 11th Infantry Brigade stormed through the tiny village. Calley was convicted March 29, 1972, for his role in the atrocity.
S. Not Ready For Metric System
The House of Representatives has decided in effect that the United States isn’t quite ready for kilometers, grams, centimeters and other trappings of the metric system, which has spread throughout most of the world since the 19th Century. It voted down Tuesday, in a 240-154 roll call a bill to coordinate conversion of U. S. weights and measures to the metric system.
1999– 25 Years Ago
Ribbon-Cutting Conducted At Sweet Grass Village
Some 200-plus state and local officials, board, commission and committee members, realtors, and interested citizens attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony a Sweet Grass Village near Lewisburg. Sweet Grass is being marketed as an active retirement community offering resort-style living in the Greenbrier Valley.
East Students Win First Place In Academic Festival
Greenbrier East High School students representing their school won first place in the 1999 S.C.O.R.E.S. academic festival at Marshall University. These students completed with over 50 schools in areas of academics, physical fitness, dance, music, science and home economics.
Habitat For Humanity Launches “Church Build” Construction Project
Representatives from several area churches met with Greenbrier Habitat for Humanity officials to begin planning for a church-sponsored home in 1999. The meeting, held at Clifton Presbyterian Church, focused on the roles of the different churches in funding as well and providing volunteer labor in the construction process. Greenbrier Habitat for Humanity is an interdenominational Christian ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by building houses and selling them at low cost and no interest to qualified families.
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