100 Years Ago

Herald of Dec. 23, 1921

Thanksgiving donations for Nason Hospital through the school children and individuals covered 1 ½ columns in the Herald. Hundreds of items including laundry soap, rice, canned fruits and vegetables and dried beans were donated. Many businesses contributed large quantities of potatoes, pastry and buckwheat flour, groceries, bed linens and cleaning products. Cash donations from all towns from the northern to southern ends of the Cove ranged from 25 cents to five dollars. A gift of $100 was received from the Blank Book Co. and $200 from the Bare Paper Co.

The Union Thanksgiving service at Roaring Spring took up a collection for the Nason Hospital for $21.42 and the Martinsburg service raised $25. Merle Noland, 7, from Mines, narrowly escaped drowning while walking on thin ice on the pond near the post office and falling into a deep hole.