Event Summaries: Experimental.
- John Simpson and the Pringle brothers traveled to the Buckhannon River to hunt in 1764. They crossed Cheat River at the Horseshoe and were journeying through the wilderness when Simpson and one of the Pringles had a disagreement. The Pringles continued on to the Buckhannon River and ascended it for some distance until they discovered an area of fertile land suitable for farming.
- In 1753, a band of Shawnee warriors attacked a frontier settlement in what is now Montgomery County, Virginia. They murdered many of the settlers and took a number of captives with them as they retreated down New River, the Kanawha River, and the Ohio River to their villages. Mary Ingles was one of the captives and she later escaped and told her friends that the Shawnee had stopped for a time at a salt spring on the Kanawha River to make salt.
- George W. Callison died at his home in Dayton, Virginia, on the morning of August 27, 1923. He was born February 18, 1853 near Hillsboro and was the son of Josiah and Nancy Hill Callison. His remains were brought to Hillsboro for burial and funeral services were conducted from the Wesley Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church South.
- Rhoda Van Bebber and her younger brother Joseph crossed the Ohio River in a canoe to visit their father who was working on a boat at Point Pleasant. While they were returning home in the evening, they were ambushed by a party of Indians. Rhoda was captured, her scalp and those of the other victims were taken, and the Indians threw their bodies into the river.
- Leslie E. Montgomery retired on October 31st after working for 35 years and one day with the Soil Conservation Service. During his time in the Service, he maintained a perfect record of safety in operating government vehicles and planned more than 2700 farm plans. He remained longer as a farm planner than anyone else in the state and was never transferred.
- O. F. Hull and his wife went to Kenna to visit H. W. Hull. Payne Hull is in the process of moving their saw mill to Laurel run on Hill’s creek where they plan to saw for J. W. Gordon. Harry Henry, who has been working in Charleston for a few months, has returned to his home for a visit.
- The Greenbrier baseball team will play a game against a team from Marlinton tomorrow afternoon. The game will be played on an old fair ground a mile above Alderson. The best players were selected to be on the Greenbrier team and they are confident of victory.
- A new method of bass fishing was discovered this week by one of our local fishermen. He observed an ingenious youth fishing along Knapps creek with a fig string of bass which he had caught at the reunion grounds. There were a number of pools where there were no bass and the youth would get in a pool and scare the fish under shelving rocks so that he could catch them.
- Deputy game warden Ernest Sharp was called to investigate a forest fire. Charles McCarty has moved into town. Road work has begun in this section of good roads.
- Mrs. S. H. Sharp and her son visited friends and relatives in Marlinton. Some of the boys from the area attended the big show in Marlinton and had a good time. Quite a few of the farmers in the area have contracted with the Marlinton Meat Co. to dispose of their wool.
- Earnest Sharp has returned to Denmark. W. P. Starchar, a former school teacher, returned to his home at Ripley, Jackson County after visiting. A group of local women are working to raise money to purchase a bell for the new Methodist church. The church will host an ice cream supper on Saturday evening to benefit the bell fund. The community is invited to attend and enjoy an evening of music and refreshments.
- A disastrous fire occurred in Alvon recently. The fire began during daylight hours when the heat of the sun and usual daily winds made the fire difficult to control. Another fire happened earlier this spring as the result of a burning automobile that left the road and went into the woods; luckily, no one was injured.
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