100 Years Ago

Herald of Aug. 10, 1923

The barn on the Frank Snavely farm in Waterside was hit by lightning in several places. Weatherboarding was torn into kindling wood, and a fire started in their carriage that was quickly extinguished. The fire ran along a wire fence and tore off a gate and carried it up through the field. Mrs. O. K. Beach was ironing with an electric iron and she was stunned to such an extent that they feared a physician would need to be called, but she gradually recovered.

On the morning after the Farmers’ picnic in Henrietta, Fran Metzger was dumbfounded to find a Tin Lizzie in his corn field, and the funny part about it was the wire fence was intact and all right except the staples were out of it.

Jacob Guyer suffered a painful accident while at work on the bailer in the Book factory, having several of his fingers severely lacerated, and his son, Ed Guyer, recently sustained painful injuries about the head while working at the PRR shops in Altoona.