100 Years Ago

Herald of May 16, 1924

A public meeting of voters was called by the North Woodbury Township School Board in response to petition in circulation considering the advisability of erecting a new building, centrally located, to take the place of the four buildings in need of extensive repairs, located in Martinsburg, Millerstown and Middletown.

Seventeen-year-old Ruth Brawler was seriously burned from head to waist in boiler explosion while helping her father John grind chop at their home in Yellow Creek.

Night thieves filed the lock and broke into the chicken coop of George Imler of Woodbury, stealing 50 hens and making the theft the third in the past year.

A number of ministers and delegates were expected at the May 19 sessions of Juniata Classis at the Reformed Church, Loysburg.

Old timers in Henrietta never saw waters as high as Sunday night after the rain that took out a section of the Hagey dam.