Wirt County Journal July 7, 1999 Remember When... * From the Wirt County Journal Files January 14, 1921 School Items Wm. Weaver has resigned as member of the Clay District Board of Education. Misses Ethel Seaton, Ethel Taylor and Mildred Higgins, accompanied by Ica Kerns, local high school students, visited their homes over Sunday. Virgil Ingram, former Wirt County teacher, was a visitor in Elizabeth on Tuesday. Miss Otie Parks, local school girl, was a Parkersburg visitor last Friday. Still Captured Near Newark A moonshine still was captured near Newark during the holiday period by prohibition officers from Parkersburg. The still was of the Russian type and was making real corn whiskey. Munday Items Basil Pepper and Cecil Belt of this community were Parkersburg visitors the first of last week. F. T. Cunningham was a visitor at the local school and at the home of J. G. Depue on Friday of last week. J. T. Mills of this place was in attendance at the term of circuit court held at Elizabeth the first of last week. Dannie Hays is home from Grantsville where he has been employed with the Hope Gas Co. the past few months. He started to school here last week. M. A. Kerns was very badly injured by a gas explosion in the oil field near here last week. He was hurried to the hospital at Parkersburg, but died soon after he reached there. Livery Notice The Elizabeth Livery Barns will be glad to serve you at anytime 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 September 26, 1958 Best Gallon of Black Walnuts In Area to Bring Picker $50 The "best gallon of black walnuts" to be exhibited at the West Virginia Black Walnut Festival in Spencer this year will bring $50 cash to the exhibitor of the walnuts and $50 cash to the owner of the nut tree, if other than the person entering the contest. Sub-Grading Completed At Local Factory Site Sub-grading has been done on the Wirt County Industries site along State Route 14 near Tucker Creek, and Dale W. Riddel, of the Little Kanawha Construction Co., Grantsville, who has the contract for the foundation and floor area, will be ready to begin pouring concrete in the immediate future. Supplies of sand, gravel and concrete blocks are on the ground, and the exact area of the size 80 by 100 foot structure has been laid off. Don Mills Is Principal Of Large Ohio School Friends of the Don and Helen (Smith) Mills family, life long Wirt Countians until moving to northern Ohio some three or four years ago, will be pleased to learn of the teaching position now held by Don - principal for the nearly 600-pupil Elm Street Elementary School of Wauseon, Ohio, located about 30 miles west of Toledo. Items of Personal Events of Interest Young Roger Roberts, with his wife and son, have been visiting the past several days with her people at Martinsburg, W.Va. The George Paul Roberts family and Mrs. Blanche Garrard, City, are making plans to leave in the near future for their winter home at Anna Maria, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Dulin and Bob Snider, City, left last Friday night after the Walton ballgame for a visit until Sunday at Piney River, Va., with Mr. Dulin's sister and brother-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Mays, and daughter, Elizabeth Ann. County Agent lra Kimble, wife and three daughters moved a few days ago from the J. F. Smith property (former Sam Davis residence), Pike St., to the Paul Higgins property on Washington, occupied until several weeks ago by the Harvey Beall family. Mrs. Blanche Defenbaugh of 15l5 Clark Ave., Wellsville, Ohio, was here for a brief visit one day last week with her brother, C. B. ("Uncle Charley") 'Montgomery, City. It was the first time for several years that she had been back to Wirt County. Mr. and Mrs. Forest Showalter of Rt. 1, Long Bottom, O., were Wirt County visitors and he was a pleasant Journal caller briefly, on Thursday of last week, Sept. 18. He is a , son of S. E. Showalter, formerly of Right Reedy, Wirt County, later for a few year period of Burning Springs. S. E. Showalter is now a patient in a hospital at Athens, O. The Forest Showalters have four children, Dale, 15, Earl, 13, Ira, 9, and Fern, 6, who has just started to school for the first time this month. Forest is a brother of Mrs. Beulah Sheppard of Vienna.