75 Years Ago

Herald of Jan. 29, 1948

Fires broke out across the Cove as the temperatures plummeted. In Williamsburg the Zimmerman Store on West Second Street suffered $1,000 in losses. The store was on the first floor and an apartment occupied by the Joseph Boyd family and the lodge hall of the J.O.U.A.M. was on the second. In Woodbury a fire was discovered around 1 a.m. in the greenhouse of Postmaster J. F. Beach. It started when a stove overheated. In Martinsburg a flue fire at the home of Mrs. Frank Whitaker started from an overheated kitchen range. In addition, the tabernacle at Rodman burned on Sunday.

Woodbury, South Woodbury and Bloomfield Townships in the southern part of the Cove have joined forces for a rat extermination campaign.

Miss Lehian Detwiler of the Herald staff has been ill and confined to her home for some time but is now improving.

State patrolmen staged an unannounced weight-checking campaign on large trucks passing through Martinsburg Borough. Fines went to the borough treasury.