125 Years Ago

Herald of June 11, 1896

A boxing bout was staged at the Odd Fellows Hall in Roaring Spring with admission of 25 cents. The promoters offered $25 to any man in attendance who would stand up for six rounds with the champion. Herald columnist Jasper wrote a stern editorial opposing such entertainment.

Flowers were stolen and some tombstones were vandalized at Fairview and Spring Hope cemeteries in Martinsburg.

A drunk attacked a young man in the Roaring Spring post office, but the young man pulled from a bundle of papers a long knife that he used for his work in the bindery and slashed the attacker on the neck and shoulders. Outside he threw a fist size stone at the attacker and hit him on the side of the head before the attacker retreated.

Rev. Joseph Bassler and wife of Abilene, Kans., were guests of their son M.Z. Bassler of Henrietta, whom they had not seen since they left Woodbury for the Midwest 11 years earlier.