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By Jennifer Skarbek Smith for Hometown magazine hile most youngsters see summer break as an escape from books and bells, from homework and early bed times, and a return to the land of sleeping late, conquering challenging video games, and hanging with friends, sisters Kaitlyn and Taylor Bair use the recess from school to diligently work to ensure that their lambs are “Market Ready” for their grand debut at the culminating event of their summer, the ultimate measure of their efforts: the Dayton Fair. Kaitlyn, 10, and Taylor, 7, are members of the 4-H Dayton Livestock Organization in Armstrong County, a chapter of the national youth organization that fosters youth development through hands-on learning opportunities in science, food security, and healthy living. Although the girls and their parents, Justin and Lacy Bair, live in a residential area of Punxsutawney not quite suitable for raising animals, the girls have had much exposure to farm life through spending time with their paternal relatives Rod and Tammy McDivitt. The McDivitts own a farm in Porter where they raise livestock. In fact, Justin grew up around this rural lifestyle and is very familiar with its intricacies. In addition, Lacy commented that Kaitlyn has always had a special place in her heart for animals, one time rescuing a stray dog that had wondered to their door. Thus, two years ago, when Justin asked Kaitlyn if she might be interested in participating in 4-H and learning about animals, she immediately replied, “Yes!” Because the sisters were under the age of eight when they initially joined the livestock club, they were placed in the younger division, the Cloverbuds. This group of five- to eight-year-olds is permitted to attend meetings and encouraged to learn about the basics of 4-H through many activities; however, these children are too young to formally enter competitions with their animals. This introductory phase gave Kaitlyn and Taylor the chance to get acquainted with the organization, its vision and its members, solidifying their decision to care for animals of their

The Suffolk Cross Lamb breed is easily recognized by its full-black face and legs and white body. Photo by Courtney Katherine Photography.

own. Justin and Lacy said that they had to make a family choice on the type of livestock the girls would raise, keeping in mind that smaller species are easier to handle than ones that can weigh over 1,000 pounds. Justin said, “Lambs are what we went for,” adding that since his daughters had gotten to know and love the species on the McDivitts’ farm, this would be an allaround great pick.

For their first project, the Bairs bought their daughters three Suffolk Cross lambs: two males and one female. This breed is a mutton-type of sheep distinguished by a medium coat of wool with black legs and faces. Purchased from breeders in a neighboring county during early spring, the lambs were only fifty pounds each when the girls met them, the size of a medium dog breed. The Bairs got the trio of lambs settled in at their relatives’ barn - Continued on page 4

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By S. Thomas Curry new $2,000 combination fountain bar and of Hometown magazine refrigerator was described as “containing ritten history reveals that the inthe syrups, eighteen kinds, and fitted up troduction of carbonated drinks with automatic meter spigots, so that every in the late 1800s was by pharglass of the mixture made from it will conmacists, most notably the poputain exactly the same amount of syrup. The lar brands of Hires Root Beer in 1876, Dr. bar is topped off with a compound nickelPepper in 1885, Coca-Cola in 1886 and plated fizz dispenser.” Pepsi-Cola in 1898. However, for a more convenient system Some of these early “sodas” were proof meeting the needs of people in the moted as health drinks that could increase “vim and vigor” and banish “fatigue, depression, headaches” and other human ailments. On some early glass bottles of Dr. Pepper the drinkers were urged to complex of buildings on Mulberry Avenue remains from the have a drink at “10, 2 The Fleckenstein family’s venture into bottling and distributing soft and 4 to prevent energy drinks in the Punxsutawney area – a venture that began with B. J. slumps” (americanpro- and Edward Fleckenstein in 1903. In the 1940s the firm was organized as the Fleck’s Beverage Company. (Photo by S. Thomas Curry.) file.com). Many popular and tasty flavors were produced from flavoring Punxsutawney neighborhoods and the suroils, extracts, and syrups. The Syrup of rounding communities, a number of PunxSarsaparilla would eventually move from sutawney “drink entrepreneurs” began its formal pharmaceutical title to a simpler bottling a variety of drinks in what were “root beer.” typically named “bottling works,” and then For the convenience of the people who distributed the bottles. desired the refreshing, flavored drinks, in In the first decade of the early 1900s, area the early 1900s, soda fountains became bottling works included ones operated by popular. In May 1907 a Punxsutawney the brothers Bartholomew and Edward Spirit news item reported the installation Fleckenstein, Harry J. Lattimer’s soft of a new soda fountain bar in D. Raffetto’s drinks at the Lattimer Bottling Works, and store in downtown Punxsutawney. The - Continued on page 12

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Continued from page 2 and addressed the first important issue: bonding. Kaitlyn said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Bucket Time,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? explaining that she and her sister sit on upside-down buckets with the new lambs for a few hours every night for a week until they gain the animalsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; trust. After this connection has taken place, the lambs are ready to be haltered and walked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to exercise them so they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get fat,â&#x20AC;? Kaitlyn said. Kaitlyn and Justin explained that the feeding and exercise schedule of the lambs is very crucial to the rate at which the animals grow. They must be at an ideal weight of 120 to 150 pounds by the date of the show. If not timed exactly right, the lambs will gain too much, too fast. Therefore, feed amount is constantly regulated, with an emphasis on muscle building in July and aiming to be â&#x20AC;&#x153;finishedâ&#x20AC;? by August. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We bought a scale last year,â&#x20AC;? Justin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sunday night is weight night for the lambs and then Dairy Queen for the family.â&#x20AC;? This tight regimen pays off when the animals are judged at the fair. According to Kaitlyn, who has recently joined a judging team, the lambs are assessed on the following three criteria: rib fat, muscle, and structure. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good structure is the most important,â&#x20AC;? she said.

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By PRIDE for Hometown magazine hotography was relatively new when the coal industry began in the area. Most of the early pictures taken were images of people. Photographers learned their trade as apprentices to experienced photographers until they had learned their craft and earned sufficient money to purchase their own equipment. By the time the railroads arrived and coal mines were opened, a fairly substantial core of photographers had developed in the Punxsutawney area. As photography matured, photographers expanded their subject matter. Photographers became the visual chroniclers of the coal industry in the Punxsutawney area.

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In 1886, photographer John Frampton traveled about the area taking pictures of buildings and grounds, providing historical documentation of the homes in the area at that time. An August 4 item in the Punxsutawney Spirit states that “Photographs of buildings are just as desirable and interesting as photographs of faces and we wonder that more of them are not taken.” D. A. Lowe, a native of Smicksburg, learned the photographer’s trade while working as a newspaper editor in Dayton. He was described as a first-class artist and genius. One evening in May 1887 he took a picture of W.O. Smith, editor of the Punxsutawney Spirit. The picture was touted as being the first picture ever taken after nightfall in Punxsutawney, and possibly in the county.

In 1888, Lowe relocated to Punxsutawney to devote his time full time to photography. He became one of the leading photographers of the developments in the coal industry in the vicinity of Punxsutawney. He first partnered with another photographer, I. Grotzinger, and opened a studio opposite the National Hotel on Gilpin Street. Lowe was hired to take photographs of the Adrian Mines. An item in the Punxsutawney News on April 24, 1889, recorded one of Lowe’s visits to Adrian Mines: “D. A. Lowe took some good views of the Adrian mines last week. He also took a good view of the hospital at that place.” Lowe promoted his photographs of the mines. The Punxsutawney News of September 24, 1890, reported that “Lowe, the pho-

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Bottling Works

Continued from page 3 the Crown Bottling Works of Martin Barran and John Kendra (Martin's wife's brother-in-law). In addition, the Anita Bottling Works was operated by J. W. Radaker in nearby Anita. Fleck’s Beverage Company The publication for the Punxsutawney centennial in 1949, 100 Years of Progress, makes note that the Fleck’s Beverage Company was possibly the oldest bottling works “in this section of the state.” That statement was primarily based on the knowledge that in 1899 Thomas Fleckenstein had bought the older J. & W. Shields Bottlers that began operation in Punxsutawney in 1891. Operating the Washington Hotel, in 1903 Thomas Fleckenstein sold the bottling works to B. J. and Edward Fleckenstein who ran the business for years as Fleckenstein Brothers Bottling Works. About 1920 Bartholomew (B.J.) bought out his brother Edward and operated under the name of Cherry Blossom Bottling Works, naming it for the Cherry Blossom Soda franchise they had. According to family members, by 1935 “Bart” Fleckenstein was unable to keep up with the “new things going on in the soft drink business.” Reportedly, he refused the use of larger bottles that had been introduced into the business. Tiring of the business, he turned the firm over to his sons, John and Justin.

John, the older son, was nineteen when he took it over. Justin worked from when he graduated from high school in 1939 until he went to serve in World War II in 1942. During the war, sugar – a main ingredient for soda syrups – was rationed, which created a hardship for all the bottling companies. John managed and operated the business alone until the war ended in 1945, and Justin returned to the family venture on Mulberry Avenue in Punxsutawney. Joining the family business, too, after World War II, was brother Francis, who became the third member of the Fleck’s Beverage Company. In addition to the hardships caused by the war, an earlier setback was the March 1936 flood that submerged nearly all the lowlands of the town. In 1939 the company began bottling and distributing the popular soft drinks of Squirt and Ma’s Root Beer. In the 1940s, the bottling firm was organized as the Fleck’s Beverage Company. Upon John’s retirement, for health reasons, in 1973, Justin and his wife, Ruth, and sons, Pat and Jim, partnered to continue the family bottling business. In September 1980, with the bottling and selling of soft drinks from the local plant facing increased competition from large national companies, Fleck’s Beverage Company discontinued its bottling operation, thus ending an era. The business began in the early 1900s. Serving a business radius of fifteen miles – deliveries were by horses and a wagon – the company served many mom-and-pop stores, hotels, and bars in villages and min- Continued on page 16

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Continued from page 12 ing towns. The businessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first delivery truck was purchased in 1910 in order to better serve Punxsutawney businesses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fleckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;? was considered the last active bottler of soft drinks in Jefferson County. The company would then become a distributor of soft drinks in cans and bottles, ranging from the popular seven-ounce size to the larger two-liter size. The company expanded its offerings to include beer and snack foods such as potato chips and beef jerky. The companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s buildings on Mulberry Avenue remain part of the Punxsutawney landscape. If they could talk, they would tell many stories of the bottling business from â&#x20AC;&#x153;first to last.â&#x20AC;?

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Near those buildings is the residence of soft drinks on West Mahoning Street, According to family histories, John Patrick Fleckenstein, now a retired Pru- across from what is now the Punxsutawney Kendraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first wife was Susan Kuklo. Mardential Insurance agent, who shared mem- Plaza. tin Barran had married Catherine Kukla ories of his grandfather B. J. Fleckenstein. John had turned ninety-five on his birthand set up housekeeping on a hill in WalHe described him as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;typical German day in December 1977 with a standing in ston in 1900. After a few years of life in gentâ&#x20AC;? who came up from Butler County the community as Punxsutawneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oldest Rossiter, the Martin Barrans moved to and got a job at a Westinghouse plant near active businessman. Punxsutawney, living on Pine Street for Pittsburgh for a more promising future. John Kendra came to the Punxsutawney nine years. With only a fourth-grade education and area from Austria in 1900 to work in the Through the relationship of the wives, a â&#x20AC;&#x153;decentâ&#x20AC;? English,â&#x20AC;? he told you what he mines at Walston. He began in the mines friendship grew between Barran and thought, Pat recalled. Kendra. While still miners, they And Pat has many memories formed a partnership to start the of his own labors in the busiCrown Bottling Works in 1911. ness that began when he was With two other backers, the soft sixteen years old and still in drink company began business high school in the 1960s. on South Chestnut Street before When he went to college, he moving to West Mahoning worked summer vacations and Street. holidays at the business. As miners, the partners at first His first job was to deliver worked part time at their new products to the local town business venture. Family writroute. When one of the drivers ings reveal that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Martin made on an out-of-town route had two dollars a day and John made quit, Pat took over the route three.â&#x20AC;? Those early years were that went through Rossiter, also a period of depressed econJohnsonburg, and Glen Campomy caused by World War I. At bell, on to Cherry Tree and that time, too, sugar was raBurnside. When he began tioned, creating a lack of supply making deliveries for the fam- In the early 1920s, John Kendra continued the operation as sole owner and for the ambitious men. The conily business, a twenty-four-bot- operated the bottling company as the Jefferson Bottling Works, using the ditions of that time lead to the tle case of seven-ounce bottles groundhog image as his identity as a Punxsutawney business. (Photo by S. merger of the Crown Bottling sold for $1.10 and a case of Thomas Curry. Bottles are from the collection of the Punxsutawney Area Works with Harry Lattimer Sr. Historical & Genealogical Society.) twelve-ounce for $1.60. Durand his son who had moved ing those first years, one of his fond mem- when he was fourteen years old and contheir Lattimer Bottling Works to a site on ories is about an old-timer on his rural tinued in them for nine years before decidGraffius Avenue in the Elk Run section. route. Skeptical of his age, the gent would ing to find a better way to make a living. At In the early 1920s, Martin Barran sold his ask â&#x20AC;&#x153;How old you, boy? I no tell.â&#x20AC;? the same time, Martin Barran was looking share in the merged operation and went to Jefferson Bottling Works for work in the area mines. Having moved work in the roundhouse at Riker Yard of In 1979, the long bottling era of another about often, he ended up in Walston, movthe Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railbottling company in Punxsutawney came ing from Syracuse, New York, to the imway. Later, he moved to Michigan. John to an end when John Kendra retired, end- proved mining situation in the coal fields Kendra, too, would sell his share in the ing his sixty-seven-year career in bottling of the Punxsutawney area. - Continued on page 26

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By Lisa Gensheimer for Hometown magazine wo days before the polar vortex descended on the region, Punxsutawney native Doug villella and his wife, Holly, stashed their crosscountry skis in a snow bank and stepped inside Wilderness Lodge for a warm-up. Soon their eleven-year-old son Anthony joined them, waving goodbye to his fellow after “Wildcats” their Saturday ski lesson. “Remember fresh basil and garlic,” villella tapped into his iPhone as he hurried his family to the car. A friend was coming for dinner, Doug Villella and cioppino, an Italian-American fish stew, was on the menu. Family comes first for the Erie optometrist, but this family has grown to embrace a wide circle of friends and colleagues, extending all the way to the southern hemisphere. Doug will convince many of them, often over dinner and wine, to support his mission – creating self-sustaining eye clinics in Latin America that will improve the quality of life for people in extreme poverty who would otherwise go blind.

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vision for the Poor, the Erie-based nonprofit that villella established in 1997 with support from donors and the International Eye Foundation, has so far built five eye hospitals in Guatemala, Haiti, and Nicaragua that treat more than 100,000 patients annually. The three clinics in Guatemala, run by a team of skilled Guatemalan surgeons and other health professionals known as visualiza, treated 53,000 patients and performed 6,000 surgeries last year, accounting for thirty percent of the nation’s eye care. Last October, villella road his bicycle 430 miles across Pennsylvania to raise funds for a new eye hospital in the Amazon rainforest of Peru. He’s inspired other adventure-seekers to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, the tallest freestanding mountain in the world, through Climb for Sight, a fundraising program sponsored by vision for the Poor. Why contribute to a cause so far from home? “People in the states, no matter how poor, have access to eye care,” says villella, who, in addition to his private practice, serves as the optometrist at Community Health Net in Erie. “Every five seconds someone in the world goes blind, and a child goes blind every minute, unnecessarily, because they have no access to eye services. Everyone has the right to sight. Should it really matter where they live?” Longtime friend Jason Robertson, manager of engineering at Hydro-Pac in

Fairview, first met villella through their Spanish tutor about fifteen years ago. But it wasn’t until they spent time kayaking and camping in Canada, sharing the road on long cycling tours, and slicing through trails on cross-country skis that Robertson understood why his friend dedicated his life to restoring sight to the most impoverished, isolated people in Latin America. Operating room at Vision for the Poor Eye Hospital in Guatemala City. “The problems and Photo by Jose Yee. needs of the developing read, athletic guy in Erie, Pennsylvania, is world are mind-boggling. Most people responsible for bringing access to eye care wouldn’t even attempt to solve them,” says to hundreds of thousands of people who Robertson. “But Doug realized how a lowpreviously had none; for curing the blindcost, ten-minute operation can not only reness of thousands of people each year,” says store a person’s sight, it can transform their Robertson. “How many people make that life, enabling them to get an education, earn kind of impact during their lifetime?” a living and support their family.” Lisa Gensheimer, a regular contributor to When you see a face light up after a sightLake Erie Lifestyle, is a multi-media prorestoring surgery, it’s hard to think of the ducer and writer. She and her husband Rich benefits in economic terms. But the World Gensheimer have accompanied Dr. Villella Bank ranks cataract surgery among the most to Guatemala, documenting the personal cost-effective of all public health initiatives. stories of people who have received the gift Their study found patients are able to genof sight. She is now writing a book about Vierate income at a 1,500 percent return on the sion for the Poor, Visualiza and their quest actual cost of surgery, in the first year alone. to eliminate avoidable blindness in all of “Doug villella, this outgoing, fun, wellLatin America. •••

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Continued from page 5 per bean. Occasionally munching on a random bean just to savor its freshplucked flavor, we discarded unwanted stems, stalks, and insect-chewed leaves in a little metal bowl. Mom canned a few pints and also cooked some for our dinner. Canning the beans was time consuming because it involved several lengthy steps. For example, first, she “blanched” the green already-snapped pieces of bean so that she could get more of the vegetables into the jar. “Just boil them enough ’til they bend,” Mom would instruct me as she explained the blanching process. “Then, put the beans into the jars with one teaspoon of vinegar. That keeps ’em from spoiling,” she whispered her secret ingredient as if some spy in our kitchen would steal her recipe and sell it to kitchen terrorists. So, I helped stuff the vegetables into glass pint jars, jars that we recycled year after year. Heck! My mother recycled our canning vessels in the ’60s and never even knew that she was helping the environment. It’s just what she did. I can still see the jumbo, black and white speckled enamel canning pot that we used to “process” our food. It had a thin, wirelike handle. Inside, there was a little metal rack that held about six jars of beans that sat quietly, waiting to be boiled for twenty minutes. When Mom just cooked beans on the stove top for our supper, it was a much easier process than canning them. “Put them in a pot with enough water to cover them,” my mother instructed, rooting around for a heavy aluminum pan in which we always used to boil the beans. Then, she would stand sideways by the stove so she could see the burner with the pot and look at me at the same time. “Wait ‘til they come to a boil and set your timer for twenty minutes. They’ll be done just perfect,” she added with a wink. And, they were just perfect; the beans were good enough to eat without any seasoning at all. On Sundays in the summertime, my mother used to make a delicious green bean stew, a concoction handed down from my Italian grandmother. See, my grandmother’s family, which consisted of nine children and two adults, lived off of their garden in the 1900s through the 1950s. Reminiscent of what we call nowadays a “ragout,” the dish was the perfect Sunday fare. I can still smell the pork and toma-

toes and garlic; the aroma used to drift out of the little kitchen window near our back porch. After Sunday Mass at Saints Cosmas and Damian, my dad and I rounded the corner or the sidewalk near the back of the house and that delicious “air-freshener” seemed to do curlicues in the air, enticing us to follow our noses to dinner. Generally, the feast consisted of a stew made of fresh green and yellow beans, tomatoes, onions, garlic, carrots, pieces of pork and chunks of potatoes. It was delicious! Combined with a couple pieces of crusty homemade Italian bread, life couldn’t be any better. I can recall mashing up my potato chunks that came in the stew with the cooked carrots, dripping some extra tomato sauce on top of this mixture and eating it along with the savory stewed pieces of pork and green beans. There was nothing better than dipping some browncrusted slices of Italian bread in the leftover tomato gravy that decorated my almost-empty plate. This year, I planted my own green beans, and I was eager to carry on my mother’s tradition of canning them in some discarded Mason jars I found in her basement in an old, cardboard box. Feeling eager to harvest them, I was ready with fresh canning lids. I even dug out my mom’s black and white speckled enamel canning pot – the one with the wire rack inside. Every day since I planted my beans, I have dutifully trudged out to my little four-by-fourfoot patch and watered my produce. Dare I mention that my bean stalks are truly remarkable; I’ve never seen healthier or greener vegetation! My sumptuous plants are climbing up tall poles; their lush stems and leaves creep higher every day. But, guess what? My beans don’t have ONE blossom, not a one. Alas, I’m thinking I may have planted the magic beans that Jack got that day when he traded the family’s cow. Oh well. I suppose that I will have to use canned green beans or yellow wax beans that I buy at the grocery store when I make Mom’s green bean stew. Plus, the Mason jars may have to retire to the cardboard box in the basement; I probably can still return the lids to the big box store. Even though it’s less work, I know I’ll feel guilty and wish that I could have spent my mornings picking, snapping, and cooking fresh produce for our meals. But, hey! It’s only July. Maybe my plants will still grow beans! All I have to do is go out to the garden with my hoe. I’ll just grab my trusty watering can and …. •••

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Punx’y Chamber of Commerce Page Welcome to the Punxsutawney Chamber of Commerce’s page in Hometown magazine. The Chamber of Commerce’s function is to help improve the business community of Punxsutawney.The chamber’s office is located at 102 West Mahoning Street, along with Phil’s Souvenir Shop. The chamber can be reached at (814) 938-7700 or by email at chamber@punxsutawney.com. This page in Hometown magazine will include items of interest to chamber members. Please watch for it in future issues. Chamber-member businesses and other organizations holding membership are encouraged to submit their news to Chamber Director Michele Neal at the above e-mail address. Events and activities also can be submitted to “Around Town” in Hometown magazine. The magazine works a month ahead, so please submit events by the tenth of each month to hometown@punxsutawneymagazine.com. (Please send events for September by August 10.) What Does the Chamber of Commerce Do? When I talk to people about becoming a member of the Punxsutawney Chamber of Commerce, I often hear the question, What does the Chamber do? Over the next couple of months, I hope to give everyone an idea of some of the things that the Chamber does for the community in general and for businesses in particular. I hope that with a better understanding of what actually occurs in our office, more people will choose to become a part of our organization and see why its existence benefits everyone in the community. This month I am going to give you a few brief examples of our role. As the director of the Chamber, I am a part of other boards, committees, and organizations. These memberships give me opportunities to tout the Punxsutawney area. For example, it was at one of these meetings that our former director, Marlene Lellock listened to a group, Brimark Builders, inquire about bringing their hotel chain – Cobblestone – to the DuBois area. Marlene took the opportunity to approach the company and suggested that they look at Punxsutawney as an option. (We were in desperate need of a hotel.) As we all can attest – seeing the current construction – her initial inquires led to collaboration with PRDC

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By the staff of Hometown magazine and the Chamber of Commerce 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 July 31-Aug. 1: Library Hot Dog Days, daytime at County Market. Benefits the Punxsutawney Memorial Library. n July 31: Music in the Park, “G3,” classic rock, Barclay Square, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., take a lawn chair. n Aug. 1: Blood Drive, 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., IUP Punxsy Branch, for the American Red Cross. n Aug. 1-3: SSCD Lawn Festival, 6 to 10 p.m. Friday & Saturday, and 1 to 10 p.m. Sunday. Lots of games and fun for the family at the SSCD Church. n Aug. 2: AtV Rally, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Rathmel Run Hunting Preserve, $25 per ATv, benefits Reynoldsville Pool. For information, call Jack at 591-3801 or go to atvride.webstarts.com. n Aug. 5: 2014 Fall Soccer registration will be held Tuesday, August 5th from 68 p.m. at the BPO Elks club, or register online at www.punxsysoccer.com. n Aug. 7: Music in the Park, “The Banned,” Barclay Square, 6:30 p.m., take a lawn chair. n Aug. 9: Woofstock 2014, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Barclay Square. The day features vendors, crafters, food, music, pet photos, and rabies clinic. Also includes a Youth Recognition Ceremony. n Aug. 11: Breakfast & open Acoustic Jam Session, 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., Mahoning Hills Social Center. $2 French toast breakfast. n Aug. 11-15: Punxsutawney Area Historical and Genealogical Society, is hosting History Day Camp, August 11-15 from 10 a m. to 12 noon for kids 6 and up. The focus this year is Out of the Woodlands (our Native American heritage). Registration is $20. Discounts available for multiple children in the same family. Call 938-2555.

n Aug. 13: “Healthy Habits for Mental Health,” presented by Indiana Regional Medical Center, at Mahoning Hills Social Center, in the morning. Lunch follows. Please make reservations for lunch one day ahead. Call 724-286-3099 for information. n Aug. 14: Music in the Park, “The Sharp Tones,” Barclay Square, 6:30 p.m. n Aug. 15: “Medication Management,” 10:30 a.m. by Senior Life, at Mahoning Hills Social Center. Bingo follows. n Aug. 18: open Acoustic Jam Session, 10 a.m. to noon, Mahoning Hills Social Center. n Aug. 19: Weiner Roast, noon, Mahoning Hills Social Center. $2.50 per meal. Call 724-286-3099 for reservations. n Aug. 27: Hymn Sing, 11 a.m., featuring Kay Young, at Mahoning Hills Social Center. n “trip to ireland Contest” at Thistle & Pine. Stop at the store to sign up for a 7day trip. Drawing is Sept. 17. n 50/50 Raffle by the Punxsutawney Chamber of Commerce, benefits several chamber projects. Drawing will be Oct. 3. Stop by or email the chamber office. n Understanding Unemployment Compensation seminars by Clarion University, until November. Please contact the Punxsy Chamber of Commerce for more information. n The Snowflake Campaign is underway. The Punxsutawney Chamber of Commerce is seeking financial donations to refurbish the snowflake lights that adorn the town during the holiday season each year. Donation jars can be found at local businesses. For information, call the chamber at 938-7700. n Cycling classes are ongoing at the Punxsutawney Area Community Center. Other programs include Zumba, batting cage, virtual golf, kettle blast, cycling, AM men’s basketball, Pilates/Yoga, gymnastics, Senior Strength, SilverSneakers, and open gym time. For information regarding class times and fees, call 983-1008. n Volunteers are needed to visit and ad- Continued on page 24

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Continued from page 7 experience that undoubtedly motivated him to seek another occupation. A few entries from his diary follow: November 18, 1891: I commenced to work for the B.R. and P. Coal and Iron Company at Walston, dropping flats under the command of George Kurtz, where I was working every day that I was able to do so till at last New Year’s Day came around again, but I was obliged to work this time or lose my position. February 20, 1892: William Van Dyke, who was employed with me, went into the mines to drive which entitled me to his place as general flat dropper. Everything went well until the following Saturday, which seemed to be an unlucky moment for me. I was running a 25 ton, loaded coal flat down the siding, threw off the brake, jumped off and ran ahead to make the coupling, and while attempting to do so my left hand caught between the bumpers which crushed it to such an extent that it was deemed necessary to amputate the index finger. After the accident had happened, I went to the doctor nearby where Dr. Blaisdell gave it the necessary treatments and it was then for the first time that I was under the influence of ether which lasted about two hours. After ‘coming to’ again I went up to the boiler house, ate my dinner and came home feeling no pain until that night when it began in good style and kept it up for four or five days. The next Tuesday, Dr. Grube dressed the hand for the first time. He also took care of it from then on. The next pay day I was not able to be out but when the next one came around, I went up to Walston for my pay and found everything just as usual. Then I stopped in at the round house and there were the engineers at work. I stopped in the boiler house where everyone, just as usual, was eating dinner with not even the exception of a finger nail. I went upon the tipple where everything was the same, and from there I went to the place below where I labored the whole winter long and there were cars and the boots as usual. When I stood on the footboard, everything appeared the same to me but when I glanced at my hand, everything was strange, everything about the car was the same as when I last stood there, but my hand was not. There was one of the main things missing, never more to return. It was that car that is witness to the finger which I will be minus all my days. From there I went to the office, got my pay, paid the doctor his bill and went over in the yard and got on Engine 67 and road home. April 15, 1892: They were firing up sixty more ovens at Walston today … I went to town where there was a great excitement over a patent section grinder and the streets were well occupied with people. April 16, 1892: A young man by the name of Archibald Pantall who was employed at my

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place at Walston (dropping flats) while attempting to couple cars, was caught about the breast which broke his collar bone. April 19, 1892: I got up at five o’clock to get ready to go to work at six o’clock. I was on my way to Walston to work at the same old track again. (flat dropping). I got along nice by today, but had one finger less than the last day I worked there. It is a small thing to say only one finger, but when it comes to working with it, it isn’t so small after all. Today I ate my dinner in the boiler house for the first in the last seven weeks and three days. They began to buy brick today for the new boilers which are to run the crusher, where Superintendent Snyder was nearly the whole day. After we quit work I came home on the switch engine No. 67. After completing his apprenticeship with Lowe & Smyers, Lymp became a partner with J. Greene, a photographer at Big Run and later moved west. In 1898, Lowe & Smyers dissolved their partnership, with Lowe keeping the Punxsutawney gallery and Smyers the Phillipsburg gallery. Lowe’s next partner was Edwin T. White. They formed the Lowe Art Company. They continued industrial photography as part of their work. In August 1898, Lowe received a contract from the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway Company to take pictures of the Allegheny & Western extension of their road between Punxsutawney and Butler. Lowe was joined by White in this effort and they made one hundred and thirty-five photographs of the new railroad the first week in September of that year. Lowe Art Company was the major provider of industrial photographs for the Punxsutawney Spirit’s 1900 Industrial Edition, which highlighted the development of coal and related industries in the area. In 1903, D. A. Lowe relocated to Erie, leaving Lowe Art Company in the capable hands of his partner, Edwin T. White. Today, the negatives and photographs made by D. A. Lowe and his partners are part of the E. T. White Photography Collection of the Punxsutawney Area Historical and Genealogical Society. These photographs provide a visual history of the development of the coal industry in the Punxsutawney Area. (Editor’s Note: The resources used in the preparation of this article are available at the Punxsutawney Memorial Library and the Punxsutawney Area Historical and Genealogical Society. This article has been prepared by PRIDE – Punxsutawney Revitalization: Investing, Developing, Enhancing. PRIDE is a nonprofit organization that brings together residents, business people, community leaders, and civic organizations to improve the business districts in Punxsutawney. Contributions to support the develop a Coal Memorial for the Punxsutawney Area may be made to PRIDE, P.O. Box 298, Punxsutawney, PA 15767.) •••

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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.) July 28, 1870 — On Tuesday evening the Indiana stage had one of its wheels badly smashed up, while attempting to turn in front of Mr. James Mitchell’s residence, where it had taken some passengers. (Punxsutawney Plaindealer) [Note: The “James Mitchell residence” was built of brick on West Mahoning Street in the summer of 1869. The Mitchell house is now the Lattimer House of the Punxsutawney Area Historical and Genealogical Society.] July 24, 1901 — Undertaker Harry Sprankle says there have been five deaths in this community within a year from what is known as “pipe smokers’ cancer.” To contract cancer is a fearful penalty to pay for smoking. But recent investigators claim to have proven beyond doubt that cancer is an infectious disease resulting from a germ. There are malignant tumors, however, that are not cancerous, and perhaps the sort produced by persistent irritation is in that class. (Punxsutawney Spirit) August 3, 1887 — Blasting on the line of the Clearfield & Jefferson railroad, southeast of town, sounds like the boom of distant artillery. (Punxsutawney News) [Note: The rail line of the Clearfield & Jefferson Railroad is now the Mahoning Shadow Trail which follows the Mahoning Creek through Punxsutawney and to Fordham.] August 3, 1898 — The idea has been suggested, and it is a good one, that a stone watering trough be erected in some convenient place in town, and that there should also be two or three public drinking places. This could be done at small expense to the town. Excellent water is to be had from the water works. No doubt the horses which are driven to town daily and stand for hours, suffer greatly from thirst, to say nothing of the people from the country, who, when they want a drink must go into some house and ask for it. (Punxsutawney Spirit) August 10, 1902 — The Public Square is now open to the public, T. M. Williams having completed his work of putting down the cement walks. The park now looks 999 percent better since the Punxsutawney Iron Company took hold and solved the park improvement problem to the entire satisfaction of everybody. (Punxsutawney News) [Note: The name Barclay Square was given to the park in 1928 by a borough ordinance.] •••

Continued from page 16 Lattimer business to begin his own “pop factory” that he named the Jefferson Bottling Works. Harry J. Lattimer and son Harry R. continued their bottling operation as the Cold Spring Bottling Co. As the Jefferson Bottling Works, John Kendra worked with his son Paul, claiming that “No pop manufacturer makes as many flavors as we do. We have 15.” As the youngest of the partnership with Barran, John learned the craft of mixing the carbonates and syrups to create the tasty drinks about which he boasted. When John Kendra retired in 1978, an Associated Press writer interviewed the ninety-five-year-old Punxsutawney bottler and shared his story around the country. “I’m the one who mixes the flavors. Nobody else mixes the flavors because I’ve had long experience at it,” John said. About his Jefferson Bottling Company flavors, he added, “It’s still ‘kraeusened,’ or naturally carbonated, the old German way in huge vats.” The process of bottling was done at night, usually taking four hours, and producing 200 to 300 cases of twenty-four bottles during the peak years of the business. In addition to his son Paul, who operated the bottling machines, Clyde Barnett assisted in making deliveries to area businesses, clubs, festivals, and houses. Out of economic necessity, because of the mass distribution of such popular national brands of “soda pop” as Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola, in 1923 Kendra formed a moving company, which he called the Kendra Transfer Company. His advertisements read “... local and long distance. Four trucks; quick service.” The moving company was sold in 1978 to a partnership of DeWayne Knisely and David Wright. Included in the sale was the license for the eight-state area. The history of bottling works in the Punxsutawney area will conclude in the next issue of Hometown with the Lattimer Bottling Works (Cold Spring Bottling Company) and the Anita Bottling Works. •••

Around Town

Continued from page 22 vocate for senior citizens. Contact Aging Services Inc., 1055 Oak St., Indiana, 724349-4500. n The Pizza and Prevention Logo Contest is still going on, please email PunxsyPizza@aol.com for additional information on submitting an entry. n The Salvation Army's annual radio Harvest Auction will be in October. Letters and volunteers will be going out seeking donations of merchandise and gift certificates over the next couple months. The auction is an important fund-raiser for Salvation Army programs and services to help those in need. Anyone having questions or wishing to donate can call 9385530. Activities and dates are subject to change. We welcome your news! Please remember Hometown works a month ahead. Non-profit organizations are welcome to send their events for Around Town to: hometown@punxsutawneymagazine.com. For-profit events can be listed in Around Town, six lines for $25. •••

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