100 Years Ago

Herald of Sept. 26, 1924

Outraged by the questionable action of young men and women on side streets, highways and school yards, a group of concerned fathers and brothers made an attempt to end the citation by organizing flash-light patrols of the areas, revealing the offender’s identity and afterwards publishing names.

More than 500 automobiles carried a crowd of Yellow Dogs of Blair County and their families to the Clarence Rhodes farm near Curryville for an evening of “corn gnawing” and barn dancing. Altoona K9’s assisted with preparations for the fall outing.

John H. Beach opened a shoe store for men and boys, opposite the Methodist Church. He had soles, half-soles, shoe laces and nails on hand.

A meeting was held in Woodbury concerning the forming of a stock company in the Cove to furnish electric lights for town lighting and farm residents, to be purchased from Penn Central.