100 Years Ago

Herald of May 16, 1924

A public meeting of voters was called by the North Woodbury Township School Board in response to petition in circulation considering the advisability of erecting a new building, centrally located, to take the place of the four buildings in need of extensive repairs, located in Martinsburg, Millerstown and Middletown.

Seventeen-year-old Ruth Brawler was seriously burned from head to waist in boiler explosion while helping her father John grind chop at their home in Yellow Creek.

Night thieves filed the lock and broke into the chicken coop of George Imler of Woodbury, stea...