75 Years Ago

Herald of Sept. 2, 1948

Many relatives and friends from Morrisons Cove attended the funeral of Robert E. Zook last Friday in Conemaugh. Three boyhood friends in Martinsburg, Richard Barley, Lawrence Burget and Glenn Bonebreak were among the pallbearers. Mr. Zook, 37, died of a heart attack at Bradford. He was principal aviation inspector for the Pennsylvania Bureau of Aeronautics. He left his widow and one daughter.

Miss Ethel Brumbaugh, nurse at the cannery, reported a freak accident that hospitalized William Kenneth Replogle, 30, of Roaring Spring. Replogle, who was severely injured during the Battle of the Bulge, was struck in the head by an ear of corn. The corn struck a plate that was inserted in his skull and an infection developed. He was transferred from Nason Hospital to the Veterans Hospital in Aspinwall for treatment.

Most Cove housewives are busy canning peaches this week, and many husbands have been enlisted--or foresaw their fate and volunteered–as helpers.