Wirt County Journal August 18, 1999 Remember When ... >From the Wirt County Journal files February 25, 1921 Notice Deputy collector Ralph G. Boggs and Chas. E. Arnold will be at Elizabeth March 1, 1920, for the purpose of rendering assistance to the citizens of your county in the preparation of their 1920 income tax returns to the United States government. S. A. Hays, Collector New Prices at Robert's, Palestine Take notice of these prices my friends Men's Overall, R.R. Brand $1.70, Boys $1 Men's Pants $5, now $2.50 Dress value $7, now $5 Boys' Pants $3, now $1.25 corduroys Men's shirts U.S. Brand $1 Boys' shirts 75¢, Men's dress shirts $1 Ginghams at 15 and 20¢ Outings all colors 15 cents, Percals 15, 16 and 20¢ Woolen goods at 55¢, Plaid dress goods at 45¢ Muslin heavy brown 12, 15 and 15¢ White muslin, good quality 15 and 18¢ Tobacco always was 3 for 25¢ Livery Notice The Elizabeth Livery Barns will be glad to serve you at any time in the way of general delivery business. Call either hotel. The Raleigh barn will be open for stall rent at all times. If I am not there when you take your horse out just pay Mr. Hickman the blacksmith. John Tanner, proprietor Farm Bureau Notes We have received a telegram from the State Federation of Farm Bureaus stating that there is an over supply of fertilizer in the hands of the manufacturer and that the price is due to break. They predict that we could get fertilizer at Baltimore under $18 per ton which would mean about $25 per ton. The Wood County Farm Bureau has contracted at $26 per ton. We can do at least as good as they can. Get your order in for we are going to order just as much as the farmers want and no more. November 7, 1958 John Hale Heads Wirt L-K Chapter John, Hale of the Newark community became new president of the Wirt County Chapter of the Little Kanawha Regional Council at the meeting Monday night following the Lions Club meeting. Other officers were retained for the coming period. The chapter voted to contribute $10.00 to the current Boy Scouts fund drive. Present at the meeting were: C. B. Carpenter, B. B. Sims, Fred Sturm, Charles Cline, Ed Chambers, Gerald Street, Carl George, Tom Simonton, Virgil Snider, John Hale. Robbers Damage High School Office Damage to equipment in the office of the, principal, Wirt County High School, was approximately $400.00, school officials said Monday, after robbers entered the building and office sometime between 7:30 Sunday night and 6:30 Monday morning. Nothing is known to have been taken, however, and Principal Sam Williams explains that cash is not kept at the school overnight. Receipts from games and other activities are kept in other places by authorities. Entrance was made by breakage of a pane of glass on the side door, and the door to the office was pried off its hinges and set to one side. Black Walnut Hulling Machine Is Now in Operation Here Selling black walnuts became a "thousand-times easier" this week when six electric hullers were brought into the LKRC area to take over the task of hulling black walnuts for local harvesters. One of the machines was delivered to B. B. Sims & Son general store Wednesday and put in operation the next day. General Election Results In Democratic Landslide Wirt Countians joined most of the rest of the Nation Tuesday as they registered a Democratic victory at the General Election polls. It was close voting here, however, with three county offices split between two Democrats and one Republican. Ray Palmer, recently retired school teacher and long-time Wirt County stock producer, won the race for House of Delegates over James H. Roberts, young Elizabeth merchant, by a close 23-vote majority. Even closer was the race for member of Wirt County Court, won by E.W. "Jake" Allman over Clyde Cale by 14 votes. C.C. Litton was the one Republican victor, being elected over Joe S. Parsons by 82 votes. Statewide, and mostly nationwide, it was a Democratic landslide, excelled in proportions only by the tremendous Democratic victories of the early and mid 1930s.