Wirt County Journal May 26, 1999 Remember When ... >From the Wirt County Journal files October 22, 1970 Farm Bureau Notes The winners for first prizes in the Boys and Girls Club show were as follows: pig, Elliott Dent; corn, Raymond Morgan; poultry, Robert Hickman; potatoes, Walter Smith; canning, Jesse Davis. Some owners of purebred bulls will have to change in order to keep from inbreeding. A good bull should not be allowed to leave the county. If you are interested in getting a purebred let me know and perhaps I can help you locate one. To the Victors Belong the Spoils. Last week Kanawha News That of course is some people's idea of public office. The real intent of the founders of our government was that office is a public trust and officers public servants. Their duty is to serve and save - not to plunder and spoil. A local taxpayer remarked that judging from his tax tickets and roads he has been paying more "spoils money" the last two years than the other kind. Thos. E. Graham, one of Parkersburg's most distinguished citizens, and one who is well known to many people in our county, died very suddenly at his home in Parkersburg on Tuesday night of this week, of heart trouble. An examination for rural mail carriers will be held by Postmaster Bumgarner at the local post office on Saturday, November 17, 1920. Notice I have resumed business at the J.N. Gibson stand on Washington Street where I formerly owned. Am handling a full line of fresh groceries, feed, flour, nice candies and soft drinks of all kinds. Will pay cash for produce and promise a square deal to all. Andy L. Adams. Pie Social There will be a pie and peanut social at the College Grove School Saturday night, November 13. Proceeds for the benefit of the school. Everyone invited. Ruth Somerville, teacher. There will be a pie social at the Enterprise School house on Saturday night, November 13. Proceeds for benefit of school. Ray Douglas, teacher. There will be a pie social at Oil Rock Friday night, November 19. Proceeds for school. All are cordially invited. Freda Lawson, teacher. August 29, 1958 Wirt Schools Open Tuesday Wirt County elementary teachers met Thursday night in the new High School addition. The W.C.H.S. teachers will meet there Friday night, and next Tuesday morning the doors of all county schools will swing open for the first day of the new 1958-59 term. Actually it will be a one-half day Tuesday and the regular all-day schedule will begin Wednesday. Some late teacher changes or assignments include: Mrs. Iwana Simon to Wirt County High School. Mrs. Pearllena Hickman to Elizabeth Grade School. Mrs. Hloise Higgins to Center Hill. Mrs. Cora Quick to the Daniell School. Mrs. Mildred Kinney to Hartley School. Glen Hall to Two Runs. Principal Sam Williams, who is 38 years of age and starting his eighth year in that position at the high school, announced the first meeting Tuesday will be a general assembly in the gymnasium. Somebody Took Mower Then Brought It Back S.M. Lewis of Massillon, O., has been at his home on Island Run intermittently off and on this year more than for quite some time. He had been off his work for quite some time earlier this year. On one of his previous visits here early this summer he had told the journal publisher that someone had taken his power lawn mower from his. place sometime in May, then returned it up in June. Mr. Lewis wanted to express his thanks to the party, unknown to him, for the return of his mower. 15 Wirt Grads Plan To Attend College Fifteen of the 1958 graduates of Wirt County High School - a class of 64 - are planning to enter institutions of higher leaning next month - ten of them at Glenville State College - according to a record of transcripts of credits sent out by Principal Sam Williams. The list includes: To Marshall College, Huntington, Karen Hanna and Charles Palmer. Daytona Beach, Fla., Junior College, Jim Bill Vogeding. St. Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing, Mary Williamson. Glenville State College, Hugh Sheppard, Pat Sams, Harold Lockhart, Benny Sims, Patty Boyce, Kendall Busch, Clair Morehead, Bob Cline, Charles F. Fulmer (Bill Roberts) and Jim Stalnaker. School of Beauty Culture, Athens, Ohio, Patricia Gibson. Another planning to attend - maybe to West Virginia Wesleyan - is Miss Rita Hennen, a scholarship winner.