125 Years Ago

Herald of April 23, 1896

Dr. Nason of Titusville was reported to be located at the Park Hotel and to be “fitting it up in excellent style as a sanitarium, where the invalid can find a pleasant home with the delightful surroundings and benefit under the doctor’s skillful treatment.”

Charles P. Ashcom pf Pittsburgh, a native of Martinsburg, reported that he is rounding up a delegation of 50 former Blair County residents in the Smoky City to attend the June jubilee marking the 50th anniversary of the formation of Blair County. The celebrants were arranging to travel in their own special coach and have their own band and banners for parades.

A band of gypsies was camping between McKees and Vicksburg. The camp attracted a crowd of approximately 200 persons on Sunday to have their fortunes told. A local preacher called them cheats, frauds and desecraters of the Sabbath and condemned those who patronized them.

A Martinsburg fisherman reported catching 117 trout.