75 Years Ago

Herald of Oct. 21, 1948

Martinsburg residents were astonished at the quick construction of a brick dwelling built for the Joseph Cornelius family along West Allegheny Street. While many projects were being affected by supply shortages, the home was completed in five months. Mr. Cornelius attributed his success to making a schedule and sticking to it. Mr. Cornelius supervised the construction himself.

The Glenn Smith family lost all of their best clothes, including Mr. Smith’s new winter coat, in a fire at the former Eddie Smith farm near Smithfield. The fire started on the second floor in a wardrobe. Firemen and neighbors were able to extinguish the fire using water from a cistern.

Mrs. J. S. Bonebreak, wife of Martinsburg’s oldest physician, was in Nason Hospital with a hip fracture. She became entangled in the dog’s leash and fell on the concrete sidewalk in front of her home. Her neighbor, Mrs. Oliver Ritchey, was in the same hospital recovering from the same type of injury.