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This Week In History, 4-18-13

     

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The following reports are taken from The Calhoun Chronicle archives:

 

1913, 100 years ago

Henry Lambert of the Under-current Co. and a party of friends were out during the evening in a big Winston-6 touring car, one of the finest in Parkersburg. They were going out 13th St., and just as they approached the intersection of Avery, the small sons of Frank Bickel, Russell and Frank, were coming up Avery, started to cross 13th immediately in front of the approaching machine. Lambert steered his machine as quickly as possible, but it struck the rear wheel of the buggy, smashing it, and throwing the boys to the street. Fortunately, they escaped serious injury. Lambert, in excitement, gazed backward to ascertain what injury had been done, and losing control of the machine, collided with the curb on the opposite side of the street, breaking the steering gear.

There are still a few packages of garden seeds left in the Chronicle office, which we will be glad to give to anyone who will call for them.

 

Returning from Harrisville, where he had been with a team, Rhoden Richards of Big Springs got in the river near this place, the high water being over the road. He lost a barrel of salt, and also got a bad wetting. Only luck kept him from losing his team and his own life.

 

 

1963, 50 years ago

Those who watch television are often treated to what is known in world circles as the new American domestic comedy. It always involves bickering, rowing, crude talking American couples. The arguments, the loud talk and the rudeness, and general common behavior, is passed off as humor.

 

Yet, there is very little funny about the now ordinary domestic scene comedy we see so much of. A new play in New York, featuring four married people, is devoted to almost nothing but what one drama critic called clawing, scratching, biting and kicking one another--and it is a success.

 

The commercial producers, who make all the common rowing comedy we are treated to on television and at the movies, seem to profit from it. The interesting thing, then, is why do audiences like this sort of thing.

 

Must we go down this road? Is this what America seeks to give the world as its typical national humor? One hopes not. Let us have some more of the Charlie Chaplin style of talent, of the W.C. Fields, Buster Keaton, Ben Blue and Robert Benchley styles! None of these greats shouted anyone down, in the present fashion of the New York stage.

 

 

 1988, 25 years ago

Calhoun County High School’s student newspaper, The Calhoun Clarion, has earned both staff and individual honors.

 

On April 14-15, five student finalists were invited by the WVU School of Journalism for state competition in Morgantown. Clarion writer Don Hipp won first place honors in the area of critical review. Senior Melanie Badgett placed second in news writing in Division 2, for schools with fewer than 1,000 students in grades 10-12.

 

Twenty schools from West Virginia participated in the annual competition. Since this was Don and Melanie’s first year in journalism, “Placing first and second in the state is an outstanding achievement,” said their advisor, Sue Ann Nichols.

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