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he Punxsutawney Festival in the Park is set to take place Saturday, June 27 through Saturday, July 4 at Barclay Square in the heart of the downtown. This premiere event is the collaborative effort of the Chamber of Commerce board and staff, Punxsutawney Borough, local and community businesses, non-profits and volunteers, and is aimed at bringing the community together for a week of entertainment and fun. Executive Director of the Punxsutawney Area Chamber of Commerce Robert Cardamone said that planning for the festival began a year ago after Punxsutawney Borough Council inquired if any local organization would be interested in taking on the project. He reported, “Subsequently, the Punxsutawney Area Chamber of Commerce, Inc. stepped forward, and, as soon as the Punxsutawney Borough approved the matter, planning began. He added that the chamber had the lead in organizing the event but was assisted immensely by businesses, organizations and volunteers in the planning and execution of the festival. He said that the intent of the event is to “benefit the Punxsutawney community.”

The festivities will kick off at 3 p.m. on June 27, with entertainment and attractions all day until 9 p.m. and run daily thereafter from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. A variety of musical acts will be center stage each day, including area favorite The Moore Brothers and tribute bands such as Maximum Voltage, Yinz N’ Roses and Bonjourney, as well as an Elvis Tribute and Forever Johnny Cash Tribute, to name a few. The musi-

cal performances, sponsored by local and area businesses and free to the public, will be sure to offer good tunes and melodies that will appeal to a wide range of listening preferences and tastes. Additionally, all denominations are welcome to worship as part of Sunday religious services that will be conducted in the square at 11 a.m. on June 28, featuring the Pennsylvania Adult and Teen Challenge Choir, sponsored by New Beginnings Church. Later that day, the Punxsutawney Lions Club will be hosting a Classic Car Show in the old PNC Bank lot across from the park, with overflow into the closed side street. Registration begins at 10 a.m. and the show will run until 3:30 p.m.

Following the show, the club will have a cruise to Country Cone for some free ice cream, sponsored by the Punxsutawney Lions Club.

All participants will be given ice cream vouchers when registering their vehicles for the event throughout the day.

For the shoppers and browsers, over a dozen craft vendors and artisans will be set up with their merchandise, unique wares and one-ofa-kind creations available for purchase. Local stores will also be hosting sidewalk sales on the streets nearby. According to Cardamone, there will be many games and activities in the park that can be enjoyed by youth and families - Continued on page 7

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n 2020, the world is in a period of dynamic change in many areas: pandemic; environment; social order; technology; communication and more. This is not the first time the world has experienced dynamic change. Heraclitus, an ancient Greek philosopher, observed that: “Change is the only constant.” Benjamin Franklin put the same thought succinctly with, “When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.” In each period of history, the dynamic of change builds on past human experience, innovates, and moves forward, eventually enveloping the whole world.

A technological change, begun almost a century ago with the development of an electro-mechanical binary programmable computer, expanded through the concept of the internet, miniaturized through microchips, and enabled by wireless communication, has become part of everyday life. It is changing the way we live, work and play. Virtual technology has expanded from research labs to the whole world, including Punxsutawney.

This technology has made it possible to work from home, receive virtual medical care, participate in online educational activities, visit museums, receive same day and next day delivery of goods and services and much, much more.

A technological innovation arrived in the Punxsutawney area 137 years ago. By today’s standard that technology was very simple and easily understood. This new technology was an iron rail upon which carts, with uniquely designed wheels and powered by steam engines, could travel, enabling faster and easier transportation of goods and services. It was known as the railroad.

Local residents followed the development of this technology in the newspapers, the “media” of that time. Enlightened members of the community invested their resources and encouraged others to become involved.

Many times, they anticipated that railroad access would arrive to connect them with the world. Newspaper items like following from the August 5, 1875 issue of the Elk County Advocate kept their hopes alive.

A RAILROAD TO PUNXSUTAWNEY

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“Punxsutawney, after long waiting is at last to have a railroad. The Sandy Coal and Iron Company is the corporation that is to build it, and the operations are to commence immediately. The road will extend from Holden’s Eddy or what is known as Rocky Bend, on the low grade division of the Allegheny Valley Railroad four miles below Reynoldsville, and will certainly be completed to the residence of D.B. Straightoff, six miles from Punxsutawney, this fall. The citizens of Punxsutawney held a meeting, for the purpose of securing stock subscriptions to complete the road to their town. W.P. Jenks headed the list with a cash subscription of $1,000 and other considerable amounts were subscribed.”

On several occasions, the people of Punxsutawney had their hopes dashed when all of the factors could not be pulled together to make a railroad to Punxsutawney happen.

Through it all the few die-hard visionaries did not give up their quest for a railroad. In September 1882, when the ground was surveyed for the building of the Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad Depot Building at Punxsutawney, they were sure they would soon have a railroad. It seemed so certain that wagers were made.

“It was expected that the engine on the Rochester and Pittsburgh railroad would make its first visit to Punxsutawney on the 4th of July. But it won’t get there and for that reason one of our citizens gains a new hat wagered by an enthusiastic citizen of Punxsutawney,” reported the Indiana Weekly Messenger on July 4, 1883.

The tracks were finally laid to Punxsutawney in mid-July 1883. The Indiana Democrat of July 19, 1883 noted the accomplishment and stated: “We congratulate our backwoods friends upon their getting out of the woods.”

The railroad relied on the telegraph for communicating orders to the engineers on the railroad. Telegraph lines were installed along the railroad right of way and each depot had a telegrapher who relayed messages to the engineers as they passed through their area. Dr. William Altman of Punxsutawney saw an opportunity to expand this technology beyond the railroad and negoti- Continued on page 9

Frank S. Jackson, Superintendent, His “Firsts” in School History

By S. Thomas Curry of Hometown magazine ne of the distinctive buildings on the Punxsutawney architectural landscape, located on North Jefferson Street, is now identified with its signage as the Punxsutawney Area Community Center.

Younger residents of town will associate the building with its new purpose for community activities that have been available for two decades.

Since the late 1930s, many of the older generations would know it by its name as the F. S. Jackson Building, recalling their high school days of the 1940s and 1950s or as junior high students after 1959, moving through its halls to various classrooms, the auditorium and the gym and locker rooms.

When built, the building was originally identified simply as the new “High School Annex.”

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When it All Began When a new four-story Punxsutawney High School building was opened for students in September 1907 on North Jefferson Street, A.M. Hammers had been elevated from supervising-principal to Punxsutawney’s first Superintendent of Schools.

Frank S. Jackson, supervising principal at the Big Run school for five years, was elected as high school principal for the Punxsutawney school system, leaving behind in Big Run a new school building that

opened in 1908 on Main Street in the nearby community.

Upon Supt. Hammers sudden death in No-

built in 1914 to meet the needs of students who did not wish to pursue academic education in colleges.

F. S. Jackson, as he usually signed his name, was also involved in other major community concerns and developments.

In 1916, he was among the group of local citizens that organized the Punxsutawney Free Library and was one of its first trustees and its first vice-president. He was an active board member of the YMCA and a charter member of the Rotary Club in 1921. Mr. Jackson distinguished himself in education Unsuccessful in 1926 to win taxpayer approval for a new high beyond the Punxsutawney area. school building, the Punxsutawney school district used two- He was a frequent contributor to room portable buildings to be located next to the 1907 High School building on North Jefferson Street. (1926 photo cour- various educational publications and was a regular lecturer at edtesy S. Thomas Curry) ucational meetings. vember 1908, Frank Staples Jackson was Although his contributions to education are elected to be the new superintendent, beginwell documented, overlooked is his active ning his term in January 1909, a service that part in 1913 to organize the Pennsylvania Inended with a history of thirty years as Suterscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA), perintendent of Schools in Punxsutawney. the organization that establishes policies and Those years included many “firsts” in local rules to govern high school athletes for inhistory to be recognized. Among them was a terscholastic competition in the state. “modern” education building to be added to Recreation and Sports the complex of buildings on North Jefferson With the Jefferson Street High School Street, where also was the 4-story building Building in use in 1907, Supt. Jackson, from 1907 and the Weber Memorial School among others in the community, realized its of Manual Training and Domestic Science, selected location did not provide a suitable

Frank S. Jackson became Punxsutawney’s superintendent of schools in 1908 upon the death of A.M. Hammers, Punxsutawney’s first school superintendent. With Punxsutawney’s population increasing through economic good times, overcrowded classrooms and greater demands for educational programs, F.S. Jackson tirelessly dedicated his 30 years toward building a modern, “high school annex.” (photo of F. S. Jackson, with autograph, a copy from PHS yearbook, Class of 1938)

and healthy place to play and exercise. Exercise and gym classes and basketball games were held at the Central YMCA that was completed and opened to the public on October 3, 1909.

Under F.S. Jackson’s leadership basketball and track and field were the first high school sports to gain prominence in the area. An area high school basketball league was formed in the spring of 1919, with games played at the new YMCA, featuring a spec- Continued on page 13

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••• SATURDAY, JUNE 27 7:15-9 p.m. - A BIT OF BROADWAY Diane Pfingstler, Jesse DeChurch and Vandyke & Co. perform songs from Cats, Waitress, Beauty and the Beast, Cabaret, Evita,West Side Story and The Phantom of the Opera.

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alike. For the children, there will be magic, balloon art, a fun run, a bike rodeo and a Punxsutawney-themed build-a-Phil activity. A sure-to-thrill attraction will be a Rock-Climbing Wall provided and staffed by the U.S. Army.

With so much action and entertainment, one is certain to work up an appetite. Fortunately, that hunger can be satisfied by one of the many vendors who will be onsite with a delicious selection of foods and sweets like juicy BBQ, tasty pizza and Stromboli, mouthwatering hot dogs and sausage, scrumptious desserts and much more. Likewise, any thirst will surely be quenched with a variety of beverages such as flavorful teas, lemonade and soda.

The Punxsutawney Festival in the Park will culminate on July 4 with a spectacular firework display from atop Indiana Hill, sponsored by Shadco LLC. On top of the fun and entertainment that the festival will bring to town, Cardamone hopes that the week-long occasion will offer “financial gain for local businesses, allow visitors to discover and experience the Punxsutawney Community and return for

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The organizers of the festival chose Barclay Square as the location because “it is a local gem and beautiful venue.” In light of all of the behind-the-scenes efforts, Cardamone said,We are very grateful to the Punxsutawney Borough Council and Borough Manager,Toby Santik, for making the venue available and for installing the electrical infrastructure needed to support the event.” The Chamber, with the help of the community, intends to continue this event annually. The Chamber will continue to update its website with “Festival in The Park” information as it becomes available. A program of the week’s schedule will also be posted on the website at the following: https://punxsutawney.com/events/festival-inthe-park/.

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August Wedding. On July 2, Myers, who had been working in oil country, took the train at Edenburg, Clarion County. He was invited Continued from page 4 ated with the telegraph company to have a by the engineer, who was a friend of his, to Western Union office for the town. His ride with him on the engine. After traveling daughter Laura Altman operated the office. about two miles, the engine jumped the track.

Mary Barto, from Indiana, was sent to Punx- Myers was so badly injured that he died the sutawney to provide telegraphic training for following day. Word of the accident was Miss Altman. Soon, other young women, in- telegraphed to Punxsutawney, where Laura cluding Margaret Campbell of Punx- Altman received and transcribed the information. It is hard to imagine the feelings she experienced as she sat hearing and transcribing the clicking instrument telling her of her fiancé’s death, and, with the dying vibrations of the machine, all of her bright hopes for the future vanished.

The powerful engines of the railroad provided attractive employment for many young men in the Punxsutawney area. Among these young men were John and George Hastings, grandsons of Captain John Hastings of Civil War fame. On Monday, May 25, 1896, George Hastings decided to visit his brother John, a fireThis telegraph operator was using a Barclay teletypewriter to send messages. Messages received were printed on the man on the Buffalo, Rochester paper strip, then cut and pasted on Western Union telegraph and Pittsburg Railroad, who was message paper to be delivered to the intended recipient. in DuBois. He jumped on an outPhoto courtesy of the Library of Congress. going freight train at Punxsutawney. As the train was sutawney, took up telegraphy as an traveling through Sykesville George fell beoccupation and earned $80 per month. tween the cars.

Twenty cars passed over him, Although the first priority of the railroad was transporting coal and coke to markets bumping him, tearing his clothes, and, in the along Lake Erie, it also brought goods to maelstrom, his left hand was badly crushed.

Punxsutawney. The first freight consigned to Drs. Hennigh and Gourley of Troutville were Punxsutawney over the Rochester & Pitts- summoned and rendered aid, amputating burgh railroad was a carload of Rochester three fingers on the badly crushed hand. It beer. This was reported in the Indiana was a miracle that he escaped being crushed to death. George recovered and, thirteen Weekly Messenger of July 18, 1883. years later while on his way to work as an The railroads also provided passenger serv- engineer at the McGill and Leisering Coal ice and brought immigrants from around the Company at Casandra, was struck by a train world to Punxsutawney. Many of these im- and was so badly injured that he died before migrants worked in the coal mines. Others he could be taken to the hospital. However, established businesses and became an inte- some effects of technological change can be gral part of the community. Joseph Lorenzo pleasurable.

The railroad provided opportunity for day established a confectionary in Punxsutawney and Wah Sing a laundry business in trips and vacations. Excursions offered respite from the work-a-day world. An exClayville.

Not every aspect of new technology is pos- cursion to the Kinzua Bridge on June 22, itive. The July 18, 1883 Indiana Weekly 1886, sponsored by the Big Run Lodge of the Messenger also reported on the death of John Knights of Pythias, provided an opportunity M. Myers, resident of Punxsutawney and a for recreation and enjoyment. For $1.75 pargrandson of Judge John St. Clair, an early ticipants could leave Punxsutawney, Big Run settler in Punxsutawney. Myers was engaged or Sykesville and arrive at Kinzua by noon, to Laura Altman and they had planned an

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By Melissa Salsgiver of Hometown magazine avid L. Anderson has the distinction of publishing the first fulllength book on Ernest Hemingway's short story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.” Anderson’s book, Archetypal Figures in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”: Hemingway on Flight and Hospitality, has a much greater purpose than just discussing Hemingway's short story though.

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Anderson was a tenured English professor at Butler County Community College teaching English 101 and 102, English Literature, American Literature, Shakespeare, Classical Mythology and Detective Fiction before retiring in 2017.

Since his retirement, Anderson has become Managing Editor of the August Wilson Journal and had his book, Archetypal Figures in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”: Hemingway on Flight and Hospitality, published by Kent State University Press.

Anderson is not new to Hemingway literature. His Master's Thesis at California University of Pennsylvania, was on Hemingway as Existentialist. Anderson went on to receive his Doctorate of Arts in English from Carnegie-Mellon University. His dissertation, The American Dream in Twentieth-Century California Fiction, included authors such as Jack London, who is the other half of the

(“From Our Past,” researched by S. Thomas Curry, features items of interest from past editions of Punxsutawney and area newspapers.)

archetype discussed in Anderson’s book.

As a member of The Hemingway Society and with multiple submissions published in The Hemingway Review, Anderson has presented at the bi-annual Hemingway Conference many times.

With the support of Butler County Community College, he traveled to Venice and Paris to present at Hemingway Conferences. While attending the conference near Hemingway’s family cottage in Michigan, Anderson was shown a library of books that could have been possible inspiration for some of Hemingway’s works. This discovery was the initial step in Anderson’s journey to defining the archetypes put forth in his book.

Anderson's book, Archetypal Figures in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”: Hemingway on Flight and Hospitality, focuses in on one of the flashback memories the main character Harry has in Hemingway's profound short story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.” While it is not necessary to have read “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” to grasp the concept of this book, it should be read in general as an example of a genius short story. Anderson compares similarities in a single incident to another in a Jack London story, then proceeds to take the reader on an adventure through classic works such as Beowulf and Homer’s Iliad, contemporary works, Shakespeare and modern plays, even to Bob Dylan and Robert Johnson songs, the Bible, old English poems and modern movies; he then applies to them these archetypes he discovered in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.”

Readers will take away from this book both a list of great works to read, as it is unlikely any other one person has read every example mentioned in this book, and the ability to apply the archetypes Anderson has revealed to everything they read in the future. Anderson’s archetypes ask more important questions about the origin of stories, questioning whether the inspiration comes from within the author, or whether they are deeper and part of the universal human experience.

"Provocative analysis," “intriguing interpretation,” and “breathtaking vistas” are just a few of the phrases used to describe Anderson's book which is available in hardback and as an e publication from Kent State Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or almost any site books are sold online.

David Anderson is the father of Hometown’s art director and writer, Melissa Anderson Salsgiver.

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After years burdened by a lack of financial support from the community, the Kiwanis Club secured funds from the William HarContinued from page 5 mon Foundation, of Ohio, to Upon the Hartator gallery above and around the floor mon foundation donation, the former court. A high school girls basketball team Punxsutawney Playground was called Harwas also organized and trained regularly. mon Field in 1928. This playground of the Track meets and field activities were regucity was turned over to the Punxsutawney larly held between area schools as early as School Board free of debt. On Saturday Oc1916, with meets held at the fairgrounds off tober 20, 1934, Punxsutawney’s playground, North Findley Street, now the National now an athletic field for football games and Guard field and where carnivals used to be a cinder track around the field, was officially held. Runners were referred to as “dizzy dedicated as Harmon Field during half-time dashers” or “cinder path gladiators.” of a “Booster Day” football game with IndiIn April 1910, the national “playground ana High School. High School faculty member Frank Shaw introduced Supt. F.S. Jackson with the following: “The privilege of formally dedicating this field is given to one who is most deserving of it. He has given his tireless efforts to the education of the youth of our community ... His constant interest in the physical development of our youth is a sincere personal interest.”

Mr. Jackson’s remarks A 1950s aerial view of the school complex on North Jefferson Street reveals the arrangement of three school buildings in their setting were brief and humble. with residences and businesses. In the lower left corner is the High He recognized the efforts School building, built in 1907. At the right is the Weber Memorial School building, built in 1914. In the top center is the F.S. Jackson of others, those who esbuilding with auditorium, gym and locker rooms, commercial rooms, tablished the public playscience labs and offices. (photo courtesy S. Thomas Curry) ground at the site, the effort of the Kiwanis movement” became active in PunxClub to secure financial support in 1927 sutawney. The local movement to establish a from the Harmon Foundation and the genpublic playground was successful in purerous donation from George C. Brown in chasing land along the Mahoning Creek that 1929 for a community swimming pool as a became Punxsutawney’s public playground, part of the field ‘s development as a recrewith a qualified supervisor for activities.

For many years the North Jefferson school buildings were used for the Punxsutawney Area Junior High School. A new Junior High School building opened near the Senior High School in September 1997, and the former, historic F.S. Jackson Building was repurposed. Through the efforts of a group of residents, facilities of the building, and memories, were put into the organization of the Punxsutawney Area Community Center. (photos courtesy of S. Thomas Curry)

ational center. In closing he commented, “... this field is dedicated to the joys of childhood, the sports of youth, and the up-building of health through recreation in the open air.”

Following that day there began a “first” in Punxsutawney High School football. That football season of 1934 was the advent of night football. According to the October 15, 1934 issue of The Punxsutawney Spirit, “Huge spotlights, eight or ten of them on the four corners of the field,” were in place, to be a novelty for sports fans in this area.

Local people, reportedly, were traveling as far as Johnstown to see night football games.

DuBois was planning on night football in its section. There was little doubt that night football would be a huge success to draw thousands of people to the games.

In the summer of 1940, further improvements were made to the lighting at Harmon Field. With the addition of new bleachers and a press box, Harmon Field was made

better for drum corps competitions, outdoor shows, boxing matches and other future events.

For years, basketball and track were the only high school sports. To further Punxsutawney’s prestigious athletic reputation, many local residents had been urging a football team at the high school. With the continued growth of the school population during the years of economic boom in the early 1900s, there developed a school enrollment of boys to suit a football team of 11 members.

In late September 1923, front page news announced: “School Authorities Here Put O.K. on Football as Recognized High School Sport.” Opposed for years to football as “a proper form of athletics” in the high school, Punxsutawney Superintendent of Schools Frank S. Jackson saw his goals met.

The high school became numerically large enough to ensure a team that would be a credit to the school, and competent coach- Continued on page 15

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In June 1922, it was reported at a school board meeting that there were “sixty pupils going out of the high school and twice as many coming in.” One solution to the problem was approval of portable buildings, “fairly comfortable, reasonable, sanitary, but not luxurious,” for the crowded conditions.

The portable buildings were placed on the empty space on the north side of the Jefferson Street School. Another suggestion was to rent rooms in nearby business buildings.

In 1923 it was proposed to have a bond issue placed on a ballot for a special election to have taxpayer approval for a new high school building. Four years later, in Novem-

ing could be provided by Jake Troutman of the Central YMCA in town. His assistant was William F. Smith, formerly coach at Indiana Normal School before he entered the military during World War I. The first “officially recognized and sanctioned” high school football team at Punxsutawney High School played its first game on Saturday afternoon October 6, 1923, against Big Run High School, at the “Playground” (where Harmon Field later was developed). Supt. F.S. Jackson assured the school board that the school would adhere strictly to the rules of the P.I.A.A. Following the dedication of Harmon Field in October 1934 there were many “firsts” in high school sports. In the Spring of 1935, a golf team was organized in the Punxsutawney High School with golf matches held at the Punxsutawney Country Club, following an interscholastic schedule. Golf would join football, basketball and track as accredited sports under rules of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA). Not until the PIAA was organized did the era of true “high school sports” begin.

In early March 1935, After years of distressing conditions and the U.S. Great Depression wrestling made its debut of the 1930s, a grant of nearly $100,000 from the Federal governWorks Progress Administration (WPA) was available to assist as a new sport at PHS, ment’s the district to construct a high school “annex.” At a cost of $235,000, comparatively new to it was completed in 1937. (1935 architect drawing and 1940 post card younger folks of Punx- courtesy S. Thomas Curry) sutawney. Using mats of the Central YMCA, the “grapplers” began ber 1926, an election was held. The bond their first season as a Punxs’y wrestling issue lost by a narrow margin, by 58 votes.

Undeterred by the defeat of the bond issue team.

It was also in the middle of April in 1935 and proud that the Punxsutawney High that the “first” Punxsutawney High School School had become recognized as a “first tennis team in history was organized, when class high school,” with graduates recogFrank Shaw stepped in to be the coach of the nized by colleges and universities, Superintendent Jackson began a series of studies new “net squad.” about the project of a new “high school A “High School Annex” annex.”

After fifteen years with the 1907 High It took several years, but the site for the new School Building in use, it became apparent “annex” was decided to be the east side of to Supt. Jackson that the crowded conditions North Jefferson Street, opposite the 1907 Jefof the classrooms at the school would have ferson St. High School building and north of to be solved. When he was supervising prin- the Weber Memorial School building. Other cipal in 1908, the senior high enrollment was sites in the area of North Findley Street and 150 students. Students were completing Jefferson Street were considered but rejected more than the eight grades, as in previous because of noise and dirt from the railroad years. Students in neighboring townships and commercial street traffic. were paying tuition to attend the high school A new effort for a proposed High School in Punxsutawney. The issue of overcrowded Annex grew with favor. With the debt on the classrooms grew in importance in reaching a Jefferson Building ending in 1936 and fedgoal of quality education eral funds of the Public Works AdministraIn October 1921, in a written report, Jack- tion (PWA) assured for 45 per cent of the son pointed out the crowded conditions in $235,000 project, another school bond issue the school and the pressing need of a “mod- was proposed for the election of spring 1935. ern high school plant.” He listed some criti- With approval, a new building was finally cal situations. Among them were not enough ready to be built according to plans by archiseats in the 4th-floor assembly room for all tect Russell Howard of DuBois. the students to be seated as a unit for plays, Property on the east side of North Jefferson concerts and other assembly programs. Street was purchased and construction There were no modern facilities for physi- started in March 1936 with occupancy to be cal training or social life that met state re- in May 1937, ready for the school year of quirements for physical activities.

1937-38. Interestingly, as the new auditorium He shared that DuBois, Clearfield, But- was completed in May with a full stage, the ler and Kittanning had recently built new - Continued on page 22

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(“From Our Past,” researched by S. Thomas Curry, features items of interest from past editions of Punxsutawney and area newspapers.)

June 22, 1904 — Complaints have reached us about the fast driving which is not an unusual occurrence on West Mahoning Street. It is alleged that this thoroughfare is made a speedway for the trying out of all sorts of horses, and that the lives and limbs of children are thereby greatly endangered. Should this be repeated the offenders will be promptly arrested and fined. (The Punxsutawney Spirit) [Note: The first “horseless carriage” to come to Punxsutawney was a Locomobile steamer, in 1898. The new motorized vehicle was later referred to as an automobile.]

Spirit) [Note: While youth of this age were playing summer baseball for years, Little League baseball was established in Williamsport in 1939 for ages 8 to 12. In the summer of 1950, the first Little League teams in Punxsutawney were organized to play team baseball.]

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July 3, 1907— Horseback riding among the ladies of this place has suddenly become an extremely popular diversion and since the ladies have taken to it, of course, the men are in line. The old method of riding side saddle seems to have become obsolete here and the ladies have adapted the more sensible and safe method of riding astride. The liverymen are increasing their number of saddle horses in order to satisfy the demand. (The Punxsutawney Spirit) July 13, 1887— While in Big Run the other evening, we could not help but notice the improvements. Many new dwelling houses are being erected this summer, and they are being built after a style that shows good judgment in architecture. (The Punxsutawney Spirit) July 26, 1868— Our Town. - We were agreeably disappointed upon this our first visit to this borough, to find the locality one of the finest in the county, and the business of the place far exceeding our expectations. Almost all kinds of business is carried on here, as the advertisements in this our first number will attest. There are four fine Churches in this borough, to wit: the Methodist, Episcopal, Cumberland Presbyterian, Baptist and Lutheran; one Flouring Mill in the borough, one just outside the limits, and one in Clayville, a thriving little borough adjoining Punxsutawney.

The new School House now being completed by Mr. Hughes the contractor, and J. W. Drum, architect, reflects great credit upon the enterprising citizens of this place.

It is a large, two-story brick building on North Jefferson Street. (Punxsutawney Plaindealer) [Note: W.A. Barr and John A. Scott, of Brookville, established the Punxsutawney Plaindealer, with July 26, 1868, the first issue. In March 1871, W.P. Hastings became editor and publisher of the newspaper.]

July 26, 1905 — The Fair Ground Grays, a baseball team composed of boys whose ages range from 10 to 13, would like to arrange games with other teams of the same ages. Inquire with Harry Wiser at 108 Beyer Avenue. (The Punxsutawney

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By Marty Armstrong boring townships and those other townfor Hometown magazine ships in the Punxsutawney Area School enderson is one of the many townDistrict. One wonders what there could be ships and incorporated boroughs that is different. With that in mind, some of which currently make up the Punxthe images accompanying this article have sutawney Area School District. Taken in a different perspective and highlight in 1857 from Gaskill Township, which borders it along the south, it is bounded on the north by Winslow Township, on the west by McCalmont and Bell townships and on the east by Clearfield County. It was named for the Hon. Joseph Henderson, a Jefferson County associate judge of the time.

Settlers began to provide for the educational needs of their children by erecting small schools at least as early as 1866, as the Pomeroy map of that time The Wayne School: This painting was done in 1981 by former shows four such schools. Wayne School student Lucius Warner. The school is believed to The 1878 Caldwell have been built between the years of 1866 and 1878. It was closed Atlas shows four, in addi- in 1928 and is no longer standing. In his artist notes, Warner states that none of Rysome Wayne’s nine children did attend, as their fation to the Big Run school. ther, refusing to have them vaccinated for small pox, hired a priAs the years progressed vate teacher for them and others attending class in the and the population grew, springhouse on his property. The watering trough in the Wayne was built by George Zufall and provided refreshment for more schools were built, painting Collection of Shirley J. Sharp. so, that by the 1920s, there were ten township schools, exclusive of other ways what has been said regarding Big Run. They are named and described in most of the district’s townships. Even the detail in the 2007 compilation of Henderteachers, similarly raised and educated in son Township history, published to comlocal communities and training schools, memorate the township’s first 150 years. similarly dedicated to the future of their They include the Upper and Lower Buchstudents, are personalized with the memoheit, Henderson, Cross Roads, Wayne, Zuries of their one-time pupils. fall, Desire, Schlimmer, Kramer and Pifer Health and Safety To begin, there is the case of Rysome Wayne, local farmer and eventual proprietor of the Wayne Hotel at Desire; he also served as a Henderson Township school director. The Wayne school was built near the Wayne home at some point between 1866 and 1878 because a school in that location is not shown on the 1866 Pomeroy map but is shown on the 1878 Caldwell map. Like the typical one-room schools which once dotted the landscape surrounding PunxThe Wayne Springhouse: Used as a private sutawney, it had a frame structure that was school, as previously described, for the children of Rysome Wayne and others, the strucpainted white, a small porch at the entrance ture still stands on the farm now owned by Pam and a bell tower and bell above. Though no and Ted Rake. No longer a schoolhouse, it is longer standing, it lived in the memory of what it was meant to be, a springhouse. Photograph by Marty Armstrong. former student Lucius Warner, who, as an adult artist, captured it in oils so that it lives schools. The book’s compiler, Shirley J. today. One would expect that Director Sharp, drew upon the Pomeroy and CaldWayne’s children would attend this public well maps and Jefferson County histories school. They did not. At that time, prospecby Kate Scott and William McKnight, as tive students were required to be vaccinated well as publications of the county and rewith the smallpox vaccine, first developed gional newspapers. This compilation and in 1796 and in its modern form in the the other books referenced can all be found 1800s. This, Mr. Wayne refused to allow. on the shelves of the Tibby Library at the His solution was to adapt for use as a Lattimer House of the Punxsutawney Area school a structure on his property for his Historical & Genealogical Society, Inc., own children and others who were not to 400-401 W. Mahoning Street in Punxbe vaccinated. It was known then as the sutawney. Copies are also available from “springhouse school” as its true purpose the Society’s Gift Shop. was to serve as his property’s springhouse.

Much of the educational history of Hen- Continued on page 24 derson Township mirrors that of its neigh-

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Continued from page 15 Senior Class of 1937 was the first class to hold commencement exercises in the auditorium of the high school annex. More than 1,000 persons gathered in the new auditorium, thought by many to be one of the finest in western Pennsylvania. For many years commencement for high school students was held in the Jefferson Theatre on North Findley Street.

The building design by architect Howard is attributed to the Art Deco style of the 1930s, with features of the exterior front having six columns of glass brick, and an interior vestibule of etched glass doors, a wall of mirrors and concealed lighting. The design was considered one of the best examples of “modern school design,” and was featured in the U.S. Government’s 1940 publication “Public Buildings-Architecture Under the Public Works Administration1933 to 1939.”

With the “annex” in use, there were many “firsts” in school history to list. On Tuesday, September 28, 1937, the first movies were shown from the “moving picture machine” in the projector room in the back of the balcony. The first play presented in the new auditorium was on Friday, October 29, 1937.

The first basketball game for the PHS Chucks at the new gymnasium was played on Friday, December 10, 1938. Previously, the games were played on the gym floor of the YMCA. By this time in school history, Punxsutawney teams were called “the Chucks.“ However, it wasn’t until the printing of a sports story following a basketball game on December 18, 1926, that the team name stuck. Prior to that, local sports writers referred to school players as “the PHS team.” When Punxsutawney regularly became associated with Groundhog Day, writers began to call the Punxsutawney teams “the Groundhog team,” “the Groundhog gang,” “the Groundhog outfit,” or “the Naming the Annex With the new high school annex completed, it was ready for the many activities of the 1937-38 school year. The last public appearance of F.S. Jackson as superintendent of schools was the commencement night for the class of 1938 on June 2, 1938. On a night titled “Thirty Years of Progress,” to honor him, Jackson presented diplomas to the 198 seniors. Earlier, he had announced his retirement on July 1.

As superintendent of schools in Punxsutawney, an “annex” educational facility in the school complex on North Jefferson Street had been a dream and a dedicated effort for years for Frank S. Jackson. In early November of 1943, the annex was formally named the “Frank S. Jackson Building,” to honor him for his determination and driving force since 1921 for a “modern high school plant.”

Very few area residents who have walked past the columns of glass brick on the building’s front or walked through the massive bolt-studded wood front doors at its entrance will remember the person so honored by the naming in 1943. Those who experience the building as a community center today and through the years of the 21st century will enter the doors to the Jackson Theater in the building and might be curious about the name. For them, it was not for President Andrew Jackson nor Michael Jackson, the American singer and cultural icon of the late

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20th century. It was to remember the late Frank S. Jackson, superintendent of schools 1908-1938, for whom the building was originally named, the building that is now the valued Punxsutawney Area Community Center.

The education giant in Punxsutawney died December 31,1947, at age 75, and is buried in the Circle Hill Cemetery.

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Changing Times Continued from page 9

spend five hours enjoying a picnic and hiking in the area and return home before 9:00 p.m.

Excursions offered opportunities for intercommunity gatherings. On June 18, 1899, residents of Reynoldsville, DuBois, Big Run, Punxsutawney and Clayville could ride an excursion train to Walston for the dedication of the new Catholic Church at Walston where they could hear the Rt. Rev. John E. Fitzmaurice, Bishop of Erie, speak. And, Punxsutawney residents could take day trips to Pittsburgh for shopping.

The railroad, which brought goods and services into the community, also made it possible for Punxsutawney area residents to travel to the seashore for summer vacations and to Florida for winter respites. Railroads made it possible for local residents to seek advanced medical care at major hospitals in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Minnesota.

As the era of the Railroad developed, it did indeed help, as the Indiana Democrat had proclaimed, “backwoods friends get out of the woods.” The next technological innovations to advance the ability of rapid communications would be the telephone and the automobile. As they came along, they made some aspects of the railroad obsolete and paved the way for the coming of the Era of Virtual Communications.

This article has been prepared by the Coal Memorial Committee of the Punxsutawney Area Historical & Genealogical Society. Resources used in preparing this article are from Newspapers.com, the Mengle Memorial Library Punxsutawney Spirit at the digitalcollections.powerlibrary.org, and the Library of Congress at http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. Comments on this article may be directed to PAHGS, P.O. Box 286, Punxsutawney, PA 15767. Individuals desiring to honor a coal or coal related industry worker in 2021 are encouraged to purchase their tile by June 30, 2021. A Coal Memorial tile may honor persons who worked in any aspect of the coal industry including railroads and ancillary services. Additional information and forms may be found online at www.punxsyhistory.org or may be requested by e-mail at: punxsyhistory@outlook.com, or calling 814-938-2555 and leaving a message.

The current COVID-19 situation has made it necessary for the Coal Memorial Committee of the Punxsutawney Area Historical and Genealogical Society to make changes in its Summer Schedule.

The Race to the Face scheduled for July 25 is postponed until 2021.

The Dedication of the new additions to the Memorial Tiles at the Coal Memorial scheduled for September 6 is postponed until 2021.

During the remainder of 2020, the Coal Memorial Committee and the Society will be exploring ways to use modern technology to provide information on local history for the public.

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Similar cabinets were used in the junior high school classrooms of the Jefferson Street building in the early 1960s. The horizontal door drops down to allow one of the maps, stored like a roller blind inside, to be unrolled and displayed for class. Donated to the Society by Robert Fye, they are currently displayed in Griffiths Gallery Four as part of the educational section of the Society’s Childhood exhibit since 2017. The Schlimmer School was closed in 1951. Photograph by Marty Armstrong.

to 1977. In the 1950s, the controversial vaccination of the time was the newly-created polio vaccine which modern history credits with the reduction of incidence of polio; the U.S. has been polio-free since 1979 but cases do occur in other countries.

Prior to its availability, polio struck many young people with deadly force and lifetime impairment. Recently, an account was told of one active young boy in the 1950s who was struck on his way into the house for lunch. Because one leg was stunted, doctors convinced his parents that they could help him have a better future by artificially stunting his good leg; it involved the drilling of nails into the good leg. He would not be tall but his legs would be equal in size. Vaccinations since then have been controversial and one can only imagine what will be said when an eventual vaccination for Covid-19 is found.

Visual Aids The Society is the fortunate holder of a donation by Robert Fye of a wood map cabinet once used in the Schlimmer school.

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countries and continents which are displayed in school on large screens, or, in earlier times, on large rollup wall hangings, sometimes contained in cabinets. Schools varied across the townships as to what educational furniture and supplies could be afforded and supplied. Not all one-room schools had such a cabinet but students at Schlimmer were fortunate. The cabinet has a drop-down door which reveals space for six or eight large maps to be used as needed for geography classes. Currently, the cabinet has been on display in Griffiths Gallery Four since 2017 as part of the larger “Childhood” exhibit.

Moving On The photograph of older students in adult suits, coats and hats is of a group of eighth graders from the upper Buchheit school in 1936, all set to take the eighth-grade examination, used then to determine eligibility to enter high school. Such entrance was not automatic; it was similar to what modern society knows as a college entrance examination. It is known from many instances, that completion of eight grades in earlier times was not universal, let alone attainment of a two- or four-year high school diploma. According to the Township’s 150th anniversary compilation, options for high school from about 1900 to the 1950s included the high schools in Big Run, Punxsutawney, Sykesville and Reynoldsville. A list of township high school students for the 1941-42 school year shows that almost all were attending either the Big Run or Sykesville high schools.

Fun and Games Another image shows the school children of the Cross Roads school out to play on a winter day and to have a picture taken.

Most official group photographs were taken at the beginning or the end of the school year, but this happy picture shows that playtime in the fresh air, even in the cold, was a thing to be enjoyed.

“Recess” has regularly been cited as the best part of the day. Playtime outside was prized by students, enough so that pupils found ways to invent additional time outside. At the Zufall school, Paul Peace, who attended seven of eight grades in one-room schools in the township, including several at Zufall, remembers the boys who found that kicking over the woodpile outside meant that they could be sent out during class time later to restack the wood. Apparently, this went on for some time until their teacher, looking through the window - Continued on page 26

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Who Is This? - Be a Mystery Solver!

o you recognize any of the faces in these pictures from family photos that may be in your possession? If so, we want to hear from you! The Punxsutawney Area Historical & Genealogical Society has in its possession hundreds of glass photo negatives from early, turn-of-the-century photographers of the Punxsutawney Area,

between the time period of about 1860-1920.

As part of the 2020 “Who Is This?” (Discovering Local Identities & History through Glass Negatives) project, we’re looking for your help to identify as many of these subjects as is possible! Please help us by letting us know if you recognize anyone in any of the photos that will be posted each week.

Call us at 814-938-2555 or email us at: punxsyhistory@outlook.com or hometown@punxsutawneymagazine.com. Please include the number located in the bottom left of the photo.

Please forward/share these pictures with other Punxsutawney friends, relatives, acquaintances and past residents, who may

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together and lived for a time in New York City. Mr. Hutchison had been working to establish a business in London prior to the Continued from page 24 beginning of WWII. When war broke out, at recess, caught the unfortunates in the act. he, a member of the Pennsylvania Guard, Corporal punishment ensued. The teacher transferred to the Royal Air Force as a then was Mrs. Mae Trindle. Not too demember of the Eagle Squadron. Nellie returned to Pennsylvania.

In April of 1944, Hutchison was killed in a plane crash at the age of 35; he was buried overseas.

Notification came to Nellie while she was teaching at the Zufall school. Military representatives arrived and gave her the sad news as her students watched.

Paul Peace recalls the day, as he does much of his time as a school student and has shared Cross Roads Students in the Snow: These students playing on a these memories with his snowy day at Cross Roads School in about 1945 show that weather family. As one might did not keep pupils inside during lunch and recess. The Cross Roads school was closed in 1947. Photograph loaned by Doris Porter Ecel- imagine, Nellie was barger, formerly Doris Weber, for the 150th Henderson Township an- overcome and unable to niversary compilation. continue teaching then, though later on she did return to teaching terred, the boys found another way to have and is noted as having a forty-four-year casome fun at the same teacher’s expense. reer in several area schools, often as the She had a small car, a Willys Americar. sole teacher of eight grades.

When leaving for the day, the boys would Mae Mann Trindle (1885-1955) was the lean on the rear bumper, hampering her daughter of Peter and Jennie Hummel ability to drive off. This happened often Mann. In 1912, she married Ernest Trindle, enough that when the perpetrators were disa carpenter. They lived in Iowa until 1927, covered, punishment again ensued. the year Mr. Trindle died of a heart attack.

A Tale of Two Teachers at Zufall School Returning to Pennsylvania, Mae made her That Mrs. Mae Trindle, an older woman, home with her sister and brother-in-law, came to teach at the Zufall school in the Pearl and Harry Croasmun. She, like Nelspring of 1944 has everything to do with lie, continued to teach (her sister Pearl was the teacher who had begun the year there, a teacher, too, according to census records) Mrs. Nellie Hutchison. and was brought in as a long-term substiNellie Hamilton Hutchison (1909-2004) tute at age fifty-nine for Nellie. As shown was the daughter of Merle and Ruby by her history with the students at Zufall, McHenry Hamilton of Henderson Townshe was up to the job. ship. She graduated from Big Run High Both teachers with long careers, both widSchool (1926) and the Indiana Normal ows, both serving at one point at the same School (1928), returning to the Big Run school, both Mae Trindle and Nellie area to begin teaching at the age of eightHutchison are remembered. The Zufall een. In 1932, she married Thomas HutchiSchool closed in 1945 and its students son of Brockway. They had two children transferred to the Henderson School.

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