125 Years Ago

Herald of April 29, 1897

Isaac Lykens, of Mines advertising agent for Wm. Gable & Co., Altoona, was perambulating the Martinsburg streets.

W. S. Campbell, a former Martinsburg, Blair County, boy but now a leading lawyer of Philadelphia, left last Saturday for a four month tour in Europe.

The Martinsburg Normal school, Prof. W. S. Kagarise, principal, opened Monday in the public school building with thirty-three scholars in attendance.

There were 15 waifs in the Children’s Home.

Forty Blair County merchants escaped the payment of mercantile tax assessment. Some were retiring from business, and others were not doing an annual business of $1,000.

Mrs. Susan Metz, an aged and respected lady, died at home in Williamsburg Saturday night. She was 73. Quite a number of folks from the Martinsburg area attended the funeral, as the deceased was a sister of S. H. Isenberg of Martinsburg.