1950
JANUARY-12TH-G.C Gregg of Marianna visits Polly Gregg.
DECEMBER 3rd-Marianna tipple photos-upstream and downstream HERE.
~The book Nancy Martin, Country Girl, by Nancy Shidler (born in 1868) is published this year. The book is a rare find and entails Shidler's personal recollections as a child at Martin's Mill (Amwell twp). Parents are Morgan and Reese Martin. Shidler's husband Joseph W. Shidler was President and Founder of the Marianna and Scenery Hill Telephone Company incorporated in 1911. Together the two had 6 children and lived on a farm in West Bethlehem twp.
~The Marianna Lumberyard was operated by Dick Cornell until it was destroyed by fire in the 1950's. The business originally belonged to J.W. Shidler and later to his son Roy.
~The Company Store was still around about this time-before it became a Mattress Factory.
January 12th, 1950, The Waynesburg Republican, newspapers.com
