Altoona Tribune, 12 July 1935, Friday, Page 6: Lumbermen And Raftmen Soon To Hold Another Reunion at Burnside Mike Courtney, woods boss for Ario Pardee, also said to be living in the wilds of West Virginia, who will celebrate his one hundredth birthday in September. During this writer's recent visit to the headwaters of the Tygart river in West Virginia, inquiries were made for the redoubtable Mike Courtney. "He used to come to market once a month . . . Coal has been discovered on his property