Bolar Ruritan Club lists service report, Nov. 6, 1958
      BOLAR - The Bolar Ruritan Club, organized in September 1954 by the Stonewall Ruritan Club, is one of 26 like organizations in the Woodrow Wilson District which comprises Highland, Augusta and Nelson counties and will have delegates at the district convention at Stuarts Draft on Friday, Nov. 7.
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     The 1974 Highland Chapter of the Future Farmers of America is shown here. Pictured (l-r) front row: W.A. Gutshall, sponsor; Harry Sponaugle, president; Brent Obaugh, vice president; Charlie Hupman, treasurer; Robert Warner, reporter; Bob Beverage, secretary; and Stever Pitsenbarger, sentinel; second row Vernon Wooddell, Mike High, Gary Rexrode, unknown, unknown, Steve Varner and David Simmons; third row: Gallan Malcolm, Darrell Gumm, unknown, Donald Doyle, Sam Helmick, David Gutshall, Bob Swadley, Greg Colaw, Bob Kelly, Jimmy Hiner, Jerry Moats and Ronald Simmons; fourth row: Allen Ratcliff, Junior Altizer, Steve Ralston, Donnie Botkin, Bob Ralston, Mike Armstrong, Billy Campbell, Lanny Wimer, David Shepherd, Roger Hiner, Jacob Colaw and Eddie Varner; fifth row: Harlan Botkin, Ronald Moyers, unknown, James Bird, Marshall Simmons, Lowell Simmons, Joe Neil, Allen Bussard, unknown, Steve Puffenbarger, Eugene Bussard, Blane Ruckman; sixth row: Ronnie Botkin, Jeff Hiner, John Hammer, Gary Simmons, Donald Hedrick, Duane Ruckman, unknown; seventh row: David Neil, Gary Rexrode, Herb Lightner, Billy Hiner, Paul Simmons, Lawrence Fertig, unknown, Kenneth Harper, Scott Gutshall, Stuart Delano; eighth row: David Botkin, Mike L. Armstrong, Ricky Neil and Larry Smith. (Recorder file photo.)
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25 years ago
NOVEMBER 18, 1982
      Thursday of last week, the body of Ernest Lynwood Marsh Jr. of Roanoke was discovered by a turkey hunter near Mustoe, five weeks after Marsh's car was found abandoned there at Corbett's Store. A Taurus .38 caliber handgun was found next to the body and Marsh had apparently suffered a single self-inflicted wound to the head.
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50 years ago
NOVEMBER 14, 1957
      A small but enthusiastic group now engaged in producing homemade articles for sale met with the Handicraft Committee of the Highland County Chamber of Commerce last Thursday evening to hear Miss Marion Clements, director of the Virginia Craft Guild, Inc., outline the possibilities for a handicraft program for this area.
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Paging Through History
Moonshiners terrorize Bath during Prohibition
By: Margo Oxendine, Staff Writer
      WARM SPRINGS - Luther McManamay, a Bath County boy born and bred, married a sweet little woman appropriately named Birdie. They had two children. They lived in a house that still stands in what today is called Klondike, on a hill high above the courthouse at Warm Springs.
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