Wirt County Journal December 1, 1999 Remember When ... * From the Wirt County Journal files June 24, 1921 Notice Free delivery to all parts of the town. Fresh bread every morning. Phone in your orders, large or small. J. E. Snyder. For sale-one Massay Karris mower new. Will sell at wholesale cost. Selling out. Elizabeth Garage. Oil Items West Virginia and Pennsylvania oil $2.50. Fred Morehead and Floyd Anderson left last Sunday evening on their return to Tampice, Mexico, where they have employment in the oil fields. Patterson Bros. have been having a fishing job after some parted tubing in a well on the Standing Stone end of their base. They are planning to drill the well deeper. W. H. Nutter, contractor of Island Run, is running two strings of tools, drilling a well on the Rathbone farm above Palestine and another near the head of Buck Run, Clay District. Eighty Years With Family Hard to believe that record established by Colored Woman has ever been equaled. Not long ago the New York Sun published the story of a New York family which had one cook for 6O years; but a family from Missouri comes forward with a record believed to be unrivaled in America - a cook who has been in service 80 years and all that time with one family, and is still on the job. The fortunate woman who has never known the troubles that attend the servant problem is Mrs. Leslie Marmaduke of 5242 Waterman Avenue, St. Louis, Mo., whose Negro maid, Mrs. Clara Elder, has been in her family since 1841 when Mrs. Marmaduke's father, Col. James Crawford, took her from a plantation in Virginia, where she was born, to his plantation near Eutaw, Ala., says the Kansas City Star. She lived with the other Negroes ,until 1841, when Col. Crawford was married and she was taken into the family mansion as Mrs. Crawford's maid. February 20, 1959 To Reorganize Wirt Red Cross Mrs. Florence Cline, Rt. 2, Palestine, announces an important meeting to be held at 3 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 24, in the County Courtroom of the Court House, City, for the purpose of "reorganizing the Wirt County Chapter of the American Red Cross." A county chairman is to be elected and a field director of the American Red Cross is scheduled to be present and take part in the discussions of the session. The public is invited to. attend. L-K Bowman Archery Club Is Organized Several interested persons met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert "Jack" Cain, City, Thursday, Feb. 12, 1959, to organize an Archery Club., Arrangements were made for location of an official 28-target course within the vicinity of Elizabeth. Band Boosters Club Undertakes Financial Projects; Ask Public Help The Wirt High Band Boosters Club met in a special session last Wednesday (Feb. 11) with Ray Whited, president, in charge. Several items of business were discussed. The main item was discussing means of raising enough money to finance a trip for the band to attend the State Band Festival in Huntington May 1 - 2. This will cost approximately $300. The band recently authorized the purchase of new band uniform replacements amounting to $381.60 from the C. E. Ward Co., New London, Ohio, with hopes they will be here in time for the proposed trip in the festival. Grade School Benefits By Local P.T.A. Projects The Elizabeth Elementary Parent Teacher Association met in regular session last Thursday evening with the president, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, in charge of the business session. One of the yearly projects of this PTA is the awarding of a new library book to the grade with the most parents present at each meeting. School children are real enthusiastic about this and strive to get their parents to come so they may have the book. So far, this year books have been awarded as follows: Sept., 1st Grade; Oct., 4th; Nov., 1st (books for each of the first grade rooms); Dec., 2nd; Jan., 5th; and Feb., a tie between 2nd, and 5th Grades. Repairs are Made Other projects include the removal of the old flag pole, which was rusted at the base and in danger of falling. Warren Mills helped in this project with his truck and winch; also Chester Ludwig, Joe Cheuvront, Gerald Street, Louis Rollins, and others. It is being repaired and painted and will be replaced - this time on a hinge - type base in order to be lowered and raised for repairs and rope replacements without major difficulty. Mr. Ludwig and Mr. Cheuvront have been spending much time over the past several weeks repairing and painting swings and other playground equipment. They now await more material, which has been ordered, to get that project finished.