100 Years Ago

Herald of Jan. 20, 1922

Students from the Morrisons Cove Vocational School were selected to attend the Farm Products Show at Harrisburg. Several hundred boys representing fifty-two vocational schools and departments state wide were scheduled to compete.

A license application received in Harrisburg contained the following description: “It is a vehicle I have built of discarded parts of Ford cars. The engine was purchased from a laundry in Tarentum. The frame I got in Punxsutawney. The axle was got at Butler in a junkyard…the seat was off an old 1907 car which I had for a porch swing; the lights are off a small Saxton from Jefferson Center, and the sidelights are off a Cadillac I got in Pittsburgh”. Officials granted a license for a “Ford.”

The United States Civil Service Commission announced an open competition exam for February 11, 1922 to fill the positions of postmaster in Martinsburg and Williamsburg.