'Finest Evergreen' Cut Down

Herald of Dec. 27, 1945

W. Floyd Bush, electrical contractor of Martinsburg, and wife have become the owners of Spring Hope farm on Spring Street, partly in the borough limits on the road to the airport.

It was bought from Mrs. Carrie M. Nicodemus and husband who have in turn become the owners of the Roy Sell property on Locust Street.

The Varsity and the Junior Basket Ball teams of the Martinsburg High school went to Coalport, Clearfield, last Friday evening and defeated both teams of that High school.

Some one cut one of the finest evergreen on the Martinsburg borough watershed down for a Christmas tree. The tree had stood near the Herron spring some distance above the reservoir on Lock mountain. Owing to the depth of the snow on the mountain, the borough authorities have not been able to check on all parts of the watershed.

Monday brought the winter’s coldest morning with temperatures ranging from 6 to 14 degrees below zero in the vicinity of Martinsburg. Two inches of sleet, snow and rain fell on Christmas Day.