No Snow, But Cold Prevails

Herald of Jan. 9, 1896

The jingle of the sleigh bell had not yet been heard, but the coal man was reported to be “just as happy as he can be.”

Martinsburg young men returning to college were Arthur Bloom to Dickinson, J.E. Clapper to State College and A.R. Haney and C.A. Everhart to Mercersburg. Miss Emma Nicodemus returned to Wilson College in Chambersburg.

A Pennsylvania Railroad firefighter was killed when a wall fell on him during a fire in Altoona that destroyed the Central Hotel and a brick building next to it at the corner of 10th Avenue and 11th Street.

P.H. Bridenbaugh was re-elected steward and his wife matron of the County Home at Hollidaysburg.

William Dickey of McKee fell and broke his leg while driving the donkeys that pulled the ganister cars up an down the mountain at the quarry.

Scholars of the Middletown School presented their teacher H.C. Smith with a gold pen and holder and an ink stand.

The Pittsburgh Limestone Co. leased all of the property of the Franklin Forge near Williamsburg.