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Even at a young age, Altoona native Jake Snyder was already showing his musical abilities. He taught himself to play the piano, and his father wanted him to play the accordion. Because the instrument was heavy for his age and size, Snyder’s mother would put it on a red wagon and pull it across town to his lessons. Piano playing came naturally to him. Snyder had a gift where he could hear a song and then he could play it. His wife Cheryl said that his whole being was in tune with music, and it w...
This photo was captured outside of the Herald office on Walnut Street at about 5:30 p.m. Now that it is January, the sunsets are getting later and later each day. Regardless of when, being able to see the colors of a beautiful sunset like this one are moments that I always treasure....
Herald of Jan. 19, 1900 A report circulated in Altoona that the Pennsylvania Railroad had purchased the Pressed Steel Car Company works at McKees Rocks, Allegheny County, and was preparing to move some of the Altoona shops to that location. The Herald commented that rumors like this had circulated before and that there was probably no truth to the report. Carrie Meyler Davison, who formerly served as a telegraph operator for the P.R.R. at Martinsburg, and later worked at the same capacity for the railroad in Wilkinsburg, died at her home...
Herald of Jan. 16, 1925 G.W. Gates was installed as master of the Clover Creek Grange 791. John Shelly, a past master, was the installing officer. Mr. Gates was the installing officer for new officers of North Woodbury Grange 1923 in a meeting at the IOOF Hall, Martinsburg. Installed there as master of North Woodbury was I.H. Benner. The Marimba Singers officially opened the Lyceum Course for this year at the D-Ford theater. A musical program from opera to the popular dance tune “What’ll I Do?” was presented to a capacity audience. A large...
Herald of Jan. 19, 1950 Two separate fires on Thursday, Jan 12, in the southern Cove resulted in $4,200 damage to two houses. The one story home of Kenneth Frederick between Waterside and Lafayettesville was destroyed by the time Southern Cove Volunteer Fire Company arrived at the scene. While Ralph Imler was at the Frederick fire, a blaze at his home started two miles east of New Enterprise. Mrs. Imler rescued the children from the room where the greatest damage was done and with the help of neighbors put out the blaze by the time her husband...
Herald of Jan. 16, 1975 Campbell’s billiard parlor on North Market Street in Martinsburg, closed its doors. The building was to be torn down to make way for construction of the Majik Market convenience store. Thelma Bergstresser, former administrator at Nason Hospital, was honored by staff and board members at an appreciation dinner Jan 8. at Chilcoat’s Restaurant. Mrs. Bergstresser who retired Jan 2, was succeeded by John P. Kinney. Adie Burk, 83, active member of the Freedom Township Volunteer Fire Company, was named Fireman of the Year and...
Herald of Jan.20, 2000 High winds roared through the Cove area on Sunday, causing some damage to a Roaring Spring restaurant and also knocking out power to some residents for several hours. The highest wind velocity record at the Flight Service Center at the Blair County Airport was 58 mph. Roaring Spring fire company was called to OIP in borough along East Main Street blew part of the roof oof the building and too electric lines down with it. An approximately 60-foot tree at Fairview Cemetery, Martinsburg, was blown to the ground. Part of the...
Herald of Jan. 15, 2015 Two Morrisons Coveteenagers were charged as adults in the murder of a 21-year-old Roaring Spring woman. Deauntay Dontaz Moye, 16, of Woodbury, and Ryan Hardwick, 15, of Martinsburg RR, students at Northern Bedford High School, both face a list of charges stemming from the recent homicide of Stephanie Michele Waters. The month of December was extremely busy for the Martinsburg Police Department, with officers primarily focusing their efforts on investigations of the multiple credit card frauds that hit the area in late...
Herald of Jan. 5, 1900 Jasper, the Roaring Spring correspondent, pointed out in his column that the 19th Century did not end on Dec. 31 as many assumed. “We’ve still got 12 long months this year,” he said. “You know it’s not through until Jan. 1, 1901. The mayors were finding it difficult to enforce the ordinance requiring sidewalks to be cleared of snow. A slushy snow froze solid before most folks had a chance to shovel it. Skating at Lake Hagey in Henrietta was reported as excellent. Dr. J.W. Wengert of Clover Creek purchased the Daniel Ot...
Herald of Jan. 2. 1925 Levi F. Leamer, last survivor of early ironmasters in Blair County, died at his son’s home in Cambria County. A native to Leamersville, he was identified with iron manufacturing at Allegheny, McKee, and Rebecca Furnances in early years. He had lived in Roaring Spring and was at one time a business associate of the Lorez family. The Stetson Oil Co. in Cleveland wanted a salesman, preferably a man with an auto, to establish a business in Blair and surrounding counties. The monthly salary was $200. A crew of man were c...
Herald of Jan. 5, 1950 Charles A. Straesser Jr., 41, who would have been inducted into his first public office Jan. 3, as Martinsburg Borough tax collector, died suddenly Saturday, Dec. 31, 1949. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Stoner of Martinsburg planned to celebrate their 55th wedding anniversary with an afternoon and evening open house on that date, Jan. 10. The Herald was recognized by the Fresh Air Fund of New York City and the New York Herald Tribune for its effort to seek summer-time host families for underprivileged city children. The new bridge...
Herald of Jan. 2, 1975 A Herald feature story reported that stores in Martinsburg and Roaring Spring were having trouble keeping up with the demand for yo-yos by youths of the community. The popularity lead to them being banned at the Spring Cove Junior High School. Contributions by community residents pushed the Martinsburg Community Fund over its goal of $12,775, the highest one ever reached by the fund. A feature story debated the issue of whether the Spring Cove School Board should sink money into the district’s school buildings that are 4...
Herald of Jan. 6, 2000 Grace Lauren arrived at 12:30 p.m. New Year’s Day, her due date, at Nason Hospital, the hospital’s first baby of 2000. Weighing seven pounds nine ounces and 19-1/2 inches long. Grace is the daughter of Joseph and Apryl Miller of Saxton. Two new members of Roaring Spring Borough Council, Richard Haupt and Dennis Igou, were sworn in on Tuesday afternoon by Mayor Paul I. Holsinger. Herschell “Pat” Varner was relected as council president. Martinsburg swore in new councilman, Jay L. Guyer and incumbents Robert A. Carper...
Herald of Jan. 8, 2015 Judy Ward of Hollidaysburg was sworn in Jan. 6 as the first female state representative in Blair County’s history. Eleven seniors from three area FFA chapters will be honored with the Keystone FFA Degree Monday, Jan. 12, at the Pennsylvania FFA Mid-Winter Conference. The event will take place at the Pennsylvania Farm Show scheduled for Jan. 10-17 at Harrisburg. Northern Bedford’s Isaac Drenning splits two Williamsburg defenders in the opening round of the 17th annual Williamsburg Blue Pirate Boosters Holiday Tou...
There are some Christmas traditions that used to happen in the around the Cove but are not around anymore. One of those is the 12 Days of Christmas Decorations that used to be put up in Martinsburg. According to Randy Stoltz the 12 days of Christmas decorations were put up each year on Blair Street in Martinsburg. The tradition started in 1969. Wooden figures depicting the 12 days of Christmas from the popular Christmas song. The 14 houses on Blair Street participated with the first house near...
Spring Cove Middle School staff participated in "Giving Tuesday" by collecting monetary donations for the Roaring Spring Library. Pictured are: Dr. Amy Miller, SCMS Principal, Michelle McIntyre, Director of the RS Community Library, and Mrs. Gabrielle McDonald, SCMS Assistant Principal. Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of radical generosity. Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Since then, it has grown...
Herald of Dec. 29, 1899 From Dec. 29, 1949 Edition The death of John T. Shirley, 71, former merchant in Martinsburg, was reported. His death occurred suddenly the previous Friday while he was attending a meeting of the board of directors of the Tussey Mt. Mining and Smelting Co., in Huntingdon. He was the father-in-law of the late Blanche Klepser Shirley of Martinsburg. “John Jasper” in his jottings from Roaring Spring said, “old Santa remembered us kindly, for which we are grateful. We conclude, the old man thought we smoked, as he left us a...
Herald of Dec. 26, 1924 From Dec. 26, 1974 and Dec. 30, 1999 Editions The two-day convention in connection with the State Farm Show was called off by the state Poultry Association because of the poultry plague existing in many states. All cars, coops, crates and containers of live poultry from outside the state were prohibited, unless cleaned and disinfected under state supervision and proper certification. The ban was effective Dec. 24. The Henrietta correspondent reported that a new road was to be built from Fredericksburg to Martinsburg...
Herald of Dec. 29, 1949 If the volume of Christmas mail is a good barometer, there was more good will toward men this Christmas season than any before in Morrisons Cove. The Martinsburg Post Office established an all-time record for mail dispatched on Monday, December 19, when 18,561 pieces were canceled, Postmaster Melvin G. Hartman reported yesterday. D. Clair Replogle, World War II veteran who has been proprietor of the Atlantic Service Station in Roaring Spring for the past year, today announced the purchase of the service station and real...
Herald of Dec. 26, 1974 The Roaring Spring Mill of Appleton Papers, Inc., and the prestress division at the Roaring Spring plants of New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co. have scheduled end of the year shut-downs because of a slump in product sales. The Martinsburg Zoning Hearing Board has cleared the way for a convenience food store and self-service gasoline outlet in central Martinsburg. The Spring Cove School Board has narrowed the field of alternatives it will consider in scoping with the district’s need for new elementary facilities. C...
Herald of Dec. 30, 1999 Are you ready for the new millennium? Cove firemen and policemen will be taking necessary steps on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day in preparation for any problems that might arise because of the new year and the Y2K issue. According to the Y2K Council, persons think the Y2K issue will surface only on New Year’s Day, but that is not true. The council said Y2K challenges can happen any time a computer that is not Y2K compliant uses a Year 2000 date. The Harbison-Walker Refractories plant in Sproul has bounced back very...
Herald of Dec. 24, 2014 The compromise of multiple credit cards that struck the Cove last month may have come from southern Blair County. Police officials are investigating a “couple” businesses in the southern end of the county where thieves may have obtained credit card numbers and then transferred the numbers to a “dummy card.” Police said the thieves then used the dummy cards to make the majority of purchases at stores in the Pittsburgh-Ohio areas. Nason Hospital is one step closer to becoming part of LifePoint Hospitals Inc. Officia...
Mrs.Reese's Class Snowy mountains. All are joyful. Nice presents sit under the Christmas tree. Today is Christmas. Are you naughty or nice this year? By Audrina B. Christmas Morning I see cookies on the table. I smell hot cocoa. I hear presents opening I taste pumpkin rolls. I feel happy and excited!!! By Jordy Burns Christmas Morning I see the elf getting ready to leave. I smell the snowy air. I hear my brother is going to open presents. I taste an amazing breakfast. I feel the Christmas spirit. By Brody. C Christmas Morning I see presents...
Eating Christmas cookies Learning to build toys Figuring it out By Justin S. S Slow silent night in December A All of the laughter N Nights of lights T Talks of books A A Christmas tree Lucia D. Elves watch your behavior Love to make a mess Fly to your house every Christmas Tyson L. Green ugly Grinch Red lights Ice and icicles Nice presents Candy Hot chocolate Deklyn W. Everywhere in the house. Left a not in the cabinet. Found him making snow angels. Bleyn K. Green skin and yellow teeth Rude and mean In the movie he falls into a tree Nice at...
Mrs. Ocker’s Class Grasion Weyandt Holidays Ornaments Treat Christmas Happy Offering Cold Old-Fashion Lights Angel Tinsel Elf Quinn Garner Candy Amazing Stripes Nice Color Decoration Yummy Cane Shaped A Hard Bite Nice Peppermint Taste Eat Draven Durr Giving Interesting For Me Toy *What are the words? Ronan Richards Reindeer I Don’t Want A Lot for Christmas Box Bell Ox North Pole Layton Lingenfelter Elf Love Family Maryonna L Ritchey-Zer by Joy Ornament Lord Loving Yarn Jayson Lee Balls Elfs Listen Light Sleigh Kristie Morgan Santa Claus Nor...
Santa Claus I saw Santa Claus I saw Santa Clause at night He gave me presents By Riley Tinker Christmas I love Christmas time Let’s make a gingerbread house My dogs love Christmas By Silas Clowson Reindeer Reindeer are the best You can call them caribou They are very cute By Makenzie Morgan Snow Snow is wonderful You can make such great angels Snow is the best thing By Irene Maurer Reindeer Dashing through the snow In a one horse open sleigh Pulling Santa’s sleigh By Kaylee Prough Christmas Raisin filled cookies Santa went down the chimney Mrs....
Last August, my twin sister and I had the opportunity to attend an unusual festival – the Twins Days Festival. As you can probably guess, this festival is specifically for twins (or triplets, quadruplets, etc.). Taking place in Twinsburg, Ohio, the festival lasts around three days and brings in over 1,000 attendees. Twinsburg was founded in 1817, but was originally called Millsville. In 1819, identical twins Moses and Aaron Wilcox purchased 4,000 acres of land and renamed the town Twinsburg. Sin...
Herald of Dec. 22, 1899 From Dec. 19, 1974 Edition William Miller of Williamsburg died of injuries received in a premature explosion at the quarry of the Pittsburgh Limestone Co. He was preparing to set off a blast when the fuse shot fire back and ignited his coat. In brushing the fire from his clothing, some sparks fell into a can of powder which exploded, causing serious burns and other injuries. Morrell Lykens fell from the ore washer at Mines. He was bruised and badly shaken but escaped serious injury. William Gunnett of Henrietta, section...
Herald of Dec. 19, 1924 From Dec. 15, 1949 Edition A fire broke out in the walls and partitions of the new Roaring Spring High School building Wednesday afternoon, and did much damage to the building and contents, threatening to destroy the entire building before being brought under control. The largest attendance on record, installation of officers for the new year and a banquet, featured the December get-together meeting of the members of Murray-Appleman Post 147 American Legion at Roaring Spring, with Geo. L. Horner being installed as the...
Herald of Dec. 22, 1949 Popular gift packages of apples that carry the “Cove flavor” to more than a dozen states and some foreign countries were being unloaded at the Roaring Spring Post Office. This is the first year the Cove’s largest orchard packed apples in special gift packages, and the response was excellent. Accepting the presidency of the Martinsburg Booster Association for its silver anniversary year, Blair R. Bice challenged the 100 Boosters and guests attending the president’s reception to “think ahead” for the welfare of the comm...
Herald of Dec. 19, 1974 The party held in honor of Mowry Prince Corinne – the “super cow” in Clarence and Kenneth Mowry’s Holstein herd at Baker’s Summit – was the social event of the year on many farm calendars in Morrisons Cove. Approximately 900 persons traveled to the Bedford County farm Wednesday morning, Dec. 11, to gaze at the ten-year-old wonder of the black and white breed, a cow which has produced 50,759 pounds of milk in 365 days. She gazed right back. A proposal to reconstruct the Piney Creek road from Martinsburg to Williamsbur...
Herald of Dec. 23, 1999 Brice Miller’s graphite drawing of a Woodbury boy has been selected for a millennium show at the Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, N.Y. Miller is a Woodbury area professional artist recognized nationally for his detailed pencil drawings. A post World War II British Vampire jet flight was parked near the original terminal at the Altoona-Blair County Airport, enroute to an air show at Johnstown. Officials from the Tour de ’Toona bicycle race announced this week that a portion of the race again will be sta...
Herald of Dec. 18, 2014 The Central High School 2014-15 Mock Trial team, composed of four freshmen, four sophomores, one junior and one senior, recently traveled to San Francisco to compete in the Empire Mock Trial Tournament and returned with a fifth-place finish out of 24 teams. Residents of Catharine Township will see a slight increase in their property taxes for 2015. The Martinsburg Area Community Fund continues to receive donations from area residents, businesses and organizations. To date, the annual fund drive has received $33,679 in...
The First Methodist Church teamed up with some of the members from the Scottish Rite Masonic Lodge in Altoona to provide some needs for the local veterans home in Hollidaysburg. Brady Appleman, center, helped spearhead the drive in Williamsburg and is pictured here dropping items off....
In the Nov. 27, 2024 edition of the Herald, in the 100 years ago it should read that the agriculture class of Cove High visited the Harry Metzger farm on Piney Creek Road. The Metzger farm, still functioning, is immediately north of the Stoner homestead and just south of what is now the award winning Smith family’s Dry Creek Farm....
Herald of Dec. 15, 1899 From Dec. 15, 1949 William Foor, aged 35 years, a son of David Foor, residing about one mile east of Everett, was instantly killed Saturday. On returning from a hunting trip he used the butt of his gun to push open the gate when the weapon was discharged, the entire load striking him in the neck. He was survived by his wife and one child. The Blair County commissioners have awarded the contract for the stone work for the bridge over the big spring at Williamsburg to John A. Dunkle of Tyrone, at $4 per perch. The wife of...
Herald of Dec. 12, 1924 From Dec. 16, 1999 Proprietor C.W. D’Ford erected a row of U.S. Flags on the side-walk in front of his theater and installed electric lights on the building front. One large light atop the flag pole gave brilliance to N. Market Street, adding to the much-to-be-desired street lighting. On account of the sale of the Cove Cooperative Company not materializing, the company was still doing business with dairy feed, grain and coal sales at Curryville. The postal department urged car owners to order their 1925 license tags e...
Herald of Dec. 15, 1949 Martinsburg’s public display of colored lights, as the “Square” and on the large evergreen in the “Triangle,” gave the town a bright, holiday atmosphere this week. Outdoor displays are expected to appear in front of many homes before Christmas. W.U. Skyles, cashier of the Morrisons Cove Bank, today completes a period of 50 years service in that position. The annual Children’s Christmas Party at the Martinsburg Community Library this year will feature a play under the direction of Library Story Teller Mrs. Ralph Dough...
Herald of Dec. 12, 1974 The Herald is sponsoring its annual Christmas Morning Photo Contest once again – so prepare the amateur shuttering in your family. Get your camera ready to snap pictures of the youngsters in your family as they open their gifts around the tree. Take as many pictures of the Christmas morning bustle as you like, then pick out the best one and send it to the Herald. The top three pictures will be printed in the Herald’s 1975 Christmas edition. A proposal to build a new self-service gasoline outlet and convenience store in...
Herald of Dec. 16, 1999 The contractors that are working with the Blair County Airport Authority on a project to trim trees at a number of Martinsburg residences drew criticism from two authority members at a meeting Monday night. The trees are being trimmed because they are considered to be obstructions to airplane take-offs and landings on the airport’s north-south runway. Several authority members complained that the contractors are not only conducting outside appraisals of the property, but also are asking to be allowed inside the homes a...
Herald of Dec. 11, 2014 Local police agencies are making progress in their investigations of multiple credit card frauds that struck the Cove around Black Friday, but are asking victims for patience. Martinsburg Borough Police Chief Kerry Hoover said that his department “has narrowed it down to where it likely happened but not exactly how.” Michelle Smithmyer, Claysburg-Kimmel’s business manager, was recognized by the C-K School Board on Dec. 3 for her 15 years as a member of the Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officials. Nason...
The first farm animal that Karen Phillips rescued was a stray piglet named Isaac. “Years and years ago,” she recalled, Phillips was a veterinarian working at a Pittsburgh shelter when she came across Isaac in a kennel that neighbored a rottweiler’s. “He was obviously scared to death,” Phillips said of the pig. “So I ended up taking him home.” The experience showed her that farm animals were just as sensitive, personable, and intelligent as pets. “He was just as smart and learned better manners than my French bulldogs had,” she said with a l...
Herald of Dec. 8, 1899 From Dec. 5, 1974 Edition Elder Henry R. Holsinger, known to Herald readers for articles which he wrote under the name of “The Old Cover,” completed a history of the Church of the Brethren which was being published under the title of “The History of the Tunkers.” Mr. Holsinger, a former resident of Berlin, Pa., was then living in Lathrop, Calif. He also was preparing to publish an autobiography. Three homesick Indian boys at the Carlisle Indian School started for their western home, but were located at Bedford. Erectio...
Herald of Dec. 5, 1924 From Dec. 1, 1949 and Dec. 9, 1999 Editions Haul out the dictionaries and sharpen the pencils! The Herald’s crossword puzzle made its first appearance in a series of the popular brain testers. Some would be easy, others might stumble over the simplest words. One was likely to trip-up if ascending or descending too rapidly the first puzzle titled “Heavenly Stairway.” Acknowledging the gift of a miniature horseshoe, a grateful Chinaman was sending Charles Gorsuch a silk handkerchief inscribed with both names and a few y...
Herald of Dec. 8, 1949 Morrisons Cove will once again become a haven for Europeans, when a Latvian family of six, once well-to-do farmers who have lived in concentration and displaced-person camps since 1943, arrive here early next year. The family, befriended by Miss Joyce Williams, a Roaring Spring girl who is in charge of German personnel in a D-P camp near Schweinfurt, Germany, will find a home and jobs awaiting them. The Martinsburg Community Fellowship of Churches met in the Borough Building on Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock. Leon K...
Herald of Dec. 5, 1974 A Holstein in the herd of Clarence and Kenneth Mowry at Bakers Summit next week will become the world’s most honored cow. On Sunday the 10-year-old cow named Corrine will complete a one-year milking period in which she will set a world record by passing the 50,000 pound mark. She is the first cow of any breed to achieve this milestone in milk production. Snow mixed with rain, and in some sections sleet, fell throughout Morrisons Cove Sunday and was followed by more snow Monday. Roaring Spring Borough Council accepted t...
Herald of Dec. 9, 1999 The Spring Cove Outreach for Parent Enrichment (SCOPE) center at the Roaring Spring Elementary School opened Oct. 4. SCOPE is formerly known as the Spring Cove Family Center, which was formerly located at Morrisons Cove Memorial Park. Jonathan O’Harrow of Sproul is one of 41 Susquehanna University seniors who will be nationally recognized as outstanding leaders in the 2000 edition of Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. American Universities and Colleges. A Martinsburg man who has been cha...
Herald of Dec. 4, 2014 Saturday, Nov. 29, was a great day to kick off the Christmas season in Claysburg. Claysburg’s first “Christmas in the Park” event went off without a hitch. There was Christmas snow on the ground, a chill in the air and lots of festivities and fun at the park. It was evident that much planning and work went into this affair. The new airline serving the Altoona-Blair County airport is committed to customer service, according to company officials. As of yesterday, Dec. 3, Sun Air Express is now providing commercial fligh...
For the Williamsburg Women's Civic Club, this month's meeting topic was "Hospice Care," presented by UPMC Home Healthcare/Family Hospice account representative Pam Hettinger. Once known as Home Nursing Agency, UPMC Home Healthcare got its start, according to Hettinger, in 1968, and the first hospice nurse in the area, she says, is still living. Hettinger said she has worked in home healthcare/family hospice for over 30 years and truly loves her job. According to Hettinger, hospice is a care bene...
Belinda, 66, and Bob Carper, 69, of Martinsburg recently moved into their new home just in time for the holiday season. The Carpers designed their home to fit their needs as they get older, and want it to be their last move. "It was built with the idea of low maintenance and not having to worry as we get older," Belinda said. Their property located in Martinsburg is a one-story which is a change from their previous two-story home located about two blocks from their current property. They pick...
