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By Shirley Sharp for Hometown magazine unxsutawney area women have served their country ever since the Civil War. At first women served primarily as nurses. Records of women who served in the Civil War are hard to find. However, the names of four Jefferson County women who were nurses with the 105th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers at Camp Jameson, near Alexandria, Virginia, have been recorded.

The women, Kate Scott, Ellen Guffey, Mary Allen, and Mary Pricilla Fryer were recruited to assist the Regiment with the soldiers who were suffering from diseases including small pox, dysentery, and pneumonia. An article from the Brookville Republican republished in the March 6, 1901, issue of the Punxsutawney Spirit tells of three Jefferson County nurses who forty years after having served, were granted pensions.

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Left, Kate M. Scott and right, Mary Fryer Gardner, nurses who served with the 105th Regiment during the Civil War.

Women Veterans “The special pension bills granting a pension of $12 a month to Kate M. Scott, of Brookville, Mrs. Mary Gardner, nee Fryer, of Punxsutawney, and Mrs. Percillia Barry, nee Allen, were passed finally in Congress Friday last, and sent to the President for his signature. The beneficiaries of these special laws were army nurses during the winter of 186162, in connection with the hospital services of the 105th PA Vols., and they are now pensioned in recognition of the valuable service then and there rendered.”

The successful wide-scale participation of female nurses in the Civil War opened a new profession to women. Three training schools opened for nurses in 1873. By 1899 nursing had developed into a firmly rooted profession with more than 3,000 trained nurses and 515 - Continued on page 4

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2nd Lt. Grace Burris of Punxsutawney, front row center, played second base on this team of United States Army nurses that defeated a team of enlisted men in a comedy softball game in New Guinea during World War II. These nurses arrived in New Guinea in early December 1942 and helped build a hospital in time to receive patients on Christmas Day. The team members were: (first row, from left) 2nd Lt. Ellen Ashbridge, pitcher, Holigong, Pennsylvania; 2nd Lt. Helen McEvoy, right field, Leavenworth, Kansas; Grace Burris, second base, Punxsutawney; Julia Bartley, catcher, Erie, Pennsylvania; and Jucille Janouch, third base, Montgomery, Minnesota; (back row) American Red Cross Representative Jane S. Black, left field, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; 2nd Lt. Frances Trempus, short stop, Springfield, Pennsylvania; 2nd Lt. Betty Pearson, center field, Ellwod City, Pennsylvania; American Red Cross Representative Mary Louis, first base, Ithaca, New York; and 2nd Lt. Irene Austin, short field, Grinnell, Iowa.

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Hometown Magazine’s friend, co-publisher passes away

By Jim Lauffer for Hometown magazine illiam C. “Bill” Anderson, copublisher of Punxsutawney Hometown magazine and publisher of Mainline Newspapers, Ebensburg, passed away Tuesday morning, October 15, after battling cancer for more than a decade. He was a Philadelphia native, born in the City of Brotherly Love on December 6, 1950, son of the late William C. Anderson, Sr., and the late Lenna “Marlys” Hubbard. Bill leaves behind his three children: William C. Anderson III, of Denver, Colorado, Corrie Ann Anderson and Amy Marie Anderson, of Pittsburgh, and their mother, Jessie Anderson, of Punxsutawney. He is also survived by his stepmother, Beverly Anderson, his siblings, numerous nieces and nephews, and his beloved dog, Ruby.

Bill’s publishing career spans five decades, beginning in Punxsutawney in 1973 after graduation from Penn State University. Bill was a partner in a western Pennsylvania newspaper group that has publications in seven communities.

Throughout his career, he worked closely with his staff in the production and publishing of approximately 15,000 editions of newspapers, magazines, special publications, and books.

Bill was also co-publisher of Punxsutawney Hometown magazine, which he and Mary Roberts founded in 1999. With difficulty, Mary summed up her friend and colleague: “Bill was an ever-present advertising, marketing, and publishing guru. His dedication to the community and to providing a high-quality publication that also highlights the community is evidenced with each brilliant edition we published.”

“Community” was a key word for Bill, and he attributed accolades that he received to the communities that supported his publications and to the staffs that cover those communities. “Good publications owe their

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success to their staffs and the communities in which they serve, taking pride in the citizens, organizations, and businesses they represent,” he once said.

Bill’s dedication to the craft of journalism did not go unnoticed. In 1995, Bill was named the American Publishing Company’s Publisher of the Year, and in 2012, the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association recognized Bill as the recipient of its Benjamin Franklin Award for Excellence, citing his “significant contributions to Pennsylvania newspapers and the newspaper industry.”

His commitment to community expressed itself not only in print, but also in action and in word. Bill was an active member of Phil’s Inner Circle—his title was “The Scribe.” He chaired the Jane Wooster Scott art project as a fundraiser for the Inner Circle. Bill was instrumental in the promotion of Punxsutawney Phil and Groundhog Day. Inner Circle member Jeff Lundy lauded Bill’s efforts on behalf of the Groundhog Club and Punxsutawney Phil.

“The world of Groundhog Day puts people into one of two categories— those who ‘get it,’ and those who need a little help to ‘get it,’ he said. “By ‘get it’ we mean those who understand the whimsical wonder and magic of Punxsutawney Phil.”

“Bill Anderson got it from day one, and as a member of the Inner Circle was a driver in expanding Phil’s world-wide fame,” Jeff continued. “His efforts with the Jane Wooster Scott prints directly helped the Club procure the Knob, and his contacts and work with The Spirit and thereafter with Hometown helped thousands over the years to ‘get it.’”

“Bill will be missed by all of us at the Groundhog Club and by our community,” Jeff concluded.

Bill’s love of community also expressed itself in his writing. In 2006, Bill published “Groundhog Day: The True Story of Punx-

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sutawney Phil,” and in 2012, he printed the first two volumes of “When Rube Waddell Came to Town,” a multi-volume biography of the great pitcher who spent time in Western Pennsylvania, which Bill described as “the center of the baseball universe in the late 1890s.”

Tracey Young, who worked with Bill for many years, recalls how persuasive he could be. “Bill had his own way about things, particularly things he was passionate about,” she said, “and he sure knew how to get you on his path of thinking.”

“I greatly appreciate all Bill taught me over the years,” Tracey added, “and he will be greatly missed. Thank you, Bill.”

S. Thomas “Tom” Curry shared with Bill an interest in local history. In 1999, Bill asked him to write historical articles for Hometown magazine, beginning a relationship that ended with Bill’s death. “It was a wonderful relationship,” he said. “He had an appetite for more and more details about Punx’y’s past—its people, events, buildings, industry, etc. that affected Punxsutawney and its progress.”

“People of the area have expressed their appreciation for the continued series of stories,” Tom continued. “Knowing how much Bill enjoyed reading the stories as they were revealed to him in each issue, in his honor, I will strive to maintain my own appetite for local history and share it with readers in future issues.” A fitting tribute that Bill, no doubt, would appreciate.

Graphic artist Melissa Salsgiver worked with and alongside Bill on a variety projects for thirteen years. “The last project we worked on together—besides the magazine—was the website for his Rube Waddell baseball book,” she said. “Through those years and many hours of working together, I learned what his passions were.

Baseball was definitely one, as was Home-

town—of course!”

“You could really tell what Bill was passionate about. He would just light up when he was excited about a project,” Melissa added. “I only hope we can continue to bring to Punxsutawney the passion he had for all things hometown.”

Melissa offered further musings about her friend and her mentor. “I keep thinking back to the movie ‘Tombstone’ when thinking about Bill’s life and death,” she said. “I know you’re thinking, ‘What does Bill have in common with ‘Tombstone?’”

“Bill was sick for a long time, just like Doc Holliday was,” she continued. “In the movie, as Doc lies in a sanitarium bed, Wyatt Earp brings Doc a book titled ‘My Friend, Doc Holliday.’ It’s presumably a book Wyatt Earp wrote. The book doesn’t exist; it was just in the movie.”

“Yet, I keep saying in my head, ‘My Friend, Bill Anderson.’ I can even see the cover of the book in print.”

Like Melissa, others have shared thoughts about Bill as they’ve pondered his life and his all-too-early death. Some remember his charisma; others his intelligence. All recall his friendship and his passion for all things local. William C. “Bill” Anderson will most certainly be missed—perhaps, “My Friend, Bill Anderson” should be written.

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Staffing an Armed Forces Recruiting Trailer in Barclay Square, Punxsutawney, in July 1944 were recruiters, including Capt. Jane Blaker, of the Middletown Air Depot; Lt. Lucille Edelson, officer in charge of the trailer; and Private Doris Golliett, recruiting specialist. Visitors to the trailer saw the latest in military equipment, including a life raft that inflated in fifteen seconds and a fully equipped jungle kit. The recruiter’s message was “the woman who joins the WAC today has opportunities that are unprecedented in military service.”

Women in Military

tary service she continued in her profession in Pittsburgh before returning to Punxsutawney.

Jeanette Oswald graduated from PunxContinued from page 2 sutawney High School and the Lankenau training schools. Two schools were located in Hospital School of Nursing in Philadelphia.

Punxsutawney – one at the Adrian Hospital After her military service she continued her and the other at the Punxsutawney Hospital. education earning a bachelor’s degree in nursThe Spanish American War reinforced the ing education from Columbia University and need for nurses to support the military. It was a master’s degree in education from the Unithen that a regular Army Nurse Corps of versity of Michigan. She served thirty-six women under the Surgeon General was offiyears as a nursing educator and for eleven cially organized. The Daughters of the Ameryears she was head of the Department of ican Revolution volunteered to act as the Nursing Education at West Virginia Univerexamining board for women nurses for the sity in Morgantown.

Government. The D.A.R. Hospital World War II brought an expanCorps was organized to perform sion of the positions women could this service. hold in the military service. At the By the time the United States enbeginning of the war, advertisetered World War I, the U.S. Army ments encourage women to enter Nurse Corps was an established the work force in traditionally unit of the military. Ten Punxmale occupations. As the war prosutawney Area Women answered gressed women were encouraged the call to service: Beatrice Adams, to join the military to relieve solIrene C. Bennis, Bertha V. Beyers, diers, sailors and marines for comAdda Chambers, Grace Cook, The Army shoulder bat duty. The women of the Cora Foltz, Netta Jane Foltz, Mary patch worn by Hilja ol- Punxsutawney Area responded. gren Maynier on her H. Henneigh, Emma Johnson, and uniform to designate The largest occupational group to Jeannette C. Oswald. These she was a member of join the military was nurses. They women served their country with the unit that worked on were mobilized early in the war. the atom bomb at oak distinction and after their military Ridge, Incentives were provided to enTennessee, durservice went on to careers in nurs- ing World War II. courage student nurses to join the ing. For example: Bertha V. BeyCadet Nurse Corps leading to eners attended Punxsutawney High School and listment and appointment as a 2nd lieutenant graduated from the Long Island College Hosupon completing their training. pital School of Nursing in Brooklyn, New Over three hundred women from Jefferson York. She served with the Army Nurse Corps County answered the call to join the military in France and Poland during World War I. service. They took over jobs men had previUpon returning home she was a school nurse ously held, thus freeing the men for combat in the Punxsutawney Area Schools for twenty while competently performed the duties reseven years. Irene C. Bennis, of Punxquired. The following profiles illustrate some sutawney, completed her nurse’s training at of the work of Punxsutawney area women Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh. After her mili- Continued on page 6

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for Hometown magazine rom staff of Hometown magazine and the Chamber of Commerce and the Community Calendar at Punxsutawney.com, here is a list of events and happenings coming up in our area: n Oct. 31: Trick or Treating in Punxsutawney Borough, parade begins at 5:30 p.m., costumes will be judged at Barclay Square following parade, trick or treating from 6 to 8 p.m.; in Brookville parade begins at 5 p.m., trick or treating follows until 8 p.m.; in Big Run Borough, McCalmont and Young Townships from 6 to 8 p.m. n Nov. 1: Punxsutawney Community Blood Drive, sponsored by the Punx’y Christian School for the American Red Cross, noon to 6 p.m. in the gym at 216 N. Jefferson St. n Nov. 1, 8, 15, 22: Turkey Shoots, Rossiter Sportsmen’s Club, open at 6 p.m., shoot at 7 p.m. n Nov. 1, 2: “Greater Tuna,” Punxsutawney Theatre Arts Guild presents a two-act satirical comedy, “Greater Tuna” in the auditorium of the Punxsutawney Area Middle School on North Findley Street. Tickets are sold at the door. n Nov. 1: Halloween Party/Scavenger Hunt at 7 p.m. at Punxsutawney Country Club.

Tickets $15 a person or $25 a couple. The tickets include the scavenger hunt, D.J. and appetizers. Ticket are available at the bar or call 814-938-8243. Open to the public. n Nov. 2: Holiday Craft Show, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., SS. Peter & Paul Byzantine Catholic Social Hall in Delancey. Stuffed cabbage and haluski will be available. n Nov. 3: Daylight Savings Time ends, Change Your Clocks, 2 a.m. n Nov. 5: General Election, Go Vote! n Nov. 8: The Dove Brothers in concert, DuBois Area High School, $20 at door, presented by Cornelius Promotions, Inc. n Nov. 9: Free Mask Fitting Clinic, Healthy Hearts Sleep Clinic, 8 a.m. n Nov. 9: “Service: Ration Experience,” Children’s Discovery Series, Punx’y Area Historical & Genealogical Society’s Lattimer House, 1 p.m. Ages 6-12. n Nov. 12: PAHS Powderpuff Football Game, LaMarca Stadium, 6:30 p.m. n Nov. 17: “Holiday Hope,” seminar by DRMC Hospice offers suggestions for dealing with the holidays after the death of a loved one, 2 p.m. St. Camillus Hall, DRMC West. Call 375-3300 for more information. n Nov. 23: Community Thanksgiving Meal, Salvation Army, 229 W. Mahoning St. n Nov. 23: Tunes for Tots Benefit, Punx-

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sutawney Eagles, 6 p.m. n Nov. 24: Community Thanksgiving Worship Service, Punx’y Area Ministerial Association, 7 p.m., St. Peter’s United Church of Christ. n Nov. 30: Kick off the Holiday Season and spend “Small Business Saturday” in Punxsutawney. This is the time when we can support our local small businesses and start our holiday shopping out right. Punxsutawney small businesses will offer special deals that day and the annual “Mistletoe Madness” craft vendors will be featured at some local venues. n Nov. 30: 23rd Annual Home for the Holidays Parade, Downtown Punx’y, 6 p.m.

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Stop in to the after party at the Eagles Club where children can visit with Santa and Parade winners will be announced. n Nov. 30: Tree Lighting, Punx’y Rotary Club’s Circle of Trees, Barclay Square, “Christmas Around the World.” n Jefferson County E.M.S. 2013-2014 Membership Drive is underway. They provide the most advanced emergency medical care to the residents of Jefferson County.

Please apply today. Call 814-938-4119, ext. 2. for more information. n The Punxsutawney Chamber of Commerce announces openings on the 2014 Board of Directors. If you are a chamber member and interested in becoming more involved, please send a letter of intent to 102 W. Mahoning St. We look forward to seeing some new faces on the board.

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Thank you The Bill Roberts family would like to extend their sincere appreciation to everyone who helped in the time of loss of their husband, father, and grandfather. Thank you to Monsignor Riccardo, Monsignor Kaza, and Father Pino and the SSCD funeral choir for presiding at the funeral mass. A special thanks to Deeley Funeral Home for your care and compassion and also to the Punxsutawney Borough Police (Dylan Blose), and Punxsutawney Area Hospital for the quick care and attention provided. Thank you to all who helped at the luncheon with a special thank you to Carol Marasco, Frank Hetrick, and Lena VanDyke. To our family and friends, a very heartfelt thank you for always being there with your love, prayers and support during our time of grief. All donations, food, cards and phone calls gave us such comfort and were deeply appreciated.

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Women in Military Continued from page 4 performed while in the military service.

Lillian E. Depp enlisted in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in 1943 and was assigned to Des Moines, Iowa, for her training.

She stated she joined the WAAC “to do my part in helping with the war effort.” Before enlisting, Depp, a graduate of Indiana State Teachers College, was a school teacher. Her education and experience placed her in position to be assigned to an executive position.

Her career path took her from being a basic training instructor, to Chief of the Training Section of the Overseas unit and finally to an assignment as executive office of the WAC Detachment at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Lt. Depp was able to use her leadership skills to successfully discharge her military duties and to prepare soldiers for overseas duty.

Anna Stumpf was the first woman from Big Run to enter the service. She had been working at the Ashton Graphite Company in Niagara Falls, New York, before enlisting in the Women’s Army Corps. She became an aerial photographer and was stationed at Tampa, Florida. Her sister, Eileen Stumpf, enlisted in the WAVES. She was assigned to Hunter College, New York, for basic training and then to Yeoman’s School at Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Upon completion of her training she was assigned to perform administrative duties in Boston, Massachusetts.

Isobel Carrier, from near Baxter, attended Summerville High School, the University of Maryland, the University of Pittsburgh and Muskingum College. She was a teacher of history and Mathematics at Brookville Junior High School before joining the WAVEs. She attended Reserve Midshipmen’s School at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.

She was commissioned Ensign in May 1944 and served as radio officer with a bomber squadron at Miami. In her spare time, she directed the Opa Lacka Naval Air Station Choir which presented concerts Miami churches.

Ida Mae Cassidy, of Punxsutawney, joined the Women’s Army Corps in 1943. Prior to enlisting, she had been a bookkeeper at the Mahoning Hardware and had worked in Ohio.

While completing her basic training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, Cassidy was part of a WAC detachment which was filmed. The film was shown as part of a newsreel at the Jefferson Theatre. Private Cassidy was assigned to assist in the National WAC Recruiting Drive in Natchez Mississippi.

Hilja Olgren Maynier, a daughter of Mrs. Alma Olgren of Frostburg, had worked in Rochester and New York City, New York, before enlisting in the WAC in February 1943.

After her basic training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, and technical training in Texas and Massachusetts, she attended engineering school in Brooklyn, New York. She was among the enlisted women who developed new skills in technical duties including metallurgy technician, entailing work in ceramics, plastics, and powdered metals; electronics technicians, pertaining principally to the construction of electronics equipment; photography, dealing mainly with metallurgy, entailing a knowledge of metals; and advanced work with the spectroscope as a result of assignments with the Manhattan District. In 1946, Master Sergeant Maynier was awarded the Army Commendation Award for her work on the atomic bomb project. Her unit at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, received the Meritorious Service Unit Plaque for their work. She and the members of her unit wore a shoulder patch bearing a symbol of the split atom.

Nurses of the U.S. Army Nurses Corps were

just as important to the military service during World War II as they had been in previous wars. These women performed their nursing duties under the most trying conditions while maintaining a positive attitude and inspiring others to success.

Rosalind Zeidel, a Punxsutawney resident, was one of the indomitable spirits who cared for the injured. She served in French Morocco, North Africa, and Italy. While in Africa she experienced deprivation. She wrote home, “Here in Africa we freeze. Heat is rationed …

We cannot buy anything here. I would appreciate some long woolen or flannel pajamas and a few long-sleeved sweaters and woolen socks.” A news clipping from the Post newsletter commented on displays placed in front of the hospital tents reported: “The designs range from pictorial scenes to geometric layouts. The credit for this tremendous project goes to Lt. Zeidel who instigated the first of the displays and later goaded the other patients to a competitive spirit.” The highlight of Lt. Zeidel’s tour in North Africa was having a bomber named for her. It was christened “Rosalind, Angel of Mercy.”

Another indomitable spirit was 2nd Lieutenant Grace I. Burris. Burris, another Punxsutawney resident, was sent Australia and then to New Guinea in December 1942. Her unit’s arrival in New Guinea was filmed by Paramount and also shown in a newsreel at the Jefferson Theatre in Punxsutawney. Upon arriving in New Guinea the medical personnel had to build the hospital. They became contractors, carpenters, and bricklayers and constructed the building in time to receive their first patients on Christmas Day. During the first half of 1943 the Medical Corps, doctors, nurses, and enlisted worked long hours often during enemy air raids to care for thousands of patients. On May 12, 1943, they held fast when 100 Japanese planes attacked and bombed the area. To relieve the stress of their work they engaged in activities such as softball.

Clara Anthony, of Punxsutawney, was one of 21 Pennsylvania nurses assigned to the 30th General Hospital with the U.S. forces in Belgium. The 30th General began its overseas service in England in 1942. Soon after D-Day the staff headed for the Normandy beach.

Throughout the summer and autumn of 1944 the hospital cared for thousands of battle casualties. These nurses shared the lot of the soldiers in Normandy, evacuating combat wounded in mud and rain. In November 1944, two months after the liberation of Belgium, the hospital moved to the village of St. Antonious where they worked in ruined buildings to care for American soldiers. When a new hospital was built near Antwerp they were able to provide better care. Clara Anthony served three years with the 30th General Hospital in England, France, and Belgium.

Thanks to Mildred Harlan, Librarian at the Punxsutawney Memorial Library during World War II, information about the men and women who served in the war was preserved.

They are now in the collection of the Punxsutawney Area Historical & Genealogical Society. The Society also has in its collection women’s military uniforms from World War II including those of Dorothy Pringle, who served with the Waves, and Freda Foster, who served in the Marine Corps.

Since World War II, women have continued to serve an ever-expanding role in the United States military service. They attend the military academies, fly combat missions, and serve on the front line in military operations.

On November 11, we honor veterans. Let us not forget these women and the many like them who have valiantly served the United States of America in times of war and peace.

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By Mary ellen raneri for Hometown magazine

ost kids don’t relish the thought of going into a school, but I did. The little old schoolhouse in my neighborhood, Fairview, was Kennywood Park to me. I never thought much about reading, writing, and ’rithmetic when I went there.

That timeworn school was Funland—a place to celebrate and visit with neighbors, a place to sing and eat, and a place to ride bikes with friends on a warm summer day.

The times I spent there will always be among the best of my childhood memories.

The white, square, wooden building sat at the end of a not-so-traveled street near the Circle Hill cemetery. First- through eighthgrade students from the surrounding neighborhood of Fairview, near Punxsutawney, received their formal education in the school’s single solitary room.

Perched on a gravel and grass, the one-room school sat adjacent to a barren field and woods. Two wooden outhouses stood guard on the old playground—one toilet for the boys and one toilet for the girls. Of course, a bell tower on the roof remained a silent memento of all the school days it clanged a welcome to its students. Gray paint hid some of the original boards that made up the still-standing front

porch on the building, and long windows with cloudy panes on either side of the school waited for someone to stop and visit; they reminded me of big glass eyes that watched for visitors who might pass by the deserted place.

I guess in the 1960s, life was a lot slower, less sophisticated and simpler than today.

Kids on the block didn’t walk around with phones in their hands, texting votes for American Idol contestants. We didn’t sit in front of the television playing video games like “Halo,” “Need for Speed,” and “Grand Theft Auto.” There were no McDonalds nearby; only a couple restaurants in town—mostly Ruth and Harry’s, Joe’s Drive-In, or Carlino’s luncheonette—dished up hamburgers, hotdogs, and homemade stuff, food that could be loosely classified as “fast.” Life was slow then, but we sped down the blacktopped street to the vacant schoolhouse on our Western Flyers like we were headed to the best amusement park in town.

When we got to the empty schoolyard, we parked, set up a make-believe camp using the pebbles from the parking lot, and gathered renegade sticks and brush to stack up a little compound. Then, munching on a paper-bag lunch of baloney sandwiches and apples, my friends and I watched the clouds float by in

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McLaughlin’s sweet corn casseThumping their wooden canes on role, a dish I have never tasted the beat-up floor, Mom and Mary anywhere else again. The men of pretended they were homeless the community lined up folding mutes. They thumped those tables against the left side of the canes and walked around until inside of the school against the big the judges just gave up, I supwindows while the ladies dispose. No one cared that they were played the fare and cut desserts or politically incorrect. Heck! They put spoons in the cooking pots and just wanted to win a prize, and stews. When we walked into the they did. room, the tempting display of Every kid loves Christmas. food smiled up at us, and the beige one of the two out- What could be better than a curtains on the long windows houses still remains on Christmas party in a school swayed in the summer breeze. the school property. where you didn’t have to learn Long tables in the middle of the anything? Where you didn’t have room served as our dining area, where plain to memorize useless rote formulas and drills? folks just ate and talked. Neighbors chewed Where you didn’t have to worry about your the fat about the humble pleasures of the tepid books, tests, and teachers? Where your dad summer months—their gardens’ progress or was, ummm—Santa Claus! That’s right. The talked about upcoming events like the yearly little old schoolhouse hosted a huge Christcarnival that was always held near the Armory mas party every December and, once, my fain town. Women shared canning secrets and ther played Santa. Naturally, my mom had looked forward to displaying their hard work concocted a fabulous explanation of how my at the Indiana or Sykesville fairs. father was actually employed by the jolly old Early in August, Mr. Snyder, president of the fellow; everyone needs help now and then, eslittle community center, took the reins and orpecially in a busy seasonal job. Gosh! I was so ganized a corn roast at the Fairview schoolproud of my dad that night, dressed to the hilt house. When my dad wheeled our blue in his velveteen red suit and glossy boots. I Mercury station wagon into the parking lot could tell it was him, though, from the twinnear the school, I was mesmerized by the big kle in his blue eyes. What a feeling! Not every black caldron that hung from a teepee-like kid was related to the most important guy in arrangement of pipes. Filled with sweet corn, Kid World! the huge pot bubbled for hours over a pile of Dad was a pretty versatile actor, too, at the smoldering firewood, as the neighborhood Community Center. I recall one event that was men, women, and children gorged themselves - Continued on page 28

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The satiric production brings the 38th season of the Punxsutawney Theatre Arts Guild to a lively close, thanks to the colorful, wacky characters whose antics will have people rolling in the aisles. Adding to the hilarity is the fact that the cast of seven actors will be portraying 22 different characters. Thus, the audience will quickly notice that there are a great many surprises with males playing females and vice-versa.

The play began as a simple party skit based upon a political cartoon in 1985. Soon, it was headed for off-Broadway where it took New York City by storm. Touring company versions quickly led to countless productions across the country. Critics have labeled “Greater Tuna” as “howlingly funny.” The New York Post claimed, “The audience…all but exploded the theater with laughter.”

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PTAG director, has assembled a cast of veterans and a newcomer to take on the challenge of multiple portrayals. Ilona Ball, Doug Fye, and Laura Chelgren each appear as four different characters, while Tom Curry tackles a trio of roles. Rounding out the cast are Loretta Ball, Terry A. Fye, and Jennifer Soliday, all of whom bring two characters to life.

Matthew Dinsmore has a cameo as the football coach.

Commenting on the show, Soliday said, “’Greater Tuna” uses little in the way of sets and scenery and scarcely any props at all. It is the writing and the unforgettable characters that make this play work. The fact that most of us know, or have known, people like those in the play is the real source of the humor.

One doesn’t have to be from Tuna, Texas, to find someone recognizable among the citizens of the town. The audiences in Punxsutawney will see their neighbors in the show (although, of course, not themselves)!”

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youngsters seventeen years or younger, 200,000 of whom were under sixteen years and more than 100,000 who were even younger The veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic, GAR members as they were called, surely remembered the patriotism of the town’s people when the call to arms was sounded by President Lincoln. Serving in the Union Army was a proud moment for the survivors of the many battles. Held with them were the memories of their fallen neighbors, brothers, sons, etc.

The sharing of experiences in the Civil War became an incentive for forming the fraternal organization of GAR at the national level in 1866.

The GAR was organized into departments at the state level Designated by special GAR markers and the American flag, and posts at the area cemeteries contain graves of Civil War veterans. As one, community Punxsutawney’s historic veterans’ cemetery on North Findley Street preserves the memory of Capt. Edwin H. Little, (left) who was killed at level. It would Gettysburg, and William R. Depp (right, and photo), who was a musician (note be in 1882 that “mus� on the stone) in the early years of the war. the local organization of the In the early 1900s, one of the many PunxGAR was completed and named the Capt. sutawney “boys� who served in the regiE. H. Little Post, No. 237, to honor the ments as a soldier recalled that moment in Punxsutawney young man killed in the bathis life by commenting “[Punxsutawney] tle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863. contributed practically all of her able-bodFor decades after that war, until 1900 ied young men.� Eight young men left the when there were veterans of the Spanishimmediate area in 1861 as a part of the American War, the men who fought in the Pennsylvania volunteers.

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The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club Inner Circle cuts the ribbon of their new office located at 200 West Mahoning St. (front row, l. to r.) David Gigliotti, Thunder Conductor; Katie Donald, executive director of the Groundhog Club; Ron Ploucha, co-handler and Stump Warden; Punxsutawney Phil; Bill Deeley, president; Tom Dunkel, Shingle Shaker; Butch Philliber, Iceman; (back) Bob Roberts, His Protector; Tom Uberti, The Big Windmaker; A.J. Dereume, Rainmaker; Ed Jekielek, Storm Chaser; Bill Cooper, past president; Mike Johnston, Big Flake Maker; Jeff Lundy, vice president and Fair Weatherman; and John Griffiths, co-handler. Photo by Jennifer Roberts.

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brought to the headquarters to be displayed for the first time. Having the new space gives the Groundhog Club the opportunity to spread the legend of Punxsutawney Phil to visitors and local residents alike.

The Groundhog Club Headquarters is located at 200 West Mahoning Street, Suite 1, Punxsutawney, PA 15767. It is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday. For additional information, please call the headquarters at (814) 618-5591 or send an e-mail to director@ghogclub.com.

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irst English Lutheran Church in Punxsutawney will again sponsor a concert series for the benefit of the community.

Afternoons of instrumental music and concerts by choral groups make up the church’s 2013-14 concert year. All concerts are free to the public; the series demonstrates both the congregation’s dedication to quality music of a variety of styles and its commitment to bringing quality music to the community as an outreach of its ministry. A reception in the church’s fellowship hall, coordinated by Chef Martha Jo Rupert of IUP’s Culinary School, will follow every performance. An offering will be accepted to help cover costs related to each event.

On Sunday, December 15, at 2 p.m., the choirs from the Queen of the World Roman Catholic parish in St. Marys, Pa., will present a concert of sacred music for choir and organ, as well as some organ solo pieces. The group is under the direction of Steven Toney.

On Sunday, February 9, 2014, at 3 p.m. the Qualitas brass quintet will return for an afternoon of brass and organ music, featuring First English Lutheran’s pipe organ and Laurie Glover Spence, along with musicians from In-

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The series concludes with selected Allegheny College choral groups in concert, under the direction of Dr. James Niblock. Details of the final concert will be available at a later date. It is tentatively set for April 6, 2014.

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My patients who struggle with food and weight share the most intimate details of their lives with me. They reveal what it is like to be seriously misunderstood by so many.

On a recent plane trip, I observed an obese young woman struggling to get out of a window seat while annoyed fellow passengers waited. As she tried her best to hurry, the despair plain on her face, her movements caused her jeans to slip down a little and her top to ride up, exposing some of her body.

Despair turned to humiliation as she frantically tried to cover herself while also trying to get out of everyone’s way.

Once she made it to the gate, the young woman looked close to tears.

If she is at all like many of the patients I treat, her emotional struggles didn’t start or end that day. Living with obesity in a society that makes the wrong assumptions can be difficult and isolating.

A frequent false belief is that obese people don’t care about themselves and choose to eat too much when they could easily stop.

Closely related to this is the assumption that obese people are lazy.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Since these folks are usually thin or normal weight, those around them often assume nothing’s wrong. In fact, what they may see is a high-achiever, an attractive person who seems to have it all together. There may be no sign of the emotional pain within until thinness turns to emaciation, or binge and purge behaviors become too obvious to ignore.

Even once the disorder is discovered, emotional reality is disregarded by false assumptions. All an anorexic needs to do is eat a little more, many people believe. All a bulimic needs is a little self-control over bingeing and purging.

But patients who suffer from these conditions frequently are filled with anxiety and fear of losing control, not just over food, but over any number of frightening emotions they’ve tried to contain for most of their lives. They must deal with low selfesteem, self-rejection and criticism — even if they appear thin, beautiful and completely together.

This emotional turmoil has usually been going on for years before any problem is detected.

Jumping to conclusions about another person’s life is never smart. What is smart is learning to question our assumptions. If we look within, we’ll acknowledge that we all have issues and emotions we don’t share.

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(Dr. Lavinia Rodriguez is a Tampa, Fla., psychologist and expert in weight management. She is the author of “Mind Over Fat Matters: Conquering Psychological Barriers to Weight Management.” Send questions to her at drrod@fatmatters.com.)

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By Janet romaker toledo Blade

t retirement communities across the country, dozens of residents are celebrating the century mark and beyond.

What's going on here?

More people on the planet, more people living longer. Perhaps playing a role: medical advances. A push for staying active, mind and body. Campaigns that promote consumption of fresh, rather than processed, foods.

The centenarian trend is expected to increase dramatically as baby boomers come of age, leading some people to wonder whether 100 will be the new 50.

Not only are people living longer, many continue to work at the age of 80, 90, or even 100.

Centenarians today come from a generation that lived through the Great Depression, two World Wars, the Space Age, and into the Digital Age. These are people who are helping to redefine Old Age, and possibly could help erase such stereotypes of the crotchety, porch-sitting, chair-rocking old fogy who yells at the kids, "Keep off my grass!"

A baby boomer is a person born during post-World War II, between the years 1946 and 1964. In 2011, the first of that generation reached what used to be known as retirement age. And for the next 18 years, boomers will be turning 65 at a rate of about 8,000 a day.

The sheer number of boomers can help explain the trend of more people living longer, said Melanie Ayotte, administrative support with communications and government outreach for the Ohio Department of Aging. She said the department doesn't track the number of centenarians within the state, but said the 2010 census showed Ohio had nearly 1,900 residents who were at least 100 years old.

Matt Bucher, director of marketing at the Elizabeth Scott Community in Maumee, Ohio, said seven centenarians residing at the facility last year were the most ever at one time there.

He credits the longevity to the life and

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times of a hearty generation. "I think they ate better. A lot grew up on the farm.

They knew how to survive. That generation is inherently tough. I really believe they have the ability to handle adversity," he said, noting the importance of keeping the mind and body active.

From 1980 to 2010, the number of centenarians in the United States grew 66 percent, while the total population grew 36 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. As of the 2010 census, more than 53,000 Americans were 100 or older.

Based on estimates, by 2050, there will be more than 600,000 centenarians in America.

Supercentenarian status -- for those living to 110 -- is achieved by about one in 1,000 centenarians. Estimates put the number of supercentenarians in the world at a few hundred people out of more than seven billion people. There are only about 60 individual verified cases of living supercentenarians today.

This week, northwest Ohio will be one of the places on the planet with a supercentenarian in its population. Tiffin resident Audrey Lott, born Oct. 18, 1903, will celebrate her birthday this week, becoming a supercentenarian at the age of 110 on Friday.

Lott has a few years to go to earn accolades as the oldest person ever. Jeanne Louise Calment, who died in 1997, was a French supercentenarian who reportedly had the longest confirmed human lifespan in history, living to the age of 122 years.

Misao Okawa, born March 5, 1898, is a Japanese supercentenarian who, at the age of 115 years, is listed as the world's oldest living person today.

Jeralean Talley of Inkster, Mich., was born May 23, 1899, and at the age of 114 years, is reportedly the oldest living American and is the second-oldest living person in the world.

(Janet Romaker is a Toledo Blade writer. Reach her at jromaker@theblade.com.)

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By Lee Bowman Scripps Howard news Service ntil 2003, there was only the flu shot. A needle into the arm delivered vaccine, and a couple of weeks later your immune system was primed to fight off the top three strains of influenza likely to be floating around that winter and early spring.

But over the past several years, flu vaccine developers and manufacturers have been doing a lot of tinkering. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come up with at least seven different types of vaccine and/or delivery modes.

There are options for people who havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been able to get vaccinated because of egg allergy; for those who hate needles; for those who hate needles injected into muscle and for older people with balky immune systems who might need a stronger dose to gain protection; and new lines of vaccines that protect against an extra strain of flu virus.

In all, manufacturers have told the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention they expect to produce at least 135 million flu vaccine doses for distribution in the U.S. this season, with more than 73 million doses already delivered to doctorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; offices, clinics, pharmacies, hospitals and other outlets.

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The CDC and other public health advocates recommend flu vaccination for anyone 6 months or older (younger babies immune systems arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t geared up enough to get it). Last year, an estimated 56 percent of children and 42 percent of adults got flu vaccine. Children younger than 9 getting a flu shot the first time need two doses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have more types of vaccine available than ever before and there are one or more options that are right for everyone,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University and past president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, said at a Sept. 26 briefing sponsored by the foundation.

All flu vaccines will include strains of H1N1 and H3N2 and a strain of influenza B. The three-strain or â&#x20AC;&#x153;trivalentâ&#x20AC;? vaccine represents the bulk of vaccine stocks available this season. Some lines are made using virus grown in eggs and can be given to anyone 6 months and older; others are grown in cell culture and approved only for patients 18 and older.

The four-strain, or quadrivalent, vaccine is the big innovation for this year, protect-

ing against a second B-type influenza that mainly sickens young children. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s available as a shot and as a nasal spray, which is limited to use on healthy people ages 2 to 49.

Vaccination experts expect the four-strain dose will replace the three-strain version in all products within two to five years, but the CDC says it will make up less than a quarter of vaccine supplies this year.

Quadrivalent vaccines will cost a third to half more, according to some prices in government contracts and trade reports. For instance, one manufacturerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s price per dose to the CDC is $12.03 for the four-strain, $8.08 for the standard three-strain version.

Another threestrain version can be delivered with barely a tingle by an array of tiny, short microneedles into the skin, rather than by a single needle into muscle.

And for people sensitive to eggs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; roughly 1 percent of adults and 4 percent of children â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a new egg-free threestrain formula. The vaccine is cultured in caterpillar cells.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a high dose vaccine intended for people 65 and older, whose immune

systems are less responsive and who may need a bigger virus challenge for flu protection.

Although the four-strain vaccines clearly cover more ground, CDC officials say that all FDA-approved vaccines offer good protection and that no strong evidence suggests one type is superior. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are lots of open questions, and each year is different,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; said Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the CDCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.

Because individual immune systems differ and flu vaccines may not perfectly match the virus going around, no vaccine can guarantee you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get sick. But even if you do, the illness is likely to be shorter and milder than without a flu shot.

To find flu vaccines in your area, the CDC offers this locator link: www.flu.gov/stayconnected/vaccinelocator_2011.html.

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though their numbers were dwindling through death and aging, proud veterans of the Civil War, while the were able, marched in many parades as seen in this august 1909 photo taken during Punxsutawney’s week-long celebration of old Home Week.

the Civil War Continued from page 10 tations to speak about their war experiences. To connect Punxsutawney people to the war, some veterans shared their memories in stories published in local newspapers for the benefit of the public.

Reunions would be held, encampments would be held at nearby parks, memories would be written for family members to read. And the obituaries in local newspapers would point the reader to the service of these men when they were younger.

“Veteran of the Civil War,” it might say, or “An Old Veteran Mustered Out,” or “Last Civil War Veteran Dead,” or “Veteran of the Civil War an Ideal Soldier.”

And more detail about their service would be provided in the text of the obituaries.

James G. Mitchell, of Hamilton, once a Pennsylvania State Senator (1893-1900), served in the Civil War. His complete story, though, includes much more. When he was fourteen years of age, the war broke out and Mitchell was too young to enlist as a soldier and join with his youthful friends. But he was determined to go and enlisted as a drummer boy in Company A of the 105th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers.

He served until the war closed at Appomattox in 1865.

William R. Depp, a local carpenter from Perry Township, served in the Civil War as a musician in Co. 1, 62nd Regiment, and John Ready, a blacksmith, entered the war at age 23 as a drummer boy.

For H. Clay Campbell it would be learned that he was a lieutenant of Company B, 206th Regiment. When he was on a leave of absence from the war in August 1864, he married his childhood sweetheart and returned to the battlefront a week later.

We would learn that local physician Dr.

William Altman served as a surgeon in the war from 1863 to 1865 when the war ended.

About John Buchanan, a resident of Walston and buried in the Clayville Cemetery (West End), local folks learned he was captured by the Confederate Army in 1862 and imprisoned in the infamous Andersonville prison in Georgia.

For Thomas Anderson, of Big Run, and James Wachob, of Henderson Township, it would be written of each, “present at the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox.”

For Anderson it would also be written he “shot the last man in the Confederate Army who fell before the Army of the Potomac.”

For Andrew Ferry, of Punxsutawney, it was mentioned he was “one of the few survivors of Pickett’s famous charge at Gettysburg.” But the details revealed he was a Confederate soldier at the time and was one of three of his company to get through the Union lines, but captured afterward.

By the end of the nineteenth century many of these young men of the 1860s had become local heroes in the community and their stories legendary.

History books today in our educational systems cannot provide detailed information about the Civil War from the local point of view. What is available is usually the facts and stories about generals and colonels, battles and significant dates. The daily activities in the lives of the soldiers are omitted.

As more of the veterans of the Civil War passed on, and their ranks became thinner, their lives became memories. The personal letters saved by family members, the writings in personal journals, and the recollections of their experiences became more meaningful and more valuable to generations later.

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By pride hall that would serve both communities and for Hometown magazine for submitting an application for a post office. n January 1907, Dr. W.S. Blaisdell purThe boys at Smyerstown had constructed a chased the lower farm of H.F. McCullough sod-and-stone dam across the small creek that in Canoe Township, Indiana County. flowed down the valley to create a swimming Blaisdell, a former mine physician with the hole. When the Frances Mine opened, Charles Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Coal and Weber, the mine superintendent, found it conIron Company, was a partner with Henry venient to use the valley as a dumping place Yates of Buffalo, New York, in the Punxfor boney from the mine. He thought that sutawney Coal Mining Company, which boney was porous and that it would allow the owned the former Berwind-White Mines at water to seep through, thus offsetting any posAnita and Horatio. The McCullough farm was sibility of a break in the dam. located near the village of Smyerstown, deAbout 1919, The Punxsutawney Coal Minveloped around 1901 by Rossiter Mine working Company determined it was more efficient ers who preferred to own their own homes. to build a tunnel Blaisdell’s purthrough the hill chase was the to connect with key to accessing their leased Polrailroad translock mines than portation for to travel the coal on a large steep grade tract of land, loaround the hill cated east of to reach the Rossiter, owned mine entrance. by the PunxThe hole in the dam at Frances Mines after the water had With the tunnel, sutawney Coal broken through. the company Mining Comcould make betpany. ter use of the trestle across the valley. Rock, The company placed an advertisement in the boney, and slate taken from the mines were Punxsutawney Spirit in July 1907 seeking dumped under the trestle and eventually workers: “Wanted men and teams for trade— formed a railroad bridge across the valley to carpenters and helpers to build tipple. Good the tipple. The Frances Mine continued to opwages. Apply at Dr. Blaisdell’s New Mines, erate under the Punxsutawney Coal Mining Rossiter or D.J. Carson, Contractor, DuBois, Company until it was purchased in 1928 by Pa.” the A.L. Light Company.

The Punxsutawney Coal Mining Company When A.L. Light Company purchased the had cleared the land and was constructing the Frances Mine, the company also leased a tract necessary buildings, including a power house, of coal from Andy Pollock. In order to get to a wash house, a tipple, and miners’ houses. An the Pollock mine, the A.L. Light Company opening for the mine had been made near continued to use the trestle and boney dump Smyerstown. that had been built across the valley.

By August 1907, the mine, named Frances On March 17, 1936, heavy rains and meltin honor of Blaisdell’s daughter, was nearing ing snow brought torrents of water flowing operational status. Contractor J.D. Carson of down the hills into the Frances Mines Dam. DuBois was finishing the branch road conThe boney, which Mr. Weber thought was necting the Frances with the Buffalo, porous and would let the water seep through, Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad at Blaisdell’s was much more dangerous than anyone had Junction. The branch railroad crossed over the known. Boney piles were known to release Pennsylvania and Northwestern Railroad, gases into the air, and sometimes pockets of which served the Rossiter Mines. It was angas would ignite. The combination of pressure nounced that the Punxsutawney Coal Mining from the nearly forty-foot-deep pile of rock Company was expecting to ship coal by Ocand the chemical reaction with the water as the tober 1, or by October 15 at the latest. water level in the dam rose caused large pockThe close proximity of Frances to Smyerets of gas to accumulate within the boney pile. stown caused them to appear to be one town.

The deeper the dam’s water became, the more Both towns benefited from the Frances Com- Continued on page 28 pany Store, and plans were made for a town

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Third annual Tunes for Tots & Auction rocking into the Holiday Season Benefits local children at Christmas

By Christi payson for Hometown magazine he third annual Tunes for Tots & Auction again seeks your support to help make the holiday season a little merrier for those less fortunate in our local community. The event will be held on Nov. 23 at the Punxsutawney Eagles, starting at 6 p.m. and featuring seven acoustic bands and a silent auction until 10 p.m. The price of admission is $10 per person, age 21 and over, and includes sharing the season of giving with friends, good food, and great entertainment.

The order of the bands has not been confirmed, but musical participants will include Lounge Lizards, Six String Redemption, Backseat Romeo, Mike & DD Venturini, No Excuses, American Stew, and Dave & Clint.

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Unwrapped toy donations are appreciated and will be accepted at the door.

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The Tunes for Tots Committee is thankful for all the assistance in surpassing its goal and feels optimistic about doing as well this Christmas season.

The second annual Kick-Off Event was held Oct. 12 at the Punxsutawney Moose and featured three local bands—Riding Shotgun, American Stew, and Head On. Committee members would like to thank everyone who participated in the evening for the unbelievable generosity that made it a huge success.

Tunes for Tots received many toy donations, and the funds raised surpassed last year’s kickoff event total.

The committee is in the process of collecting items for the silent auction, along with food, toys and monetary donations to help support this great cause. The deadline for auction item donations will be Friday, Nov. 15. Please consider donating to support Tunes for Tots in its campaign to help those less fortunate during the holiday season. To make a donation or to ask questions about the event, please contact Christi Payson (814-939-3732), Bruce Walker (814-249-3300), or Denny Fetterman (814952-6936).

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This year’s presentations are scheduled for Dec. 13–15 and 20–22 at the First Church of God located at 23 Skyview Drive, on Rt. 36 North, in Punx’y. “Christmas is Coming, Sing for Joy!”—created by Gary Rhodes and Deborah Craig-Claar—is packed full of inspiring new songs and some of the world’s most beloved carols. Combined with exciting lighting and media throughout, the presentation will be both memorable and enjoyable.

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What’s the best dog breed for hunting?

By doug Smith Minneapolis Star tribune hich dog is best for hunting?

That's easy. Yours. Here's a sampling: German shorthairs: do-everything dogs Bob St. Pierre grew up with Brittanys, his wife with Labrador retrievers. So when it came time to get their own hunting dog, a compromise was needed.

"We got a German shorthair. As it turned out, I have the best of both worlds," said St. Pierre, 39, of Hugo, Minn., who hunts pheasant, ruffed grouse and ducks.

"I know you can hunt grouse without a pointer, but it makes life so much easier with one," he said. German shorthairs are considered one of the "versatile" breeds. "They point and retrieve," he said.

Even with the dog's short coat, St. Pierre hunts late-season pheasants.

"You don't want to break ice with them, but I absolutely hunt pheasants in the snow with them. They make very good pheasant dogs."

And good pets.

"They definitely are good around the house; they are lovers, very affectionate. You just have to make sure you get exercise for them."

Springer spaniels: versatile, friendly John Smith, 53, of Eden Prairie, Minn., was raised in the Detroit area. He was introduced to pheasant hunting by his father-in-

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So he got a springer spaniel. "My Lab friends joked that I only got half a dog and I should take it back," he said -- until they saw his springer flush and retrieve pheasants.

"It's versatile -- I can hunt anything, pheasants, ruffed grouse, ducks, even geese. They have great noses and retrieve. I personally feel the springer is, if not the best, one of the best pheasant dogs out there."

His springers love to swim and will gladly retrieve a rooster or duck dropped in water.

But Smith also wanted a good family pet, and said springers fit the bill. "They work hard in the field, but the switch goes off in the house, and they are a nice family pet," he said.

Labrador retriever: tough to beat "I've been a Lab guy my whole life," said Fritz Basgen, 62, of Minnetonka, Minn.

Poppy, a 5-year-old yellow Lab, is his latest.

Why Labs?

"It's a combination of intelligence and personality," he said. "They are good companions in the house, and are terrific hunting partners. They have stamina, brains and good noses."

Basgen hunts mostly ducks and pheasants, and just returned from duck hunting in North Dakota.

"I haven't had that much fun duck hunting since I was a kid," he said. "Poppy made a - Continued on page 26

Transplant trees, shrubs in fall for best results

By Joe Lamp’l dition, soil temperatures are still warm, creScripps Howard news Service ating an excellent environment for new root growth. hen is the best time to plant or Perhaps the greatest benefit to fall transtransplant trees and shrubs? Alplanting is that many plants and trees are enthough these can be planted any tering a period of dormancy. Energy time the ground isn't frozen, the normally required to sustain existing foliage absolute best time is fall. The cool air and and produce more can instead go into root warm soil temperatures are the perfect comdevelopment and storing nutrients and rebination for establishing roots in a new ensources during the cool months. By the vironment. spring, when demand for new growth above Imagine for a moment that you are a plant ground starts again, the root system should or tree being relocated. Most of your roots be well estabwere severed when lished so the you were dug up, plant can handle and now you have the upcoming to find a way to demands of sumprovide water and mer. nutrients to all your Here are a few parts, even though additional tips to you've lost most of ensure the sucwhat you need to cess of all your make that happen. fall transplants.

Now imagine it's -- When transsummer. The sun is planting, adbeating down on vance work can your leaves, there's no rain in sight, yet The best time to plant or transplant trees and shrubs is make the difference between the normal envi- the fall. (SHNS photo by Joe Lamp'l) those trees and shrubs just surviving and ronmental conditions call for you to grow, thriving. Make the planting hole two to three grow, grow. It's like being told to run a times wider than the current root ball, but no marathon in July while you're battling a terdeeper than the plant was growing in its prerible flu. vious environment.

But what if you were provided cool temIf you're planting a container-grown plant, peratures, just the right hydration and all the don't assume that the soil level in the connutrients to endure the 26-mile race? Your tainer indicates the proper depth for plantchances would be much better, right? ing. Many times growers add more soil to The cooler air is kind to plants and trees, the container, ultimately putting too much especially those that have just lost a major portion of their roots during digging. In ad- Continued on next page

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best dog breed Continued from page 24 blind water retrieve that was thrilling to watch.

"Having a good dog makes it so much fun."

English cocker spaniel: a pocket rocket Anthony Hauk, 31, of Roseville, Minn., had German shorthairs growing up. When he was ready for his own hunting dog, he researched the various breeds.

"I wanted a close-working dog," he said.

He and his girlfriend encountered English cocker spaniels, and immediately fell in love with them.

"I knew right away that's what I wanted," Hauk said. His cocker, Sprig, weighs in at just 20 pounds. But don't let the size fool you, Hauk says.

"Their nickname is 'pocket rockets,' and that's a pretty apt description. When they get on a bird, they hit the rocket-booster button.

I love seeing the speed. That does it for me."

"Naysayers said she wouldn't have the stamina and wouldn't bust through tough cover, but she works just as good as a Lab. She burrows underneath.

"It's a cliche, but size doesn't matter. It's about heart and drive."

English setter: elegance afield Decades ago, when Rick Peifer, 64, of Wyoming, Minn., saw a friend working his English setters on ruffed grouse, Peifer was awestruck.

"The guy didn't whistle or yell at his dogs all the time," he said. "When I saw how effective the dogs were, the level of confidence he had and how well the dogs handled the birds, I was smitten."

That was more than 30 years ago, and he has hunted with them ever since.

"I just love them," Peifer said.

"They cover a lot of ground, so their chances of finding birds are greater, particularly when pheasant and grouse numbers are low.

"They don't like water; they aren't duck dogs. But all my dogs have been great retrievers," he said.

While Peifer is smitten with English setters, he acknowledges that no single breed appeals to all hunters.

"Anyone who has a dog, whatever the breed, can have fun pursuing birds," he said, "and have great success at it."

(Contact Doug Smith at doug.smith@startribune.com.)

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Transplant trees

Continued from previous page above the root level. At planting time, scratch away the soil to find where the roots really start. That's the proper level for planting in the ground.

It is better to plant a tree or shrub slightly high and allow the area to drain than for a plant or tree to sit in a bowl and collect excess water. Newly disturbed soil has a tendency to settle and plants growing below grade can easily succumb to root rot or disease.

-- When backfilling, return the existing soil to the planting hole around the roots, without amending the soil. The latest research indicates that roots growing in amended soil rarely venture into the harder native soil. For best long-term establishment, don't spoil your roots. Instead, break up the existing soil, remove the rocks and backfill.

-- A critical step at this stage is to water well. Not only does it provide needed moisture but also the water helps eliminate air pockets that could otherwise result in dead roots.

The final step is to mulch with three to four inches of organic matter, such as shredded leaves, ground bark or straw. Mulch helps soil retain its moisture and moderate its temperature. Winter can bring dry conditions, so water if needed. Roots are still growing and soil moisture is essential.

(Joe Lamp'l, host of PBS' "Growing a Greener World," is a Master Gardener and author. Visit www.joegardener.com. Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.shns.com.)

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By Matt Markey toledo Blade hen hunters harvested a rare white moose in eastern Canada recently, they illustrated that something can be legal but at the same time it can be wrong.

They did not break the wildlife laws of Nova Scotia, but they did violate an important hunting doctrine. Through ignorance, they showed a lack of respect for the local culture, in this case the indigenous Mi'kmaq people.

According to their history, the Mi'kmaq have been hunting and fishing in that part of North America for thousands of years. They trace their earliest settlements in the area as far back as shortly after the glaciers retreated across the land.

The Mi'kmaq have harvested countless moose over the centuries, but they do not believe in killing a white moose, since in their culture these extremely rare animals represent a spiritual connection with the tribe's past.

Danny Paul, a hunter and a member of the Mi'kmaq nation, told the CBC that killing an animal viewed as sacred is believed to bring about bad luck or misfortune.

"We are not to harm them in any way, shape or form, because they could be one of our ancestors coming to remind us of something significant that's going to happen within our communities," Paul said. "...

We've been teaching that to the non-native population for almost 500 years -- about the importance that this and other white animals played in our lives."

The Mi'kmaq had reportedly seen the white moose numerous times in the Cape Breton Highlands region in the extreme northeastern portion of Nova Scotia. The three hunters who harvested the moose in the Belle Cote mountain range are from Nova Scotia, but were unaware of the tribal custom.

"There was a lot of anger, frustration, confusion and bitterness over the lack of understanding of our culture," Mi'kmaq chief Bob Gloade told media outlets in Canada.

It escalated when the hunters took the white moose to a taxidermist in a nearby town, and someone snapped photos of the rare animal and posted them online. Facebook and Twitter lit up with comments scolding the hunting party for its lack of awareness and sensitivity to aboriginal culture.

Hnatiuk's Hunting & Fishing Ltd. in the Nova Scotia hamlet of Lantz posted the photos, but shop owner Jim Hnatiuk said the hunters hadn't been aware of its importance in the Mi'kmaq culture.

"They said that had they known the significance of this, they wouldn't have shot the moose," Hnatiuk told the AFP news service. "... Everyone is a lot more knowledgeable now, and the hunters want to make amends."

The hunters apologized to the Mi'kmaq people and donated the "spirit" moose's hide

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Emmett Peters, a Mi'kmaq elder, will begin the lengthy four-day ceremony at a sweat lodge. The hunters who killed the moose have been asked to attend.

Moose are generally brown. This white moose could either be an albino, a partial albino, or just possess a genetic trait for a rare white-color phase. The hunting of white moose is restricted in neighboring Newfoundland and Labrador, but not in Cape Breton, the only region of Nova Scotia open to moose hunting.

(Contact Matt Markey at mmarkey@theblade.com. Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.shns.com.)

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The people of the area were curious and went to watch the water rise. Because of the potential danger with the rise of the water, school was dismissed early. In the afternoon, a number of children and adults watched as the water began to trickle slowly over the top of the dam. Fortunately, they had gone home to dinner when the gases building up inside the boney pile ignited, and the dam exploded, throwing large boulders fifty feet and other debris as high as two hundred feet in the air. The water rushed through the dam and down the valley of Canoe Creek, carrying houses and debris before it. The water tumbled into the Mahoning and joined the waters that were in-

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undating Punxsutawney and other low-lying western Pennsylvania that can only be found towns along the creek. The flooding from the on old maps and in pictures from the past. breach of the Frances Mine Dam was a (Editor’s Note: The resources used in the smaller version of that which occurred on that preparation of this article are available at the same day in Johnstown.

Punxsutawney Memorial Library and the Four people in one family—Mr. and Mrs. Punxsutawney Area Historical and GeRussell Saye and their two daughters, ages nealogical Society. Photographs are from the eight and six—lost Punxsutawney Area their lives, and others Historical & Gelost homes and propnealogical Society erty. and “Rossiter, A grand jury inquest Pennsylvania: Her was held, and recomPeople Past and mendations were Present Embracing made that the district A History of the attorney and the state Town of Rossiter, mine inspector invesPennsylvania,” tigate the bursting of compiled and Edthe dam. When the in- A boney pile also known as a rock dump. Notice ited by Frank J. vestigation was com- the smoke from burning gases. The pile is huge Basile. This article plete, the state mine as indicated by the vehicle at the top right and has been prepared the man standing beside it. inspector concluded

by PRIDE—Punxthat rain and fate had sutawney Revitalcaused the disaster and ization: Investing, that A.L. Light, the last Developing, Enmine operator, was not hancing. PRIDE is to blame. In his decia nonprofit organision, Mr. Lewis stated zation that brings that the formation of together residents, the dam started twenty business people, years before the A.L. community leadLight Company had ers, and civic orbought the mine. ganizations to The dam was not reimprove the busibuilt. A.L. Light Com- Debris left in front of the coal cars after the wa- ness districts in pany donated six acres ters from the flood of March 17, 1936 receded. The Punxsutawney. of land where the loaded coal cars helped to control the rush of the PRIDE is working breast of the dam was water. to develop a coal located to the Rossiter American Legion for a memorial and a welcome center for the Punxpark. When the A.L. Light Company ceased to sutawney area. Comments on this article may operate Frances Mines in 1950, it had the be sent to PRIDE, P.O. Box 298, Punxbuildings torn down and the lumber sold. sutawney, PA 15767.)

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Community Center Continued from page 8 called, “The Fashion Show,” a show that turned out to be one of the best fundraisers for the little school and its community. A bunch of the neighborhood dads participated and dressed up in women’s clothes for the event. My father, in particular, donned a sailor girl’s uniform, complete with stockings and a little military cap.

Then, the pranksters paraded on the community center’s “catwalk”—a rundown little stage by the old slate chalkboard that sat in the front of the school room. The men batted their eyelashes, crossed their hairy legs, preened their shabby wigs, and strutted (well, tried to walk in high-heeled shoes) in front of the local onlookers. Talking in falsetto voices, each guy tried to be funnier than the first; the whole neighborhood was in stitches! I’m not sure who had more fun—the the actors or the audience!

It’s funny how something as simple as a community covered-dish dinner or a corn roast could bring so much pleasure and so many memories. I can picture the friendly neighbors shaking hands while they shared some ordinary food in that little school room. I still remember my dad on the school stage dressed like a Santa Claus in his red outfit; his big smile and blue eyes gave his identity away; my mom is centerstage, clad in her funny Halloween outfit. The laughter and singing and happy voices still stick in my head. And, even now, I can close my eyes and picture my buddies and me sitting near our bikes in the field near the shaded side of the empty school, chomping away on a brownbag lunch, watching our world drift by. Here’s to those humble times where neighbors met and enjoyed each other’s company—all thanks to a little old schoolhouse: our community center.

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prentice or Deck Hand during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The ship’s job was to keep the borders safe and to fuel ships so they didn’t have to return to port.

Richard Mertz (Navy) served from July 1955 until March 1966, an eleven-year stint. His job was in communications, spending the first four years in England aboard the USS Frigate Bird, patrolling off the Cuban shores during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He knew how to do Morse code. He was very happy about meeting President Eisenhower while in England right after World War II. In 1963, he was sent to Adak, Alaska.

eterans Day is the official United States holiday that honors those who have served in the armed services. This holiday is not to be confused with Memorial Day, a holiday that honors those who have died in service to their country. Veterans Day, also known as Armistice Day and Remembrance Day, officially became known as Veterans Day in 1954. There is quite a history in the name—one nearly, but not quite, as interesting as our veterans themselves.

Each of our eight centers is rich in having veterans in their memberships! It was my pleasure to take time to talk to each of them, to take a few photos, and to attempt to convey everything they said to me—a nearly impossible task.

There is so much for them to tell. I urge you to sit down with any veterans you know and get them talking. They have so much to share. Some is heartbreaking, while some is downright hilarious. In what follows, Two Lick Valley veterans Don Donahey, Gene Rummel, and Edward you will find shortened Salsgiver. stories and photos from Paul Shaffer (Army) served for two two of our centers-the Mahoning Hills and years and was an amphibian driver. When Two Lick Valley Social Centers, and their he was sent to Korea, he was a quarterveterans. master in an area, where they had 12,000 Mahoning Hills Center troops. He remembers very vividly survivPete Fye (Army) served in the Special ing two Korean winters, sleeping in a tent!

Services with the 501st Ammunition RenHe disliked the smell of “Kimochea,” a ovation Platoon. He started in Germany, fermented cabbage with spices in it, which but later found himself in Captieux, the Korean culture ate. He, also, has a hard France. His job was rather important— time eating rice to this day. He said he ate keeping ammunition in good working enough of it when he was in the Army! order. He did this for about a month, beClarence Spotts (Army) served in the fore being assigned to the motor pool, 110th Infantry 28th Division. Interestingly, where he drove trucks, and, finally, servhe started off in the National Guard, but ing as an engineer in the parts room. when the guard became federalized, he bePaul Hicks (Navy) served for three years, came an Army man! He was in boot camp ten months, and one day. He tried to enlist in Indianapolis, Indiana, and remembers right out of high school, but he wasn’t sure on Thanksgiving Day in 1950, they had a they were going to accept him due to a three-foot snowfall! He spent a year in childhood injury to his arm/elbow that Ulm, Germany, and worked as a truck caused doctors some concern. Once the driver. He spoke fondly of the truck they Army doctor examined him, he was apgave him to drive that only had two workproved for service. He served on board the USS Truckee (AO-147) as a Seaman Ap- Continued on page 32

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Continued from page 16 writings and the published memoirs of that generation of veterans who were inspired by the words of President Lincoln in his three-minute Gettysburg speech: “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.”

In a small journal of A. B. Miller, a justice of peace in Punxsutawney in the 1860s, were these thoughts written on May 21, 1862, about the war: “While in my office alone, by myself, thinking over the conduct of the present unhappy condition of our beloved country, knowing that a kind Providence has ever smiled on us and made us a great and powerful nation, knowing the cause of the present damnabel [sic] secession, I have come to the firm conclusion that we never will be brought back to our once prosperous condition until their [sic] is some effort to eradicate entirely the evils of slavery, and to get rid of the evils we must first move the cause and this must be did [sic].”

The soldiers’ points of view of the battles, expressed to those left back at the “homefront” would be found in letters saved by family members, as this written by I. H. Wilson in June 1862: “We have been in a fight for two days and our regt. has suffered severely. I have so far escaped all harm, tho the balls and infernal shells flew like hail.

Our Co. has had several wounded, but, strange to tell, none killed. ... I seen the 62nd Rgt. this morning. They are badly cut up. I seen Jim, Tim McKee, young Jordan, Bill Torrence, Ed. Little, a young Smyers and others all safe ... Will write again, if any movement takes place, and I am spared. My love to all of you. Affectionately yours, I. H. Wilson.”

The national commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War is in its third year and more discoveries and revelations are revealed by historical societies, the Punxsutawney Area Historical & Genealogical Society included, as they search their collections and artifacts relating to the war called by different names—The War Between the States, The War of the Rebellion, or generally known as The Civil War. An exhibit titled “The Human Side of the Civil War” opened in September 2013 in Gallery 4 of the Highlands’ Invitational Galleries in the Lattimer House. A team of society volunteers has assembled another exhibit to offer a local commemoration to the anniversary of the Civil War. Letters from soldiers and original writings by local soldiers and memoirs are featured. Copies of original documents in its collection from the 105th Regiment, PA Volunteers are available for review, and many artifacts of the society’s collection, and others, on loan, are exhibited.

One copy among the many documents of the 105th is a letter from Col. A. A. McKnight, commander of the Regiment. It was written a few months before the battle of Gettysburg in 1863 as a special order to his staff. Expressed is his personal sentiment in the relationship of men and boys who fought in the Civil War: “The attention of Officers & non Commission Officers is particularly called to the unsoldierlike epithet of ‘Boys’ which is commonly used in speaking to men under their charge. This error must be immediately corrected, it is

undignified in the Officer using the term and a gross injustice & libel upon the men.

The deeds of this Regiment are second to none now in the United States service and those who have participated in the numerous battles & skirmishes in which it has been engaged have nobly earned for themselves the title of ‘Men’ & they must in the future be addressed as Men.” The last of Punxsutawney’s group of Civil War veterans passed away in the 1920s. But the letters, the writings stored away, the generations of memories remaining as family legends today are still cherished with the many battle artifacts.

We learn from history, it is often said. And the display and exhibit at the Lattimer House of the Historical Society on West Mahoning Street will provide the viewer a new and different insight into what is written in history books as the American Civil War. •••

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Ray Spencer (Navy) served while WWII was going on, went to Okinawa and worked constructing huts and other things.

He served for eighteen months, the first time around. When he returned home, the economy was so bad, he enlisted in the Army and later joined the National Guard.

He came out as Warrant Officer 2nd Class with a total time spent in service of thirtyeight years.

Clair Schrock (Army) served in the 84th Infantry Division, Company A and was about twenty-three years old. He saw Germany, Paris, Holland, and Berlin and was in the Battle of the Bulge. He served as an assistant squad leader and buck sergeant.

He recalled many vivid, horrific details of war, noting that he did see a lot of action, but said he was one of the lucky one, and he knows that!

Two Lick valley Center Ed Salsgiver (Air Force) served for four years at the very end of the Korean War. He recalls he was about seventeen years of age at the time he began his service.

Gen Rummel (Air Force & Navy) served for twenty years as chief petty officer. During the Vietnam War he was part of the Occupational Forces, repaired airplanes and guarded the perimeter. He, too, recalls being about seventeen years of age when he went into the service.

Don Donahey (Army) served several stints in the army. The first one being when he was drafted, and he served about two years. Then he was out for a few years, then, because of a poor economy, went back in for another eighteen years. He served in the military police. Don told me he did two tours in Korea, one in Germany, and one in Vietnam.

It was a real joy talking with each of these men, and hearing their stories, whether sad, thought provoking, or hilariously funny! One thing I heard as I spoke to all of these gentlemen was they were young men who proudly defended their country and did it without a second thought even though they had to be scared to death at times! If not for them, this country would not be here today! Their patriotism shines through loud and clear. Freedom is not free, and they all knew that then—and know it today!

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october 19, 1907 — The megaphone is a new instrument now in common use in all sports and in public gatherings where the services of an announcer are required to inform the public what is about to happen, what has happened or may be expected to happen. It is simply, however, an enlargement of the speaking trumpet. A megaphone for use at sea, was invented by Sir Samuel Moreland over three centuries ago. (Punxsutawney Spirit) october 21, 1885 — An individual passing our office and examining the iron work of our sign, said it was a fine job.

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The location is a good one, and as the new depot is there and it is the intention of the company to erect large repair shops in that locality, it will no doubt soon become a populous portion of the town. (Punxsutawney Spirit) [Note: What is referred to as the “east side of the creek” is now the East End section of Punxsutawney.] october 29, 1902 — The Snyder Bros. and Grube buildings which occupy the space between J. B. Eberhart & Co.’s new store and the Torrence block on Main street, are gradually nearing completion.

When finished the block occupied by these buildings will present a most substantial appearance, and will mark the beginning of a new era in architecture in Punxsutawney. (Punxsutawney Spirit) [Note: The Snyder Bros. building referred to is what some readers know as the old McCrory 5 & 10 building on West Mahoning Street, now the Crimson Village Student rental units.]

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Mon., Thur. & Fri. 10-8; Tues., Wed. & Sat. 10-5

$17.69/mo. $24.16/mo.

FALLS Creek

Exit 97 I-80 (Behind Sheetz) 1 mi. North of DuBois

814-371-5920 Monday-Saturday 10-8

* No Interest with an Equal Number of Payments: During the 48 Month promotional offer period the minimum monthly payment is calculated by dividing the Purchase amount by the length of the promotional offer period. Interest will not accrue during promotional offer period. After the promotional offer period expires, interest will be charged at the APR for Purchases, on any remaining balance until paid in full. Promotional Transactional Fee: A Promotional Fee of $169.99 will be added to your account for this transaction. (Plan Type 5) $25 Minimum Mo. Payment. Sales tax must be paid for at time of sale.

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