75 Years Ago

Herald of Nov. 3, 1949

The first anniversary of the Business and Professional Women’s club of Martinsburg was celebrated Oct. 20, at a chicken and waffle dinner served in the dining room of the Penn Mar Coffee Shoppe.

The new two-manual Electronic Wurlitzer Organ Series 50, recently installed at Mt. Pleasant Evangelical and Reformed Church will be dedicated next Sunday at 11:00 a.m. Service.

Martinsburg firemen were called out between 2 and 3 o’clock Monday morning to the home of Ted Zook on South Market street where they found the couch in the living room on fire, and carried it outside.

Several hundred Mummers joined with community organizations to make the second annual Halloween parade in Roaring Spring a real success, Monday night.

Whipped by a chilly wind which was just right for a witch’s ride, about 400 persons filed through Martinsburg street Monday night in the annual Martinsburg Booster Mummers Parade.