Mail Carrier Sent to Prison

Herald of Aug. 1, 1895

Benjamin F. Crider, Hopewell mail carrier, was sentenced to the Huntingdon Reformatory for stealing letters.

Prof. John Lykens, moral instructor in the Huntingdon Industrial Reformatory, was visiting his brother I.H. Lykens.

The Spring school house that stood for many years near the stone mansion of the Stoner homestead was torn down.

Prof. W.E. Jamison was named by the Loysburg School Board to be principal for the next year with J.S. Bayer as primary teacher.

The Woodbury dam was drained, but the fishermen outnumbered the fish.

The Herald appeared with a new masthead. The old masthead, used since the paper was first published in 1885, said “Martinsburg Herald” in fancy type across the top of the front page. The new masthead said “Weekly Herald” in large plain type with a symbol of Pennsylvania and the word Martinsburg in small type.

It was rumored that the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Burlington Railroad were considering consolidation.