pack saddle worms were always in the corn fields. they really hurt when they stung. the treatment of the day was a wet chew of tobacco held on the sting until you lost it or forgot where the hurt was. where the miner's hospital is today, there was a corn field in the junction, called the VICTORY FIELD, a favorite place for hide and seek, and to find corn left behind at harvest. The kids from JUNCTION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL would gather the corn and roast it in a bon fire . The open fields with rolling mounds, we called INDIAN BURIAL GROUND, always pushed our imaginations until someone would run home declaring they were sure they had just seen a ghost! CAPITOE or CAPITO was a coal mining company where my father worked. pat hendrickson sowders