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Two familiar places in Punxsutawney, each with a purpose, will remind older residents of the history of Little League baseball that began in Punxsutawney in 1950. At left is the Living Center for student housing on the IUP Punxsutawney campus in West End. It is the site where the first Little League field was built in April 1950 to dimensions suitable for boys ages 9 -12. The Jerry Long Field was built in 1958 for Little League baseball, when the Army Reserve Center in West End was built, using part of the former field. (Photos by S. Thomas Curry)

On the cover: Students and staff at Punxsutawney Area School District are ready to start the new school year following the Pennsylvania Department of Health (PDH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines. Displaying their masks and social distancing efforts are (front row, L to R) Landon Peterson and Peyton Hetrick; (back row, L to R) Danica Mallory and Mackenzie Martin.

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The Summer of 1950: Punxsutawney History and Little League Baseball - Part I

By S. Thomas Curry of Hometown magazine n national and local history, baseball is a traditional summer sport. And over a period of time, people of Punxsutawney and the surrounding small towns compiled a history of many accomplishments in organized sports from youth into adulthood; among them is baseball.

With the dangers of COVID-19 on our minds and the concern for safety and good health, baseball in the summer of 2020 became a different experience for players, coaches, fans, etc.

Major League baseball has adapted; area players have adjusted in order to meet suggested guidelines. Baseball players and fans have become used to wearing masks and social distancing, with parents’ attendance being limited at local league play and empty ball parks and automated crowd noises in major league ball parks as “Play Ball” was permitted for the summer 2020.

Recognizing sports as a cherished history is significant to many people in the communities of the area. The boys of 1950 who are living today are now “old timers” who will remember 70 years ago when baseball made history in Punxsutawney. In early March 1950, the headline in the local newspaper read: “LITTLE LEAGUE TO BE FORMED IN CITY.” In the spring of 1950, boys in the age group of 9 to 12 of the Punxsutawney area who wanted to play baseball were given an opportunity to play with youngsters of a similar age and with skills. No longer would they be chased from existing fields. No longer would they be picked last from the group of boys that might show up for a game. It was good news for boys and their families when it was announced that area “old-timers” from years past had learned about the Little League Baseball program.

Founded in Williamsport, PA in 1939, the program was delayed in developing during World War II (1939-1945), confined to a small program in Williamsport when started by Carl Stotz and a few friends. When the war ended, Little League as a baseball program for boys under age 12 began to expand. In 1947 there were 60 teams playing in two states. In January of 1950, Little League Baseball was incorporated. In 1950, with 48 states in the nation, there were 1,302 chartered teams playing Little League Baseball in 22 states.

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The Punxsutawney league was one of them. From the beginning, when the local effort was chartered in 1949 by Little League headquarters in Williamsport, to the season’s end in August 1950 as Pennsylvania Little League State Champions, what a story to be told to others and remembered by young boys of 1950.

It was all a “first” in Punxsutawney area history. Friends and others of that time hold many memories of the experience in a four-team league, uniforms with major league team names on them, playing on a field scaled down from major league park dimensions, with crowds of people cheering.

Organizing a Local Little League In 1947, the United States Rubber Company became interested in Little League and became a sponsor and host

of the World Series in Williamsport. An ambitious promotional program was developed, leading to new leagues in communities in many states.

It could have been an “official” Little League motion picture that was shown in theaters that someone in Punxsutawney had seen. Perhaps it was a special article in The Saturday Evening Post or Reader’s Digest that someone locally had read. Some older residents in Punxsutawney in 1950 give partial credit to Sam McKibben for bringing the idea to Punxsutawney’s community leaders and its baseball veterans. Originally from Williamsport, McKibben came to Punxsutawney in the 1940s as plant manager of Pramco, Inc. when the company moved here and produced women’s clothing in the former silk mill building in West End. - Continued on next page

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old outfielder with the Cincinnati Reds and played four seasons with Cincinnati.

He played in the 1939 World Series. At the end of his career in 1948, he moved to Punxsutawney and operated a gas station.

After tryouts for interested young baseball players, boys were selected for the four teams in the Groundhog League. For the first season of Little League baseball in 1950 the uniformed players paraded through the downtown for the Opening Day ceremonies at the new Little League Park in West End. (Photo a copy from Punxsutawney Spirit June 8, 1950)

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Yet, in August 1950, as the amazing season ended, there was a news note on The Spirit sports page that stated: “George Hadfield Jones is the man who got the Little League fever going early in 1950. The town owes him a debt of thanks.” George H. Jones was a member of Kiwanis who called many organization leaders and businessmen to a meeting to discuss the concept of Little League baseball. At that meeting the Little League movie was shown to a group that included representatives from lodges, service clubs and professions, as well as merchants and individuals who showed interest and offered support.

A Little League organization was formed, to be named the Groundhog League. Elected President was Frank Harl. Sam McKibben became the league’s secretary, adding a comment that “blatant commercialization of play-

ers should be avoided.” (The Punxsutawney Spirit, March 30, 1950) A Board of Directors was named for the local league to plan and organize the financial support for the new league for young players. The initial cost for uniforms and equipment for four teams in the first season of operation was less than $1,000. Additional expenses would be for the development of a specially scaled Little League playing field.

Lee Gamble was elected Little League commissioner and was in charge of the tryouts for appointed managers to observe and later select the active players for the teams, in order to fill positions for each team.

This note for readers: Frank Harl, called “Pop” by many in the area and owner of Harl’s Shoe Store, was 59 years old when the Punxsutawney league organized. He was identified with local baseball for more than 40 years, since the early 1900s. Forty-year-old Lee Gamble broke into the major league as a 25-year-

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Tryouts and a New Ball Field The league organized; four teams were named after National League clubs in the west division (in 1950) - the Pirates, Cards, Cubs and Reds. (In the eastern sector, the National League teams were the Boston Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers.)

Ahead were the tryouts to select players for the teams and the mission of locating a site for a baseball field, a special playing field reduced to 2/3 the major league size. Also, uniforms, hats and shoes had to be selected. All of this needed to be accomplished to open the 1950 season of new youth experiences on June 7, weather permitting.

An enthusiastic group of interested young boys signed up at the Punxsutawney YMCA on North Findley St. With a spring season of cool and rainy days, 125 boys turned out for the first tryout at Harmon Field on April 22. Boys were given numbers to wear that corresponded to a player’s list given to the new team managers of Steve Shiock, Calvin Haire, Ben Jones and Ange Strano. (Steve Shiock, a native of Walston, signed with the Boston Braves in 1920, playing in the minors. He became a baseball scout for the Detroit Tigers.)

Because of his career with the Tigers in the 1950s, Shiock was replaced by Scotty Galbraith as a Little League manager.

A Pony League of four teams was planned, to be similar to a farm team in the minor league. The league was for other boys who tried out but were not selected for the four Little League teams,

boys who could be “called up” to play in the Little League games, if necessary.

According to Little League policy, managers could not go out and gather the best players in his town or the area.

There was a system to follow. Each of a total of 147 young boys tried out for his favorite position on a team, willing to be “graded” by the managers, go to practices (attend at least 50 percent), and wait for the player auction when team members would be selected. In addition to Harmon Field, tryouts were held at the “Armory Field” off North Findley St. At the same time, a playing site for a new field was selected. The Little League field was constructed on a flat area behind the old West End Elementary School. The location was opposite the popular Gillespie Field used by many adult baseball teams.

The time of day that games were played had to be considered. With regards to home plate, the layout had to consider the location of the sun in early evening.

Dugouts had to be built with consideration to the size of the boys. A fence had to be placed around the field at a height and distance that would give the young batter a chance to hit “home runs” like their older brothers and friends had done on regular fields.

A 12-foot steel flagpole, donated by Crissman’s Florist, was erected at Groundhog Park for the field to be ready for June 7. The Punxsutawney school district provided portable bleachers for the field.

With all the activity, older residents expressed amazement at the terrific interest shown in Little League baseball and supported every effort. For this first year of Little League in Punxsutawney, it was said, “Punxsutawney hasn’t seen anything like it in years.” (The Punxsutawney Spirit, May 28, 1950)

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Reopening School Locally Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic

By Louise Bennett and Emmet Jamieson for Hometown magazine asks, shields, and social distancing - protocols that were not needed in school buildings a year ago, but are now as everything is changing with the Coronavirus pandemic. “This will be a year like we’ve never experienced before,” said Dr. Thomas Lesniewski, superintendent of Punxsutawney Area School District.

On March 13, the school district was shut down, but five months later, it is finally reopening. Despite the ever-changing pandemic, the school will still offer in-person classes, following the Pennsylvania Department of Health (PDH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines closely.

According to Lesniewski, PASD has purchased two cloth masks for each student, appropriate cleaning supplies, disinfectant spraying machines, and shields for students and teachers. The shields will be attached permanently to the elementary school desks and will be portable for high school students.

The district did a deep clean last spring, and high traffic areas of the schools will be cleaned multiple times a day Lesniewski said. He added that a big part of the plan to keep the schools open is that “everybody needs to self-monitor themselves on a daily basis. If you don’t feel good, don’t go!”

Although, he said that the district will not be mandating masks. The students need to wear them on the bus, but they are not mandatory in classrooms. It’s up to the student and family’s perspective.

He reported that the district ventilation system meets state and federal codes and the district is using the recommended filters for any areas with air conditioning.

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Lesniewski said the district tries to monitor the country and borough numbers, and they are listening to the recommendations of the experts. He added that we are fortunate to live in a rural area; so, as long as we take proper precautions, we will all be fairly safe. However, if a student were to get infected, Lesniewski said, PDH will do the contact tracing.

“I’m hoping that we can keep everyone safe and healthy. I want to have as normal a school year as we can,” Lesniewski said. If the district has to “swivel on a dime” and shut down, he said, they are ready for it.

PIAA announced that fall sports would be allowed to play this fall. Athletic Director Randy Reitz said that some of the biggest changes to sports this year are a reduction of athletic contests, elimination of fans at events, and athletes have to practice social distancing and wear a mask when they are not competing. He added his biggest hope is that everyone stays healthy, and we can compete in some events.

High school principal, Jeffrey Long, who has been with the district for seven years, said he believes the high school is “absolutely” prepared to handle the Coronavirus situation, except for the constant changes to the PDH and CDC guidelines.

He added that there are many changes this year from school day start time to clubs to an activity bus.

This year the school will have an activity bus that can take kids home at 5:30, which allows students to have a ride home after extracurricular activities. However, Long said that entire clubs cannot meet together indoors if they have more than twenty-five members.

The new start time for high school students this year will be at 8:20 a.m., which is a half-hour later than last year. This will

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Opening Day and the First Season of Punxsutawney Little League In early May, a list of 147 boys who tried out was cut in half. Boys for each team had to be selected by May 15. Managers “bought” players from the Player’s List. Each team would have 12 players in uniform and six would be “reserves” in the Pony League.

By late May the new teams practiced on the new Groundhog Park, to become accustomed to its dimensions, the distance from the mound to home plate, the shorter distance between bases, and the distance to the fences. Also, to be learned were the new rules for Little League play, especially base stealing. It was not like how the big boys played.

Pre-season games were played on neighborhood playing fields or fields of nearby towns for people to become familiar with Little League-style baseball.

As Opening Day approached, the editor of The Punxsutawney Spirit reminded the adults and fans of baseball of their responsibility in the new venture into baseball for “a kid not yet 12 years of age.” Bringing attention to the quality of baseball the fans will see by youthful players, he commented, “Managers and coaches are having a lot of trouble with overzealous fans. It’s natural for any adult who has played baseball to feel that he knows more about the grand old game. Hold off from the barrage of instructions,” the editor wrote. Of course, the interest of the fans would be appreciated, but he concluded his comments with, “In the interest of the kids, refrain from the well-meant, but nevertheless detrimental ‘coaching activities.’ Allow the designated authorized persons who are managers and coaches to tell the kids how to play baseball.”

On a sunny day of June 7, the teams of uniformed young players of the Little League and Pony League were led by the 80-piece Punxsutawney High School

band in a parade through the downtown to the new Groundhog Park where the Opening Day ceremony was held before the double-header games. The parade started at Barclay Square, and the players stopped at Church St. to board special buses to transport them to the playing field. The band continued the parade to the field in West End. The ceremony was similar to the Major League opening days. With flag-raising and the national anthem performed, speeches and introductions of players completed, the 1950 season began. There was free admission for fans, but the 2,500 fans on hand were asked to support the league with donations “when the hat is passed.”

In the first year of competition The Spirit sports editor reported games with enthusiasm and sincerity. As the season progressed, by July the sports editor wrote: “Proof that baseball is probably the most popular sport in Punxsutawney lies in the fact that the 4-team Little League is outdrawing all the other leagues, averaging 1,200 per game.” In August, as the regular season ended and district play-offs were ahead, The Spirit editor wrote, “Little League baseball has Punxsutawney by the ears.”

The regular season ended with the Reds as league champions and the Pirates runner-up. A team of All-Stars was selected from the four teams. Comprised of 14 players, the All-Star team included six players from the Reds, five from the Pirates and two each from the Cards and Cubs. Ange Strano, manager of the Reds, was chosen to be manager of Punxsutawney’s first Little League All-Star team. Tony Nase, of the Reds, became coach.

Next in Punxsutawney Little League history are section playoffs and a championship season in 1950, ending in Williamsport, Pennsylvania where Little League also had begun.

Please check out next month’s Punxsutawney Hometown for Part II of this story.

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Jason Harp (left) and his father Larry (right) stand outside B&H Tire Service, the tire shop and car repair depot they run together.

B&H Tire Still Rolling After 50 Years

By Emmet Jamieson for Hometown magazine icture the year 1970: Richard Nixon was president. The Beatles disbanded after dominating the 1960s. The United States was entering its sixth year of involvement in the Vietnam War and was expanding the fight into Cambodia. The National Guard shot and killed four Kent State University students protesting the war.

Eighteen, nineteen and twenty-year-olds won suffrage by the 26th Amendment. A gallon of gas cost 36¢. Though it may seem to some readers who were alive then that everything has changed since, at least one fixture has survived the 50 years: B&H Tire Services, a tire shop and car repair depot tucked away on River Road near Worthville.

Larry Harp, a Punxsutawney native, owns B&H Tire and runs it with his son Jason.

The father and son sell a variety of brands of tires for trucks, cars, golf carts and farm equipment. They also sell batteries, give licensed Pennsylvania state inspections, and do oil changes, wheel alignments, tire rotations and minor repairs. The shop, located at 3959 River Road, stands on Larry’s property beside his home.

B&H Tire started in Punxsutawney, but the story of Larry’s involvement in the tire business begins in Erie, where Larry said he became good friends with his future business partner, Bruce Baughman. Larry attended high school in Punxsutawney while Bruce went to school in Brookville, and Larry said they grew up knowing each other. After Larry graduated, he spent two years at Electronic Institutes, a trade school in Pittsburgh, and then moved to Erie to work for Western Electric as an electronics installer.

Bruce was going to school in Erie at the same time, and he and Larry shared an apartment.

Larry’s father worked for Peterson Tire Service in Punxsutawney — Peterson’s is no longer there. Larry said his father convinced him and Bruce to come back to Punxsutawney to contribute to what was then an expanding business.

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“My dad is actually the one that talked us into going into the tire business,” he said.

“He needed some help. They [Peterson’s] were a big business at one time, and they had three stores. We did their road routes.

We took their tires out on the road and sold them to all the services we went to in Clearfield, Brockway, DuBois, Johnsonburg, Carrolltown and Mahaffey.”

Larry and Bruce worked road routes for Peterson’s for some time, but eventually they decided to start a tire service of their own. They combined the initials of their last names — Baughman and Harp — to call themselves B&H Tire Service, and on Sept.

14, 1970, Larry and Bruce opened up B&H Tire out of a Texaco station on Ridge Avenue in Punxsutawney.

Larry said he and Bruce ran the Ridge Avenue station for about five years. They rented the station from a man named D.G. Mock. Larry and Bruce sold tires and did repair work and state inspections like the current service, but since they were working out of a Texaco gas station, they also sold gas. Larry added that in these five years, a similar and strange event happened to them not once, but twice.

“Our pumps were close to the road, and we had two different times where a tractortrailer came in and took our gas pumps out,” he said.

A newspaper clipping from October 30, 1973, chronicles one of those times. According to the article a tractor-trailer skidded on the road and careened into the gas pumps, building and two parked cars, causing $14,700 of damage and non-fatally injuring three people.

B&H Tire changed locations in 1975, moving less than a mile down the road to the backside of where Shop ‘n Save is today. In 1975, this was a Montgomery Ward department store, and the store’s tire service operated out back on Penn Street. A woman named Julia Trunzo and her husband, who Larry and Bruce knew as Mick, owned the service. Julia offered it to them after her husband died.

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moving the business to his own land would be a more cost-effective option.

“I told my son, ‘If we’re going to stay in Continued from previous page business, we have to go out to our 30 acres “Mick Trunzo wanted us in there,” Larry and build,’” Larry said. “So that’s what we said. “He said, ‘I think this would be a great did. Out here, there are no utility costs at all. place for you guys.’ He passed away before We have free gas. It was a no-brainer.” we moved in, but Julia told us that he’d alIn November Larry and Jason opened the ways wanted us in there.” store that still stands today, which meant that it was cold and snowing. On the day they moved in, they did not have a furnace or doors on the building, which Larry said was abuzz with construction: Carpenters were constructing the rooms inside, an electrician was rigging up the heating and light systems and other workers were drilling a gas well and installing gutters and doors. But he still had The interior of B&H Tire Service as it appears today. customers.

Larry and Bruce moved to Penn Street and Larry said moving the shop from the censtayed there 25 years. Larry said they of- ter of town to a more secluded spot outside fered the same services at the new location. of town never hurt business. One recent In 1993, 18 years after moving into Mont- event that did affect it, though, was the gomery Ward, Larry’s son Jason started coronavirus pandemic. The state governworking with his father and Bruce. But ment considers repair shops like B&H Tire Bruce, Larry said, eventually decided “he essential businesses, which allowed Larry’s was done,” and after 30 years working with service to stay open. However, Larry said Larry, he left the company. Larry and Jason he had few customers during the first week stayed in Punxsutawney for a while, but he of the shutdown since people were quaransaid utility and sewage costs started to rise tining in their homes and were expecting until operating in town became too expen- that his shop would be closed like most sive. other businesses. Larry said the disruption The Harp family lived on River Road at felt like no more than the normal fluctuathe time — in fact, Larry said he has lived tions in his business. there all his life — and Larry judged that “In this business, you have your good

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times and your bad times,” he said. “Like, in his own land, Larry said he gets a lot of the winter season, if you get snow, you’re freedom in how he chooses to spend each busy putting on tires. If you don’t get it, day. For example, though he technically things are slow.” works weekdays from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Larry said operations returned to normal Saturdays from 7 a.m. to noon, Larry said levels soon after, and in fact, business the first hour of every workday is “coffee surged more than hour.” No one disusual at the beginturbs coffee hour — ning of June because the door doesn’t many customers open until 8. Also, came in for inspecLarry said living so tions. Larry exclose to his house alplained that people lows him to leave usually tend to get the shop to do other inspections at the things, like mow his start or end of each lawn, and having the month, but he saw shop on his own an unusually high rural land lets him uptick in early June keep pets. He said because PennDOT he previously had froze inspection excows and goats on piration dates in the property, and March, April and currently, he has two May due to the pandogs roaming demic. around the shop.

Larry said the inLarry is 72, and he flux of customers in said he hopes Jason June consisted will keep B&H Tire mainly of regular Service running customers. He has after he’s gone, but his own customers, A newspaper clipping from October. 30, 1973, he added that he mainly older people chronicles a time when a tractor-trailer slammed doesn’t plan to retire who have known into Larry Harp’s first B&H Tire location. any time soon. him for a long time, “They’re probably and Jason has his, mostly younger people. going to have to drag me out of here,” he These days, Larry said he does the managesaid. rial work while Jason does the bulk of the “I could not have made it fifty years withinspections and repairs, though he helps out my loving wife of forty seven years and Jason out, too. my children. The good Lord above has As the manager of his own company on blessed me.”

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give teachers fifty minutes every morning of prep time to work on their remote learning preparation in case of a closure and to meet their remote preparation requirement for the year Long said. It will also limit the amount of time students need to be in the building, but there will not be any Flex days or early dismissals this year.

Long expressed his excitement to have the students back in the building, but it does not come without worries.

“I am excited to have all the kids back. I cannot believe I have missed them as much as I have, but there is hesitancy and

anxiety. The whole thing looks like a leviathan, there are so many issues that could pop up,” Long said. According to him, the biggest challenge is keeping up and moving with all the changes; he thinks of things every day that have to change because of the procedures that are put in place.

Long said the high school teachers will have ten days of teacher in-service to work on their planning and to be trained in what to do if a student is showing signs of the Coronavirus, which he believes is pretty reasonable. It is the first time, Long said, the students are going to school like this, and the first time the teachers are teaching in this, so he asks to approach this school year with a bit of patience.

“If everyone can remain positive, we

will adapt, and the kids will adapt quickly.

I beg of your positivity, flexibility, and patience,” Long said.

Elementary school principal, Dr. Michael Guidice, who has worked for the district for thirteen years, said he is excited for the students and faculty to be back in the building.

“We miss everyone’s smiling face, and we are looking forward to getting normalcy back in our daily routines. We are looking forward to having fun learning opportunities again,” Guidice said.

He added that the biggest challenge is going to be maintaining a safe and friendly learning environment. They have changed daily routines and teaching strategies to comply with the CDC guidelines and recommendations, but they want to make sure to keep a welcoming and comforting environment to focus on learning. He said he believes that students are up to the challenge and will do very well in accepting the circumstances with which they are dealing.

Guidice said he feels that he is impressed with the amount of time and effort that everyone has put forth to ensure that the kids have a safe environment, but his biggest concern is that everyone is going to look at the glass being half full.

They have found the need for change and found innovative and interesting techniques to comply with those changes Guidice said.

One of these changes is the implementation of Google Classroom and Sandbox, which will be used for idea sharing and gathering work. He said in the event of a closure, they will have all the resources in

place, and the students will be allowed to take home their iPad and charger.

He does not want to isolate children at their age, even though they are confined to their classroom, he wants to have a friendly, welcoming and nurturing environment to go to and feel safe while still interacting with their peers. Making sure kids are socially and emotionally cared for, Guidice said, is just as important as academically. He added that they have been looking at other options for recess including competitions through Zoom.

The quote “Keep moving forward,” from Walt Disney is the short and sweet quote Guidice said he has kept in mind through this pandemic and changes.

“This is the situation we were dealt, we can either keep our heads down and be negative or keep moving forward and accept the challenges that were given to us, benefitting from the experience and becoming better people and educators,” Guidice said. He added that he is very proud to be a part of the PASD team, and he is impressed by the amount of heart, hard work and dedication they were willing to give to help the school and community.

As Guidice has said, this is the situation we were dealt, but Lesniewski, Long, and Guidice have all expressed their desire to get the students back in the classroom and learning with them through the changes of this pandemic.

Information as of August 25, 2020.

Check www.punxsy.k12.pa.us for up the most up to date information.

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North Mahoning Township: Part of Punxsutawey Area School District

By Marty Armstrong for Hometown magazine unxsutawney Area School District, which lies mostly within the borders of Jefferson County, includes a significant number of students from

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Townships of Indiana County This Wikipedia map of Indiana County has townships outlined and North Mahoning Township highlighted in red. North, South, East and West Mahoning Township identification has been added.

North Mahoning Township, part of Indiana County to the south. Located in the upper left corner of the county are four townships named Mahoning—North, South, East and West. Townships, like counties, were formed, as readers may know, at various times in the early days as the population within warranted.

Sometimes townships were divided in

later times into smaller areas as the population warranted. Jefferson County, for example first had a single township, Pine Creek, and then two when Perry Township was created out of the southern half of the county. One need not look far to see that the origin of the several Mahoning townships is the Mahoning Creek.

Districts within each township were identified as locales in which schools developed.

North Mahoning Township is shown to have seven numbered districts on the 1871 DeBeers Atlas of Indiana County, Pennsylvania. Within those districts, schools are identified by number, not by name. As with most of PASD’s rural schools, they represent an intricate interweaving of families and their impact on the region, many details of which can be found in the compilation by William H. Shields titled “Covode and Surrounding Area.” This book includes information about forefathers and mothers, schools and teachers of North Mahoning Township. One quickly learns it’s all about the families.

Pioneer schools were typically built on land from early settler families who expected to send their children to these schools. As readers have seen in past articles, a school was frequently named for the family whose land was used for this purpose. Early maps, such as those found in the DeBeers Atlas, identify the property owners of 1871 even if the schools are not named. An example in North Mahoning Township is the school in Dis-

North Mahoning Township District divisions are shown on this township map from “DeBeers Atlas of Indiana County,” 1871.

The highlighting of schools has been added.

trict 1 subsequently known as the Shaffer School. Land near this school is shown on the 1871 map to be owned by a J. Schaffer. District Board minutes of 1869 describe the purchase of land from Jacob Shaffer, Esq. The Dilts and Gamble Schools in Districts 5 and 6 appear near the properties of P. Dilts and S. Gamble, respectively, on the 1871 map.

Shields’ compilation includes a map of the township with its district divisions.

His research into the early schools provides the names of most; in some cases, there were newer schools which replaced pioneer schools, either at the same site or nearby. With his map is the following information: District 1 Shaffer School (It was destroyed by fire in 1930; students finished the year at a temporary location and went thereafter to Covode.)

District 2 Covode School (It replaced a nearby pioneer school.)

Districts 3 & 4 Marchand Schools (2) Bush School District 5 Dilts School District 6 Gamble School District 7 Trade City School Coolspring School (This school is unrelated to the Oliver Township Coolspring School and is not shown on the DeBeers map.)

Information is also provided about several pioneer schools, long closed and replaced.

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North Mahohing Continued from page 10 minutes from district board meetings and building contracts. A copy of the compilation can be found in the Tibby Library at the Punxsutawney Area Historical & Genealogical Society.

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This is possibly the Georgeville School, closed by PASD in 1941.

The Covode School helps to highlight some of the families connected to it.

“We all played together.”

Janet Shields Billett attended the school for her first six years of grade school. A relative of Bill Shields, she appears in several Covode student groups with a number of cousins and a sister, Evelyn.

She recalls the coal stove, the lunches sent from home, including her mother’s homemade cookies, and how all the students played house together at recess

Ester Dee Laughry Wachob (1910-1996) Daughter of John W. and Anna Belle Learn Laughry of East Mahoning Township, Ester graduated from Marion Center High School and Indiana Normal School and had a decades-long career teaching in a series of schools within the various schools of the Punxsutawney and Marion Center districts.

Her memberships included church and education-related organizations. She was married to Verner McKee Wachob who died in 2000.

Photograph from Ancestry.com, c.1930s.

Erma Nova Laughry Hamilton (1899-1993) Daughter of John W. and Anna Belle Learn Laughry of East Mahoning Township, Erma graduated from Marion Center High School and Indiana Normal School (now IUP). She taught in the Covode, Trade City and Marchand schools and transitioned to the modern Longview School, all of which were North Mahoning Township schools.

Erma had been a member of several education-related organizations as well as the Order of Eastern Star.

She was married to Jay Hamilton who died in 1974.

Photograph from Ancestry.com, c.1930s.

time. She mentioned former teachers, including two sisters who each taught at Covode during several different terms.

According to Janet, they had very different teaching styles. The stricter teacher, Erma Nova Laughry Hamilton (18991993), was 11 years older than her sister, Ester Dee Laughry Wachob (1910-1996), which might account for their differences.

Graduating from high school in 1961, Janet experienced many of the effects of consolidation which took place within the Punxsutawney Area School District.

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He was married to Faye Brocious who died in 1992.

Photograph from 1924 PHS Mirror, PAHGS Yearbook collection.

When she went to Covode (once an eight-grade school), only the first six grades attended there as seventh and eighth-grade students from a number of township schools had begun to be bussed to the West End School (later utilized by IUP for the Punxsutawney branch campus). This building was razed when IUP built a new living and learning center nearby. High school began for Janet at the Punxsutawney High School on North Jefferson Street where she attended her ninth and tenth grade classes before the new Punxsutawney Area Senior High

James Burton Domb (1908-1998) Son of William and Ellen Stockdale Domb of North Mahoning Township, Jim graduated from Punxsutawney High School in 1927. A quiet fellow, the quote describing him as a senior was intended to drive that point home: “Twere better not to speak at all than poison from your lips should fall.” He later graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Jim served in the European Theater of Operations during WWII and subsequently went on to a teaching career at Marion Center High School after having taught a number of years in the various schools of North Mahoning Township. He was married to Blanche Sheesley who died only one month after Jim’s own passing in 1998. Photograph from 1927 PHS Mirror, PAHGS Yearbook collection.

School opened at the top of the hill on North Findley Street. There, she spent her junior and senior years. One must go back a little in time to learn what the Covode School was like with eight grades.

“We walked to school and it was uphill both directions.”

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The Punxsutawney Phoenix, Part I Punxsutawney. During most of these two hundred years the buildings which occupied the original town lots 52 and 53, proy definition a phoenix obtains new vided a welcome to visitors while meeting life by arising from the ashes of its the needs of local residents. On the original 1821 plot map, drawn by Rev. David predecessor.

The Pantall Hotel Building, Punx- Barclay, the town lots surrounding the sutawney’s Phoenix, has been purchased, public square were situated in such a way again. The Punxthat they all sutawney Spirit, faced the on Saturday, Ausquare. The gust 1, 2020, resquare was ported: “Pantall designated under new ownerto serve as ship with restorathe commution plans.” The nity’s gathSpeakeasy Enterering place. prises LLC and the The first Duffell family are occupant of the purchasers. lots 52 and With this purchase 53 was comes another Charles R. new beginning for Barclay, the the “flagship son of Rev. building,” as well David Baras the community. clay. AcFor nearly two cording to hundred years, the A portion of Pomeroy’s 1866 map of Jefferson County, the James southwest corner shows the shape of the Jennings House to be that of the T o r r e n c e original Charles R. Barclay home. Courtesy of PAHGS of the intersection biography at Mahoning and included in Jefferson streets has contained a building Volume II of William McKnight’s 1919 which served as an anchor for the town of History of Jefferson County, this was

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An early photograph of Punxsutawney shows the Jennings House at the left on Jefferson Street, the public square in the foreground, the Baptist Church on North Jefferson Street and the Washington House on Mahoning Street. Circa 1869. Photo courtesy of PAHGS

where Charles R. Barclay built a large dwelling house, raised his family and, during the early days, provided hospitality for travelers and guests.

On lot 51 just south of Charles R. Barclay’s property, the original map indicated a dwelling house, with appurtenances, and a store house. This may also have been the location of the Jenks & Barclay store operated by Charles R. Barclay and his brother-in-law, Doctor John W. Jenks.

John W. Jenks provided medical care for the developing community and Charles R. Barclay provided the first post office service in 1826, creating a hub where people from the surrounding area came to seek medical care, engaged in economic activity and received communications from faraway places. Barclay became the

Presbyterian minister to the Punxsutawney Congregation in 1836 before relocating to Ohio in 1841 near his daughter, Anna Barclay McCullum.

Dr. Joseph B. Barclay was the next to occupy the property. He had studied medicine with his Uncle John W. Jenks and graduated from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with the class of 1840. In 1841, he married Jane E. Cooper, daughter of Punxsutawney pioneer James Cooper and began his practice of medicine in Punxsutawney where he lived until 1843. He then removed to Boverly, Ohio. Later he practiced medicine in Greene and Fayette counties in Pennsylvania. During the Civil War he served in the 209th Pennsyl- Continued on page 18

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

August 18, 1870 — MR. J.S. ST. CLAIR, proprietor of the National Hotel, lost a valuable horse on Monday last, which laid aside saddle and harness for the last time, and departed to that realm where all horse-flesh goeth when it has filled its earthly destiny. [Punxsutawney Plaindealer] August 23, 1907 — The Jefferson Traction Company yesterday carried about 800 passengers to Reynoldsville and return.

The occasion was the Reynoldsville Old Home Week celebration. Travel was well distributed throughout the day, but last night it was different. Beginning at 9 o’clock all cars were jammed to their utmost capacity and one car brought home 201 passengers. The people were packed in so tightly that, it is said, four ladies sat on a gentleman’s lap. (The Punxsutawney Spirit) September 3, 1868 — INDIAN RELIC We were shown a few days ago, a piece of very hard stone in the shape of an Indian tomahawk. It was found on the land of Mr. Christian Miller, near this borough, and is supposed to have been the property of one of the “noble red men,” who once inhabited this region. [Punxsutawney Plaindealer] September 7, 1887 — The water company have put in fire plugs on the principal corners and we only lack hose to be ready to fight fire, if necessary. (Punxsutawney News) [Note: After the destructive fire of October 1886 that destroyed three blocks of Punxsutawney’s downtown, a Punxsutawney Water Works was organized to provide better fire protection than the previous “bucket-brigade” of volunteer men to fight fires.]

September 10, 1939 — The Punxsutawney School Board has sent letters to all married women teachers asking for their resignations. This is the second annual appeal by the board in an effort to make places for the increasing number of unmarried teachers who are unable to obtain positions. (Williamsport Grit) [Note: This was the time of the U.S. Great Depression that started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s.]

September 18, 1907 — The match shoot for the DuPont trophy, which had been under way for several weeks by the Ideal Gun Club, of this place, was concluded yesterday. J.F. Crosby being the winner, his record was 160 out of a possible 200 birds.

Dr. Frank Lorenzo was second with 147 birds and Dr. W.F. Beyer third with 133 birds.

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This image from the Caldwell’s Atlas of Jefferson County, 1878 shows the The St. Elmo Hotel and Livery Stable is shown as it had appeared in the Jennings’ New Hotel and livery, renamed the St. Elmo Hotel by George 1880 History of Indiana County. Courtesy of PAHGS Kramer. Photo Courtesy of PAHGS

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vania Volunteer Infantry and, at the close of the war, received his honorable discharge. In 1870 he and his family moved to Colorado.

The next occupant of Charles Barclay’s house was Joseph Long, veteran of the war of 1812. Long lived in the house until his death. His remains are interred with other Punxsutawney area veterans in the Findley Street Cemetery.

James Campbell purchased lots 52 and 53 in 1852 from Charles R. Barclay’s estate. Campbell’s opportunity was of the need for accommodating travelers. Roads were being authorized and constructed to connect Punxsutawney with other communities. A county road to the newly designated county seat at Brookville (1831)

and state roads, including the ClearfieldJefferson-Armstrong turnpike (1831) and the Punxsutawney Luthersburg turnpike (1838), enabled more people to visit or travel through the town. By the 1850s, there was a steady stream of travelers, along these and other roads built in the area, needing accommodations. Campbell converted the Barclay’s house to the “Mahoning House,” an inn for the convenience of the traveling public. Here he provided scheduled meals for stagecoach travelers, fresh horses for the coaches and overnight lodging. He commissioned John K. Coxson, local artist and attorney, to create a large swing sign, with a blazing sun painted in gold leaf on both sides, which he installed in front of the building to alert travelers to his services. Old Sox, a contributor to the Punxsutawney News, remembered in 1858 that the Campbell Hotel was a frame building which stood

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By this time the town had grown beyond the original plot map and Mahoning Street had become the main thoroughfare channeling most of the traffic through the town. In addition to the traveling public, the town was now large enough to need a gathering place for events.

In 1868 the original Charles Barclay house which had served for over 50 years had burned down. Henry and Susannah Jennings set about constructing a new hotel building on town lots 52 and 53. The hotel was designed by J.W. Drum, Esq., the local architect. The building was three stories high, 105 feet long and 50 feet wide. The accommodations included: a dining room large enough to seat over 100

guests at one time, a bar room, a large and elegant seating room for gentlemen, a splendid parlor for ladies and forty-two bedrooms. Along the front of the house, for about forty feet, was a neatly laid pavement of cut stone. The Jennings Hotel sign, executed by J.K. Coxson, Esq, was of an eagles’ aerie in the clouds, where the old eagle was feeding her young.

The Punxsutawney Plaindealer of May 6, 1869 carried the following item: “In noticing the improvements that are to be made, it would not be out of place, perhaps to notice what have already been made. The new Jennings Hotel, which was commenced several years ago, but the work upon which was suspended for some time has been completed and is now open for reception of the traveling public.

This is a splendid building, fronting 100 feet on Mahoning street and extending some fifty feet along Jefferson street. This house deserves a more lengthy notice than we can give place to at present, but we will do it justice at another time. Mr. Jennings as a landlord, heretofore, has been very successful, and we have every reason to believe that the hotel will be conducted in a manner that cannot be surpassed.”

The Jennings were also prepared to offer new service for the residents of Punxsutawney, one of which they demonstrated before the new Jennings Hotel was opened. On December 10, 1868, they hosted the wedding of Miss Sarah Hess and Thomas McKee at the Jennings Hotel. Miss Hess was the daughter of John Hess, one of the early settlers in - Continued on page 23

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students from 1939 clearly shows both Richard and Donald without shoes. Another, from 1936-1937, shows them Continued from page 15 standing side-by-side wearing overalls (It is not evident if they are barefoot in that picture).

Doubtless, they did many things together. Growing up on a farm, they would have been candidates for the Future Farmers of America high school vocational agriculture program. Readers can see them both among the 1946 charter members of FFA pictured in last month’s Hometown #238. Elder brother Donald was the group’s Reporter. Recalling his several The Covode School is shown prior to recent modernization of the structure. Built in 1869 by R. Craig Hoover and James Curry teachers at Covode, Richard for a total cost of $950, this building replaced an earlier school mentioned two men who were nearby. The school was closed in 1960; North Mahoning stu- brothers, William Eugene dents subsequently were bussed to Longview School. The school desks were placed at the former Snyder Hill School in Domb (1905-1996) and James Young Township which is owned by the Punxsutawney Area Burton Domb (1908-1998), at Historical & Genealogical Society. Group tours of Snyder Hill least one of whom had seen to see the “One-Room School Experience” may be scheduled by contacting the Society at 814-938-2555 or military service.

The country schools of North punxsyhistory@outlook.com. The school building continued to be used for voting and community events such as the annual Mahoning Township were Halloween party sponsored by classes of the Covode United closed in the spring of 1960 Methodist Church for a number of years. Photograph from and township students then atwww.punxypa.com, c.2000. tended Longview School, along with students from other schools. ode School was 1.9 miles from their Snyder Hill School in Young Township home, noting: “We walked to school and was closed in the spring of 1959 and picit was uphill both directions.” He went tures document the students’ last days to explain this seeming impossibility by there as well as their first days at saying that when they left their farm on Longview. For at least one year, students the other side of 119, they walked down from Amish families who had recently a hill to a creek, crossed over and had to moved into the Punxsutawney Area go uphill to get to 119 and the school.

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Hometown Community Happenings By the staff of Hometown magazine rom the staff of Hometown magazine and the Community Calendar at Punxsutawney.com, here is a list of events coming up in our area: At press time, some events were being cancelled or postponed due to the Coronavirus restrictions. Please check with the host organization, website, or Facebook page for up-to-date information. n The winner of the August Hometown Trivia Contest is Dorothy Painter of Rossiter. Dorothy chose to redeem her prize at Laska’s Pizza. Congratulations, Dorothy! n The Punxsutawney Memorial Library is open limited hours & offering some of its services. Check its website or Facebook page or call the library for more information. Watch for fall reading programs. n Grange’s Helping Hands, free clothing at Grange Church of God, was using appointment times. Check the Facebook page or call the church at 814-938-2050 for more information. n Sept. 4: Mahoning Market, 9 a.m. at N. Jefferson & Mahoning streets. Food, plants, crafts & more. n Sept. 5: Fundraiser for Autism & Special Needs, noon to 11:30 p.m. at Reynlow Park. Music, raffles, vendors; hosted

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Tickets required. n Sept. 7: Labor Day! Enjoy the holiday! n Sept. 11: Patriot Day. Remember those who died or were injured during the Sept. 11, 2001, terroristic attacks in the United States. n Sept. 12: Girl Scout Cadette Space Science Researcher Day, 9 a.m. to noon at Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center.

Pre-register by Sept. 9 at 814-938-1000 or email info@weatherdiscovery.org. n Sept. 12: 122nd Annual Groundhog Picnic, 1 to 9 p.m. at Gobbler’s Knob. For ticket information, contact the Groundhog Club or the Chamber of Commerce. n Sept. 12: Electronics Recycling & Household Hazardous Waste Collection at Goodwill in Falls Creek for Jefferson County residents. Register at ecsr.net or 1866-815-0016 for appointment time. There is a cost per pound. Hosted by Jefferson County Solid Waste Authority. n Sept. 13: 11th Annual Walk for Suicide Prevention & Awareness, a virtual event with free registration. Visit the “1istoomany” website for information. n Sept. 18: Mahoning Market, 9 a.m. at N. Jefferson & Mahoning streets. Food, plants, crafts & more. n Sept. 18-20: Apple Fest, various locations around Smicksburg. n Sept. 18-20: Chainsaw Carving Event, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. all 3 days at Cook Forest Sawmill Center for the Arts. Visit www.sawmill.org or call 814-927-6655 for more information. n Sept. 19: Peanut Butter Festival, opens at 8 a.m., New Bethlehem. Presented

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Pick up at Frostburg Community Center. n The First Church of God offers a Celebrate Recovery program. Contact the church or visit its Facebook page for information. n Email your hometown community happenings items to hometown@punxsutawneymagazine.com.

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The SSCD Cash Raffle is only weeks away!

When SSCD Church made the difficult decision to forgo its annual summer festival in August due to health and safety concerns surrounding the virus, they looked for ways to preserve a bit of the excitement that always accompanies the event. Since the culmination of the festival was always the big prize drawing, they decided to preserve that aspect – and make it even better! Only 2,000 tickets are being offered for this year’s raffle which significantly increases participants’ chances for winning one of three cash prizes. For a $20.00 donation per ticket, this year’s raffle offers $16,000.00 in total prizes including a grand prize of $10,000.00 for one lucky winner. The drawing is being held on September 26, 2020 around 5:30 pm immediately following the afternoon church service.

Everyone is welcome to participate. Tickets can be purchased by filling out the form included in the ad in this magazine or by stopping by the rectory office at 616 W. Mahoning St., Punxsutawney. If purchasing by mail, ticket stubs will be filled out and returned to participants by mail.

Monsignor Riccardo stressed that just like the annual festival, one hundred percent of the proceeds from the raffle benefit SSCD School.

While Monsignor said he will miss the opportunity to host an event for the community, he and his festival committee are looking forward to making next year’s event better than ever!

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What to Include in College Students’ Quarantine Bags M illions of parents dropped their children off on college campuses for the start of a new school year in August. While that might not stand out in a normal year, 2020 has proven to be anything but normal.

Many colleges and universities grappled with how to approach the 2020-21 academic year as the world continued to battle the COVID-19 outbreak. Some schools chose to offer only remote learning and keep kids off campus entirely, while others offered in person classes and welcomed students back to campus. Still others created hybrid learning plans that combined remote learning with in person sessions.

Regardless of which option schools ultimately chose, it’s fair to say that many recognized the potential that the pandemic could once again upset the academic apple cart after the semester began, forcing students and educators to adjust to fully remote learning in much the same way they did back in March. In addition to that potential outcome, students who returned to campus must be prepared to enter quarantine if they or a friend, classmate or roommate tests positive for COVID-19. In anticipation of that, it pays for students to prepare quarantine bags in case they need to isolate themselves at any point during the semester.

Clothing Few college students have exclusive access to washers and dryers in their dorm rooms or apartments. Shared laundry rooms will likely be off limits while students are under quarantine, so make sure to pack enough clothing to get through two weeks of isolation. Take inventory of your supply of pajamas, underwear and socks and purchase more if necessary.

Food and cooking supplies College students accustomed to eating their meals at the dining hall food may

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Bottled water can help you stay hydrated should you feel ill, while decaffeinated tea can help you stay warm should you feel chills. Bring along a mini refrigerator, a toaster or toaster oven, a tea kettle, some pots and pans, bowls and plates, and utensils as well.

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In addition to extra masks, make sure you have enough daily medical supplies, such as toothpaste, shampoo, body lotion or soap, deodorant, tissues, and disinfectant, to last through quarantine, which is typically no less than two weeks.

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Quarantine bags can help students returning to college campuses this fall safely navigate their time in isolation.

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Wesley Allen Furman of Punxsutawney December 9, 1936 - July 21, 2020 Richard L. Fait Funeral Home www.faitfuneralhome.com u Alice Catherine Hess of Punxsutawney April 26, 1933 - July 21, 2020 Alice formerly attended the Church of the Nazarene in Anita and recently church at Mahoning Towers.

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She worked for Punxsy Sportswear and the snack bar at the Punxsutawney Area Hospital.

She is survived by two sons and a daughter, Sharon L. (Duane) Smith, Vincent “Chuck” (Lynn) Hess, Walter V. (Lesley) Hess, three grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, sister-in-law, Emogene Manners and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents William N. and Jessie (Hoover) Manners, her husband Clarence Hess, twin granddaughters Jennifer and Jane Smith, 9 brothers and 3 sisters.

McCabe Funeral Home Inc. www.mccabewaldronfh.com u Martin Earl Snyder, Jr. of Punxsutawney November 29, 1970 - July 22, 2020 He was born in DuBois on a son of Judith E. (McCracken) Buzard and the late Martin Earl Snyder, Sr. He is survived by his mother and stepfather, Virgil Buzard of Punxsutawney.

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He served in the United States Army from 1989-1993. He was an Iraq War veteran.

In addition to his wife Stephanie (Getch), his mother Judy and stepfather Virgil Buzard, he is survived by two children, Tanner and Bailey Snyder, one brother, Christopher Michael (Jennifer) Snyder, and his paternal grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Snyder.

Shumaker Funeral Home, Inc. www.shumakerfh.com u Mary Louise Steele of Punxsutawney December 10, 1947 - July 22, 2020 Mary attended the One Life Church in Punxsutawney.

After moving to Punxsutawney, she worked at Jamesway and First Commonwealth Bank.

Mary devoted her time to her community through the Groundhog Festival for over 30 years and she was instrumental in establishing the Groundhog Souvenir Shop.

She volunteered for numerous organizations including the American Cancer Society and Relay for Life.

She is survived by her husband of 53 years Roger L. Steele, daughter, Teresa M. (Keith) Neal, and son, Eric S. (Jackie) Steele, three grandchildren, and sisters, Diana Buffone and Arlene Troutman.

She was preceded in death by her parents Merle E. and Helen (Good) Troutman and a sister Darlene Troutman.

McCabe Funeral Home Inc. www.mccabewaldronfh.com u Elizabeth Jane Bouch of Brookville May 14, 1931 - July 23, 2020 She was born in Houtzdale to parents Paul Edward Irwin and E. Helen (Carey) Irwin.

Jane was a member of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church.

For thirty-seven years she worked for the Brookville School District.

She is survived by one daughter, Nancy (Ernie) Brocious of Brookville, three grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and one brother.

Preceded in death by her parents, husband, Delbert Linton Bouch, an infant brother, brother, Jack Irwin, and sister, Margaret Derrick.

Shumaker Funeral Home, Inc. www.shumakerfh.com u Philip L. “Louie” Lewis of Punxsutawney November 2, 1941 - Friday July 24, 2020 Philip was born to Loyd Lewis and Susan (Dunmire) Lewis in Punxsutawney. After his mother’s untimely passing, Louie was raised by his greataunt and uncle, Philip and Edna Dunmire.

Louie was a Vietnam Veteran, serving with the United States Army as a helicopter crew chief at Camp Holloway, Pleiku, Vietnam.

Louie was a member of the Punxsutawney VFW and Eagles Club. He retired from Ace Motor Freight as a truck driver.

He is survived by his wife Shirley Marie Lewis, three sons and a daughter, William E. “Willie” Lewis, Andrew B. (Ashley) Lewis Sr., Debi S. (Bill) Fox, John M. (Jada Shields) Lewis, eight grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and his faithful K-9 companion, Duke.

McCabe Funeral Home Inc. www.mccabewaldronfh.com u Jeremy Scott Meanor, 35 of Punxsutawney passed away July 26, 2020 Richard L. Fait Funeral Home www.faitfuneralhome.com u Betty "Jean" Wells of Punxsutawney March 18, 1934 - July 19, 2020 Jean was born at home in Coolspring to Clair and Geraldine (Klingensmith) Hadden.

Jean is survived by a daughter Deborah "Kim" Barker of Ridgway, 3 sons, Donald F. (June) Wells Jr., Dennis H. Wells, Randy D. Wells along with grandchildren as well as numerous great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews. She is also survived by two dearly loved sisters, Audrey Beatty and Debra Gotwald, and a brother Richard C. "Dick" Hadden.

Jean was preceded in death by her parents, her beloved husband Donald F. Wells Sr. in 2006, sister Barbara "Joyce" Bietz, sister Mona Rader, and a brother Samuel C. Hadden.

McCabe Funeral Home Inc. www.mccabewaldronfh.com u Sara Lynn Huey formerly of Punxsutawney March 12, 1991 - July 31, 2020 Sara served in the Guard and was honorably discharged in 2013.

She leaves behind her mother, Eunice (Spader) Smith, brothers, Justin Huey and Jaerdin Spader, niece, Danielle Spader and nephew Johnathan Spader; an uncle, Sandy Spader, an aunt, Violet (Matt) Burns; cousins, Aaron Spader, Mandi (Spader) Costic, and Anthony Spader.

Preceded in death by her stepfather, Mark Solinger, and maternal grandmother, Betty LaRue Spader.

Shumaker Funeral Home, Inc. www.shumakerfh.com u Karen Scurlock of Camden, NJ & Hawaii

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June 24, 1960 - August 6, 2020 Richard L. Fait Funeral Home www.faitfuneralhome.com u Robert Roy Kountz, 68 of Punxsutawney, PA passed away August 7, 2020 Richard L. Fait Funeral Home www.faitfuneralhome.com u Debra K. “Deb” Yoder of Punxsutawney October 7, 1958 - August 8, 2020 Debra was a Christian by faith. She was a graduate of DuBois Business College.

She is survived by her husband of 42 years Philip Yoder, daughters, Jennifer L. (Denis) Columbare and Tara R. Yoder, grandson Vincent A. Columbare, brothers, Robert Wise, James Wise, Ward Wise, sisters, Linda Sunderlin, Mary Jo Wise, Rhonda (Greg) Sunderlin and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Robert and Joyce (Hull) Wise and brothers Bill and Walter Wise of Clearfield, PA. McCabe Funeral Home Inc. www.mccabewaldronfh.com u H. James "Jim" McQuown of Punxsutawney September 16, 1944 - August 10, 2020 Son of the late Bernard Jerry McQuown and Myrtle Mae (Grube) McQuown.

Jim attended the Rossiter Calvary Methodist Church in Rossiter.

He was a 1962 graduate of Punxsutawney Area High School and a 1966 graduate of Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas.

Mr. McQuown was a Phys-Ed teacher at Punxsutawney Area School District for thirtysix years.

Jim is survived by his wife of fifty-two years, Evelyn “Evie” Ryen of Rochester Mills, his three children, Luke, Amy and Beau all of Punxsutawney, two brothers, Bernard L. (Barbara Jo) McQuown and William (Kathy) McQuown.

He is preceded in death by his parents, sisterin-law Margaret Ryen and brothers-in-law Arlen Ryen, and Patrick Ryen.

Shumaker Funeral Home, Inc. www.shumakerfh.com u Catherine S. “Cathy” Brosius of Punxsutawney April 14, 1961 - August 18, 2020 Cathy was a graduate of Punxsutawney Area High School. She was a Licensed Practical Nurse and worked for most of her career at the Cross Roads Women's Shelter in Punxsutawney.

She is survived by her husband of 28 years Russell “Rusty” Bair, Punxsutawney, two sons, Jeffrey D. (Jessica) Brosius, Joseph G. Brosius, granddaughter Jemma Grace Brosius, and her faithful K9 companion Darrin.

She was preceded in death by her parents Jack and Mary (Carcella) Hurd.

McCabe Funeral Home Inc. www.mccabewaldronfh.com u Helen Josephine Jordan of Punxsutawney December 22, 1928 - August 18, 2020 She was a member of the United Church of Christ in Elk Run. Helen worked as a secretary for many different places around Punxsutawney, such as

Jordan’s Stores, Ragley’s, the Cable Company and Bell Telephone Company.

She is survived by four children, Rick (Sue) Jordan, Vicky L. (Terry) Young, Mike (Candis) Jordan and Tammy (Mike) Repp; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren, and sister, Florence Lewise.

Preceded in death by her parents William Hobba and Alta Mae (Horner) Hobba, husband Frederick Andrew Jordan, brother, Tobe Hobba, and sisters, Nellie Payne and Bessie DeFoor.

Shumaker Funeral Home, Inc. www.shumakerfh.com u Gregory Bair December 1, 1959 - August 21, 2020 Greg was born in Punxsutawney to Raymond Bair and Olga Godos. He went to Punxsutawney Area High School. He worked as a lottery rep for the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue and then he retired to Phoenix, Arizona.

He always made everyone around him laugh and never stopped being humorous up until his last moments when he succumbed to his battle with ALS. Greg was preceded in death by both of his parents; three sisters, Donna Fulmer, Yvonne Everett and Emily Dwyer; and niece, Vickie Lynn Wazelle.

McCabe Funeral Home Inc. www.mccabewaldronfh.com u Barbara Lantz April 15, 1943 - August 22, 2020 Island of Hawaii Richard L. Fait Funeral Home www.faitfuneralhome.com u David Allen Taylor formerly of Punxsutawney June 6, 1940 - August 24, 2020 David worked for many years at Thermal Gard in Punxsutawney.

David had a tender heart and a fondness of cats and kittens.

He is survived by two sisters, Elizabeth “Ann” (Lester) Villella, Diana Lee (Clifford) Bair, brother, William (Nancy) Taylor and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was receded in death by his parents Thomas William Taylor and Frances Aldeane (Witherow) Taylor and brothers, Thomas Pryce Taylor and John Marshall Taylor.

Shumaker Funeral Home, Inc. www.shumakerfh.com u Joan M. Bowser of Punxsutawney April 16, 1931 - August 23, 2020 Joan was a lifelong member of the Albion United Methodist Church.

She is survived by two sons and a daughter, Eugene Robert “Bob” (Donna) Bowser, Susan K. (Thomas) Campbell, and Russell F. “Rusty” Bowser, three grandchildren, and a sister Sharon J. (William) Fryer.

She was preceded in death by her parents Russell and Virginia (Bowser) Smith, her husband Eugene R. Bowser, a daughter Deborah Lynn Bowser, brother Harry M. Smith and sister Nancy L. Crawford.

McCabe Funeral Home Inc. www.mccabewaldronfh.com Please visit the website of the funeral homes listed to view complete obituary, sign their guestbook and offer your condolences.

Punxsutawney Phoenix Continued from page 16 Punxsutawney, and the niece of Susannah Hess Jennings.

An advertisement in the Indiana Democrat beginning in July 22, 1869, described the new Jennings Hotel: “This large and new Hotel is now open to the reception of guests, and the proprietor by long experience feels confident he can please a discriminating public. The Table will be supplied with choice edibles, and the Bar with the choicest wines and liquors.

Travelers will receive the best accommodation that can be given. Good stabling on the premises and attentive Hostlers to take care of the stock.” All of these were necessities in a time when travel was by stagecoach.

In July 1871, with Henry’s health failing, the Jennings leased the Jennings Hotel to John K. North, who operated it until 1875 for Susannah Jennings and then for George Kramer of Henderson Township, to whom it was sold. Mr. Kramer renamed the hotel the “St. Elmo.”

George Kramer sold the hotel and property to Sarah Fisher in August 1878.

Sarah Fisher was the wife of B.K. Fisher, a career hotel operator who was managing the American House in Brookville.

Sarah and B.K. Fisher were the parents of Jacob L. Fisher, Esq. and John M. Fisher, MD. In 1878 a writer for the Indiana Democrat commented on his visit to Punxsutawney: “We stopped for a day or two at the ‘St. Elmo’ hotel kept by B.K. Fisher, who has fitted it up in grand style. Mr. Fisher is a live landlord and has pluck and energy—he will succeed.” Mr. Fisher had grand plans for the St. Elmo.

An advertisement appeared in the Brookville Jeffersonian-Democrat describing the services available at the St. Elmo Hotel: They included first-class accommodations, square meals at all hours of the day, baggage checked free, fresh beer on tap, the best wines, liquors, cigars. No intoxicating liquors sold to minors; no cards or games of any kind; no cursing or swearing; no loafers or drunkards allowed about the premises and sample room and room for arbitrations at the service of the public. The hotel was changing to meet the needs of the local citizens as well as the traveling public.

On June 3, 1879, a fire struck again. It began at the St. Elmo Hotel, destroying it, then to Zeitler Hall and eight or ten other buildings. Fisher rebuilt on the site and reopened his new St. Elmo Hotel in time to welcome a new era to Punxsutawney.

There had been much activity toward securing a railroad to facilitate the tapping into the enormous coal resources lying under much of the Punxsutawney Area.

Coal rights were being purchased for sale to the H.P. Brown Company of New York.

The St. Elmo Hotel became a place where local businessmen were meeting to discuss and develop opportunities for increased economic activity and for

celebrating special events.

On July 21, 1882, a meeting of area businessmen took place at the St. Elmo Hotel in Punxsutawney for the purpose of organizing an effort to create a narrowgauge railroad between Punxsutawney and Indiana. This meeting was reported in the Indiana Progress on July 27, 1882.

Among those attending the meeting were P.W. Jenks, Esq., Theo Pantall, M.J. Dinsmore, J.E. Mitchell, and W.P. Hastings of Punxsutawney and J.U. Gillespie of Clayville as well as representatives from Covode, Marchand, Locust Lane, Richmond and Indiana. All saw great benefits to their communities through the development of a railroad.

Miss Henrietta Nicodemus of Indiana County and M.M. Sheasley of Brady Township, Clearfield County celebrated their wedding on August 19, 1882, at the St. Elmo Hotel in Punxsutawney.

In April 1886, A.B. Barr purchased the contents of the St. Elmo Hotel. On May 10 he and J.B. Cromer, former proprietors of the American House at Brookville, Pa, took charge of the St. Elmo Hotel in Punxsutawney.

On October 9, 1886, the worst fire in the history of Punxsutawney took place, consuming most of three blocks of the original town. It began in one of the residence rooms above the St. Elmo Clothing Store on North Jefferson Street and traveled north and south on Jefferson Street consuming that block. It traveled east along Mahoning Street, burning down the business block and was halted when fire fighters tore down a small frame building adjoining Mrs. Stumpf’s millinery shop near North Penn Street. On the south the fire jumped Mahoning Street and traveled south along Jefferson Street consuming the St. Elmo Hotel and most of the properties on that block until its fury was spent at Union Street.

The future of the property at the southwest corner of Mahoning and Jefferson streets was once more in jeopardy.

Would it, like the Phoenix, rise again?

To be continued next month.

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 Punxsutawney Area Historical & Genealogical Society, The Punxsutawney Spirit and Newspapers.com. Comments 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.

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