100 Years Ago

Herald of Feb. 22, 1924

Interest in the Boy Scout movement was renewed with reorganization of the troop of 30 boys. Passing the Tender-foot tests were Earl Hartman, Leon and Richard Kensinger, Kenneth Bonebreak, Gilbert and Paul Luring, Edwin and Lawrence Burget, Richard Barley, Charles Keasey, Or-ville Greenleaf, Russell, John and Elvin Brown, Elvin Bowers, Lemmon Stoudnour and Paul Wagner.

Junior Gladys Johnson won the Lincoln medal offered by the Illinois Watch Co., for the best essay out of 25 contestants on the life of Lincoln.

Martinsburg and vicinity was busy digging from under a snowfa...