100 Years Ago

Herald of Oct. 17, 1924

From Oct. 17, 1974 and Oct. 21, 1999 Editions

Paul Leroy Carper, eight-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Carper of Taylor Township, died at Nason Hospital, two minutes after submission, after being struck and run over by a car on Woodbury Pike. In company with an uncle and cousin, D.M. Kensinger and son, Carl, and his father, the group had stopped at the Kensinger farm to view a house under construction. The boys darted to cross the highway from behind the car into the path of a south-bound machine that he failed to see coming.

Oliver Kagarise, nine-year postmaster at...