This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Monongalia County denying appellants’ petition for the adoption of an infant. We reverse.

As will appear, the fact pattern of this case is unusual and unlikely to recur. On July 23, 1975 appellants, a married couple, filed a petition in the Circuit Court of Monongalia County for the adoption of the infant, who had been born out of wedlock. Uniting in appellants’ prayer for the adoption of the infant was the child’s natural mother, whose duly acknowledged consent was *896appended to the petition. The infant’s natural father was alleged in the petition to be a fugitive from justice and a wanted criminal with a capias outstanding against him. It was further alleged that the father was a non-resident of the State of West Virginia and a person whose whereabouts were unknown. The final order of the Circuit Court indicates that these allegations were taken as true after evidence was heard in the matter.

The only disputed issue in the case is whether the Circuit Court was correct in its determination that appellants had provided inadequate notice to the natural father of the pending adoption proceedings.

At the time the adoption petition was filed the applicable statute did not require that the natural father receive any notice in circumstances such as these.1 Applicable case law did, however, make it clear that the natural father should be notified and given an opportunity to appear and contest the adoption. See, Hammack v. Wise,__ W. Va-, 211 S.E.2d 118 (1975); Stanley v. Illinois, 405 U.S. 645, 31 L.Ed.2d 551, 92 S.Ct. 1208 (1972). Unfortunately, the case law did not prescribe or authorize any particular form of notice.2 Thus appel*897lants were confronted with a dilemma. They had to give notice to the natural father, but there were no specific rules to guide them in making this effort. Matters were further complicated by the natural father’s absence from the jurisdiction and his concealment from the authorities.

In this situation appellants made a bona fide effort to notify the natural father of the adoption proceedings. For two successive weeks notice of the time and place of the adoption proceedings was published in The Dominion Post, a local newspaper of general circulation, and the same notice was posted at the front door of the Monongalia County Courthouse. In view of the absence of other alternatives, and “ ... with due regard for the practicalities and peculiarities of the case ...” Mullane v. Central Hanover B. & I. Co., 339 U.S. 306, 314, 94 L.Ed. 865, 70 S.Ct. 652 (1950), we hold that appellants’ notice was “ ... reasonably calculated, under all the circumstances, to apprise interested parties of the penden-cy of the action and afford them an opportunity to present their objections.” Id. at 314. Accordingly, the *898decision of the Circuit Court of Monongalia County is reversed.

Reversed.