75 Years Ago

Herald of Aug. 22, 1946

In the second fatal plane crash in Morrisons Cove since the construction of the airport in 1938, an Army major was killed when his pursuit plane roared into fog shrouded Tussey Mountain. He was identified as Maj. Charles W. Brown, 28, of Waldo, Ark.

Mary Ellen Jackson of Martinsburg RD2 had one of her sonnets,”Fruitless Season,” published in the Aug. 24 issue of the Saturday Evening Post.

The new pastor of the Williamsburg Church of the Brethren, Rev. Alfred Replogle, settled in the borough.

Mrs. Walter A Fisher, the former Mary Showalter of Martinsburg, with her eight-...