125 Years Ago

Herald of July 21, 1899

A large number of counterfeit half dollars were being circulated in Altoona. It was believed that they were being coined by a group of counterfeiters in or near the city. The coins were easily identified as they were defectively made.

A Bellefonte farmer, John Evans, escaped serious injury or death when he was almost burned alive in a grain field. While driving a binder, to which three horses were attached, in a harvest field in Nippenose Valley, near the Oriole cave, the earth opened and the horses, driver and binder dropped into a hole twenty feet deep. Evans and his horses scrambled out and the hole filled with water ten minutes after the accident.

Herman Clouse of Maria sold 6 threshing machines and one road engine for the Geiser Machine Co.

Thirty-seven passenger cars, filled to capacity, pulled into Roaring Spring with shopmen from Juniata for their annual picnic.

Prof. S.B. Stonerook of Springdale, Iowa, was visiting in the Curryville area.