May 2009 #104

Commencement Stories from PAHS From ‘Grumblings’ to ‘Class Hearts’

By S. Thomas Curry of Hometown magazine

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hen the month of May arrives, people look forward to Mother’s Day and Memorial Day as popular events to celebrate. And there will be others who would note May Day, the National Day of Prayer and Armed Forces Day as significant, too. To many, one event at this time of year marks the end of special and memorable years. That event would be high school “Commencement,” an exercise that formally and ceremonially launches the learner to a new level of opportunity.

In Punxsutawney, the high school commencements in the 1890s were first from a two-year high school course. Then in 1896, a four-year course was approved by the school directors after the urging of local newspaper editors. In one appeal it was noted, “What the town needs ... is a good high school, where our boys and girls can fit themselves to enter college ... The boy who graduates from our public schools at sixteen and loafs about the streets until he is nineteen or twenty, learning to be tough, instead of taking courses in a high school, is not being properly cared for. It is a serious matter. ... To graduate at a good high school would leave them pretty well equipped for the battle of life, even if they did not go to college...” (April 1, 1896, Punxsutawney Spirit) The old four-room school building on North Jefferson Street (left vacant and fast going to ruin after the opening of the East End school building in 1889) was remodeled for a high school building.

The remodeled building was adequate until 1899. With the increase of population, and the effective enforcement of Pennsylvania’s compulsory school law enacted in 1898, two additional school rooms were formed from the storeroom underneath the Odd Fellows Hall on the East Mahoning Street Plaza facing the park. Because of financial conditions, only the academic course to prepare students for college was offered in the high school.

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Student writings in old Punxsutawney High School yearbooks reveal many traditions during Commencement Week in the early 20th Century. (Hometown photo by S. Thomas Curry.)

rooms until a larger and better equipped four-story high school building would be built in 1906-07. During the 1912-13 school year, a commercial course of study began at the high school. It would be in 1915 that construction began for the J. A. Weber Manual Training and Domestic Science School to meet the needs of students who did not desire preparation for colleges, but training for a job when they leave school.

The commencement exercises would be held in the nearby Baptist Church, the English Lutheran Church and then in the Jefferson Theater on N. Findley Street, after it was built in 1905. There was a small admittance fee (usually 15 to 25 cents) charged for the evening to defray costs (that was considered a wiser choice than assessing each class member for the cost).

In the spring of 1907, Clayville (now Punxsutawney’s West End) would hold its final High School commencement for the students who had attended its “Old Main” on Winslow Street. The commencement ceremony was held at the Welsh Baptist Church and consisted of

“orations” from memory by various class members, and the reading of the class poem, the class will and the class “prophecy” about the future of class members. There would be vocal solos and choral selections. The valedictorian and salutatorian would offer their speeches, too. With a small class at the time, it was obvious a commencement program could offer more diversity in its offerings.

In Punxsutawney, the Class of 1907, consisting of 17 young men and women, had its high school commencement on May 2. The class members were the last to experience their high school years in the old arrangement of borrowed and crowded rooms. While the commencement exercise had similar offerings as most high school graduation events, there were some unique program renderings during the three-hour program.

There was the decoration of the curtain and box seats with the then class colors of green and white, the witty oration by the “Class Grumbler,” and the distribution of gifts to class members by the - Continued on next page

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The Class of 1907 gave special tribute to Punxsutawney’s new school principal, A. M. Hammers. From Indiana, Pa., Hammers was hired in June 1906 for a three-year term.

The Class of 1908 would be the first students to graduate as students of the pretentious new building that was erected on North Jefferson Street on the site of the old high school. At a cost of $40,000, the building would offer an “audience room” to seat 400 where the whole school body could meet on occasions for plays and “chapel exercises,” and which could serve as a “town hall” for public meetings and lectures.

The auditorium, as we might call it now, was on the fourth floor. However, the annual commencement programs continued to be held in the spacious, accessible and elegant Jefferson Theater for many years until a new high school annex would be built in 1936-37.

During the commencement of 1908, Hammers introduced projected imagery as a part of the presentation by the Class Historian. Upon a canvas screen at the theater, pictures of faculty members,

school buildings, views of the town and a selection of hand-drawn cartoons of class members were presented.

The tradition of the distribution of gifts by the Class Donor was clever. To one senior, “credited with entertaining spinsterian motives,” there was given a little gray kitten wearing a red ribbon (May 15, 1908 Spirit).

Hammers died suddenly in November 1908 and was replaced by F. S. Jackson, the school principal. Jackson would serve as superintendent for 30 years and retire in 1938, following the opening of the “annex.” A few years later, the building would be named after him.

During the spectacular communitywide event called Old Home Week in August 1909, an Education Day was one of the special celebrations. It would lead to the institution of Commencement Week. During that summer, red and white were adopted as PHS school colors. When the fall school term began on September 1, 1909, the newspaper headlines announced “the First Nine Months Term in the History of Punxsutawney,” and the term ended with the week-long, event-filled last school days made memorable for seniors in the high school.

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Commencements Continued from previous page reate service, and included a Senior Reception Night, a Class Night, and the Commencement Exercise. A Grammar School commencement was included, and it all ended with an Alumni Banquet.

The first Class Night as a separate event was held in May 1910 in the fourth-floor auditorium of the new Jefferson Street High School. The Commencement ceremony of that same year was the first time graduates wore caps and gowns, giving the occasion its dignity, and the processional march to the stage, accompanied by an appropriate overture, was introduced to the ceremony.

Senior Reception Night, the social event of the school year, was held in the home of one of the seniors until the classes were larger, when it was held in the gymnasium of the Central Y.M.C.A. on North Findley Street. The reception was given by the seniors.

Starting at 7:30 p.m. with the high school orchestra providing music, they received their guests on an established hourly schedule – the school directors and their wives, then the faculty and parents, and finally the junior class at 9:30 p.m.

A comment in a newspaper in 1910 revealed what could be expected about any gathering of young people: “...when the juniors arrived all formality was thrown to the winds. The young people made merry until midnight.”

The size of senior classes increased over the decades. The newspaper head-

lines would repeat the obvious, “Largest Class in History Completes the Course,” (28 in the Class of 1914), “Class of 42 is Graduated...,” (1921), with an increase to 58 in the class of 1922, and ”Record Class of 82 Members...,” (1923).

New traditions would begin, and old traditions would drop away to adjust to the increasing numbers to be recognized.

An honorable tradition of presenting to a class member “the hearts of the class” was begun. For a brief time, the use of a commencement speaker was replaced by a class play. The tradition of “passing on the Class Shoe,” a way of bidding goodbye to the school and encouraging the juniors who followed to “fill their shoes” with dignity, was eventually eliminated.

Usually a shoe from a senior member was presented to the Junior Class president, or a more dramatic presentation was made-as when a shoe from each senior was dumped in the middle of the theater stage.

Each year, until a “modern high school building of increased facilities” could be built, there was the appeal for “brevity and snappiness” in the traditional ceremony.

Commencement ceremonies are necessary to mark the steps of progress from youth to adult life. When we were young, perhaps, we thought they were mundane, a stereotypical repetition from year to year, maybe a disappointment.

But, they are, in their dignified way, landmarks of scholastic recognition.

They leave an impression for life, even if we don’t remember what the speaker said that night we were there.

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At Koopmeiners' clinic, which evaluates new disability claims, business has more than doubled since 2004 — from 6,800 to nearly 15,000 patients a year.

But only a fraction of the cases has anything to do with Iraq or Afghanistan.

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Vietnam veterans, he says, outnumber those of every other conflict combined.

Nationally, too, Vietnam veterans are coming forward by the tens of thousands with a vast array of medical problems, from hearing loss to cancer, that they believe are connected to their military service. In 2007 alone, a quarter-million veterans were added to VA disability rolls -more than a third of them Vietnam veterans, according to a VA spokeswoman.

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Vietnam veterans Continued from previous page Fiebke learned that his cancer was one of the diseases that the VA calls "presumptive conditions" -- presumed, that is, to be caused by Agent Orange.

During the war, the U.S. military sprayed an estimated 20 million gallons of the herbicide on the Vietnamese jungle.

Afterward, debate raged for years over its health effects as studies found high rates of cancer, nerve disorders and other ailments among veterans. Finally, in 1991, Congress authorized the VA to draw up a list of illnesses and treat them as war wounds; Type II diabetes was added in 2003.

Fiebke assumes he was exposed to Agent Orange; the area around his base camp "was just sprayed down to nothing."

But all he needed to show was that he served even one day on Vietnamese soil to qualify.

"When I applied (for disability), I went down thinking I don't know what's going to happen," he said. He was approved almost immediately and rated 100 percent disabled because of the severity of his illness. That entitled him to "top priority" care at the VA and $3,000 monthly disability payments. The money allowed him to retire at age 57 and concentrate on his health, he said.

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But Rowan, of Vietnam Veterans of America, says there's no reason to feel guilty.

"Believe me, they don't give this out easily," he said. The science may not be able to prove cause and effect, but it has shown a connection.

"Even though (these illnesses are) in the general population, we seem to get it worse; we seem to get it at a higher rate," he said.

As of last fall, 12 percent of Vietnam-era veterans were receiving disability payments averaging $11,670 a year, according to VA statistics, and the total number of veterans receiving disability benefits had climbed to nearly 3 million. Meanwhile, the requests have hit record levels.

It can be tricky to tell if some conditions are service-connected three or four decades after the fact, says Koopmeiners, who runs the clinic that assesses those claims. For something like hearing loss or knee problems, he said, the VA still has to ask: Is it old age or an old injury?

"What I tell my examiners is that we have to have a healthy dose of skepticism, but we can't be cynics," he said. "We have to walk this fine line."

If the medical evidence is unclear, he adds, "the tie goes to the veteran." (mlerner@startribune.com) (Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.scrippsnews.com.)

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sutawney to Pittsburgh. From Pittsburgh

By Louisa Roberts he went to Fort Jackson, South Carolina for of Hometown magazine training. While on the 26-hour train ill Titus, a vetride, he recalls only eating dried eran from cheese sandwiches and drinking Marchand, warm milk, but he “didn’t think served in the much about it”.

United States Army durDuring his boot camp, Titus said ing the Vietnam War. He that the training and running during was born in Punxthe hot August temperatures were sutawney in 1948. He unpleasant. He said that every time was still living in he thinks of running during boot Punx’y when he enlisted camp, he is reminded of PAHS in the army. Titus said teacher Jack LaMarca’s gym class one of the reasons he and was suddenly grateful for havcould think of for joining to “run and run and run” during ing the army was that he class. Titus did not have any bad wanted to enlist rather Titus in his home today. comments about boot camp other than be drafted into the (Hometown photo by Louisa than the running. When asked how Roberts) war. he got through it, Titus replied, “I Immediately after joining the Army, Titus went from Punx- Continued on next page

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His early experiences took him from Fort Jackson to Fort Belvoir for engineering school. During that time period he mainly remembers the riots that were happening in Washington, D.C. After his schooling, Titus went to Vietnam from February 1968 until February 1969. While in Vietnam, Titus said, “I worked alongside officers and soldiers that were all very good guys.

Everyone I served with was a good person.” His small platoon, consisting of 14 people, only had seven remaining when he left Vietnam.

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Another unusual experience this veteran wanted to share was when he was riding down the road with some friends and he commented, “Before we leave here, I’m going to ride one of those water buffalo,” and his friends told him now was his chance. Titus joked by saying he was not able to ride it for very long, but it was still a humorous, memorable experience.

Titus said that while serving during the war, the supplies were decent, but the rations of food he and the fellow soldiers ate out of cans were not very good. His life there was very busy, with very few days off; however, for entertainment, he once saw a show of Bob Hope and Raquel Welch in the Christmas of ‘68 at the 4th Infantry Division. He was also able to see his brother, who was serving as a Marine.

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For many years, Miss Boles was faculty sponsor of many student activities at PHS. Her teaching legacy as an English teacher of high standards and her commitment to students’ education were remembered by former students and colleagues in establishing a scholarship program in her name. (Photo from 1949 Punxsutawney Centennial Book.)

“Jefferson Street School Building” that ity,” or the fact that there was no public was dedicated for use in 1907. The “modschool building within two miles by the ern,” well-equipped school was in use, and the school system was led by a dedicated, capable and conscientious principal, F. S. Jackson, and his teachers.

The students, in their first issue of the school yearbook, The Mirror, in May of 1909, would call out to the supporting public with “The biggest thing we want now is a nine months’ term, ... Do you know that we are only a second rate school, classified as such by the State Department in 1907, be- Miss Margaret C. Boles began teaching at Punxsutawney High School cause of our eight months’ in 1916 (left). Following her death in late 1949, the Boles Memorial Scholarship Foundation was organized to continue her practice of fiterm?” nancially helping students to go on to college.

For a little over a decade the traditional school term was eight nearest traveled road. (May 13, 1896, months, gradually increasing in length Punxsutawney Spirit) over many years. As the area moved from That the Punxsutawney High School an agricultural base to an industrial and moved from a second-rate school to a commercial environment, students were first-rate school (when the nine-month urged into more education. As a result, the - Continued on next page length of term increased from three

Scholarships Continued from previous page term began) was evident in 1911, when the Superintendent of Public Education for Pennsylvania spoke at the commencement. His remarks praised the four-year high school program for “opening the doors of a college to every boy and girl who had the ambition and industry to go.”

(May 20, 1911, Spirit) At that time also, a new state law required townships that did not have a high school to pay the expenses of any student attending the nearest high school.

Another recognition of PHS as a ranked high school came in 1913, when it was announced that five universities and colleges had offered free scholarships to the school, the recipient to be determined by the faculty (eight teachers and Superintendent Jackson). The various colleges included the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard College, Grove City and Otterbine University of Ohio. Those five joined Pennsylvania State College (Penn State) and Allegheny College , which were offering scholarships, too.

Helping the local high school graduates reach their goal of a college education was the Alumni Association. From 1892, there had been an informal group of alumni from the years of the earlier two-year high school course, but the efforts to maintain an organization failed during those 18 years. With the impetus of an Alumni Banquet during the 1909 Old Home Week, (held in the halls of the Jefferson Street building), a permanent organization of the Punxsutawney High School Alumni Association occurred on May 26, 1910.

It was begun as a way for graduates to keep in touch with their alma mater. All graduates of PHS and the faculty were included as members. An Alumni Night would be a regular event during Commencement Week each year to follow, to welcome the graduating class into the ranks of the alumni.

From the 1909 “reunion” of the former high school students would eventually come, in 1922, the award of a local scholarship. From the 58 students one worthy student was selected by committee “to be aided financially by the alumni in his or her schooling.” (June 3, 1922, Spirit) At the suggestion of a young English teacher, funds to support the scholarship would be raised by a play organized by the alumni remaining in town.

In 1920, the Punxsutawney Alumni Association began awarding a scholarship at commencement to a graduate of the school. The group was organized at an August 1909 banquet held in the first floor hallway of the Jefferson Street School building. The hallway is seen above with the 1935 high school orchestra.

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Entering Punxsutawney Area High School history in 1916 was a young 16year-old teacher who would begin to teach college English in the curriculum. The teacher, Margaret C. Boles, gave the school and its students 32 years of service and would later become head of the English Department.

For many years the name of Margaret C. Boles has been associated with generosity to others, aiding students in a goal of scholastic achievement at a college level.

Those of the generation who had been in her classes were aware of her dedication to high standards in her English classes.

She became involved closely with students as the faculty sponsor of many extracurricular activities. She had organized the Thespian Society for those with interests in drama, and started a school newspaper, the “Torch,” (later to be known as “Hi-Lights”). She directed school plays and was in charge of the annual school commencements. She was also the faculty advisor to the school yearbook, The Mirror. With her students, she directed the publication of the history of Punxsutawney for the 1949 Punxsutawney Centennial.

Upon her death in November 1949, many saddened former students and townspeople learned that Miss Boles had quietly and secretly aided many of her students.

As early as 1919, she regularly set aside money from her meager salary to send a graduate on to college. She helped many students apply for scholarships at colleges, trade schools and training schools at hospitals. All she asked in return from the students and their parents was that they not reveal the source of their help. Another pledge to her was to repay her after they found employment at the end of their education so she could use the money again to help others who graduated.

Within two weeks after Miss Boles’ death, the Margaret C. Boles Memorial Scholarship Foundation was organized, composed of alumni, students of the high school and citizens of Punxsutawney. By the assistance of many, a campaign to raise $20,000 for an endowment fund began, with the first significant donation of $500 coming from the high school’s Thespian Society. The annual senior Variety Show each spring continues her interest in stage and theater productions, and is a major source of income to maintain the historic and major Boles Scholarship

program.

Over a half century after her death, there are now more than 50 scholarships of various amounts presented to graduating students at Punxsutawney Area High School.

Several of them bear names of PHS alumni, or former educators in the local high school. It could be expected these have learned the benefits of generous sharing from the example of Miss Boles.

Mary Ann Irvin, a lifelong resident of the area, operated the Mary Ann Hat Shop.

She died in 1965, leaving a substantial endowment for scholarships. Katherine and Mary Rodgers were students at PHS in the early 1920s when Miss Boles began her teaching career here. Their father was the publisher of The Punxsutawney Republican, a weekly newspaper. Upon their deaths, a Memorial Scholarship was established in their names.

Clyde Meneely was a guidance counselor and director of Pupil Services at PHS until his unexpected death in 1982.

Friends, colleagues and former students who were inspired by his example, established a scholarship in his name. In the same manner, upon the death of Ken Williams, school psychologist, director of special education and guidance, and basketball coach, family, friends and colleagues honored his integrity and career in education by a scholarship.

Maude (Means) Dinger retired as a school teacher in 1965. Her husband was a farmer. In her golden years of retirement, she established the Max E. and Maude M. Dinger Scholarship Fund in 1989 to help PAHS graduates with their needs in a college education.

And the list goes on to make up a remarkable program of college scholarships at PAHS established by people who lived and worked in small rural communities, but gained an education equal to major city centers. It is not too much to say that many who have benefited from their opportunities in education have paid back to their community a substantial investment in the future of Punxsutawney area young people.

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The Capitalists Invest in Coal Part 2: Beginning of the ‘Boom’

By PRIDE for Hometown magazine oney would be the key to building the systems for extracting and exporting the coal in the Reynoldsville Gas Coal Basin. Money would build railroads to the area. Money would build local infrastructure to support the mining of coal. Money would make it possible to find markets for coal. Money would make it possible for investors to make even more money and for local entrepreneurs to become very wealthy. The money that was needed was “REALLY BIG” money. It was millions back then, today it would take billions.

Reynoldsville Boomed. In 1874 H. S. Belnap began shipping coal from the Diamond Mine just north of Reynoldsville on the new Allegheny Valley Low Grade Railroad. Belnap’s team drivers hauled the coal in wagons from the mine to the Reynoldsville Depot, where they shoveled the coal into railroad cars. The coal

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The development of railroads and the opening of coal mines brought speculators and developers including those in real estate. E.C. Schultz of St. Mary’s, seeing there would be a need for housing seized the opportunity, purchased a tract of land lying below Reynoldsville along the banks of the Sandy Lick, divided it into town lots and advertised them for sale. His advertisement, published in the Punxsutawney Plaindealer, August 10, 1871, described Reynoldsville as follows: “The town is located in a valley, on Soldier’s Run. Both sides of this valley are enclosed with high hills, which are filled with coal and minerals and are owned on the north by Thomas Reynolds,

who has leased his mines to a very extensive and responsible company from the State of Ohio. On the south the land is owned by Doc. Pancoast, Thompson and Scott, or, in fact, by the Penn’s Central Railroad Company, who are said to own it for five miles up the run. On this valley the subscriber has purchased some sixty acres of land, which is regularly laid out in town lots. On this plot a Coal Depot and a site for a Furnace has been purchased by the Railroad Company. A railroad is contemplated to go right through this place. Again on Sandy Creek the subscriber has laid out eightysix acres of beautiful bottom land, along Sandy, all in town lots, traversed with handsome wide streets and alleys. This part of the town, called the lower part, lies opposite the Huntingdon farm, a farm purchased by the Railroad Company expressly to build thereon large and extensive Machine Shops and a Car and Locomotive Manufactory. These lots are now all in market, and offered low and on

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good terms--one-half on purchase and the remainder secured by judgment note.

The lots are selling rapidly.”

The description of the industry to be developed would certainly encourage interest in the area.

Geologists Franklin and W.G. Platt, who had prepared the reports on the Second Geological Survey of the area, were able to interest Walston Hill Brown of New York, NY, in investing in the Reynoldsville Gas and Coal Basin.

Brown had connections with financiers in New York City, including Adrian Iselin.

He was actively invested in the construction of a railroad in Jefferson County for Bell, Lewis and Yates Mining Company, which had opened a mine near Rumbarger (now DuBois) and was a partner in the firm Powers, Brown & Co., which was operating the Soldier Run and the Sprague Mines in Winslow Township.

Other mines in the area, the Hamilton and Pleasant Valley, were being operated by the Hamilton Coal Company.

Brown, seeing greater opportunities, put together a syndicate and began purchasing small railroads in western New York State and northwestern Pennsylvania. He built new ones to create a railroad line to connect the coal fields of Jefferson County with the ports on Lake Erie. The railroad was necessary to transport coal to markets in New York, the midwest and Canada. The Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad, organized in 1881, had New York resident Walston H. Brown as president. To ensure there would be income to operate the railroad, Brown contracted with the Bell Lewis & Yates Coal Mining Company, to haul their coal on the Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad when the line was extended from Bradford to DuBois in 1882.

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The Capitalists Continued from previous page coal lands in the immediate vicinity of Punxsutawney. By 1883, railroad line was extended to Punxsutawney and the company was operating the Beechtree and Walston Mines with the coal being hauled over his railroad. Walston Brown, with all the new investment, was soon overextended, and the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal and Iron Company went into receivership in the fall of 1884.

Adrian Georg Iselin, at the age of 63, purchased the property and stock of the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal and Iron Company and the Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad Company on October 16, 1885 and took over management. He reorganized the Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad, acquired additional properties in New York which he formed into the Pittsburgh and State Line Railroad Co. and, through the new company acquired additional properties in Pennsylvania. In 1887, he consolidated the railroads under the name Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway. The railway company continued to hold the stock of the coal company until 1906, when an amendment to the Interstate Commerce Act prohibited railways from transporting commodities in which they had an interest was passed. The railway company transferred its stock in the coal company to the Mahoning Investment Company which was formed for that purpose.

Walston Brown resigned his position as president of the board of the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal and Iron Company and was replaced by Mr. A.H. Stevens, who also resigned. Iselin appointed his son, Columbus O’Donnell Iselin, as president to hold the company until it could

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Married: Eleanora O'Donnell Dec. 11, 1845; Children: Adrian Georg; William E. Eleanora; Columbus O’Donnell; Charles Oliver; Georgine; Emilie; Died: March 1905.

Adrian Georg Iselin was associated with the dry goods industry at Messers, Cattenet, Barbey and Co., he was a partner in the firm Moran and Iselin, a drygoods company which later evolved into a banking institution. When Moran retired the company name was changed to A. Iselin and Co., with offices at 36 Wall Street, New York, New York. Iselin invested in railways and mining, and spent much of his time and money on philanthropic works.

Photograph from the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company Media Collection, MG 94: Series IV Slides, Slides B1-20, #7, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

sutawney Area mines had the capacity of producing 335,000 tons of coal per day and employed about 10,000 men.

In 1885, the Jefferson County holdings of the Hamilton Mining Company and Powers, Brown & Company were bought by the firm of Bell, Lewis and Yates, of Buffalo, New York, and became known as the Bell, Lewis and Yates Mining Company. The principals in the Bell Lewis and Yates Company included F. Albert Bell, a former Jefferson County lumberman, George H. Lewis, a Canadian and Bell’s brother-in-law, and Arthur G. Yates, a coal merchant from Rochester, NY. The competition for control of the railroads and the coal fields was fierce, the cost of operations very expensive, and competition for coal resources was keen at a time when progress was being made.

The Pennsylvania & Northwestern railroad was completed to Punxsutawney in 1886 to reach the extensive coal mines at Horatio which had been opened by the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company, a Philadelphia based firm. Appearing in the Punxsutawney Spirit on September 1, 1886 was the following notice: “Deed Filed. A deed was recently filed in Greensburg, Pa., in which the consideration appears as $425,000. It represents a - Continued on page 23

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814-427-2068 ©2008 kawasaki Motors Corp., u.S.A. kawasaki ATVs with engines over 90cc are recommended for use only by persons 16 years of age or older. kawasaki also recommends that all ATV riders take a training course. For more information, see your dealer, or call the ATV Safety Institute at 1-800-887-2887. Warning: ATVs can be hazardous to operate. For your safety: Always wear a helmet, eye protection, and protective clothing. Never carry a passenger. Never ride under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Never ride on public roads or pavement. Avoid excessive speeds and stunt driving. Be extra careful on difficult terrain.

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(Editor’s Note: ‘From Our Past,’ researched by S. Thomas Curry, features items of interest from past editions of Punxsutawney and area newspapers.)

May 4, 1911 — The Irvin Company has just completed quite an improvement at their lumber mill and tannery. Two of the boilers at the tannery were removed, one of them consigned to the junk dealer, but the other, being good still, was placed at the lumber mill. To replace these boilers and give more power for the tannery works, a three hundred horse power tubular boiler was put in and it is now doing duty for the works. (Big Run Tribune) May 4, 1871 — Mr. T. R. Richards of Indiana has set up his machine in this borough and would call the attention of the citizens of Punxsutawney and vicinity to his new mode of cleansing and renovating Feather Beds and Pillows, and invites them to call at his rooms, nearly opposite the National Hotel, and examine the new process of cleansing feathers by steam, increasing their bulk, destroying all moths and gnats, making them soft and luxurious without injury. (Punxsutawney Plaindealer)

October 3 & 4 2009

Celebrating Our 100th Year in Business 1909-2009

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May 28, 1902 — W. G. Rogers has placed a new dry press brick machine in his factory at Lindsey and is now manufacturing a number one press brick, equal to those that builders have been compelled to ship here from distant parts. He uses natural gas for burning and hereafter will be able to turn out one kiln a week, which will more than supply the local demand.

(Punxsutawney Spirit) May 30, 1888 — Messrs. Fries and Lewis, two of the principal men with the railroad interested in the improvements in the East End, were with the excursion party that visited here on Wednesday last. (Punxsutawney News) •••

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May 5, 1897 — Messrs. Edelblute & Clover of Hotel Pantall are making that establishment more popular than it ever has been. The latest is the introduction of music at Sunday dinners, and from the number who take meals there on each occasion, it is presumed that the departure is quite popular. Music not only has power over the soul but it also seems to facilitate gastronomies. (Punxsutawney Spirit)

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Things to Know Around Punx’y From the Bulletin Board of the Punxsutawney Chamber of Commerce newsletter, here are some things you might want to know! For information on any of the items listed below or for information about becoming a member of the Chamber, please call 814-938-7700x2.

Loans for Businesses The Punxsutawney Regional Development Corporation (PRDC) has revolving loan money available for businesses in the Punxsutawney area. Loan requests will be considered from industrial and commercial businesses located in the Punxsutawney Borough, Bell Township, or Young Township that commit to carrying out job producing/retention projects. Retail or service projects and projects located outside of the service area will be considered on a case by case basis by the PRDC. Eligible projects include the purchase of machinery and equipment only. Loan proceeds cannot be utilized for working capital or for the refinancing of existing debt.

Loan applicants must commit to the creation of one new job per $10,000 borrowed. All jobs must be created within

three years of the date of the loan.

Job retention projects will also be considered and must include evidence to support an imminent reduction in employment. Loan requests may not exceed 50% of total project costs or $50,000 whichever is less. Any form of public or private financing may be used in conjunction with proceeds from the PRDC revolving loan program.

The interest rate for the PRDC revolving loan program is fixed at 3%. A non-refundable application fee of $100.00 will be charged as well as a 2% annual fee. For more information about the PRDC revolving loan program, please contact Marlene at the Chamber at 938-7700.

In accordance with federal law and U.S. Department of Agriculture policy, the PRDC is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin,

sex, age or disability. To fine a complaint of discrimination, write USDA Director, Office of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 202509410 or call (800) 795-3272 (voice) or (202) 720-6382 (TDD).

The PRDC is an Equal Opportunity Lender. For those individuals with hearing disabilities interested in applying to the PRDC revolving loan program, please contact the state relay service at 800-6545984.

And from the Community Calendar at Punxsutawney.com, here are some upcoming events: Coppelia, a full length ballet in two acts will be presented by Van Dyke and Company and The Mahoning Valley Ballet on Friday, May 22, 2009 at the Punxsutawney - Continued on page 20

Friends of Library The Friends of the Library is collecting gently used books, videos, cookbooks, puzzles, books on tape, children’s games, and paperbacks for the annual Used Book Sale during the Groundhog Festival, June 30 and July 1. Drop off your used books at the Carriage House in the Pantall Hotel parking lot during regular business hours.

All proceeds directly benefit the Punxsutawney Memorial Library.

Influenza Influenza, also known as the flu, is a contagious respiratory disease caused by different strains of viruses. For the most up to date information concerning the swine flu human cases, please call the Centers for Disease Control at 1-800-CDC-INFO. You can also visit their website at www.cdc.gov.

The Clearfield-Jefferson Chapter Red Cross would like to remind everyone that there are some simple steps that you can take to stay healthy. For more information, you can also visit our Web site at www.clearfieldjeffersonredcross.org.

Practice good health habits – Eat a balanced diet, drink plenty of fluids, exercise daily, manage stress and get enough sleep.

Take common sense steps to stop the spread of germs – Wash hands frequently with soap or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer, avoid contact with sick people (a minimum 3 feet distancing is recommended), avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth, cover your mouth and nose when you cough or sneeze, and stay away from others as much as possible when you are sick.

Common flu symptoms are: high fever, severe body aches, headache, extreme tiredness, sore throat, cough, runny or stuffy nose, vomiting and/or diarrhea.

(NOTE: Having all of these symptoms doesn’t always mean that you have the flu.

Many different illnesses have similar symptoms.)

Facade Improvements PRIDE is now taking applications for facade improvement grants. Businesses and commercial property owners in the East End, West End, and Downtown commercial districts are eligible. Guidelines and applications can be picked up at the Chamber of Commerce office at 102 West Mahoning Street. The deadline to apply is June 12, 2009.

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the changes, shop around for another card.

"There are still some good deals out there," especially for people with good credit, Hardekopf said.

Credit card-reviewing Web sites such as Cardrating.com, Bankrate.com, Creditcards.com and Lowcards.com can help with comparison-shopping.

Be aware that although the sites offer ratings and analysis, they accept fees from card issuers to prominently display certain cards.

(Patricia Sabatini can be reached at psabatini(at)post-gazette.com) (Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.scrippsnews.com.)

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By Patricia Sabatini Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ssuers of credit cards are required to make available to each customer an estimate of how long it will take to pay off a card's balance if he or she

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t some time in your life, you may have to search for a personal care home for yourself or your loved one.

Personal care homes are much needed and there is a growing demand for their services in our community and neighboring towns. We operate a 30-bed personal care home, Sunrose Manor, down the road in Cherry Tree. Connie has grown from caregiver to administrator and knows first hand what some homes lack because of a large volume of patients.

Our residents at Sunderlands in Punxsutawney are treated as a guest, because our home provides 24-hour care for three who need minimal assistance. We provide a personal touch by being selective in making sure we can meet their individual needs. In addition, we offer affordable rates while ensuring excellent care.

You are invited to stop in and visit and meet our guests. Should you have any questions, please call Connie, 618-5160.

Enjoying the front porch of Sunderland’s are guests Caroline Means, Dorothy Mohney and Betty London.

Ira and Connie wish to thank the community and the families for their support and entrusting us to care for them, and/or their loved ones.

Betty Griffith, Medicine Shoppe Associate delivers meds to Dottie LeCompte, caregiver of Sunderland’s

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For credit cards issued by banks, which covers nearly all credit cards, estimates are available by calling the payoff information number on billing statements.

For nonbank-issued cards, estimated payoffs are available by calling the Federal Trade Commission at 1-888-600-4804 or by using the agency's online calculator at ftc.gov/creditcardcalculator.

According to the online calculator, a person carrying a $10,000 balance with an annual interest rate of 15 percent who makes no more charges and makes the minimum payment on time each month will shell out $3,281 in interest and make payments for 10 years before the balance is paid off.

Reap biggest rewards: Credit card issuers have been curtailing cash-back and other reward programs in an effort to boost the bottom line. Here are some suggestions from online credit card reviewer CreditCards.com for fighting back: Redeem now. If you have already earned a lot of points, redeem them sooner rather than later. The redemption value is largely hidden and can be changed by the card issuer at any time.

Be selective. Choose a reward that fits the type of spending you do, such as earning extra points for grocery, gas and drugstore purchases. Be wary of rewards that end up requiring you to spend extra money, such as getting a gift card to a store that sells only expensive items.

Consider cash-back cards. Cash rebates, although less flashy, are fairly straightforward in terms of how they are earned and what they are worth. And there are no blackout dates.

Stay on top of hidden fees. Be sure to read the fine print of the reward program's terms and conditions. Beware of expiration dates on points or miles, and know that terms are subject to change with little or no notice.

Practice monogamy. Be true to one credit card to maximize your rewardsearning potential. Select a card that has a low interest rate and no annual fee, then do all your spending with that card to reap the most rewards.

Double Down. Consider adding your spouse as an authorized user on your account to leverage all of your household card spending and increase your rewardearning power.

Skip reward cards if you consistently carry a balance. Reward cards tend to charge higher interest rates, making them too expensive for revolvers. Instead, focus on finding a card with the lowest rate.

(Patricia Sabatini can be reached at psabatini@post-gazette.com) (Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.scrippsnews.com.)

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Things to Know Continued from page 17

High School. Tickets available at the door.

For more information, contact Joan E. Van Dyke at 814-938-8517.

1st Annual Punx’y Phil Fighters 5K Run/1-Mile Walk - Fighting to cure diabetes. The Punx’y Phil Fighters is a nonprofit organization that was created in honor of Lexi Zanaglio. Lexi is a nineyear-old girl who is from Punx’y and has Type 1 diabetes. All proceeds from the event go to the American Diabetes Association. The event will be held on Saturday, May 30. Registration begins at 10:00 a.m. race to begin at 11:00 a.m. The event will take place on the Mahoning Shadow

Trail behind Prushnok Drive. Please contact race director Kelly Ferrent to pre-register.

2009 Community Events Requested If your group or organization is planning an event for this year, please submit the information to www.punxsutawney.com/calendar for publication on the calendar of events. Not only does the calendar serve as a listing of what's going on in the community for visitors and residents alike, but it also serves as a planning tool. Groups can check it to see what's already scheduled before deciding on an event date. Information can be submitted to the calendar at anytime. If you don't have Internet access, the information can be dropped off to the Chamber office. Be sure to include a contact telephone number.

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n July of 1886, five Punxsutawneyites — Joe Wilson, John Mitchell, James Brewer, Robert Young, and Herman Hughes — sojourned for a week in the Allegheny Mountains near Clearfield, where they gathered huckleberries, caught trout, and killed rattlesnakes. The party was well supplied with provender and munitions for war. Upon their return to town, they reported that the berries, trout and snakes were very plentiful.

They succeeded in hooking about 150 trout. Two very fine rattlesnakes were slaughtered. One was a large, fat, yellow rascal, with an amiable disposition. The other was black and lean and possessed a hungry look, as though he thought too much and did not sleep well at night. Snakes of this temperament are dangerous. The snake struck rancorously at James Brewer. If it could have inserted its fangs somewhere in Brewer’s anatomy, the snake would have died perhaps exultant. But failing in this, the ill-tempered reptile, while writhing in the pangs of death, sank its venomous fangs into its own

flesh, and expired in agony without repentance or hope.

John Mitchell wept bitterly over the affair, not because of the excruciating pain the snake had suffered but because the serpent rendered itself unfit for human consumption by imbuing itself with the poison intended for its enemies.

The other snake, nevertheless, was a noble-looking brute, and after it had been properly disrobed, a roll of white and dainty flesh as thick as Joe Wilson’s arms lay stretched upon the table. It was fried with the trout, and the request, “Pass the rattlesnake, please,” was frequently repeated during the hearty meal that followed.

The excursionists also succeeded in amusing themselves by bagging two fretful porcupines, which were duly cooked, shared, and consumed. There are not tarantulas, centipedes, or scorpions in the mountains, or the hunters would have gathered a bucketful and made of them soup spiced up with lizards, green snakes, and poison oak.

Altogether the men had a glorious time and stories of such add to Punxsutawney’s outdoor legend and lore.

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recent purchase of coal lands in Westmoreland, Clearfield and Jefferson Counties, and the purchasers were Charles F. and Edward J. Berwind, of Philadelphia.”

The Berwind-White Company controlled the steamship bunker business in New York and Philadelphia harbors. The company supplied coal to the United States Navy and exported to Atlantic ports in the West Indies, South America and Europe. The company owned and operated coal-mines in the Clearfield and Jefferson County and are mined what was known as Eureka Bituminous Steam Coal. They operated 29 collieries: 22 at and around Houtzdale, two at Karthaus, and five at Horatio, which produced more than 15,000 tons a day. Horatio Gates Fisher, a director of the Berwind-White Coal Compan, and president of the Punxsutawney Coal and Iron Company, was their manager developing these coal lands. He purchased lands and directed the openings of the mines.

Today, we know these capitalists by the names left behind. Walston, Adrian, Iselin, and Yatesboro are area towns that

Horatio Gates Fisher Born: April 21, 1836, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania; Lafayette College, Easton, PA, July 1855; Married: Four Children including Thomas Fisher who was the Superintendent at the Horatio Mines.

Died: May 8, 1890 Director, Berwind-White Coal Company.

Elected to represent Pennsylvania's 18th District in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1879 to 1883. He also served as a Member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1877 to 1879.

were named for Walston Brown, Adrian Iselin and Arthur Yates. Eleanora, named for Adrian Iselin’s wife, has all but disappeared. Ernest and DeLancey were named for grandsons of Iselin, and the Lucerne and Helvetia mines were named for towns in Iselin’s native Switzerland.

It is thought that Florence was named for Florence Yates, only daughter of Arthur G. Yates. The town of Horatio was named in honor of Horatio Gates Fisher.

It, too, has all but disappeared, but Horatio Street remains in Punxsutawney.

Anita was named for the wife of Charles

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