Two Men Return Home

Herald of May 31, 1945

Two Martinsburg young men have already been mustered out of the armed service and returned to their homes after long years of action in the European war theatre. These are Cpl. Byron C. Ruby and Technical Sergeant Sheldon Oesterle. Ruby arrived home Friday of last week and Oesterle on Wednesday evening of this week, Memorial Day.

Lester Snowberger, farmer on the Mrs. Nancy Kensinger farm at Henrietta suffered a sudden attack of appendicitis and was rushed to the Nason hospital where he underwent an operation. He is reported getting along well.

As this is a rush season for the farmers, Mr. Snowberger’s neighbor’s got together and spent Tuesday doing the farm work that the sick man would not be able to do. A group of fifteen men with ten tractors tackled the job and by evening they had plowed about 30 acres, harrowed and planted ten acres of cannery corn and about five acres of other corn.

Electrical interference of some sort giving trouble on the radio. Penn Edison company looking for the cause.