Wirt County Journal December 15, 1999 Remember When ... * From the Wirt County Journal files July 15, 1921 Ball Game The Elizabeth ball team journeyed to Grantsville on last Saturday for a game with the Grantsville nine, but on account of rain the game was not played till the next day and resulted in a score of 7 to 1 in favor of Elizabeth. The home boys only have words of commendation for the courteous treatment they received at the hand of the Grantsville team and citizens while there. Batteries for Elizabeth Gabbert and C. Miller, for Grantsville Hickle and Burns. Struck out by Gabbert 19, by Hickle 10. Double play by Elizabeth Bee to Daniell, to G. Miller. School Items Teachers' Institute for Wirt County will be held the week beginning August 8th. D.C. Tabler of Cameron, W.Va., and Mrs. Irma M. Geiger of Winfield have been assigned to our county. We understand other speakers have also been assigned to our institute. John Tippens, progressive teacher of Tucker District, with his wife and baby were visitors here on Saturday. Mrs. Tippens will teach the Hickory Grove School in Tucker District the coming term. Guy E. Coe, one of our county's former prominent educators, is visiting home folks this week. He arrived here Monday evening from Middleport, O., where he has held a position as bookkeeper for a coal company for the past several months. C. W. Hylbert, principal of the Burning Springs School, was a visitor here on Tuesday. Miss Hazel Wright of Sanoma, one of our county's progressive and up-to-date lady teachers, was a visitor here the first of this week. The Elizabeth Joint District Board met Tuesday and closed a deal with F. E. Badger for a five acre field facing the river and Baptist Church, on which Mr. Badger is to erect a five room building for a high school. Total cost of building and grounds $5,000. John Tanner will go to Clay County this year where he has a five room school at $200 per month. It is rumored that he will resign as clerk of the circuit court. February 27, 1959 Miss Sams Honored at Glenville State College Miss Patricia Sams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reeder Sams of Walker, has been chosen Campus Cover Girl for Glenville State College. This contest is sponsored by Roto Magazine of the Pittsburgh Press. A freshman at GSC, Miss Sams is a home economics student. She was on the dean's list for the first semester. She plans to teach home economics, and is a member of Xi Beta Tau sorority. Miss Sams is a graduate of Wirt County High School. Kenny Smith Makes Dean's List at Tech Mr. Kenneth D. Smith of Elizabeth, a graduate of Wirt County High School, was among the 187 West Virginia Tech students honored on the dean's list for the first semester at the college. His average was 3.800. Start Re-Building Ayers Farm Home Cecil Ayers, Parkersburg, was a business visitor in Elizabeth last Saturday, and had been attending to some of the details of starting re-construction of a farm home for his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Ayers of Windy, destroyed by fire on Dec. 3, 1958. A bulldozer was used to complete excavation for a fall-sized basement., Local and Personal Events of Interest Weekend visitors of Mrs. Emma Wright, City, were step-daughter, Mrs. Hazel Smith, of Kenova, W.Va., a step-son, Ira L. Wright, of Arthurdale, W.Va., and a niece, Mrs. Lester Bock, of Burning Springs. Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Roberts returned to their home here Wednesday after spending more than a month at Anna Maria, Fla. They reported having rain the first two days they were there and the last two days before returning, but otherwise very favorable weather. They had a wonderful vacation and both are rested and happy. C. E. (Ed) Hughes of Rt. 4, Parkersburg, was an Elizabeth visitor one day last week. He continues the operation of his new service station on Route 2, south of Parkersburg. Harris Giffin of the Rose Hill section was here last Saturday, enroute to Parkersburg for the day, and he was very emphatic about the item in Rose Hill news items last week describing the bad road condition in his locality, and the apparent lack of any intention on the part of road personnel to do anything about it. Harry T. Lockhart, of Rt. 3, Palestine, was an Elizabeth visitor on Saturday, and as he had read of the bad road condition in Rose Hill section, described a similar condition on Henderson Run. At a bad place below the Wilbur Cooper house, a truck driver dumped rock on either side of a mud hole; and at another place between the Frank Edwards and Cleve Sheppard farms rock was also dumped in a pile. In neither instance was the rock spread or filled in the mud holes, Mr. Lockhart said.