The following information is taken from the pages of The West Virginia Daily News, The West Virginia News, and The Greenbrier Independent in The West Virginia Daily News archives from 25, 50, 75, and 100 years ago.
June 24-28, 1996
25 Years Ago…
Lewisburg has a new 1996 model, 1,250-gallon per minute pumper fire truck in service.
Lewisburg City Council approved the fire department’s plan to purchase the truck last December.
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Westvaco Corporation’s team was the first place winner at Gateway Industries’ 14th Annual Golf Scramble held May 15 at the Lewisburg Elks Country Club. Team members were Tony and Carol Mollish, Jim Grobow-ski, and Bob Davis.
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Tammy Pusey, a 1994 graduate of Greenbrier East High School, has been accepted into the respiratory therapy program at the College of West Virginia in Beckley, where she is a junior.
She is the daughter of Anna Frances Pusey of Fairlea and the late Bud Pusey.
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Guardrail installation will soon be underway in Greenbrier County. Contracts were awarded as follows: $126,085 to West Virginia Paving Inc. of Dunbar for 3.07 miles Auto Road on County 11 and $76,743 to West Virginia Paving Inc. for 2.66 miles Organ Cave Road on County 62.
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Lewisburg Starter & Alternator is now open for business next to Reynolds Oil on U.S. 219 North in Lewisburg. Owner is Greg McCullough, and technician is Tom Withrow.
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Greenbrier Farm and Home Supply will open for business as a Southern States Cooperative private dealer. The building is presently under construction at Organ Cave.
Don and Drema Holliday are the owners, and James R. Holliday is manager of the store.
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Tim Longanacre of Burke, VA, the son of John and Becky Longanacre of Fort Spring, was recently promoted to the rank of major in the United States Army at a Pentagon ceremony.
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Margaret R. Kelley of Lewisburg was named to the dean’s list for the spring 1996 semester at Point Park College in Pittsburgh, PA, for outstanding academic achievement.
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John Montgomery and Mike Burns, 6th grade Lewisburg Elementary School students, received full scholarships to junior conservation camp from Emily Shirey, Greenbrier Gardeners Garden Club treasurer.
June 24, 1971
50 Years Ago…
Houston B. Moore of Lewisburg has been accepted in the School of Medicine at West Virginia University.
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Emory Lee Perkins of Frankford was appointed a deputy sheriff by the Greenbrier County Court at a special meeting Tuesday morning.
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The Council of the City of Lewisburg has levied a 2 percent tax on the privilege of purchasing, using, and consuming public utility services in the City of Lewisburg.
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Captain C. Doyle Kester has been named athletic director of Greenbrier Military School. He has also been appointed director of Greenbrier’s Mountaineer Sports Camps.
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Army Private Bradley G. Cox, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wade Cox of Renick, recently completed eight weeks of basic training at Fort Jackson, SC.
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As recorded by the Greenbrier County clerk’s office, a charter has been issued to White Sulphur Glass Company Inc., with principal offices in White Sulphur Springs. Incorporators are James W. Fife, L.K. Fife, and Lucy A. Life, all of White Sulphur Springs.
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Mr. and Mrs. Creigh Nickell and twin daughter, Connie and Carolyn, have returned from Paris, France, where they attended a textile machine exhibition.
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The Rainelle Town Council granted to Georgia-Pacific Timber Company a franchise to provide electric energy within the town of Rainelle for a period of 25 years.
June 27, 1946
75 Years Ago…
Capt. Domenick Gaudino, former band director at Greenbrier High School, arrived in Ronceverte on Sunday from the separation center at Ft. Geo. G. Meade, Md., after serving in the Army more than four years.
He will spend his terminal leave in Ronceverte and resume his position on the teaching staff in the high school next term.
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Martha Montgomery Turner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex S. Turner of Lewisburg, received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Flora Stone Mather College of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Mr. and Mrs. Jack Horton have moved from Logan to Ronceverte. Mr. Horton has accepted a position with Buckholder & Green.
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In the home of Mr. and Mrs. A.W. McThenia, known as “The Cedars,” is a Seth Thomas grandfather clock that once belonged to the great commoner, William Jennings Bryan. The clock was brought to Alderson by the late Miss Bryan’s daughter, Mrs. Ruth Bryan Rohde.
The clock was included in the sale of the home to the McThenias.
June 25, 1921
100 Years Ago…
Miss Nuna Patton, one of the graduating class of Greenbrier High School, has accepted a position as bookkeeper with the Singer sewing machine company in Ronceverte.
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A force from the factory of Mosler Vault & Safe Company are in Ronceverte this week installing one of the most modern burglar- and fire-proof vaults in the First National Bank of Ronceverte.
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Ronceverte has installed street signals at intersections to direct motor and other traffic to the right at turns and put into effect other traffic regulations, including the parking of cars and other vehicles.
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A sufferer who lives close to a railroad yard wrote the following complaint to the railway company about the racket made by a switch engine:
“Gentlemen: Why is it that your switch engine has to ding and dong and fizz and spit and bang and hiss and pant and grind and puff and bump and chug and hoot and toot and whistle and jar and jerk and howl and snarl and pull and growl and thump and boom and clash and jolt and screech and throb and roar and rattle and yell and smoke and smell and shriek like hell all night long?”
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