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By Gloria Kerr for Hometown magazine

to tide him over until he returned to work for a few years until his doctor recommended that he retire in 2008. Speaking of arol Overly’s life-long record of volthe ups and downs over the years, Carol unteering and service to her commuOverly says her family has been blessed. nity is a testament to the positive The Overlys still live on Myrtle Avenue, impact that ordinary people, who give of named 4th Avenue when they moved to themselves humbly and constantly, have on Punxsutawney in 1960; however, they now their community. She has much in common reside in the brick house next door to their with the little drummer boy in the beloved original residence where their neighbors Christmas carol of the same name, “The Bill and Jean Roberts lived. Jim Little Drummer Boy.” and Carol had four of their six Learning of the birth of the children when they arrived in baby Jesus, the little drumPunxsutawney: Mary Beth, mer boy wants to take “to lay J.R., Debbi, and Bill; Don and before the king” and “honor Patti were born in Punxhim” the “finest gifts.” But sutawney. he is a poor boy and thinks he Carol says her new neighbor has no gift good enough to Jean Roberts “took me under offer. But still when he asks her wing and introduced me Mother Mary if he may play around.” She and Florence his drum for the child, she Hughes’ Welcome Wagon Club nods yes. Then the drummer made Carol feel welcome. “I boy “played his best” for taught Jean to make hard tack Him as “the ox and lamb kept candy at Christmas time,” she time, pa rum pum pum pum.” recalls. Their neighbors, Bill When baby Jesus smiled at and Jean Roberts, had five of him, the boy knew that he’d their six children at the time, given a fitting gift, the best of three boys and two girls, just as himself and his talent as a the Overlys did: Betty, Lori, drummer. Likewise, Carol Bill, Joe, and Jim Roberts; JenOverly gives the best of hernifer Roberts was born after self, thinking what she does The James Overly family gathered to celebrate their parents’ 60th wedding (front, l. to r.) Mary Beth Bosak, parents Jim and Carol, Debbi they moved to Record Avenue. “is not much”; nevertheless, anniversary: George, Patti Dinsmore; (back, l. to r.) Don, J.R., and Bill.

Those neighbor children played her gift of giving as a voluntogether. When the Roberts famteer to worthwhile causes is ily left their brick home and moved to beyond worth to those she’s served and went out of business, officially in 2001, Jim Record Avenue, Carol and Jim moved over worked for Thomas Coal Company till it continues to do so. to the bigger brick house which had more A self-deprecating woman of strong faith closed. He’d been out of work for a while room for their family of eight. in God and devotion to family, Carol dis- when he was hired at David Osikowicz’s All of the Overly family members are misses the significance of the time and ef- Grange Lime and Stone company. After his hard workers. While Jim worked at Arnie fort she gives to her church, Saints Cosmas first year at that job, he had a heart attack, Dunmire’s gas station in the 1960s, he took and Damian Roman Catholic Church but Osikowicz kept his job open till Jim re(SSCD), the Punxsutawney Area Hospital, covered, even spreading out his paycheck - Continued on page 4

C On the cover: Putting the needs of others before her own, Carol Overly has spent years selflessly offering her service to those around her. Whether for her family, within her church, or for the good of her community, Carol has found satisfaction in helping worthy causes.

She currently volunteers weekly in the Education Department of the Punxsutawney Area Hospital and monthly serves as a eucharistic minister there as well to the homebound.

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A detail from the 1895 Lithograph drawing of Clayville reveals the Carmalt Farm and the small mining town of Columbus (center) on a hill above Walston (right) and coke ovens and Clayville cemetery (bottom left). On the Carmalt farmland. Punxsutawney men began to golf regularly, forming the Punxsutawney Country Club in 1904.

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By S. Thomas Curry of Hometown magazine or many folk, the month of November is the beginning of colder temperatures and shortened daylight hours occurring after the comforts of the fall season.

The promise of spring will wait for the weather prognostication on Groundhog Day. There are people looking forward to winter activities, as in hunting, ice skating, skiing, hockey, football and basketball (which is usually played indoors). There are other popular winter activities for the hardy individuals who love the outdoor world.

Whether young or old, the winter months force most people indoors to a life of little physical activity. For many, life is guided by the seasons’ opportunities, whether it be spring, summer, fall and winter, or golf, baseball, football, tennis and basketball, or even hunting and fishing seasons, etc. For the active person, there is a period of “emptiness” between the close of the football season in the fall and the opening of a season of sport activities in the spring.

Punxsutawney area history records numerous “firsts’ that relate to the outdoor sports of golf and tennis for which men and women eagerly awaited a century ago.

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Punxsutawney “Firsts” in the Sport of Golf The game of golf is considered one of the oldest outdoor sports in history. It was introduced in the Punxsutawney area in 1898 when plans for a Punxsutawney Country Club were discussed among several prominent men associated with Punxsutawney’s major industries of coal and mining, railroad and iron. They played golf on the former Carmalt Farm outside of Clayville (off North Main Street in what is now Punxsutawney’s West End).

In local history, the Carmalt Farm was recognized as a station of the Underground

Railroad before the Civil War. The Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Co. had purchased the Carmalt farm with plans to finance the construction of “golf links” on the farm land. Three holes were opened for play in 1899, another three were added in 1900, and the remaining three holes completed in 1901 for a nine-hole course.

The Carmalt farm house was used as a club house, while a large barn nearby housed horses and field equipment for maintenance of the land. Although men began playing golf on the farmland in 1899, the Punxsutawney Country Club was not legally organized until July of 1904, with 50 members.

In October 1901, W.O. Smith, editor of The Punxsutawney Spirit and a charter member of the PCC, described his first experience as a golfer with the “mashie,” the “niblich” and the “driver” on the “golf links” in Brookville.

His attempt to explain the experience in words reveals his sense of humor. “It is played with clubs and a ball. The ball is white. You hit the ball with the clubs, picking out a club to suit the occasion. ... Starting at home base you swat the ball with the ‘driver,’ having several boys over in the next township to watch where it goes. ...

After several well directed swipes you are likely to find yourself somewhere in the vicinity of a ‘green’ - a circus ring with a hole in the center - into which you must knock the ball.”

He concluded his description with words of encouragement: “Golf is a fine game. It is an ideal outdoor sport. It is the best game ever invented for wholesome exercise.

Baseball and football are both too strenuous for ordinary exercise, and lawn tennis and croquet are too effeminate. Golf is the happy medium.”

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Continued from page 2 a second job working with Wargos to deliver newspapers. In fact, she says, “All the kids delivered newspapers, too,” the Sunday Post Gazette and daily papers as well.

A favorite photograph taken in that era includes paper deliverers Mary Beth, J.R., Bill, Debbi, Don, and their dog Dutch; Patti wasn’t born yet. She recalls the year young Bill was on crutches for quite a spell because he broke his leg while delivering papers on his bicycle. Off his crutches in September, he was back on them in November after a car hit him while he was on his bike delivering papers again.

Carol’s life has been centered around family, church, and school. When she first moved to Punxsutawney and the children were small, Carol made some money by babysitting in her home. When all the children were in school, she took a job with the Punxsutawney Area Schools as a cafeteria worker. She says it was a job that allowed her “to stay home with kids” when school was not in session. Moreover, with her cafeteria worker’s hours, she “could get the kids off to school” before her work day started and “be home before they were.”

She worked at the junior high and senior high cafeterias for years. When she retired in 2004, she had been working at the West End Elementary School, serving prepared food that was delivered in cafeteria vans, cleaning up, and selling lunch tickets.

At this point in life, Carol exclaims that she is “so grateful for my marvelous kids and their spouses…. I thank the Lord for them and all they do,” which includes installing a very well-built, spacious handicapped ramp on the front porch for their dad who has had some health issues. For the last couple of years, some of them come to the house close to Christmas to bring the holiday ornaments out of storage and decorate the Overly family tree. The walls of every downstairs room of the Overly home is covered with framed photos of the Overly children and grandchildren in portraits and at various stages of their lives at family get-togethers, graduations, wedding celebrations, and other special occasions.

Carol Overly admits she’s cut back a bit on volunteering in the past couple of years.

When her children were in school, she was a Cub Scout den mother. For a while, she was in charge of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine program, commonly referred to as CCD classes, for young people at her church. Meanwhile, she was active in SSCD school’s parent association, a member of the Rosary Altar Society, a classroom mother, a chaperone for various school events, and a parent willing to take on officer roles in church and school organizations and to help with their fundraisers.

Nevertheless, Carol continues to be a dedicated volunteer at the Punxsutawney Area Hospital, volunteering in the Education Department where she files, makes copies, collates booklets, and delivers educational materials to other offices. Her daughter Patti (Mrs. Robert Dinsmore) is employed at the hospital, and both of them say that the hospital could use more volunteers. “If people could see the need for volunteers” in so many organizations “like the hospital, the Red Cross and fire companies and do the little they can,” Carol says, “what a help they could be.”

Carol also actively supports the Lindsey Fire Department by selling monthly raffle tickets for five dollars each. She’s been

selling them for years and always has a bunch in her purse wherever she goes.

Long-time buyers just ask to buy tickets and maybe someone else sees a buyer and asks to purchase tickets, too. Her son J.R., married to Ellen Overly, is a Lindsey volunteer fireman. She insists that her selling raffle tickets isn’t special, saying that “many people sell the firemen’s raffle tickets.”

One of the ways Carol continued her friendship with one-time neighbor Jean Roberts has been through their volunteer work at SSCD’s funeral lunches. For years, Jean was in charge of the dinners, and Carol was one of her crew of helpers. All worked to prepare scalloped potatoes, desserts, and other dishes, and they washed a lot of dishes. Carol still serves with those cafeteria volunteers.

For the past forty years, Carol’s most cherished volunteerism has been with SSCD’s Eucharistic Ministry as one of a group of parishioners first recruited by Father Book four decades ago. The ministry was created primarily to help out with communion at Sunday masses. As time passed, they began taking communion to the homebound, to the hospital, and to nursing homes.

On the first Wednesday of every month Carol visits those Punxsutawney Area Hospital patients wishing for her to administer communion and say prayers with them.

Then on the first Friday, she takes communion to the homes of individuals not able to attend church. “It’s more of a blessing to me than to the people I see. Their trust and their belief in God give me the chills. I get more than I give. We believe we are bringing Christ to these people,” she asserts. Other eucharistic ministers visit Mulberry Square, Mahoning Street, Mahoning Riverside, and AM-PM personal care homes. The selected eucharistic ministry group was trained how to approach people, the importance of confidentiality, and how to connect their clients with a priest if they so desired. Monsignor Ricardo is currently in charge of the effort.

Faith and family are the focus of Carol Overly’s daily life these days. Every room’s walls in her downstairs display groupings of photographs from all periods of her children’s lives, childhood to the present, and their partners, their children, and grandchildren.

On most Sundays, the Overly family members who can make it are at Punxsy Phil’s Restaurant for breakfast. “On Saturday,” Carol says, “I call or text all the kids and invite them.” Living in Punxsutawney are Jim’s and her daughter Mary Beth and husband Rick Bosak; they can be seen every day walking briskly for exercise somewhere in town. Also in town are son J.R., a volunteer fireman who is employed by the borough, and his wife Ellen and their children; son Bill, who referees high school sports, and his wife Jen; and daughter Patti, who works at Punxsutawney Area Hospital, and husband Bob Dinsmore. Daughter Debbi lives in DuBois with husband Mark George, while son Don, who has served in the Peace Corps and is now a teacher in New York state, lives in New Jersey with his partner Louis.

Profound gratitude for all the blessings she’s received imbue Carol Overly’s positive and humble attitude. Right now she’s looking forward to having twenty-five or more of her beloved children and their families gathered around grandson Jeff Overly’s holiday table in Brookville.

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The mule and the mule’s driver were the power which removed the coal from the mine to the tipple where it was loaded in coal cars and shipped to market. The mule is a hybrid cross between a female horse and a male donkey that inherits the donkey’s endurance and sure footedness, strength and cooperative temperament of the horse. Smaller and stronger than the horse, the mule’s working life span is about 30 years, ten years longer than that of the horse. These qualities, along with the mule’s intelligence, made it well suited to the work it performed in the mines.

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Mule Power Enabled the Coal Industry

By Coal Memorial Committee for Hometown magazine omestication of animals enabled man to have a source of power greater than he could achieve on his own. Throughout history, man has used four-legged animals, such as elephants, camels, horses, ponies, mules, oxen, dogs, etc., as beasts of burden. In coal mining, the preferred beast of burden was the mule.

Prior to industrial mining in the Punxsutawney area, horses, mules and even oxen were used to haul coal from the bank mines to the place where it would be used in homes for heating and industrially by blacksmiths. With the arrival of industrial mining in the area, mules were in high demand and more expensive to obtain and maintain than a miner. Mules were preferred because crossbreeding a mare with a male donkey, called a jack, produced a stronger, more intelligent and endurable animal.

A strong mule could cost between $160

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and $200. Thus, the loss of a mule was a significant event warranting comment as revealed in these newspaper items: “Two LOST – FROM COAL COMPANY STABLES at Walston, Pa. A dark brown heavy mule left Walston on Tuesday morning, January 9th, 1888. Any information in regard to said mule will be suitably rewarded by JOHN McLEAVY, Superintendent.

valuable mules were killed in the Walston Mines last week, the result, probably, of putting men in as drivers who never studied the profession,” (The Punxsutawney Spirit, May 26, 1886). “A mule attached to a car, used for hauling coal to supply the coke ovens at the Fisher mines, was thrown from the tracks on top of the ovens on Saturday and instantly killed,” (Punxsutawney News, March 14, 1888).

“Owing to the negligence of the trapper at Big Soldier Run mine two teams came together on a steep grade last Tuesday, rippling two mules. A similar accident occurred on Wednesday,” (The Punx-

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In 1899, three holes were opened to golf on the100-acre Carmalt Farm outside Clayville (Punxsutawney’s West End). The farmhouse was used for a clubhouse until a new clubhouse was built in 1907. The farmhouse and barn are seen with the new clubhouse in a 1910 photo. The site was reached from a road off North Main Street. (Hometown file photo)

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In Punxsutawney history, the indoor game for golfers was introduced in March of Continued from page 3 1914 with a news story in The Punxsutawney Spirit headlined: “INDOOR and a new club house was built with a wide GOLF OUTFIT WILL SOON BE IN EVIporch on three sides. The barn was remodDENCE HERE.” The opening sentence eled to accommodate 10 automobiles and read, in part, “...if enthusiasm can be 20 buggies. The plans for the new club aroused among the golfers.” It was exhouse also included a tennis court and a plained that if sufficient funds could be roque court (a form of croquet with a wood raised by pledges through “subscription,” border faced with rubber to cushion shots. the indoor golf course would be placed on Roque was an Olympic sport in the 1904 the fifth floor in the new Spirit Building on Summer Games).

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It was announced that the indoor game of golf had all the advantages of the outdoor game, “except the walking and the air.” In playing the In the early 1900s, golfers playing at the Punxsutawney Country Club had game, the golfer a view of the mining town of Columbus, built in 1887. (Hometown file would tee off on a photo) grass mat “with all the force that he might use on the outdoor During the first years of golf, the healthy course.” benefits of golf as a form of exercise were Details about the version of indoor golf discussed at length in many news articles were described to the interested reader and in The Punxsutawney Spirit. W.O. Smith subscriber. After “teeing his ball” a canvas continued his promotion of the outdoor marked with driving distances stopped the sport, “For old, middle-aged and young ball, which dropped into a pocket. “The what exercise is better than walking, and canvas is marked with figures computed on where does one get more of it than in golf? scientific basis, that tells the driver just how The swinging of the clubs brings every far his ball would have gone. The apmuscle to the body not used in pedestrianproaching and putting shots are made just ism into play.” With his wry sense of humor as on the outdoor course.” still evident, Smith concluded, “The short Promotions for this type of indoor game stroke trains the eye, the hand, the mind, assured the golfer “a chance to perfect his while at times, if it by chance be too short, swing and to do away with any slicing or brings into a man’s mouth heretofore unpulling that may have marred his game in coined words, thereby increasing his vocabulary.”

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country club course on North Main Street in West End. On a cold and rainy day, a weather condition described as “extremely bad” by the news report, the PHS team beat Brookville 15 1/2 to 2 1/2. The sports story added, “A fair-sized gallery followed the foursome of linksmen around the local course.”

Continued from page 6 the past.”

Apparently, what was hoped to be a popular game in Punxsutawney for avid golfers did not develop. It was in October 1930, that Spirit headlines announced, “City’s First Indoor Golf Course” would open October 18, 1930.

Furthermore, the story stated the DayNite Golf Course was Punxsutawney’s “first and only indoor golf course.” The indoor course opened its doors on the second floor of the Langham building on East Mahoning Street opposite the Pantall Hotel. (The location is where the Jordan Store was In addition to golf, tennis was a popular outdoor sport in the early 1900s.

Punxsutawney Country Club built a tennis court in front of the front once and is now a The porch of its clubhouse for members to watch the competitions there. (Post parking lot.) card courtesy of Punxsutawney Area Historical & Genealogical Society) The indoor course Golf would join football, basketball and had 18 holes that included “water hazards, track as accredited sports under rules of jump shots, dog legs” and everything else the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic that has been devised to make a miniature Association (PIAA) organization. Punxgolf courses difficult. After a big throng of sutawney’s superintendent of schools, people turned out for the grand opening, the Frank S. Jackson, from 1909 until his reSpirit stated that word around town was: “It tirement in 1938, was active in the organwill knock your eye out when you see it.” ization of the PIAA, the organization that Also, earlier in the summer of 1930, an governs most high school athletics in the outdoor miniature golf course opened in state. Not until the PIAA was organized Punxsutawney at the rear of the historic did the era of true “high school sports” Winslow Homestead on Pine Street, at the begin. In 1923, football in Punxsutawney junction with North Gilpin Street. In 1923, was recognized as a high school sport, the Knights of Columbus (K of C) purjoining basketball and track with organchased the old mansion to use it as a club ized schedules between schools. house for meetings and social functions.

The miniature golf course was advertised Tennis “Firsts” as “real outdoor golf - scaled down and ilin Punxsutawney Sports luminated at night.”

It was also in the spring season of 1935 In the spring of 1935, a golf team was orthat the “first Punxsutawney High School ganized in the Punxsutawney High School tennis team in history” was organized. In to become a part of the sports program in the middle of April, Frank Shaw stepped the Punxsutawney Area School District. in to be the coach of the new “net squad.”

Arrangements were made with the PunxThe 27-year-old Shaw, an English teacher sutawney Country Club to use its course for at the high school, was well-known in golf matches. With golf matches held on Punxsutawney as its City Tennis Champ Saturday mornings, an interscholastic for three seasons. schedule was arranged with teams in this From tryouts that were held, six young area that included Brockway and men were to be selected as the varsity Brookville. team. In the announcement about the tryThe newly organized PHS golf team held outs for the first season, it was stated that its first interscholastic golf match as a team - Continued on page 12 on Saturday, May 5, 1930, at the local

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With vibrant colors, exploding fireworks and plenty of dancing, celebrating citizens dress up in bright costumes and masks to honor Santo Tomás at the site of the Dominican Church of Santo Tomás, a four-hundred-year-old church built by the Spanish.

Presenting similarities to the Christianitybased Christmas holiday, Saint Nicholas Day is celebrated in Holland every December 6. Dutch children are told that on the eve of this holiday, “Sinterklaas” comes from Spain to bring toys to all the “nice” children.

“Naughty” children must learn to be nice by being sent to live in Spain for one year, according to the legend. Christmas is celebrated in Holland as well, but it is separate from Saint Nicholas Day and involves family bonding through meals and charitable giving.

Holidays celebrated throughout different countries vary depending on the religious and cultural beliefs held by the citizens of each. Ultimately, people of all cultures are linked—if by nothing else—by the love of celebrations meant to remember the traditions and legends of the past. Although U.S. federal holidays during our holiday season include primarily Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s, learning and understanding the distinct cultural beliefs, customs and celebrations of other nations creates a respect

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Canada celebrates its own Thanksgiving holiday the second Monday each October. It is recognized as a national holiday throughout all of Canada except in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.

Much like the American Thanksgiving, parades and football programs, along with a variety of main dishes and desserts to share at the dinner table are common, and all are intended to celebrate thankfulness for a year of prosperity among friends and family members.

November and December are especially filled with cultural holidays worldwide.

Usually coinciding with the American celebration of Halloween and the Catholic All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day, Día de los Muertos—Day of the Dead—is a Mexican holiday celebrated every November 1 through 2. Bright lights, colorful flowers, decorated altars and sugar skulls are part of this celebration meant to honor friends, family members and other loved ones who have passed away.

To commemorate the birthday of the prophet Muhammad in the Islam culture, Eid Milad un-Nabi is a holiday celebrated every November 9 through 10. Parades, cultural and traditional activities and the decoration of mosques and homes are part of the festivities.

La Fiesta de Santo Tomás is a week-long festival held in Chichicastenango, Guatemala, at the end of each December.

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Every time consumers visit local coffee shops to grab a latte, pick up a dress at a nearby boutique or patronize a farmer’s market down the street, they are supporting a small business. The Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving are some of the busiest shopping days of the season, and they also can be some of the friendliest to small businesses.

Plaid Friday was conceptualized in Oakland. It may have been born in the Golden State, but the movement soon spread across the country. Plaid Friday is an alternative to big box stores’ Black Friday bonanzas. It is designed to promote both local and independently-owned businesses during the holiday season. The name Plaid Friday was used to help people visualize the various threads of small businesses coming together to create a strong community fabric that was diverse and creativity.

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The Small Business Administration says that, since 1995, small businesses have generated 66 percent of all new jobs in the United States. There are a number of big reasons to shop small. One can start around the holidays and then continue all year long.

• Shopping small businesses helps give back to the community directly. According to Civic Economics, a strategic planning business, on average 48 percent of each purchase made at independent businesses is recirculated locally through tax money and other support.

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5. Encourage your family or friends to make small business shopping a larger part of their overall spending plan.

6. Think of small business sponsorships when putting together school- or club-based fundraisers.

7. Host a meet-and-greet event for various small business owners.

8. If you own a small business, keep business cards, flyers or a sign advertising another small business in the area to show mutual support.

9. Invite small business owners to community activity centers, nursing homes, schools, and the like to share their experiences about starting a business in the area.

10. Participate in community events that may be sponsored by small business owners.

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The Winslow House on Pine Street, in a 1930s photo (left), had tennis courts at the rear of the house when the Knights of Columbus owned the house between 1923 and 1938. In 1935, the first tennis team of the Punxsutawney High School made its debut on the courts against a team from Brockway. (Black & White photo courtesy PAH&GS, color photo courtesy S. Thomas Curry)

Punxsutawney Area “Firsts” Continued from page 8 if more “first class material” showed up, then the number on the varsity team would be increased. (April 12, 1935, The Punxsutawney Spirit) The first PHS tennis team in Punxsutawney history made its debut on Friday afternoon, May 17, 1935, against Brockway. The inter-scholastic match was held on the K of C tennis courts on Pine Street, courts on land behind the former Winslow Homestead that extended from the house to the railroad of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad (BR&P RR). Three years later, the K of C sold the Winslow Homestead to a developer to renovate and modernize the building for use as an apartment building. Thus, new tennis courts had to be found for the PHS tennis program.

Tennis courts at the Harmon Field recreation area were available. Nearby were the George C. Brown Community Pool and the PHS football field with its cinder outdoor track.

The first PHS tennis team, an accredited PIAA school sport team, didn’t appear in local history until 1935. However, tennis was a popular sport in local history in the late 19th century, as reported in news clips from local weekly newspapers of that period. In May 1886, the Punxsutawney News made note of that with its comment, “Lawn tennis and croquet will soon be the favorite amusements.”

The Brookville Jefferson-Democrat reported in its newspaper of April 29, 1891, “Our young people have organized a lawn tennis club, and fitted up a neat court on Water Street, where playing will commence at once. We understand a club has also been formed at Punxsutawney, and the probability is that several match games will be played between the clubs during the coming summer.” In June 1891, the Punxsutawney News responded with its headlines: “And Punxs’y Will Win, Sure,” and reported, “A lawn tennis club has been organized by a number of the young people of this place. A court has been laid out near the residence of L. W. Robinson.”

The Punxsutawney Spirit on May 24, 1899, reported, “The young men of this place who play lawn tennis area getting the courts in shape for steady use during the summer season. Tennis is a popular game in Punxsutawney.”

At the same time, the sport of golf was

popular and Punxsutawney golfers were golfing on its new course on the old Carmalt Farm, a “tennis contest” was held in July of 1903 on the tennis courts in the rear of John H. Kennedy’s new residence on West Mahoning Street at Walnut Street.

The courts were located along Walnut Street.

In that contest, two Punxsutawney tennis teams, comprised of prominent local business men, played two opposing teams of the Reynoldsville Tennis Club. The members of the Punxsutawney team were also charter members of the Punxsutawney Country Club when it was chartered in 1904.

John W. Kennedy was superintendent of the Punxsutawney Iron Works when the Iron Works began operation in 1897 on a site that is now the Punxsutawney Plaza on West Mahoning Street. He built his buff brick house in 1902 on West Mahoning Street, a few blocks west of the Iron Works.

It was when that section was still Clayville.

Another tennis court in Punxsutawney in the early 1900s was one behind the office building of the Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal and Iron Company. The building was erected in 1903 and began operation in 1904. The RPC&I Company constructed the tennis court in April of 1914 for use by its employees.

The area for the clay tennis court was excavated four feet deep and filled with crushed slag, sand and clay. Drainage was provided. It was promoted as “a model tennis court” with no equal in the immediate area of Punxsutawney in southern Jefferson County.

Golfers or linksmen, tennis players, net men, tennisites, racquet handlers or swatters: However, they were identified in the early years of their sports, they were a part of Punxsutawney’s “firsts” in history.

About ping-pong (or table tennis): The first inter-city ping-pong match in Punxsutawney area history was held on April 1, 1935, during the same spring season that golf and tennis were organized as accredited high school sports. The event was held in the BPOE ballroom on North Findley Street, with twenty-five people watching.

The local Elks Ping-Pongers defeated a team from DuBois in “the first match of its kind played in this section,” as reported on the sports page of The Punxsutawney Spirit of April 2, 1935.

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Mule Power Continued from page 5 sutawney Spirit, March 4, 1891).

Not only were mules in demand by the mining industry, they were valuable assets, which when lost, would generate a reward for their return, as is reflected in this advertisement from the February 8, 1888 Punxsutawney News: Mules were also costly to maintain. They required care, feeding and a trained handler. Much of this work, although dangerous, was relegated to young workers. In October 1910, Robert Rankin, age 10, was riding a mule from the blacksmith shop to the mine at Hopkins, when he fell off the mule and it stepped on his pelvis. It was predicted that if inflammation did not set in he would live. In May of 1902, Charles Fisher, age 17, was riding one of the mules back to the stable at the Helvetia mines when the animal threw him off. Fisher’s foot caught in a harness. He was dragged head downward. The mule jumped frantically trying to rid itself of the rider and, in doing so, kept hitting Fisher in the head, fracturing his skull, which caused his death.

The coal industry was working to make mining safer and more efficient. An article from the Coal Trade Journal that was republished in the Punxsutawney News, December 22, 1886, reported that the Rochester Mine at DuBois, operated by the Bell Lewis & Yates Coal Mining Company of Buffalo, was using a little mole of an engine, which ran over twenty-five miles of underground track, being driven in the dark without headlight or whistle, to gather loaded coal cars; however, mules were used to haul the coal to the tipple at the surface.

In August, 1892, the Reynoldsville Volunteer reported that the Bell Lewis & Yates Coal Mining Company had announced receiving a new, large Norwalk air compressor which would be installed at their Big Soldier Run mine. The new compressor would take the place of a smaller one that had been used for two years. The smaller compressor would be

moved to the Adrian mines where it would be used to supply air to run a compressed air locomotive inside the mines.

The compressed air locomotive would replace the mules which had been used to haul coal from the rooms to the wire rope haulage system. The new compressor at the Big Soldier Run mine would be used to drive pumps, fans and mining machines. Later, when the Big Solder mine installed rope haulage, other compressors - Continued on next page

A Mule as a Life Saver The mine mule knows a thing or two quite as well as does the army mule. In one of the mines in the Pittsburg district the ever patient mule proved himself possessed of an almost human sense of coming danger. One morning when the full shift was at work there occurred an unusual thing. The air currents had seemed defective, and there was a restless feeling among the miners, something like the uneasiness of livestock before a storm. A few days previous a chamber had been closed on account of gas, and the men were instinctively thinking of what that might mean. Suddenly there was a clatter of hoofs, and a mule appeared. Its long ears were quivering, and its intelligent eyes were full of terror.

It gave a shrill bray and then was gone down the entry, broken traces flying after it. The men looked at one another, and then the feverishness of the air moved them with one impulse. Dropping picks, they fled precipitately, making a headlong dash through the labyrinth for the open air. With scared faces other miners joined them, and, while they were wondering what it all meant a dull, deep explosion went rumbling through the hollow back of them, followed by wave upon wave of noxious vapors. They then understood.

When the bodies of the few poor men who had been hopelessly entrapped were recovered, another was tenderly carried out with theirs—that of the little gray mule that sounded the warning. from Leslie’s Weekly reprinted in the Brookville Jeffersonian Democrat July 18, 1901

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In 1901, the Rochester & Pittsburg Coal & Iron Company installed an electric system of haulage at their Florence mine near Anita, with the intent of eventually doing away with all the mules in that mine. All did not go smoothly with the effort. Miners throughout the area went on strike when they were informed that they would be required to push their cars to the electric haulage system. A letter to the editor published in The Punxsutawney Spirit on April 2, 1902, explains the issue from a miner’s perspective: “Editor Spirit: The miners in the employ of the Rochester and Pittsburg Coal and Iron Company do not wish to be placed in the attitude of resisting the introduction of improved machinery and the most economical methods of mining. We want our employers to have all the advantages in that respect that can be secured, so long as we are not required to take any backward steps. We have no objections to the electric haulage system, but we do object to a human haulage system. The electric motor is all right in so far as it emancipates the mule, but it is all wrong when it attempts to substitute men for mules. When men are required to push cars, weighing over three tons, to and from their working places in the mines, they are going back to the brutalizing conditions of the past. This is an age of improvement, when civilization boasts that man is being freed from the more cruel burdens of toil by steam and electricity. A system that puts men into places just vacated by mules is not in the direction of the enfranchisement of labor.”

In 1904, the miners at Rossiter went on strike because of a mule. The July 6, 1904, issue of the Indiana Weekly Messenger reported: “A runaway mule is the direct cause of a strike at the Rossiter Mines which occurred Saturday and which affects 1200 men. The miners walked out in the morning and the superintendent immediately had the mines closed, stating a shut down for an indefinite period would bring the miners around. They believe, however, that the lockout will not continue for more than three weeks as the company will have to have the coal. The miners are not prepared for a long strike. Some days ago one of the mules used in the mines ran away and in attempting to cross a trestle fell and was killed. The superintendent announced his intention of holding their drivers responsible for the mules in their charge hereafter. Saturday he ordered a number of the drivers to assist in shoveling coal and they refused to leave their mules, whereupon they were discharged.

The mines being strictly union, all the workers threw down their tools. Since then a deadly dullness has prevailed in the neighborhood, and although the strikers claim that they are not worrying, considerable anxiety prevails as to the future intentions of the company. There are four openings at Rossiter and all are closed.”

Eventually, the use of mules would be ended in the industrial mines in the Punxsutawney area. However, as industrial mining migrated south, smaller mines opened to supply the local markets for coal. The cost of purchasing and installing

a pneumatic or an electrical system of haulage was prohibitive for small operators. Mules continued to be used by the smaller mine operators.

The September 19, 1918 issue of the Brookville Jeffersonian Democrat carried an article titled, “A New Mine Mule,” reprinted from Coal Age Magazine on September 5 of that year: “A new wrinkle in the solution of transportation problems for small mines, quarries and sand pits, and operation of such character is worthy of attention and more especially at this time, when the nationwide cry is for more coal. At a time when - Continued on page 22

The Mine Mule He is a Useful but Often Very Aggravating Institution.

Speaking of mules, said a mine superintendent recently, they are at once the most heartrending and the most satisfactory animal in the world.

A good mule is a delight. A wicked mule will have much to answer for.

He is the cause of more rude, lurid profanity, of the kind that is belched forth in blue smoke, with the odor of brimstone about it, than all other animals in existence combined. Some mules have no other ambition in life than to perform their duties faithfully and eat their oats in peace, while other mules are different.

Some mules are easily broken into work in the mine, while others prefer to do a little breaking themselves.

They smash everything within reach of their heels.

We got a new mule the last spring that beat anything I ever saw. He came to us barefooted, and was sent to the blacksmith to be shod. No sooner had the blacksmith lifted up his hind foot than the said blacksmith found himself sprawling on the outside of the shop. He gathered himself up and called in four men to help hold the mule while he put the shoes on.

But it was no use. You might as well have tried to put gum boots on a streak of lightning. So we concluded that it would be just as well to let the mule go barefooted for a few days until he became more subdued and civilized.

We sent the mule into the mines, and he went reasonably well, because, with the empty cars pushing him from behind and the other mule pulling in front, he really had no choice in the matter.

Then he was hitched to a loaded car and started out. Talk about cyclones! There’s no comparison.

There was a ramble and roar, a rush of wind, and then a mule emerged from the pit mouth. Part of his harness still clung to him. But the coal car of which he was attached could never be identified. It was strewn all along the track for half a mile, but the mule was intact. We persevered, however, and that finally became one of our best mules.

The coal mine is a dangerous places for mules and I don’t blame them for being refractory. A great many of them are being killed and maimed every day, and it will be a good thing for the mule when he is entirely superseded by rope haulage, which is a cheaper and more satisfactory system.

Punxsutawney Spirit December 18, 1901

Hometown Community Happenings By the staff of Hometown magazine rom the staff of Hometown magazine and the Community Calendar at Punxsutawney.com, here is a list of events coming up in our area: n Nov. 28: Thanksgiving!

Nov. 28 – Dec. 1: Punxsutawney Memorial Library closed. n Nov. 29, 30 & Dec. 1: Small Business Weekend. Shop local small businesses & support your community! n Nov. 30: 3rd Annual Red Kettle KickOff Boot Drive, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at intersection of Rt. 119 & E. Mahoning St. Benefits The Salvation Army. n Nov. 30: 29th Annual Home for the Holidays Parade, 6 p.m., Mahoning St., sponsored by Punxsutawney Eagles and Chamber of Commerce. Circle of Trees & Christmas Tree lighting after the parade, sponsored by Punxsutawney Rotary Club. n Nov. 30: Deer season starts. Get your hunting supplies at one of Hometown’s advertisers! n Nov. 30: Collectibles Show, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Big Run War Memorial. n Dec. 1: Pancake Dinner, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., at Warsaw Township Vol. Fire Co., Brookville. Adults, $8. n Dec. 1: Religious season of Advent begins. n Dec. 1: Winter Bazaar, open at 10 a.m., at Kovalchick Center, Indiana. n Dec. 3: First Tuesday Community Meal, 5 p.m., at Punxsutawney Presbyterian Church. Free & open to the public. n Dec. 3: #Giving Tuesday. Support your favorite local charity. n Dec. 6: Winter in the Woods Weekend at Cook Forest State Park. n Dec. 6 & 7: Grange’s Helping Hands, free clothing at Grange Church of God, Friday, noon to 4 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. n Dec. 6, 7 & 8: Victorian Christmas celebration in Brookville, presented by Historic Brookville, Inc. n Dec. 7: 9th Annual Phil’s Holiday Bash, 10 a.m. to noon, at Gobbler’s Knob.

For youngsters age 12 & under, must be accompanied by an adult. Pre-register by calling 814-618-5591 or email director@ghogclub.org. n Dec. 7: Mistletoe Madness, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., downtown shopping area. Santa will be at the Chamber office from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. n Dec. 7: Coolspring Christmas Bazaar, open 9 a.m., at Coolspring Community Center. n Dec. 7: Boy Scout Astronomy Merit Badge, 9 a.m. to noon, at Weather Discovery Center. $15 per scout. Pre-register by Dec. 2 at 814-938-1000 or email info@weatherdiscovery.org. n Dec. 7: Smicksburg Cookie Tour, various locations. Visit www.smicksburg.net for information. n Dec. 8: Holly Tour, 1 to 4 p.m., Tickets available at the Chamber, Laska’s Pizza & Weather Discovery Center. Proceeds benefit the Weather Discovery Center. n Dec. 11: Chorus Concert, 7 to 9 p.m., at PAHS Auditorium.

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Please join us for a New Year’s Eve extravaganza, featuring Prime Rib Dinner from 6 p.m. till 9 p.m. Regular Menu also available. Entertainment by Jesse De’Church and the “Bar Stool Boys” to follow at 9:30 p.m. Cost for Entertainment and Hors D’oeuvres is $15 per person.

Please make your reservation for dinner and/or Entertainment by December 24. For reservations, please call the clubhouse or Daggi at 814-771-0095 and/or leave a message. n Dec. 16: Coping with Loss Support Group, 7 p.m., at First Church of God. n Dec. 16-20: Light Up A Child’s Life Campaign by the Make A Wish Foundation, various locations around Punxsutawney. Broadcast on WPXZ 104.1 FM. n Dec. 17: Blood Drive, 12:30 to 6 p.m., at SSCD. Benefits American Red Cross. n Dec. 18: Band Concert, 7 to 9 p.m., at PAHS Auditorium. n Dec. 21: Flower & Book Sale, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Punxsutawney Memorial Library, by Penna Flower Co. n Dec. 22. Hanukkah begins at sundown. n Dec. 24: Christmas Eve. Worship services are available at several local churches. n Dec. 24: Worship service, 7 p.m. Mt. Zion Lutheran Church, Airport Road; 9 p.m.

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“Many hunters are excited about the new Sunday hunting opportunities Senate Bill 147 would provide, and you can count me as part of that group,” Burhans said. “But the process takes time.

“There’s every reason, however, to believe Senate Bill 147 soon will become law,” Burhans said. “And the Game Commission will be doing its part to implement additional Sunday hunting opportunities as soon as it can.”

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Mule Power Continued from page 18 the labor market is drained the only solution in answer to such a cry is by the greatest possible adaption of all mechanical means for the speeding up of production.

A step in this direction, the importance of which is apparent upon short consideration, is the recently perfected Leathers Mine Motor now being built by the L.A. Leathers Co., of Brookville, Pennsylvania.

About a year ago this concern built the first motor as an experiment, in an effort to eliminate the use of mules on a long outside haul at a mine too small to warrant the installation of a power plant or the purchase of the more expensive type of mine locomotives. The experimental motor was built by mounting a Ford chassis on a substantial white-oak truck fitted with flanged wheels for use on the mine track. Several features have been added to eliminate some of the inherent automobile characteristics not suitable for mine haulage.

After a year of continuous service the motor is giving most excellent satisfaction and the mine tonnage has been tripled, being raised from 50 to 150 tons per day.

For the small mine operator, so many of whom have commenced operation during the past two years, this haulage innovation should prove a Godsend. It not only enables an increased production, but at the same time eliminates mules on the long hauls by the substitution of a motor obtainable at a low first cost and which can be operated at all times on outside haulage as well as in any mine entries in which the ventilation is suitably arranged.”

This machine and the decline in small coal bank mines would eventually make the mine mule obsolete.

However there is more to the story.

After World War I, advances in technology brought motorized equipment to mines and farms which had previously depended on the power of horses and mules.

In 1933 and 1934, Europe was in the midst

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of political instability. During that time, it was observed that the Italians were buying horses and mules from the United States to the sum of $342,798. Upon further investigation, it was determined that the purpose for the large purchase of mules was to support the Italian invasion of Ethiopia.

When World War II ended, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), established to assist with the relief of victims of war, purchased 16,000 American mares for shipment to the countries from which the Nazis depleted the horse population, mainly in Greece, Yugoslavia, Poland and Czechoslovakia.

The mule’s once critical role in agriculture and industry in the United States diminished due to the advent of affordable engine-powered vehicles. In 1960, it was estimated that fewer than 10,000 mules existed in the United States. Today, the mule is more of a pet than a work animal.

Since 1967, the American Donkey and Mule Society has encouraged protection and understanding of the mule through activities such as mule events and stock shows, and through newsletters and providing information on-line.

This article has been prepared by the Coal Memorial Committee of the Punxsutawney Area Historical & Genealogical Society, Inc. Comments on this article may be directed to PAHGS, P.O. Box 286, Punxsutawney, PA 15767. Individuals desiring to honor a coal or coal related industry worker in 2020 are encouraged to purchase their tile by June 30, 2020. A Coal Memorial tile may honor persons who worked in any aspect of the coal industry including railroads and ancillary services. Additional information and forms may be found online at www.punxsyhistory.org or may be picked up at the Lattimer House, 400 West Mahoning Street, Punxsutawney. Forms may also be requested by e-mailing: punxsyhistory@outlook.com, or calling 814-9382555.

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For reservations, please call the clubhouse or Daggi at 814-771-0095 and/or leave a message.

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hile all the gear, clothes and toys your kids possess are signs of a joyful childhood, keeping it all organized is essential for health, safety and even fun.

“Too many toy choices that are unorganized can make it difficult to find a toy to play with at all,” says Keri Wilmot, pediatric occupational therapist and an expert contributor to TheGeniusofPlay.org.

“What’s more, the chaos can pose various safety hazards.”

Organization is more conducive to playtime, which is why Wilmot and The Genius of Play, an initiative whose mission is to raise awareness about the importance of play and help parents make it a critical part of raising kids, are offering eight tips to clean up the inevitable clutter: • Provide Bins: Use bins to help kids organize toys, art supplies and games, keeping size in mind — the bigger the bin, the harder it is to locate specific toys or objects.

While clear bins are great for closets by making it easy for kids to identify their contents, color-coded or decorative bins are more visually appealing options for the playroom.

• Make Smart Furniture Choices: Shelving lets children see what’s available to play with, however toys that require adult assistance are best stored in closed bins inside a cabinet or closet that’s inaccessible to kids. Closed cabinets have the added benefit of reducing the appearance of clutter. Make sure to secure shelves or furniture to the wall for safety so they can’t tip over.

• Rotate Toys: Rotating toys’ placement inside storage areas will remind kids of all

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the fun toys they have, and is an excellent boredom-prevention tool.

• Donate: Before holidays, birthdays or other occasions when kids are showered with gifts, talk to your child about what toys are no longer used, and give them a second life by passing them on to a neighbor or friend with a younger child or by donating them to a charitable organization.

Throw away any toys that are broken, hazardous or recalled.

• Use Space Wisely: While big toys like kitchens and playhouses offer up fun, they can take up a lot of playroom real estate.

Opt for alternatives that can be taken down when not in use, like pop-up tents, tunnels and playhouses.

• Schedule Clean-Up: Set a clean-up schedule that gives kids a role in sorting and putting items back into their correct places. Make a game of it by turning on tunes and seeing who’s the fastest.

• Get Toys off the Floor: Stepping on certain toys can be painful. A child-sized table offers a stable surface for building brick structures and other creations, plus it gets small toys off the floor.

• Use Walls: Maximize space and creativity by installing a whiteboard or chalkboard to use as an art surface. Walls are also a good place to store shelving for books.

Parents searching for more play ideas and expert tips like these can visit TheGeniusofPlay.org or follow @GeniusofPlay on Facebook and Instagram.

Decluttering play areas pays off, giving kids more opportunities to play and learn safely.

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December 8, 1897 — East Enders never want any public improvements they don’t need. One of the needful things is a fire hose and cart. A fire in the part of town usually gains considerable headway before the hose arrives. If they had a hose and cart it could be used to good advantage. (Punxsutawney News) [Note: In 1897, the hose and cart of the fire company was located on Farmers Alley, in a building behind what is now Fait’s Funeral Home.]

December 9, 1896 — One of the pleasant recollections of youth is to recall those blissful days of boyhood, when you stood with your back to the stove in the country school house and snuffed the odor of sulphur. In those good old days, boys acquired a cutaneous affection, known as the “itch,” with great facility. There were times when nearly all of the boys in school, and some of the girls, had the itch. We all wore homemade flannel shirts then.

(Punxsutawney Spirit) [Note: “Cutaneous” is defined as “relating to, or affecting the skin, seen as a blistering redness.”]

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November 20, 1889 — Punxsutawney has 68 stores, besides a number of shops, 9 hotels and 7 churches. (Punxsutawney News) November 28, 1888 — The experiment of heating coke ovens with natural gas, which was tried by the Walston Company last week, proved a great success. By the use of wood it takes from six to seven days to get up the required temperature, and then the first drawing of coke is very inferior, often worthless. By the use of natural gas the ovens can be heated in eight hours, and the first drawing of coke is as good as any.

As soon as the necessary arrangements can be made gas will be introduced into all the ovens, and then it will be difficult for coke producers not employing natural gas to compete with those who had that advantage. (Punxsutawney Spirit) November 28, 1894 — Punxsutawney now has six passenger trains leaving and six arriving the same day. (Punxsutawney News) [Note: Punxsutawney was served by two railroad systems: The Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad had a passenger station on North Findley Street and the Pennsylvania and Northwestern Railroad had a passenger station in East End.] November 29, 1905 — Martin Anderson and James Sweeney recently completed the

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