By Bev Garber
October 1942 – The North Fork of Shenandoah River was a couple of feet higher here than at any previous time in the memory of the oldest residents. This was the flood that washed away Carl Wine’s house in the 15th
April 14, 1910 – The Southern Railway made an appropriation of funds to build a new depot at Timberville with work to begin soon. (First depot built in 1868)
July 1958 – A three judge panel ordered the annexation of 750 acres of nearby territory. In one huge gulp, Timberville would expand it’s boundaries, now embracing 187 acres to over 900. The population would jump from the present 300 to 1000. In terms of acerate, that is a 427 percent increase. The population increase was 333 percent.
October 1946 – A million bushels of apples in the field above the cannery.
January 21, 1910 – Literary Society tonight. Debate was resolved that “Foreign immigration should be permitted in the United States. “It should not be permitted as the judges decided in favor of the negative side.”
January 1, 1912 – a group of five of us prepared to go “belsnickle” tonight.
January 5, 1912 – about 10 degrees all day. 0 degrees at 8:00 o’clock. No Literary Society tonight because of difficulty in keeping room warm.
January 13, 1912 – at 1:30 tonight, the temperature was -20 degrees at Miller- Jones store. Fifteen or twenty of us skated on the river below the bridge an hour or two. The temperature dropped to -15 degrees while we were skating. A stiff north air made it rather disagreeable.
