By Bev Garber
April 1942 – A meteor traveling from West to East occurred on the morning of the 23rd of April at about 2 a.m. It made a crash of thunder when passing (now known as a sonic boom)
August 1942 – A record amount of rainfall for August at this station. The weather station at this time was located at the Old Folks Home building. Very severe lightning burning a church here on the 14th and a barn on the 17th. Total loss of buildings being about $10,000. (Bev’s note: “had to be Raders’ Church)
October 1942 – The North Fork of the Shenandoah River was a couple of feet higher here than any previous time in the memory of the oldest residents. This was the flood that washed away Carl Wine’s house That was on the 15th.
April 14, 1910 – The Southern Railway made an appropriation of funds to build a new depot at Timberville. Work to begin soon.
January 1, 1903 – E.M. Minnich was appointed and commissioned as Inspector of Fertilizers for the Seventh District of Virginia by G. W. Koiner, commissioner of agriculture of the State of Virginia. This appointment was for one year.
March 7, 1902 – Governor Montague of the State of Virginia appointed Mr. E. M. Minnich as a delegate to the State Good Roads Convention to be held in Richmond on March 21st and 22nd, 1902.
December 16, 1920 – Charles Higgs was dynamiting a ditch for the septic tank at the Lutheran Parsonage.
January 29, 1921 – Building Lutheran parsonage garage among other building materials – 43 pounds of nails, $2.58 – 6 cents per pound.
Lutheran parsonage – construction started in the fall 1919 and was completed in the fall of 1921. It took two years to build the parsonage, garage, and hen house. It cost $8158.09 including moving expenses.
