100 Years Ago

Herald of June 29, 1923

Dr. J. Warren Hershberger, a well known physician of thai place, was united in marriage to Miss Lorma Kerr of McVeytown at 9 o’clock on Wednesday morning at the McVeytown First Presbyterian Church.

The Roaring Spring School District was seeking bids for 200 tons of good steam coal, 10 gross pens, 4 gallons black writing fluid, 1 gallon red writing fluid, and 8 gross soft crayons, among other things.

The Martinsburg Independents will play a doubleheader with the Keystone A.C. League of Altoona on the Fourth of July.

On Saturday afternoon, the area of Brumbaugh was visited by the worst hail and rain storm it has experienced for over thirty years. Fields of corn were leveled, and trees were shaken of their fruit.

Hot hot hot is the order of the day. Where are those fellows who said we were to have a cool summer? I guess they are sitting in the shade perusing the papers for the deaths of those who succumbed to the heat. We don’t make the weather, God knows the weather best.