The Shadow
90 YEARS AGO
May, 1927
May 26: Advertisement: Gratifying Values! Lovely Underthings! Appropriate Gifts For June Brides & Graduates
The love of pretty underthings is instinctively feminine.
This is an opportune time to lay in a supply of underwear for the hot weather ahead.
Select the perfect foundation for your summer frocks from our complete and attractive assortment of nainsook, rayon and silk underwear:
Rayon Teddies: $1.39. Good quality rayon teddies, attractively styled and finished with wide shoulder straps. Sizes 36 to 42.
Flapper Bloomers: $1.25. A chic little bloomer of good quality rayon. Cut especially short for wear with short skirts. Shown in colors of Nile, peach and flesh. In small, medium and large sizes.
The Parker Department Store Inc., “Pay The Cash & Pay Less.”
May 27: Pocketbook Is Found
Whenever anyone loses anything of value and comes to The Virginian office to advertise it, the question “Is there any chance of its being returned” is invariably asked.
And just as invariably we reply:
“If an honest person found it, you will be sure to get it back. If a dishonest person found it, you may have your ad read a dozen times by the thief (for such he is) and you’ll never get it.
Night before last, Mr. M.I. Rakes lost a pocketbook containing upwards of $100 in cash and other valuables.
Yesterday, he advertised it in The Virginian.
And the paper was hardly out before he got a phone call telling him his pocketbook had been found with everything it contained.
Mr. Raikes got it back because an honest boy had found it.
He is young James Oliver, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arch Oliver, of Bath Street.
We are certain Mr. Raikes commended his honesty with a handsome reward.
75 YEARS AGO
May, 1942
May 26: Aunt Mary’s Letter Box
DEAR AUNT MARY:
My daughter is engaged to a nice young man and he tells me how wonderful he thinks she is and I can see he thinks she’s perfect.
Now, I know she has a bad temper at times, and I wonder if I do right not to tell him.
Do you think he will blame me when he finds out?
A MOTHER
DEAR MOTHER:
No, I wouldn’t tell him, and he wouldn’t believe it if you did if he is really in love with the girl.
However, if she has kept her temper hidden from him all during their courtship, she will probably continue to do so, but we always believed in the old adage, “True love never runs straight.”
He will probably find out that all women “blow off steam” once in a while.
If he loves her enough he will forget it, and she may love him well enough to curb her temper.
A temper is not bad; it’s not controlling it that does the damage, and remember, his mother hasn’t told you about him.
AUNT MARY
May 27: Many Local Firms Joins In Extending Best Wishes To Westvaco For 1942 Season
The Westvaco baseball team will pry off the lid of the 1942 season Saturday afternoon when they will take on the fast Narrows team in what is expected to be a hard fought game.
Business Manager Ellis Hughes said today he had received a letter from the management of the Narrows team stating that they were bringing to Covington a fast aggregation of players including a number of former professional stars.
Watson High School Finals To Be June 1
L.T. Binford, principal of Watson High School, has announced the closing exercises for the school.
The Senior Class has completed its examinations and is now looking forward to graduation.
The baccalaureate service will be held on Sunday afternoon, May 31at the First Baptist Church.
The commencement exercises will be held at the First Baptist Church on Monday evening, June 1, at 8:15.
The salutatory address will be given by Edith Halsey.
Her subject will be “Going Forth to Conquer.”
The valedictory address will be given by Pauline Allen.
Her subject will be “Democracy or Chaos.”
50 YEARS AGO
May, 1967
May 26: Citizenry Will Study Route 154
Members of a newly-organized group of residents opposing the proposed Craig Avenue corridor for Primary Route 154 appeared before the City Planning Commission Wednesday night.
They reported they had appointed a committee to make a study which would not only show their objections to this corridor but make a positive recommendation for a better solution to the problem.
Miss Carolyn B. Nettleton served as spokesman for the group in the absence of Jack Casto, who was unable to attend.
Casto is the chairman of the group.
Miss Nettleton said the group, composed of residents of Arlington Court, Highland Avenue and Alleghany Avenue need a few more days to complete its report.
Luther Linkenhoker, a candidate for city council, commented in opposition to the proposed corridor and wanted to know who recommended it.
F. Davis Moon, commission chairman, said several routes had been studied by the State Highway Department and the Craig Avenue Corridor was their recommendation.
Commission members present, in addition to the chairman, were Edward H. Johnson Jr., vice-chairman; George D. Hill III, Richard G. Baltz, Mrs. Glenn Byrd and David Diamond.
City Engineer John R. Powell was also present.
Rescue Squad Parade Set For Saturday
Rescue squads and their auxiliaries from this area will join the Covington Fire Department First Aid and Rescue Squad on Saturday morning for a parade through downtown Covington.
The parade, to begin at 11 a.m., is the highlight of “Rescue Squad Week,” which has been observed this week.
The Covington High School Band will lead the parade.
May 27: Local Memorial Services Planned
The deaths of three young area men during the past two months as a result of service with the U.S. Armed Forces in Vietnam leads special emphasis to the meaning of Memorial Day, 1967.
In two years, the war has claimed the life of one man from each of the area’s four main political subdivisions — Covington, Clifton Forge, Alleghany County and Bath County. The victims represented three different branches of the Armed Forces: Army, Marines and Air Force.
The area’s first Vietnam victim was Sp-4 Ralph W. Broughman, 26, of Mallow, killed Feb. 7, 1965, in a Viet Cong attack on his pace near Plieku, S. Vietnam.
Covington firemen will place flags on the graves of deceased members of the Covington Volunteer Fire Department beginning at 4 p.m. Sunday.
About 20 firemen in dress uniforms will ride one of the fire engines to Cedar Hill Cemetery and three or four more uniformed firemen will take a first aid ambulance to Alleghany Memorial Park for the same purpose.
Covington Moose Lodge 610, Loyal Order of the Moose, held a memorial service at 2 p.m. today at Cedar Hill Cemetery in honor of deceased members.
The officers of the lodge, led by Billy N. Gum, Moose governor, conducted the ceremonies.
The Alleghany Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy is providing a wreath to be laid at the Confederate Monument at Courthouse Square early Tuesday morning, and the Alleghany Roughs, Children of the Confederacy, will place flags at the graves of Confederate soldiers buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery about 2:30 p.m. today.
25 YEARS AGO
May, 1992
May 26: Sen. Trumbo To Serve As Judge During Cardiac Arrest
State Sen. Bo Trumbo has agreed to serve as judge for this year’s Cardiac Arrest fundraising event, sponsored by the Alleghany Heart Unit.
A number of prominent citizens of the Alleghany Highlands have agreed to be “arrested” on charges of “crimes of breaking the heart” and will be asked to post at least $100 bail to be released from “jail.”
Bill Lumpkin, 1991 Cardiac Arrest chairman, said more arrestees are still needed and anyone wishing to volunteer to be arrested and subjected to $100 or more bail to gain their freedom may contact him at the Virginian Review or contact one of the Cardiac Arrest Committee: Denny and Suzie Pence, Ralph and Patsy Snead or Rhonda Phillips.
Radio station WKEY will broadcast from the jail site and arrestees who are short on their bail money will be given a chance to appeal for rescue from the clutches of the merciless Judge Trumbo over the air.
Joy Brackman has agreed to serve as clerk of court for the Cardiac Arrest and collect bail money.
May 27: County May Cut Jail Funding From Budget
The Alleghany County Board of Supervisors indicated Wednesday that it will likely cut regional-jail funding from its 1992-93 budget.
County Administrator Macon Sammons said that cutting the $137,995 from the budget would allow the county to fully fund schools and still reduce the property-tax levy from 70 cents per every $100 of assessed value to 68 cents.
The first draft of the budget totalled $14.7 million and called for a $4.35 million contribution to the Alleghany Highlands School System.
Sammons said that without cutting funds for the regional jail, he could not recommend dropping the property tax levy from 70 cents to 68 cents.
10 YEARS AGO
May, 2007
May 26: Retired Dentist Dr. Ralph Crabill Dies
Well-known dentist and civic leader Dr. Ralph Lee Crabill, 82, of the Collanades of Charlottesville, and formerly of Horseshoe Bend, Clifton Forge, died Friday, May 25, 2007.
Dr. Crabill graduated from the Medical College of Virginia School of Dentistry in 1949.
He began his dental practice in Clifton Forge in 1951 and maintained it until his retirement.
He was an active member of the First Christian Church, Disciples of Christ in Clifton Forge.
He was active in the Clifton Forge Jaycees and was instrumental in starting the children’s shopping spree sponsored by the Jaycees.
He was a past president and senior member of the Covington-Hot Springs Rotary Club, having joined in 1949 and a member of the Clifton Forge Coffee Club.
May 27: Native Americans Once Lived In Highlands
The Virginia State Archeologist says Native Americans lived in the Alleghany Highlands area years ago, but it is difficult to ascertain which tribes were present.
Dr. Mike Barber, archeologist with the Virginia Department of Historic Resources in Richmond said Alleghany County had 521 archeological resources related to the Native American population.
Most of these artifacts are found in clusters near rivers and streams although some have been discovered in more mountainous terrain.
Barber said stone tools discovered can be traced to the Highlands due to their high iron content.
