Vol. VI No.35
November 8, 1990
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From the Greenbrier
Valley of West Virginia
County
Reporting
Results
Ticket
Senate
2300
)resentatives
Jr. 1631
1708
1863
ates
Greenbrier County
All 36 Precincts Reporting
Uncertifled Results
Democratic Ticket
United States Senate
Jay Rockefeller 5061
House of Representatives
Harley O Staggers, Jr. 3901
Attorney General
(Unexpired Term)
Mario J. Palumbo 5271
State Treasurer
Larrie Bailey 41108
State Senate
J. D, Brackenrich 4023
House of Delegates
James J. Rowe 4446
James Gerl 3488
~mammmml,
Pocahontas Count'
All 16 Precincts Reporting
Uncertified Results
Democratic Ticket
United States Senate
' Jay Rockefeller 1979
House of Representatives
Harley O. Staggers, Jr. 1568
General
Term)
Palumbo 1729
Treasurer
Lame Bailey 151o
State Senate
Walt Helmick 2202
House of Delegates
J. E. Martin 1642
Bill Proudfoot 1615
Chloe Fuell (left) and Pansy Harrison
Harr School Remembered:
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1673
County Commissioner
John H. Bowling, Jr. 4258
County Commissioner
Dana L. Moyers 1712
Dick Groseclose 1758
Ticket Republican Ticket
Senate
United States Senate
John Yoder 2619
House of Representatives
Oliver Luck 3716
Attorney General
No Candidate
State Treasurer
E!vin F. Martin2797
1011
State Senate
Fred Sampson 3487
ates
House of Delegates
Bill Wallace 5003
1413
County Commissioner
George Sively 3225
ng top honors in
Judging contests
University, vo-
students
County High
are in Kansas
for the intema-
the Future
(FFA). The
representing West
contests.
members won
Award at the
in Morgan-
the highest
competition in
agriculture cate-
Wins Top
gorles. The group's teams earned
first-place awards in forestry,
poultry, horticulture, and plant
pathology.
"These are extremely dedi-
cated and hard-working stu-
dents," advisor Steve Bland said.
"They have worked hours and
hours after school preparing for
this. "/'hey are one of the best
groups I~¢e ever had."
Up to 30,000 are attending
the meetings in Kansas City,
which Mr Bland said is the larg-
est student convention in the
world. Seven hundred fifty stu-
dents from 67 schools partlci-
Service District
$750,000 Block Grant
Gaston Caperton
art award of a
Cities Block
Monroe County
a water service
Lindside Public
project will go a
the qual-
area,"
"We're pleased
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that we could help secure these
funds for Monroe County."
Mr Caperton expressed appre-
ciation to area legislators Sena-
tor Fred Parker and the Delegate
Mary Pearl Compton for their
help in obtaining the grant.
"The grant will be a fiscal year
1990 award of $250,000 with
the remainder provided from fu-
ture funds. A $650,000 Farmer's
Home Administration will pro-
vide additional funding for the
$1.4 million project." Governor
Caperton said.
The grant will provide 41.000
feet of water lines, 160 water
meters. 15 fire hydrants,
150.000 gallon water storage
tank and construction of a water
treatment plant to the 408 resi-
dents of Llndside. This public
water service system'will provide
services critically needed due to
the growth and the lack of a
sewer system in that area.
q~ne Small Cities Block Grant
program is administered through
the Governor's Office of Commu-
nity and Industrial Development
with f~nds provided from the U,
S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development.
Republican Ticket
United States Senate
John Yoder 813
House of Representatives
Oliver Luck 1233
Attorney General
No Candidate
State Treasurer
Elvi0 F._Mprtin 951
State Senate
House of Delegates
Judy Guye 1301
County Commissioner
Albert L. Wilfonq 934
Mike Mynuk 628
pated in the state convention at
Morgantown.
Pocahontas County FFA stu-
dents have a record of winning
top honors at state competitions.
Including this year, according to
Mr Bland, the poultry team has
won first-place honors four con-
secutive years, the horticulture
team has won the same honors
two years in a row, and the for-
estry team has achieved first
place four of the five years the
competition has been organized.
Instructor Mike Bums joins Mr
Bland as advisor.
By Jonathan Wright
It's 25 miles from Renlck to
the former Harr School on Kelli-
son Mountain, but the arduous
trip over some of Greenbrier
County's most remote dirt roads
takes 90 minutes. After the one-
lane road becomes gravel past
Auto, it becomes progressively
narrower. The operator of the
four-wheel-drive vehicle must
take a sharp left at the point
where the ascent up the 3,300-
foot-hlgh extension of Slab
Camp Mountain begins.
. The barren trees and forebod-
ing rock cliffs accentuate the
remoteness of the back country,
Dwellings are sparse, and where
they exists at all It is apparent
they are used only as hunting
cabins. No one else would live
Miss Harrison (rear) and students
at Harr School, 1937
year-round in such isolatlon--=at
least in the 1990s.
Almost 60 years ago, however,
these mountains and hollows
were dotted with farm houses,
barns---and schools--one-room
schools. Before the days of con-
solidation, one-room school
houses were nearly as common
in Greenbrler County as
churches are now. The county
had 107 one-room schoolhouses
in 1933, the year the Harr
School on Kelllson Mountain
was constructed. It was the
same year the "county tmlt ad-
mlnistratioll" was Initiated.
system. The school was named
after Herbert Hart, the assistant
superintendent of schools at
that time,
According to Chloe Fuell of
Lewisburg. who grew up near
Renlck and taught at the school,
three families living on Kellison
Mountain could not easily be
reached for transportation to
nearby schools, so the board of
education voted to provide a
teacher and construct a building
to serve the students. The fami-
lies cut the logs, hewed them.
and did the construction work.
The board of education fur-
nished part of the materials and
paid for the labor.
The school operated almost
ten years, until the early 1940s,
when the school board voted to
provide transportation for the
students to other schools. Only
four teachers taught there:
Pansy Harrison, Chloe Harrison
Tables
The Lewisburg City Council
tabled action on adopting the
State Building Code at its Octo-
ber 16 meeting In order to ask
for advice from the state attor-
ney general. Council members
were reluctant to adopt the code
since It Includes the Building Of-
ficials and Code Administrators
(BOCA) Code.
A controversial component of
the document, the Building
Maintenance Code, drew fire
from citizens and some Council
members In July when the
Council considered adopting It
as part of its Building Code.
Concerns centered arotmd what
some saw as overly restrictive
regulations and procedures
which would discriminate
against residents with low in-
comes. "the Council rejected the
Building Maintenance Code after
a lengthy discussion at that
meeting.
Council members were un-
sure what the lack of an ap-
proved building code for the city
would mean for regulating con-
struction projects In the city.
The state has required munici-
palities to adopt the State Build-
ing Code. No allowance is made
The Autumn Of My Senility
Vm filled with peculiar whims and stubborn notions.
Easy to anger, with mixed emotions.
One minute l'm criticizing, then I'm approving.,
Oft' times I fly with the wind. and then, I'm unmoving.
Some times I'm anti and next I'm pro.
No matter the subject. I move to and fro.
At times I'm suspicious, at others I'm trusting,
Oc ~asionally I'm pleasant, but usually disgusting.
My memory is short, my wisdom Is fleeting,
All I have now, is a broad base for seating.
--- L/bby Dunaway.
Maxwelton
August 1990
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for exempting sections.
In other business, the Council
gave final approval to an ordi
nance re-zoning the "Preston
property" at 237 North Court
Street from R-I to R-2. The
change will allow for "light office
work" at the site. according to
City Recorder Pat Pennington.
Councihnan Paul Cooley said
he is concerned with a steep
grade approaching the south
end of the new Maple Street
Bridge over U. S. 60. Vehicles.
especially school busses, may
have trouble negotiating the spot
during winter weather, he said.
Mayor Phil Gainer said the De-
partment of Highways plans to
improve the grade and that he
would follow up to check the
progress of the work.
Mayor Gainer said a total of
$1,661 had been collected so fax-
in the city's "Round-Up Pro-
gram." The funds are collected
when water customers "round
up" their payments to the next
dollar. The city places the excess
monies into an account used by
the Parks and Recreation De-
partment for updating and im-
proving park facilities.
Fuell. Eva Hollandsworth McMil-
lion, and Lettle Rapp Brown.
Miss Harrison lives in Lewisburg
with her sister. Mrs Fuell. and
recalls the days of teaching at
the log school: "It was quite an
experience. I would w~k about
two miles up the mountain from
where ! was let off on Sunday
evening, and sometimes my pack
would come open. and my food
would go rolling down the hill. I
had to carry all my food for the
week with me. During the week 1
stayed at a building the [Warrent
Kellison family provided for me."
-Hunting season was a bit
the mountain with their dogs
and guns. looPdng around the
trees. I was almost afraid to look
Mrs Fuell at the old school today
out the windows, afraid I'd get
shot. One group of hunters
would leave, and I'd think we
were going to have some peace
and qulet--then another bunch
would come around, yelling at
their dogs and making more
noise."
Mrs Fuell said, "One time Mr
Hart [the assistant superinten-
dent] came up in his hunting
gear, stopped at the school
house with his gun. and asked,
"Have you kids seen any turkeys
flying around here?' We hadn't.
but about an hour afterwards we
saw a whole bunch of them
flying over."
Another incident involved a
student's expression of talent.
"At one time I decided to let each
student lake the "morning exer-
cise.' Miss Harrison said. "When
his day came. he could recite a
poem, sing a song, tell a story--
whatever he wanted. One of my
students decided to sing 'Bar-.
nacle Bill the Sailor Man,' hitting
the desk really hard at various
moments tn the song. It was one
of the most comical things l've
ever seen. He was serious about
It, though--when he got through
he took a bow and sat down. All
the kids were laughing so hard I
couldn't control themt"
The small school was advan-
tageous for learning, Mrs Fuell
said. "I loved the one-room
See "Harr School", Page 2-A
