Wirt County Journal June 12, 2002 Remember When . . . * From the pages of the Journal June 26, 1925 Local and Personal Mrs. Rose Jeffries and Mrs. G.S. Kidwell of Two Ripple, were shopping in town Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. T.L. Smith of Spring Creek, their son Park, of near Reedy and daughter, Mrs. H. L. McCutcheon, of McCutcheon's Run, were visitors in Elizabeth on Saturday of last week. H.S. Copen, of Standing Stone, was a visitor in town the latter part of last week. Mrs. J.H. Smith left on Monday to visit her daughter, Mrs. Lucile Rider of Cabin Creek. She will make this her vacation and expects to be gone several days. Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Scott and daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ledsome, of near Burning Springs, were Parkersburg visitors on Saturday and made a brief stop in Elizabeth while on their way. T.I. Long a good farmer of near Dulin, paid the Journal office a pleasant call on Saturday while here looking after business. Ed Yaeger, good farmer and citizen of Standing Stone, was a business visitor in town Saturday. Misses Leota and Aley Roberts of Roxbury, Ohio, returned to their home last Sunday after a few days visit with relatives and friends in this county. J.H. Mills and son, Clark, progressive merchants of Straight Creek, were looking after business matters here on Saturday. Everett C. Gibson, of Chestnut Run visited with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.P. Gibson here on Saturday. C.D. Valentine, a good farmer and citizen of Oil Rock, was a visitor in town the latter part of last week. Mrs. Cecil Morrison, of near Slate, was a visitor in Elizabeth the latter part of last week. A.G. Corbitt, progressive farmer and citizen of Spring Creek, transacted business in Elizabeth the latter part of last week. Pauline and Elidene Parks, of Beatrice, are visiting relatives in Elizabeth for a few days. June 7, 1962 Mail Carrier Kills 36-Inch Rattler Ray Whited, rural mail carrier on Rt. 2, last Wednesday killed a 36 inch rattlesnake (6 rattlers and a button) on Little Island Run. A ground squirrel was laying on its side a few feet from the snake, not yet dead. Whited walked back of his jeep several feet to get a club and the snake struck at him as he swung the club, killing it. 14-Year-Old Hill Boy Electrocuted After Swim Out of school almost a week and returning from a swim in Right Reedy Creek last Thursday, the life of a 14-year-old care-free farm boy was snuffed out when he accidentally touched an electric fence. The victim was Melvin Wayne Hill, Route 1, Leroy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy L. Hill, who on June 1st completed his 8th grade work at Peewee School. Young Hill with a brother, Darrell Hill, 11, and a neighbor, Robert Showalter, 15, had walked about two miles from their homes on Fulls Fork to one of the better swimming holes in Right Reedy Creek. After their swim the boys took a short cut across a field on the Romie 0. Nottingham farm which was enclosed with an electric fence. The young boy was killed instanteously when his body, still wet from the swim, came in contact with the fence.