Edinboro Wise —Carrie-Goodell. 'S': -JRE.2t.7761- •\ ~ --i x" *■ * V Thursdav, November 19.1964 Harry Gibson a brother of Ethel Nye'si Do you know — i Don Cornell recently caught an father. She told us she had been in 43states eight pound muskie. Elsie stuffed and baked it and it made mighty and 20 foreign countries. She ad­ vanced far in educational work. delicious eating. Mrs, Zena Swoap Lasher passed We went up to Bill Baron's to pick away and was buried in the Edinboro our apples. I like the old orchard Cemetery Monday. She was born in best for in there are to be found the Edinboro in 1894, the daughter of RoxbUry Russets, Sheepnoses, Green­ Willie and Minnie Brown Swoap. ings, Banana apples and the best of I They lived in the house now owned all winter apples the rich meated, | by Bruces. Her father was a black­ tangy Northern Spy. The bland in-[ smith and had his shop west of the sipid highly touted Delicious apple i house. Occasionally when the water can t hold a candle to the ones men^ i was high it flowed right through the tioned. Even the skin on the Deli- t f shop. Later Olivia Thomas and her cious is too tough to eat. We went to a sale at Mrs. Jap Klines [ mother built a house from it there. It was destroyed by fire eventually last Saturday. I bought the first ^ Zena married George Lasher, one of thing that was struck off—two wash R the older Lasher children. Lashers tubs for T0(^. Those I'll paint with^ lived across the creek in the house roof paint, sink into the ground in which was later bought by Doc Jervis my garden and use for lily pools and moved to its present location next spring. Mrs. Kline who is 94 and is now owned and occupied by has sold her house to the Baptist preacher and she and her daughter, the Hugh Jennings family. This past week we received a letter Okel, will go to live with another ’ from Lynnie Oakes, a former Edin- daughter, Georgia, and husband. ‘; borite who now lives in Arkansas. Klines were natives from 'over in!*? She is one of the few still living who the Valley'near McLall^en’s Corners graduated i n my father's class in Georgia and Okel both started to Normal School,'98. Two others iare school to Dad at the Cummings Dora Morley Hornaman and Luther School. Conroe. She says, "My folks lived in I came home with the two tubs, a poor little house in'Girltown While two floorlamps, a sugar bowl and I was in school. I believe they paid an iron mold to make eleven maple $5. 00 a month rent for it. It was sugar cakes, all for 450. Too, I saw the old Williams house and has long lots of folks to visit with which is a since been torn down.Until President most pleasant part of any sale. Johnson informed us,we didn't know we were so poverty stricken! Any­ way they were happy days. " Ina Perry Williams told us the house stood just south of where Bob Skelton lives today. Her brother, Leon Oakes,in the early 1900's op­ erated a photograph gallery up over the Bakery. There was an outside stairway. He was an excellent photographer, too. A sister married! Drew Gleeten is home from thet hospital and can be up and at the table to eat his meals. Mrs. Gleeten [ attended their daughter Caroline's wedding last weekend. Caroline and her husband work in Washington, G C. Blanche White spent a couple of days at the Gleeten home last? week. Few hunters have much to report. in the way of game this fall. ■f7 Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell ^ T h o s e of us who live near tne k cove and lake knew this storm was ^ brewing. Tuesday night wild geese milled around overhead looking foi j a place to stop and rest on their long s: flight south. The honking call of J these migrators is a sound one can J never forget and is always welcome. ^ It is all a part of Mother Nature’s ^ plan as these birds seek their winter home ahead of the arctic blasts that usually follow them. It was 7 degrees above zero when we stopped to look at the thermo­ meter on the way to the barn this Sunday morning. RE 2-7761 According to my father's observa­ tions, and many of the folks of his generation, winter is not yet ready to settle down in earnest. The reason is that the creeks and swamps have not filled up yet. Lorna Sheets is driving her car again. Its good to have her feeling better. A few Sundays ago as we were walking across the field to the ceme­ tery a deer gracefully came across the pasture, then skittered across the corn field and meadow to the cove where it swam or floundered in mud to the bank on the other side back of Nevin Smith's from there it headed south to the swamp. Grandma. After that he wrote to! Dad, but Dad was no letter writers and never answered, so all contact! with that branch of the family wasf^ lost until this past winter. A record’^ which should have been sent to me was sent to a J. A. Goodell in Cali­ fornia by error and this is the letter I received; January 31,1964 from the desk of JAMES A. GOODELL -j-r:.- -'v>. •V v.^ it is nice to see lights in the house across the way again. William and Bobbette Wagner and their three children have purchased the Erb property and moved in. Besides be^ j ing one of the nicest houses about, J > it has room enough to move about, .; a big attic that is the perfect place ' for children to get away to play and ?J read and dream, for there is a tin ' : roof and you can hear every rain drop I that falls or the sigh of the winds as they race through big old maples . ; that surround the house. It is prob-- ably the best insulated house in the VT] community. It was built more than X:??a hundred years ago by our great ^ grandfather and added on to by his son, James Adolphus. As long ago as I can remember,Fay Burchfield lived there. Grandpa Goodell’s brother, James Adolphus, was an architect and left Edinboro about 90 years ago to settle in Mattoon, Illinois. His architec­ tural specialty was Court Houses and jails throughout the South. Dad could remember of his returning to Edinboro once afterward. He was sporting a gold headed cane which had been presented to him upon completion of some piece of work. His son,Elmer, was manager of Cole Brothers’ Circus and another son, Edwin, drove a team in the chariot races, a feature of the circus enter­ tainment program. The circus win­ 'h tered and trained in Harborcreek for some years. Jesse Tarbell, who' at one time lived where Don Cor­ nell owns and lives today, was hired to repair the circus wagons. In 1909 - S' Elmer Goodell and his daughter, Irene, came to visit Grandpa and 't>ear Carrie Goodell, The enclosed came to me by mis­ take in this envelope,together with a similar report for me and I am ^ taking the liberty, dear cousin, of sending it direct to you—because you are my cousin! I am told all of the Edinboro Goodells are my cousins. Although I understand you pronounce the name Good'ell, we have always pronounced it Goodell'. When my father and other mem­ bers of the family were in Erie for a couple of winters,years ago (sixty or more) they visited relatives in Edinboro and around. My father was Elmer Ellsworth and his father, same as me, James Adolphus, They lived in Mattoon, Illinois, but I was born and reared in Kansas City, and since the early 20's, lived in California. Now you know all about me—nearly all! Do you wish you could say the same about me???" We answered the letter and have carried on a most interesting cor­ respondence since. He was at one time manager of the Beverly Hills Hotel and is now Business Manager of a magazine, "Pictorial California; We have three bird feeders going now. Besides dozens of English sparrows and one old fat starling, there are tree sparrows, chickadees, nuthatches and yesterday, cardinals appeared at the back feeder. The blue jays have been plentiful in the garden since the chinkapin burrs started to open. All of the birds work at the suet feeders. The car­ dinals and the little tree sparrows are at the feeders almost before it is light in the morning and the last to feed at night. Nina and Paul Homer come each Sunday to visit and help her sister. May Kirschner, since she suffered a broken hip last summer. Frances and Helen Burchfield havef ¥ left to spend the winter in Pheonix,?'^ Arizona. Most week-end social activities^ in Erie were cancelled or postponed! d u e to the snow but not Edinboro. It would take more than a snowstorm to hold up a turkey party in this village of hardy souls. What happened to the Republicans in Edinboro and Washington Town­ ship in the last election? It must be a f e w people fell prey to the lure of the ‘Great Society. ' A *........................ Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell RE 2-7761 What could be more beautiful than the softly falling snow this early morning. The weather man predicts increasing winds and snow squalls later today and through tomorrow. The gray snowy day darkens the house and barns somewhat, but you feel the security and peace from a spring, summer and autumn of hard work. The cattle are bedded with a heavy layer of straw and the sounds as they munch away at hayj the graneries are filled with oats, the hay and straw mows filled to last through to spring turnout, a good big woodpile, the coal bin filled, the freezer filled with beef and pork, the canned vegetable%fruits,relishes and preserves which fill the cellar shelves and benches along the wall are filled with cabbage, carrots, squash, apples, and potatoes,* Fact is, we could get through the winter buying nothing but bread We COULD bake that, in fact, we tried it once just for something to do. There was lots of room for improvement but with lots of butter it wasn't too bad. The slowing down of many sorts of outside activity gives one time for others. Mother always did a lot of her sewing, crocheting and knitting during the winter months. It's w orth all the work and I wouldn't trade one snowy,blowy day for a winter in Florida. Richard and Evelyn Walker have purchased the Anderson property on Tarbell Lane, The deed was recorded November 11,1964, It is a beautiful spot and (I bet) vdien they build their new home it will be there. There are only two more beautiful spots left in the ^community—one is in a clump of trees east on the lane vhere the old Tarbell house used to stand and a knoll north easterly where one can look to the lake or to the north and the changing colors of swamp pasture to the woods and hills be­ yond. This acre and a fraction was once part of a 75 acre tract includ­ ing what is now Sunset, purchased in 1832 from the Pennsylvania Pop­ ulation Company, with the Holland Land Company acting as agent, by Layton Bentl«y Goodell for $115.50. We have the original deed. Twelve years later the 75 acres was sold to Nathaniel Austin for $2600. 00. In 1915 an acre and one half was pur­ chased by Emerson Rogers and he and his father built the house which stands there. Samuel Anderson pur­ chased it in 1924, The first few yeas it was only a week-end and vacation home. Andersonsgrew to love it so much that they moved out in 1929 and 'had made it their permanent horne until September 30, 1964. From the very first Margaret and I were welcomed into their hearts as the children they didn't have. What it was a raging blizzard, we gave Dad nopeace until he saddled Ted and rode down to the trolley station to get it for us. What a wonderful experience to open that willow; trunk which had been lined with silk. There were many candies— homemade and bought, dozens of kinds of fancy shaped cooktes, nuts, fruits,imported preserves,fruit cake and little gifts tucked in here and there among the goodies. First our play house and then our cabin dis­ played the many gifts through the years. How fortunate we. are to have had so many good and kind friends through the years, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Torrey returned Saturday from a week's visit and Thanksgiving dinner with their daughter, Joann, and family. Hundreds of cars with hunters headed for the deer country passed ! by yesterday. By evening some of I the same cars will be returning with ' game proudly displayed over fender or top. This is the time of year that cracks develop in one's thumbs, The^ren't very big but they sure can c^Pe a lot of discomfort and are hard to heal up. CorS'Hostettler had a nice tele­ phone conversation with her son, Parke, and each of his family on ; Thanksgiving Day. They live in Colorado. She ate dinner with . daughter, June, and family. Inez Sproul has recently planted thirty-five new rose bushes. The : soil in which they were planted was ' ■ liberally mixed with flap jacks from our pasture and then the bushes were mounded high with dirt. They ought to produce a lot of beauty next summer and one can dream of it all winter. .................... Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell wonderful Christmas boxes Mrs. derson used to pack for us. One yqar in particular, that we remembei;Mrs Anderson called early Christmas morning that a box was arriving from Erie for us on the street can Although - ........... ... , c * » . ' <■ . V * *• r ‘ ^ •5 “'a. RE 2-7761 2- /. 7- /* Janet and Larry Hayes have a little It is understandable that these i son born the eve of December 9. young folks who were farm raised He has a lively little sister, Connie, would want a home like this, and at home. When Janet gets home while Tom drives truck for Rogers ; from the hospital she will be at her brothers of Albion, he can still do a; I Grandmother Perry’s home on Perry little farming and did put in a piece I Lane. Unless bad winter storms up- of wheat this fall. I set plans,Mr.and Mrs.Carl (Gwenny) Given a house like that, some \ Re xford and three children of Massa- good ideas,plenty of gumption,paint I chusetts will be here so the whole and wallpaper and there’s no end to ] family will be here for Christmas, the beauty one can create. Gus and j What a wonderful day it will be for RuthBurgetfs home is a classic ex­ 1 everyone. The big old Perry home,- ample of it. j stead can hold them all. It will be Qie of the pleasantest experiences, i a genuine pleasure for us, too, to argaret and I have had through the ] look across the fields and see the [years has been to drive along the ; Christmas lights and activity over country road past this farm and see there. Burgers loading that last load of We finally got it! This last snow I hay just at dusk and the dew was storm drove the rats and mice/ini setfling—tomorrow was all spoken : from the fields and one old rat took' ! for. The piles of cord wood along I refuge in our cellar. He lived high j the edge of the woods spoke of provion our apples and potatoes until we j dence and the glorious fall colors of put them on the swing shelf and put this hillside woods which had always out two varieties of poison. Thurs day morning he lay at the foot of been kept clean of underbrush was the cellar stairs where we loaded a picture of pure beauty. Donna and him onto the coal shovel and dis­ Tom have their whole lives ahead posed of him in the kitchen stove. of them. What a wonderful place It's the first one that has gotten in to raise their children and see their in years. Before the days of poison dreams come true. David Bush of Titusville lived Dad would set traps, and if that with Brooke and Preston Bishop failed he brought in an old cat from the bam and left it in the cellar for across the street for two school terms while he attended college a day. Penelec is putting lights on poles here. An item in last week’s Morn-; that surround Lang Electric to light ing News announced that he had joined the Peace Corps and will be up the outside area around the servind in Malawi. buildings and parking area outback. The transfer of the Joe Klakamp Tom and Donna Woods have pur chased the Wal Burger farm on the farm to David Stutzman doing busi-r Arneman Road. There are about 68 i ness as Stutzman Lumber Co. ap­ acres in the place with a good sugar peared in Saturday’s paper. I’ll bush. Situated along the ravine is a write up about that in another ar-^ picturesque old sugar house. Burgers tide. Stutzman is getting his hands i niade maple,?yrup and until on one of the finest pieces of virgin shortly ^ e f o'f e Mrs. Burger'pTsI^ timber left in this area. Jim Skelton’s are adding anew away had kept the farm stocked. The farm has been in the Burger garage to the rear of their house. name for many, many years. It had It isn’t completed but can be used belonged to Edward Burger, passing this winter. Sunday morning when the April on to Wal Burger and his wife, Ora Lee Wycoff Burger. Two of their like breezes were moving the free children live nearby the home farm tops so airily two robins flew into and on Arneman Road—Ralph Burger the birch free in my garden and chirped away. on the old Henry Church place and Joe Gleeten of Columbiana, Ohio Duretta Beason on the old Henry Church place where his son. Dent, ►spent the week-end in Edinboro, > , I making the rounds of his friends and built the house and lived. The house is one of those lovely, j thoroughly enjoying one of his fre- ^ i* old farm houses which have taken' quent visits back home. After ‘on character from generations of one Christmas he’ll be leaving for Flo[ family having taken roots there. jrida to spend the winter. A well is being drilled on the lot 1 There is a large kitchen with a good big bathroom off it. The panfry is recently sold on 6N by Mrs. Ceylon now used for Donna's washer and Perry. dryer. The bedroom off the living ^ room is being used as a sewing room ■ and for the baby’s things. There are i'4] three bedrooms upstairs with a landj ing you would love. Off the kitchen Us a good sized woodshed which was ‘as necessary to a farm house as a roof. Woods have put in a furnace. i,-v J;* "as*- *' :< s'* r 1, , • '”*■ " t‘v" L - ’’'*'"‘« - '- J' - --^i rii' ‘ j-'vA'Vfe--"’^ ^ ^--- *> ^ ■« •i V ■■'■'■fX^.. \ ^ C f - # ■ » *•' > ★ Edinboro Wise ★ 4 Carrie Goodell * , < Vi r3 J'^ ' i 1 a V" ‘ .T 0 ’jV- v4: e Af-^ .. V'J -A-* 1.^ • ^ /' ■» ’4w ^ Reporting on some of the local deer hunters is now in orders Bob Stafford^arold and Anna Lee’s son) shot a seven point near the Hurta farm; Eddie Kovschak shot a nine point on Maurice Kline’s;and George Kline shot a nice seven point be­ tween Jesse Kuhn’s and Glen Kline’s places. I understand there were sev’ eral shot near Hound Hill too. Boh Johnson claims he shot one but it got away. Sunday’s light snow would have been perfect for making ice cream or cooling wax. When we were youngsters, ice cream was not as easily come by for the reasons that it cost too much and most folks had, no way of storing more than they could eat at one time. The kind that mothers made then, of light new snow, an egg yolk,cream and vanilla ->r stirred up while e a g er youngsters 4 i te d impatiently, tasted better any today. Most folks figured buying or making at least twelve gallons of maple syrup to last thru the next sugar season. It was used for various things-on pancakes every *\ morning but Monday, when fried mush took their place; served with warm baking powder biscuits; and Sunday afternoons, we were allowed to use some to make wax. A good , .J, mouthful of that to chew on tasted : t. as good as any candy ever made. , V To make wax, you coo'ked maple ’Tr syrup down thicker and spread it ’ around on clean light snow. y-i Jessie Nash has rented her house '' 4 to two college boys for the winter j months and gone out to her son John’s until the robins return in the Spring. .//‘;;spnng. Shields left Sun day morning for Lake Worth,Florida, X-% spend the winter months. Friday evening the three boys and their i* f^ 1 11 A 0 ♦♦I ^ When Tommy was four years old for him and he sassed Uncle Ase, Happy birthday to Tommy Gleehis Aunt Matt Dillon, his father's Uncle Ase said, "Youll sass me’|[§^ ten who will be 93 years old Thurs­ sister, adopted him and he lived with will you?” and undertook to give day, December 10. After they returned from the Civil AuntMatt and Uncle Tom Dillon in Tommy a licking. Tommy replied, War,Charles Austin and Russell the oil country (Franklin, Bradford) !"Better men than you have tried it Gleeten bought the farm still known until he was fourteen years old. Auntl 'and couldn’t do it’.’ By that time it as the Charley Austin farm (now Matt didd and Tommy came back was interesting enough that Colvin’s, owned by Doutts ) from Steadman. to live with his mother and step-| and McLallen’s heads were above Russell sold his half to Uncle Charley father. It soon became apparent that| the hole, listening. Uncle Ase re­ and bought the Thayer Northrup he was not welcome in his step* plied, "You’re just like yourfather’I farm (how owned by Boyd Hostettlei^. father's home, and to avoid further Tommy wishes very much that friction between his mother and the barn that used to be on the back Three Washington Township lads, McGahen, Gleeten and Austin fought stepfather. Tommy started out to end of the lot was still there. He in theCivil War. McGahen was shot ^ look for a job. As he neared Grand- would be completely happy if he had and killed,Gleeten drove an ambu- j father Gleeten's farm. Grandmother a barn, a horse and a dog. He has torlorn youngster .trudging the rooster. In fact, he has three lance wagon that picked up wounded y saw and dead soldiers on the battlefields, I along and after questioning him^ pullets, one old hen and three roosters Hp was never wounded nor did he I told him to stay there and be her; right there in town. The neighbors lose a horse during the war. Uncle 1 boy until he was a little older. He' around there may never have seen Charley was shot in the leg and sent ( stayed there and went to school that a game rooster but they've all heard Ktn-- --------- ... ----------------home. Russell wrote to him that one crow. Until recent years he had when he recovered he should re­ winter and the next year he hired' never been without ahorse since he main athomebut as soon as the leg out to Uncle Ase Gleeten. Shortly was fourteen years old and bought healed he returned to the army until; after iie went to work. Uncle Ase? ’Old Speeler’ from Unde Monty the war ended. i started to dig a well. Will McLallen*' (P. R. *s father) Gleeten for fifty Russell Gleeten married Jennie! and Eijimett Colvin were helping. ^^Jollars. Walker and it was on this farm that The dirt as it was dug was put into Tommy shovels off his sidewalk. they lived and where Tommy was a tub and moved by a windlass to rakes the leaves and has a good gar­ where it was dumped onto a stone den. Last fall when we went down months old they were going up to boat and hauled away.,Because to see Twila he was cutting and 41' Phil Vandervort’s for dinner. Mrs. Colvin and McLallen were late in shocking corn stalks. Vandervort was a sister of Tennie’s j|,getting there. Uncle Ase became^^ Tom Gleeten and his deceased I very irritated and it seemed Tommy wife, Florence, worked hard all their ^could do nothing to suit him. The* lives, raised and educated a fine iconstant fault finding was too much I family and were always greatly initerested in the sound economics and * , 4’' v-f,j . ' - ( t-'- X ^ ’ politics of their country. No one lever enjoyed listening to or watch; ’«'ling a prize fight more than Tommy ^ . land should someone stop by with anP •jinvitation to a chicken fight,he^ 'Y iwould find it hard to stay home. He, rv-V ' - Jnever feared coming to grips with /jlife’sproblems and enjoyed the good- M J figbt all through life. It has been k *1 men like him, industrious, thrifty, ^ an independent thinker, one who never questioned his ability and al-| ways found a way by his own efforts! ■ to make a living for his family, that made this country great. Thank^ ^“ God for that kind of men. IS?. ’ J ★ Edinboro Wise ★ Carrie Goodell Saturday that Ethel King Gillaspie Darrow had passed away after suf^ fering a stroke. She and her hus- | band, B.E., Darrow, had left October 20 to spend the winter in their home in Mt. Dora, Florida. Ethel was the daughter of George and Minnie Hardman King. She was bom December 9, 1891. After her mother died in 1905 she lived with her grandparents, Mr. andMrs.Mike Hardman, just east of Dundon Lane until she was graduated from Nornal School. She was graduated in the same class as Velma Walker, then taught school in Wesleyville and North Girard. She married Dr. Sumner Gillas­ pie and they moved to the old Scrafford farm where they lived until he passed away. Gillaspies owned a Chevrolet sedan which Ethel drove for the doctor on his calls around the country. Their faithful Airdale rode along with them,standing on the running board. One warm spring day when you opened up doors and windows and before folks put on their screen doors, Mrs.Mallory (Royce's mother) was cleaning house. As Gillaspies were passing by, somebody's cat came across from the swamp and the Airdale jumped from the run­ ning board and took chase. The cal sought safety under Mrs. Mallory's bed with the dog right after it. Ethel stopped the car while Doc crawled under the bed and dragged out the dog and they were on their way tc the call. Ethel enjoyed life and her friends will miss her laughter. Sadie Hard­ man, her aunt,but close as any sister, will miss her greatly. I saw Ken Hawkins and Red Austin in Erie Friday, both sporting fezzes. I must say they were becoming to both gentlemen. My Dad used to sing a song, the last words of which were, "fine feathers make fine birds they say, but its the hat that makes the man'I Its nice to walk to town after dusb and see the Christmas decorations in the windows and yards. I'd like to see some of the old-fashioned Christmas spirit and trim in our loI cal stores like it used to be. Only those in town who remember HopM kin's store when it was located g where the Driftwood restaurant is now, or Bill Coyle's store or Clara Pound's or Caroline Lefever’s can know how cozy, Christmassy and friendly those stores could be. Even the grocery stores, Dave Gillaspie's, Tim Tryon's or Tom Crandall’s, were decorated and rows of wooden pails filled with Christmas candies pink and white popcorn balls with string attached so they could b e hung on the trees. The day before Christmas Dad would leave a bushel ★ Edinboro Wise ★ RE 2-7761 Carrie Goodell the Post Office and at the Bank for the folks who worked there. Christ­ mas morning Horace Gillaspie was always waiting in front of the store with a couple of pairs of leather mittens or gloves for Dad after he had unloaded the milk at the trolley station. Everyone on the street 'called out Merry Christmas and really meant it as you drove along. Cora Hostettler had |i birthday December 15. Her living room;is brightened up with two beautiful' poinsettas.two pots of lovely mums, candy, fruits, other gifts and many cards. Everyone hopes she'll have many more happy years to celebrate : Tommy Gleeten is in Room No. I 3 5 7, St. Vincent Hospital. He is 1 mighty dear to his eight daughters. : We hope he'll soon be in shape to i come.home. 3 Mrs. Linden of Brownsville is here 3 to spend the Christmas holidays with Jane and Ed and the children, j We had a nice Christmas card and j note from Fred and Dolores Schulz i and wee Julie Marie of Longview, 5 Washington. Fred works for the Wey: erhauser Lumber Company and en; joys the invigorating outdoor life. Tony Burgett arrives home from : Cornell University .Wednesday to spend the holidays with the folks. Matt will be in Germany. It's his 3 first Christmas away from home. Sometime between 9:30 p.m.FriI day and 7:30 a.m. Saturday thieves ^ jimmied the lock, the door was ajar, and smashed a window at the rear ' of the EdinboroFurniture store. Be­ tween $700 and $1,000 worth of ; goods were stolen. Items included ■ a television, stereo, six radios, hair ; dryers, electric blankets, electric j wall clocks, etc. Many were Christj mas wrapped sold and lay-aways. j Even Mr. Kunkel's shirts which he : ■ had brought from the laundry were • taken. At the annexation hearings held i at the County Court House last Thursj day and Friday one of the big attracI tions which the Boro held up as bait I was the 24-hour police protection ' which would be theirs if Aey would [ just come in. [,•: Mr. Porter, Mr. Wm. Cornell and hMr.McDonaldare all clamoring for 1 this 24 - hour protection according '.'to the testimony they gave at the y hearing and was one of their chief reasons for signing the petition. Additional testimony divulged that the Boro police have to drive a mile into the Township to turn around and consequently for the past two years have been giving Walker's Garage on Route 99 the same 24-hour pro­ tection. Mr. Kunkdl's store is next door to the police station. The robbery must have occurred while the Boro police were pa Holing in the Town ­ ship. ^r.„ Happy New Year! May it offer you Challenge, —and the strength to meet it; Health, — and the time to enjoy it; Happiness, — and the desire to share it; Prosperity, —and the wisdom to use it. And remem­ ber, the Lord helps those who help themselves. Well, we had a green Christmas and I hope the old saying—a green Christmas, a full graveyard—doesn't hold true. Veterinarians, Ray Birchard and Donald Hostettler, are T.B. and Bangs testing cattle in the Township. j Have you noticed the beautiful i ornamental orange tree plant in j Mrs.Buchanan's window? Those who j know, claim the fruits are bitter and I puckery but they sure look good j enough to eat. 1 MissAnnBehler,our former school ! nurse for so many years, has heeded j the call from Hamot Hospital and ; is working three days a week in their new Psychiatric Department, j Mr.and Mrs.JackTorrey and sons, I Mark,Bryan,John and Mathew, drove 1 through from Rapid City, South Dakota to spend Cteistmas in the East. I First they visited Mrs.Torrey's folks in Pittsburgh. They arrived in Ed­ inboro Monday eve to spend four days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. l; Joe Torrey then they go on to spend a day with his sister, Joan Bryman, I and family in Cleveland. v | Word has been received by friends il in Edinboro that Margaret Taylor Stanford passed away December 16, -j 1964 in Hamilton, Montana. She I was the widow of Joe Stanford who I was born and raised in Edinboro. j-Margaret Taylor was born inWaterjford. Pa., in 1888. Taylors moved X ! to Edinboro and owned the farm on ‘ the west side of Route 99 beyond the Gillaspie School house. Joe or Mar< garet kept up a correspondence with -i Don Cornell through the years and the last Edinboro folks to visit them r > i in Montana were Royce and Nancy Mallory. They had twin sons, Tom ; ,i^|.^jand Frank, — one named for her father and one for his father. . v ':| Although Joe and Margaret had v ;sj lived in the west for many, many : i years they never lost contact or the • for their early home i Another book is closed and the old ' friends here feel the loss. The Boro Council and the Edinboro Zoning Board are extremely proud and give much lip service to the great values that Zoning has done for Edinboro. To get a good eyeful of its benefits just drive along Water Street or the southwest end of Dar­ row Lane. What is happening to our once lovely little town? Instead of being saved it is being turned into a developer;s field day. That's EDINBORO ZONING!!! The almighty dollar and who collects it outweighs- all other considerations RE 2-7761 Wilbur Billings is in the hospital for a few days to get checked over and built up. I hope they, can do him some good and that he'll soon be home again. Georgia Borland spent Christmas day with the James Wolfe family and Saturday with her brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pratt, of Lawrence Park. Gladys Caldwell (always Mrs. Hart to us) spent Tuesday through Sunday with her daughter, Virginia, and hus­ band of Conneautville. It was a nice Christmas and good visit for all. Royce and Nancy Mallory spent the Christmas holidays with the Royce, Jrs., in York State. The Evan Brown family of Georgia spent the holidays with his mother, Caroline Brown, and Arlene's parents, Mr.and Mrs.Gordon Harned,all of Waterford Street. Wilford and Helen Swift were hosts Christmas day to the Raymond Swift family, the William Adams family, Neil, Fred and Virginia. Mrs. John Knickerbocker and Mrs. Floyd Nesbitt have left for Cali­ fornia to spend the winter with the Robert Knickerbocker family. Don and Margaret Porter leave the first of the year for their winter home in Arizona. They really enjoy it there but are mighty glad to get back to McLane when the trees leave out in the spring. -v.f/ Edinboro Wise f'^%- irie^^^^^^jrhureday^^Januar^T^g^ Carrie Goo^jjell .. RE 2-7761 January 14,1965 , Did you ever see a lovelier January traveiea up and down tne village! day than Sunday, the tenth--almost streets. The very thought make^ I' gives a fellow the spring fever. Mth me wince. Carrie Goodell RE 2-7761 The Boro Council is to be com^ this freezing we really need acoupl inches of snow to protect the mea mended for finally coming up with dows and the bulbs in the ground a workable plan for taking care of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Nutter were '^' ■; Char lotte Esther Goodell passed Those new little clover and alfalfa the garbage and accumulations of away in the New Haven Hospital visiting friends in Edinboro Sunday afternoon. Mr. Nutter is Mr. Music ; j plants heave right out of the ground junk that collect with time. The S und ay, January 3, 1965. She was 1 from the freezing and thawing. It Township some years ago made th e older daughter of George and of Erie. He was once a member of / . “ ' upsets the cans over my rose cutting provision for their people by pro­ Helen Goodell. Charlotte was a Sousa’s Band, maintains a studio on viding a township dump. Township ' ■ ‘ too, State Street, still teaches music in graduate of Central Connecticut T h i s i s the season of the great Supervisors have f o r y ears posted State College, a member of the the Erie schools when a substitute migratfcons--Royce Mallorys, Mark NO DUMPING signs at areas where Connecticut Education Association, is needed. It is a thrilling experi­ ^ Jac ksons, Russ Walkers all headed townsfolks would drive along coun­ Phi Delta Kappa and a member of ence to see him stand before a band of musicians and direct a concert II southward this past week. Paul and try roads and dump their trash, tin C o n g r e gational Church. She had Lura Gleeten headed for Texas. When cans, etc. It is a shame to drive taught in the Shelton High School in Perry Square on a summer even­ 3 Mallorys stopped at a motel in Win along a beautiful road and run into for the past sixteen years. She was ing. Mrs. Nutter used to direct an Chester, Virginia, for the night who one of these disgraceful spots. I i Superintendent of the business all girl's band which toured the should they bump into but Russ and h op e now that folks will use the j school with twenty teachers under United States extensively. Nutters -1^ Velma. The motel was operated by means provided for them and help her supervision, Charlotte was the and Sam Anderson were friends and Coverts, former Edinboro residents. keep our Township roadsides beau­ granddaughter of the late Ned and associates of long standing. Frances Ellicott of Perry Lane has Jonas Mosier,husband of Ruth Me tiful. Mary Stancliffe Goodell. Besides I can remember the time when if notbeen feeling well recently. She Lallen and nephew of Inez Sproul, j her parents she leaves to mourn her passed away January 4th after a lin you saw a pile of tin cans in the loss a sister,Carolyn Rose Karol, of reports that Marian Pul ling Me Lallen (Lawrence’s wife) must gering illness. The last time I saw woodshed or out back of a person’s ; Baltimore, Maryland. w e a r a cast for six weeks longer, Ruth and Jonas was at Ralph Stafford ^ house you thought "No wonder they ! Committal services will be held never get ahead. They're-too shif^ sale. i Friday afternoon and interment will has just completed three months in it. The shoulder bones are not com I hope folks will vote YES to the less to make a garden, can and pre­ ] be in the Edinboro Cemetery. Telephone Company’s proposal as it serve. Everything they eat corner j Charlotte was a very attractive pletely healed. Marion and Lawr­ means that the next step will be ex out of a tin can." In some instances 1 and talented young lady with many, ence started into school the same day we did and were classmates tended area service to Erie. It has today you still wonder. S many friends. When the call came Hazel Gross Klakamp passed away to come by degrees and this is the I for blood donors, sixty people went through high school. Janel Gillaspie January 8th, Her husband, Joe Kla­ first step in the right direction. 1 to the hospital to volunteer and to was our teacher. Lawrence sat across ' give. We had a card from Joe Gleeten kamp, passed away just a year ago the aisle from me and Marion sat , He’s settled on Sarasota, Florida,for January 4th. Hazel was the daughter Don Fox is home from the hospital in the last seat in the second row of Henry E. and Mary Edith Gross. ; home base until spring. from the door. For years Charley J and feeling fine. Tommy Gleeten arrived home After graduating from school here 5 The new seed catalogues are be­ McLallen used to help Dad during from the hospital Monday eve. He she taught school in Sharon and ginning to come in the mail. The ': haying. He brought Lawrence along ; knew if he could just get HOME he schools in Erie County. When we first to arrive is always Burpees. It’s jfCif' would feel better—he does, too! were youngsters Gross’ li\ed in an as much a stand by in the farm house and we played. Our favorite sport w as hunting up the rotten eggs v^ich Well Edinboro has finally had it- upright and ell wood -colored house : as the Sears & Roebuck catalogue' a bomb threat at Edinboro State on High Street which has since been I may they never stop coming!: There hadn’t hatched and throwing them i College. The dormitories were va- remodeled and enlarged and for^ 1 is not a reason for not having flowers out the straw shed window. Some cated in the wee hours of the morn- many years has been the home of Mr, j around. Two dollars worth of flowei landed in the corn field close by iing for a search which turned up and Mrs. Arthur Klakamp. It was al­ j seeds could simply surround your and when Dad ran into them as he nothing. The smarty who called in ways a quiet and very neat appearing ,j place with beauty all summer and was .cultivating corn one year the the threat should get slight satisfac - house then as I remember-it—the j until the frosts come. Who wants to sport ended. kind when you stepped in the side Louise Bjork spent the week of tion from that prank. : go through the summer without a -i This morning when we were put- door it looked like home. Two sis­ V e g e table garden. Mother always V a c a t i on between Christmas and 1 ting the new tag on our little dog’s ters and a baby brother had died spaded^ ^rlittle patch and put in New Years with her two brothers in f ^ Irwin, Pennsylvania, ] collar we reminisced of Print Reeder many years ago. One sister, Allie « early onion sets, radish and lettuce Bob and Peg Johnson’s young son telling us that one year Swifts had Abbott,a retired teacher, still lives, j seed and how good they tasted bea whole batch of dogs and no license;: After she and Phyllis left our house j fore the m a in garden was even called New Years Day to ask if he and a friend might hunt in our fields . for them. The dog catcher came S a turd ay Margaret said to me, "I I planted. Some folks still do it. I The footer has been laid for the and pasture. It was done in such at around one day in the early summer. could really go for Allie Abbott. Swifts pulled down the shades in the I’ll bet she is a mighty good scout." ' i w a 11 of the new house on 6N, east courteous manner and completed b) a sincere wish for aHappy New Year i parlor,put all the dogs in there and Dad always told us what a nice man i of Perry Lane. . left Shirley (Mrs. James Harrison) Henry Gross was. The Spaniards eat grapes on New It just renewed our faith in human L f-: Hazel was married to Joseph Kla­ with them to keep them quiet un­ Years to bring good luck and keep n a t u re and good parents instillih^ til he left. He couldn’t see a dog kamp in 1934. Two daughters, money in their pockets all year— consider ation for other people's Phyllis and Mary Jo, were born to possessions in their children. I have anywhere and left satisfied. we stuck to ham and sauerkraut. Many folks will remember Mrs. them. Both girls were active at the Mildred Sedgewick is in Hamoi never known, of anyone being deniec the privilege of hunting where perMargaret McGeever, a former Home Valley Church near their home. Hospital. Economics teacher in Edinboro High Hazel has lived with Phyllis and her Jessie and Elizabeth Gardner have mission was requested. It’s those School. With their Christmas card husband, Don Zimmer, in the old both been having a serious bout hunters who sneak in or brazenly go in that raises a farmerhackles. was an announcement of their adopt­ Gross home on West Normal Street with the flu but are reported better. ion of a baby girl December 11, for the past year. It's good to get the new calendars When Mar garet and’ I sent oui 1964. They call her Kelly Ann. The up and h a ve a change of scenes McGeevers live in California now. Christmas note to Arlene (Shrimp about the house. Merchants used to ' It would be commendable if the Proud) and Bill Parsons we remindec pass them out—now you have to ask Boro Council would enforce their her of the time Clyde Dowler caught for them. dog ordinance. Dogs are fine at and shook her till her nose bled for home but not in someone else’s soaping their windows on Hallowe 'en yard or running the streets. Anyone She answered with, "Watch what who bought a Christmas tree that you write about me on Christmas cards—a lot of my grandchildren in 'email. Our second son is with had been on display on a-Boro Street can read now. " She told of illness got one that had been liberally e FBI so you two had better besprayed dozens of times by all the they had had during the past year With love, Arlene. " water logged little doggies that and continued, "Oh,well you can); ★ Edinboro Wise ★ r: Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell RE 2-7761 This cold weather has put a tem­ It was 26 degrees below zero this porary end to the big flies that ap­ morning whe|i I went to the barn to I do chores. When Margaret went out pear from nowhere and buzz around r| to lookat the therometer just before in the barn,attic and garage windowsj We walked through the pasture thej I bedtime last night it registered 15 I d e g r ees below. A clear sky filled other day and scared out four phea-' I with stars and an almost full moon sant cocks. I hope they can find' :| promised a chilly night and a north plenty of weed seed and goodsheltqj; I east wind blew it in. Several folks through this cold spell. fe] called to hear 'howcold'it was up Many folks have wondered at the i here. It has been so since I can rem- transfer from the Culbertson Com-| H ember. This seems to be one of the pany to the Edinboro Manufacturing! cold spots around here and other Company. Edinboro Manufacturing folks who have always lived here Co.and Edinboro Upholstery Co. are like to compare with their tempera­ the same. Lorn a Sheets is the very proud tures. White's Corners is another S' possessor of four new,beautiful dold spot. W e had a letter from Helen Erb sweaters—all Christmas preaents. last week telling us that her mother The last one to arrive was a very ■* Mrs. Milton Rupp, had passed away, pretty one which had been knit by 5 Rupps built the house now owned by Elizabeth Patterson, a former resi­ a I E d Linden. They had intended to dent of Edinboro. Perly Klines and Jinx Walkers are J make their home here beside their daughter and her family but the ties all pac ked and ready to start for S tof their old home, community and Lake Worth,Florida this Monday morning. Jinx does the driving for friends proved tap strong so they so and returned to the Kittanning they both farniiies.' Klines purchased a loved. They became so homesick house there last year. The Edinboro Chamber of Com­ for it that it w a s pitiful to watch merce met last Thursday eve with them. They bought milk over here and a good turnout. The two main sub­ Mr.Rupp came over for it every eve- jects discussed were the new pro­ I ning and always stopped a wiile to posal which has been made to the 'A: visit with Dad. They were excellent local users of telephones by the gardeners. I used to plow and fit General Telephone Company of their garden when I did our oat Pennsylvania. As the proposal now ground. They planted earlier than stands the Chamber of Commerce % we did so they were bringing over opposes it. They feel the ultimate green onions, lettuce and radishes extended area service to Erie is too before ours were ready. They,like indefinite and with the present set us, raised their own tomato plants up the additional charge would simp Mr.Rupp raised his own tobacco.too ly mean that the subscribers are fi They were wonderful neighbors and nancing a program for the distant we missed them when they left. Too|’'future—that the calls to Cambridge we 'll miss their visits back to see us Springs and McKean do not warrant the a d d i t i onal charges. Anotle r ■ and her letters through the years. A real estate transfer from Scott complaint and common with all McLallen to the Tra-Mar Realty telephone subscribers is that even / ' Corp. a p p eared in the Erie paper though there are many times that the service is out of order you still 'recently. The Tra-Mar Realty Corp is a Pitts burgh outfit who plan to have to pay the full bill. With gas erect buildings to accomodate col or electricity you pay for what you lege students. McLallens retain the use. The second item for discussiot house and a small lot and the other was the drive on membership which folks get the land on which the barn is to be undertaken soon. Cecil Meacham told me of a little '. is located and all the rest down in t he hollow and back as far as Inaj incident that happened on Water­ ford Street many years ago which Torcey William's property, c ; Leroy Baker bought this property you might enjoy, too. A t one time Charley Jones and | of Harvey Mack and built the house his family lived in the house nowfe r in 1916. Baker had bought an old owned by Ray Dulaneys. They had,f^ ^ house of John Hollenbeck which i Stood about across from the new a little boy about the same age as' Hensley house on the Sherrod Hill Velma Minium and Joanna Billings Road, tore it down and used what The three were inseperable play­ he could of it to build the present mates. Qpe day Aunt Miriam had house. The siding was sawed from baked bread and set it on a table in ,t i m b e r from the Baker farm and the woodshed to cool. Little Jones milled by his brother, Ben, who run discovered it out there so he and the Reeder's Mill. Gerald helped his two little girls all broke off a good A Ifather build it. He sold it to B, B. si zed hunk and went out on the front d Baldwin. Mr.Baldwin kept a cow so steps to eat it. When.it was discover­ used the land, sold by Scott, as a ed,there vere three very embarrass­ ner eat it all. Chances are that pasture. Gerald thinks the barn was ed and upset mothers. Mabel Bill­ Little Jones got his jacket warmed, % built by Mack. Harvey Mack built,^ ings made Joanna sit right there anc It furnished lots of amusement for [and lived in the house now owned by eat every bite of hers. Mrs.Minium the neighborhood. Charley Jones was an electrician ' Tommy Sheets. He built the house didn't dare to do that as Velma had jy; next door which he sold to Ralph grabbed such a big chunk she was and wired Uncle Ned's house in "^’Hardman between 45-50 years ago. afraid it would kill her if she ipade 1914. ______ ::. ' ' v‘.. ..K-r ■A,' \A svr % \ - Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell ; January 28, 1965 RE 2-7761 Last fall when I potted up some or The township residents are fortuAs always the January thaw is wel­ come. It gives folks a breathing the begonia plants from the garden, nate to have the good equipment spell before ;snow and winter take I picked off some of the little tissue and efficient operation of it for theii over a g a i n— sort of gives one his paper like seed pods, rubbed them roads summer and winter. It should between thumb and finger to release be a source of satisfaction for peo­ second winc^ too. Alan Anderson of Kinter Hill Road the seed which looks like ground ple to see their tax money used to started working at the college this cinnamon and sprinkled it over the the best advantage. There are many pastweek. It’s nice to know that if soil in the pots. It must have all Edinboro folks who enjoy the plea­ the car won't start, the driveway is germinated because in a dozen pots sure of driving the country roads also drifted full or other reasons you can there are literally hundreds of tiny It is a rare drive that you don’t meet bundle up and walk to work. the Mark Jacksons, Royce Mallorys Fred Sander's are spending the begonia plants growing. Last week or McNees’ enjoying them, too. winter out west. They will be visit­ Margaret transplanted about fifty ol evening aiiciend of ours long a resi­ dent of California but bom and ing friends and relatives along the the larger ones. Se veral years ago Joe Ondrey raised here commented as ve sat on way but California is their destina­ brought a book for ^e to read called Hound Hill.and watched the sun go tion. Wilbur Billings is home from the "Hills Book of Evergreens. " One of down, "There isn’t a road in Cali­ the trees which it described and ill hospital and feeling better. fornia where you could do this any Bessie Zimmer Briggs had been ustrated was the Serbian Spruce. It more. You just don’t realize how Suffering terrific pains in her neck was said to be the most beautiful fortunate you are to be able to move and shoulders. She was taken to St. evergreen in the world, native of a at this pace any moref' Vincent Hospitalby ambulance. She very small area in Serbia and virtuW a s h i n gton Township has over TT’ - * ^ i s now under treatment and obser­ ally unobtainable in this country sixty miles of roads to maintain and since it was behind the Iron Curtain vation and wearing a collar which has been able to do it and give ad­ and no trees or seeds were allowed helps relieve the pain. to be sent out. 1 finally found one ditional services with the seven mill Glen Kline of Hamilton Road is taxlevy inspite of the repeated land nursery where it could be obtained sttHr-a'itoapitel patiaa^*^ He has re­ in small quantities. Now those trees grabs by the Edinboro Boro Council covered from his operation but is The Boro millage is 14 mills^andj are bearing cones and this fall we nearly blind. they still can’t live within their in­ picked the cones, put them in a pan Hil Jur Torrey, Fifi Winternitz, on top of the warming oven where come as evinced by the recent loaii Loma Sheets, Miss Hess and Carolyn i of twenty-five thousand dollars to Miller drove to Cleveland Sunday they opened up to release the seeds. be assessed against Boro tax payers to hear Marian Anderson sing her last Next vie put the seeds in bottles and i for the next five years. concert before retiring. It was a put them in the freezing unit of the great privilege to see and hear this refrigerator for six weeks to stratify great artist and they all enjoyed it them. Early next spring we’ll plant them, in our planting bed of mixed very much. Loma said they sat up woods dirt and sand and shaded by in peanut heaven. a pine tree. I have Pinion Pines Mrs.Bob (Rosie) Zimmer is serious­ growing there now ready to be set ly ill in St. V i n c ent Hospital. Ill health has plagued her for s e veral out permanently next spring. Pres­ ■years. Hound Hill was first settled ton Bishop brought me the seed from hunting expePMU^KUn^ta wg^’ThfrooB ofH his last nountain lion When Jolm Schulz > ►A • 'A' 'K - i , ' # - 3 beautiful old horsehair chair last fall. She left it just as it was but had some gluing done, new webbing put on the bottom and polished up ^ > a bit. When you drop in, ask her to see it—you'll love it, too. h There are four new rosebushes out /X . this year that I’ve just got to have. I 7'*^ I They are Rose Opal, Seneca Queen, ' 7I Charming Vienna and Fireflash. t' . < Stop in next summer when they are [ , - ; r . i in bloom and enjoy them too. . ,V* i A;*- ’V" ' ’ V-, A r the family grew deep and all have;; worked as forester for the WeyerremainedLlrthehlll except Hazel i i Earner Lm^er Company m Was^ FlsherKellywho liveson Crane Road There is a beautiful stand of virgin hastyear I set out maple on the farm owned by George y°“”8 D‘gg« Pma. Sugar Pine, JefKline. The trees have been tapped frey Pine, Ponderosa Pine,Giant and maple syrup made by several Western Cedar, Sitka Spruce, Silver generations of the family. There Fir and Western Dogwood 'frees. Early in the week Blanche Rubner used to be some mighty good black/y": berry patches on the farm owned by and Mrs. Oscar Duncan were up to Bob and Rosie. You never left for visit with Gladys Caldwell. Later home until you had your milk pails in the week her daughter, Virginia Buel of Conneautville spent the day ; ] full of benies.. with her. Mrs. Donald Case was given a ^ X.V -r At/A*' 'I -.1 rf. /*- > Vj ' '"•'■'‘'•AT? ‘ ». » .U"‘‘ ★ Edinboro Wise ★ Carrie Goodell RE 2-7761 First National Bank Of Edinboro Annual Meeting February 4, 1965 ) *; , ^ ' , V 1 uesday;February 2 is Candlemas Day—Half your corn and half your hay. If you have only half of it left youhre in for trouble though for the springs are later and it’s seldom that one can turn out to pasture be­ fore May anymore. Mrs.Cynthia Prue (Ruth Burgett's mother) is back in Edinboro again after spending most of Novembej D e c e m b e r and January with her daughter, Beverly, and family of Parma, Ohio. Mrs. Prue's house is one of those new ones in the Engh area west of town. It's a split level and really lovely. Tuesday, January 26th, the stock­ holders of the First National Bank of Edinboro met to elect directors for the coming year. The same Board of Directors were voted to conduct the bank’s affairsfor 1965. After the stockholder’s meeting the directors organized with Bob Dowlei as their president, Bob’s father, Clyde Dowler, was a bank director for many years and a mighty good one. There was an accident at Tabor’s Corners Wednesday of last week. A State car plowed into Osterberg’s truck. Both vehicles were damaged and the truck landed in the ditch. The State car was at fault. Neither driver was injured. Mrs.Thomas Willrichof Itley has .been in St. Vincent Hospital. She hopes to be back home soon. Mrs.Fred Ellis of Mc£.ane haffbeen feeling quite miserable of late. Sometime ago GLF combined with another eastern co-operative and became A gw ay. Those holding Stock ^certificates with. GLE were asked to bring them in and, if they wished, turn them in toward new stockin the new organization. The new stock is twenty-five dollars a share. The old GLF stock was worth five dollars a;share. : Mi. William Wagner and Fritz L. Classen were around contacting Iot: cal stockholders last week. The Agway garden store carries Scop^ a systemic,which you sprinkle around your plants and w a t e r in. Plants become poisonous to bugs. We used it on our house plants last fall and so far have enjoyed a louse free winter. John Banko used it on his roses last summer and it worked fine for them^ It would be a mite expensive to use if you had verj many bushes though. W e were certainly shocked and saddened to hear 6f Ibm Culbertsoi& death Saturday eve. Tom and Edna had their plans all made and bags packed to leave for Florida this week. ------- —---- ------------------- After the streetcars were discon­ tinued in 1928 milk had to be hauled to Erie by trucks after that. Tom boughta truck and hauled the milk from this area. The first can of milk he loaded on the truck was from Andy Drake’s farm at Drake’s Mills He took five cans from our farm, some from Frank Wal ker’s. Will Dundon’s and George Culbertson’s. The first load included eighteen cans. His first stop to unload was at the dairy of Peter Yochim on West 31st Street. Yochim bought and peddled our milk. Today Peter Yochim is the only one of the names mentioned who still lives. Before hauling milk to Erie Tom had haul­ ed milk by team and wagon using* 30 gallon cans for Merle Hall who ran a cheese factory. In 1953 Tom sold the milk route to his son, Edward, For many years the family lived on Kinter HiU road,then Ibm traded places with Harve Alward and they moved to their new home on Erie R'oad. Later Tom sold it to Max Goldschmidt and bought the Almon Herrick property on Market Street where they are still living. As time passed all the farmers sought a mar ket for their milk in Erie and con­ sequently the business increased. Tom was in on the ground flooi; paid strict attention to business and prospered while he owned the milk route .In its hey day he was probably one of the most widely known men among the farmers of a large area and of all the operators of dairies in the City of Erie. Tom had not felt well Friday. Saturday afternoon upon the advice of Dr. Ghering he was taken to the hospital by ambulance and at 5:20 p. m. a ruptured artery of the main aorta caused his death. Tom was a good father and a good friend and will be missed by his family and friends. Charles and Edna McLallen have a new great grandson and the third for them. Little William Todd Coston, weight 7 pounds, 14 ounces,son of Leanne and William Coston and grandson of Mr. and Mrs. (Eleanor McLallen) Don McNamara arrived recently. He will answer to the name of Todd. His folks live near Meadville at Paradise Mobile Vil­ lage, Route 4. Helen Fox reported 30 degrees below zero temperatures at their farm Saturday morning. Mildred Sedgwick is staying with her cousin, Cecil Meacham, to con­ valesce. Paul and Nina Homer brought her out a week ago last Saturday. Red Amtin tells me ^t as yet the Boro C^^cil have not had to resort to borrowing any of the twenty five thousand dollars put forth in Or dinance No. 187 authorizing and directing an increase in the nonelectoral indebtedness and that it is not their intent to resort to it as long as there is enough money in the water department to extend or enlarge water lines. This year will see us make one of the most momentous decisions in the history of our Republic:’ Will the people who are sovereign in this country,retain the right to decide how their own state legisla­ tures are to be made up or will they have such crucial decisions handed to them by a few judges? That’s the real issue in the battle on reapportionment which has fol­ lowed the unprecedented decision of the U. S.Supreme Court last June 11 is not primarily a battle over whether rural America or urban America is to control the legisla-, tures—although it is that, surely enough. More basically it is a ques­ tion of whether the people are to have a choice, whatever that choice may be. Get a hold of a copy of the Feb­ ruary issue of the Farm Journal and read the editorial on page 150.Then write your state legislators and your U. S.Senators and Congressmen and do it at once. 1 - ’'V ^ r i " The year 1964 proved to be the largest and most successful in the 'fifty-eight years of continued opert ation by The First National Bank of Edinboro, Pennsylvania. Such was the report given to the stock­ holders at the , annual meeting as ' disclosed from the report of the I year's operations as given to the stockholders by President Robert E. Dowler. As revealed in the president's report, the resources df the bank during the year 1964 increased by more than a half million dollars and in order to meet the growing demand and use of the services of the bank at its Edinboro Main Office and its Branch Office at McKean, Pennsylvania, new electronic oper­ ated equipment was purchased dur­ ing the past year with all commer­ cial accounts changed over to the new system during the year and plans for completing the transition during the ensuing year are already in operation. In the stockholders meeting for : election of directors the personnel of the Board of Directors which has served the bank continually over the late years were re-elected for the ensuing year of 1965, they be­ ing Roy S. Carlson, Robert E. Dow­ ler, Harold A. Ghering, Jr., Miltor M. Rouse, Frank C. Scheidemantel, Attorney John A. Spaeder and Sum­ ner E. Wells. To more effectively, as well as efficiently, manage and control the growing operations of the bark at Edinboro, in the reorganization meeting of the directors which followed the close of the stock­ holders meeting, Roy S. Carlson I' , s,’' * S. • ..s A'T K J^ So'.f'- - '4, .V ; - ■!<. % jy V . .. J • .'1- ‘ 5*' < I- V.-- . •... .. -V V f'.y:- ’" V ■ X. 1 yy > 'n ' i r/ \ J/ Vi. fc-. --V ■. r.- ■ -i . .•’Cv.'.li ★ Edinboro Wise ★ Carrie Goodell ' y! ■■ *-4r; if- ' *=i» - J-; '' Everything about today, Sunday, • smacks of spring—the fast moving clouds in the sky, the crows flying ' over the pasture and fields looking fora mouse that may have ventured out for a breath o f spring air, the long splashes of warm rain on the front window every kind of bird with some kind of song, the green cast of little grasses close to the earth and a smell that is carried along by the little breezes. Forty years ago on a morning like this we would have been looking to\Mards A mi don's or Perry's sugar houses trying to decide if we could see smoke. If we could, we knew they had started boiling maple syrup and it was time for us to get there.There was a big dipper hanging inside and Ceylon would partly fill it with about half boiled down sap and we would put it in the creek nearby to cool so w e could drink it. There were certain trees in the woods that drip ped sweeter sap. We always had to sample the sap from those buckets. We had to ride the bobs through the woods a s Ceylon gathered the sap Mrs. Perry and Mrs. A mi don always sugared off for us at least once during the season and sent some maple sugar cakes over. What carefree happy days of childhood to remem­ ber and savor! The teachers and pupils from town here always walked to the sugar camp one afternoon, paid Mrs. Perry ten cents each and had all the maple syrup they could stir and eat. Can you imagine any­ thing like that happening today? A school bus would have to be used. Tony Burgett left for Cornell Universi^ Sunday after spending a weel at honi^etween semesters. Tonyas research and thesis was on bone cancer. Young Mike attends Edin­ boro State and his mother tells me he made the honor roll again this past semester. Angeline Amidon came down from Cleveland last Monday after­ noon and stayed until Wednesday noon. She is a first cousin of Edna Culbertson's. Jessie Nash was out from Erie Mon day and looking like a million dol­ lars. Herson, John,brought her out» Our sympathy is extended to the family of Alice Millspaw HotchkissPhyllis and Paul, her children, and Raymond, her husband, She gradu­ ated from high school here in 1912. Others in her class were Mabel Rubner who lived south of town. Jinx Walker,LennieDeamer whose folks at one time lived in the house of seven gables and later bought the house now owned by Bob Skelton, Lynn Colvin,Itley—lived in the house now owned by Axel Gardner, Opal McGahen lived in the old home on Gleeten Hill—owned now RE 2-7761 by KennethDavis,Grace andMacie Batchelor who lived on the farm ncv owned by their brother, Bruce, on the south end of Perry Lane, Joy Comstock who lived on the farm later owned by Uncle Ned between Lick Hill and Hardman Hill—Joy is a missionary in India, Marguerite Butterfield, Lois Webster t»dio lived on the Kate Schine road on a farm now owned by Jim Skelton, Don Cornell and Grace McLallen of McLallen's Corners. The Millspaw farm was on Gibson Hill road. Wilbert Ekelund owns it today. 11 was here that Alice was born and grew up. In the spring when Dad and Grandpa drove the cattle and sheep and led the colts to the farms west of town we would see the Millspaw family around. On in particular we liked to see was a girl with long dark curls—she was Hazel. The farm was on both sides of the road. The calves and pigs were pastured in a small lot on the opposite side from the farm build­ ings. The pigpenwasa slantroofed shed near the road. The first milk route started in Edinboro was operated by Charley Brown. Before long he just quit and went west. He went as far asArizo na, got off at some station, looked around-for about an hour, asked the station agent when the next train left for the East and took it. In 1912 Dad started up a milk route. Milk sold for 5^ a quart de­ livered. There were two telephone companies in town then—the Mutual and the Bell and we had to have both. It was a nuisance while it lasted. After Dad sold out the milk route we had the Mutual phone taken out. Our Bell ring was always 4 short rings. Dad sold the route to Will Millspaw who later sold it to Gusty Everwine. Gusty peddled mill for about three years and sold the route toE. P.Perry (Reuben's father) who later sold it to Norm Schruers who still owns and operates it. Dadls milkvagon ended up as our playhouE A day like this is a good day to poke through old boxes and we did just that. In one elaborately carved one we found our great Grandfather's (on Mother's side) discharge papers from the Civil War, a Confederate ten dollar bill, an 1854 GermanEnglish grammar and dictionary,lots of old receipts for masses,’ legal pa­ pers, recipes for linament, a dentist; advertisement of the Hoose t)ental Co., 1028 State Street, Erie, Pa., 1864. The very best set of teeth was $8. 00. Teeth extracted 25^, teeth extracted without pain 5O0,cleaning 7 1/20, Silver fillings 750, Platina fillings $1. 00, Gold Fillings, $1. OC and up. There was a lady in atten­ dance. They go on to say, "We use February 11,1965 only one grade of material—The I Best. Doubtful dentistry i s dear at I any price. One of the best things we offer you is certainty. If by any chance you should not be entirely satisfied with what we do for you, we willmakq/fhe work perfect if it costs us double what you pay. We would rather please one particular patron than half a dozen easy go­ ing folks. " Sophie Lang lost the end of one of her fingers in an industrial accident last week. Betty Budzowski had a similar mishap a couple of weeks before. Mr.andMrs.JosephFrancello have a new baby daughter. She has been named Lois Ann after Mary Lu's mother. Mark, about threOj is her little brother. They live on Sunset Drive,the road back of the Catholic Church. Sid Kuhn,FrankScheidemantel anc^ Glen Knapp left for Florida last week. KennethDavis of Gleeten Hill is home from the hospital and con valescing satisfactorily, Grace Campbell spent Sunday at the Charley Kirschner home. Sylvia Skelton is spending Mon­ day and Thesdayof this, week with Sue Stafford of Waterford Road. Grace Miller was released from the hospital last Tuesday and is pre sently at her son Wallace’s home on Kinter Hill. I've planted my tomato seeds— have you? A REMINDER: If you have a desire to eventually have extended area telephone service to Erie you must sign YES on the proposal of the first step to Cambridge Springs and McKean. If you have lost your slip another can be obtained and remem­ ber a slip not voted is counted as one voted in the negative. ^ Hr ■rf'-’:-. Edinboro Wise * Carrie Goodell - RE 2-7761 .February 18,1965 upset to see them abusing the Sab-j^^ tiful old furniture which Reeder had Kennan O’Brien, formerly of Ed­ bath day in such a manner. He j,| t^^sed throughout upper York inboro and more recently of Water­ started to chase them but Rev. Buzzan AnnBehler and friends were ford, has become a commerical (pronouncedBuzzy)who wasn’tac- n through New England and pilot for American Airlines. His customed to running in pastures;; intrigued by this place so folks bought the Mark Drake place skidde d on a flapjack front side i: ^ She writes on a post card west of our farm from Jessie Cole down. I never did hear what hap-[; hap-, showing , a^ picture of of the the estate. estate and lived there a few years. While pened from thereon. "Had the biggest surprise of our trip they owned it they tore down the Neil Swift recently purchased his last eve. Stopped at this beautiful bam which Mark Drake had buill second semi-tractor. His father II tourist home, and while we were When Stewarts bought the place owns six of them. They both haul I registering, discovered that Lewis they got rid of the garage which motor freight for Worster Motor Reeder was the owner. He gave me Coles had moved there and fixed this for your father. Wish you had up and now there's nothing left to | Lines, Inc. and conduct a thriving been along. AnnBehler." The card store anything in—a big mistake. business. was autographed and sent best wishes Kennan helped his father operate Wilford and Helen Swift left Fri­ his feed mill in Waterfofd. 'His day morning for a two weeks trip to to Dad. With Jim's passing the last of that mother often comes to visit Lorna Florida. Wilford said he almost branch of the Reeder family is gone. "Sheets. changed his mind about going Tues­ The last time I knew of his being The Township Auditors,]essie day morning when he saw and heard in Edinboro he stopped to visit with Gardner and Margaret Kline, have a big fat robjn chirping out in the Georgia Pratt Borland who had been been vorking the last five Saturda)s orchard. It was 59 degrees and sunny a school mate of his. on the Township books. here when they left. The snowdrops in front of our house W e will miss seeing and hearing have been in blossom since Tuesdaj Bruce Porter come into Cole and of last week. Fifty or more years Eastman's Garage and visit a bit. Mrs. Frank Lesuer, long a friend of Bruce put the new roof on Garfield Mother andDad,and on Dad’s mail Stafford’s barn. He walked around route gave him a clump each of on the roof of a barn or the top of daffodils, pheasant’s eye narcissus a silo as nonchalantly as most folks and snow drops. Libbie called the I would on the ground. Dan Garcher ■snowdrops 'my little stars of Beth­ ■ can do the same. ’ '■ lehem. ’ They bloom every year 1 Jack Alton passed away Sunday and keep memories alive of a morning, Februay 14. He was the friend long since passed away. husband of Wilma Steadman (Brick’s The Cambridge Springs Joint Ele­ and Florence’s daughter) and was an mentary School Board accepted two art teacher in the Wesley ville school retirement requests last Thursday There are many generations of Wil­ night,onefrom Gladys B. Smeltzer, ma’s family buried here and I’m 3rd grade teacher, with 30 years of 1 glad she chose to continue here for service, 16 in Cussewago Township I her family. , 3*and 14 in Cambridge Springs. Her It’s good to look out across the co^« folks owned the place next door. and see the color coming back into Her sister, Doris, and I used to ride the willow trees that are scattered horseback together. One night dur­ around through town—just another ing haying time Gladys, Doris, Mar­ t sign of spring. garet and I decided to sleep in the Velma and Russel Walker arrived haymow on the new hay. The night home from Florida last Sunday even./ started out hot but towards morning [ ing. I’ll bet it seemed mighty good it cooled off considerably and I to walk in the door of Home. would have frozen to death if it We heard the siren blow for the hadn't been for Gladys. ' ambulance about 6:30 Sunday morn Merle and Esther Hollenbackv^re I ing. They took Scott McLallen to; down to visit one afternoon recent­ 5 the hospital. ly. In an earlier e r a of this area James P. Reeder, 77, the son of there were rural Baptist and Meth­ Preston and Dimmis Porter Reedei odist churches. One Methodist passed away this past week. He was Church was located on Sherrod Hill born and raised in Edinboro. The where Merle’s family attended farm now owned by Bruce Batcheloi i church. The church is still standing was the old Preston Reeder farm. but is today used as a tool house by I Three of their children, Lewis, Lil­ - Mukina’s. In the horse and buggy lian and Jim, went to school to Dad ' >^ .. V ■ sJ days these country churches served I at the Pifer (later called Kinter the immediate community and were ‘ Hill) School. The old Porter home Hili)ocnooi. i ne oiu rufici r , very active. The Edinboro preacher ' stead where Jim’s mother was borm^^'^^^^ ,, / ^ : also held services at these churches ; and raised is the farm now ownedj ‘ in the afternoon and conducted the ' by Norm Schruers. Later Henry Grosss^^f^^ t^ Sunday Schools. Sometimes in the lived there and then Joe Hogue '“h l' ' summer the youngsters arrived early bought bought it. it. Hogue Hogue sold it to Schruenj^^^^^-f^.^ and to put in time played baseball Lewis Reeder had bought an old in the pasture by the church. Rev. mansion in Johnstown, New York, Buzza was the minister then. The many years ago and had made it Reverend held slight hopes for the into a tourist home and fine eating M youth of those days and was very 1 place. It was furnished with beau- 'V . Pa. Thursday. February 25,1965 A ★ Edinboro Wise ★ Carrie Goodell RE 2-7761 J and since has been a jungle ot bur- ,j t he y rented the old Reeder farm dock, wild carrot,bull thistles, I (where Jim Skelton's livenow)and '■\ chicory and most of the other un-L s^ott worked it for some time. 1 desir£^ble weeds of this area. If theyt || \vjnie they lived there Barbara was return it to the condition it was |i''born. Scott bought the Will Pifer vj before they mutilated it! could farm and it was there that Bob was 4 in mowed again. born. The house on the Pifer farm Tom Gleeten returned to the lios- was a very nice one. It had been world goes \ When we drove by Raymond To- pital last Tuesday and underwent built i n the ginger bread era and ,1 bin's the other day we noticed he'd surgery on Thursday. The reports when Will Pifer built it, it was i tapped the long row of maples in from Maude and Honey on Sunday considered one of the finest in this frontofthe buildings. George Kline | night were very encouraging. . area. has tapped his sugar bush, Lawrence s Contracts for the new North-South Scott bought part of the old Henry Tobin has tapped some trees and ; highway frbm Roman's line north McClafferty place, which his giandGlen Shields has hung about one j 5. 6 miles have been let. As one of father had )once ,owned', and fixed hundred buckets. Glen usually hangs } the governmentroad snenosaid—"It up the house there. They went in­ about 900 buckets. His folks are | starts nowhere and ends nowhere. " to the chicken business on a large headed north again and should arrive f The road will go through Paul Wood's ? scale. While that house was in the about the last of the week. For those'' sugar bush. The new condemnation 5 process of being remodeled they farmers who have always made ; law which went into effect Septem­ moved into the house on the corner syrup it just gets into onei blood and ber!, 1964,and should prove a bene­ by his father's present home. While when "that time" arrives you are fit to property owners whose property living there the house caught on fire anxious to get busy again. There’s is condemned for public use, was and on a cold clear Christmas night nothing else like that sweet steam sponsored by the Pa. Grange. The neighbors and firemen set their that fills a sugar house. Grange was largely responsible for [possessions out in the yard. They This is the time of year when the getting it passed by the Pa.Legisia- icarrred the china cabinet full of skunks are out and moving around ture, too. Before that a property jdishes outside and never broke a at night. Watch yourself because the) owner scarcely stood a decent chance Walkers came with their large often turn up in the most unexpectLaura Austin is helping care for I dish. truck and moved their goods to the ed places. Bud Schruers at the hospital. I im“ • other house. y0:-i John Banko went to Florida on agine she keeps an eye on Tom Glee ^ Later Scott had a chance to sell ■ business and remained for several ten,too. Just Laura !s presence would [ that place and they moved backto ' - ’ weeks to enjoy the sunshine and try make them feel better. Mother and the Pifer place. Scott sold the Pifer to work out the bursitis in his shoulder j place and moved to his present Hazel flies down this Friday and both Dad both loved her, in fact.l don’t j home about ten years ago. Dad and, know of anyone who doesn't. she and John will be home in ten ' I were at the sales he had at both Fred Drury (Dewing) passed awa) : days. ' places. One of our post hole diggers Oil and gas drillers moved onto Tuesday at the age of 84. For many :i the Mathewson farm between Tabor ^ years he lived on the Crane Road i came from there. Comers and Franklin Center last next to Aunt Maude's. Kellys who '! Scott used to help Neil occasionFriday. Wouldn’titbe wonderful if live there now have fixed up the i ally here on our farm at haying place and it's neat as a pin around. i time or at corn harvesting time. they’d bring in a good well? ; After Scott moved tatown he often Putt Finney has sold his bowling Aunt Maude always c o m m e nted alleys to Denny Porto ofAmbridge,! that Fred Drury was a good neigh­ i hunted here on our farm. He was J one who always eame and asked Pa. Mr. Porto attended Coach Hai^ bor. His nieces and nephews rallied rison’s summer camp way back around t o look after him when he ! permission first. I Scott was preceded in death bya when he operated Camp Cussewago j- needed it. brother,Franldi4and a sister,Frances which had been started by LynnDun| Cora Hostetler received beauti­ i Besides his wife and children, his don. At present he is living at the ful Valentine flowers. A cyclamen i father, mother. Aunt Frances Ellifrom her son. Park, is one of the Motel but expects to take an apart ^ * cott, sisters, Ruth and Eleanor, and ment when he gets things under con-i most beautiful I have ever seen. A Lawrence, survive him. trol. : pot of bronze and gold mums from F■ I] brother, Scott had many friends and through Have you read the interview with ^ j^er good friend, Minnie Buchanan, President Johnson's wife on beauti'i . and a lovely bouquet from her 1 the years they came to his aid in numerous ways fying American which appears in lasi:] Sunday School Class stand near her week'sU.S.News and World Report?t. chair where she can enjoy them. Thegistofitas that it must start in |J Scott McLallen passed away Frithe home,the village, the town, the ^ d a y morning after a long illness, city, the state and the federal gov- s cott was born on the old farm ernment. Each has its part in the p, which had belonged to his grandultimate goal for a beautiful Ameri-m father, Winfield McLallen, and on ca. Itwill do everyone good to read f j the same farm where his father was it. If the Boro Council is stimulated [ibom. It is now owned by WardBillto do something here in our littlefj ings. Winfield McLallen built the village they could start by cleaning | house that is there, up the mess that Mr. Crawe and his | On February 13, Scott andDorothc t," ^ workers left in front of my garden | had been married 28 years. In 1937 in 1956 when the Boro brought up | when they were married they lived the sewer to Lang Electric at the | on the old Fuller place near the m i-Wl. Boro taxpayer's expense. The dirt | oilman School. It was while they was pushed into the ditch and left | lived there that Jimmy was born. Spring in Florida Have you noticed the loads of hay going by? Some farmers are might) glad to unload their extra and other farmers are going to have a lot of ^ extra expense if they have to bu>f until turn out time. It's the way the ; 1 . ------------- -------------------------------------------*-,*.,* ■«-»>. Xu vs ^w v:; by Jane S. Ludgate Many of us in the North think of Florida as enjoying “eternal Spring” but after spending two full winters in northern Florida—in DeLand— [ have learned that Spring docs come with unmistakable signs. Sometimes one has only to be still, to look and listen to “hear life mur­ mur and see it glisten.” The other night just about dawn, I was awakened by the sound of a great flock of birds on their Spring migration. Their calls sound­ ed like those we hear in Edinbo.-o especially in the Fall. I was thrilled to think of the long journey on which they were going. A few days later I observed on the Stetson Campus on a Drill Field near one of the dormitories, a flock of robins busily working; away at finding their food in tlie stubble in the field. Every Spring,! a faculty member told me, they come to that same spot on the campus to rest. Then on they go. There’s quite a change these days (March) in the coloring of the branches particularly of the Cy­ press trees. They are changing from dark to very light green. The orange trees are beginning to perfume the air with their bow­ ers of white blossoms (such dainty, shy appearing little flowers). One is in bloom just outside our dining room window and another outside the kitchen window. The greatest sense of exhiliration, however, comes as one drives by a whole grove of orange trees in full blos­ som. That pleasure we will soon have. We’ve had some nice heavy downpourings of rain lately which have given all nature a beautiful bath and caused^ every palm tree branch to gTistenT The redbud trees, the dogwood, the masses of azaleas, the many colors of camelias, all have a wav of saying “Spring is here.” The Spring gardens in Plant City have sent so many curb side sales­ men to DeLand with their colorful red tomatoes and red strawberries that the town fathers of DeLand have had to enact an ordinance against such selling. How delicious jjare these berries just freshly picked! i! Now old timers here say to us j! winter visitors, “Oh you shouldn’t i go North in the Spring! Think s what beauty you’ll miss.” All we !ican say is, “In Pennsylvania we too lihave a beautiful Spring and we limust hurry back to see the first II crocuses and the tulips and the jililacs.” J| Like the pilgrims in The Canterjibury Tales “Whan that Aprille with jishowers sotte—than *goen we on a pilgrimage”—up through the wis­ teria hung highways of Georgia and the Carolinas and the blossoms of Virginia into the countryside where the first buds of Spring will be telling us in western Pennsvlvania, “Here too is Spring—all for your pleasure and your amaze­ ment.” V 4 Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell RE 2-7761 fyiAJue^ ij-, y^63* Last Wednesday morning at 3:30 During these years our govern­ March rolled in like a lamb- a. m. the phone started ringing at mental debt has mounted to astrono- dren. Myrtle was working here when I bless her—because the first day oi the Burgett home. Gus bounded out imic proportions; our private debt she was married. They said that March i s MY first day of Spring. of bed and to the kitchen to answer 1 encouraged by both high and low— thinking back on it now those were Doh Cornell reported hearing and it. At first all he heard was numbers I has grown to immense figures; in the happiasst days of their young lives seeing a robin Saturday morning. a n d a foreign voice and then h e i t h e last quarter of a century the i The minute they walked into our old We had a nice letter from Don heard a voice he recognized and purchasing power of the dollar has f kitchen they all exclairried that it and Margaret Porter, who are spend­ yelled, "Matt. " By that time Ruth been cutby more than half;increas- ■ looked just as they remembered it ing the winter in their home in and Mike were running for the kitch­ ing millions of people who depend .; even to the old clock on the shelf. Tucson, Arizona. Virgil and Bertha en, too. They all talked to Matt, fer the bulk of their livelihood upon ijj.. Edith's son built the new -------Post Of­ , . -----Crandall are there, too, and living frorn Heidelburg,Germany, who ex- | government hand-outs and subsidies! I Jessie in Ed and Betty Stafford's house. Westfield, New York and pects to be home some time this [ thrift is laughed at and men are An Article of Agreement between weekfor a month's furlough. There | becoming unwilling to deny them - i remember her still looks Walter Covert, ux, andAlfredD^ was no more sleep for any of themi Rselves pIvps nrespnt n1p>acnrpe cn thatthfiir • gOOd aS YoungSterS Who good as gold. Youngsters present pleasures so that they [ : Loucks,ux, was recorded last week. that night. may acquire a competence for the : grew up without a hired girl in the ■'The house on Ontario Street was jhome missed a lot. The woodchucks have started future. j built around 1852-1853 by David cleaning out their winter quarters! I Morse!s at one time lived in the Ignore the lessons of the past at Tarbell on Tarbell Lane where the and we could see their tracks all your peril. Inflation has always— I house on Gusty Hill now owned by clump of trees still stands. The last around on the snow Sunday. sooner or later—been followed by iGlade Wright but before Manley I person to live in the house while it I hear there are two businesses in depression, just as surely as the tide I Reynolds had fixed it over. The first Iplace I remember of their'living ij stood there was a man called Soli- town that are up for sale. ebbs and flows, and the longer and • tary Brown. No one ever knew where Grace Rockwell is convalescing,' greater the inflation,the harder and I was the old MesserschmidL house he finally went. No one ever heard at the local Convalescent Home deeper the depression and the more ■ now owned by Hutchins and Whitney. T of his getting a letter or sending one. after having spent several days i n; disastrous the consequences. = The last place they lived was the The only money Dad ever knew of Hamot hospital as the result ofai As individuals, w e can pro t e ct f house where Ken Hawkins lives now . him earning was killing woodchucks broken shoulder. Grace used to go; :ourselves and our families to some ; Lynn Morse, Jinx Walker, Floyd j Skelton, Royce Mallory, and Don and training bird dogs. Grandpa Irired to school to Mrs. Ceylon Perry. extent by avoiding incurring debts him to kill woodchucks at ten cents The following appeared in thei whenever possible. As borough of­ i Cornell were inseparably as young­ apiece. He had to produce its tail February number of the Pennsyl- i ficials, we can likewise protect our sters and young men. Lynn died at - to collect his dime. John Nelson Ihx vania Township News. This is al­ boroughs by resisting the temptation jthe time of the flu in 1918. Lynn bell sold the house to Henry Twitch- ways an excellent magazine but this to go deeply into debt for projects used to lead Dave Gillaspie's cow ell (Lorna Sheet's grandfathe:^ issue is outstanding. Anyone who which may be desirable, but are not back and forth to our pasture. Some­ Charlie (Buck)Lefevermoved it desires may borrow my copy to read times in the summer he tied it to a essential. across Grandpa's fields to Waterford a n d I hope all the boro boys will post in the lane, milked it there and From—The Montgomery County Street and then to Ontario Street secure a copy and read it and the;! carried the pail of milk home. Borough Recorder,Philip C. Pendle­ where i t stands today. When they ton—Editor. got down by where Bernard Kingston Township Supervisors read it and all Socialism and state planning are now lives a good sized limb of the of them thoroughly digest it, also. not modem ideas; they are centuries A WORD OF WARNING maple tree was in the way so they old. There will be men in every In an age of prosperity—or seem­ sawed it off. It was in the spring of age who seek power over others by ing prosperity—no one likes to con­ the year and the sap just ran from offering security in exchange for the stub of the limb. As long ago template its end anymore than the freedom. inhabitants of ancient Pompeii liked asican remember Nelle Twitchell —John Lupton and Mrs. Tiffany lived there. Nelle I to be warned of the dangers of the ] volcano which overhung their city. Former Connecticut State Senator sold it to Lynn McKinley and his From the smell of our little dog sister, Tillie Abbot. There used to ' And yet, if no one heeds the warn­ this morning she must have found a be a porch along one side and across ings, the ultimate disaster is just that skunk that hadn't gotten hpme from much more fearful. the front which made it a lot more his night of prowling. A few y e ais Those of us who grew to manhood attractive,than the way.it is today. ago several skunks moved into the in the 'teens and twenties of this Perley Klines are home and glad woodahuck holes in the orchards. century vere told by men who should to be here, too. We set steel traps,tied a long baling ; h a V e known better that through The Crossingville Sportmen’s twine to them se we could drag them Club held a fox hunt last Sunday. The i government controls we had elimiout of the holes safely and then I shot ! nated the dangers of depressions; seven foxes taken provided mighty them. We got six that way but not good sport. Gus Burgett, Tink Fel­ that the old laws of Economics had before they had taken the heads off beep repealed; that what went up lows and Joe Guriel from hereabouts several of our hens. would not come down; that there took part in the hunt. One day last week the four former would always be a "chicken in Dan Gardner was taken to Hamot Morse girls, Edith, Myrtle, Maggie, every pot and a car in every garage)' Hospital by the Edinboro Ambulance after suffering a heart attack last that a "little" inflation was a good and Jessie were here. We had a most enjoyable visit. Edith, Myrtle week. Atlastreport he was feeling ! thing; that we had nothing to fear, and Maggie had all worked for pretty good but is still a bed patient. but could look forward to an ever Grandma, Aunt Mary (Uncle Ned's) expanding prosperity and so on ad'! Mattie Jeffords underwent surgery and for Mother when we were chil­ at St. Vincent Hospital last week II infinitum. But then came the ' rj "GreatCrash"and our foolish dreams Her nephew,Boyd Hostettler,wasout 11 vanished. to s e e her Saturday evening and found her coming along remarkably Ij Today after twenty-five years of well. He also looked in on Tommy i prosperity—part of it real but much ii of it purely due t o cheapening of Gleeten and Bud Schruers. 'j the dollar by government inflation ^ I we hear, those of us who are left, the ,' jsame glib catch-words and see the ^ ' I same danger signals rearing their i heads, only this time higher c a n d 'j wider than before and more appalling than ever. ★ Edinboro Wise ★ Carrie Goodell RE 2-7761 I scarcely know how to start -___ ___ Marrh 11,1965 Another friend—one you take for The phoebes are back up north. I I Later, the factory was taken dov® granted because he's always on the heard the first ones March 1. Dad^ used to build a bam on the job,and suddenly God takes his hand ; had always told us that their nests' former Sile Lewis Farm, but at that; and claims him for his own. Walter were very lousy. One spring we f time owned by a man by the name! Hollobaugh came to McKean as a found a year’s before nest in the old of Truxall. ~ It is the next farm be-: Vocational Agriculture,teachef,liksheep shed across from our Dundon y o n d the former Damon Meabon ^ ed this area, later purchased the old pasture and sure enough— we’d farm but on the opposite side of the, Brooks farm and he, Mary Ellen, and scarcely touched it until tiny almost road. It is now the property ofPet^' the two children made their home invisible lice were crawling all ova Jablonski. there. They were active in the Lorpa Sheets and Don Cornell both!', Franklin Center Church and for our hands. According to the Wednesday,March have a box of the matches. Georgie ; | j many years he served on the area' 3 Morning Nevs, Youngsville.Pennsy Kirschner still has part ofa box and ! - schoolboards. He wasan excellent Ivania Boro Council held the line Forest Hobbs found a box of them ; j board member and one greatly reon taxes at 10 mills for real estate. upstairs in Uncle Ned's barn when j , sponsible for its sound policies duriq§; I have just read excerpts from the he did the work of remodeling it t his tenure. He had a good mind, newly published book THE C»EGON into living quarters. the strength of his convictions and DESERT by Reuben A. Long and E. f John Reynolds bought the property ; was one to stand up and be heard. R. Jackman. They trade off writing, and lived there several years. While He had another very good qualifichapters. One was— "Reuben, m y li they lived there the sidewalks were cation in that he did build and op­ boy , said my father, "When you ; put in. Several pennies were put in erate his own business successf ully grow up, get land. God had quit the cement when it was laid,. In He will be greatly missed in his making land, but He keeps right on recent years someone has chiseled community. He gave much and making people. : but all the pennies;. Reynolds were asked little. Occasionally on the start of a trip ‘ living there in ’18 at the time of ^ some dude would come tome apolo- the flu when Janet and Doris Gilland 11 o’clock news broadcast on 1 getically and explain that he'd never aspie died.Shortly after the Reynolds Channel 12, Saturday eve, March 6, ridden a horse. I always reassured boyscame*down with it and nearly and see the man who was voted by him by saying, "Oh that’s all right idled, too, many Americans for their Vice I’ve got a horse that’s never been - NextFrankFellows moved to town President. Did you notice the exI ridden. Both of you can start off from the farm and purchased the pression on McNamara's face ? Now i together." property. After living there many, look at the picture at the bottom ^ Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it? many years he gave up his home, of page 21 of last week’s number of “ I Mattie Jeffords came home from ^d a sale and sold the property to Newsweek, rfow do you interptet ^ the hospital last week and Tesnmy Carl McWilliams. I bought a box President Johnson’s expression? And Gleeten and Bud Schruers came stuff at the sale for a quarter. In it to think he is only a heart beat from j home Sunday. were a couple of hoes, a garden rake, becoming President and YCXJ voted ’ j Saturday, March 6, the final papers for him. I didn’t. l| were signed and the deal completed' a leaf rake, an almost new shovel Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kirschner ^ nnd a pair of new red rubber boots. whereby Joyce and David Redfield and Mildred Sedgwick ate Sunday’ gave the boots to somebody and became the new owners of the prop(ept the rest of the things. Carl dinner with Paul and Nina Homer erty 220 Erie Street. The seller fixed up the house some and his of North East. This is the first time' . ; werejim and Irene Beatty who have mother and her husband lived there Mae has been able to get away and owned i t about five years. While until she died. Carl sold it to eat someone else's good cooking ^, they have owned it they have done fieatiys. There i s a nice back lot since her accident last summer and considerable remodeling and'add­ and a dandy little barn out back by it seemed mighty good. Mildred ing to’bkit keeping the house in is much improved, too. the alley. " character with its age and the surEvery now and then something Beattys have purchased anew rounding homes. home in Crystal Beach, Florida and nice happens to one that just makes j Tohh Maury Shefmahlased to live^ you feel good everytime you think ij there. His wive,Sara,had been'mar- will be leaving Edinborp the last of about it—such happened twice re­ August. Irene has two<^sters living ried previously and had a daughter, cently. One—a very nice note from I Jeannie Deamer, Jeannie was Aunt I nearby their new hoifie. the Assistant County Superintendent Redfields are getting a mighty I Maude’s first teacher. Shermans had | of the Mifflin County Schools, Otren nice property and home and best of ^ a daughter, Olive, who married I R. Wagner, saying how much he h. I ForestAlvard (lived where Zahnizei! all,it looks like something that be­ enjoyed the little historical note;, longs in Edinboro. do today.) Hank Harrison is in St. Vincent o f this community sent to him by In back of his house Sheaman had! his son, William (Bill) Wagner anc a match factory. His brother, Mont | Hospital. in turn sending me a booklet which . Sherman, had had the factory in i I he had compiled concerning the ^ Albion. When he died, it somehow i MainLine of the Pennsylvania Canal / ” ; ' f e 11 into John Mainry’s hands, and through Mifflin County for the Miff­ he moved it over here. Some who lin County Historical Society locat­ r worked in the factory were Hat ed in Lewistown, Pennsylvania. We . Sherman,Mary Allen,Minnie Lasher! have enjoyed reading it. Second, and Pearl Gross. Then,railroad men; the other afternoon Mr. and Mrs. were obliged to carry safety matches. Milton Rouse delivered a, ^ ★ Edinboro Wise ★ Carrie Goodell DoriStroebel is home again after a three weeks visit with friends in Pittsburgh. | Ruth Fellows and Elizabeth Card-! ner attended the Cleveland Flower Show recently. Roy R. Nims of R. D. 3, Edinboro, has been selected as an April civil court juror. Roy is a mechanic at Sid Kuhn’s Implement business south ■ of town. ] Alton Huntley has purchased onei > . and one-quarter acres of land from | : sAlbert Hayes on Waterford Road just! v.;. 1 east of Perley Kline's line. Hayesj at one time lived there in a trailer. He had purchased the land from his grandfather, Lee Hayes. We are very sorry to hear that Effie ' Showman is not well. At present she is spending a few days with her jL: : sister, Lizzie, in Geneva, Ohio, but | 1^4 home Wednesday. I'm sure! that visits from friends would help [ ' to cheer her. | The wild geese are on their flights | to their summer home in the north.| I Eric, Kirschner's hired man, saw a large flock Sunday morning. The sound of honking geese is one you can never forget, fleeting but beauti I understand there is a real estate deal in the making on upper Meadvi ville Street. And now another friend is gone — I rarely walked to town that Mary ; Harned didn!t come to the door and ‘ we had a little chat or she insisted that I come in and visit awhile. .Sometimes she asked me to look at her flowers in her little garden or. ' tell her why they weren't doing as :: well as she thought they should. Just one new rosebush gave her a lot of pleasure and invariably she kept the roses picked and in a vase on the porch so others could see and enjoy them, too. Mary was the oldest child of John and Effie Herrick Chase. Her an­ cestors, the Chases, McGahens and Smiths, were among the earliest settlers of this area and Abraham Smith probably the most prominent, judging from the earliest recorded records of Conneauttee Township (Washington Township now). Edin­ boro as a political unit or entity did not exist then in the early 1800’s. RE 2-7761 Mary was born in the farm home on the Pete Smith Road as it was known from the G1 e e t e n School house to the road at the bottom of the hill of the Vail ey Cemetery (6N now). At one time there were six houses along that road from Ber­ nard Ports woods to Howard Sander's line. Today most of the remains of the old cellars have finally been filled in. Some may have been log cabins. Mary attended school at McLallen’s Corners. She enjoyed the pleasures of all farm children— riding bareback on the driving horse to get the cows, knowing about all the best blackberry patches and help­ ing mother pick them, picking up butternuts and chestnuts in Sanders’ woods in autumn, playing with the children on neighboring farms, wad­ ing in the creek in early spring. After Mary and Gorden Harned were married they lived at the cor­ ner of West Normal and Pig Tail Alley for several years until they moved to Waterford Street. She re­ ceived a great deal of pleasure from the improvements'that they gradu­ ally made to the house-the enclosed front porch, the new gas furnace, the new siding, the new cement stoop with its iron grille work at the back of the house. She loved to ride through the countryside in the eve­ nings and Sundays. She was very much interested in the oil and gas drilling talk and activities of this area. Mary had always worked hard and was willing to carry her share and more of the load through life. She leaves to mourn her husband, Gor­ don, daughters Margaret and Arlene, sister Amy, brothers, Clarence of Edinboro and Walter Miles of Char­ lotte, South Carolina, and several grandchildren. Mary was a good soul and never said or did anything to harm any­ body. I shall never pass by her door without seeing her face in my mind and heart. Ernie Meachem has been helping Paul Woods make maple syrup. Dan Gardner is home, feeling 1 better and fretting to be doing 1 something. The Edinboro Area Conservation Commission, made up of represen­ tatives of the Boro Council (Chuck Zortman), Chamber of Commerce (Bob Johnson), Sportsmen's League (Alvin Shaefer), Washington Town­ ship (Glen Shields), Lakeside (Elmer Barnes, Chairman), have asked the County Commissioners to buy two acres of land on the north shore of Edinboro Lake. If the way it was [ written up in the Morning News is correct, I wouldn’t be in favor of it.f If I were a fish I’d rather die as an[ egg in the silt than endure the devilish racket of speed boats from spring through autumn. Then, too, what about the farmers whose land lies within the 365 acres to be in­ cluded for parks? They just may not care to give up their farms. Who milkes these big plans for someone else's property anyway? If you plan to put out nesting houses for birds this year it’s time to be thinking about it. Just a pecked out hole in the limb of an old tree makes a good bluebird home. Those beautiful little birds, once so com­ mon, now are rarely seen. Their favorite spots, often stubs of dead trees along fence rows dividing pas­ ture and meadow, are disappearing Wren houses and houses to accom­ modate flickers afford much plea­ sure to bird lovers. Why not plant an apple tree in the backyard? Someday someone else can enjoy it as a perfect nesting spot for many kinds of birds. The king bird loves the top branches of an old apple tree as a nesting spot. It’s a favorite place for the first robin to pick for a home. It’s a favorite for cedar waxwings, too. Every little boy— and girl,too—needs an old apple tree to climb and look out on the world —and you know the apples at the top are always the biggest and sweetest. We were very sorry to read that Leroy Barber, an Erie City School Principal, had passed away after suffering a stroke. He attended College here at the same time as Margaret and I. He and Jack Daly (who ran unsuccessfully for a county political office in recent years) both roomed at Joe Tucker's. FLASH—The killdeers are back! Can sunshine and warm rains be far behind? ' ji. .?s %tV -.■«^-: X-A- I don’t know of any sound that startles and gives a feeling of horror than to hear the shrill whistles of the fire siren in the still of night. Then you listen for the fire trucks to start out and try to decide in which direction they are leaving. This Sunday morning shortly after 4:00 a.m. they were soon speeding east past our place. Later we learned a small bulling between the house and barn on the Johnny Showman farm (former Asa Gleeten farm) had been on fire. About all you can say for the first day of spring was that it was ■'Marchy' —sometimes snowing and blowing like fury and the next min­ ute sunny and calm. A late Easter seems to bring a late spring. As you will notice more public H The William Wagners left Wedoffices appear and the organization imesday to attend the funeral of Bobbecomes more significant and com ette’s father, Mr. Harry B. Johnson plex in 1817 as more settlers appear who passed away on Sunday, March in the area and taxes appear on the 21 at two in the morning in the scene. Princeton, New Jersey Hospital after A meeting of the taxable inhabi­ a long and valiant fight. Beside tants of Conneauttee Township was B o b e 11 e, Mr. Johnson leaves his chosen by ballot: widow, another daughter,Mrs.Binton Anson Godard for Constable John McWilliams and Anson God­ Lingle (Jean) of Centre Hall, Penn­ sylvania, and two sons, Ronald John­ ard Supervisors Nahum Curtis and John Campbell son of St. Croix, Virgin Island, and Jack Johnson of Utica, New York. Overseers of the Poor Mr. Johnson was born in Belle-1 William Buckly and WilTiam fonte, Pennsylvania, and the funeral Campbell Fence viewers Ralph D. Phelps, Jeremiah Curtis, j services were in the Wetzler Funeral Russell Stancliff and Simeon Mea- Home,Bellefonte. The Johnsons had been making their home in Hightscham Auditors March 14,1817 town. New Jersey. ! There’ll be no oats planted in March This appears and because two of I this year. The year I was in the the names mentioned still have de­ fourth grade and Frances Burchfield scendants living here the names was our teacher, Isabelle Perry and will be deleted. (It happened then Belle Tarbell each brought a bouquet and it still happens today in public of spring beauties to school on the officialdom the world over.) first day of spring. At a meeting of the auditors of Jock Davis had a farm sale Tues­ Conneaughtee Township to settle day,: Ma>rch 23. It was a big sale. j the accounts of the above SuperThe Grange sold lunch. Jock and ivisors for the year 1814 we find Ellouise will sell the farm to the idebtor to the Township $7.17, State which will add to the college ialso debtor $43.21. Forty acre age for future expansion. I dollars sixty two cents of the charge shall write up the history of the farm against^we give orders to John when the deal is consumated. After McWilliams to collect from him. years of having one’s nose to the the remainder of the charges against grindstone Jock and Ellouise will and to be divided. enjoy a little freedom but I’m equally between the present super­ thinking — once a farmer, always a visors. March 27,1815 larmer and that call is sometimes Russel Stancliff too strong to resist. Samuel Galloway Somewhere upstairs in the barn is Ralph Phelps a new family of baby kitties. So far A uditors the old cat has been too foxy for us By March 22, 1816, the above to find them. account against and ; The first records kept of what is had been collected by J.McWilliams now Washington Township and Edin­ ; and balanced. boro but then a single political unit 1 In articles to appear later more designated as Conneaughtee Town­ of the old records will appear and ship were started and read as follows: I will show the development of our At a meeting of sundry inhabi­ i present political set up and the folks tants of this Township of Conne­ 'who helped accomplish it. The aughtee was chosen by ballot John i writing of these old records is beau­ McWilliams Assessor and Jeremiah tiful. S’s were written like f’s. Curtis Inspector for the present year. Records were very complete and Sept. 29, 1815. very interesting. Of the names of j those who took part, many died out At a meeting of sundry inhabi­ I years ago, some moved on to other tants of the Township of Conneautte j places. When the West opened up, was chosen by ballot Andrew Cul­ j some from here felt the call to move bertson Inspector, Jeremiah Curtis j onward, and some names remain, Assessor, James Culbertson and Rus- i Carl McWilliams, a direct descen1 sell Stancliff assistants for the pres- 1 dant, is one of the names still to j ent year. Sept. 27th, 1816." i appear on local government records. ! The McWilliams settled south of I here on the farm presently owned j by Mrs. Glen Hecker. iS" ,__ ^ '^'C' Vl^*v ^ iwl ' ■ ^yjApril _■1,1965^^ V^ Vi;' "X. Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell y RE 2-7761 Major Bea Case is expected home It used to be that April First was moving day. The last two weeks in some day this weekto spend part of land was here to visit her dad and| March and the first week of April the month of April with her Mother sisters Monday through Thursday of were the prime periods for sales and Dad before going to Alaska last week. where she will be stationed. Bea Last Friday the telephone com- around the country side. The fact Ij'has had many interesting experi-f^^" that the greater portion of the popu­ : pany started digging and burying ences during her army life. She had lation was rural and by then you had ! telephone cable along Hamilton treated President Eisenhower for made up your mind what you were : Road starting on Gleeten Hill. The going to do for the coming year may bursitis when they were in the Phil-| I trench is 36 inches deep. We had a letter from Brooke Bish have determined April First.Plowing Iippine Islands. Later he was playing ''.{i op last week. She and Pret are both had to be started by then, fence fix­ ' golf in the South and injured him -1 -Z’M taking classes at Miami University. ing was started. Often cows came self. He went to Port Georgia, Geor-^ They will be both teaching in Ala- through the winter scarcely more ' gia, for treatment and Beatrice gave 'i ska come next September and are than skin and bones and with stub ihim pihysical therapy there. He retails. Many farmers had animals imembered her from the Philippines, 'very excited about it Sam Plavsity was involved in an starve to death before spring. A poor s jThey visited just as youandl would. accident at the south end of McKean grade of hay, a short supply cut from fiHetold her of the birthday party he lastFriday afternoon. He was not in- old meadows and no grain during the fjigave for Mamie. He had planned I on ten and forgot to include Mamie ’■ “■ jured seriously and the cars didn t i winter were often the causes. Barn­ I and himself in the plans and list. He yard itch and lousiness were com-; ' seem to be damaged very much. Paul and Lura Gleeten arrived mon, too. Before bank barns were jwas deeply appreciative of Bea's . home Thursday afternoon after a common and barns were built to set I help and care and sent her a lovely on big stones the floors were made jvase with two dozen big yellow pleasant winter vacation in Texas. Marshall andlnezSproul and Reu­ of planks. The wind and cold be­ mums and a really lovely letter-. In ben Perrys attended the flower show tween the ground and the floor and M in Cleveland recently. Both families scant bedding often resulted in the itell me how you like Alaska. Ethel Gleeten Snavely of Cleve4 I cows’ tails freezing to the floor. Ij - . Beatrice will leave here in time are good gardeners andlTl bet came There was little veterinary knowl-|irodrive to Washington state and take home with new seeds, bulbs, plants edge and still fewer farmers whol j^piajje go she will arrive in Alaska and ideas. Do you Bern ember those milestones had the money to call a veterinary on May 4th. Her car and Hammond along the right side of the road be­ if one was needed so they doctored I Organ and other personal goods will tween here and Erie which read 20 the animals themselves. They doc­ ’be shipped there by the Army, miles to the Boston Store or 15 miles tored for hollow horn. One remedy i Once a long time ago Mrs. Case they used was to slit the skin on the bought a guitar for Fred and Bea and etc., to the Boston Store? Frances and Helen Burchfield will tail and put pepper in the cut. An­ I then, of course, I had to get one.Webe starting home from Arizona about other remedy called for drilling a couldn't play much except by ear the middle of April. Frances will hole in the horns with a gimlet and but had lots of fun and incidently, • have to be home by the first of May working in some gun powder, jt was' ' [made lots of candy when we gottoigether. Vo for Alumni Day. the rare farmer who had a cow that Ella Pulling is not feeling a bit Gladys Caldwell has her house- gave milk during the winter months., well. Last week their T.V.blew up • cleaning about done. Don Cornell Every house in this village had a painted three rooms and she has bam and most everyone kept a cow Sand while nothing else was burned scrubbed everything else until it and a driving horse. There are quite ithe house is all smoked up. Miriam J, Pulling has gone to visit Cathy and 1 shines. I hate to think about doing a few old barns left in town. Can' it here. I don’t like to clean cup you name the places? Cochran’s, i husband for a couple of weeks. ‘V- boards, clean wallpaper, wash win- [Hattie Walker’s, Pontius', Scott Mc- ;j The country roads are beginning •V'- dows, clean the linen closet, hang Lallen's, what used to be Paul Dun- * to break up some. Patty Belfiore and George Salsthe clothes out to air or any of the don'S, Bernard Port’s, Joe Ondrey’s, other jobs connected with it and if Tom Culbertson's,Bernard King­ ' giver of North Carolina are being married Saturday, April 3, in the I'you ever see somebody elseiioing ston’s, Gordon Hamed’s, Velma it besides Margaret and me you’ll Walker’s on Raspberry Alley, Dave McLallens Corner’s Church. They will live in Florida. know they’ve struck an oil well on Redfield’s, Glunt’s, Don Cornell’s Rev.Rickard of the Corner s Church the farm. and others. The bam in the village Lorna Sheets had the misfortune was large enough to house a buggy i has given up his charge and the to slip on an icy spot on the west or two, a cutter, a one-horse culti­ r church members are in the process side of the diamond, and fractured vator, a horse, a cow and the upstairs { of selecting a new minister. her left wrist. It is in a cast and was used to store hay and straw for while not too painful is a decided the winter’s feed and bedding. Do m nuisance. She has lots of crocuses you remember the barn and the high in bloom at the side of the house. wooden fence from Raspberry Alley We always watched for them in along Market Street where the At­ front of Edna Culbertson’s. Mrs. lantic gas station pumps are now Herrick must have planted the bulbs located? i»i there more than fifty years ago and ... . < it seemed to us they were always, the first to bloom anywhere about, 3® t V-- V- j' -* i - ' - - \T I- S' *v; -i -V vsT,, .■'* ^^rj. ’ -il ' ,f-: "fV-ri,•* 'S- ?' ' V ' - ' «,* ,- 1:* ~;S'~'“' "SC-*' ^ .’^ '- 4 ^ ^ / -i • . .r ■« i .zCf % “ '77,777A i -yA-. .---v y Jr""' ^^-ra ' v, , a-..',- 7 :. ' •. i s* r - • =—" - ★ Edinboro Wise ★ Carrie Goodell '■9 '' RE 2-7761 ' m The lake and the cove are both open with wild ducks and geese all over the place. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday the skies have been filled with these beautiful flocks telling all those who would look and listen that they are headed north to nest and raise their young. The frogs are beginning to give their evening concerts. It won’t be a deep, full chorus until a few more warm days and evenings and a good warm rain. I shall never cease to thankGodthatl was born and raised on a farm in Edinboro that was bordered by the cove, a stone’s throw from the swamp and the lake, a ten minute walk from school, where you could stand at the edge of the front yard and see to the Diamtxid. And, too, that we grew u p here in the quiet and rural beauty of a lovely little village and country­ side where you knew everyone and were related to many. On a summer evening as the dusk and dew began to fall Mother would suggest that we listen to the Bobwhite’s and Whippoor-wilR calls but nomoreit*s getting to built up. "Godgives all men all earth to love, But since man’s heart is small. Ordains for each one spot shall prove Beloved over all. " There is some activity going on in the to-be athletic field along Perry Lane. It was a slow mover all last summer. Dr. Wayne Hull who lectures in Biochemistry at the California College of Medicine, a part of the University of California, was in Edinboro for a few hours last Wednes­ day. He had attended a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Detroit and also spent two days attending meetings on research-and results of new antibiotics. He was to be in Washington, D. C. to re­ present the college chapter of the American Society of University Professors and then on to Atlantic City to an international meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. He will present a paper on ’The Effect of Ethyl Alcohol on Tissue Respiration Fundamental to the Approach of Alcoholism.' Mother and Dad would be very proud of him. Wayne attended college here and graduated in 1939. His wife is a prof essor of Biology in Whittier College. He has a seven­ teen-year old daughter who will soon have completed her freshman year at the University of California Santa Barbara campus. She chose Santa Barbara because they offered the outstanding course in Quantita­ tive Biology. /. .-- -- They live in WestCovina. W ayne said that one day he went into the post office there and a lady walked up to him and said "Aren’t you someone I know?" It was one of the Bates girls-Frances, I think. Mary Dundon Harned is presently at the San Rosario Home in Cam­ bridge Springs. She was always so pretty and looked so young it just never seemed possible to us that she could grow old. When we were young sters she used to wear a hat with a blue plume that we thought was beautiful. Alfred Haller was to undergo sur­ gery lastweek. He spends the win­ ters in Pittsburgh. Cora Hostettler was taken to the Osteopathic Hospital in Erie Tues­ day of last week. Latest reports are that she is resting more comfortably. On Tuesday, April 6th, a court appointed board of commissioners completed a fact-finding mission on the proposed annexation by the Boro of Edinboro of approximately one hundred-fifty (150) acres from Washington Township. This last proposed grab by the Boro Council is composed of two parcels—one southwest on Water Street which would include the property of E. C.Shoemaker, Orville Porter,Mrs. Anna Baker and Richard Rodak which includes about 3. 89 acres and to the north it includes cemetery grounds,about2 acres;Bob Johnson, 5.3 acres; Carrie and Mar­ garet Goodell, 8. 5 acres; the Sam Anderson property, 1, 8 acres; John Banko,2 lots, James Hill,2. 5 acres; Harry Gallant, 1 lot; James and Regis Harrison, 40 acres; Evelyn Walker, 3. 73 acres; Blaine Austin, 51. 45 acres; Russel Walker, approximately 30 acres. The testimony of the hearings re­ vealed many things of interest to the citizens of this area. The first witness called to the stand was Richard Higgins, chief clerk from the Erie County Assess­ ment Office. His testimony was of little value because it was incorrect and inadequate. He did testify that the map or plot of the subdivision owned by James and Shirley Harrisson had been recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds but had never been assessed as lots but re­ mained as farm acreage and became confused a s to why this had been allowed to happen when such lots a s had been sold were selling for $3500 each. L ' ■I"' The next witness called to the stand was Mr. Orville Porter. He testified, under oath, that he h a d promised to pay Mrs.Baker’s addi­ tional taxes if she would sign the petition, he would pay Rodak’s ad­ ditional taxes if he would agree to give him no trouble by registering objections to the petition, that the Boro made up the petition, made the map f o r it and told him how many properties to include, t hat James Coffman, a member of the Boro Council, registered the com­ plaint about his (Porter's) septic tank to the Erie County Health Board. The next to testify (under oath, also) was Dave Crawe. He testified that the Boro had nothing to do with the petition, as to whom to include,etc. Further testimony dis­ closed that Harrison had requested water for their subdivision during the summer of 196 4 and it was denied. Crawe, at the order of the Boro Council, sent letters to Cornell and McDonald to the effect that their water supply would be shut off September 7, that the Boro de­ sired this additional area for addi­ tional revenue and used this meth­ od to secure it. Harrison, Austin and the Walkers could have accomplished this an­ nexation without forcing the dis­ senters into the Boro—but, oh, no!they want someone else, namely those along Highway 99 to pay the sewer assessment along the front of their properties to get the sewer to Harrison’s subdivision. Next William Cornell and Mc­ Donald who live in the Harrison subdivision testified. Mr.Cornell carried in both hands a small pamphlet to the witness stand and announced to all those present that he had written it. Mc­ Donald was upset about the Town­ ship snow removal and testified that whenhe wanted to get out he want­ ed to get out he wanted to get out! i They both felt a great need for the i Boro’s twenty-four hour police pro­ tection ! Jim Harrison testified that his ' main reason for desiring the annexation was that he wanted water. He Shad sought legal counsel and had ;] two choices—applying to the P.U. G ' or annexation. The Boro preferred ; annexation. Blaine Austin of Boro Council and j, land owner in both this proposed I annexation (51.45 acres) and of the I land grab annexation of 1960 (35. ^ 09 acres) testified that he might develop this land in the future and he was concerned about water and sewage. In this hearing last Tuesday Boro Solicitor Marsh,by his questioning, seemed quite concerned that the seepage from the septic tanks along Route 99 might reach the lake. I imagine it’s just as pure as that along Billings Drive and Lakeside area previously annexed. Austin was questioned if, as a council member,he hadn’t instigat­ ed both annexations. In the event a township area is annexed to the Boro, the assessed valuation is increased by ten per cent over the township assessment. [; The Boro millage of 14 mills is I double the township millage of 7 mills which increases the taxes ap­ proximately 20°Jo on the property. In addition the Boro collects an oc­ cupational tax which the township does not. These annexations of _L958 of approximaiely-15 acres, .. 1959-3 acres, 1960-277 acres,1962 42 acres, 1964-61. 8 acres, and pro­ posed 1965-150 acres, takes about 550 acres of the most valuable town ship land from their tax rolls, which hurts. Two members of the Boro Council depend on the farmers of Washington Township and surround­ ing rural areas for their livelihood. It would be well for the residents of t h e township to think of this. Some new blood in the Boro Coun­ cil wouldn’t be amiss either. Ralph Cole was turning into a driveway recently when hit by a tractor trailer. It demolished his car. He suffered no injury except a whip lash to his neck. He is pre­ sently wearing a large collar as a result. Easter vacation in our local schools starts Thursday eve, April 15,and ends Tuesday eve. You are expected back in school Wednesday April 21. Ray Sanders has been scraping roads and parking spaces at Lang Electric the past week to work out the rough spots. It looks much bet­ ter, too. There will be an Easter Sunrise Service at the Draketown Church at 6-30 a. m. Annabelle Blass (Mrs. Arthur) took her cousin, Georgia Borland, into Erie last week for a new permanent and out for dinner-an Easter present. Georgia will spend Easter with James Wolfe and family. Aunt Maude, Doris ^nd Lawrence Chapin and Mrs. Emma Holes of Erie left last Monday morning for a two weeks Easter vacation in Florida. .'.f' v?.' '. ' '/ -V' - ' -"' ’ . ★ Edinboro Wise ★ '< ~ /xV r.% Carrie Goodell RE 2-7761 :j. ----------April 22. \ .,e-« , V\-'. V-*'>li. '' fi, ' >■'- 7"'z '- \7 ^ ‘ '-I 1965 Those winds last Monday and Tues-| Irene and Jim Beatty of Erie Street Tiocated in Manheim, Germany tor day helped clean up the yards. There entertained her sister and husband the past nine months. He has visited are still leaves packed in some of Saginaw, Michigan over the Eas­ in Spain, Austria and France but said ’>xn^ % places but for the most part it was ter weekend. Irene’s brother-in-law I the old red house on the Cambridge ’ ^ ^ ‘ A' * really swept clear of them. and nephew farm six hundred acres Springs Road in Erie County had therr ^ Vj; t * % r •^,'^ X^ ^ f My four new roses came and are there. They raise sugar beets, beans, I all beat. He expects to be located planted—nestled in deep beds of a com and potatoes. in Berlin for two years before regood rich mixture of bonemeal.last Arnold Campbells of North East I turning to the United States. year's flapjacks and good earth. and Howard Campbells of Michigan We had a mighty nice Easter sur­ According to my diary, last year were here to spend some of'the prise last Friday. Neil Swift and at this time, we had the fence fixing Easter holidays with their mother, { 11 „ -/ V ’ ^ A V'- ' / .'/'' Gebhardt drove in with trac■"^ ','1 - . • --1 - ^ _ ■>^~ ' done,the oats planted, HankGill had Mrs.Grace Campbell of High Street. II Terry tors, spreader and Vere Wood’s high-, ,v,%*<.'. * planted oats on Shelhamer's April At last Harry Truman hasmttered I lift and made short work of a ^J'' , ''i^ ■- (*■ ^-r J. '- 7 -^ ' r '~ r- 7 y -'"' ’'■ 17, and we had done a lot of work in some statements with which I can ; whopping manure pile in our barn­ ... ‘ : X'1%: /f,-' the garden. Our vegetable garden agree. Did you read David Lawrence^ yard. It would have taken us a had been plowed and disced by this editorial in U, S, News & World Re­ couple of weeks and a lot of hard time and I was thinking about put­ port this past week? pitching to have hauled it out. We’re - . ". . rting in a row of early potatoes. You Betty Hostettler Economy flew here deeply appreciative. know there is nothing that is better from California last week to be here < * .T' Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Poole of, P'X r:-'V:' XiX^ ^ eating than little, new potatoes with her mother for a time. Hicksville, Longisland, relatives of ; '-' ^'ix... ,/: '' ' •■.«'- boiled with the skins on, skinned and The Arthur McCombs of Erie Street the late Sam Anderson of Tarbell then browned in blitter, salt and pep­ arrived home from the southlands Lane, were here to get a lovely old ;• per. It makes me hungry just to last week. desk of Anderson’s which we had think about them. Fannie and Glen Harned will cele­ storedfor them. Ruth Burgett has one WhenI trimmed one bed of roses, brate a golden wedding anniversary just like it in her parlor. Poole's I found a bunny’s nest dug out from with open house this coming Sunday daughter is planning to attend Alle­ beneath a rose bush and lined with at their home on the Townline Road. gheny College. grasses and rabbit fur. I imagine a I remember one day years ago when cat must have found it first by the Glen drove in at our place and he NOTICE TO LOT OWNERS look ; of things. asked Dad to come out and see what The annual meeting of lot own­ The Timco family has moved into; he had on the front seat. It was Baby *' pf 7 ^~ S ' ^ Z-' X'' * ers of the Edinboro Cemetery their new home east of Perry Lane. Dianne lying on a pillow. Fannie’s Association will be held Mon­ ■'.^:.v^l'rv* Signs of spring; College boys train­ day, May 3, 1965 from 2 to 4 and ing for track by their running around mother and father, Blanche (Harri­ ■i " 7 to 8 p. m. in the Edinboro Boro J '«-/, , i the square, the little girls across the son) and Leeson Fellows were life Hall for the purpose of electing w- - ^^ ,.^ «s >•»-5>^ =■ ' . 'V way turning cartwheels and climb­ long friends of Mother’s and often ^ ■■S't-.r zzs: seven trustees for the ensuing when Leeson did mason work here ing the birch trees, little boys lying .. /-I-,-. s '■-’ 'r-.yti-r'ff-•■ fyear. on the grass or wrestling just from Blanche spent the day visiting with C. W. Billings, President .*' V?-*...'- "' Ur ' ^ 'Zti ^ ~ ' the pure joy of living,country youngs Mother. Blanche, Sue Stafford and Margaret Goodell, Secretary i X.' Mother had all gone to school to­ sters going to the woods looking for r '"’'/-. 'r ' - ^ spring flowers, bringing in some! gether at McLane. Sue gave Mar­ Carl and Elsie McWilliams ate rf winter onions to pep up meals, look-: garet and me a school picture which Easter dinner with her brother and was taken about 77 years ago. Vi­ ing for dandelions or cow slips for; ‘U4 olet Bleakley’s mother was in the family. «' greens, pulling those first stalks of ^ ^ r, , t ^ f ~ ^ Sunday, wet, cold and snowy, was rhubarb for that first taste of rhu-| picture too. Royce Mallorys are in Potter no day for Easter bonnets. , ■' ■?- ' ' *r barb sauce, those long splashes of| Mr. and Mrs. Bob Sterrett of Pitts­ <■ *^ ^ ■^' -'**■*' 7-‘ rain on the south window from that County trout fishing. The Wilford Swifts and Walt Hayes' burgh and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Strats April shower that came so quickly I , 4-Vv~4r^v '.-Xp-'PPuPiZ'-p'i' :• and without warning and ends the were down to inspect their hunting of West Hyattsville, Maryland, spent part of their Easter vacation at the ’ ’'j. " '-'. zlZfp''X "''W'^.f ‘“'. -5'/„ ? same way. You can almost hear the camp last week end. Matt Burgett, who has been on home of the girls' parents, Mr. and ^ p ' .-**•' • buds open. A Rijrfous-sided Towhee appeared leave from the Armed Forces in Mrs. Drew Gleeten of Gleeten Hill at our feeder last Friday. They are Europe for five weeks returned by Bob and Barbara went on to visit his ^.?'.'>■ 'i?'--J-. " ground feeders. One came about this plane Monday. He left from the Erie 1 folks, Tom Sterretts, atSterrettania. time last year {the first we had ever Airport to K e n ne dy Internationa] Sunday eve Jerry and Phyllis Woods - -. »i;-where he boarded the Luffansen lines and the baby spent the eve with seen). ■Pif for Manheini, Germany from there I Caroline and Harry and Bob and Our good friend, Mrs. Jap Kline, X- ^ ^ ^ to take a train trip to Berlin where j Barbara at the Gleeten home. passed away last week. We had ' frXX^^^ \ r ^ ->■ u~^r s : 4 J^ ; It seemed as though I saw half of known her all our lives. Klines used he will be with the Security Police. T V., . " ,< .to live on a farm over in 'the Valley I While he was home he enjoyed sev­ i the Edinboro area folks shopping in Her children,Georgia, Okeland On- eral skiing excursions and celebrated ■Cambridge Springs last Saturday. ley, attended the Cummings School. ; his 21st birthday with his twin broth- I There was a hit and run accident jin front of Hall’s Auto Body shop The girls went to school to Dad. Mrs. 'er, Mike. He and Mike spent IFC \Y7rm"’’' \ X jtT->. I weekend with their older brother, last weekend. Don Castle, the man r' u:purU' -'■ : '.;5-f ^ v, Kline had passed her 94th birthday. Quite often if Jap came here to do [I Tony, at Cornell University and cli- on a bicycle, was hit and left lying. >?-'=i^i.-r:--;-T'^-f > * -. .>•/;•;..'; <:some carpenter work for Dad, Mrs. I maxed his leave with a trip to Ca Kline would come along to spend :therine Creek, New York, where he It took eight stitches on his head to X' 7l2'''uX"X-xXjP‘A s' '■’P*-^ *-< ' the day with Mother. Onley, who caught a 29-inch, 7 lb.rainbow patch him up. was here from Greenville, came to trout. Matt took his basic training Mr.and Mrs.Ed Linden, Nancy and see his Aunt Lilly Kline, Tommy at Fort Knox, Kentucky, from there Leslie spent part of their Easter va­ he was sent to Fort Polk, Louisiana, cation with'Ed’s mother at Browns Glee ten and us. for special training and has been ville. Tim is on a trip to New York. 5'' "v-vV-i ^ . V" '~r '%; ■ "'4 ’'"'■" '*'v"- 'C”rl Tl;{f ^ I ■ s ■■ 'j: ';>-yp ■ 7r:'■ -:..> p . ;/v -/- Xk. V V, v. ■ t -.A ^as a barn yard full of unhoused ma­ David Stafford’s mark tor meat chinery sitting out to rust and ruin, stock cattle, hogs and sheep— A good and prosperous farmer just a square crop on the right ear and doesn’t allow either. and a half penny on the same ear Carrie Goodell RE 2-7761 Alton Huntley has burned off the on the top. April 29, 1965 old grass on his.newly purchased land Samuel Perry’s mark recorded The barn swallows returned here We stopped in at the Agway which improves the appearance of {September 18,1833 for meat cattle, last Friday and are already busy re­ (G.L.F.) Garden Center last Friday it considerably. It will make a horses, sheep and hogs: a scallop on pairing their mud nests. They have to look .around and buy some seeds. beautiful building spot. the left ear and a slit in the right nested in the annex of our barn as There was a very complete display For some additional history: ear. At a meeting of the inhabitants far back as any of our family can of the latest insecticides, garden Benjamin Gardner, June 27, 1835. of Cbnneauttee Township qualified Crop off the right ear—sheep. tools, bulbs, shrubs, rose bushes, etc. remember. Spring beauties and hepaticas now I particularly noticed Rootone and to vote for town offices the eight­ Wm. A. McLallen, Oct. 1st, 1835. spot the woods with their delicate Transplantone,two requisites for the eenth of March, one thousand e ight Swallow tail on both ears and half pinks, whites and blues. Ferns and flower gardener for they really hundredandtwenty five, the follow­ penny on the underside of the left many kinds of spring flovers are WORK. This year they are carrying ing persons were chosen by ballot: ' ] ear. poking their heads through the thick named roses, too, and the latest Supervisors Nathaniel Ethridge and I The marks of Robert Nesbit, Nov. John Sherman mat of last year’s leaves and the creations of the Rose World from ! 3, 1837. A slit in the front side of Auditors William Buckley, Richard leeks look mighty thrifty and smelly, Jackson and Perkins. ; the right ear and three marks repStillwell,Russel Stancliff and Sa­ Many trailer loaas of hay from too. ^resenting the letter N right back of Heinz and Trudy Schulz left here this area and around Waterford are muel Beedy. :l it in the same ear in hogs and sheep. Good Friday to drive to Washington, being taken to the race horse farms Poor Masters Zopher Davis and Job :l Layton B.Goodell’s markrecorded Reeder. D. C. to spend Easter with Dick in Maryland. ijfor meat cattle and sheep: a square As one rides over the roads of Fence Viewers James Graham and I crop and slit in the left ear and a and Cathy Osborne. Cathy and the baby returned with-them and re­ Edinboro, Washington and Franklin John Culbertson. I hole in the right ear. mained until Saturday. Dick came Townships one is amazed at the Town Clerk Horace Powera j Davis Pifer’s mark recorded for Constables Samuel Beedy and John great number of properties up for up Friday eve and they returned jmeat cattle, sheep, hogs and horses: Culbertson sale. From Lavery’s Corners to home Saturday. ]A slit in both ears and a half crop Helen Fox was taken to St. Vin­ Franklin Center I think ninety per Attest: Gardner Twichel, Clerk n the back side of the right ear. ^ cent Hospital last Thursday where cent of the properties are listed Horace Powers is an early ances­ Alvah Gardner’s mark for sheep,. . she is undergoing tests. Her brother, with realty firms to be sold. On tor ofina Williams,Luceil Sherwood, ecorded as follows: A half crop of . Don, reports that she is feeling a many of the farms, once thriving Orris Perry and Luceil Ghering. He |the right ear the forehead side and and prosperous, the farms and out' was the first school master of this a slit in the left ear. bit better. Sadie Harned returned from Erie buildings are in a state of disrepair area. Aaron Lick's mark for sheep, In those days you built fences j cattle and hogs — a square crop of Osteopathic Hospital last Wednesday or completely fallen in, several are around crop lands and your animals noon. She had suffered torn muscles vacant—to what does it all lead? Swere allowed to roam free. To keep ^the left ear. and ligaments from a fall. She is Two properties on Hound Hill are [jyour animals so you could identify The following was the first stray able to be up and around and is for sale. H recorded. I and claim them you marked them feeling much better now. Bill Warnshuis and Bruce Batchelor November 3rd, 1828 some way. We have the book Cora Hostettler is improving both have oats planted. Sunday's in entitled "Record of Strays and Mark^' I This day John Tanner reported slowly and looking forward to com­ rain will hold up planting for lots in which each livestock owner’s land was recorded: A dark chestnut ing home before long. of folks especially on the hill farms. mark was listed. A record was kept brown bull the end of the tail white We saw a flock of nice turkeys land a little under his belly supposed EdSkisusMswholive on Fry Road, and an old goose wander across the R. D. 3, are building a new house on I of the stray animals that showed up i'to be two years old. This bull has driveway at Howard Sander’s farm. their cellar home. A new house is I at farm yards and which the owners Ibeen on the c o m m o ns since last f! sought. If your animal had strayed Most every farmer used to keep going up on Tarbell Road, also. Syou also reported it. The Town jSpring and now broke into said Tansome of them and it seems good to The Lyell Beckman property in had charge and kept the rec- sner’s enclosure. still see them. About this time of the development east of town has ]Clerkof'the maSs and strays. j; Abel Whitney, Clerk year the hen turkeys would steal been taken over by the Marquette || (John Tanner owned the land their nests and lay eggs. We used Building and Loan Association at i] The following had marks recorded. I around the cove, built the salt box II Can you find any of your ancestors? to keep turkeys. Perrys did too. We the recent Sheriff sale. ;i house and a barn long gone where were frightened of the old gobbler Several local folks attended the y Abraham Smith Maria Hamilton Ned Whipple formerly owned. On Layton B. Goodell and would make a dash for the barn sale of the goods of the late Mary Jacob Herbert all old maps it is called Tanner's Edward Williams John Tanner when he was out of sight. One year Pieper near Franklin Center. Prices I Cove. One of his descendents who Robert Nesbit Mother and Dad found a nest of eggs were higher than a woodpecker’s Edward Briggs His librarian of a mid west city liJosiah Williams Peter Smith along the stump fence in the pasture; nest. A half pint whiskey bottle jbrary was here about two years ago They brought part of them home sold for thirteen dollars. One of the Lorenzo Taylor Wm. McGahen looldng up family records and hisand put them under setting hens. first pop bottles, shaped like a glass John McGahen Gilbert VanAlstine Jtory.) We were going to try a new dumb bell, brought $6.00. Old ma­ Samuel Perry Benjamin White Angeline Amidon is visiting friends wrinkle to get rid of some of the gazines of the 1890 vintage brought Davis Pifer Annanias Stafford and relatives inEdinboro this week. woodchucks in our fields. After two dollars apiece. Even Sears, David Stafford Alvah Gardner Angeline is one of our oldest and reading a feature article in the Roebuck catalogues of the 1930’s Aaron Lick dearest friends. Her great grand­ Joel D. Sp encer Pennsylvania Farmer, we ordered brought two dollars. Velma Misch- John Sweet father, Joseph Giles, one of this area’s James Mattison some bombs for them — now for some ler and I went through the house John Sisson Amos Huntington earliest settlers settled the farm next good weather and time to use them. which once upon a time had been Benjamin Rice Daniel VanCamp to ours on the south side of the road. Major Beatrice (Bea) Case left a lovely one and would make a very William Potter Phillip Kinter Mrs. Amidon sold it to Garfield Staf­ Monday morning to drive to the nice one to restore. Even the huge C. P. Roberts Benjamin Gardner ford after her husband and son, northwest. She will fly from Seattle old attic had been plastered. Unlike Israel Ray Absolom T. Davis George, passed away. to Fairbanks, Alaska where she will most old farm houses this one had Orin Waldo Wm. A. McLallen The first time we ever went to be stationed at Bassett Army Hos­ lots of clothes rooms and cupboard James Wroth the woods for wild flowers she took Peter M. Finney pital, Fort Wainright. Many interest­ space. There was a good sized Albert Crowe Harleton Twichel lus. As soon as we knew she was ing experiences lie ahead for her. pantry and woodshed. Eli Allen jhome for vacations Margaret and I Josiah Bluet Leonard Winschel, a former resi­ We are cleaning up a long ne­ Joseph Giles Qrnelius Hotchkss |were right there—to lickthe candy dent of Edinboro, passed away at glected fence row which each year Here are some of the marks— ndishand eat the chocolate pudding his home in Erie last Friday of a has been enroaching on the field. The mark of Abraham Smith re- i|which was her speciality, heart attack. Winschels had lived They are so easy to neglect and so ported and recorded this first day I] Laura Riley has returned to her withthe Sidney Owen family on the hard to clean up but results are be­ of November one thousand eight |home at Lakeside after spending the former Port farm east of here on the ginning to show. Dad never allowed hundred and twenty eight for meat [Winter in Florida. _____ ' . ' > ' 7*------- Port road and later in Florence them to get a start and we don’t cattle, horses, cTnoon sheep andhogs-^The Swift’s house on Meadville Street intend to again once we get it right ear half crop on the under side.r and lastly in the former Ernie Helm- cleaned out. Grown up fence rows the other a hal f penny on the under brecht house on Waterford Street. and fence corners are as unsightly side. I Edinboro Wise i j f ■'v ^ ' ^ ★ Edinboro Wise ★ '"i K-K-. A, -"'' .. '>' Carrie Goodell J^‘- t " > .! ’'y -^•cvy > -r^ v> » / -• ^ Z /• ' ^ .-i*. ~ ',V / i' ' j ex' i-/ . 'i ■ 'O' -J ’X'xS >" '•'S'-rv .fr- - t V r . ■ ■ r> V f- ■Jf' -r^i >Ti. . .V A-v 'r\ ^ f'-Y V RE 2-77fii ^t. :iS:»5 - May 6,1965 For the next three months my following names were listed | The Former Don Porter farm, re­ alarm will be set for 4 a. m. It’s ^j;y.ough the book as serving as town|; cently purchased by James Gribbin, aiaiiii VYJ.XX rViolL/x, a fTorwJ nicrllt's ---------------tnrougl rP.St g^gj-i^^ •, i i wonderful what a good night's rest has been sold again to a family by will do for a fellow. By bed time Uriah Hawkins S. A. Brown the name of Hulings. Gribbins are Twichell jessc ucwio Jesse Lewis - ■ having a sale May 8th and will be you’re tired as a dog but next morning you’re up andready for another johnW.CampbellC.Griswold ! moving to Kearsarge the last of this day. G. O. Perry James McLallen month. I put up a wren house this morn- g. A. Terry J.J. McWilliams Our first warm sunny spring day ing and I’ll bet a dollar I’m going C.Reeder Fred Cummings r ^.. came Sunday The buds just seemed to have tenants. -piie following names are listed to burst, the little wrens were scoutAbout this time every year the reporting strays; ing around looking for likely spots sea gulls come out to Edinboro Lake, g^gj.^QQ(j Theodore Phelps ^ ‘ j to estabhsha home, city folks were Our plowed fields seem to attract' Amanda Meabon ' ' driving through the country, cock (jur pioweu iieiub scciu lu attia^^ j them and n t-i A their 4-ViAit* graceful rrror'ofiil flying f1\rinCT adds aHH.Q L I - pheasants were giving their sharp to the already overflowing beauty *" Farren Hart Salmon White y’'i welcome calls from the pastures and Layton B.Goodell Martin Gillaspie Y ' meadows and King's Dairy Isle was of spring. The May Apples and skunk cab­ Nathaniel Gardner Printice Ross •j> y . doing a booming business. V. , . br.ParkeHostettler flew here from bage are up in the pastures. Alfred Trow John Butler When you make your rhubarb r" " Colorado Saturday morning to be Ira Munson Wm. Buckley ^ ' with his mother for a few days. sauce this spring add a little instant Gilbert VanAlstine Otis Trow " Betty left for her home m California tapioca and see it you don't like it James Cory Orlando Crow Oliver Heath Richard Drake better. ;sY r>. .. i last Sunday. The suckers and bullheads have Samuel Adams By the time you read this Don and Hiram C.Hillyer come up the creeks to lay their eggs Nehemiah Shields Henry Port , Margaret Porter will be back home and if you know the right places in John Fry Charles Me la lien . />?1 in McLane. Erastus Ryan K ”1’-." Mane Sherwood Gleeten was in the creek to look you can find lots Alanson Clark Edinboro Saturday for Alumni Day. of them. When we were youngsters Chauncy Marble Thomas Roach " ^ Sunday she and Joe visited Helen Dad used to take us spearing in our Hugh Compton Winston Sieiwood« ' Fox in St. Vincent Hospital. They creek. We’ve come home with pails Andrew Cubertson W. W. Bogue ' ly visited at the Ken Gardner home, full of them. Wm. Marshall Jacob Buys Saturday morning we set outCon- Wm.Ash Augistus Mathews ; 3.1s0 . Ann Behler was in Edinboro SunWm. D. Lawrence Richard Ellis color Fir and Norway Bpruce in the ' day visiting friends. Daniel Sipps Robert S. ; Ellouise Conner's house pasture. For several.years we have i McClenathon Wm.Gerrish ordered from Menoher’s Nursery in Nathaniel ,; i IS taking shape. • Did you sit and watch the sunset Union City. We get the nicest trees Greenfield , * ’ last Sunday evening‘s The colors of at the most reasonable prices from The book includes the recording of any place we have ever or­ the sky reflected on the ripply waters him dered. The nicest tree you can have! of marks and strays starting 1828 and yj-vY ? of the lake were simply beautiful. dered. inenicesL uree yuu novv;migoing nicitj«>eiuuau.oyooxox>.iix£, for a Christmas tree is an untrimmedj through 1885. Teams of -----oxen, Benjamin W. Griffen, ninety-five, ^___ 1 rr,-» TVio troo itcpif is :> vbucksheep, .,,/^UcVippi-i etpprs steers, bpifers.cows heifers, cows and Concolor Fir. The tree itself V: a former resident of Edinboro, died S'-: : 7 at the Caldwell Nursing Home of beautiful, ideal for hanging trim-| horses of all descriptions are re­ mings and never drops a needle, is | corded. Y-' f‘ FihdleyLake, New York. When livYou may enjoy these taken at ; ing here Griffens lived in the Addie, so full of resin that it gives off a j rich piney scent all the while it is i random. Miller hopse on Market Street across Erastus Ryan reports as a stray from Uncle Ned's barn. Mr. Griffen up. Bill Wagners have limed their one brindle bull supposed to be 3' wasthefatherpfMrs.RuthWarnslawn. They planted a lot of bulbs years old. Turned in his pastureAug ; ^ 11. Said bull is of common size ^ rvy huis. ■ I : ■:' M G uy Harn^d,nine ty - four, a brother around in it late last fall. Following are some records taken and supposed to be stolen by the of Charley Harned and uncle to from the Early Record of Strays and man that turned it in. Glenn Harned and Cecil Meacham, Marks. ' passed away last week and was May 22, 1830 Otis Trow reports one pair of five; buried in Edinboro Monday after­ This day recorded by Harleton year old oxen. The nigh ox star in noon. His sister, Mrs. Jay Boy Ian, Twicheland was recorded—One two the forehead. The off ox has one lives in Cambridge Springs. His year old steer, red and white ; blemished leg. Of a red color. Came parents owned and lived in the house speckled-no artificial marks dis­ to his place the 25 of July 1859. now owned by Osters. The first time covered. thatMrs. Harned would see us going Abel Whitney, T. Clerk This day reported as a stray a barefoot in the spring she would re­ May 1, 1833 small dark bay mare ten or twelve mark,"! see you’ve turned your feet This day reported by Samuel years old-half kept and spavins on Beedy and was recorded—one dark both hind legs by G. W. Tallmadge. out to pasture’! There is a magic in this early bay mare of a small size with a grass. Quite often animals especi­ small star in her forehead, shod all Came to the farm on Martin Gillas ally horses after a winter of hay around, supposed to be four or five pie one darkbay mare colt supposed weren’t in too sound health but a years old reported as stray. to be three years old this spring, a little early grass did wonders fo. Clark D. Torrey, Town Clerk small star in the forehead and the them. Dad used to say, "If old Doc August 21, 1835 left hip knocked down some,a small Green (meaning grass) won t help Richard Gillaspie gave informa­ white spot on the same leg above them nothing will'! tion of a stray cow to be recorded the knee also the right hind foot is as follows: of a smallish size,nearly white a black color, small horns, short legs I X. *'s,^ and tail which broke into his en­ closure. 1 Isaac Root. T. Clerk Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell RE .May>13. 1965' Our good friend, Cora Hostettler, Last Saturday night was a night Sunday eve as we drove along the for accidents around Edinboro—one passed away Sunday at 12:30 a.m. country roads to see plowed fields— at the junction of 6N and 86, one From improvement which gave the some already fitted for oats and up by Paul Gleeten's and one by family hopes a sudden change corn, garden spots fitted and some started Sunday and by Monday after­ planted, cherry and shad trees in Waterford and Market Streets. I feel free as a birdie. The cows noon she had lapsed into a coma to bloom against a background of light are turned out to pasture and no more remain until her death. The funeral green of the tulip and quaking aspen, was held Tuesday morning at the maple, birch and elm mixed with ! stables to clean until snow flies. Larry and Nancy Harned have pur­ Presbyterian Church. Cora loved the still bare oak and hickories it chased the old Holt farm on Gibson flowers,loved to plant,was born and seemed as though the world was al-. Hill. Originally it included sixty grew up on a farm in Guys Mills most too beautiful. Sunday seems acres but Harry Dundon who pur­ and had a good knowledge and great to cast a feeling of specialness and chased it from Holts had cut off the love for farm animals, birds, the peace and beauty over everywhere timber then sold the barn and land countryside. She was a graduate of that you could recognize even with­ to Carl Gifford, retaining the house Edinboro Normal School, had taught out benefit of a calendar. and approximately an acre of ground school and for many years worked In 1909 an ordinance was passed for himself. Harry Dundon had fixed in the Bursar’s Office at theCollef;e. in the Boro prohibiting the driving up the barn and it was in good shape She was a very moughtful. Rind and of animals through the streets of while he owned it. Harneds plan to always helping friend. Tonight as the village. The thing that promp-' tear -down the house, use what lum­ folks learn of her passing they will ted it was one spring day men were ber they can salvage from it to fix be thinking of all the things she has driving a herd of steers to market up the barn and build a new house. done for others during her trip in Erie and one got out of line and Some ofthe land will again be under through life. Many, many times she ran into Hank Dowlef s house (where . cultivation this summer. It is a very has called and said, "Now,I know Marcinowskis live today) and came sightly location and the land has you girls have been too busy to cook out with Dowler's lace curtains ■ produced good crops in years gone a thing for yourselves today so when draped over its horns. Sheep, cows, by. There used to be some mighty you finish your evening chores you horses and turkeys were all driven, good frost peach trees out back of come down and eat supper with me'! through town on their way to mar- : the house. I'm glad to see Edinboro Besideher children, June,Parke and ket in Erie. As far as I know the! ; folks buying it. Betty, she leaves a brother, Joe and ordinance was never enforced. Dad At the election for Trustees of the half sister, Nellie, of Guys Mills and and Frank Walker drove cattle and ■ ^ Cemetery Association held Monday, !i hosts of friends. sheep to the Dundon pasture west May 3rd, at the Boro Building the i Clarence Chase planted corn last of town until the 193Cfs. They drove ^ following were elected to serve I Saturday. them together and separated the; ; during 1965-66: B. C. Kiehl, Robert A you ever saw a proud and lov- flocks and herds by the gates in the • i Shields, Margaret Goodell, Alfred pastures. Every Sunday morning Dad f ing grandmother and great grand­ I Cochran, Hildur Torrey, Monroe and Frank went to call the animals t:; mother it is Mabel Kline Fisher. We I Shrader and Donald Sauers, together and salt them, look them; j David Reno, his son, Charles, and saw pictures of Marie Yurchaks son over,comment on them and see that who graduates from High School ? small grandson were in Edinboro this year and her baby daughter and everything was alright. i visiting friends last Saturday. Dave A real estate deal is in the making i ; Phyllis Wood's baby son. had returned from a check-up at the on the Pete Smith road. July 1 the g It could have been serious but James T.Da vis family will take pos-i| Cleveland Clinic and reports are fortunately it wasn't and provided excellent. He has lost considerable smiles from both parties. A call session of the former Colvin, then 13: weight and was looking and feeling came in that Swift's barn on what ! Tom Gleeten-,Stafford,Benson place; ' wonderful. The Renos have all done they call 'the Curtis place' was on There are 62 acres in the farm, well but like most who were born fire. The fire department responded ■Ellouise is a good little home maker ;S and grew up here as had several immediately and to their surprise and I’m very happy they've settled t generations of his family, he yearns and Neil Swififs discovered it to be ' " , Zealand,etc.and brought back many horses. No cat and dog doctoring, J slides which she showed. Thelma's for him. j ‘ mother was the former Blanche An­ Autumifs bolder colors have noth-f derson whose family lived west of ing on the delicate and beautiful! - . town many years ago. colors of mid spring. The fruit trees! ./ . Layton and Mabel Swift and friends are blossoming heavily and seem to;" _ from North East left Friday for a two be trying to compensate for two ! vl',, week's trip to Bermuda. years ago of no fruit and few sum-i-^, mer blooms. \Maj^20^1965 ’'"O . V Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell / -*'•, f./'- - RE 2-7761 Sunday eve's dark clouds and Owen and Carol Harned’s son, thunder and lightning to the north Donald, 13 received a serious Ethel Nye has a newly painted ^ of us left a trail of heavy rain, high injury r o h i s foot last Saturday fence around her yard and garden winds,buildings struck by lightning while operating a riding lawn which looks very sprucy andattracand scattered debris. We were very mower. It had gotten stuck on a tive.There arc lots of pretty flowers fortunate—little wind and no rain. root and when he used his right inside, too. ; The catbirds returned this past From the Early Records: foot to free it, his foot slipped -•¥■,> I week. They look for a nice old under and as a consequence it The earliest voting and meetings I fashioned lilac bush to build a nest. cut through a leather shoe and cut were held at the home o f Abel I they are one of my favorite birds tendons and chipped bones. For­ Whimey £ jcording to the records. ! and are plentiful near a blackberry tunately his mother had made a In 1836 the records read as patch or the shrubby entry to the ruling that none of the children follows: woods. At an election held at the school were to use any power machinery This is lilac time around here unless someone older and a car ' house in Washington Village(Edinand how I love them. I wouldn't was at home. By Wednesday the'^ boro) on Friday the 14th day of give much for a house or the folks doctors will know how it is going f March 1836. Wherefore, the Judges who lived there who hadn't planted to turn out and he may be able i thereof Do certify that the follow­ a lilac bush around somewhere so to come home. \ ing persons were duly elected into Billy and Joyce Kuhn have cleaned^ office-That is to say. one could step out and inhale that beautiful and earthy spring perfume. out the brush and are going to have For Supervisors Votes In times gone by you could drive a pretty yard before long. Robert McClenethon 79 along the country roads to see an A new building is going up on Being the highest number of votes abandoned house or the remains of the Yeast property on Gibson Hill was duly elected an old cellar and near by a straggly west of town. The farm was settled For Auditors and beautiful old lilac bush in by the Gibson family many years Harvey G. French 57 bloom, some yellow rose bushes, Having the highest number ago. John Alwards lived there as a Decoration day peony, two or long ago as I can remember. Before was. duly elected three frost peach trees, a partly it burned some years ago, there was For Town Clerk alive Bartlett pear tree and prune a huge and lovely old house on the Isaac Root 94 tree, an astrakan or sweet apple farm.The present owners have never Unanimous tree that had stood near the back farmed the land and it is fast re­ School Directors stoop and farther back the remains gressing t o a brush land and the Stephen Hardy 104 of an old apple orchard. You just Russell Stancliff 1031 knew that folks had lived there, barn is falling in.Dad used to point Unanimous loved that spot of land, planted, out to us where the log cabin stood For Constable worked hard to make a living but and would tell us of it and the fire Harry Crow 52 had the pleasures of watching the place with its crane which he liked, Daniel Wells 51 early dawn and sunrise, the sunset to turn as a child Treasurer and dusk, the of the earth ^ -----------— smells wx me carm sincerest sympathy to all of Jacob Lefever (unanimous) 77 after a rain, newly plowed ground Hobbs family, Fence Viewers the hayfield at haying time, the J Haller returned tohisEdin- Daniel Ethridge and John Sisson stubble at wheat and oat harvest P home last Monday, Benjamin Gardner time, the strawberry patch when i There was a rash of a grass fire Benjamin Rice they are ripening, the cornfield; li around last week. Dyer Walker Many of the apple trees around the sounds—of the peepers in spring, Judges of Election the birds as they arrive for the this part of the country have very Second Monday in April 1836 summer,the tree toads in summer, :j few blossoms this spring. Our strawThe auditor's settlement contin­ the crickets and katy-dids of hot berry patch is just white with blos- ued four days nearly, the result of August, the roosters crowing and soms. I finally got it weeded out which as follows: sheep and lambs talking to each L last week. On pauperism and services other in the early dawn as you g Carl and Elsie McWilliams drove Reuben McLallen Rec'd an order of stood at the pasture gate and lis­ i to Titusville Sunday to visit an ill $28. 23 tened, other farmers from a dis­ ' niece of Elsie's. Dyer Walker Rec'd an order of Ruth Burgett, her mother, Mrs. tance giving those calls peculiar 27. 50 to each which brought the milk Prue, and Jane Linden attended the Benjamin Gardner Rec'd an order cows to the barn. Those people, horse show at Platea Sunday after­ of 6.40 too, must have known also the sat- i noon. Benjamin Rice Rec'd an order of see the J.U.TV lawns grow isfaction of accomplishment from l Did Jyou ever -------------- AXV^iXJ i ---- ----iXO ^luw 6.15 a day’s hard work, sitting down to I faster than this past week?We I saac Root Rec'd an order of three well cooked meals a day, : scarcely keep up with the mov 10. 00 having a chance to sit down and iJ ^^8 whacking off dandelions, Jesse Tarbell Rec'd an order of. look at the pap^r before the noon j J'^‘^8^^8 from the reports around ---- — - —-w ixw\./tx a o—o oiuuiMJ 6. 38 meal, listening for the dinner bell, town some much needed discipline I Isaac Taylor Rec'd an order of --------------f from the Administration of the when night came crawling into I 4.00 clean, good smelling sheets that j High School and the College is i Russell Stancliff rec'd an order of had been dried on a clothes line. » mightily in order and would be a 1 4.00 You can have your easy life and i credit to both. gadget living-I’ll settle for some-P Don Cornell has lettuce, onion plants from seed,beets, carrots, thing else! Helen Fox is presently at the^ spinach and peas up in his vegeconvalescent home here. [ table garden. ■ Harvey French rec'd an order of 4. 00 Abel Whiteny rec'd an order of 2. 00 School Tax Amount now in the collection $118.34 1/2 Amount now in the Treasury . 06 1/2 File No. 20 Roberts. McClenathan rec'd a county order of 25.45 Benjamin Gardner rec'd a county order of 21. 98 I. Root Town Clerk In 1837 the name of Conneauttee Township was changed to Washing­ ton Township. Sue Harrison Stafford was 89 yeas old Sunday, May 16. Her brother, Don Harrison, celebrated his 85th last October 13th. Margaret and I each had some of his birthday can­ dy. Sue's daughter,Margaret Christensen,spent the day with her.Every now and then we see Sue going to i the mail box or looking around the garden back of the house. i There have been several phone | number changes in this area the ^ past week. Marshall and Inez Sproull t new number is Re 2-4435. Sprouls attended the Saegertown Tulip Fes- ' • tival last Saturday. This is the third year for it a n d they note marked , improvement each year. The parade [' was very enjoyable. Tuesdayjv4ay 18,they will attend commencement exercises at the Cambridge Springs High School to see Inez's grand nephew graduate. We brought our glad bulbs up from the cellar to shuck them and plant this week. To avoid thrips we put| chlordane in the trench when we plant and an occasional shot of garden dust during the summ er. When you see little bee-like in-* sects flitting around it's time to dust because the eggs they lay turn into thrips. I r V- The return on the outsiae 'or me envelope read: If not called fOT in 10 days return Before Don went into this business he carpentered. He built the Park Skelton house, the Mike Fitzgerald house, the William Marsh house J. W. GOODELL (StanFuller's) and many others. He Dealer in Carrie Goodell RE 2-77" GROCERIES PROVISION 5 CROCKERY tore down the cheese factory which May 27, 1965 had originally been a pu mp factory ! Glassware, Confectionery, at McLane and used it to build the j Yankee Notions, Etc. Rains in May make a barn full In years gone by Decoration uay Marsh house.He was a fine workman i EDINBORO, PENN’A. of hay-there has been very little was the day for making gardens. ' Don can look out of the windows ^ The letter was addressed to: moisture so far this month-the After chores and the family had of his house which he built in 1908 T. H. Agnew ground is dry as a bone and the 'cleaned up’ Mother collected her and see in all directions properties Station Agent meadows show it. plants and pails of lilacs, bleeding some of his family had built or Cambridge We have ten hens and get nine i heart, red peony blossoms, snow ball had built for them. In 1840 his Pa. eggs a day. I wonder why one never blossoms and any other cut flowers Among the things mentioned in Grandfather Hitt built the store has setting hens any more. It used die could find and we drove to the building i n what was originally to be that by this time of year that cemetery to fix the graves and visit the letter are: known as Well's Corner, later When is your school house to be a good share of the rest were clucks with all the other families who were and she shut them up in the corn doing the same. There were always dedicated?! received a card but in Compton's Corners and still later crib until they got it out of their some folks from far away that came the confusion of the last few days I McLane. His Grandfather Hitt was systems. When a hen wanted to set and who you rarely saw or heard have lost it-I hope you have a boy postmaster there before the Civil and Mother thought she would make from otherwise. Sometimes Mother nearly old enough to go to school War. Later his father owned the a good mother,she picked out twelve and Dad made ice cream. On the and derive some benefit from the store. A country store then was like a club in the evenings. About dusk to fifteen eggs-depending on the way home from taking the milk to new building. the men in the neighborhood came Respectfully yoiirs size of the hen— and had us girls the street car. Dad stopped in at walking in with their lanterns to J. W. Goodell mark them (scribble around the out­ Frank Walker^ ice house and bought sit around the stove and discuss the Tommy also brought up some side) with a soft leaded pencil. She 3 or 4 blocks of ice. Mother used subjects of interest. About 10 p. m. old letters of an even earlier other put new straw in the nest, shook louse powder liberally in the nest Grandma Goodell’s recipe and the date—one concerning orders from the store keeper passed around the crackers, cheese, salmon, etc., for and around on the hen, put the 4-gallon freezer was one used from Taylor's Pump factory. It was very pleasant to see Wayne those present. There were usually marked eggs in the nest, checked the time they sold ice cream in the ‘ or 4 from Ensign's mill. Wes during the incubation period that room back of the store. Margaret Fish, Lois Shelhamer and Margie Porter—sometimes there would be and I took our turn at turning the f|and Jesse Koon riding by on horse the hen didn’t leave the nest and a dozen lanterns lined up. The first that no other hens layed in and then crank on the freezer. When it was .back Sunday afternoon, at the right stage it was packed : Helen Rye is feeling much better ^ne to leave took the best lantern. watched for the first eggs to be Don says there was a scarcely a Recked’ and to take out the babies with salt and ice and had to stand and Allen expected to bring her ^eek that there wasn't a run-away as they emerged from the shell. If for a while. It seemed we could home last Monday. it was a good hatch, the mother never get enough of it. The neigh­ j Phyllis Woods came home from the and smash up where the 5 roads cony hen and babies were put in a box bors were always invited over to ■hospital last Saturday and will have erge. Lynn Crandall took over the store I with slats nailed across the front j have a dish, too. Anyone who has to take it easy for a while. [n 1898. I and feed and water dishes filled—| eaten good home made ice cream Monday, May 24, Helen Fo» will will agree that no ice cream manu­ be back home. Mrs.Brady Cummings Harrison has the first dollar he one for the old hen and one for the ever earned—a gold dollar his fathei i babies. You hoped the hen would j factured compares with it. will be helping with the house work ^ave him for bugging potatoes. He ; not tramp on the chicks from ex- There was always a parade with for a while. citement or when she was hovering a band and all the old Civil War The new house and garage on the pawned it to his mother a good many them. If the hatch was poor—you Soldiers. Usually some one made a Yeast property is progressing rapidly. times until he'd earned and saved ^ waited until evening and tried to speech in Normal Hall. We saw Joe Hecker plowing under enough to get it back in his poss^ slip the babies under another hover­ There are four real estate deals some mighty good looking meadow ession. We saw large copper cents ing mother. 'v, in the process of completion which for corn this week. minted in 1844 and half dimes, At night you put boards against will be reported in this column We saw lots of little boys standing copies of the Scientific American the front of the coop to p r o tect shortly. on the Mill Bridge fishing as they printed in 1867, letters addressed against night rovers and uncovered Gus Burgett was in Warren. Pa. have done for a hundred years. Then to Miss Mary E. Gillespie and tellinj them in the early morning. When Sunday to attend the funeral and when you see these same little her of the Battle of Vicksburg. The the chicks had grown to a size that act as bearer for an elderly cousin. fellows marching in the Decoration writing was very legible and truly the coop could scarcely hold all Inez Sproul attended a tureen Day parade-earnest,happy, lovable of them Mother opened up a slat dinner last Saturday which the Fair- : little souls so completely and un­ beautiful. In an old trunk in th< attic are many copies of papers and let them run free. view teachers gave for retiring consciously themselves,you wonder from the Civil War period. Sue has About the Fourth of July a few teachers. Our own former Bernice what is ahead for them. told us that trunk always sat at the young roosters had gotten to the (Beebe) Crozier was one of the Don Harrison has sold out his foot ofher Grandmother Hitt's bed. size for fryers and on an early Sun­ retirees. business to Billy Kelly. Kelly goes day morning Mother would decide Wendell and Edna Burgett of War­ on with the business a«d Don will There is a beautiful old cherrycurly maple chest up stairs for c.v that they would taste good for dinner ren County were in Edinboro last 4 help with his knowledge and good which Don's father traded a te am so we would help her run two down Friday eve visiting his brother and X judgment acquired through the of oxen. in the tall grass in the orchard. When wife, Gus and Ruth Burgett. years. This business serves farmers*! At times through the years Harri­ cool fall days arrived men used to Gusty Everwines will be settled as far away as Kittanning, Clymer, I sons have had as high as 100 swarms ' v-f come around to the farms-Fred Le- in the former Tad Freeman house (Sherman and Warren County. i of bees which have produced up to I Suer for one-and buy them to take by July 1st. The Freeman farm was ; Don started working with and for 3 tons of honey. Don still has some i to market. That made from fifty to originally owned by Gusty's ances­ ithe Jamesway Farm Equipment i swarms out back of the buildings. J one hundred dollars that the farmer’s 1 Company in 1912 and for many j He was interested in planting and tors. wife claimed for her own and she Tommy Warner brought up a letter years sold as high as $40, 000. I flowers. The first really good pereA felt quite rich. Some hens were one night last week which they had worth of equipment a year. He kept j nnial beds around this area were i kept for layers and with the income found in boxes of old letters that a very complete stock, often as across the front of his yard. He If Margaret or I went alone to j from those eggs you bought the gro- had been stored away for many, high as $13, 000 of it on hand. planted a p e a r orchard and last get some article, Don couldn't tell ' ceries and ’salted’ the rest for a many years by this grandfather. T. Farm folks will tell you that most which one it was so made out the year sold 70 bushels of this fruit. I leaner day. Mother could always go H. Agnew. The letter was written anything you need can be found to the old sugar bowl and pri^uce Kelly is fortunate to be able to bill 'Goodell Sister'. Dec. 9, 1875 by John W. Goodell. there or most any problem you run If you are interested in the lore take over this business, have such a little ’extra’ if it was needed. into with operating farm equipment a good teacher to start and aid him of McLane it would be well worth he can solve for you—just good ] along and I hope he has the 'stuff your time to listen to Don's stories 'yankee know how’. in him to continue and succeed in and knowledge of it. rX. Our sincere sympathy to the Nor­ a much needed business in this area, man W. Schruers family, his father, Our very best wishes for sucess! mother, sister and brother. Edinboro Wise I I Edinboro Wise they want—that as long aschiidren put their feet under their parentis RE 2-776^ Carrie Goodell tables they are entitled to the se­ June 3,1965 curity of and respect for discipline If you wish true serenity and beau^ It was a chilly and breezy Decor­ go ask Georgie Borland to walk and that parents should care enough ation Day and not one you love to through her garden in the early to provide it—that a community remember. Some folks can still re­ monting or just before dusk in the expects honesty, decency, fairness, member a Decoration Day of long evening. Almost a lifetime of love respect for the citizen’s rights and ago (78 years) when a terrific hail and labor is in it. You will surely economy from the men who are: elected to office. Don’t tell me storm did much damage. Dad has they run for office from a sense of told us that Dan Walker owned the believe; The kiss of the sun for pardon. righteousness because it takes a sticl house where Royce Mallory now owns The song of the birds for mirth. of dynamite to pry them loose once and that after that storm there was One is nearer God’s heart in a gar-; they get a taste of it—always has not a pane of glass in the windows den been s o and probably always will that was not broken. It also broke Than anywhere else on earth. be—that no one is indispensible, the large front windows in Grandpa We haven’t had any maple sugar the old world moves on undisturbed Goodell's store. I candy for years until the other nigh This chilly weather isn’t doing; 'cora Shields brought out a plate, nomalSEdC how much public wailing the com any good either. As we of it. It tasted just as good as I re-' —that everybody has an obligation to be a good neighbor, a good citi­ drove along the roads I noticed it looks more yellowish than green but member and Cora doesn’t know it zen, a true friend, an honest and buti could have eaten every bit on truthful person, a respector of the oats look good. A s I write this there are just too the plate. She has the best looking other fellow’s rights and property, many Edinboro folks in the hospital strawberry patchl ’ ve seen this spring a worker for the good of the com­ and several critical. Jessie Gardner It makes me think I’d better get munity and state and nation, and to think and act like a lady or gentlesuffered a bad stroke last Thursday started on a new one,too. Mrs. Linden of Brownsville, Pa. ! men, and is in Hamot Hospital.]oe Tucker^ _______ Vernie Hardman of Sherrod Hill, and Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Eicher of The King’s Daughters Sunda> Janet Haggerty, and Roscoe Robert­ Washington, Iowa were in Edinboro School class of the Methodist Churdi son from over in the Valley are there to see their grandson, Tim Linden, and others met at the home of Mrs. be graduated from High School Drew Gleeten, Tuesday, May 25. too. There was a slight accident at the Monday evening. Those present, Mattie Jeffords who You can drive along any country will be 90 on her next birthday, blinker light (Waterford, Market, and Ontario Streets) Saturday after­ road and see well tilled farm fields. Jessie Cole, Blanche White of Water noon. Fortunately no one was seri­ One of the neatest and most beau­ ford. Aunt Maude, Mrs. Fetterolf, tiful belongs to Gaylord Skelton— Mrs. Winfield, Mrs. Tad Freeman ously injured. Kate Andrews arrived back in Ed­ what better way to express what is Mrs. Green (Mrs. Ralph Shield ’ s inboro from Omaha, Nebraska for in one’s heart and soul than the re­ mother), Mae Norris, Anna Roth, the summer. ’Most every mcming, sults of every day living. Who want Mae IGrschner, Mrs. Albright and and she is an early riser, she mosies the leisure to rust out? And for those Jessie Nash enjoyed a very pleasant over for a short visit and a cup of boys who think I’m living in the meeting and delicious pot luck coffee and often she brings a plate past and not in ’65—T’AINT SOI! dinner. full of cookies she has just baked. j T h e things I believe in were good Bob and Barbara Stenett left last yesterday and are still good today. Friday to drive to Washington, D.G It’s good to have her back! Joe Gleeten has undergone surgery I believe in work and plenty of it- to risit her sister and husband,Carothat you live within your income line and Harry Strats, over the holi­ in the Salem City Hospital. A new garage and tool shed is and buy only what you can pay for day week-end. going up on the Glenn Shields farm^' when you buy it and not expect the By late summer Joe Tbrreys will | merchant t o wait and wait for his be backliving on Market Street a- ; Last Thursday Gladys Le Suer Hammer of W e i s Library was i n money-that there is little pleasure gain. There just couldn’t be bettei town to decorate at the cemetery or satisfaction oi; good sense in buy-' news. and to look and follow leads towards ing every new gadget, machine or; Jim Snyder is hauling in more completing a genealogy on which tool on the market and ha'ring debB ^ dirt along the front of the cove—* hanging over your head constantly ■ the prelude to another project ' she is worldng. Justina Baron is retiring from the —that if you feel you aren’t being; there. ' college library. The students who' paid wages or salary enough for your I see that the Erie County Plann­ ; will be coming here to school in ability that you get out and find ing Commission is recommending : the future will be missing a very another place where your ability is the abolition of Boro and Township genuine,wholesome and interesting recognized and you will be paid Tax Collectors—next it will be ali personality as well as a fine librarian accordingly—that one gives a good local government. day’s work to the man who hires and later a good friend;. There are still miracles happen­ Did you notice how beautiful our him—that your word is as good as ing. Lee Halmi wrecked his conver­ cemeteries looked this year? Ernie your bond and not to be forgotten tible in John Borland’s yard, ruined Meacham with his helpers,Jim Van- or taken lightly—that you provide trees and came out of it alive and: Laningham and Paul Storch, deserve for yourself and your family and unhurt. notaskforor accept alms until your the credit. Ernie worked like a Through the efforts of many who beaver early and late and the boys inability to do so is absolute—that cared, the McLallen’s Corners and ^ every minute they could space to a great many who draw a check Trow cemeteries looked nice this have it that way. There are ten | every week, two weeks or month as year. Folks who are interested in acres of ground to be gone over, a ; salary would starve to death if they the Shened Hill cemetery are hop lot of mowing and trimming is in­ had to rely on their own ability, to ing to accomplish the same thing. volved and the Cemetery B o a rd I make a living (and they are often Mamie Stanford visited her mothar ! the noisiest)—that a Boro Council ■ works with very limited funds. last Monday. Sunday she accompan­ 1 ora Board of Supervisors is elected ied her daughter and husband to i to carry out the wishes ixf .its people Pymatuning Dam and the bird ‘ and not to decide once they get in museum and sanctuary. j that they ate God and should decide i what people need and not what ★ Edinboro Wise ★ Carrie Goodell RE 2-7^fil June 10,1965 Mrs. Cynthia Prue is spending two weeks with her daughter, Beverly, There is a beautiful old fadiibned yellow door rose in full bloom in and family in Parma, Ohio. While Bill and Thelma Ekelund's back she is away Ruth and Gus are fixing ipp the grounds around the new house. yard.The time was that almost every- house had one of those near This week end the family will all it. It was as common as a lilac bush, be going to Cornell University to see Tony be graduated in Vetrinary bleeding heart, Decoration £) ay iMedicine. peony and golden glow. The deed to the former George J Every blackberry bush is just Taylor farm (most recently owned white with blossoms. by Jock Davish and for many years Bobolinks are back bobbing here and there in the meadows. , i the property of Brady Ste Iton, has We ve noticed that Bernard Col- p been delivered to the General State vin, Kenneth and Axel Gardner and Aumority to become an area for Paul Hotchkiss and his Dad have future college expansion. all started haying. Sunday we drove by woodlands Jessie Nash has returned to her here in the Township where thickly home on Market Street after spend - wooded spots were completely bare ing the winter with her sons and of foliage, eaten clean by worms. families in Erie. It’s frightening to see things like It’s good to see the flags along that. We stopped to clean the car the village streets. Folks from here of worms and were mighty sure we and those passing through canikhe^: weren’t carrying any home. feeling better from seeing them and This is cabbage setting time feeling that here is a village that through the Township. The present cares. weather is just perfect for it, too. Bea (Major Beatrice) Case had a Have you driven by the Sproul safe trip to her assignment in Alaska garden?It’sbeautiful and you can’t and just loves it. She says the hos­ find a weed in it. Power mowers pital is just beautiful and the people have done a lot to beautify America. ; are grand to her. Major Etobbs, a It’s hard to find a home in town or friend who Bea had worked with country any more that isn’t kept before,had been stationed there mowed and picked up around the earlier and both girls had toured buildings and grounds. around and she has taken slides ol The Methodists and Catholics the moose, caribou, scenery, etc., will be welcoming new ministers which she will be sending home to | her Mother and Dad to view. She very soon. The tax notices are out and many I has already sent Alaskan flower seeds have already paid up. Andy Smol- t which her folks have planted. The insM was the first to pay in the Borcf weather and temperatures are just If you get ants in the house, try | about like ours here. She has bought sifting chlordane all along the walls a new ski outfit and will be buying ‘ of the house. That will fix them! fishing equipment to fish for big Then start looking for the hills and fish and join the fun. The General put some on them, too. ofthe Fort had shot a polar bear and Don Cornell is painting the Albert is having it mounted. Bea and the Engh home at the top of Gusty Hill Red Cross girls had four days off at Decoration Day and were going to tour around the countryside.Her car and furniture hadn't arrived at the time of her last letter. A1 Vatter passed away Saturday after a long period of ailing. He frequently brought Iva up to look at our garden.The last time he read the water meter here he sat down to eat the extra piece of apple pie and visit a bit. About this time in June in years gone by we would take a drink of water to Dad who would be culti­ vating corn. Then we would use the can to put in wild strawbenies which we picked in the fence corners and along the edge of the field. Those were carefree happy days for any child. Often you would find ground sparrow’s nests, a snake wriggling through the grass sent one climbing the fence or you hunted stones to fill a wood chuck hole. j ..r - ^ -V " \"r -SjJt, r*x/ ^ I Lr - -■*'? “ ’■C ^ ^ *''-*¥*' ."v'3<^“' . r < ★ Edinboro Wise ★ Carrie Goodell RE 2-^. V.3'?' rj--^ . ~ \T^. ^ ' 3;^ '" ^Yv~c- 'June 17,1965 tour through literature sent out Dy the Nurses Association. Both are re­ gistered nurses, very interested in improving themselves professionally and the best wishes of everyone go to these two lovely young ladies for a wonderful trip and vacation. Just imagine what fun they’ve had plantrip! and another will nevei lowered and bellowiqa Sunday, June 6,Neil Swift and The road men started looking for his cousin, Merle Swift of North ■ ■-X-. something they could climb for /1, ^iPt‘ ;-„-t3;v'‘'5 East, flew to Detroit to pick up and| ,safety. The pompous one couldn’t _r ■'^ • drive home two new tractor trailors.? *< * find a tree or anything else to save >- ' " -Ji"’ When they returned Merle invitedj himself.The Md farmer shouted from Neil onto his boat to have lunch.' >v That makes ten trailers in their ' thebackbarn door, "Why don’t you carry the thrill of this first one. - . f-t ~ ~ ^ t- r show him your badge?" Vernie Hardman is not showing ” -t'- ’' ^ ^1 "*' ' Y-V 'Tfc- fleet and on a Sunday when theyareij *" Y-'-'-'/S'j all in off the road and lined up irE It is wonderful to see Helen Fox the improvement for which her looking and feeling so much bettet family and friends had hoped. - v: " i front of the barn shed it makes ai Joe Torreys left Monday at noon So many folks ask, "What do you mighty fine sight. No one I know of to spend a week in Cleveland visit­ hear of Joe Tucker?" He can move puts in more hours or works harder than Neil and it is a genuine plea­ ing, their daughter, Joan and family. his arms slightly and there is feeling sure to see a person like that prosper. Hildur made some of her delicious in his feet but as yet the doctors r -""s cannot tell exactly what the future The man who dug the trench to Swedish rye bread to take along •>. Y- ’ Z'— ^ 't-^ '^4 'Y ’■ " ' Mr. .and Mrs. .W. ,Oj ,W agner arrived holds. We all hope it holds great im lay the sewer line back to Conner’s ■'■^, -*t > , ^ 4 ^ * •>. ^ i- new house ran into some real prob­ last Friday to spend the week end provement. The Highway Department is cut­ lems. The gravelly,stoney soil cavec with their son,Bill Wagner, and ‘ :r .* in as fast as he dug and made it family on Waterford Road. Bill ting back the high banks and the brought them over to visit a bit high corner by the Hound Hill road. unsafe for workers to go down to '... and look around the garden. We It will contribute towards safety and lay the tiles. Willie Stafford is working in a enjoyed it very much and hope tc help with the battle from drifting n;:i:fAv> Y> see them again soon. Mr. Wagner snow. It looks better, too. shop in Erie. We are most happy to report that Joe Gleeten,lookih^ rather peaked isAss’tCd. Sup’t. of the Mifflin Co. tT' ■" our dear neighbor,Mrs.Ceylon Perry, - r f.5^';:,V > '-; Schools and as is so often the case after his iecent bout in the hospital, is looking better and feeling like ^ l~f^ ^13 spent the past week end in Edinboro started his teaching career in a one herself again. In fact she is planning room rural school visiting friends. A transfer of deeds from Mike on planting the late cucumber seed Mr. and Mrs. John Smith of Itley in the garden. The hugh old grape­ V attended the Golden Age Club at Marcinowski to Jack Koon appeared vine which covers the back end of last week. It is the former Gardner Waterford last week. They really or Jim McLallen school transformed the house, must be around a hundred enjoy those meetings. into a dwelling house on Route 86. years old with a stump like a knarled Royce Mallorys returned Sunday :^V; V'"/"’ from a week’s fishing trip in- Potter There was also a transfer from Car- old tree is loaded with grapes this year. It used to run along the wood­ dell Ghere to Marcinowski. County. shed, too. I attended a meeting of the Boro The best piece of corn tiiatl have Drew Gleeten has one of the best seen belongs to Johnny Showman Council on June 7 and enjoyed it. gardens around. It was planted ear!^ It does one good to be acquainted on the Don Fox farm. and is clean as a whistle. It looks When we drove to the *Dundon’; with the problems that come up be­ beautiful. Drew was atop notch Sunday we noticed lots of surveyor’s fore the local governing body and farmer and naturally a good gar­ how they go about to solve them. I stakes marking the boundaries of the new North-Southhighway. The bids also noticed that one little man on dener. Lodeme Hecker has a very pretty were let this past week for the work ’the Boro Council knew all the an­ - ,t display of peonies along two sides swers for every subject that was dis­ here. We haven’t seen or heard a " ' >1 of their large front yard. It seems tUng from the Highways Depart­ cussed, monopolized th e conve r♦ that every year it gets prettier up sation and felt called upon to offer "'^ ^ .Yment since last September when a .' -T, right-of-ways man was around to a nasty suggestion to one of the there. A good fire in the kitchen stove 'r / leave a notice of condemnation and visitors. It was this same little man has felt mighty comfortable these who made the statement at a special literature telling us how happy we should be that they were selecting meeting of the Boro Council held last few days and evenings. Anothony C, Burgett of Edinboro -f some of our property for this puiy on January 18, 1960, the meeting notice of which was sent to Council was graduated June 14 with a de­ pose.I am told that where they have •" ~,T ' ‘i- 5> actually started work the property j Members to discuss the ’budget' gree of Doctor of Veterinary Mediowners learn about it by finding j and the ’Brinks Business’^^that you cine at Cornell University's NinetyV -/ ^ :'f* r-. them bulldozing out their trees and I h a d to be sneaky to get ahead. A Seventh Commencement, The cere­ burning them. It reminds me of a house cleaning on the Council monies were held at Barton Hall story Joe Gleetentold: One morning I could well start right here. Later with the President of the University, ' an elderly farmer looked out back iwhen I mentioned this man’s phil- James A. Perkins delivering the i.' on his best fields to see men and 11sophy of life to others of the Boro add ress. machines and surveyor stakes and ’ Council they said, "He is different Dr, Burgett was recently elected much rooting and bulldozing. He from the rest of us. " to the Alpha Chapter of the Society walked out and protested, 'You can’t I Jessie Gardner shows a wee bit of of Phi Zeta, an honorary society of do this. This has been our farm home improvement. They put her in a veterinary medicine. He is a mem­ for many generations. This is our chair and have started therapy treat ber of Omega Tan Sigma Fraternity, means of livelihood. " A pompous ment. We hope and pray she shows and Tri Beta, honorary biological man wearing a badge stepped up continued improvement. fraternity and was Senior Representa- v Sunday, July 13, Gay Fuller, daugh tive on the Honors Committee of and said, "Old man, you go back to the barn and tend to your choras. ter of R. A. and Marie Fuller, and Cornell Student Government. We’ll go where we wish and warn I Mary Sue Snyder, daughter of Mrs. Following a short vacation in no interference from you. "The I Pat Snyder, left New York by plane Florida he will be associated with old fellow returned to the barn I at 6 p. m. for Frankfurt, Germany to Dr, Cleon W, Easton of Machias, broken hearted and sat down on a I attend the International Conference New York, stool and thought for a while. Then of Nurses. They will be there nine Attending the graduation cere­ he untied a large four year old bull* days then they will tour France, the monies were his parents Mr, and XyVXtX i-: led it to the barn door and let ii Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy Mrs. C. A, Burgett and his grandloose. For a while it stayed around to return to the States July 11. TIe mother,Mrs. Cynthia Prue, all of ^ ' ''x Y.- ' ^ the buildings but then was attracted r-Ju - *'4, Edinboro. to the activity out back and took I X Edinboro Wise RE2-77&1. Carrie Goodell I found a tree toaa sitting on a rose petaltonite—the first I’ve seawj in ages. There used t o be lots of j them and on a hot,muggy after-j noon or evening when they would; sing most Mother told us it was a sign of rain. They take on the cola of the object they cling to and are often hard to see. 3 Harold Stafford is putting up the nay on the Charley Kirschner farm this year. Glee Plavsity has sold his house and seven acres of ground to Eugene Soltezand he and Mrs. Plavsity ha^e moved in with their son, Sam,in the former Albert Stafford house at the comet of Crane and Hamilton RoadsJ The place Plavsity sold was origin­ ally owned by Ports and the house was built on the plan of the o ne built by Moses Gleeten. Nate Bat­ chelors lived there later and Bruce, Grace and Made all went to school to Dad at the Gleeten School. Later Charles and Mae Kirschner bought it and lived thereuntil they moved to the old Gleeten homestead. Af­ ter the barn burned the land w as sold and Paul Gleeten has planted Christmas trees on the portion he purchased. Don Cornell caught a ten pound musWe Thursday evening. Doris Klie (still Skinny Howland to us) was in town Thursday after­ noon visiting old friends. We were in school together, the same Sunday . School class until we were through , college and she moved away, i Our chinkapin and chestnut trees I are just covered with blossoms this 1 .June 24, 1965 -t' -'-Mx'i-s been a custom of women in villages and country side for generations and provided a simple and genuine pleasure for the giver and the re­ ceiver. The pastures are just red with wild strawberries. Nothing in the world tastes better than wild strawberry jam. We always are sure to have that at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Recently we were looking throu^ an old rural directory of Erie County and observed that a great many of the farms were named and those names stuck to the place long after the property had changed handSi Uncle Ned called his farm "Valley View Farm". One time a stranger stopped by and mentioned the name of Uncle Ned’s farm and asked if our farm had a name. Dad replied that it did. It was called 'Poverty Junction. ’ One time during the depression days the Gleeten reunion was held here and Dad told me to print a sign MULLIGAN HALL All contributions cheerfully accepted year and the nuts are forming on • the filbert bushes, too. One of Lang Electric's pole light s shines on three evergreens and three ^ chestnut trees at night and they are ' nearly twice as high and luxuriant as other s of the same age along the the rail fence. The night light does affect their growth. Have you noticed how beautiful it is between the Post Office and - Zortman's barn? A nice bed of red ; petunias to brighten it up a bit and i a couple of benches wouldn't be aa miss. Claude Shelhamer has made pret^ foundation plantings along the cor, ner of the hotel that add to its at­ tractiveness. John Borland spent part of last week at their New Jersey plant. Mrs. Glenn Hardman passed away last Saturday after a long illness. She will be missed by her family and friends. Vernie loved flo«ers and used to have a lovely garden b y the side of the house and there were always Dahlias at the back of the house and along the out build­ ings. She had all kinds of house plants and like Mama always had a lot of slips tooting for friends who stopped in for a visit. That has Theodore Phelps had twenty-nine ........................................................(2^ Samuel Beedy had twenty-nine.. ....................................................(29) We the midersigned do certify that the above named persons were elect­ ed as school directors on the nine­ teenth day of September 1834. J. Porter Wm. Buckley Judges John Woods!ue Clerk True copy by me Abel Whitney - Town Clerk 1835 At an election held at the school house near Culbertson's Mill in Washington Township on Friday,the twentieth day of March 1835 for Township Officers the follow! ng persons were duly elected into of­ fice. Supervisor - Benjamin Gardner had ninety two votes............... (92) ana nail i t to a tree in Ae front yard. Some of the folks sputtered j • about it and that really tickled Dad.. j Bob and Barbara Sterrett were home over the week-end. Barbara will be teaching in Pittsburgh this summer and Bob will be doing grad­ uate work at the University. The 'motor bike craze has really hit this community. They are noisy little rascals but lots of fun to ride", | I imagine. 1 In the early records I find the | following; I At an election held at the house of Abel Whitney in Conneautt e e Township the following persons were chosen by ballot; Richard Stillwell for Inspector of the ensuing General Election and Hiram Crow for Assess­ or for the present year. Friday, Sept. 28th, 1832. Wm. Buckley Wm.Macky Judges Wm. Campbell Clerk Able Whitney Town Clerk In 1834 At an election held at the school and meeting house near Culbertson!s Mill on Friday the nineteenth day of Septe.-mber 1834 for school dir­ ectors the following persons were chosen, namely Hiram Crow had fifty seven votes .............................. ....................... (57) Alvah Gardner had fifty seve n votes............................................(57) Josiah Williams had forty nine votes..................................... (49) Abner Lay had fifty six votes.... —. • (56) '/' * ported as follows Voted to raise a school tax Appropiration votes..................67 Non appropriation votes..... 16 Appropriation Majority.... i. 51 Whole number of votes poled. .83 Votes for a tax of 300 Dollars i were..............................................36 iI were........................................ Votes for a tax of 500 Dollars 31 I Majority 5 ; 300 Dollars Tax i (Signed) Hiram Crow, Secty. (Attest) Isaac Root, Town Clerk j TheAuditorsandSupervisorsconvenedon2^Monday in April for the ' purpose of Settlement and terminatj ed on the 22° of said month, being ' the 3*^ adjourned day ' Report as follows......... Benjamin Gardner received an or" der on the County Treasurer.. $51.20 ! Benjamin Rice received an Order Overseers of the Poor - Benjamin i No. 425 of the same amount, dated Rice had seventy one votes... (71) {and signed as above. Dyer Walker had sixty four votes.. The Auditors directed and issued ............................................... (64) /‘a warrant to Benjamin Rice to col­ It appears by the Talley Papers of lect of Dyer Walker...............$15.08 the above named Election, (see file No. 1 that the following persons j Russel Stancliff received an order elected as town officers, viz- i on Benjamin Gardner for his services iof............................................ $ 3.00 Isaac Tavlor. Taylor, sixty sixty two two votes votes 62 62 ;! June 27th the Supervisors Received Russel Stancliff, forty eight,. (48; jof A. H. Moore from the hands of Timothy Tryon, forty one... (41) I John Hamilton 2^ Collector, S i xty Auditors ; Dollars - the one half belonging to Being the greatest number of votes 'the Pauper Tax and the other half poled ; to the School tax................. $60.00 Isaac Root, seventy three.... (73) Placed in the hands of Dyer Walk Town Clerk er being in service of Treasurer for Jacob Lefever, forty............... (40) the Board of Supervisors and under Treasurer John Hamilton, 2^, sixty six.. (66) Bonds with James Campbell surity. Larry Harned is in the process of; Able Tracy, thirty four......... <34) tearing down the old Holt house. Constable Erny Wrights have painted their: Isaiah F. Hunt, twenty two... (22) house. It looks very nice and points Abner Lay, nineteen.................(19) outtothe passer-by what an attrac­ Evi Twitchel, nineteen............ (19; tive house it really is—makes you By mutual consent Evi Twitchel wish you could see what it's like in­ serves. Election of School Directoa I side, too. Theodore Phelps School’ W e always enjoy driving by the Directors I Higgins house south o f town. W e Hiram Crow Alvah Gardner now serv­ i'thinkitis the most beautiful one to ing Isaiah F. Hunt have been built around here in many Evi Twitchel many years. Every part of it has Samuel Beedy dignity and beauty of line, the ar­ C. P.Roberts,seventeen............ (17) chitecture belongs to this communi^ Henry Kinter, sixteen.............. (16) and, too, every shrub and flower Fence Viewers planted in exactly the proper place Attest - Isaac Root, Town Clerk has enhanced its beauty. Election notice by School Direc­ tors, April 4th (on file) No. 6 Re - 'V s: \ -V/ J’- X- 4 7>_ .••■ ‘'■Vv s4-:~ -Ci- - Edinboro Wise ^ f I~ »,"» .. if /j'-'f, - ''4:^ ‘jvr.'/'? "'*■ S *• > .*<^i '-1C 1 •■1>4 - , %' * !- -~p P. \.v • ^ ^ .4.-^ r - ( J - Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell RE 2-77^^ , July 8,1965 RE 2-7761 Carrie Goodell '1- ;^rs i~.* r- ■- V- ' _____, July 1,1965 It’s good to see Elsie O’Brien a- which were all hulled and ready gain. She was visiting old friends to be made into jam. There were and staying at Lorna Sheet's home already several glasses of it on the kitchen cabinet. on High Street. Major Peter Economy has been Mayme Stanford has sold her house on East Normal to Charles transferred to Washington, D. C. He Feldmiller and is moving to her and Betty have sold their California recently purdi ased house on On­ home and will be moving East this tario Street. The house on Ontario summer. Betty is the former Betty Street wasbuiltfor Nora McLallen Hostettler of Edinboro. The Arthur McCombs are in Cana by Orin Mack about 30-35 years ago. The contract stated that the house da on a fishing trip. Royce Mallory is home from the be completed and ready to move into-wired,furnace,hardwood floors hospital and feeling good. Jessie Gardner is home again and i bathroom, painted, varnished, etc. showing some improvement. Betty r for $1, 000. 00 The first folks I can remember Willrich Stafford is helping care living in the house on East Normal for her. Papers have been drawn up and Street were the Charley Zimmer family. There used to be a narrow signed whereby the original Perry and long porch along the west side farm with the exception of the house of the house and when weather per­ and an acre of ground will become mitted Mrs. Zimmer did the wash­ the property of the General State ing ou t there. Then you scrubbed Authority. the clothes on a washboard and do­ In July 1835 an order was given ing a washing was an all day’s job. to open a road from Job Reeder’s to The barn on the Malutich farm Joseph Giles’ (Perry Lane) filed No. 10 On August 17, 1835 the records on the Itley road burned last week at about 5:30 a. m. It was struck show Uncollected pauper tax.. 138. 884 by lightning. County Commissioners F r iday Uncollected school tax.. 253. 40 i approved the appointment of Francis In 1837 Oath of Woodbury True(Supervis3r)[ Rtxiak to the Board of Trustees of Oath of Samuel Shepherd (Auditor | ■ the County Public Library for a Pauper sale for 1837 three year term. The conditions of this sale of A son was born June 21st in St. Vincent Hospital to Don and Norma pauper is such that he the buyer ; Dunton of Waterford Street. Mrs. is to board, lodge, wash and mend Dunton is the former Norma Nelson what is necessary for them.Medical and Don oftenhelps here in haying and clothing be found by the Town­ ship. Also tax to be for the space of time. Georgia Borland celebrated a birth one year from this date if they so long remain town charges. (It names day Saturday, June 26th. If you would see a beautiful old the charges and the buyers.) In 1838 Horace Powers (an early house and one absolutely perfect on which to perfam a restoration ancestor ofina Perry Williams and it is the house owned by Bertha Luceil Ghering) was treasurer for Hayes, originally owned by Ethridges the School Directors and the money and owned by the Stevens, Drake then in the hands of the treasurer families, and by Hayes for the past was $274.44. In 1839 Washington Village was 50 years. A central hall, long open changed to Edinboro Village and stairway, beautiful wainscoating, large old fireplace along the west the following is written: At an elec­ wall- of the parlor, the original door tion held at the school house in Ed­ latches,heavy, wide Cross and Bible inboro Village for to choose one doors,heavy barn beam construction, person for assessor, one for judge and large rooms, a large buttery off the two for inspectors for the general, ^ : kitchen. It would cost a fortune to election for 1839. By 1840 Edinboro Village is be-; build a house like that today and the timbers and lumber just wouldn’t coming populous enough to be a separate entity and you trace this be available. Mrs. Hayes who is 84 years old from 1840 through 1842 when these | picked a bucket of wild strawberries records end.This I shall do in a later | article. I ,'^ T^v ; -. ^ Ux' r - Dog days started last Saturday. Most of the fields of corn were knee high on the Fourth in spite of the coolish weather and cool nights. ! Mr. and Mrs. Evan Brown and I children, Mike and Linda, have re­ turned to their home in Georgia 'after spending two weeks with r«lajtives in Edinboro. Evan is the son services here. No other minister who 5ver served in Edinboro has held the alace in the hearts of all Edinborites of all faiths as has Rev. Shreve. He is in good health and looks fine. George Crandall, formerly of McLane, passed away and was bur­ ied beside his father and mother in the Edinboro Cemetery last week. iof Caroline Brown and Arlene is Do you remember when George and Gordon Harned's elder daughter, Norman drove a large touring car both of Waterford Street. and were the envy of all the other Haying has been going in high gear boys in the High School? and a lot of it has gone into bams Mrs. Mildred Travis and children this past week. We have seen sev­ eral huge trailer loads bought in the have moved into the former Leonie fields and heading east for the Lawrence house across the Creek drought areas of eastern Pennsylvania and now owned by Forest Hobbs. The Ray Zimmer family have and Virginia. moved into the former Ken Mattson Flossie Borland has changed the complexion of her house by enclos­ house near Dundon Lane east of town. Burr Darrow has deeded his house ing the front porch and covering it at White’s Corners over to his daugh­ with aluminum siding. Billy Hayes has purchased the ter, Ida McElroy. That is one of Daisy Lewis house on Normal Street. the lovely old houses of the It was built some years ago forWilse community, still has the original Alward (Flossie Borland’s father) fireplace in the kitchen and the most elaborate and beautiful wood­ when he came to town to live. Ruth Warnshuis fell and injured work of any house around. Then a house was really built to last and herself last Thursday. Bruce Batchelor sold his herd of not slapped together in a w e e k as purebred Guernsey cattle at a pub­ many are today. There was a great lic sale last Tuesday, June 29th. pride in craftsmanship and they The Baptist ladies served the lunch. showed the skill of a master's hands. There comes a time when one is no Nathaniel White who had no peers longer able to carry on. I’ll bet the as a cabinet maker was the owner barns seemed mighty empty to and builder. Isaac Taylor one of the earliest Batchelors Tuesday night. They had settlers of Washington Township spent a lifetime building up a herd and name of high producing cattle. came here from Salem, Massachu­ Mrs. Dick Osborne (Kathy Schulz) setts in a covered wagon. They and baby Stevie have been visiting had two daughters, Polly and Sally. her parents, Heinz and Trudy Schulz, Horace Powers, the first schoolmas­ of Waterford Road. Stevie is a dar­ ter of this area, married Polly and ling little fellow and fell in love they had two daughters. Fanny with our little dog. He had a firm Taylor married Nathaniel White grip on his Grandad's ear with one and Eunice Alden (connected with little hand and reached for the dog John Alden) laylor married Alonzo Perry(Luceil Ghering’s grandfather). with the other. Aunt Maude celebrated an eighty- Polly Taylor Powers died when Eunice was born. Then Horace jthird birthday July 6. Chester Jacob Stoll of Cranesville Powers married Sally Taylor. Horace Powers owned from the {and father of Conrad Stoll of Edin|boro passed away July 2nd and was Diamond(originally GoodelTs Corn­ iburied in the Edinboro Cemetery. ers) to Perry Lane and from Water­ He had been hospitalized for the past ford Street to the Kent Place (Lew K u n k e 1 ’ s today). Fanny Taylor iseveral months. I Lee Jefford's son, Harold, was White received ten acres of the Hilled in an auto accident the morn­ corner (where the house stands) for ing of June 30. He was a 1964 High her share. Mrs. Arch Showman who has been School graduate of Wellsboro and a alented musician. He was the with her daughter. Ruby Kovschak, grandson of Mattie Jeffords and the is visiting her sister in Ohio. Mrs. Mary Alward has been trans­ grand nephew of Mrs. Donald Case. He was buried in the Edinboro Cbme- ferred to the Erie County Hospital. The former Arthur Sedgwick prop­ ery Saturday afternoon. Reverend Shreve who had married his father erty on Waterford Street is in the and mother attended the graveside process of changing hands. ■■■-I ,v46< Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell RE 2-77fii July 15,1965 back there after blackberries. Later We were very fortunate to get a Gene Stafford and brother, Charles good rain with little fireworks and owned the Colvin farm some of wind with it when areas around us which was recently purchased by are either drying up or suffering - Jock Davis.___ frdrti the excesses'.lTa’d' arw'ays'ca iiea Fanny Harne^ her daugEter, this little valley the "Garden spot Marian Collins, and granddaughtei of the EarthI'. Karen, ate supper with Ernest The Stan Rawson family are Meachams last Thursday eve. building a new home in Kinfolk Just when you have the gardens Cove. all hoed out and everything is Ella Pulling and Ann Billings are seemingly under control that both in Erie hospitals. blamed pussley starts taking over Joe Gleetenin Columbiana, Ohio again.The only enemy it has is the and Mary Gleeten Larson of James­ man with the hoe. A bug wouldn't town, New York are both here this touch it, it thrives in any kind of week end to attend the Gleeten weather and it will grow turned Reunion. They ate Saturday dinner over on its back. with Helen and Don Fox and Mary J.David Hage has sold his property stayed there to visit with her bid to David Dunkle. For folks won­ neighbors and friends. dering about the location it was Mr. and Mrs. CarlRexford (Gwen­ known as the 'fox farm’ for many dolyn Knapp) and their three little years at the top of Gusty Hill. B. B. live wires arrived at the Perry Farm Baldwin lived there for several Saturday to spend the summer va­ years. cation. Little Ann Rinda, named Kenneth Stivers, Jr. 20, High after a relative of many generations Street was injured Thursday after ago, attended kindergarten this past noon when his motorcycle crashed year and loved it. into a truck on Cambridge road. The Dr. Tyler Proskins family of He is being treated for l fratured Ithaca,New York, new veterinarian for this community and associated jaw,multiple lacerations and a head injury. His folks bought the former with Dr. Ray Birchard, has moved Charley Cassidy property some into the Dr. Morris residence (Clair Frantz) at White’s Corners until years ago. The price of potatoes at present later when they will occupy the would discourage a heavy diet of house presently the home of Dr. them. Garner Boner who is returning to Red and black raspberries are Ohio. ripening and every time we go past Mr. and Mrs.Fred Pasmas who have sold their property to Mr. and the gooseberry, currant and blue­ Mrs.Rolf Asmussen had a household berry bushes in the garden we stop sale Saturday and left for Florida to pick and eat a few. I noticed via car and U-Haul Saturday eve. Sunday that we could pick Yellow Pasmas left a good garden and lots Transparents for a new apple pie. of beautiful flowers for the new The Red Astrakans are beginning , owners. Perley Harneds were the to show color but need about two first family I can remember of more weeks to be at their best. The peas are ready to use, now to living there. some little new potatoes to go find Gene Stafford,90 years old,passed away this past week and was buried witii them. The garden is giving in the Edinboro Cemetery. He was forth its bounty-lettuce,green onion? one of three brothers, Charles, Les­ beets, string beans, purple top tur­ ter (Let) and Eugene (Gene). They nips, early cabbage, spinach with were born on the Riley Stafford farm lots more soon to come. Future plans call for a 6-N by-pass just south of Hound Hill road and of Edinboro. The plans for a by-pass reached by a lane which had been ofCorryare already a reality. With purchased from some of the Chase family who owned the land in front the lines of cars along Plum and of it. We used to find the timbers Market streets most of the time it of the old buildings when we went had better become a reality here before very long.____________ _ ‘A, V A' * -'A 2 —^ mm 4', This is the time of year when the s skunks are out at night hunting for i grubs in the ground. If you find little holes bored in your lawn one has been around. The flickers dig for the grubs in the daytime. To have all the robins, cardinals, catbirds, cedar waxwings and grackles in the neighborhood around just have a cherry tree or berry bushes in the yard. They'll get all of them and you're luclty to get a taste. Janie Austin Hale and her little ones were here for the Gleeten Re­ union last Sunday. If you would like to see some really beautiful new lilies in bloom come mosey along my rail fence corners. They’ll be at their best this week and next. There are more than a dozen houses around town with a 'For Sale’ sign in front of them. The fifty-fifth Burgett Reunion was held Sunday at the C. A. Bur­ gett home sout h of town. There weE forty present. This beautiful old home made a perfect meeting place for the clan. There are a lot of mighty good cooks in the family, too.It w as greatly enjoyed by every one there. ¥ Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell RE 2-7761 -V \ 1- *v~y<:.: K-~ v*-t J^ly 2271965 . f A / '-. "■Sl-jf ym '' ^■ ' £ --y. 1- ? vJ/', "s --'' f "47*?7‘ ' ”-< . r-'-j}' •‘-aC' -7 ~ - ' '- i 4;7 ^ ■t '- >- •I :, Have you noticed the improve- : ^oung Kenton Kelly has purchased sweep them up and put them in me .^ments that have been going on to l the former Jim Wolfe property and kitchen stove. If there was just one S the Ralph Myers home at the comer l^ter owned by Florence Cooper and fly in the room it was persistent in ofMarket Street and Raspberry Alley?. ™ost recently by Gaylord Chase on trying to land on your nose if you That new porch is the best part of‘| Lay cock Road and will be moving stopped to rest. it. Now I hope they bring out a | there. Lately thej have been ocDid you see the letter of protest rocker or two and really enjoy it | cupying the former Leroy Campbell from a Resident of Waterford Boro ^ towards the end of the day. | house built in the gravel pit. and the item from Gordon Marsh Gaylord Barnes has been transy°u were raised on a farm or in Letters to the Editor' in the In­ ferred to Erie as office manager for 'jerked for a farmer in haying time dependent and the Sentinel? Gordon 0.0 v^iixcc iiiitiiciger lor *v^4. axanuci All iiayingtim *■' / the National Cash Register Company. y°ti most likely drank ginger swit Marsh is a very enterprising mer­ The family will be moving some Mother used to make it by the chant of Waterford also. There is time in August. At present they are* ™ilhpail full and bring it to the bam one little town in America where in Kokomo, Indiana. rrt___ .i I, l*r]nOTl ---------- ------^ri__ _ . _ in Terry, the xn. n some of its inhabitants don’t swallow oldest child was graduated from I ^ welcome change from just all that is dished out by news broad­ :fcgj7 high school this spring. ! plain water and disappeared like casters and local officials. It’s n4,-^ The ’house of seven gables’ oe niagic on a hot afternoon. It still mighty refreshing, Meadville Street is undergoing ad- tastes good and we keep it in the Agway has ordered its fall bulbs. ditions and alterations presently al-l during the summer, Last year they offered fine bulbs and so. When completed it will house j supplied some of the ammu- a good variety of kinds. We bought an "Antique Shop’’. This should | “Hion for Joe Ondrey’s and Biron tulip bulbs there and the blooms prove very interesting for those folks Dicker’s TV Farm and Garden pro­ from them were some of the love­ in this area and elsewhere who like gram last Thursday afternoon. A liest we had this last spring. to look and to buy Mrs. Florence branch from our Magnolia tree that Lorna Sheets, Frannie Schruers Atkinson thought up this venture anc thoroughly covered with scale was 'and the two little girls were visiting . we hope it will be very successful. one of the exhibits. We spray in an old friend of Carnegie days, ;j There seems to be activity start- early spring with a dormant oil -spray Mrs. Myrtle Frank, of Pittsburgh part On/-^ Orro-Sn 1^4...-^^ . . • -hj-.i .t • ___ ^ ing at the former Scott Me Lallen and again later with Malathion. You of last week, just can’t get rid of it-but:manage Virene Jones is ill in St. Vincent j lot on Waterford Street. ? The man Weaver who bought a to keep it under control enough to Hospital. lot at the south west corner of the keep the tree alive. It’s a constant Bill Kuhn and Ed Linden are painting their houses. Jim Harrison sub-division and is do­ battle and never won. If yoi^ parents and grandparents The buildings on the old C u rt ing some work there will be due for : some big surprises when we have a called them ’pineys’ they were Putnam farm (now owned by Mrs. heavy flash rain and the water rush- RIGHT and don’t try to correct them, Yatzor) have been razed for the 1 es down off that hill at 90 miles an Hal Borland’s latest book ’Sundial new highway. hour. of the Seasons’ says, "what we did-i Eugene Shelhamer and Evelyn Jesse Koon has field corn all tas" n’t know was that Grandmother was" Vogt, old Waterford Road, have been sled out and the sweet com will issued a marriage license. soon be silked out. Wellman’s on as right as anybody else; for peony The four Engh houses have all is piney’, and it was paeoniaihthe Kinter Hill will soon have sweet cors been painted this summer.Don old Latin, and a close approximaticnlj to eat. Cornell did the work. The gray In 1964 a new Eminent Domain of that in solid back-country English with white trim of the house on Grandmother was even more old. law was passed and became effect­ Maple Drive is very attractive. ive Sept. 1 of that year to protect fashioned than she knew; but she .Mrs. Nettie Simpson is in Edin­ .property owners whose land was con^ was right." boro visiting friends for the next Why don’t you get a copy of the demned for public use. One of the several weeks. Aunt Nettie was conditions w-as- that 90 per cent of book? It is very enjoyable and ninety-three years old last June 1st t beautifully written. the payment must be made to the The new Sears catalogue came land owner before work could start.! The flies on the cattle are bad I yesterday. It is the smallest one I The Highway Department com this summer. I’ve tried several ever saw put out. It’s a changing demned the land for the new North-’ kinds of spray hoping to find one world we’re living in. ' South highway a day or so before that would be affective but to no Eleanor Wade Zink will be the the law became effective and thus avail. Now I’m trying Watkins house guest of Kate Andrews of jumped the gun on a mildly protec brand said by many to be the most Waterford Road for several days. 70 Jr effective they’ve used. Do you re-: I tiT tive measure r_ for_ property y owners, Mildred Sedgwick is now at the g As It is, they go in, grab what they member when the back screen door; Presbyterian Home at Cambridge I want and pay for it when they get would be covered with flies by sup4 Springs. Her house in Erie is rented I good and ready. It makes for mighty per time? There were sheets to Helen Simpkins Gornal and the -poor and bitter relations between sticky fly paper all around thehous^l smaller rear apartment to Helen’s r ;the two parties and the engineers rolls of it hanging from the ceiling] daughter. Penny, arid her husband. have a lot of work to pacify dis­ and several fly chasers made from I Helen will be teaching at Harborflour sacks setting in the woodshed gruntled private owners. creek this coming school year. ^ have been mowed alone and one nailed on the outside of the Mrs. Julia Taylor of Clearwater, door. At night the doors to the country roads in recent weeks. Florida and her sister and husband kitchen were closed, the room Crane Road east is being ditched, of Wexford, Pa., were in Edinboro sprayed and in the morning you hoped widened and graveled. Monday. They are sisters of the late the flies were dead so you could James Warden who owned the John A1 w a r d farm for several years. Uncle Ned was their mail carrier and their first friend upon moving to this region. I# ' s-r - «,V ,V ^ 5- . 7# vxT, July 29,1965;' - Edinboro Wise Edinboro Wise RE 2-7761 Carrie Goodell Mrs. Glenn Hecker returned home tree and two in the field in front last Monday evening from a five of Anderson’s-which dressed out month’s visit with friends and re­ better than a hundred pounds. Re­ cently there was a note on the back latives in California, Nevada, Ari­ door on which was written 'The zona and Ohio. She visited Louis and Shirley (Harrison) Baker in Las hunters are back’. The former Ford garage which Vegas. Her daughter Millicent and was built by Park Skelton many family are now living in Wichita, years ago, later purchased by MelKansas. don and housing Kunkel’s furniture Edna Shenk visited Ann Behler store, has been sold to Harold Sabol, last week. Next spring there are to be changes Mariotti's have built a new out­ made there. door fireplace and decorative fence Our field corn is all silked out. along Market Street. Nina Hecker has sold a lot from For the past few years the coons her farm to Samuel Bowne, That have just cleaned the sweet corn will make a pretty spot to build patch and we were lucky to get a mess for ourselves. Some folks are a new home. having to r e s o r t to erecting a n There is a lot of moving aw a y and moving in of new folks in the electric fence about 6 "to 8" above the ground around their corn patch village. Mother used to say, " A rolling stone never gathered any to save it from these destructive little animals. moss. " Inez Sproul's brother and wife Many folks attended the sale at were visiting them last Sunday. Ken and Julia Hawkins last Satur­ day afternoon.There were a lot of Later in the day Marshall took things folks wanted and they paid them for a ride around the country­ mighty good prices for what they side and they stopped to walk around the garden. bought. We are going to have to can beets There was a unanimous signing up of all property owners around and string beans this week. One the shores of Lake Pleasant for an tomato has started to ’turn’, too. ordinance to keep motor boats off N o w is the time to cook g r een the lake. That's not for Edinboro— tomatoes and onions. They are de­ more racket and noise for us! A licious. Greatgrandmother Gleeteii few people move to this community, Grandma Goodell, Mother and now decide this beautiful little lake Margaret and I have cooked these should belong to the world, want to vegetables and enjoyed them. The weather report as given in spend several thousand dollars of taxpayer’s money to buy a small the recent Farm Journal calls for area of land so more outsiders can *hot and wet’ for August and wet drive in for the day to race around and cool for September. I don’t like the lake and make still more racket the sound of wet. It’s no good for under the guise of much needed re-i harvesting grain and second crop. Conner’s new house is fast getting creation. Do you remember when there were the finishing touches and ready to lots of water lilies around the edge receive its new occupants. The of the lake and sometime during Fredricks family of State College the summer Hopkins would have a n and a new instructor in our College irohstone’wash bowl filled with the will be moving into the first story blossoms on the counter in the store? of their house on Waterford Street. Did you see the article on Car­ Now that the hay is off the fields wood chuck hunting is in order. nival Glass in the August Woman’sThere are some whoppers around here Day? Most every farm wife who For years two men from near Pitts­ traded with the Larkin man accumu­ burgh have driven to Edinboro t o lated some pieces of it. Quite often shoot them. They try to get around she started out with a pitcher and a thousand pounds during the season six glasses. Other pieces followed and then later in the autumn the such as a fruit bowl, a berry dish, Lion’s Club there give a Hasen a V a s e, a candy dish, sugar and Pfeffer supper. One afternoon with­ creamer and a butter dish. Arden and Norma Billings are in fifteen minutes they shot fourtwo in the field north of the maple just living for the day when they get back to living on Market Street. • V / Carrie Goodell RE , August 5,1965 Right now there are five nests Onetime when Mrs.Cassidy had j Joe Tucker passed away Saturday afternoon. He had spent many weeks of baby Swallows in the annex of a dental appointment at Dr.Minium^ our barn. The electric wires are office Charley went along to offer in the hospital after being involved in an automobile accident. Joe lined with the first broods of the moral support if the pain became ; too great. As he looked out the'^’’ \ lived with Porter and Belle Tucker summer. Mae Kirschnerhad a new black­ window where the patients waited i* from the time he was a small boy and except for short intervals had berry pie for Sunday dinner. We he saw Zeke (Earl)Beason standmust get over on the hill in the ing in the door of the Post Office spent his entire life in Edinboro. ' . He leaves his wife, Annie, three pasture to see if our berries are (where the Edinboro Hotel is now). Charley put on Mrs. C assidy’s hat sons, Alfred, Edwin and Charles, ripening. Rose Cochran spent a couple of and coat, put the fur collar up a-j a daughter, Barbara and several grandchildren. Our sympathy is days in Erie visiting Florence Stead­ round his neck, fluffed himself upr extended to the whole family. man. On Thursday she went to the and wrapped on the window to draw Milton and Irene Culbertson and hospital to see Joe Tucker. He said, Zeke’s attention. Every time Zeke Dr. and Mrs. M. D. Sproul attended "Hello Rose, how glad I am to see stole a peak Charlie waved to him and Zeke stole several peaks. Then (;x the Milk hearing which was held you. ’’ in Meadville last Thursday. The Andrew and Carol Sheets of Wash Zeke sauntered over to the north ' delegates indicated being in favor ington, D. C. are spending a week door to get acquainted with his new | of a stronger Milk Commission in Edinboro visiting his mother, found girl friend and waited and!" with five members instead of the sister and family and brother and waited for her to come down. But' alas! she didn’t come so he left. present three. Imperfect as it may wife. be the Milk Commission has pro­ "Nelson Findley has sold his house The next morning when the Carriers vided the only protection a dairy on Gusty Hill. It was the former met at the Post Office to put up , the mail, of course,Charley couldn’t '' farmer has ever had and any farmer j Dan Sullivan house. who lived through the pre-com-i Dale Gorman has purchased the restrain telling about Zeke and they mission days of milk price wars and Savings Bank building at the cor­ all had a good laugh at his expense, Tom Crandall had a grocery in; was at the complete mercy of the i ner of Waterford and Meadville milk dealers appreciate what it streets which houses a laundromat the building as long ago as I Can remember. Bill Coyle had a dry does for them. business and Vi’s dress shop. Even this little bit of a Sunda^J^ The building was built around goods store there later. Charley shower will help the new seeding 1900. It was the first building in Henry’s jewelry store was in the former bank office for many years. in the wheat and oat fields. Heinz and Trudy Schulz returned Dr. and Mrs. M. D. Sproul at­ Edinboro wired for electricity—with f tended the Cambridge Springs Bar­ knob and tube wiring. They didn’t i Sunday eve from a three week’s becue and then went to Union City know whether Edinboro would get j trip out west. They visited their son, to the four county (Warren, Venangq electricity but they wired it any-| Fred, and family in Longview, Washington, Trudy’s sisters,Billy Crawford and Erie counties)Grange way. Vern Billings was cashier of the and Margaret, in California, nephew' meeting. Dr. Sproul’s dental office will bank and in those days if you were and family in Denver, sister Lydia be closed until after Labor Day, cashier you were top dog in the and Heinz’s brother, Eric, and fam­ Sept. 7, while he and Inez enjoy bank. In the Edinboro fire of 1909 ily in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It the fire went around this building was a wonderful three weeks for both I a vacation. Pastures are beginning to get and burned a two story building Their daughter Cathy and baby i. short and many farmers are al- | next to Hattie Walker’s house. Joe Stevie from Washington, D. C.came ready feeding hay. | Steadman had a dry goods store in Monday to hear all about the trip, The former Minneley house,; the large part after he was burned see the pictures and listen to the i now owned by Dr. Florek on Mar­ out on the west side of Meadville tape recordings of their visits. Joan Goss is moving into the forket Street, is getting a new coat Street. Dr. Townley had his doctor’s office there at one time. The bank mer Ernie Helmbrecht house on 6f paint. Do you ever stop to think how and safe were in the quarters oc­ Waterford Street. each month has its own distinctive cupied by Vi’s dress shop. Dr. Joe Fuller has sold his house on character? The hot days and nights Minium had his dental office up­ Waterford Street. of August were made for sweet stairs for many, many years and was Dr. Walter Wade was buried in the corn and you can almost hear the the best posted person in town. He Old Cemetery last Friday. He was field corn grow at night. The would even stop drilling on a tooth born and grew up in Edinboro and wonderful smells of the grain fields, to see what was going on down or was a descendant of some of our the blackberry patches in the pas­ the Diamond. Harter had an in­ earliest settlers on his mother’s sidetures, the dirt roadsides that are surance business and was Justice of the Taylors. The old Isaac Taylorbright with wild asters, primroses, the Peace in the east office up­ Wade home on Meadville Street is touch-me -n o t s, elderberries And stairs. The telephone company had now owned by Evans. His mother, wild apple trees, the barns that are its office upstairs and rented the Effie Wade, gave music lessons to filled withhay and straw and gran- basement for some of its equip­ almost every youngster in town and, eries filled with oats and wheat. ment. ______________________ played at the Presbyterian Church The sounds of August are just as for years and years. beautiful-the nuthatches begin to sing more, the katy-dids are tuned up day and night, the crickets ap­ pear and sing, too, the birds that ^ 'V had retreated to the woodlands are beginning to collect for their jour­ neys South and the Swallows will have already departed. .\' 1. \ '4■'"s- fS 'J-1' 51 August 12,1965 ★ Edinboro r.iLi7inoro Wise wise ★ Carrie Goodell RE 2-7761 Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell I These are genuine August days -V ■ . - . V- RE 2-77fil _____ August 19,1965 see us when he returned to Edin­ There was a constant line of cars The Erie Banks have raised the Kirk Lewis who lived on his farm j berrying has always been one of last year. He was quite feeble then. interest rate paid on savings ac­ on Lavery Road passed away last : my favorite doings. Sunday morn- There is lots of activity on the counts to 4Plo. week. It was he who so often plant­ ^ ing we took flowers to the ceme­ former Scott McLallen lot in the The Hitt, Harrison and Crandall ed much of his farm to buckwheat tery then cut off across the meadows Hollow. I understand the building families will hold their fiftieth re each year and always seemed to to the corn field where we picked going up nearest the sidewalk union at Harrison Lakes on August find a good market for it. a basket of corn and then on t o is to be a restaurant. 15th. Everyone is urged to attend "The whole town was shocked at the pasture for about two quarts of The Ralph Hardman house on Bonnells on Maple Drive are build­ the sudden death of Jessie Cole last the biggest blackberries you ever Ontario Street has been sold to an ing an addition to their house — a Sunday morning. It's a wonderful saw. The bushes are just loaded Erie man, James Whiteman. The family room that will look out on way to go but very hard for those this year. When we were youngsters, house was built by Harvey Mack their lovely garden. one day was chosen. Mother packed and his son, Orin. left to grieve. Mrs. Cynthia Prue has sold her Nelson Tuttles returned ahead of a basket of lunch. Dad hitched up Ned Whipple passed away Wed­ home on 6N opposite the elementary schedule from a planned tour of Jenny Belle and the whole family nesday and was buried near his ; school to a new college instructor, Alaska. Anyone who has travelled and the hired man all drove to our daughter,Naomi,in the New Ceme­ i Ann Ondreyls sister visited her last the Alcan Highway will tell you that I favorite berry patch on Hound Hill. tery. Whipples moved here when i week. there are still rugged roads left on You picked in twelve quart milk Naomi was in the third grade. Ned Joe Ondrey, Jr. has a teaching pos­ this continent. Brooke and Preston : pails and when they were full it worked as a carpenter at the Nor­ i was time to come home. They ition in Meadville. Jack Ondrey Bishop are making the tour. mal School and Blanche worked has a position with the Gulf Oil Ca Edna Culbertson is entertaining ; were canned for next winter’s sauce f(» Cooper’s post card business. I and pies. Some were made into I saw the boy scouts and their relatives from Canada. When they moved here they lived leaders coming in Friday morning We accompanied Inez and Marshall jam. Many folks on the Hill used in a house at the south end of town, - from an over night camp out. One Sproul on a trip to the Wyant Rose to pick berries and take them to then they lived up over Horace' poor little fellow brought up the Nurseries in Mentor, Ohio last Wed­ town to sell. Phoebe Kline did it Gillaspie’s store. Later Ned bought rear, loaded with equipment as big nesday. Seeing the roses in bloom for years. Keyes Ethridge often the salt box house by the cove as he and trudged along as if he was gives one a much better idea of would drive into our place with where they lived many years. He all tuckered out. those you would like to have in your his black horse and top buggy to sold it to Allan Lambein. Every- i Mr. and Mrs. Allan Cass. (Eionna garden. It was a very enjoyable leave a little pail of berries one knew Ned and liked himNed which he had picked for us. Gleeten) have been visiting her day. I liked and was good and thoughtful Allan Lambein is building an father, T. R. Gleeten, on Normal Mr. and Mrs. Axel Gardner and Street while Honey has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Swift left addition to the back of his house. of children. O n Thanksgiving The Edinboro Bank has raised the morning when Ned and Naomi went her sister Maude and husband of Sunday for a week’s vacation travel­ interest rate paid on savings ac­ hunting they always stopped for us Washington, D. C. ling through the Central States. A new teacher and his family have They will be much interested in counts to 4% effective the first of who were the proud possessors of a August-in fact all the banks in rifle and shotgun which Dad had moved into the Gardner house seeing the crops on farms there. (Cooper house) on Erie Street. The Jack Steams house on Sherrod Erie County made the same move. given us. One time when we went Mrs. Roy Pulling has sold her hunting Ned had borrowed Royce The Misses Hutchins and Whitney Hill road has been acquired as office have sold their house to Richard and headquarters for the North-South house on Waterford Street to some­ Mallory’s hound, Moxie, which had body from Pittsburgh and will be been a might y good hunting dog Neubauer. highway contractors. giving immediate possession. She but age had taken its toll and Don Cornell caught a seventeen Everwines are all moved into the pound muskie early Sunday morn­ former Tad Freeman house. Their will go to Arizona to visit and Moxie was old. We didn't see a rabbit,Moxie didn’t either and one ing. Last week h e caught a ten daughters papered and painted the then to California to live. of the worst fates that could be­ Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ecomomy pounder. interior and a partition was removed If you would see how beautiful our making the kitchen larger. Two (Betty Hostettler) and sons, Peter fall us happened-we lost Moxie lake is you would stand in our fields new picture windows were put in on and Keith, arrived in Edinboro and then spent most of the after­ land see it edged with trees which the east side of the house. There Wsdnesday morning and remained noon hunting for him for we knew [help hide the buildings on the oppo­ is a lovely open stairway in the cen­ until Sunday morning at the Sch- we didn't dare go home without site side, a sailboat or two, canoes ter of the house. It is very pleasant lindwein home on their way to him. Often on Sunday mornings and flat bottom boats leisurely sail-, And I like it better than their other their new home in ^Virginia. Pete Ned, Naomi and the white collie ) ing on its surface. Folks sailing or house. Gusty’s grandparents built will now be stationed at the Pen­ came across the fields and we went through the pasmres. Those were tagon. fishing and truly enjoying the beau­ the house many years ago. Mrs. Effie Showman is back at happy jaunts and it's amazing the ty of it all, youngsters swimming or It’s time to be out in the early her home in Edinboro. Nell Tyler i interesting things one sees with playing on the beaches or an even­ mornings looking for mushrooms. ' eyes that will see. ing sunset on the rippling waters and These rains and muggy nights are is staying with her. Rob Hall, who was born and John Rouse has sold his property later the reflections of the lights perfect for them to be popping up from the opposite side are pictures in the pastures. I know a good raised southwest of town but in to Frank F. Weckerle. late years had lived in West Vir­ Betty Alleman has sold their to enjoy and remember. place to find them — do you? ginia, passed away August 9. He cottage at Lakeside to Mitchell Harold Wray has purchased a lot It’s combining time and every in Engh's sub-division west of town farmer is anxious to have good dry, was the son of Matt andMyla Hall. Boho. Allemans had spent many, and will soon be building a new split hot days and the combiner driving His sister, Amanda Burg, is the only many summers at the ’Pioneer’ as level house. into his fields. Neil combined the one of the family still living.Merle, long as Mr. Alleman and Mary The old McWilliams, LaBounty oats here and on Aunt Maude’s field Lon, Mark and Birdie all preceded Lou lived. Mrs. Mildred Leitzell who was and lately Earlley house across the last Friday. They turned out very Rob in death. His first wife and the Creek has been sold to the George well and the ’catch’ (new seeding) mother of his children Frances, born and raised in Edinboro passed Emma, Albert, Carl, Harvey and away Thursday and was buried be­ Cope family. Copes were former is wonderful. missionaries in Africa and the child­ Gus Burgett has had his starting Elaine,all living, was Mary Lasher. side her mother, Ella Payne Blyren were bom there. Mr. Cope, now gates at the Clearfield races this At one time the family lived on stone, in the New Cemetery here the Tom Crandall farm east of us. Monday morning. One sister, Mrs. retired, has in recent years taught past week. Rob worked the farm and hauled Marjorie Betz, lives in Edinboro school in Conneautville, Pa. They Joan Bryman and children of Cleve­ coal for Frank Harrison. Later he and the other, Zoa Goodrich, lives have a young daughter who will be land have been visiting her parents, moved into the Paul Hills house in Miami, Florida. Their grand­ entering college here this fall. Mr. and Mrs. J oe Torrey, this past Arden Billings has sold his house week end. Mary Beth remained to across the road from us. Rob’s father, Moses Ihyne, lived on Lavery, father and-mother had both worked Road. on Ontario Street to Galen Danner. visit with Lisa Birchard of Kinter for Grandpa and Grandma Goodell Leonard Baker, ninety- five, passed Hill Road. and Rob did, too. Rob stopped to away last week. The Mills Sherwood reunion was held at the home of Phyllis and Vere Wood’s Sunday with Elizabeth Gardner as hostess. There were forty members of the family at­ tending. Hubert Sherwood’s entire family was there. Hugh has been hired as Supervising Principal of the New Wilmington schools.There are seven schools in this district. They have sold their home in Youngsville and will soon be mov­ ing to New Wilmington, Paul and Opal Sherwood Coppock and Joe Gleeten of Columbiana,. Ohio, attended. The Sherwood reunion had been held in Mill Village the Sunday previous. Have you been eating your fill of sweet corn?George Twichell al­ ways claimed that the sweet corn that grew around Edinboro was sweeter and tastier then that grown in any other place in United States. To be at its best it should be cooked and on the table a half hour after picking. Corn fritters with maple syrup can’t be beat either. The picmre in last week's Sen­ tinel showing the canine 'Mother of the Yeaf had little over Doodle Cole’s cat of Lavery Road. She has been the mother of 73 kittens all of which Mrs. Cole has raised, house broke and given away. The word "sale" has a magic attraction for folks these days. People just poured into the sale at the Kirk Lewis farm last Saturday. There was a 'Home Comfort’ cook stove offered for sale. Whoever bought it got a bargain for it had never burned anything but wood and was almost as good as new. Sharon Young from Troy, Pa. spent the week end at the C. A. Burgett home. Mrs. Frank Marcinek of Parma, Ohio spent Mdnesday at the home of Mrs. Cynthia Prue of 6N West. Mrs. Mildred Heineman of New Bethlehem, Pa. and Mrs. Arnold Carter of Warren spent last Wed­ nesday as the guests of Ruth Bur­ gett. Mrs. Heineman taught school with her at Garland and Mr$. Ca^ ter was a classmate at Clarion i and I love them. Going black- boro for his brother Mark’s funeral going by all day Sunday. State Teachers. The three ladies had not met for many years but kept in touch with occasional let­ ters. It was a wonderful and very talkative reunion. The Keeler reunion will be held in the Drakestown Church base­ ment Sunday, August 22nd. ■» —• Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell RE 2-7761 __ _ . August 26, 1965 Lawrence and Marion McLallen Jock Davis recently purchased a were visiting at Lawrence's old home on the Pete Smith Road. At home on Perry Lane last Thursday. present it is undergoing extensive He was putting in new sills and alterations. Don Mortenson and floor in the front porch and a new crew of Waterford are doing the electric pump so Aunt Frances work. Davis' will be moving in would not have to go outside to September 1st. pump water and carry it into the Mildred Bruce of West Normal house. Street expects to be back home A marriage license was issued the first of this week from a trip to Elna Williams and Arthur Har­ to New York. wood last week. Best wishes to two A new era is raising its ugly fine people. head in this area—exploiting Edin­ Mrs. Garfield (Sue) Stafford is boro !! in Hamot Hospital suffering with I know, a lovely lady in town the shingles. Shelhamers and _who has had back bone enough to Sylvia Skelton were in to see her stick to a self imposed diet and and found her looking much better lose twenty pounds. but most unhappy to be away from Harold Staffords have had a new home. She has a private room on aluminum siding job on their house. the fifth floor. Last year a new furnace, a modern­ Mrs. Zoa Colvin Henrichs of ized kitchen and bathroom have' Erie passed away August 15. She was the daughter of Emmett and made this a very nice farm home. Evie Sipps Colvin. She was born The huge old maples are thereand lived on her grandfather'. next will be to get the yard fixed (Jeremiah Colvin) farm on Hound up. Harold has been fixing up and Hill. In later years it was owned adding to the barns also in the past by Clyde Rice. She was related few years. He is a good farmer. Gary and Jean Nesbitt and two to T. R. Gleeten and the Walker little boys left Saturday for their family. Harold Lingenfelter has sold his home in Michigan. Gary has been property at the lower end ofMead- doing graduate work at Purdue Uni­ ville Street to Ronald Larson. The versity and Jean and the children house was built by George Darrow have spent the summer with her mother, Eugenia Hatfield. some years ago. Mr. and Mrs. James Beatty of Most of the swallows have left Erie Street (Frank Fellows house) for the southlands—only a few releft Monday for their new home in main here a few days longer. [ Crystal Beach, Florida. Irene has Ann Behler and friends, the Detwo sisters who will be living very vinny family of Buffalo, New YorH near them. Jim says "No more were in Edinboro Sunday to eat at snow to shovel!" The past week the Smorgasbord and visit with old has been a frenzied one packing, friends. etc. They ate lunch with Donald Hazel Atwell of Girard whose Jeffreys and spent Sunday night parents used to own the house across for some good rest at Don Cases, the road (Wagners) was visiting Dori Stroebel is in the Union City friends here Sunday. Hospital.— ----Miss Hegge, a teacher in the Arden Billings is adding a new McKean Elementary school, has bedroom to the back of the house. moved to the downstairs apartment Rob Shields is doing the carpenter of Laura Riley's house on Erie Street. work. It's nice to see Normie's Mrs. Betty Hoeneswho is a student plants in the windows—it adds that at the college and her daughter warm and homey touch that makes have moved into the upstairs apart­ you want to sit down and visit a ment. while. Robert Billings has a position at The former Gleeten schoolhouse,» the College so the family are mov­ and the former Anna Goodrich ing to Edinboro to live with his house are both up for sale. father, Wilbur Billings. Mrs. Ceylon Perry celebrated an We subscribe to the Park's Floral 88th birthday last Monday. She is Magazine which is put out by the Geo looking and feeling much better W. Park Seed Co, It has more use­ than she did in the spring. ful material then all the other gar­ Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Swift and den magazines put together. You' Mr. and Mrs. Ken Gardner left last would enjoy and use it too. I dis­ Friday for. a vacation trip through covered I've been planting hardy the Ozarks. cyclamen corms upside down. The Van Dyke Road west of town has been closed to traffic, for work on the new highway construction. Walker's pasture and ours both face on this road. Margaret and I drive through whenever we can as that way of going to the 'Dundon' will soon be a thing of the past. It is a shame to see white wood trees straight as a die and fifty to sixty feet high before therg is a limb being bulldozed into ' a pile and burned. We did find two men back on Joe Hecker's woodlot sawing and hauling out logs last Sunday. They were very surprised to see us and somewhat cagy bur told us they had purchased Aem from the construction company. The land owners aren't allowed to touch them. Did you hear the Eric Arborist talk last week via T. V. on the ailment which has attacked our sugar maple trees? It's frightening to even think about losing them. He lays it to our changing weather and temperature conditions. Those trees affected now may struggle along for five years more ot life and some not that long. [ j [ ^ [ j. [ [• t ‘ ^ rl - v ^ .... ^ .■S' - "Vs i'5 \ f' / 's' Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell RF ^-77fil , September 2,1965 It was SO'^ here at seven a. m.j Wednesday, August 25th. ! eV:'- t,' '1-;I ’ . ‘v"' , ,, ! 'V , - ' i I % ') .-> z: I;' The Boro is putting in curbing’ along Ontario Street. When Can-i ada Sam Reeder laid out that street? and offered it to the Boro they re"| fused to accept it for some years; because they weren't sure the town would ever develop that far. Clara Swift Bayley passed away Monday, August twenty-third. She would have been 80 years old Sep­ tember 30th. She is survived by her husband, Alfred Bayley, a brother, Gordon, and a nephew and nieces. Her brother. Dean, passed away in 1949. Clara was buried father and mother. Clara was graduated from Edinboro State Normal School in 1907 and taught school for some years. Her father, Sherman Swift, was a dentist here in Edinboro. At one time his office was located upstairs over the Brick Drug Store. Clara’s ^ mother was a Canadian and they ; often went there to visit relatives. fr-S I Clara bought a caster set at Mrs. Stancliffe's sale, had it resilvered and gave it to a Canadian cousin A for Christmas. She and Bayley loved to go to sales and he often ■^5. helped Ben Skelton with auctions. Her brother Gordon, 78, classmate and friend of the Amidon boys — George, Guy and Roy, Bruce Proud-^ front door of Lang Electric many mornings via the Boro truck. At fit, Bernard Gillaspie, Ralph Gris­ wold and many others, taught school an earlier time a Boro employee did his moving on Sunday with the in Connecticut and was Superin­ Boro truck. tendent of Schools in Watertown, ^<* Robert and Ruth (Findlay) Kraus Conn, for 36 years. Retired and in good health Gordon and his wife on Laycock Road have a new baby spend the spring, summer and au­ daughter born August 23rd. She tumn in Connecticut and the winter weighed 8 lbs. 11 oz. and answers in their winter home in Florida.; to the name of Diane Louise. t buried Monday morning at ID o’clock T twenty years we’ve The second crop of strawberries ' ived here, my husband has helped Our sincere sympathy to the family with everything from barn raising are ripening and these rains are ^ and to little Cynthia who was planto fire fighting; from herding strav from a neighbor’s fhores^ ^ ning to help care for a baby brother ■ helping to make big, fat berries \ The sidewalk through the Hollow ; that are sweet as honey. f machinery to donating held labor; from mid-wifing a neighWalter Eastmans returned from a . has been a mess most of the suma broken" 5. two week’s vacation in Florida. mer-covered with piles of dirt, Last Saturday we attended the bahv‘^4-^^''^ nursing, mud and water. It’s not pleasant ’S' saleofthe late Emma Stebbins near on Pf'^kmg and unpacking for the folks who live on Waterford moving day, cooking meals Mosiertown. She was the last mem­ Street and walk to town to wade , painting ceilings, and just be?ng a ber of a prominent and well-to-do ^ through that every time. 1 sympathetic listener in time of - trouble. None of these act™ we?e I Many boys and girls of the Edin- family. To see the items offered ^jto he^p.TneviTably™weVJ^^^^^^ ^ boro area will be heading for col­ for sale, and we were of the pri­ vileged few who were allowed in- [ leges of their choice next week. For many it will be their first stay side the house before the sale started ' , How can you measure the worth away from home and many severe was like stepping back into an of a neighbor who walked two nSles f i:- cases of homesickness will nodoubt earlier generation. unp" ffro"Te,r°7 s^ve^t? Electric lights and a bath tub ’ . develop. When it strikes there is ^ nothing inuc^ worse that can happen and washbasin with a cistern pump ^ to a person. " | in an upstairs room to pump water ^ James Pontius is the new acting j into the tub or basin were the only .allowing me to spend every’avad postmaster for Edinboro. Francis ; claims to modernization. s“k' Naming but a very,very few Rodak is taking Jim’s job as rural < mail carrier on route three. ! items were old plush coats, a hat .'.v usmtl we7comi„rho" dis^ Ethel Suavely of Cleveland was with several plumes, two lab robes, Xe^°a.er?ro°„-a many different styles of oil lamps, “ Curiously, and a little sadiv i in Edinboro last week to see her Hitchcock and parlor chairs and father, T. R. Gleeten, and sister, can we evaluate friends who cara^ two stereoptican viewers. One was . Twila. 'd;a,h“"o°f‘’'™Tov'i?’ a very elegant box affair which two Many years ago the farm now ireadv 'tb“"‘*^’ PP'PPcc ^and feel compassion for them 'too'The' owned by Rehl and Glenda Swank persons—one on either side—could ] relatfves?" Fn°“nds, '7es.°“B„fe°"" view at the same time. Then was owned by George Boda. Their i that, neighbors. son, Henry, drove stage before the changing positions they could see Gratefully, we have gone throiic-h ■ 'ii' time of the street car. One time the pictures on the other side. The old Mrs. George Boda came to visit j;f auctioneer said he had never sold our way oT’ 1 1 "^^lizing that fo sS ?a"rmro7 Bessie Everwine and said, " I’m | one like it before. The day was Pniqne, even obsolete"^ plots in the countrv ^ perfect for a sale and a large crowd going to tell you a story. Your , ^ a mildie^aged’roupirfrS' l°l'arge grandfather. Will Klie, came to | attended. . this country from Germany. H e t Sylvia Skelton and Mrs. Ceylon lliev Ibe papers made three trips across the ocean, t Perry had told us about this family neighborSnds tha °“the‘’''’^!!"? ;'quain,"Vay of'^ifoT Or''r''' The last time he went to get his ' several years ago and to be able haf been !ne“of' wife and baby for he had bought a to go through the house and see their armed with ^ in, about farm life? ' r .f'farm here and liked it very much. possessions was like a fairy tale a balf-doren ne°w pIKra^llfeT: He attended the Lutheran Church come true. tect.hlprlvaV""”""' “ "at Slabtown. There were seven «tej-s robe fore met -4 Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell ^0 prr ‘?.77fii September lb, 1965 Last week was sure mushroom week. They were just popping up 1 everywhere. Did you see the beautiful rain^ bow last Friday eve? It seemed • more like mid summer than the tenth of September. Ernie Nfeacham celebrated a 77th /birthday September 10th. Inez Sproul celebrated on September 7th 5 and RuthBurgett on September 1st. 1 Ruth is Head Teacher at the Man2 Chester Elementary School in the Fairview school system. Lang Electric has just had a fine and extensive job of blacktopping completed at their establishment. It improves the appearance and will be much appreciated by those work­ ing there. There are plans for ad­ ditional topping next year. Luther Hendricks had his driveway blacktopped also while the equipment was in this area. Do you remember when people started 'putting down’ eggs for win­ ter in September while the hens were still laying? Farmers bought salt by the barrel. Most goods were shipped to the stores in wooden boxes. Mother brought in salt from the barrel and put a layer in the bottom of a packing box then put ^ in a layer of eggs — little end down — and covered them with more salt and started another lay­ er, etc. The salt formed a tight seal. We always had several boxes for plenty of eggs until the hens started laying again in the spring. : Mother used to tell that one winter eggs were so scarce in town that John Doing, who had a grocery store in front and a bakery in back where the Bakery is now, came up and offered her a dollar a dozen if she would sell him some eggs that she had 'put down’. Mary Jane Petrick, with her parents,_left for Pittsburgh last ^turday "where she will enter the Patri­ cia Stevens Modeling and Finishing School. It is a one year course. Mary Jane is interested in becom­ ing a fashion buyer. Joe and Lodeme Hecker have rer moved the summer kitchen and woodshed from their house and a new breezeway and two car garage is being erected. Bob Shields is doing the carpentering. Bernard Williams, a graduate of Meadville High School, accom­ panied by his mother, left last Fri­ day for Indianapolis, Indiana where he will enter Lane Institute of Ifechnology. It is a college where the students attend the entire year. In three years he will have completed his work for a degree. Bernard is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Williams who have built a beauti, ful new home on 6N east, across from Ed Sander’s sugar bush. Mr. Williams is Superintendent of Lang Electric Mfg. Co. I have never seen a finer, more industrious or better mannered lad head for col­ lege to become a leader for a new generation. Cathey Schulz Osborne and Stevie of Washington, D.C. arrived home Labor Day to spend the week with her folks and brother, John, who is home from army camp for a thirty day furlough. John expects to com­ plete his enlistment period and be out of the army October 23rd. Right now the roses are getting their second wind and are truly beautiful again. The colors now seem deeper and richer than in early summer. After the first of October anyone who would like to pot up begonias for winter bloom from my garden is welcome to them. They are hanging full of seed pods and if you wish to collect so you can plant, too, you’re welcome to collect them, also. I did. Kate Andrews left Wednesday, September 15, for Omaha, Neb­ raska. I The McLane Homecoming will be held September 19th. Have you noticed the new ever­ green plantings and geraniums around Heinz and Trudy Schulz? house? The geraniums are beau­ tiful and so thrifty looking. Heinz uses a liquid, deodorized fish fer­ tilizer from Alaska which did the good work. > Twila Gleeten Reid’s son, Dick, his wife, Joy, and two young daugh­ ters were here visiting last week. They flew from California to New York where they visited friends, the World’s Fair, then to Arlington, Virginia to visit Joy’s two brothers who are with the F.B.I. and Dick’s Aunt Maude. The Homecoming at the Draketown Church last Sunday was well attended but as one person said, "There should have been lots more there." Besides the home folks of the neighborhood some of those attend­ ing were — Clara Gardner Shields and daughter, Mary Fish, Bertha Hilewick, Mary Gleeten Larson, Joe Gleeten, Grace McGahen Camp- [ bell, Grace Batchelor Miller, Leita and Harold Hopkins, Wayne Gleetens, Paul Gleetens, Drew Gleeten^ Blanche White, Frank Ethridge, Will Klies, Lee Ports, Earl Kinters, Aunt Maude, Logan and Ada (McLallenj Hutchinson, Milton McLallens, Linnie Hill Neece, Helen Sharp Ripley, Walt Eastmans, their daughter and grandchildren. Gages, and Willie and Mary Stafford’s two daughters and families. All the folks enjoyed the program. Walt Eastman and granddaughter Weapons Competition 1965. His played an accordian duet. The team will shoot in competition with i Parker children sang several pieces, United Kingdom, France, Italy i Linnie Neece who has a beautiful and Germany. This will mean that i voice sang and Helen Sharp Ripley Matt will have an opportunity to accompanied her on the piano. travel over much of Europe for the : The Gages sang a duet next year. Joe Fullers have bought a nice Best of all was the visiting of old property near Belle Valley and lo­ I friends and neighbors. Merle Coles are on a vacation cated only about ten minutes drive from his work. 1 trip. Nora King has sold a lot. to Pai Merle and Esther Hollenbeck ha\e : had a new oil furnace installed, and Alice Frndak on which to lo­ i Jasper Kline did the work. Have cate their house which has to be ! you ever seen the lovely p i^ces of moved to make room for the new highway. 1 furniture — much of it made from Large equipment has taken off 1 birdseye and curly maple — that the knoll in front of Lang Electric 1 Esther’s father made? I The new bridge between Bruce to make a lawn rolling down to the ! Batchelor’s and Jim Skelton’s is highway. It looks very nice and sets off the building to better ad­ completed and open for travel. The former Chetta house, then vantage. Dad worked for years to get it worked down so he could 1 Siverling and recently purchased : by the Earl Holland family has been drive to the road to turn around and as soon as he’d accomplished it the' ■j painted and looks so nice. road people came along and low­ The Clark and Milano ready mix ered the road and he was right back 1 cement business has been sold to Gerald Bruno. He leases an acre where he’d started. It was a good or so of ground from Jim Skelton place to look for wild strawberries. Mrs. Cynthia Pme will be mov­ by the creek for an adequate supply ing her goods to her new home near of water and trucks in the sand and gravel. He has three ready-mix Bradford this week. She will stay trucks. With all the construction with her daughters, Ruth Burgett around here a local business of that of Edinboro and Beverly Marcinek nature is needed and should do well. of Parma, Ohio, until the house is There’s a tinge of autumn in the completed. The garage, which I shall write air — the golden rod and fall asters more about next week, has been 5 are in bloom, pears are ripe and I some trees are beginning to show sold to Crandall Brothers, Inc. by ” color. The red of the swamps is the Edinboro Area Union School i showing and the cove is getting District. The high price paid per pound for i mighty low. Most of the robins^ I have left, the killdeers are starting ;_j veal calves this week was 30^. ! to collect and cellar shelves are filling. i A new trailer has been moved on i to the Huntley’s newly purchased i acre and a half east of Perley Klines I and is occupied. ! I dug my potatoes and pulled the j rest of the onions last week. The second planting of sweet corn is I ready to use. If the frost holds off, ! there will be a third planting to eat i in October. • Sid Kuhns are having their house ; covered with aluminum siding. 1 Mathew Burgett, stationed in ; Germany, has been chosen to reI present the Berlin Brigade in Allied I Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell RE '?-77fi1 September 23,1965 Mrs. Glen Hecker left Saturday Walkers sold the garage around f to spend a week in Titusville vis­ 1925 to a cousin, Russell Gleeten, iting her father’s brother and fam­ who operated a garage there for | ^ ily and perhaps do her Christmas several years. Noel Harned and ' | shopping. Ben Fuller also operated a garage, | A transfer from John G. Berger to there for some time. Dad traded ' | John George Berger, Jr. appeared in a Model T Ford for a new Whip­ in last week’s paper. This is the pet and Ben told him it was the first former Philip Kinter place on Kin- car he’d ever sold and received cash: ter Hill, It was the childhood home for the entire amount. Fuller sold 1: of Bertha Simpkins, Nell Tyler and the Ford to Charley Cooper who lost; Muriel Beatty. the frontdoor on the rider’s sideand^ Agway has just received a large lost his passenger the first day he |' shipment of fall bulbs that are nice owned it. and very reasonably priced.. I no­ Around 1946 Ted Swaney bought ticed lots of bird feeders and John the garage from Gleeten and oper­ Banko tells me they will behaving ated a Chevrolet Agency for sever­ bird feed for sale. Better order a al years. Swaney always maintained hundred pounds — you’ll need it all an excellent repair service. Swanbefore Spring. The sooner you get I eys sold the building to the School birds coming to the feeders the more : District who used it for an Indusyou’ll have during the winter. ; trial Arts School. While the Agri­ Grace Warner who used to live in cultural Fair flourished here, it the old McCombs house, now owned - was used to exhibit the flower show. by Lew Kunkel, and now retired frorr Crandalls will start remodeling, the Reno, Nevada schools system painting, putting on a new roof and had been living in Ejcie but has gone getting it in shape for plans which 1 bag and baggage to Pasadena, Cal­ they have for using it.________ _ ifornia to make her future home. Cards came out Monday to Alum­ Just to be alive on a day like last ni of Edinboro State College an­ Sunday is as near Heaven as anyone nouncing the date and program for would ever wish to get. the Annual Homecoming to be held Chesmut burrs are getting fatter Saturday, October 2, 1965. and fatter every day. The trees The Homecoming at the McLane are just loaded with them this year. Baptist Church was very small com­ Most of the hickory and butternut pared to former years. The older trees seem to be hanging full of ranks are thinning. Ella Keeler nuts, too. Smith was the oldest one there who Don’t you just love the smell of had been born and grown up in this china asters? If I couldn’t see but neighborhood. Many old families could smell one of them I’d know that made up this little commun­ it was autumn. ity had no representatives at all — Echo Austin Dulaney is in an Erie no Blodgetts, no Crandalls, no Jef­ y hospital. Chester Straub who lives at the fords, no Pratts, no Nesbitts, no comer of Perry Lane returned home Harrisons! Ones who did return were Stanley from the hospital after undergoing Hotchkiss and wife, the former an appendectomy. I The college athletic field is be­ Iva King, Gordon and Anna King, ginning to shape up. Roads-hftve~| Trola Harneds, Coro Eastman been blacktopped. Most of the Shields, Clair and Mary Marsh, slabs have been placed for the seats Grace Miller, Boyd Hostettler, of the stadium. Penelec has been Vera Francis and Mary Alward, setting poles for lighting these past Doris Bull, Mima and Owen Lewis, Wally Miller. weeks. The Rev. Shreve and Rev. Dick Each man to his own — the folks who are living in the house on the Miller of West Virginia, both for­ old Bertram — Vern Billings farm mer ministers, came. Letters were» read from former ministers or their are painting it dark red. Bumper stickers seen in Midwest­ wives, namely: Mrs. Lovett, Rev. ern and Rocky Mountain States read; Shayne, Rev. Kirkwood and Rev. Sandell. " I fight poverty, I work." Mattie Jeffords, Tana Hotchkiss, The garage on Waterford Street Don and Laura Harrison, Glenn which was recently purchased by Jack and Merle Crandall from the Keeler — none were able to attend, Serena Showman, Wilma Lewis School District was built by Jinx and Bus Walker in 1916. That is and their mother, Ella Smith, ate (y where they started their automobile a birthday supper with an eldest business. In those days Jinx would daughter, Jessie Shank, of Erie on take everything in trade for an Thursday, September 16th. Wilbur Billings is in room 565, auto — twice he got phonographs which he brought up here for us to Hamot Hospital for a while to rest use until he had a chance to trade and have the doctors work their them off or sell them. Often he magic on him. We hope he’ll soon had a horse, a dog, cows, farm be home and his old self again. machinery on his hands. Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell RE 2-7761 September 9,1966 i'r Petitions are being circulated by'I Thestate ofMsconsin"subsidizes beautiful scenery" by paying own­ the Township Supervisors to be pre­ ers of idle acres for not building sented to the Pennsylvania Highway on the land or stripping their tracts , authorities to provide for the uninof trees. A big improvement from I terrupted continuity of this road by most eastern cities and towns which means of an underpass under the force owners to sell out to builders new highway. Sign it and if you by boosting taxes on beautiful, ex­ haven’t been approached make a pensive acreage. point of seeing one of the Super­ These days you can drive in any visors — Glenn Shields, Herbert iPi direction from Edinboro and see I Allen or Ray Showman — and then farmers along the country roads I signing. cutting ensilage and hauling it to 1! ship AnPlanning ordinance creating aforTownCommission Wash the silos. Russell McCommons from McKean i ington Township has taken effect, of the General McLane School Board j This also confers on the commission resigned because of his heavy schod I the powers and duties of a zoning work load as Supervising Principal commission. of the Wattsburg Schools and Ken­ j The Township citizens appointed neth Kilbane was appointed to fill I to this body are Walter Eastman, out his term. i Keith Woods, Joe Hecker, Harry Ellouise Connors entertained in I Walters and Louis Skelton. her new home at a coffee klauch -j The efforts of the Planning ComJoan Bryman and children visitedC; Thursday morning, September 23, ■j mission should be appreciated by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jos.f' for the neighbors — Caroline Brown :! the residents of the township, Torrey, over the week end. Gladys Caldwell, Dot Parker, Mar­ i We are, in the main, opposed to I’ve saved out my seeds for next garet Kingston, Jean Culbertson, ! unnecessary extension of official- spring’s planting — peppers, toma­ Joan Goss, Mary Fredricks, her • dom into the private affairs of cit- to, four-o-clocks and marigolds. Helen and Don Fox have long mother, Mrs. Powers, Margaret and myself. Of course, Margaret izens and, in tnis area, we can rows of beautiful marigolds — the and I have been watching and tour-.; sympathize with those who feel nicest I’ve ever seen grow ing a-| ing from the very start but the other | i^hat the Planning Commission may round here — in their garden. The next two weeks will be the-| ladies had an opportunity to tour be inclined in this direction but, the lovely new house. Ellouise’s by exercising the power of zoning. loveliest of the autumn. To see mother will be staying here for a Supervisors can influence the degree how beautiful the world really is| ] of density of the population in the walk or drive through the countrywhile. The Rockdale Garden Club met township, which in turn influences side every chance you get. at the home of Leona Wilkins of the services that the township will Monday morning at 7 the ther- ? south Meadville Street September be required to provide. mometer stood at 25° and the barn,, | We must always guard against garage and corn crib roofs were_^y.,r 22nd. A son was born to John and Elean­ those with designs on township land. I j white with frost. It touched up the or (Soltesz) Yatzor September 20th. There have been altogether too i field com, too. , Mr. and Mrs. Don Case and Mr. Graeme and June(Fetterolf) Bow-* many cases of annexation of town- f ley of R.D. 1 welcomed a little j ship property. There have been too: and Mrs. Royce Mallory leave Sat many township people sitting backj j foj. ^ fishing trip in Canada. daughter September 21st. — ----------------------John Schulz of Waterford Road and doing too little to combat these, h .. . ^ ^ returned to army life Thursday. influences which have been harmJohn has been working for the Boro ful to all of us. Why zone an area that is primar­ during his thirty day vacation. 1 James, a son of Eugene and Lu- ily agriculture? — mainly to pro-|^ 'cille Sherwood* has been^drafted- tect the farmer by preventing three j main kinds of problems: Excessive^ -and leaves for camp next week. ] Ina Perry Williams is bacl# in her taxes — Damage to Agricultural ‘ •old home on Ontario Street. Work- Operations and curtailment of nor­ jmen are installing a new furnace mal farming practices. Waiting until later to zone is of­ ; and none too soon by the tempera; ture and sounds of the wind tonight, ten a disadvantage to farmers. As ^ j The two outfits that have the the population of the community i contracts for building the new grows, the farmers may soon bef^^y'! North-South highway are making outnumbered (and outvoted) by a shambles of several of our Town­ newcomers whose wants and needs ship roads with their heavy trucks for the future may not be the same i as those of the farmer. i and equipment. Margaret found a few chestnuts! , . As plans stand now Sherrod Hill I Road would come to a dead end on the ground tonight. They tasted k : good. There are lots more ' I just beyond Gerald Baker’s farm mighty I when the new highway is completed to fall. A dozen times a day you|. * ' This is the main west township road 1 can go out and fill your pockets.^ Dorotha McLallen drove out to ’'f - : I connecting Rt. 99 with Rt. 98 and : i should be an underpass road to pro- ] the Grandview Hospital Sunday^ '' . to visit with Mrs.Charles \ J vide continuity for farm use, rural I! afternoon Edna has not_. ] mail delivery, quicker winter snow (Edna) McLallen. I been feeling as well lately. s ' removal, general convenience, resJ idential convenience and routing i of school buses. >- 'A'—.;- ■'-;V i ' Sa — C' “' ^ ', ★ Edinboro Wise * ‘S'- CarneGoodell ^^^'^October 7,1965 ^ S'7 5.'' f >• \ ••!: Swamp to Become Lake '■/' -^J/‘ I ' Work is slated to begin this fall on what will probably be the most unusual addition to any college campus in Pennsylvania, - a 10-acre lake at Edinboro State College. If everything goes according to schedule, the new recreationeducation-saftey facility should be finished by this time next fall. Right now the lake area is a use­ less swamp, fed by Darrow Run, a , creek that meanders south across ' the 600-acre Edinboro Campus on ^ a line east of the main building , complex. While the idea of a man-made campus lake may seem far-fetched, ' it is quite logical. Much of the fill-material needed for building projects already under­ way at the college or in the plan­ ning stages for future construction will be taken from the swamp. When ’ that happens, it will still be useless i land and not the least bit attractive. With some heavy grading work this fall and the installation of some piping from Darrow Run into the north end of the lake area, and back to Darrow Run from the south end i of the lake, the rough work on the | ^'4' k ,v new facility will be done. [ Eventually, the lake will be i landscapped, stocked with fish and equipped with boating facilities. Power boats will not be allowed, just row boats and canoes. The, water will not be deep enough to present any real hazard to the safety of the young people. Swimming will not be permitted. The crowning touch - from an j aesthetic point - will be the instal- ‘ lation of a small island in the center ! of the lake and the construction of | a geyser-like fountain on the island. It is felt that, in time, volunteer, non-credit courses may be offered in those activities that provide the students with valuable hobbies. "a%w \ T' r 4' i' 1«:/ i X *. / v^srr'r-^i-3 4. . t' ^c~ •» -t riff j i'* => 3 ' ' ,tI “ ^ ^ /A / Vi ^3’ ; 3 -S' ^ X % 'r-" h' K- / V T-V ■•>^ ■■■.'C •■■■?■.■. --ik' , —/ 3-tr' 1 ■j' -« Jim and Elena Mae Skelton and : School youngsters are making their Jock and Ellouise Davis left Sep­ i annual leaf collections for school tember 29 for a two weeks vacation I science projects. Esther Klie’s potrip to Colorado. The men will do I lite and well-mannered jounggrand^ some big game hunting and the lad­ jSon accompanied by his mother ies may go farther west to visit the istopped here Sunday for leaves to] former Jeannette Skelton and fam­ ladd to his collection. It’s always ily. a pleasure to have a child like that Mrs. Jesse Dout of Hamilton Road come to your home. (former C. W. Austin farm) has real estate deals are about been seriously ill at St. Vincent I to Several be consumated. Reports will be Hospital. forthcoming. Last Saturday gave Edinboro folks Twila Gleeten Reid left for her a taste of the cars and people that home in Santa Ana, California ; collect for a college football game. , Wednesday. We sat on the front steps and . Wayne Gleeten brought his sister, ^ watched the parade, hundreds of ; Blanche White, to stay with Drew cars and people walking pass by. and Blanche Gleeten over the week 1 It’s always interesting to watchpeo- I end. He stopped in to see Charles I * pie. I heard one lady with an a^ and Mae Kirschner. Mae and ' tractive hair-do hobbling along in Wayne both will celebrate a birth­ a very tight skirt and spike heels day on October 18 th. Helen Fox exclaim,"My G--! how much far­ mas a birthday October 26th. ther is it?" Someone pointed across George and Ruth Fellows have the field. She gave a little squeal been on a trip. For folks who work but walked gamely on. Quite often as hard as George it’s always a sat­ someone in a passing car waved vdio isfaction^ to friends when they can we recognized as a former college classmate, a student we had known find a few days to get away for a and Dr. and Mrs. Miller. The seats change of tempo and scene. Jessie Nash is back home on Mar­ provided in the stadium were a mere drop in the bucket for space needed, ket Street and walking almost as I sat by the kitchen window and well as before her accident. Orrs are having the former Gust) watched through an open place in the trees along the stump fence as Everwine house remodeled arid in­ the flag waved in the wind and sulated for electric heat. They thought somebody was responsible have a very well built house and I for every detail that culminated in don’t know where you could find anyone today who could lay up a what went on there today. Sunday was a genuinely autumn cellar wall like the one under that day — ^Id clouds alternated with house. The new restaurant in the hollow sunshine and brisk cool winds changed the mood and pattern and intensity seemed to be doing a good business of color of the fence rows, meadowy last week end. Those nice clean pastures and distant hills. An early windows and shiny new fumishirigs flock of geese honked as it V’d its inside made it look very inviting way to the southlands, the occasion-] for a would be diner. al thud of a falling butternut, the] The politicians are tuning up for constant light drop of chestnuts as the big day, November 2nd. Frank Pulling dug a ditch along they hit the ground, a scurry of leaves when the wind stirred them, the front of Lang Electric Mfg. Co. the wisp of wood smoke from the last week. The Gas Company dis­ chimneys of the stoves in the kit­ covered that the gas line was only chen and living room. I love it all! two inches below the surface in Rob and Cora Shields left Sunday some places and it had to be low­ for a leisurely trip through New ered. In the item appearing " Edinboro England to see the fall coloring of leaves. They will be going to College Planning Start on Unusual Hampton, New Hampshire. W e Addition" it refers to the creek that hope they’ll see Marion Goodell meanders south acloss the 600-acre Brant who lives there. Uncle Ned Edinboro Campus as Darrow Run. was Shields’ mail carrier for many, This creek isn’t known as Darrow Run and never has been known as many years. Hattie Walker is home from the such but by its correct name —Giles Meadville hospital. We hope she Run. Joseph Giles settled the farm now keeps on improving. Paul and Alice Frndak have their known as the Stafford farm, and house moved to its new location largely owned by the State Author­ west of Nora Fuller King’s buildings. ity, in 1795. Members of the fam­ A new house is under construction ily retained possession of the farm on the Engh sub-division west of until 1923 when Tyla Giles Amidon sold it to Garfield Stafford. It has town. The Presque Isle Chemical Co. is been listed on all maps of Washing­ starting the erection of a building ton Township and County maps and west of town also on ground that was County Atlases as Giles Run and has once a part of the Arch Billings farm. always been referred to by all native residents as Giles Run. Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell w W:. Duck season opened last Saturday. There seemed to be considerable shooting. That first morning is al­ ways the noisiest and a sound you rather wait for every autumn. Jennie Dunton of Tabor’s Comers has been visiting her daughter, Phyllis, and family for the past weeks. Helen Detrick, her other daughter, will be driving down there this week end to bring her mother home. Donald Jeffreys of Erie Street will? have a sale Saturday, October 16. Soon they'll be leaving for their new home in Florida. The neigh­ bors, townfolks and all their other friends from around this area are going to miss this fine couple. Edith Hamed Boylan passed away October 4 and was buried in the Edinboro Cemetery October 7. At one time Boy Ians lived on the farm now owned by Jim Skelton. They had lived on a farm north of McLane, also. Dad bought a gasoline engine and several cows at their sale. The engine was used to pump water to the barn until electricity and electric motors replaced it in 1924. Edith was a cousin of Mary Dundon Harned and Aunt Nelle Parsons 1 and an aunt to Cecil Meacham.! She is also survived by a daughter, | Lois, grandchildren and great: grandchildren and many friends and relatives. Mary Ellen Hollobaugh has soldj ten acres of land and the big and * newest building of their chicken I business to James C. Henry. It will be run as the Silverthom Poultry Co. They’ll use the older buildings on the farm, which Mary Ellen still retains, in their business operations. Maty Ellen is teaching in Spartansburg this year and commuting daily. - - 'Irtiere was a transfer in last week^ paper from G. A. Kline to A. R. Weiler of Erie. We were looking through a large box of pictures, etc. at Drew Gleeten's one night last veek. Pictures of folks you hadn't seen, heard of or thought of in years turn up and it seems to take one back to an­ other era that you had known or heard your parents and their friends tell about. I saw Velma and Russel Walker's wedding picture, a Public School picture of the upper grades when Mr. Dennison was principal. Some of the students we could identify were Wilda Burchfield, Dot Cooper, Gale Kirschner, Miles Pulling, Oscar Baldwin, Royce Mal­ lory, Freeman Millspaw, Walter Wade, Harold Ifopkins, George Goodell, one of the Howland girls, Jerry Durham. I’ll identify the others later and report. The young Gerald Woods have purchased the Clow-Kenyon prop­ erty on upper Erie Street. Gerry is starting to put a new roof on the There were several photos taken house and in time it will be cov^ by Ch. Sisson, photographer. One ered with aluminum siding. Here that we could identify was Uncle Charley Austin as a young man. are an ambitious and enterprising One was of Drew's grandfather young couple from this community Skinner and his three sisters. Betsy who ^re willing to work, plan-and married Samuel Ethridge and was get ahead. It's always a satisfaction the mother of Edgar, Anselmo and to see it. Triphene. They lived in the house ! Mr. Haller is having the front back in the lane which was last and back porches of his house pa intlived in by the Gill family. ,ed. He will be leaving Edinboro Rachael married a Walker and vould ithe latter part of this month to spend be Russel's and Jinx’s great grand [the winter in Pittsburgh. The Mcmother. The other sister married |Kay family from Springboro will ’ a man by the name of Morey and occupy the house during his absence. 1 Thank goodness the rain is over they lived in Wisconsin. with for a few days. The ground In an earlierday —1896-97 — the bn the hills is getting pretty soft country school teachers presented which makes for difficult harvesting their pupils with a card often with of corn and buckwheat. their picture on one side and the Clarence Chase has a large part pupil’s names on the opposite side. bf his field com picked and in the I found such a one. Clinton C. crib. Wright was the teacher. His home Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fischer and was a large house west of Ken Hawfamily of Farrell spent the week kin’s present one and known at one end with Dr. and Mrs. Marshall time as the Twitchell house. The Sproul. Dr. Sproul's sister, Mrs. pupils of Gleeten School were as Mae Nonis, joined Sprouls and follows: Willie Dundon, Archie Fischers for the evening meal and Ethridge, Joseph McGahen, Fred the evening. Dundon, Bruce Gleeten, Drew GleeInez Sproul spent Monday plant­ ten, Eston Davis, Charley McGahen ing new tulip bulbs. Their garden Lewis McGahen, Lizzie Gleeten, will be a riot of color come spring. This must have been a good year De Lloyd Austin, May Gleeten, Bertha McGahen, Fannie Ethridge, for nuthatches. There are dozens’ Elliot Watson, Irvin McGahen, Ber- t of them working at the suet and die Burdick, Paul Burdick, Nora feeders. The woodpeckers are very Burdickv Atchie McGahen, Maud plentiful, too. Alta Perry Griswold passed away McGahen, Brady Pratt, Jessie Cox, Jennie Watson, Grace McGahen, recently. They lived in Rochester, New York. Archie Pratt, Clarence Davis. Wilbur Billings is now at San Ros­ Directors were I. W. Port, C. H. Green, Leroy Porter, M. M. Well­ ario in Cambridge Springs. Mrs. Wilbur Billings is a surgical man, W.W. McLallen, Roscoe Eth­ patient in St. Vincent Hospital. ridge, T. M. Morrison, Co. Supt. Ann Behler substituted for Mary I found a small booklet of 1909 Pfeffer on Tuesday as school nurse. for the Junior Christian Endeavor Prayer Meeting Topics from the She thoroughly enjoyed the day re­ Draketown Christian Church, Itley, newing old friendships. Ann re­ Pa. The weekly leaders listed from turned last Sunday from a trip throu^ April through September were: her beloved New England. Mary Autate Payne of Conneaut Paul Bacon, Bruce Bacon, Rev, Mr. Hurlburt, Alys Mack, Joe Glee- and Thelma Thompson, Irene Mil­ ton, Helen Fox, Helen Sharpe^ Don­ ler and Sara Drury of East Springald Fox, Clara Gardner, Mrs. Pearl field visited friends in Edinboro Gardner, Mrs. Beard, Kenneth Gard­ Tuesday. It certainly was good to ner, Marion Gardner, Grace Mack, see Mary once again. She was one Lynn Colvin, Opal McGahen, Wayne of the first clerks we can remember Gleeten, Rose Thomas, Stella in Hopkins Store. She loved that Thomas, Mary Gleeten, Marion store just as much as we did. Iva Hurlburt, Mrs. Kellogg, Goldie Vatter was another or our favorite Davis, Nina Gardner, Leslie Colvin, clerks there. Gladys Loeslein. Ruth andGus Burgett leftMonday : We found pictures of Tommy for North Carolina where Gus will Gleeten as a young man and of start the races at the State Fair. ■ Aunt Maude as a young lady. She They'll return October 17. What; was wearing a hat with plumes, a a beautiful time of year to make; fancy decoration in the center and this drive. It will do both of them very attractive. We also saw the good. wedding picture of Harold and Leita Henri Liva of lower Meadville Hopkins. It was a most enjoyable Street is convalescing at home af­ evening. ter suffering a broken leg. 732-776 October 14,1965 } October 21,19651 Edinboro Bid Announced HARRISBURG (AP) — The general r State Authority received an unof­ ficial low bid of $309, 733 Wednes­ day for grading and site preparation 732-7761 at Edinboro State College to pro­ vide areas for further expansion. Mrs. Pontius of Waterford Street A most embarrasing incident and ^ The apparent low bid was subis home from the hospital and at a blight on this community caused j metted by Rathgeb and Gorr, Elizaher son Jim’s on Hound Hill. She by nine Edinboro and surrounding I beth R. D. 1. was badly bruised from her fall down area rowdies came to the camp to Mr. and Mrs. Milton Culbertson the stairs and the doctor says it will harass at two different times and just take time to feel like her for- smashed tents by rolling huge pum- and Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Travis at­ mer self. Her twelve boys will miss kins down the hill ( 40 or 50# [ tended the lovely wedding of Miss her good cooking and those whoj estimated ) smashing tents. ‘ Elaine Boeltz and Mr. Ronald Vogel have cbme to depend on the bread Having "cased the camp" earlier, ; at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Home­ and rolls she baked every veek will they made the tents of the younger* stead, Pa., October 16. The Rev. miss her, too. camps their target. The tents Bruce Shaffer, former pastor of the Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Hayes and crashing down, the scouts came out McKean Luthern Church, officiated. A reception for friends and relatives Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Sproul went and were peltecLwith eggsrcnbbage followed the ceremony in the church on a trip through the mountains and firecrackers and left the dead Sunday. They report the scenery carcass of an animal and empty beer reception hall. Elaine, a hospital technician, is as simply beautiful. Traffic was bottles. The Fairview Scouts, spon­ the daughter of Harry and Hilda heavy. They ate at Tidioute and sored by the Fairview firemen, suf­ had a wonderful meal. ' fered most by these harassments Brickner Boeltz and the grand­ Cabbage from this area is moving and one of the boys is reported to daughter of Fred Brickner. Brickners to market and to the kraut factories. have suffered an injury above an have owned cottages and been among the oldest summer residents State Police said the shooting of eye. of Edinboro Lake. At least thirty-' a youth at Gallant's migrant, labor " Several o( these local trouble five years ago the family were camp south of town Saturday night makers have been in scrapes before.’ coming to our farm every day to Here where Scouting could have was accidental. buy milk. The late Mrs. Brickner Did' you see in last week's paper served a good purpose, these boys a good friend of Mother's and was had no part nor have their parents where at a public meeting a "young often spent an afternoon with her. character" stood up and made the seen fit to take part in scouting Elaine'slittle niece and Ronald’s remark that anybody who let him­ activities or leadership. Why were little sister were flower girls. these boys ramming around in the self be drafted by the United States The best wishes of everyone from Armed Forces was a drip? A mother middle of the night anyway? Police, school officials, church are finding here go to this fine young couple. with a son fighting in Viet Nam it mighty difficult to handle these Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Torrey leave reached over and slapped his mouth. things Without parental discipline Friday to spend a few. days in He had it coming! and backing. It seems hard to believe Cleveland. Hildur’s sister, Mildred, Have you seen the Ikeya-Seki that parents whoieally care about is coming to get them and daughter comet? Astronomers say it could their children and interested in their Joan will bring them home. After provide the most spectacular cel­ present activities, attitudes toward a month of scrubbing, painting, estial show of the century. Look to society and their eventual outcome straightening furnimre around, etc., the east-southeast just before dawn, ^in the Community do not take the they’ll reUsh a little vacation. very low on the horizon. A comet tirhe and interest to act on their On Tuesday, October 26, Mattie is a ball of frozen, gaseous material own. With each incident the need Pratt Jeffords will have a 90th that thaws as it nears the sun and becomes more apparent and the birthday. A birthday card, a small begins to glow and expand. gift or a bite of birthday cake would time shorter. We enjoyed this and thought you The Boro”Police Department did provide much pleasure for this sweet might, too. a good job of apprehending the lady. Drop by and wish her good General Eisenhower tells this story. culprits and the outcome depends health and a happy day, also. She'd During the war when in Tunisia, on the Scouting authorities, the love it. the General, wearing a raincoat, communities that believe in and These beautiful, beautiful days! went into an Army store to buy a support them. l!d^ve anything to haveLa sandwich. pair of boots. The GI waiting on One who attended the lectures the field glasses and the dog and him had been lackadaisical until given the boys at the Camporee by take off for the woods for the day General Eisenhower removed his George Campbell expressed that he and here I am with forty jobs waiting coat revealing a cluster of stars. was much impressed with it all, and to be done before winter. The GI exclaimed; "Holy Smoke, particularly the closing comments. Little Janet Ward, ten, of R. D. 2 the Milky Wa and sprang into The subject had been "Survival". Edinboro was one of the Erie area action. The boys were told that they could winners of the Young Hobby Club Last weekend the District Fall survive anywhere if they had three contest., Herprizewasa space gun Boy Scout Camporee was held on things: Faith in God, Faith in their puzzle. She is the daughter of Mr. Vunk s Point. Albert Engh had very fellowman and Faith in themselves, and Mrs. Robert Ward of Sherrod graciously and Mndly donated the Despite the fact that "their fellow Hill Road. Her folks operate a dairy area and its facilities to the Scout, failed them, they demonstra- farm on the former Ted Roan farm. leaders for this activity. Edinboro ted this spirit of Scouting was briefly Janet has two brothers and sisters Scouts were host to the groups. It when by eight o'clock Sunday older than herself and three younger. would be hard to find a more beau- mornihg the area was completely She has entered this contest before tiful spot or a more ideal one for a cleaned up and the boys were able and won prizes, also. : meeting of this nature and the boys attend church. Alton McGahen, 44, farmer of ? and their leaders held a well super- _ Waterford, son of Clara and Joe ! vised and beneficial meet. McGahen, passed away Sunday, Oct. 17, following surgery. His father was born on Hound Hill in the house until recently owned and occupied by Bob and Rosie Zimmer and was | known as the Silas McGahen farm. Joe McGahen attended the Gleeten C School and went to school to Dad. ^ ★ Edinboro Wise ★ Carrie Goodell A lot of folks attended the sale at Jefferys last Saturday. With the exception of an electric stove and refrigerator prices were very good, I bid on two items and didn’t get either. A friend had asked me to go to five or six dollars for an old rocker and I bid on some steel fence posts for myself. There were ten -eight had been used and I can buy new ones cheaper than those brought so the other fellow got them. Just seeing a lot of folks to talk with is, as always, the best part of a sale and to come home with some little I - “ item you REALLY wanted is mighty pleasant, too. Combining buckwheat and pick­ ing corn are the two things being done this week as one drives through the countryside. Sunday tihe roads were lined with ^ folks headed for the hills of Warren County to enjoy the beautiful hills i There is considerable feeling a-j and colors of autumn. A week ; round Edinboro about the weekend | from today many of the larger trees i tragedy of the lack of hospitalityj will be bare. As for us, we prefer expressed by our youth to the Sc outs, j familiar places — to walk out back Other columns treat with the sub- through the fields to a high point * ject, but one point struck us so in the back meadow and look north « forcefully that we want to give it east to the swamp pasture, Shelto you— in talking with Mr. Okey hamer’s and Walker's woods or ' Cooper (District Scout Executive southwest across meadows and corn ^who was present that weekend), not field to the colors cast on the lake I one of the boys causing the mis- by a setting sun. Just working or I chief had ever been a Scout. He walking those fields and pasture in ; also expressed his deep regret that any season is a soul satisfying ex­ with all the good cleaning-up his perience for us. Ringnecks are running along roads Scouts did after the terrific mess of pumpkins, cabbage and eggs, it and meadows, darting into com was impossible to leave Mr. Engh’s fields most anywhere you look property quite as it was when they these days. Have you ever noticed how an arrived. airplane’s drone changes as it pass­ es through cool autumn skies? We have just one hickory tree with nuts on this year. Most of the nuts have fallen. We put them be­ hind the kitchen stove for a week or so to dry out before storing them. It’s always fun on a cold, stormy winter night to bring out a pan of them and crack and eat them. ^ ' We picked apples at Barons last week. The old orchard is our fav­ orite — where the Sheepnoses, Roxbury Russets, Banana apples, huge Northern Spies and Greenings are. This year there were only Sheepnoses there. The crop was very short. Bill and Justina were in the orchards* the day was sunny and beautiful and as always the day was one of our most satisfying of the year. Just to smell the wonderful appley odor of the cellar asyoupass by the door!! • The bridge on the Itley road is be­ ing repaired. ? Last week we saw state surveyors i surveying on the Jerico road and^ through the pasture of the former Burger farm._______ ! w „ r. p: 12,'. Letters from Farm Women (from the Nov. Farm Journal) Edinboro Wise ★ Carrie Goodell ;X' ^ ^^ ^ , Love and discipline How many mothers say, “I should correct Johnny, but he s so He wraps me around his finger.”? I’ve just come home from visit! ing my son in a juvenile detention j home and the scene was far from/ " pretty. I saw mothers and fathers. \ who were kind and hard-working. . . i They loved their children—^perhaps “too much” and certainly unwisely. • How much better to spank your ^ Johnny now than have him hand­ cuffed to a table later on. How , much kinder to send him to bed ,, dessert than to lie awake. ^ wondering, if he had to sleep without any food. ’1 732-7761 In 1961 there was an article in The Paul Woods sale held last^p■ There are several folks from EdLnboro who will be heading for the Erie Times giving a short sketch Saturday was well attended and Florida and Arizona after the fall of a Leon Carson Stanley who had cows sold high. The lowest price been bom and raised in Edinboro. was $257 and the high $490. Paul election. Jim Skelton and Jock Davis both He was born in 1854 and was cele­ just couldn’t get farm help and was returned with mule deer shot on their brating a 107th birthday. At 15 forced to sell. Thdre are a lot more years of age he joined the circus farmers who are crippling along for hunting trip in Colorado. Sam Sherwood returned recently and left Edinboro in 1876 to go to lack of help. Art William!s hired from a moose hunting trip near In­ Indiana to live. He was in a home man left for the Marines. Anyone ternational Falls, Canada. He went for the aged in Fort Wayne. We who has the least desire to work can to Cleveland where he joined Neal wrote to him. His mother was a get a job on the new highway con­ struction at $3 - $4 an hour. Manross and a group of friends and sister to Cap Vunk’s mother. Th^Dick Reyn^ds^Tiave Have you seen the latest number have “moved they left from there. Neal and a; Cleveland man both got moose. of the National Wild Life magar' into the house by John Vanco’s. There was snow enough Sunday, It was an exciting and very pleasant zine? The articles and the pictures! trip anyway. They were gone about' are excellent and well worth read­ night to cover cars sitting outside and along the ridges of tin roofs. ing, admiring and keeping. ten days. The Boro tore up the berm from" ■ Now, I’ve heard everything! A The house which Jefferys recent­ ly sold to Joseph Bufalino was built boro resident (not a native) has rats! Lang Electric to Royce Mallory’s before 1865 by Isaac Van Tassell. in the cellar of his new house. He to lay larger water pipes and has ^ Howard Tabor of Tabor’s Corners ^ has reported it and requested that' I,left it a mess ever since. It would, bought the property of the Bev Web­ the Boro Council do something about i actually be very dangerous for any­ ster family 48 years ago. His daugh­ it. A rat trap and some strong one walking or driving to have tO: ter, Jennie Dunton, sold it to Jef­ cheese or a box of D-Con will take] step off the pavement. In some ; feries some time after her father’s care’of them. Of course, you would, places the covering has collapsed death. It is not as old as the house have to set your own trap. I know to leave gaping holes. If a serious across the alley now owned by Glade a person in the village who keeps' accident or damage to a vehicle Wright. That house also built by a steel traps and mouse traps set a-'[ occur as a result of it, who would, 'Van Tassell, the one owned by round in cellar and bam the year be responsible? Sunday morning a Haller and the nucleus of the one around. This past week he has car was mired in the mess in front now owned by Frances and Helen, caught several ’possums, rats, chip­ of Bob Connor’s house and had to jjBtuchfield were all built before | munks and a couple of mice. It’s be hauled out. Last Monday aj 'l855. ; fun to go out and look at the traps truck nearly hit bottom and became The house sold recently by Adolf j every morning — you just never mired in front of our house. Just Hencke to John Seaman was also know what you’re going to find in who is responsible in the Boro? built well before 1855 by Frank them. This is the time of year Many village citizens are beginning Vunk. (Seaman is the new operator when rats and mice move in from to wonder about a lot of things. of the American gas station.) ] the fields and settle around buildDon’t forget to set your clocks There used to be a barn there. The i ings for the winter. A cat that is a and watches back Saturday night. ^ first barn that was there or the town ■ good ratter is an asset around the 1 left the cows in the barn last ■' bam as it was called, burned up y place, too. Sunday for the first. At noon the from spontaneous combustion by j An Article of Agreement between thermometer stood at 34°. putting wet wheat in it. Mr. and Mrs. Blair Dunton and ®,yip Edward Culbertson and Henriech after Vunk built a new bam. When I,! Borosh appeared recently. It is the Mr. and Mrs. Don Mortenson of the Culbertson Co. bought the prop former Kady Cummings house on Waterford spent the week end with erty they moved it back of Ethel Pigtail Alley. Mr. Borosh is con- Blair’s sister and family, Mr. and Nye’s house. Frank Vunk was driv­ 'nected with the Edinboro Furniture Mrs. John Offner and daughters of ing a horse on a hayfork unloading Shippensburg. Don says prices of Co. hay when the singletree broke in The Senate Friday confirmed the property and land are clear out of half. One half hit him in the stom­ nomination of James E. Pontius as sight there. ach and killed him. Mrs. Jesse Doutt of Hamilton Rd. Dad alw?iys told us that Frank Vuik postmaster. returned home Sunday after spend­ Blanche Rubner is home from the was a very fine man, that there was hospital and feeling better. ing five weeks in the hospital. She never a' man who was worthy who is still in bed but so glad to be home Walter Kubit who worked at the went to him for assistance who did-| College for a short time and bought again. Her family are very happy n't get it. He, Mose Reeder, Bobj to have her home, too. one of those houses in a develop­ McLaughry, Alfred Stone, Canada} ment east of Edinboro has sold it On Sunday, November 7 from Sam Reeder, etc. the very life blood' 1:30 to 5:30 p. m. the three sons to David E. Lawrence. of the community, gathered in and their wives will hold Open It is reported by Glee Plavsity Grandpa’s store every night for anj that he has sold his home, the for­ House at Joyland to honor the fif­ evening conflab. I mer Albert Stafford house on the tieth wedding anniversary of Mr. Frank Vunk’s son Carson (which corner of Hamilton and Crane Roads, and Mrs. Robert Shields. Rob and was his mother’s maiden name) in­ to Ed Schlindwein. Cora Eastman of McLane were herited his father’s farm and a bunch married November 3,1915 at MayBill Wagner, Les Firth, Wilbur of cuttluroats hung around as long Otteni, Neil Swift and Glenn Shields ville, N.Y. They operated a farm, as Cap had any money or could bor­ on Sherrod Hill Road until their son left early Thursday morning and re­ row any. When it was gone, they Glenn took over the farm and they turned late Friday eve from a trip departed. As a youngster, I remem­ to Syracuse, N. Y. ber seeing bunches of tobacco leaves hanging in the front stdop drying. Cap smoked his own brand. m i.: -s J: .-1 M / - y Some few boys and girls get into ^ Urouble for lack of love and the tight environment, but many, like Amine, are locked up because their ^parents neglected to give them dis­ cipline along with love. I NAME WITHHELD, California ^ • 'J '’H. \ i| -i moved to town. Later they built a new home on the sight of the old Wellman School. Rob, who is sup­ posed to be retired, is busy every minute carpentering for folks in this area and Cora has a very pretty yard and vegetable garden to care for. They spend the long, cold winters in Florida. Rob is a trustee of the Edinboro Cemeter5r Associa­ tion. Mr. and Mrs. John Borland attend ed the Homecoming game at Fbrthwestern University October 23. They returned home in time for the Governor Scranton Dinner Thursday, October 28. # / /r. ,fV ' : ‘ % / < November 4,1965 f^'''■;..’t'^* ‘’,- ^ ' C' ^ Vi - * Edinboro Wise * Carrie Goodell I'm ready for anything that comes weatherwise now. There's a new roof on the garage and cabin, the house roofs are painted, the back barn door is patched up, the corn is picked and in the cribs, the leaves are raked and burned, the lily pools are covered, the cabbage is cut and in the cellar, : the tulips, etc., and lily bulbs are planted, the glad bulbs are down in the cellar, there is enough ; bird seed in the back room to last i all winter and a good big grist in I the feed alley. Saturday was a perfect day for I the start of hunting season. So \ far I haven't heard of much game being taken. Tony Burgett came home to hunt with his dad and re: ported — no game'. We heard no dogs and very little shooting as compared with other years. It never happened before but the wind Saturday night and Sunday : swept our garden and yard nearly : clean of leaves. The few that were left were of little consequ­ ence and 'a short horse soon cur­ ried. ' I love all the different kinds of wind. The soft high winds Saturday night which played through the trees, scattering the leaves, were just right for a moon that dipped throughfthe clouds. It always reminds me of 'The High­ wayman' by Alfred Noyes. I love those winds that whistle around the corner of a house and just seem to match each season of the year — so soft in April and May, so furi­ ous on a January night. And those high, furious winds that accompany a rolling, dark cloudy sky, rattle the tree tops and send the first sharp pellets of snow stinging like bullets against one's face. Margaret Kline, auditor, and Hazel Eastman, tax collector of | W ashihgtbtl T ownship attended the i convention of township officials f held at the Sportman's Club last‘ week. This item reached me too late last week to get into this column,; Anna Roth has sold her trailer on Mill Street to Art Henry and mov­ ed to Townville. She has a daught­ er and many friends there. She will be living with a lady who takes iin older people. She tried living there last winter and liked it. Anna has been a mem her of the Rebeccas for 67 years and still fill­ ed in wherever needed. She had performed all offices except treas­ urer and musician. The ladies anc friends here are going to miss her very much. I was glad to see this transfer re­ cently -- Charles B. McLallen to Lawrence B. McLallen. Lawrence and Marian are mighty faithful to their father and mother and Aunt Frances. 732-7761 1 , : ; John Schub received his honor­ able discharge from the U. S. Army and arrived home October 23. He will stay at home until after Thanlsgiving when he will head westward to resume work in forestry. In his forays of previous years into the Weyerhauser holdings, he has col­ lected cones and seeds of many evergreens and western dogwoc^ and sent them to us. He took many many colored slides which we have been privileged to see severaltimes, John is truly an artist with acamera. Mrs. Dick Osborne (Cathy Shulz) has been home the past week. She was bridesmatron at Jane Parker's wedding. They left for Washing­ ton, D. C. Sunday. Fred Shulz has bought a home in Washington State, has a good job with Weyerhauser and both he and his wife like it there very much. Fred organized a band there. They dressed as Hill Billies and played at the Vet's Hospital recently. It all started from a guitar which I had given Fred many years ago. Charles and Wealtha Martin wel­ comed a baby son Friday morning. October 29. He has been named , Mark Drew. There are three little brothers awaiting his arrival home. Wealtha is the daughter of Mrs. Drew Gleeten. Mrs. Fannie Ethridge McMann, eighty-five, died Tuesday, October 26, at St. Vincent Hospital. She was born in Edinboro, Pa., October 3, 1880 on the old Ethridge farm now owned by Henry and Dorothy Gill. The house which still stands is located at the end of a long lane. The barns and out­ buildings collapsed many years ago She and Archie were the two child­ ren of Edgar and Clara HardmanEthridge. She marriad Oison MsNbnn and Archie married Orson's sister, Cora. Survivors include a brother, Archie and two sons. Forest R. McMann and E. Lynn McMann. Many years ago when the Edgai Ethridge estate was settled much bitterness developed between the two families and they had never spoken again consequently the brother was not mentioned in the obituary. How often those things happen and what a pity. Do you remember when Edgar Ethridge was one of the few Demo-: crats in town and if any visit- | ing dignitary appeared at the i Normal School Edgar always got a chance to sit on the stage with the other big bugs? One time at election someone asked his father, Samuel Ethridge, how he was going to vote and he replied, "So votes Twichell, so votes I, " The Twichell mentioned was Tommy Sheets great, great grandfather. and talk over old times. Edna and Margaret were young girls at home then. The gypsies camped near there and were often a source of -irritation to those families living around there. Cora Keeler Stafford worked for Homer and Hester Compton at the . time the gypsies camped near Me-1 t '-.si'' Lane. There wasn't a door in the house that could be locked and onetj might see a door open anytime and Mae Kirschner has an old school a gypsy looking in. Cora was picture taken at Gleeten School frightened of them and piled long ago. Allie Cutler was the chairs in back of the doors. A doo/l Teat:her. The pupilsTurthe^picture^ would be pushed open and the chairs'll were Willie Dundon, Joe McGahen would scatter in all directions with Jennie Dundon, much commotion. Ella Hardman, Mrs. Lillian Rhodes of Erie cele­ Nettie Kline; Maude McGahen, Blanche Gleeten, Archie Ethridge, brated a ninety-third birthday Drew Gleeten, Fannie Ethridge, October 30. She is the last surviv­ Dora Davis, Donna Gleeten, Myrna ing member of the earlier genera- , McGahen, Freddy Dundon, Bruce tion of the Batchelor family.Sheis e Gleeten, Archie Pratt, Nora Hard­ a sister of the late Nate Batcheloiy[ man, Lizzie Gleeten, Grace Mc­ father of Bruce and Grace Miller. Gahen, Lulu and Lilly Colvin, Mae She was born on a farm near Frank­ Gleeten, Brady Pratt, Edith Mc­ lin Center which was later sold to the Krautter family. For many Gahen. years she and her husband owned Many of those named have pass­ and operated a farm in the Cam­ ed on. Blanche Gleeten White, Archie Ethridge, Drew Gleeten, bridge Springs area which they sold She now lives Grace McGahen Campbell, Nora to Ross Zilhaver. with a lady who maintains a home Hardman Sauers and Mae Gleeten for elderly women. She was out Kirschner are all that remain. Edith McGahen (Velma Rich's here for the family reunion in August and enjoyed it very much. mother)^Brady Pratt, Lizzie Gleeter Archie Pratt, Bruce Gleeten, Willie We operate on fast time in the mornings and finish up on slow time Dundon, Joe McGahen, Jennie I can't hold out after Dundon (Jim Snyder's grandmother at night. Nettie Kline (Willie Kline's daugh­ 9:30 P. M., but Margaret, like ter who married Ranson (lump-0- Uncle Ned and mother, is still go­ gold) Chase and lived where Fred ing strong at midnight. Dad used Fisher's live), Maude McGahen to say that mother would look out (George and Harold Fellow's moth­ the windows from all directions and er), Charley McGahen who went if she could see a light anywhere out west to live, Dora Davis (Onley she knew it was too early for her to go to bed. Skelton's first wife), Myrna Me Gahen, Fred Dundon, Fannie Eth­ Mrs. John Borland's mother, Mrs. ridge and the two Colvin girls whe Michael Welsh (Pearl) pas.sed away lived on the farm now owned by last Thursday, October 28, 1965, Jock and Elloiiise Davis are all de at her home in Michigan. Our sliiceased. The teacher, Allie Cutler cere sympathy is extended toMikki. married Harry Cooper and was Mikki and John had just returned Dorothy Cooper Allhouse's mother from Michigan Wednesday, and left again Friday morning. has been gone many years. Last Friday morning our thermo­ Mrs. Edna Schmid of Erie was visiting friends in Edinboro last meter registered 7° above zero. Friday afternoon. Edna is the late The thermometer hanging at Don Cornell's cove registered zero. Sue Stafford's daughter. Drew Gleeten has a picture taken Several folks reported 10° above. when Edna's father, Awie Hotch­ Every caterpillar I've seen this fall kiss, had a sawmill on the Zes- has had a long black front end, singer Road. Drew, Ben Eastman, a narrow band of brown in the mid ■ Harry Osterberg, Wallace Hall and die and plenty of black on the back Russell Gleeten all worked there for end, too. I started out to make Dutch cheese, Hotchkiss. The help lived in and Sue had to cook andwash for them. but ended ud with real cheese. It all made for pleasant associa­ It looks and tastes like Long Horn, tions though and through the years is good and you can slice it, tool Drew often stopped by to see Sue Something sure went wrong Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell J ; Pa., Thursday, November 18,1965 732-7761 __ November 11,1965 Our American holly tree is just (Allshouse), the Porter Tucker loaded with red berries this year. house and did much of the carpen­ I have two English hollies whose ter work on the Normal Hall (par­ leaves are larger, glossier and ticularly the stairway in the front more like the shipped in kind but hall and the floor in the auditor­ I doubt are as hardy as the other ium). Of the two younger grand­ I put those where the snow drifts sons — one is in the Air Force and the youngest is fighting in Viet as a winter protection. Last Saturday Faye, Isabelle, Mrs. nam. Perry, Sylvia Skelton and Frances We have a Model School picture Ellicott drove to Grandview Hospi­ taken about 82 or 83 years ago. tal to see Edna McLallen. There Those in the picture were Alice they saw Dorotha McLallen and Hanson, Edith Benjamin, Print Ruth Mosier. Later Lawrence and Reeder, Fred Walter, Ernest Mc­ Marian McLallen arrived. Edna is Combs, Iva Hilliker, George Wal­ not looking or feeling as well as ter, Ceylon Perry, Todd Goodell, her family and friends would like Grace Scrafford, Lilly Janyes, Kit­ ty McKrellis, Bert Dundon, Allie to see her. Mrs. Jesse Doutt of Hamilton Walrath, Maggie Walter, Gertie Road suffered a stroke Saturday Smawley, Inez Hoyt, Bessie Pifer, Morning and the ambulance was Maude Aspin, Fannie Shepard, summoned to remove her to the Pearl Patterson, Frankie Walrath, hospital where she passed away. Mary Stancliff, Maggie Marsh was She had only returned home short­ one of the three teachers. ly before from five weeks spent Do you lemember the day World there. Our sympathy to her hus­ War'I ended? All the bells rang band, son Everett at home and like mad, schools were let out and daughter Sylvia (Mrs. Otis Reed of the relief in everyone’s voice as Kinter Hill Road). he or she greeted friends on the There was an accident at the streets or via telephone! The asrblinker light at Market and Water-! vice flags that hung in so many ford Streets Satuiiay night. Two windows in town and countryside cars came together. A child was came down. For several years reported to have suffered a broken after Armistice Day meant ringing leg. It seems there is scarcely a church bells at 11 a. m. and a half day anymore that the whistle does­ day’s vacation from school. n’t blow. Every time several men We saw the pictures of Joe and must leave their work to answer Ann Ondrey’s first grandchild. He’s the call. Don't abuse a privilege wee and dear. We’re going to have pheasant Jesse Koon has sold fourteen acres for Thanksgiving! of the farmer Bash Kirschner farm The grandson of Ernest McCombs to the Edinboro Sportmen^ League. of Jacksonville, Florida was visit­ The new owners have already erec­ ing relatives and friends last week ted paraphernalia for shooting clay end. He stayed with Mr. and Mrs. ■ pigeons and further plans will de­ John Smith of Itley, Pa. Ernest velop as they acquire funds. There McCombs, 91, is still living and is a deep gully with a creek run­ in good health. He is the son of ning through it. There was a three M. J.. McCombs, a carpenter and or four acce field that couldbe work­ ed and the rgSt"Vvas used fOT^pas-a fldie workman, who built the Andy Stanford house, the Joe Stead ture by Kirschners. Mrs. JosephTorrey left the Cleve man house (Prihodas), the Chauncy Foy house (Glunts), The Doc Green land Airport Tuesday morning to field house (Jolleys), the Cutler fly to California to stay with her House, the Dave Gillaspie house sistei; Anrr, who is critically ill. \ School Board Member Retires - J -s V sJ' Vv*- S W S t ’ ^\ V - , \ X r f ^ ‘ 'U'-f g,,.;-r -V'T'"" ^ I- S* .A • "‘t \ John Borland r Mr Tnhn Borlaiul on Friday, November 19, 1965, completes 12 years rv.ce as a boar 1 member from Washington Township. During these veils tl?e?e have Ten many changes in the eclueation of, boys and virls of the area When Mr Borland became a board member in Decern her' 1953 Washington Township sent their students to Edinboro on a her, lyaJ, wasningio ^ ‘ formed which included Edinboro Borovigh'^Franklin Towmship and Washington Township This vas kmlvii as the Edinboro Area Joint School System In July, 19a9, the Edinboro Joint School System became a Union School District^\\ hic i ll’lemam, loday. Also m Jrdy. 1959. the Edinboro Um°n -Sclmo formed a Tointure with the McKean (Union) School district. Jointure was known as the General McLane Joint School System. „f While re-organization has greatly changed the complexion of the educational scene Mr. Borland was also an active participant in the buildinc of the very fine Edinboro Elementary School Budding located on Route 6N West This building, which cost with the recent addition 'fi955 358 97 is considered one of the finest m the area, (..eneial McLane High School was completed in August, I960 and was anothei winch Mr Borland labored over for many hours to see that it piovided its many very fine facilities. Mr Borland served for many years as Treasurer of both the 1' and the General McLane Boards. This is an important position as the operation of schools is big business to say the least. It is rare that any board member receives recognition for the many hours required to do the job of a school director. Howevei, it can be said thatVr- Borland contributed beyond his line of duty, a big share of time, energy and knowledge to the growth of education in the Cjeneral McLane Area. To write all that this man has done for youth would take a book. Words fail to express all we would like to say. So, thank you, John. -V ^ ^ November 18.1965 Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell ' , -V V ‘ - -^ i"‘ 1. If^ ^ f'" ^ /"-V'»^ f ■• ■«, >T *. -V ■.■■^.r'. ■\'^r =■'■'/■■>.-J;. • . •■*^ r-*,V^ -=.y ~ ■5 ^ '.i: .-■•i^.'- ■-y'''. ^ -* v»<. ^ . '-.-.■V--* -'“■* / %r^ .“ V ' / e~ '-i -f ”' ' '« rL' ?- -r'4. / "x m -■*«* -.'---'7I ' ■: ,, f -’ C, - “ V3 "V** , - ^ , "3^"-'^’^ " '*~ 1^"*' r"3 i^r ;;av ^ i I f^*L 'A, •> '-J<'® ' v* -'’%:^y V -'i-; s 732-7761 Now the nights are frosty and We had a letter from Kate And­ The community is saddened by rews last week and in it she men­ clear and the little screech owls the death of Mrs. John Sauers, 81 tioned calling on a friend, Clara sound their quavery lonesome wails. They are just a part of Autuim of Kinter Hill, Nora Hardman, the Reeder of Columbus, Nebraska.^ daughter of Michael and Margaret] Clara's father was a brother to Lizzie l?a part I wouldn’t ever want to miss. always imagined they liked ever­ Hall Hardman,wasborn in the home Reeder Wage and a judge in Colum­ east of Dundon Lane between Lick bus. Clara remembers coming to greens and that was why they chose Hill and Hardman Hill. She attend­ Pen nsylvaniaty herself to spend the my garden. As a child I found one ed Model School in Edinboro. I've summer when she was four years old. hidden in the rafters in the Quirk often heard Dad tell that at a box State Senator William Sesler in a barn, caught it, put it in a bird cage to tame it until Dad saw what I had social at Gleeten School Clarence recent address at the College said, Hart and John Sauers were both in­ "Local districts whose only concern and made me release it, then gave terested in Nora's box. Dad was in keeping taxes at an absolute min- melilittle talk on the beauty ofvald auctioning off the boxes, knew the imum at the expense of quality ed­ things remaining free. Our old cat has finally brought one circumstances and worked up the ucation are depriving their citizens competition until Sauers finally got of these improved resources"should of her kittens down out of the straw it but at the unheard of price of bear in mind that most property mow to drink milk at the cat's dish. five dollars. That was real money owners are paying out heavily and Every morning I find a rat ortwotiat J in those days when to get it you cut ^ as much as they can stand for school she has brought in for her four kitties. All the cats have been hunting the andsplitwood for fifty centsacord. r taxes and are not feeding at the Nora Sauers lived along and busy! Fields and under the corn cribs andpublic trough where they vote life, worked hard and was always ’ themselves an increase in salary are as fat as butter. Sunday night at bedtime the ther­ ready and willing to carry her share every new session of the legislature mometer registered9 degrees above : and more of the load through life. Stan Raw son has painted, put new She was a good mother. She is sur- i siding on the back part of Lily Kline zero — no night to be sleeping in ' vived by a daughter, Eleanor, of i and Liza Ryan's Tiome. Lily is two the park. Three white frosts and then a rain! North Carolina, a son, Leon, of davs older than Dad -- she'll be Kinter Hill and several grandchild­ 91 the 7th of January. Recently at The skies in the east are red as ren and great grandchildren, two a family gathering Lily and Liza fire this morning and the barometer sisters, Sadie Harned ofLaveryRoad played a duet, Liza spoke a piece is falling — something is brewin and Ella Dawley of Erie. Her hus­ and both enjoyed themselves im- The creeks and swamps have fille up so it can winter up anytime now. band, daughter Velma and son ; mensely. ' Don and Helen Fox left Tuesday Floyd preceded her in death. Last Saturday and Sunday you ; to visit Joe and Marie Gleeton of Nora had spent some time with listened and watched as the flocks Columbiana, Ohio and returned her daughter, Eleanor, in North of wild geese filled the skies, made' i Wednesday. The four have been Carolina but wanted very much to i neighbors and friends since childa final formation after a stop over come back home and had been here about ten days bef ore passing on the lake or cove to pur sue their I hoodaway at 2:30 Saturday afternoon. flight southward. We saw one flocP ^ Esther and Bob Donhoff, of Zelienopal, cousins of Mrs.Drew Gleeten, She was laid to rest in the Edinboro land in our cornfield to feed awhile before moving on. They were fly­ ‘ are visiting here. Sunday they drove Cemetery Tuesday afternoon. i to North Tonawanda to see Mrs. Joe Gleeten was in Edinboro over ing so low as. they passed over the the week end making his round of house it seemed you could reach ^ Gleeten's new grandson. Monday out and grab one by the neck. Haunt­ J afternoon they drove out to see the visits with relatives and friends. ing and beautiful - the echo of an­ j new K-Mart. Kenneth Ryan is in room 356 at i Bob and Barbara sterrett were Hamot Hospital. He suffered a other Summer gone. home from Pittsburgh over theweek Glee Plavsitys moved from the back injury from a fall, was taken end. They live in an apartment ' to the hospital Tuesday, November r former Albert Stafford house last 9th and is in a cast from his hips to Friday and Ed Schlindweins moved I house provided by the University his shoulders, Jinx-Walker and Ethel out of the former Gleeton school- ; of Pittsburgh. Sometime last FriMcLallenwere out to see him Mon­ house and into the house vacated ' day between 1 and 4 p. m. while ^ they were both at school someone by Plavsitys on Saturday. day. ^ pried open their apartment door ard Virgil Blystone, son of Willard Myrtle Harrison has had the cast removed from her arm which was Ely stone, of Lake City was in Edin­ i stole thirty dollars. • Ed Davis of Crossingville passed ■ broken six weeks ago. She had gone ' boro Saturday on business. It’s the time of year for hoot owls j away Monday morning. He was to the shed, a bee took after her and in her attempt to get a paper to make themselves heard, and oys­ i the father of Kenneth Davis of Do you remember the big j Gleeten Hill. He operated a saw to shoo it away she fell headbng ters, mill for several yeats. When we and broke her arm. It was the first barrels of oysters in Frank Walker’s time she had ever had a broken meat market and later the Case and] I were children he lived on the farm bone or been in the hospital. Every­ Sybrant Market?You ordered aquait : now owned by Heinz Schulz. Later ( and they dipped big fat oysters from ' they lived on the old Gillaspie thing is fine now. A lot of farmers are having prob­ the barrel into a pasteboardcontainer place by the Gillaspie School House He haS been in poor health for some lems with wells that are going dry. with either a string or wire handle ' time. Our sincere sympathy to his It costs four dollars to have your and all for 35^. One afternoon last week we walk­ wife and children. ' car inspected now. Clyde Homan's son was buried on ed over on the hill in the pasture, his father'slot in the Edinboro Cem scared out a big rabbit which ran a etery Monday afternoon. Homans few feet and went into a hole. A skunk must have chosen it first for used to live on top of Gusty Hill. X; in just seconds skunk fumes started pouring out of it. I-T-' ' ■'*^1 ■ v' = -t Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell 7? November 2&, 1965 The Bernard Kingston family ate their first 1965 Thanksgiving din­ ner with Margaret's family last Sunday. "Over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we go." I hope teachers still teach that song along with the stories of ; Colonial Thanksgiving. Although ri an era long since passed it still [f lends atmosphere to one of our i best holidays and especially to children. The bid to make Edinboro Col­ lege a state university was nixed : in favor of Indiana State College.; I have yet to talk with any resi-ident of the community who isn't glad of it. It could just be that: the legislators are aware of the long record of excellent discipline: maintained at the Indiana School. Little David Eaton, five months ole, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Paul. Homer (Nina Gleeten) passed awayr Friday in Hamot Hospital. The I little fellow had never been sturdy I and doctors at the time of his (feath had not been able to determine the nature of his ailment. He was buried in the North East Cemetery. . Janet Knapp Hayes visited, her sister and family (Carl and Gwenny i Rexford)near Boston last weekend. [ ! Larry had to deliver a trailer load '■ j of meat to Boston so Janet went ; t along for the visit. Grandmother i Hayes and Grandmother Knapp took I ! turns looking after little Connie . j and Stephen while she was gone. 1 Everything for our Thanksgiving t 1 dinner except the cranberries was ; I raised on our farm and in our gar- | j den. We are mighty thankful too,! i that we are able to live and work Do you want to know where some i Jessie Nash will be with her son, I Dr. and Mrs. M. D. Sproul ate William, and wife for a few days of your federal tax money is going—i Thanksgiving dinner with Inez' and will eat her Thanksgiving din­ money that is taken out of your; niece and family of Farrell, Pa. Mae Norris ate her Thanksgiving ner there. Her son, John, and pay check every pay day and the dinner with Nancy Nisley of Mead- wife are enjoying a short vacation rest you ante over every April 15th? ; Read reports of the Job Corp centers i in Florida. ville. Pa. Mrs. Bertha Hilewick of Cam­ and Neighborhood Youth Corps as : The outfit that contracted to grade the land preparatory to new bridge Springs, formerly a resident reported in Newsweek, U. S. News i; construction for the college is of EdinlxDro vicinity, passed away and World Report or in Allen and presently working on the sight once very unexpectedly and was laid to Scott's Columns in the newspapers. Amidon’s sugar bush. It had been rest in the Edinboro Cemetery last It is a national scandal withshriver a stand of virgin maple and part Friday. When the family first (Kennedy's pet) at the head of it. of the pasture. Giles, the original moved here they lived on the Irvin Until impelled to act by the blunt settlers, in the last 1700's, Amidons Port place and Lee and Fred attend­ prodding of bi-partisan Congression­ £ and then Stafford all made maple ed Gleeten School. Later they al leaders, Shriver had minimized h syrup from those huge old trees. moved to the Arneman place and the numerous riots, demonstrations ■ Amidons kept the woods clean and then lived in the Lyt Moore house and irregularities. In one Corps i park-like. In fact, the Harvest on Meadville Street (Halmi's now). more then 40 youths were employed : Home Picnic used to be held there Lee graduated from High School who were ineligible on the basis of - I about sixty years ago. In the in Margaret's class. The children need. One, a university student, owned an expensive 1965 sports Spring the whole woods floor was have all done well. Sunday Lee called to tell us that car. Another Corps employed only a dense carpet of blossoming spring beauties. Stafford sold the timber he had sold the house and contents individuals recommended by the - about fifteen years ago and with to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mitchell Democratic machine, still another ' 'j the exception of a few old strag- and all the family would be leav­ Youth Corps included city officials, ' Aglers it was just a spot of land. ing Cambridge for a final get to­ a building contractor, liquor store ^ Smoke weed came up the first few gether in Cleveland before heading owner, vice president of a bank, a i: /£ Springs to be taken over by berry for their separate ways and homes. dentist, a doctor, three well paid Do you ever nave days when it state officials. How low will peo­ briars and then aspin. On the swamp side of the woods was a seems everything goes wrong? Sat­ ple stoop to get their hands on steep bank and there were many urday was ours and it started right some easy money? In one center springs which Margaret and I used out that way bright and early in it is costing taxpayers around to clean out each Spring to watch the morning. The motor which $22,000 per trainee. An aw fill lot of people must like the clear cold water bubble out to pumps water to the barn wouldn't things like that — they voted for feed the swamp. Some distance start. A distress call to our good neighbors and friends across the it!! out in the swamp was a high mound Velma and Russ Walker visited ^ of probably a half or three quarters fields brought Glenn around in a of an acre which we used to im- hurry. That problem was soon Asa and Eleanor Skelton in Can_ ' aginewas an Indian burying ground. solved. The weather didn't look field, Ohio, recently. Anna Marie Hage, sister of David ■; Amidons used it to bury any of very good so decided I better haul Hage on top of Gusty Hill, died in out the manure. The tractor en-: ? - their farm animals that died. It - ^ took a hot dry summer to dry out gine wouldn't turn over and with I Los Angeles, October 21. Funeral vj the swamp enough to ;hump the every grunt the battery got weaker | services will be held from the hummocks to get to the island to so I went to the phone to order a' Glunt Funeral Home, November on land we love above any other, explore. What pleasant memories! new battery. I went back to the 27. Friends may call there from that good friends, neighbors and i The bulldozers have moved in to barn to make a final try and off 10 a. m.—2 p.m. The Rev. James i relatives are only a stone's throw - ! root out rotten stumps, etc. and it went, so I called to cancel the Tipton of St. Paul's Lutheran j away, that we walk to town and .. i we were amazed at what a thin order. Later after driving part ; Church will officiate. Interment i visit with a dozen or more friends - layer of black rich top soil covered way across the field I looked back of the ashes will be in Gothenburg, before reaching home well posted and feeling the better for it. ; V the clay beneath. to see that the spreader wasn't Sweden. Anna Marie was a masseuse in V. Grace Glunt of Irwin, Pa. is vis- spreading, but I'd had that trouble We're thankful, too, that the 'doCalifornia for thirty years. She .;*;’iting her parents Thursday, Friday, before and knew what to do. gooders' the "new progressive in­ Saturday and Sunday. flux" who have hit the community Later in the afternoon when we served many movie stars, served haven't made much of a dent in Mr. and Mrs. Harry D. Glunt were in the midst of a general in World War I with the American ^ are visiting her parents in Level housecleaning with sweeper, furn­ Red Cross in England and Italy. the old town in making it over in­ Green. Harry is taking a refresher iture, dust cloths, etc. in the mid­ She was a linguist with a good to a little Pittsburgh or Cleveland, course at the Pittsburgh Institute dle of the floor, in walked David command of French, Italian etc. Did you go to the turkey party of Mortuary Science preparatory Crammond of Montreal, Canada Swedish and English. She was to taking his State Board in Phila- for a visit. David was the nephew i bom in Gothenburg and has a broth­ Saturday night? Lots of folks did and many were lucky and some delphia. of the late Sam Anderson of Tar- er, Johan, still living there. Ac­ A’Hildur Torrey called home Sun- bell Lane, often came to visit at tually their family name was very lucky. Wilford Swifts got one which will , day morning to tell the family that his uncle's home and we ha v e Johaneson — like Smith in this her sister Anne had passed away known him for forty years. We country — so while still in Sweden be served up with all the trimmings Thanksgiving Day for a family get ; Saturday evening. She will remain sat down in the mess and had a i; they petitioned the court to change together. Wilford has a goose for ' ■ in California two or three weeks good visit. It was the first timei ; it to Hage. their New Year's dinner. longer before returning home. Joe we had seen him since his uncle's Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Crandall ;/ ■ will spend the Thanksgiving week death. • 'MjsA end with his son, Rodney, and famand Mr. and Mrs. D«n Porter are yW}’ ily in Erie. He has had word that at Virgil's camp for bear hunting which season opened Monday and Major Melvin Torrey and family deer season that starts next Monday. have returned to this country from Monday: With sunshine and an ■ ; Hawaii and he is now retired from occasional dandelion in bloom and ^ army life. Melvin's wife and beautiful Indian Summer we left ' ^ children lived in Annie Goodrich's the work behind and took off for v'house some years ago while he was . 1 I away on duty. ___________ _ Walker's woods. I N t>af r; •/ - Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell 732 t December 2,1965 t'-s- "d 1 I. ■ ?4 .,. V \ Y-> '^ 4”' *y / t- f- iv* - ’4‘ i'f -3?. <- \ Laura Riley should be in her Walkers delivered a new Buick Glenn Knapp left for hunting Florida winter home by the time station wagon to the Burgetts last camp Sunday morning. Others at you read this. Her son, Alberti Saturday and it's a real beauty with that camp or one nearby are Russ Amidon, drove her car to Wash­ gadgets to squirt water over front Walker, Stub Chapin, Norm Schruers ington, D.C. where her son Donald and rear windshields to keep clear one of Bud’s boys, Kirk Sherwood, lives. She visited Don, Ilo and vision, seat belts all around and a Frank Scheidemantel, Phil Walker Tommy for two weeks. Elsie Jor-, radio. and his sons and Royce Mallory. Earl Kinter, one of the last of dan of Lakeside flew to D. C. last Mabel Blount of Crane Road has week and left Monday to drive the Kinters in this area, and until returned home from an eight weeks Laura’s car the rest of the way to recent years a resident of the Com­ stay in the hospital. She under­ Florida for her. Albert recently ers and Washington Tbwnship passed went gall bladder surgery and is flew to Los Angeles on business and away and was buried in the Edin­ now feeling much better. Blount's spent an evening with Guy Amidon. boro Cemetery last Friday. He is son Kenneth who went into the He also called his aunt Angeline survived by a son Charles Kinter, army in August was home for four­ a daughter Norma and his second from the Cleveland airport. teen days while his mother was in wife. His first wife, Donna (Thorpe) Mr. and Mrs. Donald Sauers, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Sauers and! died in 1963. Donna's mother, the hospital. He will have five family and Mr. and Mrs. GlendonI Mrs. Thorpe, used to work here days leave at Christmas time. He is going to school to learn to be an Kline and daughter ate Thanks­ for Mother when we were children auto mechanic. Reinard, the other giving dinner with the Stan Rawson and we just loved her. When she son, will complete his high school made a pie, there were tarts for family in their new home. work this thrm. Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Brown us from the left over dough and The birds have just flocked to (Lucille Pulling) were recently we always got the try cakes. She the feeders this week to fill up on traveling to Mansfield to visit their could make an extra doll out of seed and suet. daughter Martha. The other side things you’d never dream of. Mr. and Mrs. Merle Hollenbeck, Earl was the son of Charley and of Warren they were in an acci­ Mr. and Mrs. Wilba Kline, Mr. dent. Lucille received two broken Alma Sherwood Kinter and Dad and Mrs. Lloyd Free and children collar bones and he a thumb injury. often told us as we drove along the spent Thanksgiving with Hollen­ Loton Hotchkiss was married last country road that that farm was beck Is daughter, Marjorie Gigleotti, Saturday eve in his daughter Jane's one of the best in the community. and family of Erie. home. Loton operated the cream­ It always hurt him to see the build­ The John Borlands are back from ery at White's Corners many years ings fall into disrepair under sub­ ten days and an enjoyable Thanks­ ago. His deceased first wife was sequent owners. giving Holiday time with R.C.M.P. Ruth Pulljng. The walls of Music Hall greatly Sgt. Henry Neufeld and family at Mrs. Charles McLallen recently need a painting up job. The seeds their lodge on Garden Lake, Heleyb fell while trying to get out of bed of decay start right there. Station near Pembroke, Ontario, at the Grandview Hospital, cracked Joe Gleeten stopped in a minute Canada. her left pelvis bone in three places Sunday. He had been to visit with and suffered concussions. She has his niece Margaret Emma and hus­ been very poorly since. band Don Wilkins who live near The gas lines are being laid along the Fountain House at Saegerstown. the south end of Perry Lane to Don who had worked at a gas sta­ Bruce Batchelors, the cement mix tion there was hit and run down by plant and to the large beautiful an autoist while pumping gas for a field opposite Batchelor's farm, a customer. He has been in a Meadpart of the old Reeder farm and ville hospital for several weeks. owned by Jim Skelton for several Margaret Emma (Willie Gleeten's years. We understand that field is daughter) works in the office at to be laid out into building lots the College. They were former [ and offered for sale. I hope, the residents of Philadelphia. Her houses built there will be in keep­ mother was the former Maggie ing with the beauty of the land and Sauers. its sightly landscape. Hildur Torrey will stop at Rapid Paul and Lura Gleeten, Blanche City, South Dakota to spend three ■ White and Bob and Barbara Sterrett days with her son Jack and family ; spent Thanksgiving at the old fam­ on her return from the West coast.' ily homestead on Gleeten Hill with Mr. and Mrs. Grove Lewis of| Drew and Blanche Gleeten. Wesleyville attended Edinboro Don Harrison came home from Grange Saturday night and spent i the hospital November 22. Some the week end with Dr. and Mrs. " tests, a few days of rest and some Sproul. different pills did the good and Everything around here seemed Don is going about at his usual to be itching so we put crank case : pace. Harrison’s daughter, Dorothy oil and louse powder on the cattle’s i Kunkel, took their Thanksgiving backs and gave our little dog an dinner into them. She stayed with all over application of flea powder her mother while her dad was in which did the job. the hospital, Wilford, Helen, Fred Swift and' Ruth and Gus Burgett spent last two' of Fred's friends left for thefr ; ! Friday with her mother at W illow- hunting camp last Friday. Sunday creek ( a part of Bradford now)i night Raymond, his son Dennis, Mrs. Prue recently moved into her Neil Swift and John Rocco went new home and Ruth reports that it down. Larry Harned is doing chores is just lovely. We're anxious to while they are gone. i see it, too. Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell 732-7: December 9,1965 ii f [ This schedule will eliminate favoritism and the attempts of smooth maneuvering on the part of administration, individual teachers or organizations on the Board. You will also notice that' all who perform extra curricular work are very adequately compen­ sated in addition to their salaries. Albert Kovsehak of Hound Hill| is another of oiir lucky hunters. He returned home with a two hundred pound buck. Claude Zimmer is seriously ill in Hamot Hospital. I hear reports that there is to be| another laundromat in town. Two or three years ago we sent! to Montgomery Ward for two traps which we thought would be sure fire on woodchucks but no luck.'i] All fall a bunny has been feasting'] on my rose bushes — cutting themi off at the top of the ground. HiS| chewing time was my bed time so the two of us never saw each other. I knew as the snow became deep­ er his appetite would change to azalea buds, Scotch heather, blueberry bushes and Irish Junipers, and something had better be done SO we got out one of our traps to try again. We knew Mr. Bunny had established winter quarters under the stoop of the cabin. I set the trap, propped it up with a stick, tied a piece of baling twine to the chain and attached it to the door latch. Margaret and I bet a penny on the outcome and I lost the penny but caught the rabbit We still have a flower in blooma waterlily colchicum(fall crocus). It was in bud when the first snow­ fall came and when the weather broke and it warmed up a bit the bloom opened. It's shaped like a true waterlily, a pale orchid color and a welcome and cheerful sight under the protection of a hemlock tree in the back yard. We planted the bulb this fall and hope it multiplies fast. John and Helen Gallant and farrtily have moved into their lovely AdW hbfiTe on tK” (Jrane Roaa.” I imagine they'll be very happy to' decorate it and spend their first ^ Christmas in it. Complete disposition of the old Connell farm on Route 98 has fin­ ally been made. The house and garage situated on slightly more than an acre of ground has been sold to Dwight and Catherine Carl­ son. The barn, outbuildings and seventy odd acres of land have been purchased by Frank Connell, Jr. When the original Mike Connell arrived here from Ireland he pur­ chased this acreage and built small house. The farm passed from him to his son, Mike Connell. Young Mike and his wife were the parents of Joanna, Mabel, Lida, Helen, Dr. John, William B. Frank and a baby who died. With this good sized family and Grandmother Brown and Grand father Connell all living together the necessity for a new and larger house arose. The present house i was built in 1884. All the lumber Drew was bom in his Grandfatherisj lomiriy Gleeten celebrates a" house February 10, 1883, the third 94th birAday December 10. He child of Vermont and Carrie Skin­ looks fine and is in good health. Reports of Fred Fisher who was ner Gleeten. Like all the Gleetens' ; taken to the hospital last week are he attended the school on Gleeten Hill the first, years of his life,, y not encouraging. helped with the farm chores and Major Bea Case wrote to her enjoyed the social life of the neigh1 mother and dad last week telling j them about her experiences on a borhood. During World War I Drew worked •I moose hunt in Alaska. She shot ! one and wrote, " It is a real beau- in an airplane factory on Long Is­ and for many years worked I ty — nice even rack 44" across land for Avvie Hotchkiss in his lumber, I the widest spread. The end flat mUL He was a good caipenter, I part of the rack is 13" wide. It 3 would be about like an 8 point helped Charles Kirschner when he built the barn at the other placeij ? deer in age. We took off about 8:30 in a Piper built on the present kitchen and? . Cub type plane. The sun wasn't woodshed of his present home. When his parents were getting^ up yet but was light and the temold he came home to stay and g perature 0°. I had on my Artie take over the farm.* bunny boots good for 40° below In spite of serious injuries re­ zero, parka, all of my survival gear — just in case, po^ets load- ceived in blasting out an old chestnut stump in one of the fields, _ j ed with camera; bullets and a falling from a pear tree and ser­ thermos of coffee. I had Col. iously injuring his back, the burn­ Lindig's rifle — a nice . 306. We ing of the barn after being struck flew down over Tarara Flats area. during a lightning storm. Drew re-^ We spotted all kinds of moose — even saw a bull fight. There were covered and rebuilt and quietly at least 25 in one pack. Then we but persistently preceded to work and live out his life. :■ saw 2 good ones in a group of five In 1941 he married Blanche Say or six. We landed on the river — Werren and to this union two there were skis on the plane — in a sort of gully from the herd, got daughters were born. • Drew loved farming and no better out, loaded up and headed out." farmer ever lived, kept up the ^ It was then 9:30 a. m. % Her third shot dropped it, 800 lbs. land and buildings, bought and I of it. She took pictures and then sold farms and woodlots near his home, always seeking a way to ifi they dressed it out. It took* two I; trips to bring the meat out. They add to his income through hard were home by 2:30. Now that she work and good judgment and add­ 5 has passed her hunting test she ed to the joy of living. The old homestead was there to welcome ■ hopes to go black bear hunting. the family back home through the Leon Fellows and Tbny Falkowski years. Drew was truthful, honest M both shot bucks last week. and genuine to the very depths of I Edinboro is losing a good school I director as John Borland leaves the his soul and a man like him is an *■ Board. Schools today are big bus- asset to the community in any ?• iness with expenditures of millions period of history in which he lives. g} involved. Outstanding and success- He will be greatly missed by his ful business and professional men family and friends. Royce Mallory arrived home from are needed on Boards today — men the hospital Saturday afternoon. who consider the taxpayer as well % as to secure a good educational He is feeling fine but the Doctor I set up for the community. John requests that he take things easy I has worked for both. You knew for the next week. The School Board is to be con­ K his thinking was straight and any statement he made was true. He gratulated upon completing the ;j has served faithfully and well ev- General McLane salary schedule. eryone concerned, has been par- The article in last week's Sentinel pertaining to it should be read and =5 ticularly ambitious to develop a good library for both the profess digested by all the taxpayers and I sional group and the student body, citizens of the area. Contrary to I to promote and preserve integrity what some connected with the school system bemoan and would s throughout the school system. H. Drew Gleeten passed away have you believe, the teachers. I: December 1, 1965 at his home on Principals and Supervising Princi­ Gleeten Hill. He is survived by l! pal's salaries are at or above the ! his wife, Blanche, daughters Bar-p State Mandated maximum. Any bara (Mrs. Robert Sterrett), Carol-p of the afore mentioned who feel ine (Mrs. Harry Strats), Welthy their work in the school system (Mrs. Charles Martin), a sister, isn't adequately compensated arc Blanche White, two brothers, Paul at liberty to move on to greener of Edinboro and Wayne of Erie, pastures. Their worry should be nieces, nephews, cousins and many whether they are giving enough to compensate for their present many friends. salaries. ■■■,.. -...................................... .......................................!srr"44>s- '■ used in its construction was cut and sawed from the virgin timber on the farm. A man by the name of Fry was the master carpenter and as usual in those days the men of the community came to help in erecting the timbers, etc. It's a huge house with room arrangement and an upstairs hall that you would love. The kitchen is one of those large ones with a large airy pantry and lots and lots of roomy cup­ boards. Many generations ago this | whole area from Crossingville this' way was an Irish Settlement. The ^ Tobins, Connells, Kearneys, Nash- , es, Caledons are just a few of those fine old families who settled i there. They all traded at Grand-1 pa's store years and years ago. Elaine Ghering Borland is in Hamot Hospital. Her back has been giving her much pain. Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Seitz of Indianapolis, Indiana are house guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Bor­ land. Sunday they drove to Rochester, New York, had dinner and spent the day there. Monday e^ning Joe Ibney found a letter and an airplane ticket in his mailbox from his son. Jack, who lives in Rapid City, South Dakota. It sounds like Jack and i his mother had gotten their heads , together. Wednesday morning Joe left for Cleveland to take the I plane. He and Hildur will remain ' there until after Christmas and ' will then fly to Cleveland and rei main at their daughter, Joann's, until after New Years. An example of how the President i sometimes recruits key men is giv€'n by a story told about the experience of Eugene Black, re" tired president of the World Bank. Mr. Black asked President Johnson to speak at an anniversary dinner of Ae Brookings Institution. Mr. Johnson immediately replied: "Yes, sir." The questioner ap­ peared startled at the quick re­ sponse and acceptance, causing Mr. Johnson to say: "You heard me, didn't you? Now if your President ever asks you to do something I hope you will say 'Yes, sir.'" A few days later at 1 a.m., a call came to Mr. Black's home asking him to take on the job of organizing a development bank for Southeast Asia. He could only say: "Yes, sir." A policy which Dad called," Tbu scratch my back and I'll scratch yours," and not a bad policy to pursue either. The U. S. battle record in Viet­ nam speaks for itself. When the chips are down, American young­ sters are as good as they come Almost overnight they've turned into rugged, savvy soldiers, whippifag the best of the teds — a change from, early U. S. exper­ iences of past wars. Reason: For GI's at the scene, this war has deep meaning, but why do the very cream of our young men have :to die on distant battlefields when the youths of other countries are not at their side? \ gSS’:L- ^ , ■ ★ j Edinbon Wisi' ★ .J Y -> ^ ^ -y-rf ^ ^ / Carrie Goodell - ’y S&' '.'’■«Sf > ■'“ a* Yi': ^ ■/'4 "«J" 'X r *' .^'-sC ■^4' >- iz. 4 - , ....... I ~% -t,- V/ ■=] i 1,4 t-v* 1 , •: i i s. 3r r 732-7761 It’s very pleasant to drive through i These lovely warm days with the village at this season and see Lloyd Folts, a former resident of ) rain or sunshine give a fellow spring the little lighted trees. We’re en­ Franklin Township, passed away fever instead of Christmas spirit. joying the tree in front of Norman and was buried in the Edinboro Just walking through the garden or Culbertsons. It’s lighted up and Cemetery last Saturday. His first back in the woods last Sunday sets beautiful as we walk in from doing wife (deceased) was Fred Siverling^ one to planning for another year. evening chores each night. sister. His folks, the Gardy Folts, Millers and mosquitos around in the Mrs. Shelhamer, as usual, has a were married the same day as Min­ damp lush moss, nuthatches work­ ; beautiful Cliristmas decoration in nie Tarbell and Park Hostettler. ing up and down an old ash tree her front window and yard and Minnie had been born and raised in and talking constantly, a crow or Perry’s Christmas lights show from Franklin Township also but at the two changing perches in the high, across the fields. time of the marriage John Nelson bare old trees, the rich spicy odor Lots of folks are up to their ears Tarbell lived on Tarbell lane and of the hemlocks that no other tree in Christmas baking, especially owned the former David Tarbell possesses and the sound of the creek cookies. A cup of coffee and sev­ farm, long a part of our farm. swelled by melted snow and recent eral of those delicious tid bits, a A sad note: Jean Culbertson tells rains as it rushes along — it’s just piece of homemade candy and a us that last night some despicable enough to be alive and have two good visit — for what more could character who is so out of tune with good legs to take you around. anyone ask? Loma Sheets or Hil- society that he must steal to get We planted our begonia seed dur Torrey, Helen Swift or Inez what he wants, stole the lights — * saved early last fall today. Soon Sproul, Ann Ondrey or Dot Higgins, eighty of them — from their Christ­ little plants will be coming up thick Cecil Meacham or Ivaleen Glunt mas tree in the front yard. I un­ as spatter for the seed looks like and lots more revel in making derstand the outside Christmas dec­ ground cinnamon and is hard to dis­ Christmas goodies and offering orations at the Baptist manse were also stolen. Let us hope these cul­ tribute evenly. them to friends. The Baptist misister. Rev. Wil­ Mr. and Mrs. Counasse, owners prits are apprehended and disci­ cox, is leaving Edinboro for Flori­ of the former Gleeten School plined adequately. da and held a private sale of goods house, have been busy the past Ellouise Connors came up with a at the manse last Saturday after­ weeks cleaning, repairing and re-^ S beautiful bouquet of zinnias, placing in preparation for selling French marigolds and nasturtiums noon. from Bob’s greenhouse. It’s like a I guess almost e^eryone has mem­ the property. ories of past Christmas seasons that According to the weather forecast i breath of summer time and the stand out above others and always in the latest National Wildlife mag­ colors are so delicate and beautiadd to the pleasure of this best of azine: Mnter will enter in a rather ! ful. We’re enjoying them. We A*. I can just hop the fence and be in all days. The year that we were in college and taking a music mild mood this December, but i each other’s back yards in no tim© course from Esther Wilson is one grab those earmuffs in January! The First National Bank of Erie of those. The class was held in M 1 Music Hall, the first class of gives out the Farmers’ Almanac to ^ ^. "t - r' the morning. It was one of those, each of its regular patrons every "The snow had begun in the gloam­ December. A friend of ours who ing. .. And busily all the night.... receives one mails it on to us each Had been heaping field and high­ year where it is truly appreciated way. ... With a silence deep and Joe Ondrey sees to it ±at we re­ r'‘’ ^ white." It was still just falling ceive a Ford Almanac each year, from the skies to darken the day too. It is large and full of useful and Esther turned out the lights, and interesting information. played records of Christmas We visited a couple living in and told the story of each. An­ Woodcock last Saturday — fact is other year when our church was in we took two of our clocks and threei the midst of a building program for friends to be repaired. Both and services were held in the Pub­ are retired from work away from lic School auditorium we practiced i home but there the story changes. ■ 5'- * \ for the Christmas program on the \ She is busy piecing, putting to­ stage and could look out through i gether and quilting quilts for five th? east window across the snowy ^ grandchildren, working on geneovillage to home. It looked just ' logy, house plants and adding to like a Grandma Moses painting, j her collection of cats — glass, The cove and swamp with a fringe i china, wooden, composition, wooly, of bushes, the familiar houses and etc. He has collections of many little bams, the posts from chicken kinds and second to non© — atiow-> X V «.'** yard fences dotting the snowy land- heads, numismatic, clocks, stamps, ^ *■ CnI' ^. ► scape and teams and bobsleds mov- operates a saw mill if someone 'A ing up or down Waterford Street brings in some logs, has a flock left a lasting picture. The year of sheep, traps during the winter. ■4i-5ist' t. that Dad found our Christmas tree, ^ We saw pelts of one gray fox and a hemlock just covered with cones, j two reds in the woodshed. He helps and brought it home was a never J out a former employer if the need to be forgotten time. ^ arises. He is always interested in a trade of some kind. The days just aren’t long enough for these two interesting persons. The U. S. Government doesn’t have to provide recreation for these folks. 41'' ^ >L- Ac-w-l' ” THE WEEKLY SENTINEL Page Four What About Annexation? It has been stated by a resident of the Borough that he did not believe that the residents of Edinboro Borough and Washington Township real­ ize what these annexations of parts of Washington Township by the Borough of Edinboro mean. It is time that the TRUTH about these landgrabs is known by all. We wonder whether the citizens of the Borough would tolerate such action if they were made aware of the facts. As the Townships of the Second Class grow and prosper, so grows the greediness of the adjacent boroughs and cities and the unfairness of the present law becomes obvious—continued grabbing of the choicest and most valuable parts of the township piece-meal destroys the tax base of the remaining residents of the township. Piece-meal annexation or “landgrabbing” is one of the most unfair and undemocratic actions permitted in our Commonwealth. The whole­ sale taking of parcels of choice land results in crippling and hindering the future progress of those portions of the Township which are “not wanted” by the annexing body. This is exactly what is happening to Washington Township by the landgrabbing tactics practiced by the Borough of Edinboro. Let me list the number of recent annexations to the Borough of Edinboro from Washington Township to date: Date of Annexation Number of Acres 1958 18.8 1959 Approx. 3. 1960 Approx. 260. 1962 42.2 1964 61.8 Total 385.8 The Edinboro Borough Council claim they take no part in promoting these annexations but let us examine the facts. The above map is a photographic copy of the map of the 1960 annex­ ation presented to the Supervisors of Washington Township and a copy of which was filed with the petition for annexation on February 8, 1960 with the Court of Quarter Sessions of Erie County, Pennsylvania. In the fall of 1959 a petition for annexation was circulated by a former member of the Borough Council, who in 1959 built a house on Dundon Lane, and Mr. Brinks who at that time had built ten houses immediately east of K. O. Shelhamer’s house on 6N. Mr. Brinks DID NOT at that time own any land in the area, was not an Edinboro resident nor was he a resident of Erie County. Please note on the map the OUTSIDE boundary line included the area the Borough was desirous of annexing in this first petition which was circulated in the fall of 1959. This area comprised approximately 435 acres with an assessment value of approximately $134,000.00. The feeble excuse for sponsoring this petition was that they wanted Borough water for the Brinks development. Could anyone be either naive or stupid enough to believe that it would be necessary to grab an area of 435 acres to supply water to the occupants of ten dwellings only five of whom did not have adequate water? The sponsors of the petition were not successful in getting 51% of the freeholders in the area sought to be annexed, as required by present *1 law, to sign the petition so this first petition circulated in the fall of 1959 was scrapped. Who decided the boundary lines of this 435 acre area? Land owners of the Borough^ may I ask you would you like to have someone who owned no land in Edinboro and was not even a resident of Erie County include your land in such a scheme? If the Borough Council had nothing to do with prornoting this annexation, as they claim, just what business did Brinks, a resident of Crawford County, have determining the boundary lines of an area in Washington Township for the Borough of Edinboro to annex? Would you land owners in the Borough like to have the Township, if it were possible, grab each part of your territory the minute it starts to develop and grow with the resultant Ibss of taxes? Now for those of you whose heart has bled for those poor people who didn t have water and for which you have so untruthfully, unjustly and unfairly blamed and accused the Washington Township Supervisors ^ ^ ^ thing about it,” let me present the facts about this water shortage. The contractor and builder of these ten houses had shallow wells drilled and shallow well pumps installed. The summer and 11 j 1959 when this so-called water shortage occurred was au exceptionally dry season. Many of these people let the sprinklers on their lawns run for hours during this dry period. One of the freeholders who was short of water told us his well was drilled twenty-eight feet deep and the pipe extended into the water one foot. During this long, dry period when the water level dropped below the depth of the pipe would you expect to be able to get water? A deep enough well, a deep well pump and a pipe long enough to reach sufficiently far into the well would have solved the requirernents to have sufficient water. Had such been provided in the hrst place the water shortage need not have occurred. Another one of the freeholders told us, “I tried to make my well go dry. I have a year’s parantee on it and if anything is going wrong with the well, I want it to happp before the year is up so that Brinks will have to stand the cost ” Not one of the freeholders who lacked sufficient water, the contractor or the landowner who sold the lots ever approached the Washington Township Supervisors telling them of any difficulties of having o** requested that they make some provision to supply When the 51% of the required signatures could not be obtained for the hrst petition for annexation which was circulated, as required bv present law, you will note on the map the “Area To Be Annexed” was reduced m size (indicated by INSIDE heavy line) to eliminate the ob­ jectors living in the north section of the area. A second petition for annexation of the reduced area was circulated W^hS^er" the Boroup Council and Mr. Brinks (contractor and builder of tp houses m the Brinks subdivision). Please note there ^onih" this time after the wells were drilled deep sufficient water. Two of the freeholders in this area tha^ hi told them if they would sign the annexation petition change Jh Water into their house from the main line in expan^ge for their shattow well pump without cost to them One of the the comment, “That is a good deal.” He told us that oreSnte^ ternporary petition that would never be S,Wc but would be shown to the Township Supervisors. When the Supervisors saw how many signatures there were they W fmm7h Borough for them and install a wite^ Borough limits to supply water for them. Also inducing the ^eeholders to sign the petition was a member of the Edinboro Zoning Commission and a former member of the Borough Council who told them f they were in the Borough their telephone rates would be chSper an^ their fire insurance would be reduced enough to compensa'rfm tS take uuitfa reductio^i in^tsurance'^o’ com^^s^^ fo^^a 20% increase in taxes.) . fING could have been further from the truth for Brinks had s?ar*r showing this petition to the Township Supervisors to it couldwas a bribe to ^t sufficient signatures on the petition so K presented to the Borough Council for acceptance At the December meeting of the Borough Council, Brinks was present check ng to see if he had the required 51% of the signatures cnecking ough cSuLn’foTaKeptance''''^" •<> *e Edinboro Borsold the lots learned the petition he had si^ed was for annexation to the Borough (he thought he was signing a Washington immediately contacted fhe ^0''^”sh«P Supervisors requesting them to ask Brinks to Wash[ngtoi?^Townshin*^T Borough. That evening he and the three wasnmgton lownship Supervisors went to Cambridge Snrings and (whiS^Bic^T^d '^‘tbdraw his petition from the Borough Council Sun wlfhinS:orLwSp”s*per^"orf Supervisors secured permission from two land owners in the aT?a o Even though ---- _ petition for annexation is presented to a Borough Council, the Borough does NOT have to accept it. Some of the Borough Council members questioned my right to see and tried to prevent me from seeing the signatures on this annexation petition when I attended the special meeting of the Borough Council on January 18, 1960 to register our objections to being annexed to the Bor­ ough. Two of the signatures were of those who owned no land in the area and had signed without the permission of the officials of the com­ pany. Since there was an objector present at that special meeting, one of the members of Council moved the Council turn the petition over to their solicitor for further study. At the regular meeting of the Edinboro Borough Council held on January 25, 1960 the record in part reads that Mr. Haggerty made a motion that Ordinance 158 be accepted by the Borough. The motion was seconded by Mr. Walker. All present voted “aye” excepting Mr. Austin who had interests and was not permitted to vote. Ordinance 158 is an Ordinance approving the Petition for annexing to the Borough of Edinboro, a section of W^ashington Township adjacent to and adjoining the Easterly Boundary of the said Borough of Edinboro. in/:A^u hearing held at the Erie County Court House on March 29, I960 the assessment valuation of the area sought to be annexed was incor­ rectly given as $91,530.00 by the Erie County Assessment Office. Later testimony revealed that the assessed valuation of two houses in the area had been omitted from the total as well as the incorrect valuation of land ot one of the freeholders was given. The houses were built and occupied and the assessment value should have been included. Thus the assessed valuation of the area sought to be annexed instead of being $91,53000 was in excess of $102,000.00. Look again at the map. You will see that Tarbell Lane (between the Edinboro Motel and Eastern Shore Motel) is not shown. One of the Council Membtrs told the Washington Township Secretary that the northern boundary of the area sought to be annexed went only to Tarbell Lane. That was not true—the northern boundary went approximately 1450 feet BEYOND Tarbell Lane. Tarbell Lane was purposely omitted from the map to deceive how much land the Borough was attempting to grab. Had you read Ordinance No. 158 published in the Edinboro Inde­ pendent 2 times—Jan. 28 Feb. 4, I960-—you would have found that the description of the tract began NOT at a point in the center of 6N where it would be easy to determine that the area involved would go as far as 3780 feet north of 6N, etc., but INSTEAD the description began at the northeast corner of the present Borough limits. How many would know that this point is a cement marker in our field and where it is? Now look at the northeastern corner of the map at the jog—367 feet south and 820 feet east—the owner of that piece of land objected to being annexed to the Borough so that area was not included. When we ques­ tioned why this objector’s land was not included as was ours when we, too, objected the answer which was given us was that when these free­ holders purchased this land from a member of the Borough Council they were promised that this land would not be annexed by the Borough. The deed to this parcel of land was recorded in December of 1957. The socalled water shortage did not occur until the fall of 1959. If the Borough Council had nothing to do with promoting this annexation, why was Brinks at the Council Meeting to find out if he had enough signers? Just where, when he was not a resident of Erie County and owned no land in the area, did he get his information as to distances, where the Borough boundaries were (particularly the northeast corner which is in our field) and to include our land on which he would never have a chance to set his foot let alone construct any kind of building? When we contacted _ various Council Members at their homes and w^en I attended the special meeting held on J^anuary 18, 1960, voicing our objections^ to being annexed to the Borough, the first thing they told us was that it would be to our advantage to be in the Borough and have Borough sewer and water for a subdivision on our land. No plan or talk of such a desecrating thing on our land ever came from US! One of the Council Members who made this statement had lived in Edinboro but a relatively short time and had been'appointed to the Borough Council die, fn,, iuursuay, oec&xnper xo,xaDO Don’t tell me the Borough Council had nothing to do with prornoting I*-, this annexation. Note on the map in the lower right-hand corner: AREA To Be ANNEXED Scale: 1" = 400' .... 1959 BOROUGH OF EDINBORO Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell 732-7761 This map was made by a member of the Edinboro Borough Couitcil. It was this same Edinboro Borough Council which decided how much land should be included in this area to be grabbed from Washington Township. (I can tell you volumes on the subject.) Surely you don’t believe that it was necessary for the Borough to annex some 260 acres of the most valuable township land with an assessed valuation in excess of $102,000.00 to supply water to the freeholders of ten houses and lots with a combined acreage of less than five acres, half of whom had and always did have an adequate supply of water and all had an adequate water supply at this time. A statement made by a former member of the Borough Council well expresses the matter when he said the Borough had been wanting to get this land for a long time, the opportunity presented itself and the Borough took advantage of it. With this 1960 annexation and the previous annexations of 1958 and 1959 more than $130,000.00 of assessed valuation of valuable, choice land was lost to Washington Township, not only for tax purposes but also to hinder its development. The taxpayers of Washington Township should know that in the 1962 Lakeside annexation with an assessed valuation of $325,000.00 that in the preceding five years some $11,800.00 of Township tax money (paid by the taxpayers of Washington Township) had been expended on roads in that area. The Pennsylvania law provides that where a part of a township has been annexed by a borough or city, the township shall be paid, by such borough or city the following costs or value of improvements located within the portion of the township so annexed (1) value of all roads improved by township within five years, etc. Of this 'amount of some $11,800.00 which was expended by Washington Township, the amount they received from the Borough was $1,500.00 and it was several months before it was paid. In this 1962 Lakeside annexation Washington Township lost the G.L.F. (now Agway) feed mill which is almost entirely supported by township farmers. The Manager of the G.L.F. did not want the Borough to include the (j.L.F. mill property in the area sought to be annexed which could easily have been excluded, not because he had anything against the Borough, but because the G.L.F. is supported by farmers and he thought that the township should have the tax revenue from it for upkeep of the township roads. The Borough refused to omit the G.L.F., grabbed it and is getting the tax revenue from it regardless of who supports it. With the annexations of 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962 and 1964 about 385 acres with an assessed valuation of $455,000.00 to taxable property has been lost by Washington Township to the Borough of Edinboro. This is in addition to the land removed from the township tax rolls for college expansion. Not satisfied with this 385 acres already annexed the Boroug'h Coun­ cil IS seeking to annex an additional 150 acres composed of two parcels— one southwest on Water Street and the other to the north of the Borough with an assessed valuation in excess of $90,000.00—this on top of what the Borough has already grabbed from Washington Township. Annexation has been a “cancerous growth” to Townships for many years and it continues to fester and spread as our Townships keep growing. The boroughs and Cities, under the guise of “expansion” or “prog­ ress, reach out and annex only those new, built-up sections in order to increase their tax bases and without providing any additional service that cannot be provided by the Townships. The elected officials of our Second Class Townships have all the necessary powers to provide whatever services or needs the taxpayers require. There is one exception the taxpayers should note. The cost of such govemm^t is much smaller in our Townships of the Second Class than in any other level of government—First Class, City or Borough! As the Townships of the Second Class grow and the adjacent bor­ oughs and cities reach out and grab them, the boroughs and cities in „««en^ of. such actions base their arguments upon the fact that they do not parucipate in landgrabbing but merely oblige residents of the town­ ships who wish to join the borough to secure certain services. This argurnent. if true, might hpe been sound years ago before the Townships had the power and authority to extend these same services but the contention screen^I'T IS^Nof^TRlfE? annexations is just so much smokeThe desires of the rnajority of freeholders in an area is only one factor to take into consideration in these annexations. There are many other factors which must be considered in establishing the “public interest.” In the case of ^r own Washington Township each of these annexa­ tions cripples the Township’s efforts to provide needed services to its entire citizenry. Each slice renders the Township less able to undertake the necessary municipal functions because of lost population and tax revenue. If Edinboro Borough is permitted to prune off each ripened section on its borders, all of Washington Township must suffer. Its resi­ dents are a part of the public and their needs must also be recognized , ^ law permitted this landgrabbing the other way around and the I ownship Supervisors were of the stripe to be a party to such, the Boroughs W9uld howl to the heavens if the Townships attempted to take sorne of their choicest, most valuable land and they would have everv right to howl. D minute some part of the Township begins to develop the Borough IS right there ready to grab it. It is as unjust and unfair for the Borough to grab the land from the Township as it would be for the TownBorough, if it were possible Would you in the Borough like to have someone include YOUR land in an annexation scheme—and have freeholders sign such a petition some of whom, when they signed, had an equity so small that it would be from to twenty-five years before the property belongs to them? Two clamored loudest and hardest to get into the Borough have already moved on to greener pastures. Edinboro officialdom depend on the township residents to keep ill business. They want the rural business but stab the townshin "Sc Merry Christmas and Happy New Recently Wilford Swift bought a Year!! goose which was named Lucifer. Erie County is losing one of the Last Saturday evening it persisted best judges it ever had as Judge in sitting under one of the heifers. Burton R Laub leaves to become Wilford, greatly concerned, hur­ dean of law at Dickinson College's ried to the house for a flashlight School of Law. No young law stu­ and returned half expecting to find dent can help but become a better his goose sick or dead. Instead he lawyer or a finer man from having found Lucifer very much up and contact with him. alive and a goose egg. Now she Last Saturday evening our little honks to the name of Lucy village was almost too beautiful John Nash came out December as the big snow flakes fell thickly 20 to get his mother, Mrs. Jessie from the heavens and muted the Nash, and take her to Erie to spenc^ Christmas lights of homes, the the holidays decorations across the Diamond and Mrs. Jennie Dunton of Tabor's" the tree there. The stores were Comers had all of her family back never prettier or more inviting. home for Christmas except Howard The Church decorations were so and his family who were unable to lovely. be ±ere — John and Phyllis Offner Heinz Schulz has been selling and their three daughters, Helen timber which is being skidded out Dietrich and her two children and through Perry's pasture and loaded Blair and Betty. It was the first by the buyers on Perry Lane. time the Offners had been able to With all the exciting things hap­ be home for Christmas in several pening as they are mday how can years. anyone say, "I don't take a mag­ Christmas programs like the one azine or buy a book — don't have given by Bell Tfelephone Hour Sun­ time to read. ” day night add to the beauty and The young mother, Alice Kellar, wonderfulness of Christmas. who was murdered in her Butler Doris and Lawrence Chapin held home recently was the daughter of Christmas open house for Aunt Margaret Ibbin Lenhart and grand­ Maude's family the 'Monday after.' daughter of the late Jim and Jennie A note from Clint and Marjory Tobin of Crossingville. Her aunt Owen tells us that their oldest son< was Mrs. Earl (Theresa Tobin) Dun- Dick, was killed while walking don of Erie. : Evelyn McCombs flew to Las home from work early Thanksgi ;Vegas last Friday to spend the ing morning. He leaves a Christmas holidays with her broth­ and two young sons. Shirley, their er, Walter LeSuer, and family who daughter, lives in Orlando, Florida live there. and has two girls and a boy. The Allen and Helen Rye left for Owen families owned the former Florida last week. Port farm and Clint was a wlunteer Emma Swift Holes celebrated a fireman. They sold the farm to ; 90th birthday December 23rd. The Wm. Malutich and moved to Ari last of a family of eight children, zonshe has lived in Erie since sis------ the — — John Borlands are back in their ters sold the old family farm to- Edinboro home for the holidays after Keith Woods. Shp. She is is vprv very remark­ r^m orU-i an an eastern trip -- Mikki says; "Not able — still drives her car to get news. Just our regular monthly trek"! to her hairdressers, to go to the (to the directors meeting, of Co-Opgrocery store and to Church or to erative Industries, Inc. 7 They did come to Edinboro and lives alone. have an added interest - the mar­ Her dark eyes still have that sparkle riage of the daughter of the viceHenry Albright will be 90 years president of the company — Virgin* old on the same day, too. ia Dunn. She is now Mrs. Dave KepMae Norris will be 87 years old pel. The marriage took place in the Christmas day. She will spend Presbyterian Church in Mountain* C^istmas eye and Christmas day^^side. New Jersey and the couple will with her brother and wife, MarshalLlbe living in Phoenix, Arizona and Inez Sproul. On Christmas day jL^ the folks from Farrell will join' them. You should drop in during' the holidays and look at the beau­ tiful Nativity scene which Inez has' made. t ■>. i"' ' , X ■ m Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell -X, ■K' 732-7761 , January 6,1966 Tv fi-; /o.. ■» , - ^ V r;--'- •X4' ■'Tt:.. *V *-Jl^ . *■' ' The Fred Case family spent Work is progressing on the build­ ! Well another year has started. I Christmas with his Mother and Dad.j ing in the Hollow that will house wonder what it will bring forth. Mrs. Case called Beatrice in Alas-| the new laundromat. I understand After reading the articles appearka and the whole family had a an addition is to be built on the I ing in print and particularly the chance to talk to her and help ease rear of the restaurant, also. i "U. S. Protestantism: Time for a the ache of not being home with Mrs. Georgia Borland was the i Second Reformation" as appeared guest Christmas day of her brother ’ in the January Third issue of News­ them. Don and Margaret Porter left for and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pratt week you are jarred into realiza­ their winter home in Arizona De­ of Lawrence Park. tion of how the world is changing cember 15 and arrived to spend Every one was home for Christmas just in one’s own lifetime. Just Christmas there. ! how much change do you want to at Kiehls and Ondreys. Paul and Lura Gleeten of Edinboro Harry Jennessof Washington,DC., E accept? Can people be wiser, hapand Blanche White of Waterford but onpe a resident of Franklin pier, stronger for it or can we desspent Christmas day with their Center, passed away recently. j troy ourselves? Men search for the niece and family, Mr. and Mrs. Mr. Joseph Ondrey, Vocational 3 answer but can they ever really Chester Russell. Agriculture instructor, will leave 5 know? Word has been received here that with the following boys, Tom OsDon Amidon has been ordered to terberg, Terry Harrison, Fred Swift, Vietnam. Don is in the Medical Jim Farley, Gary Lewis, Greg Corps. Ilo and Tommy will go to Culbertson and Richard Soltis on Florida to stay with Don’s mother, January 10 for the Pennsylvania Laura Riley. Farm Show in Harrisburg. They Paul and Lura Gleeten left the will "do the Farm Show" and see morning of December 30th for the Police exhibition on Tuesday. Texas where they will spend the Wednesday they will visit the Herwinter. shey chocolate factory and attend Have you noticed the crowds of the F. F. A. convention. They’ll youngsters skating on the Cove dur­ return home Thursday, the 13th. ing the holidays? Seems like old It will be a wonderful experience times. for the boys. Victor and Luella McGahen left This year made two green Christ­ for Florida the first of the week. mases in a row for Edinboro. Last Friday we walked across Several little boys around the Aunt Maude's field and into the village are trapping just like little . former Stafford pasture (the swampy boys have been doing here for the i part). We heard a peeper just like last hundred years. I hope they 1 in early spring, have some luck and all get a chance i Leslie Howard passed away in the to earn some money. I Meadville hospital last Friday. He This warm weather has brought i was the husband of the former Rubyi; out the color in the Willows, the Brown of Waterford Street. Theyj buds are swollen on the cherry trees lived in Hadley, Pa. Margaret was I and the soft maple back of the showing Ruby cemetery lots that i house. Even some of the daffodils were available and mentioned that j are peeking through the ground. there was one next to Marlin Allen’s Agway is giving its yearly dinner lot. Ruby said, "Marlin A lien? for its members at Grange Hall Marlin introduced my husband to January 12 th. me." and decided that that was Bob Gossman who has been workthe exact lot she wanted. mg at the Agway Feed Mill has elate Baker was in town last Fri­ been transferred to Centerville as day. Bakers celebrated their 55th’ manager. Monday, December 27, wedding anniversary December 24. was his first day there. He was Charley Me La liens have had a well liked and will be missed here. new gas furnace installed and at | The seed catalogues are begin­ last on December 22nd the gas wasE ning to come “ now for a good turned on and they are mighty hap-j stormy night to curl up in a chair py — especially Frances Ellicott. | with an apple, a pencil and the I bought one of their stoves. [ Mrs. Cynthia Pruespent Christmas! catalogues. The \villow bushes and thorn trees with her daughter and family, the; along the creek in what used to be C.A. Burgetts. She will stay on! Harrow's pasture have all been re­ for a while before returning to herp moved. A new course has been home in Bradford. | man made for the creek from Per­ Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Torrey re-j; ry's pasture to meet the first creek turned home last Friday eve. They; mentioned. It certainly changes rode down from Cleveland with[; the complexion of the spot. Late Carl Gifford who with his family p I comers to the community can nevnow live in an apartment in thet; ; er picture the once beautiful pasBill Ekelund house on Gibson Hill" ; ture and large dairy of the finest Road. ' Jersey cattle grazing so contentedMrs. Rye Rhodes, the 93 year oldf; ..._______ ___ ______ aunt of Bruce Batchelor and Grace gyMiller, passed away last week. r. 3' _____ ,Xs*K'‘ -Xik* v-f'f*"x* f'X ★ Edinboro Wise * Carrie Goodell 732-7761 Already it seems one can see a soon will be. Walkers have two difference in the length of the days feeders that are attached to the and as usual — when the days be­ kitchen window that are very pop­ gin to leiigthen the cold begins to ular with the birds and humans, too We make sweetened corn meal strengthen. and suet cakes which we put be­ The migration to the southlands tween pieces of hardware cloth and continues. Royce Mallorys and Russ Walkers left for Florida on hang on a tree limb. The chicka­ dees and nuthatches can eat. it faster Thursday and Saturday morning Paul and Mary Woods and Ernie and than we can make it. They’re mighty partial to suet and seed Cecil Meacham left for a three week’s trip. Mary has a brother cakes, also. Mrs. George Walters is now in and sister living there, one on the Hamot Hospital in preparation for Gulf side and tfie other on the At­ open heart surgery late this week. lantic side whom they’ll be visiting. Glenn Knapp and Frank ScheideLast Sunday would have been mantelare taking in'the Pennsylvania Dad's 91st birthday. Aunt Maude Farm show this week. ate dinner with us. Ray Sanders is driving a nifty new We are sorry to report that Helen Fox fell Sunday and broke bones in Jeep. Sylvia Skelton is in Lebanon, Pa. her ankle. She was moved to St helping care for her brother, Carl Vincent Hospital by ambulance Whipple, who is ill and recently where she is undergoing tests and treatment. Her brother, Don, and returned from the hospital. The former Jennie Cummings Elizabeth Gardner went out to see wrote friends at Christmas time her Monday. Avis Mukina is working in the that she had had two cataract oper­ ations and that the second one was office at Agway Petroleum. Joe Gleeten left for Florida Jan successful. She can still drive her uary 4th. car. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Conner of Erie Mrs. Bruce Batchelor successfully who are celebrating a golden wed underwent surgery last week but a few hours later was stricken with a ding were both former residents of stroke. Latest reports indicate that this area The John Conner family lived on she is showing some improvement. She is in Doctor’s Osteopathic Hos­ the Mark Drake farm (Lee Hayes) while living here. ter they pital in Erie. Jack Lovett is ill in Hamot Hos­ moved to the Austin farm and were there several years. Earl’s mother pital. was a sister to Phoebe Kline and Charlie Kirschner sent a veal calf to market last Monday that wasone Mrs. Pontius. His wife was a Lyauty of the nicest I’ve ever seen. It was girl and her parents lived on the a Brown Swiss, six weeks old Irvin McGahen farm more than weighed 210 pounds and brought thirty years ago. Before Earl was married he worked for Dad here on 33 cents a pound. There will be lot of good chops there and the fel the farm. Larry Wellmans are having an low who eats it will really pay for addition built on. to the east side -it:---------------------Shareholders’ meeting of the First of their home. Jinx and Mildred Walker left for National Bank will be held the af­ Florida Wednesday morning. ternoon of January 25. What a refreshing and pleasant The Town and Country Garden sight to see the four gracious, cul­ Club held its January meeting at the home of Evelyn Walker last tured, intelligent young college Tuesday evening. The subject for girls who appeared on the General the meeting was feeding and get Electric sponsored College Bowl ting acquainted with the birds that program Sunday evening. These are native to our winters. Several young ladies are, indeed, a credit of the members are already feeders to their parents, their college and and watchers and I think the rest to American womanhood. . ★ Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell '■ 732-' January 20.l9fifi Tienr Billings owned the farm east of ours the field along the road was used as pasture and had many white pine and maple stumps in it. As for centuries farm fathers told their little boys and girls that little calves came from behind a stump. Wilbur told me that he and the Amidon and Dundon boys had watched one big stump alTsummer long to find a baby calf. Margaret and I watched the stumps in our pasture with no more luck. Wilbur like Dad retained the cus­ tom of tipping his hat and saying, "Good day," upon leaving one's house — good manners that made them stand out from the crowd. One year when Wilbur rented land of Dad for potatoes and came to pay the rent after the crop had been harvested and sold, he said to Dad, "Well, Todd, if I hold by bigness this year I'm going to be out of debt — I'm going to payoff Uncle Arch and it will be the first time in forty years I haven't had to pay him interest." By that time Lakeside development was looking up and Wilbur prospered. He went to High School under Uncle Ned and was one of the group of men and women to get together every year to celebrate the event. He was graduated from Edinboro Normal School in 1900 and taught school two years to make his di­ ploma permanent before going into the coal business with his father. In 1904 he was married to Mabel Cassidy. Three children were born. Joanna who died at the time of the flu in 1918, Jane and Robert, f Mabel passed away in 1930 and in 1932 he married Ann Hanson who survives him and is a patient at San Rosario Home in Cambridge Springs. As long ago as I can remember he was Superintendent of the Pres­ byterian Sunday School and I can remember the Sunday he announced; the number of years he had held' that position and thought it was t time somebody else had a chance [ at it. Velma Austin, Helen Dun­ don and Mrs. Henry were church organists and EffieWade was pian­ ist. Reports of Gladys Batchelor are "Committee members estimated very encouraging. May they con­ the first remodeling phase will be tinue. completed by summer of 1965, Maurice Kline is in Hamot Hos­ and then work on a coordinated pital for surgery. planting program and additional Frank and Miriam Pulling had a off-street parking will begin. As telephone installed for his Mother a bonus for hard work, the spirit and Father recently. has never been higher among the The young Billings boy of Girard businessmen!" who was killed in Vietnam recently I noticed by last week's Erie paper was the grandson of Ralph Billings that Union City had fallen for the (brother of IVilbur) and great grand­ government lure — hook, line and son of Vern Billings. sinker. In these days when the pat answer Several of our local businesses as to all our problems is "Let Uncle well as the bank have gone about Sam do it for you", it is refreshing improvements on their own. The to read of townspeople who meet' new front on the Proud Printery is their own problems and do not go, a good example. cup in hand, to a Washing ton Donald Mosier, son of Ruth and agency. the late Reuben Mosier, received "Urban renewal with no fees to his draft notice last Wednesday, consultants, no tax dollars from his 19th birthday. Donald works Doylestown or around the Country in Weed's Market at Waterford. to buy anyone's building, no busi­ Everyone had fun at the Summer nessman told that he must move, Gallery Square Dance Saturday no one held back from starting im­ night. It was wonderful to see and provements by endless paperwork — this is the Doyestown Plan for hear Milton Culbertson play the Self Help Renewal known as Oper­ fiddle again. Bill Culbertson, as ation 64. usual, proved to be the best caller "Doylestown's business commun­ in the area. The musicians who ity, which a year ago spurned a gave their time and talent to the chance to get $500, 000 in Federal benefit also gave enthusiasm and aid for urban renewal, launched a in the real country; beat to the project aimed to improve, beauti­ dance. There was a real good fy and restore some of the town's crowd. lost charm and attractiveness. Wilbur Billings, age 84, passed _The committee of bankers and away Monday, January 17, 1966, 4 business leaders termed their work after an extended illness. ' He was y Operation 64 — local talent pooled born March 19, 1881 in the house M voluntarily to solve local problems. now occupied by K. O. Shelhamer. Committee members visited Wilbur and his sister, Blanche, Ligonier, Hollidaysburg and Car- were both born there. His father ' lisle for consultation with their and mother, Vern and Jennie Irish town leaders. Then, pictures were Billings, had bought the farm from taken of every business place in John Proudfit. Grandpa and Grand­ downtown Doylestown — over 140 ma Goodell had a baby girl born ^ photographs. These were distrib- the same day but their baby died Cv uted among local architects for shortly after birth. We have a pic­ their suggestions with attention ture of Wilbur and Blanche when given to clearing away clutter, they lived there. ^ co-ordinating colors and adding Shortly before Ralph Billings was ‘I plantings. A local commercial born his father traded the farm to I artist then prepared color sketches John Nelson Tarbell (Rubie Baker's Wilbur was really the first farm'er I of twelve downtown blocks which grandfather) for the house and lot iwere displayed above the photos in Edinboro long owned and known around here to raise potatoes on a j of the existing store fronts. as the A. B. Austin house on Erie large acreage. Most farmers still raised their own patch of potatoes "At the first general pub lie meet- Street. I ing in June, thirty-six merchants Later Billings bought the Bartram and Wilbur's sprayer stopped by at ^signed up in the first ten minutes farm west of Edinboro. He and nearly every farm after it became tafter the plans were announced. Charley Dundon had both been obvious that to have a crop they ^and local talents were made avail- dickering for it for fifteen hundred had to be sprayed. He had served on the Volunteer ) able to all. dollars but while Charley and his . "The banks pledged low interest wife were trying to make up their Fire Department, the Edinboro loans and the Nature Club presented minds (they wanted to buy it for School Board, the Edinboro Ceme­ a comprehensive report on proposed one thousand dollars) Billings tery Board, was a Mason, an Odd The very next day, the grabbed it. The family lived there Fellow, a Rotarian and a Granger. He put in the present dam by the ( first loan was arranged, and work for several years. Dad always told « began!! Several major interior us that Wilbur had to work very old grist mill in 1909. Wilbur will be missed by his fam­ and exterior renovations have re­ hard as a youngster. ily, his friends. One more link of sulted — buildings which had not old Edinboro is gone — no more been painted for many years, are can we go to him with questions now shining like new, and plans and get answers. The book is are being discussed up and down closed. the business streets to complete the pledge card in their windows which read *We Are in Operation 64'. >1 Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell 73? .January 27,1966 =iPU Last Wednesday a deer was walk­ Word was received by memb^re ing around in Don Cornell's back of the family that ClarenceMcyard. I understand others in that Lallen passed away last Saturday. end of town also saw it in their Clarence who was 78 was the son yards. of Winfield and Ida Fellows McA great many people in this area Lallen and was born on the farm will read with sadness of Mrs. Iva now owned by Ward Billings. He, Rhode's passing. The Rhodes fam­ his brother Charles, and his sisters ily owned the property on East Ruth and Winifred all attended the Normal Street which they sold to Cummings School. Dad was their Clarence Jackson and in recent teacher, in fact, their father. Winyears was purchased by Chet Slod-, owick. Rhodes operated a grocery tield McLallen, was a member of store on the corner. He was Justice the Washington Township School of the Peace with offices upstairs Board 75 years ago and gave Dad in the building. his first school. Clarence had not Mrs. Rhodes taught Art in High been well for a longtime, his heart School at least forty years ago. and eyesight were both bad. He Classes were held upstairs in the died in a diabetic coma. rooms next to Ben Baker's house in His first wife and the mother of Music Hall. A lot of youngsters his three children was Mary May did pictures in pastels and charcoal Carr of Bennettown. She died that are still hanging in homes. February 13, 1938. For many years The Toohey family lived upstairs they lived on the old Church farm in the house (Mrs. Toohey and Mrs. on Ameman Road. In 1952 his son Rhodes were sisters) for several Milton (Corky) died in Vasalia, years. Rhodes also kept students California of a heart ailment. through the years. Corky had become a very success Mrs. Rhodes told us that when ful school administrator there. Mr. Rhodes went out dating he al­ Clarence had at different times ways took several girls along and worked here for Dad during haying they called him Brigham Young. season. He was a very large man and the More than twenty years ago he children, Mary and Harry, both married again and had resided in took after him. Mrs. Rhodes was North Scituate, Rhode Island since a small person, very energetic then. Two daughters, Etta May with endless interests and a house and Alice and his wife survive him. full of beautiful paintings which He was buried in North Scituate. she had done through the years. Mrs. Anna Burawa, age 73, of Ray Kingsley has shown continued McLallen's Corners passed away improvement since his recent at­ suddenly at her home Sunday after tack and more heartening reports an extended illness. She was a are now coming from Helen Fox. member of the McLallen's Corners Pearl Miller was removed to St. Church. She with the help of her Vincent Hospital after being found son, Jim, had operated the farm in an unconscious condition a week (the old McClafferty farm) since laa^Stmday morning..... _ _ her husband's death in 1929. She Mrs. Drew Gleeten returned home loved her farm, her farm animals, Saturday evening after a seven her garden and her flowers and was week visit with her daughter Carol­ able to look after them to the very ine and husband in Maryland. end. She enjoyed farm sales and Gleeton Hill never looked so good her son Jim and daughter Helen and as far as Blanche is concerned saw to it that she was able to go to there is no desire to ever leave it them when she was able. again. There was a slight delay Four sons, Paul, Stanley, James on their way home when icy pave­ and Joseph, a daughter, H e len ments brought about a brush with a (Mrs. Nelson Stafford) and five telephone pole. It was nothing grandchildren survive. She was serious, no one was hurt and there buried in the Mitchell Cemetery was much for which to be thankful. Wednesday afternoon. Caroline and Harry will be staying until the last of the week. Barbara and Bob Sterrett had arrived Satur­ day morning, had the water turned on, a fire in the furnace and kitchen stove so the house was warm and welcoming. There's just no place like home!! V -A.- if t ‘j. 'C 'l'' ' ,c?. I W'.- -y- ' ' *■ y s’’’ J'g ^ 'y 732-77e , February 3,1966 Carrie Goodell Charlene and Ed purcnased the Sylvia Skelton is helping care for Everything goes along smoothly, her older brother Ray, a veterinar-i former Hank Babbitt house on Gusty man thinks he is invincible, he ian, of Lebanon, Pa. instead of her Hill and have worked hard until it has computers at his command,etc. younger brother Carl as mentioned, has been remodeled inside and re­ etc., but when Mother Nature in an earlier issue. sided outside to make a pleasant, kicks up her heels like last Sunday Faye Knapp was out of school two comfortable home for them and^ and Monday she brings us all to days last week with a sore foot. A their family. I hope their new. heel. shot from the doctor, salts baths venture will be a very successful■ We really have drifts and the and Knapp’s linament brought about one. ; Wednesday is Ground Hog Day — ^ biggest one is between the house a complete cure. and barn. Most of the time Sun­ Paul Woods and Ernie Meachams half your corn and half your hay. day we couldn’t even see the bams returned Friday evening from a The new Farm Journal came last from blowing snow but we love a very pleasant three week’s trip to week and the weather forecast for ___ ^ rm -I .1_______ XAo*«y-*Vi -ic •finr onH lAfOl* t'VirrMirTn — storm like this. You're glad there Florida. While there they visited March is for mild and wet through­ is plenty of coal in the coal shed, with Bus and Jinx Walkers, Helen out the month. Time will tell! that you have that extra supply of wood piled on the back step, that and Allen Rye and Royce Mallorys the oil lamp is filled and ready — On one interesting side tour a talk­ just in case, that the freezer and ing parrot tried to strike up a con­ cellar shelves are filled, that there versation with Ernie. is a new book on the shelf to be The six weeks old baby girl of read, that there is a new grist in Mr. and Mrs. Jerry McLaughlin the barn. Then we decide to make passed away Sunday morning. A a batch of cookies and pop a pan little life scarcely begun. The of corn. It’s good, too, to look sincere sympathy of the community out the windows from all sides of goes to these young parents. the house to watch the storm and On our very snowy, blowy, cold then when bedtime arrives to crawl Sunday Dr. and Mrs. Miller, well between wool blankets and a deep bundled for the weather, were seen feather bed and wool filled quilts. walking briskly along the village Let the-winds howl, the snow drift streets and enjoying it. It’s the — it’s wonderful! best health insurance I know of — There is a new little Democrat stimulates the* circulation and on Erie Street. A baby boy was blows off a few cobwebs Margaret born to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wozniak and I tell each other when we start last week. out. Helen Fox is now at San Rosario Have you seen any brown creep­ ers at your feeder? Don Cornell in Cambridge Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Tarbell are reported seeing one Thursday and Saturday several showed up here. spending part of the winter in Fort They like suet. From the foot of Myers, Florida. Jesse is doing a tree to the top, the brown creep­ some fishing. Bea has two sisters er crawls, scanning every crevice living there. The new building going up be­ in the bark for larvae or gmbs. It usually ascends a tree it has chos­ tween the new restaurant and Mrs. en, creeping its way up in a spiral. Scott McLallen’s house in the hol­ Its long, slender, curved bill makes low will house an automatic dry it possible for the little bird to re­ cleaning business with Teddy Miller ^ move insects and their eggs from as proprietor. Ted was graduated from Edinboro High School and the crevices in the bark. Pearl Gross Miller passed away lived with theBurgett family while Saturday evening and is to be buried attending school here. The other beside her brother Burnie in the side of the building will house a New Cemetery. Pearl lived her new laundromat owned and operat life as she wanted to. She was j ed by Ed and Charlene Mientkiewicz. , a loyal sister to Burnie and provid-j The machines are now being in-i ed a home for any stray cat or dog ! stalled. There will be eighteeni . that showed up at her door. For? washers — two will hold 20 poundf;;!’^ the last three months that Pearl i loads, four will hold 15 pound »■ : 'i lived Gene and Lorna Sheets have loads and twelve will handle 12 looked after her. It was not an pound loads. There will be six easy or pleasant task and is surely dryers. one of the truest instances of living A lounge area in front will pro­ one’s religion that has ever been vide convenience and comfort fori practiced in our town. God bless the patrons. The businesses expect to be in op­ both of them. Pearl had been born at the top of Cummings Hill and eration by February 25 but keep Gene’s father at the foot of the your eyes open — it might just be hill and the families had been sooner if weather and other condi neighbors many, many years ago. tions cooperate 3?A ' ■ ^ i “V. -' ' V V. *•-> ''*» ^ ’i '~ i> a'r' -*??«-' x: CX*- -i Edinboro Wise ^ ^^'7®****^ if-^ V V V. :i, - r I '44 t'*'- ’•P Erie, Pa., Thursday, February 10,1966 ★ Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell ri-L - ^ / i-^15? 'v: ..sJ'S^. - ■ ;■ ' .•-« / .rk/.;- ~ '.."r^'-i yix .^-- --'i' . C-r--:-'I*~ ’”»^ '•^>*-~ * '"T t. ’'i s;«^«-ri^ ' 'f r f^ *" ^ -’5 ~."ii~ -*i ^ ' 5; -c>'' /■^ ' "■■ '^~ • *•-"' ^^ *■-'-- - % - ' 'y~'-Hc'^~ 4-v-f 4--J’/ .- ^ ^ j r- P - -^-y."- f " •^- — i* ^ ^ '^ "f . -v''* i '^'y‘ ^ 3> , ^«T - ^.' «* :'5l-* v>« V,.v.,"'• *’5. 7'j^:j" -. •; '^■-;>;t;K. i V-f "-r'Vi^l f'1 4 ”% „-v 4^ Jt- , - 4- 7T'~. ''' -V»-'4 -)C ' >"i'T ..r'k -- . t. ' ^ ' ' 4 >X / ^ V- - '*-' ' ‘ ■* V’ ’ ' '■^i '_'' ‘ v“ t-; /- - ^ ^ '~ 7 ~vn ^- -J' , '-^.‘4'^: ~ _ -U ''4r-<~„^v‘ :.,-7"-'- • ■>-.-7'-yi--r’-> ' v> 5;-v.* '-- '^.f^. v.~- 4^.--•<■' ’-/...-« './y ' 'l|i:& '‘^' * ,i ', - -ts ,« - - --7c - „ Neil and Raymond Swift were in Mr. and Mrs. Gary Nesbitt of ElColumbiana, Ohio, over the week kton, Michigan, welcomed an 8end visiting their mother who is in pound baby boy Saturday eve. He poor health. has been named Tracy Vaughn. Ellouise Connors and her mother Gary's mother Linnie will be on hand expect to arrive home Thursday from, to take care of the two older boys, their wonderful vacation trip. Ann Garyandjeff, untiljean arrives home Ondrey has been helping out with with the baby. Tracy's other grand­ the Connors little folks while El­ ma is Mrs. Eugenia Storchof Maple louise has been gone. Drive. Mike Burgett is doing his student John and Joan (Eicher) Zeitler of teaching in the Albion Schools this Erie welcomed an 8 lb. 4 1/2 oz. son, semester. Elichard Scot^ Sunday morning. Baby From all reports, I would think Zeitler is the grandson of Mr. and Frances and Helen Burchfield are en­ Mrs. Ted Eicher (Hazel Everwine) joying the winter in Florida. They of Erie. He has two little sisters at have driven over to visit Doucettes, home. Mildred Walker, Opal and Scott The will of Wilbur Billings was Beckman and frequently see Maude filed for probate in County Court Howard. There are lots of church Thursday, February 3. The follow­ dinners and suppers put on there and ing charities were left $1,000 each; they thoroughly enjoy them. First United Presbyterian Church of Two sons of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Edinboro for furtherance of the Campbell are serving in the war church musical program; the Baptist area. Lewis, their second son, and Church of Edinboro, Edinboro Methmarriedtothefotmer Shirley ater-j Church, Edinboro Advent berg, is with the First DivisionMar- i chujch. Episcopal Church of Edinines at Da Nang, Vietnam. Lewis boro. Masonic Oasis Lodge of Edin­ who made Army life his career has boro No. 416 building fund, to the been in the Marine Corps for four­ lodge itself, to I OOF 510 of Edinboro, teen years. Shirley who is with her to the Volunteer Department and to parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Oster- the Women'sAuxiliary of the Edin­ berg, sent him a camera and he is boro Volunteer Fire Department. sending pictures home to the family. ^ The will leaves $2,000 to the stu­ George, a younger son and in the Army, who had been stationed at dent loan fund of Edinboro State Col­ Okinawa, was sent to Hawaii in Jan­ lege. He left $3,000 to the Borough uary for additional training and will of Edinboro with the stipulation that it be known as the C. Wilbur Billings be sent to Vietnam in April. Nellie Mathewson has not been in Trust Fund. This trust is to be invest­ good health since New Years. We ed so as to draw interest and is to be used for general borough improve­ certainly hope she improves. Charlie Pettit, 80, passed away ! ments. Also, $2, 000 is left to the Edin­ last week. Jennie Kline, 91, a sister of Jap, boro Cemetery Association. The probate filing listed the will Claude and Norm Kline passed aw^ last week. She was the last of the as having a personal property value and had been ailing for some in excess of $30, 000. It also lists time. Nephews and nieces living in Billings house and lot and a total of this vicinity are Eva Hall, Esther 100 acres of other land in Erie and Hollenbeck June Pifer, Elizabeth Crawford Counties. The inheritance, in excess of the Sauers, Maurice Kline and Wilbe $18, 000 for charity, is divided eKline. Lennie Range, 77, a former Wash­ qually between his wife, AnneG.H. ington Township resident also passed Billings, a son, James Robert Billings away last week in Mill Village. He both of Edinboro, and a daughter, had been married to a daughter of Mrs. Jane Elizabeth Manross of Sam Patten who for several years Willoughby, Ohio. Bill Wagner, Manager of our local lived on the Austin farm and worked for Uncle Charley andA.B. Austin. Agway since August 1955, has ac­ When Ranges lived here they resided cepted another position with Agway in the house recently bought by Jock at Somerset, Pa. This will be a dif­ Davis. Two daughters, Norma and ferent type of operation, the same as the new one at Meadville. There Isabelle, attended the Gleeten School. are only three of these plants oper­ Mr. and Mrs. Gusty Everwine be­ ating in the Agway organization as came great grandparents last Satur­ it represents a new phase of the day evening and again Sunday mor­ Company's efforts to serve the farm­ ning. ing communities. Somerset is the county seat of Somerset County, near the West Vir­ ginia border and the center of a predominantly agricultural area. |This plant will serve four counties. 4t will handle heavy hardware, and 'provide technical service for its 'patrons. There will be no open book icredit — everything will be cash and iCarry, (a good plan anywhere) thus bringing prices down to a rock bot­ tom base. Mr. Phillip Spots of New Jersey arrived Monday to become orienta­ ted to this plahl arid' patrons under Wagner's tutelage. Wagner will be taking up his new duties tentatively by the last week of February. Bobette and the children will remain in their home here until school is out jin the spring. Billwill be home week jends. The family have taken an ac itive part in community projects, 'particularly in Boy Scouts, while jliving here. j Mrs. Drew Gleeten is staying with Mable Fisher daytimes helping care jfor Fred who is seriously ill at his Ihome. 1 I planted our tomato and pepper seeds Monday. Marshall Sproul will be doing likewise this week. I used a mixture of good black woods dirt taken up last autumn, peat moss and sand. We sent our first nursery order Monday to Interstate Nurseries for thirty pounds of rose dust and two sweet cherry trees. You can get the best deal on any kind of garden dust there of any place I know. ■v_:- X 7'- " * "’"i ’f ^ Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell ’ i Signs of spring: The phoebes 732-7'’^’ February 17,1966 Today, I understand, they are col-' • I have been back up north for over lector's items and antique hunters, The 'bleed-in' at Edinboro State College was held Tuesday, Febru­ -1 a week and I saw mosquitos in the at least those who stop here, al­ ' i ban! those warm days last week. ways inquire if we have any. We ^ Where the snow is off the daffies still have the valentines which ’m are boldly peeking through, the Janet Gillaspie, our first teacher, Christmas roses bloom, the grass. gave us on our first Valentine's Day ” looks a bright green, the crows party in the first grade. She also .• and marsh hawks sail across the gave each of us a small iced cake fields and pasture looking for a which we carried home to show mouse, the cats are hunting in the Mother and Dad before eating. fields and the tom cats are out For those folks who are clamoring calling. Some farmers have for progress and for the village and tapped sugar bushes and report good college to GROW and GROW and I runs. If you have occasion to walk get BIG, the harvest is just begin­ I 'after dark keep an eye out for ning as instanced in one of our I skunks for this is the month they stores last Saturday afternoon. ^ ;i are out traveling and a skirmish Many of the merchants and Boro' ' • with one of those is not pleasant — officials are learning and fast! 1 ;| for people anyway. As you look Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gardner of around from now on through sum­ Draketown are the new parents of mer you will notice starlings, a baby daughter born February 13. flocks of them, combing the fields The little lady weighed 6 lbs. 8 oz. and yards looking for grubs. Jap­ and has been named Mary Elizabeth anese beetle grubs are a great del­ Mrs. Gardner is the former Mary icacy for them and the only reason Sue Magor. Mary Elizabeth is Ken for any tolerance for this noisy, and Elizabeth Gardner's first great' overbearing. dirty bird. They grandchild. have every knothole in our barns ______ For those___ who've wondered — the g or trees spotted for living and nest-j deeds recorded recently from the Ig i^Ud-lLCid. . ------------------------------------------------ ' ----------ing quarters •; Attorney Wayne Gleeten has the ^ Culbertson Company to Washington I settling up of the Wilbur Billings,i J^'^uship and from Bailey to Wash>1 estate. Robert Billings is executor.! ^ugton Twp. ~ it means the Town71 John and Hazel Banko moved i officials have accepted and from their apartment to their house maintain the roads in these I farther up the hill on Tarbell Lane. : projects. I Until recently Jim Hazlett and . Blanche Amidon (Colvin) Bole is I wife have been living there but ^iucent Hospital. Last reI have left to take up his new posiwere that she is now able to I tion. The young man who replaces ■ Blanche has told Margaret •; Jim as a teacher here at the colwhen she and Aunt 4 lege will live in the apartment. M^ude would come home from Dr. Harry Earlley has been ap-!^^^°°^ (Model School) she often pointed by the Trustees as acting-^^°PP®*^ Cften Grandma or the President at the College until a gfrl had just taken salt rising new president has been selected | bread from the oven. One of them and approved. I would cut a loaf of warm bread. Repairs — new hardwood floors, j ^ud spread it with brown a new heating system and a new sugar and give each child a slice. pump — are going on in the Gar­ She said in those days brown sugar field Stafford house preparatory for was a real delicacy in many homes renters to move in this spring. and nothing ever tasted better to When Sue Stafford who had a life her. Ogdon still drives his car and lease of the property passed on, it when roads and weather permit he became the life lease property of drives out to visit her. Ken and Elizabeth Gardner called Ethel Stafford Cole. on Helen Fox Sunday. Helen is Unless you grew up in Edinboro you wouldn't know about this — able to get around on crutches and but when we were little tots and is looking much better. Dorothy before starting to school Cooper Terrell also visited Helen on SunBrothers operated a flourishing post card business. There were lots of books of sample cards. When they were obsolete Harry Cooper gave many of the books to Dad for Mar­ garet and me. Carefully removing the cards from the boo^ provided xz s". 1- p entertainment for many winter days. We kept them in a large box. The fold up valentines in those books were simply beautiful and guarded by us with a great deal of care. ary 15, in Compton gymnasium at the request of the students to show that they are behind the policy of President Johnson in Vietnam. There were approximately 50 voir unteer workers on hand to handle it. Doctors Ghering, Florek and Miller were also present. The goal of 140 pints of blood was more than met by the 160 students who pledged to give. One bloodmobile from Cleveland supplemented the one provided by the Erie Branch of the American Red Cross. This most worthwhile project initiated by the students is mighty refreshing after seeing exhibitions of whis­ kered, long haired odd balls from other campuses expounding com­ munism and burning draft cards. Congratulations! Mildred Coffman has been visit­ ing in California with her daughter Joan and little Kim since January 13. Joan is with the I. B. M. Com­ pany. The John Borlands had as dinner guests Monday night John's nephew John McFadzean and some class­ mates at Allegheny College; also niece Elaine Borland and her daugh­ ter Bonnie w/ zy " > „ V -’f-" ^ &ieJ?a^^^Thureda^jFeteuar^4j^6^ ★ Edinboro Wise * Carrie Goodell .j ; When one stops to look back on our present winter it has really been a very easy one — not too much snow, not much wind, not very much cold weather. These last few days have probably done the evergreens and new seeding on snow free fields the most damage. The sun has gotten back this way far enough that it's very warm if you are out of the wind and the plants in south windows are cer­ tainly responding to it. Hildur Torrey celebrated a birth­ day February 14 and Joe celebrates the 26th. Early Monday morning they along with Jessie Nash left with Dan Jackson for a visit in Cleveland. They returned Wed­ nesday evening. Mrs. Heinz (Trudy) Schulz flew to Washington, D. C. last Friday. She will look after baby Steven until Cathy (Mrs. Richard Osborn) comes home from the hospital with his new little sister. Fred Fisher passed away last Thursday after a long and painful illness. For several years he worked for Sheridan Kline and the family had lived in the Willie Kline house which belonged to Sheridan. His wife, Mabel, two daughters. Hazel and Marie, and several grandchildren survive. Mabel will be staying with Marie Yurchak whose {^•^\ home is farther along up the road. ' ' Mr. and Mrs. Earl Culbertson and son Jimmy attended the Federal Land Bank convention held in i Roanoke, Virginia. On the way home they stopped in Baltimore, Maryland to visit a navy buddy of Earl's. State surveyors worked last week surveying the Peny farm prepara­ tory to taking it over for additional ollege expansion. Four boys from the east side of the township recently took their army physicals. They were Carl Zimmer, Ed Yurchak, David Bab­ bit, Robert Stafford and Johnny Klakamp. Some passed and some didn't. Word has been received by Mr. and Mrs. Cleon Blount that their son Kenneth has arrived in Quinton,, Vietnam, He trained at Fort Dix, New Jersey then went to a mechan-^ ic school in Aberdeen Proving Ground and was the only one out of fifty from there to be sent to Viemam. He reports that it is very hot there, they live in tents with cement floors, there are no stores, no newspaper and have nothing to read.___________ - 732-7761 ^............. Middle Age . Kenneth is lonely and homesick Snoring Husband and would like to hear from his Piano Solo...........Evelyn McCombs friends. His address is: Colonial Waltzes Pvt. Kenneth R. Blount Presenting Gift and Efrayer............. , RAl2721184 .....................................Joe Kirschner 554 ORD APO Money tree presented by Olla Hill SF96238 Why don’t you write to the lad Blest Be the Ties that Binds........... and send him news of home and words of encouragement. The Story of Minnie's Life Last Friday evening theRebekahs of Conneautee Rebekah Lodge 324 ^ Our guest of honor tonight is held in Odd Fellows Hall an anni­ Minnie Allen Buchanan, a wellversary program in honor of Minnie known lady of Edinboro, and points; Allen Buchanan's sixty years a far and near. She is one of a family of seven Rebekah. When Buchanans first moved to girls and one boy, all living ex­ Edinboro they lived in the lower cept two sisters and the brother. part of Hattie Bilkey’s house on The two youngest sisters are twins. Erie Street. From there they One sister has just returned home moved to the upstairs rooms of the from the hospital. Minnie joined Lady Moon Rebe­ former George Goodell store build ing and operated the gas station kah Lodge of Phillipsville in 1906. and bus ticket station.. After Mr. She was the youngest member. She was married on February 13, Buchanan's death she moved to the Brown Block (Hostettlers) and lived 1909, to Ross Buchanan and they and conducted her business until lived in Union City and then Brit­ Cora Hostettler sold the building ton Run, From there they came to to the bank trustees. From there Edinboro, where Mr, Buchanan was she moved her business to Virene employed by the trolley car com­ and Melvin Jone's building across pany until trolley cars were discon­ tinued. Buses then took over trans­ the street. What nicer tribute could be giv­ portation and Minnie and Ross op­ en to a genuine as genuine could erated the bus station where Cul­ bertson’s Gas Station is now. At ever be person who came to Edin­ this time, they gave up their home boro and accepted it for all its on Erie Street and moved to the worth, was just happy and satisfied bus station. It was at this time, to call it home. that they donated their piano to Minnie received many lovely the I. O. O. F. This is the piano gifts — a lovely Rebekah charm that is now in the dining room. bracelet, an orchid corsage,a In the year 1919, Minnie trans­ money tree hanging loaded with ferred from Phillipsville Lodge to five dollars worth of quarters, a Edinboro Lodge, and in the fall gold pin, a dozen huge red rose was elected Rec. -Secretary; then, buds from the Penelec boys, and in 1920, Noble Grand, and from copies of the program and 'The then on was a faithful and diligent Story of Minnie's Life’. worker in the Lodge. She has been She really belongs to all of us proud to be a Rebekah and has en and I believe everyone would like joyed very very much the work and to share vicariously her day. all activities of the Order. I am certain this is also true of her late Emcee................... Irene Culbertson husband, Ross. Music............... Dr. Marshall Sproul Minnie has engineered many din­ Milton Culbertson Group Singing led by William ners and other projects for the good Culbertson of the Order. Many delicious din­ Pianist...................Virginia Skelton ners — chicken, or ham, or whatIntroduction of Sister Minnie, also have-you, were prepared on the Anna Roth, and Presentation of old wood and coal range which was Corsage....................Hazel Peterson out where the pool room is now. Mr. Buchanan passed away on Highlights of Golden Crown Pa­ November 9, 1942, and Minnie geant............................ Ed Zessinger Introduction of Minnie's family.. then gave up the g^as station and .............................. Irene Culbertson Introduction of District Deputy Presidents..................... Inez Sproul Devotions............................ FlorenceSwift Guitar music and singing........... ....................................... Sally Talmoj In the Garden Edelweiss Psalm of Life.. Grace Cunningham (H. Wadsworth Longfellow) Minnie’s Life............... Rena Dilleni Music....................Virginia Skelton Readings.....................Birdella Hayes V 1 - -,-f ^ .o'..; moved the bus station to the Hos­ tettler Block, where the new bank now stands. When this site was purchased for the bank, Minnie had to look around for another place to carry on her business. So she settled at her present place. For 23 years, she has been carrying on alone, selling bus tickets, col­ lecting electric and gas bills, and! answering the telephone. Some of the questions — "When is the next bus south due?" "Will the six o'­ clock bus be late tonight?" That one is her pet peeve. On occasion of birthdays, anni­ versaries, sickness, or bereavement, Minnie whips up an Angel Food, or makes an attractive salad or something special and sends it to, the family. She is one who never’ lets her right hand know what her left hand is doing. You know she is left-handed. We have written some dates in this history. Minnie's sister, Inez, laughs and says, "Why tell your age, for you are only as old as you feel. " Life would not be worth living. Should friendship cease to be But folks like you make this old world. Seems mighty fine to me. - Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell W^PfiR^^flR^feeffBerTrougli^ ii'-’- M : VI 732-776^ .March 3,1966 I suppose we could say March out the city folks and the road past our house was a constant line of came in like a lion-at least high winds swirled light snow fiercely cars with folks touched by spring across the fields, the stoves fairly fever. The cats were out on the sang from it, then a short reprieve, woodpile enjoying the sun. Have a spot of blue springy sl^ and you noticed how the cardinals are a burst of warm sunshine and through already singing their spring songs? Mr. and Mrs. Charles Martin and it all you KNOW and can fairly feel spring. four sons and Bob and Barbara SterMy tomato and pepper plants have rett were visiting at the Mrs. Drew their second leaves. Gleeten home Saturday. We wish to extend our sincere Dick and Cathy (Schulz) Osborn sympathy to the family of Tom have named the baby Carrie Willrich. Those with close family Michele. j ties suffer most at a time like this The Baptist manse is advertised; but they also have the sweetest for sale. memories to sustain them as time The time the Baptists were con-, moves along. Tom was always a sidering this property for a manse many, many years ago it struck a very accommodating and pleasant person for us to deal with as through sympathetic chord in Canada Sam Reeder. He was not a Baptist but; the years he did our butchering. was instrumental in helping raise The plant was immaculate and he money for its purchase. He was not was an artist at his work. We shall an especially religious man either; miss him. Our begonias and coleus had be-i and often kept a whiskey bottle come very leggy and unattractive i with a glass over it in his front of­ fice window just to raise the blood sol broke off the stems a couple of pressure of the W. C. T. U!ers as; inches from the plant roots and put: they passed by. | them in glass dishes full of water! Elder Pearce who was Baptist! to root and be ready to set out in I minister for many years many: the garden in May. Too, the old : years ago (80 or more) lived in the; plants shape up and are ready to bloom and set out again in the gar-; house north of Cases. I Mr. and Mrs. Max Goldschmidt deii. are on a ten day vacation. During ! In the March issue of the Farm their absence Cecil and Ernie Mea- Journal which came Monday on cham will be staying at their farm page 76 there is an excellent illus­ to keep an eye on things. The work on the outside of the trated step by step article on root­ ing cuttings in a plastic bag. It old garage on Waterford Street has looks to be the simplest method yet certainly improved the appearance and surely worth a try when you have of the building. one beautiful plant or shrub and The new college infirmary is to want several more like it. be located between the DarrowGood veal calves brought 360 Ghering orchard and the woods. last week. The late Isaac Dawley's $35,000| Mr. and Mrs. ^ Blair Dunton a c estate was willed to his daughter,; I companiedMr. and Mrs. Don MorMrs. Harold Hayes. j tenson of Waterford on a trip out Joe and Shirley Ondrey have pur-! west to visit her brother. They ex­ chased a lot in Engh's sub-division) pect to be gone two weeks. west of town and willsoon be build-, Angeline Amidon flew to Los ing a new home of their very own.* Angeles last Monday to be with her^ This ambitious and very sensible; brother, Guy, who is seriously ill] young couple had a taste of Cali-! in the hospital with pneumonia. fornia, veryJiigh wages, etc. butj (Word was received here Tuesday i learned their roots were too deep; in Edinboro to be really happyj evening that Guy died Tuesday ' morning.. elsewhere. i There are rumors of a real estate! Echo Austin Dulaney passed away Tuesday morning, March 1 and was deal on Waterford Street. If Edinboro folks scattered through buried beside Delloyd in the New the southlands could see our good Cemetery Thursday afternoon. weather they would have an itchy She is survived by two sisters, two children, Dorothea and Blaine;^ foot to get back. . The cattle sale at Byron Harris' grandchildren, great grandchildren) last Saturday afternoon drew a good and husband, Ray Dulaney. Our i crowd. It was a good dairy and it sincere sympathy to the family. Echo was a graduate of Edinboro brought good prices. Byron suf Normal School and taught school i fered a heart attack recently. several years. She and Aunt Miriam ! were cousins and for years the first! thing they did after breakfast was to call the other for a little visit. ’ Then Aunt Miriam called Mother. Rose Skelton Dirham, 76, the ^ oldest living child of the late Fred ; and Hattie Baker Skelton, passed! away February 12 in the Barberton Hospital after suffering a heart attack. Funeral services were held in the Hahn Funeral Home and in­ terment was in Greenlawn Cfemetery Barberton, Ohio. Rose is survived by her husband, Harry Dirham, two sons Wilbur i of Barberton, Ohio, Keith of Medina, Ohio, two daughters, Mrs. Hattie Hetrick and Mrs. Vesta McCamma, four sisters, S^idie Daubs and Ruby Beerbower of Edinboro, Edna Lea of North East, Florence Clisby of Greenville and a brother, Asa I. Skelton, of Canfield, Ohio, six . grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Harry Dirham was the son of . Jacob Dirham, a brother of A1 j Dirham. He is in good health. Re-: cently he had an operation to have an eye removed which became in­ fected after a cataract operation. Last Tuesday evening the head forester for the State of Washington called John Schultz (son of Heinz and Trudy), Waterford Road and asked him to apply for a position in the Forestry Research Center of the\&il-McDonald branch for most f of the State of Washington located t at Chehalis, Washington, John had j worked for this man for two sumn mers while he was in Penn State as j a forestry student. He is to report! there March 21st so will be leaving Edinboro around the 15th. This cer-i tainly is a recognition of a well qualified and fine young man. Ever since John was a youngster he has been intensely interested in this kind of work and made a beautiful and excellent project of it while in High School. Our very best wishes to this ambitious, intelligent, high principled young man. His family and we are very proud of him. Dorothy and Vernon Ramsey of Edinboro have purchased the Best Theater here in town from Bert Kiehl and take over March 4th. Ramseys lived in McKean before moving here and he served on the General McLane School Board.They purchased a home over back of the Catholic Church. Kiehl&j leave Friday for Selma, Alabama to visit their daughter Kay and family. ’ • ,j here frequently. He was planning i to come this spring for the sixtieth i reunion of his class of 1906 and foi : 'r the reunion at Penn State later in : i the spring. He was a Private in the i; : First World War and was always ac: tive after that in American Legion f. . activities. The Legion took charge I of the services here. It was beau: j tiful and a fitting close to a long ix :i and useful life. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Culbertson came from Lockport, New York to attend the Amidon funeral last Sat­ urday. They returned home that evening. ^he teal estate'ttlnsfet of Holl • i. . Washington Township refers to the new golf course west of town on what was known as the Charley Greenfield farm, later the Payne farm. There was considerable le­ gal work to get the titles cleared. The grackles, robins and mourn­ ing doves returned last week. This Sunday night snow isn’t going to be easy on them. We had noticed that there was a hole under the front and back of our old playhouse in the orchard, too, that there were muddy tracks nearby that looked like woodchuck tracks to us so Wednesday afternoon we set our woodchuck traps and put one by each hole, tied a long piece of baling twine from the traps to a roll of snow fence and put a crate over the trap so we didn’t catch a cat and hoped we got something. We looked ’ several times Thursday, then Friday but the traps were still unsprung. Mar­ garet went over to take a peek on the way to the bam Saturday morn­ . •: 'N. ★ Edinboro Wise ★ Carrie Goodell 732-7761 ■ ..■ .,1 . j Did you see and hear the huge flocks of wild geese last Saturday? There is nothing like the cry of wild geese and watching the mi­ grant flocks gives a fellow the wanderlust, a feeling of freedom, the wonder of Old Mother Naturels hand over all. Sunday as we walked across the fields and through the pasture listening to the way the swelled creek rushed along throb­ bing with the surge of spring and looked across the hills to see the color coming into bare tree tops it seemed almost too beautiful. Two large old maple trees in front of Edna Culbertson’s house on Market Street were cut down last week. The curve on the road is to be widened, straightened, the street curbed and a new light will replace the blinker light there this coming summer. The cove is open and we noticed a wild duck on the water Sunday. Dr. Tony Burgett, Veterinary, is now stationed at Fort Sam Houstan, Texas. Saturday afternoon as we crossed the bridge on Route 86 by the form­ er Jap Kline farm we saw four deer running like mad across the fields toward the creek. Pretty soon we saw the reason for their flight. A large German police dog and a large mostly white long haired dog were chasing them. We got out of the car and hollered at them. The police dog turned back but the other dog was out for blood and was not easily dissuaded. It could have been some farmer’s sheep instead of the deer. Even in the country people should pay attention to the whereabouts of their dogs. It’s just common decency. We had a possum in a trap this morning. The first thing you hear these mornings as it starts to get light ing and started calling for me. ‘ Both traps were sprung — a skunk (and alive) in one and a wood­ chuck in the other. We pulled them out from under the building. Getting the woodchuck out of the trap was simple. I shot the skunk but it’s still in the trap. If any­ body knows how to get it out of the trap without getting all stunk up, please come forth. Did you see the nice write up about Marlin Allen’s retirement in the Morning News? Harve Allen, Marlin's dad, was a barber here for many years. At one time Al­ lens lived in the house on Erie Street recently torn down by Carl Mc­ Williams. They paid $8 a month rent. Later they moved to the house now owned by Alfred Haller. While they lived there they built a redi-cut bungalow. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Albright now own and reside there. Melvin Torrey now living in In­ diana dropped in unexpectedly on his folks, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Torrey, around supper time Friday, He left Saturday to make a short visit to Dr. Sproul will be retiring in the his brother Rodney and his Aunt near future instead of two years as Laura before returning to his home. stated in the Sunday Times. When the snow just dropped from We have snow drops, crocuses and the sky Monday Mother would have looked out and remarked that 'the Lenten Roses in bloom under this foot of snow. old lady was plucking her geese'. Kenneth Ryan celebrated a birth­ Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Sproul day last Tuesday. He no longer has spent the week end with Mr. and to wear a cast and can go to the din­ Mrs. Robert Fisher and family at Farrell, Pa. Sprouls attended Pa- ing room for his meals now. Thirty folks from Edinboro board­ mona Grange at Meadville, Craw­ ford County on Wednesday, March ed the bus to go to the Cleveland 2nd, and attended Pamona Grange, Flower Show last Wednesday. Mary Erie County, at North East last Wed­ Warner had charge of tickets for nesday. , Edinboro. .March 17,1966 and you put your head out the back door is the crow of the cock pheas-ant. Then the little song sparrows start to burst out in song and by ±e time the sun is up it is a full chorus of any bird that can make a noise. You even tune up a little yourself just from the pure joy of being alive. • Mr. and Mrs. John Borland are expected home today from a "down east" trip. They left Tuesday — John for his directors meeting of Cooperative Industries, Inc. at Chester, New Jersey. Mikki stopped off at Bernardsville, New Jersey to have a few days’ visit with friends. John Schulz stopped to s a y ’Good-bye’ Tuesday forenoon as he left for the North West. He was driving a beautiful brand new red Ford convertible. John hopes to stop in Kansas City for a short visit with Merrill Smith and also to stop and see an army buddy along the way. Ann Behler was in Edinboro Tues­ day visiting friends and reveling in this beautiful spring sunshine and weather. Judging from all the new ditches dug around houses and hoses lead­ ing out from cellar windows many folks are having a session with wet cellars. These March winds are drying out the ground fast and here in the val­ ley I wouldn’t be surprised to see farmers plowing anytime now. It’s^^ drying out the country roads, too. “ Blanche Gleeten is the proud new owner of a set of six cane seated chairs with side arms. She bought them from a neighbor. It isn’t of­ ten anymore that one can find the complete set intact of old chairs like that. Blanche Colvin Bole is in the Presbyterian Home, Cambridge Springs for a time convalescing. S'--: ■■ ■ Tv' ■ : 5. C■ ■ ^ March 24,1966 t March 31,1966 W" ‘ ★ Edinboro Wise ★ Carrie Goodell These warm spring days of last week brought its rash of grass fires and accidents and kept the firemen busy. Why do people build fires near old dead grass on a windy day? I'll never know. Fifty years ago they'd have been out of luck. A serious accident occured when Walter Kiklewich was seriously burned from an explosion while fil­ ling the gas tank of a running motor. Early Saturday morning two cars collided head on at Lavery. One injured was a Hudy boy. It just gets in one’s blood as the spring days arrive. As soon as the ground is dry enough you can just know it is time to be doing it, you start plowing for oats. When you mark out the first land with the tractor and plow it had better be straight, too. Jim Skelton, who will be farm­ ing the Perry farm, his father's old farm next to Perry’s, as well as his own acres, was busy at it last Friday. The killdeers and red winged blackbirds are back — looks like it might be an early spring. Paul and Lura Gleeten head back for Edinboro the 26 or 27 of March after spending January, February and March in Texas. It’s time to be thinking about fence fixing, too. There are al ways a lot of fence posts to be re­ placed, the others need a tuck or two to make them more solid, staples need tightening, a stretch here and there needs new wire. George and Jerry Fellows have for years cut locut posts to sell. 732-7761 Don Cornell has planted carrot, oniohi cress and head lettuce seed in his cold frame on the south side of his house. Sylvia Skelton is back in her own home after helping care for her brother and mighty glad to be here. If everyone who bums papers outside would be a little more careful on windy days they would­ n’t be flying around the fields. We have picked up people’s papers around our field and pasture re­ cently that are mighty personal and I'm sure those folks wouldn’t care to have them scattered about for th? public, Marshall and Inez Sproul attend­ ed an Erie County Visitation meet­ ing at the Elkcreek Grange Saturday night. The North East Grange put on the program. AND YOU THINK YOU HAVE IT TOUGH! 1 ! Following is a list of rules for teachers posted by a principal in the City of New York in 1872 (the year Uncle Ned was bom). 1. Teachers each day will clean lamps, clean chimneys, and trim wicks. 2. Each teacher will bring a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day’s session. 3. Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs to the indi­ '\ vidual tastes of the pupils. 4. Men teachers may take one evening each week for courting pur­ poses, or two evenings a week if they go to church regularly. 5. After ten hours in school, the teachers should spend the remain­ There are piles neatly piled and ing time reading the Bible or other ready for those who will need them. good books. Locust replaces the chesmut which 6. Women teachers who marry, was once universally used but now or engage in unseemly conduct, is nearly a thing of the past. Rob will be dismissed. Randall used to cut, split and 7. Every teacher should lay aside sharpen chestnut posts for Dad dur­ from each pay a goodly sum of his ing the winter at the "Dundon". earnings for his benefit during his We are still using them. declining years, so that he will not Carl and Elsie McWilliams left become a burden on society. Thursday afternoon for a three 8. Any teacher who smokes, uses week’s vacation. They will visit liquor in any form, frequents pool Elsie’s sisters and families in Brook­ or public halls, or gets shaved in a lyn and Long Island, New York, barber shop will give good reason then go to Maryland to visit Felix to suspect his worth, intentions, in­ Cornell, a first cousin of Don’s, tegrity, and honesty. who owns and operates a book store 9. The teacher who performs his in Cambridge, Maryland. Felix is labors faithfully and without fault the son of the late Dr. Rob Cornell, for five years will be given an in­ born and raised in Edinboro, but crease of twenty-five cents per long a prominent physician in week in his pay, providing the Birmingham, Alabama. For many : Board of Education approves. years Felix owned a book store in Right now there is a very interest­ New York City and his father used ing real estate deal in the making to tell Dad of some of the rare old ; and should be consumated this week, finds he would run into when pur­ i As soon as the final papers a r e chasing the libraries of old estates. isigned and delivered I'll report in From there they will go to Vir­ Yhis column. ginia to visit Elsie’s brother Ivan and family. ★ Edinboro Wise ★ Carrie Goodell 1 122-11^1 Elton Randall, seventy-eignt, sold the house and fourteen acres Did you hear the frogs singing passed away at Hamot Hospital last of the lower place to Autumn and Tuesday and Wednesday evenings Saturday afternoon after an extend­ Nick Petrick and the remainder last week? Like the first robin, ed illness (stroke suffered two or (sixty-six acres) to Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Miller, Sr. He retained the honk of wild geese, the first three years ago). son of Clarance Randall, The jhfiLJQil and mineralJdghtS-tQ-the snow drop to bloom, our ears are tuned to the cove for those first he was born on a farm, now a part land. 1 of the Walter Hollobaugh farm, on Some years ago oil interests peeps and then the full chorus. i September 12, 1887. Others in the drilled a well of great promise on Grace May cock Boothe who has I . ------UliiiCU a W WAX -upper farm, then for unknown been suffering from a series of ! family were Emmet, John, Opal,| reasons capped and abandoned it. small strokes this past winter is in Burnell and Tillie. Elton worked for Howard Tabor A good many men from around a rest home in St. Petersburg, Flor­ for several years and it was the Ta here sank money into the well. It ida. The birds of the winter along bors who persuaded him to go to provided many dreams for Arch with lots of recently returned Song Normal School and make somethirg which were never fulfilled. He herded sheep out west for a and Fox Sparrows have thronged to of himself. Upon graduating, he the feeders since Thursday morn­ went to work for the New York Cen­ time, sailed the lakes in summer ing. The grackles and cow birds tral Railroad where he had an excel­ time and worked winters at the have descended in flocks to grab lent job for the next thirty-five years Griswold plant in Erie for three or four years. After his father left the it away from the smaller birds. j until retiring five years ago. He was the descendant of the first farm, he farmed until he had a The community was shocked by I the sudden death of Harry W. Earl- doctor. Dr. Horace Randall, to come sale in 1942. In recent years he ly, acting President of the College, to this area. He settled on forty acres had raised strawberries in consider­ last Friday morning. Our sincere the nucleus of our farm, built an able quantities to sell to the stores. sympathy to his daughter, Nancy, office (our parlor and long bedroom Even this spring he was planning today) and a barn to house his horses to add 200 new trees to his young and his wife, Elsie. Jesse Koon, who is helping out at (our sheep barn.) He later sold it chestnut orchard on the side hill. I Agw ay until he can start spring farm to his son. Dr. Thomas Randall, who Cousins, the Gardner boys, Ken, i work, picked up a grist at our farm left it to Milton Randall (Elton’s Dan and Larue, and Bernard Port _____________ survive him. He was buried beside ; last week. Just as he was putting grandfather.) 1 the last sack of oats onto the truck The farm has always been a choice his brother, Clare, and his mother in the Draketown Cemetery. : a possum poked his nose around the piece of property and Grandpa and; His relatives and friends looked bam door. I grabbed a pitch fork, many othershad long wanted to get’ out and cared for him to the very gave it to Jesse and told him not their hands on it. George Goodell end. He was not alone. to let it get away. It took off for had been talking with Milton con-; Flossie Borland is feeling better the back doors of the sheep bam cerning its purchase but they were : after a siege of illness and dearly with Jesse right after it. By the haggling about the price. j time we could get the doors open Grandma Goodell had gone up to; hopes to be able to return to her I it had disappeared behind some Gieeton Hill to spend the day with . work and her school children. Glee Plavsity who sold his prop­ i bales of hay. After quickly mov­ her folks and there she heard that erty in this vicinity has purchased ing some bales and some wild jab­ Jack Ethridge, her cousin, was go­ property in Richmond Township, bing with the fork Jesse cornered it ing to purchase the farm for his son and finished it off outside on the Roscoe. She immediately hitched [ Crawford County barn bridge. You are never sure ’ they are really dead — they might up Cy and drove back to town to! tell Grandpa. He promptly drove f be playing possum. Velma Rich up to the farm and found Milton, had told us she chopped off their Randall there. They cinched the ' ! heads to be sure and Caroline Brown deal then and there. ‘ told shq dropped them in a^rail Jennie Dunton accompanied her of water so we (Margaret seeing us daughter Helen Detrick and child­ run up the barn bridge came out to ren on a trip to Buffalo last Sunday see what the excitement was about) to see 'the Ice Follies'. dropped this one in a puddle in the Archie E. Ethridge passed away barnyard to be very sure. about 10 a.m. March 28, 1966 ati: Charley Kirschner sold his dairy the old family home. Arch, bom" last Saturday and for the first time February 11, 1884, was the son of; in fifty-eight years there are no cattle in ^e barn. It was not an Addie (Gardner) and Roscoe Eth­ easy decision to make but age has ridge. His mother died shortly after his birth and his Grandmother a way of taking its toll. Charley Gardner cared for him until his will celebrate an eighty-first birth­ father remarried when he w a s ■ day April 14. about eight years old. His grand- , Ned Whipple’s little house and lot father, Jackson Ethridge, had on Erie Street will be on the mar­ owned a great deal of land in that ket. Blanche’s name was also on vicinity. He had fixed up the low­ the deed. er place for Roscoe when he mar­ John Fellows and family spent ried. Arch was born there and Sunday with his parents, Mr. and lived there for many years. After Mrs. George Fellows. his father built a house in town Frank C. Hertig is visiting his (where Janet Haggerty lives) and parents Mr. and Mrs. Allen Lam moved there Arch moved into the bein on Erie Street. He will be house where he died. He later leaving for Viet Nam April 20. ^ , -J-" V*'' i ■ > .‘':y v:,--,. :■'„'■:;•> April 14,1966 ★ Edinboro Wise * Carrie Goodell Mrs. Cvnthia Prue returned to Edinboro March 27 and expects to remain until after Easter. Gary and Jean Nesbitt and child­ ren expect to return to Edinboro for a short visit the 3rd or 4th of June and then leave for Oak Ridge, Tennessee where Gary will spend ten weeks at the Institute of Nu­ clear Study at Oak Ridge. He ap­ plied for the fellowship and was accepted. Gary is a science teach­ er and assistant coach for football, basketball and track in Elkton, Michigan. The family will live in a furnished apartment there. All expenses are paid. There were good heads on both sides of Gary's family. His grand­ father Floyd Nesbitt had no peers -y'^.xt fA as a welder and machinist and his great grandfather was known all oyer the country as an outstanding 'i surveyor. His grandfather Everwine has forgotten more aboutplumbing than many of today's plumbers will ever know about it. Hank Harrison once told me that if he could know half as much about such things as Gustyknows he would consider him­ self a good plumber. I have long preached to Gary to spend as much time with his grandfather as possi­ ble because every time he could be with him he would benefit from his wisdom, skill and judgment. Edna Culbertson has purchased two lots back by the Cove and will soon be building a new house. Anyone who has the privilege of living near the cove with windows to look out on it is lucky. It's , beautiful any time of*year. The \ sounds are wonderful, too. In i spring the ducks, geese and frogs; ! on a hot summer night the chug of I the big, old bull frogs and water I fowl that nest there; in the early ^'summer dawn the pump handle i sound of the bittern; the turtles that sun themselves on half sub­ merged old pine logs, baby ducks ''M walking on lily pads, water lilies — ► yellow and white dot the water, ' redwing blackbirds settle in the bushes to nest and spend the nights and in autumn the colors seem to surpass all others in brightness. The winter scene is just as interest­ ing and beautiful. Edna's house on Market Street will be for sale. The Arthur Cox.family have moved into Bernard Port’s house (formerly Ruby Austin) on Meadville Street. We stopped in at San Rosario last week to see Helen Fox. She had had a new hair-do and looked fit as a fiddle. She will spend another week there then will go to stay with Mrs. Brady Cummings of Waterford for furAer convalescing before returning home. r% 732-7761 1 < '■ --s', J;. X -i 'f' ★ Edinboro Wise ★ Carrie Goodell April 7,1966 1 ‘ Norman Culbertson has his lawn mower sales and repair service business up. for sale. Wayne Gleeton was in Edinboro,, last Wednesday to attend the fun­ eral of Arch Ethridge. John and Mikke Borland returned Wednesday from a business trip to New Jersey. They had a very pleasant visit with one of the re­ cently retired company officials from Massachusetts who had re­ turned for the meeting. The John Borlands gave Lynn and Louise Waldorf a real thrill Saturday fi morning, April 2, when they called from a nearby town, and then dropped in for a few hours. It was i all so perfect. In a couple of hours ; the Borlands would have been on : their way to New Jersey. Lynn is j a:’ now Personnel Director for the San ! Francisco Forty Niners, and they I were on their way to Syracuse to i see their daughter. For many years i Lynn was coach for Northwestern,! and the Borlands hadn't seen him ; < ' since that memorable Rose Bowl; 'K A'.*:' game when Northwestern played | Calitornia. In that game, under Northwestern Coach Waldorf, were area boys Chuck Hagmann, Joe Zuravleff, and Roger Geirer. The two realty transfers from Forrest Hobbs to Donald Ploszaj, Old State Road, refers to a lot and a four acre plot just beyond Larry Bull’s house on the black top that runs east from McLane to Route 86. Ploszaj is having a new house built on the lot and Hobbs Lumber is do­ ing the work. He works at the General Electric. Anywhere along that road would provide a beautiful building spot. President Johnson tells the coun­ try that it is high food prices that are the chief culprits of inflation— mebbe so, but it isn’t the farmer who’s getting the high returns. Milk may sell for 260 a quart but he gets 80 a quart less for what he sells. Eggs sell for 550 to 590 in the stores but the farmer gets 300 when he sells them to the store­ keeper. Bread has gone up a cent a loaf but when the farmer takes his wheat to the mill at harvest time he is docked for each point of moisture content until he is lucky if he gets $1.25 a bushel and it gets worse each year. The farm­ er sells a good beef cow and takes what the butcher gives him — 140 a pound at most, but the meat re­ tails, depending on the cuts, from 500 to over a dollar a pound. Blanche Gleeten left Wednesday morning for a ten day Easter vaca­ tion trip to Florida with her daugh­ ter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Martin. - 'A an inning last week. The omis Sion of the little word “or” changed the entire meaning. The Item should have read, “Milk may sell for 260 a quart but the farm­ er gets 80 a quart OR less for what he sells.’’ 732-7761 a broken ankle. The ankle is in a cast and Boyd is in the Union City Hospital. .A Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kirschner ate a family Easter dinner at the home of her sister and husband. Mi; Mary Ann (Ondrey) and Paul Me and Mrs. Paul Homer of North East. Keegan and the baby spent the Homer’s two daughters and families combined Spring and Easter vaca­ and Mildred Sedgwick were also tion with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. there. Joseph Ondrey. Dr. E. W ayne Hull spent several lx)uise Barber, a former teacher hours in Edinboro last Friday attend-i in the Edinboro schools, but now ing to business affairs and visiting teaching in Pittsburgh slipped and Margaret and me. Wayne had] fell on a highly waxed floor and flown to Erie, came here, and on broke her wrist. Saturday was to deliver a research Joe Gleeten returned from a win lecture at a convention of Biochem­ ter in Florida and was visiting ists at Atlantic City. Monday he friends and relatives in iliis vicin would be back at the University of ity last Tuesday and Wednesday. California to lecture before his ^ Mrs. Wilford Swift and Mrs. Ar­ classes. > 1 thur Harwood (Elna Williams) are Three white frosts and then a both surgical patients at Hamot rain — it rarely misses. Hospital, We’ve brought our buckets of Kiehls left Sunday morning on a geraniums up from the cellar. two weeks trip which includes a Even though it is pitch black and L' /’■'A ^ week in Hawaii. unheated down there die plants Mr, and Mrs, Joseph Torrey’s have grown a foot or so but are two grandchildren arrived Friday to white instead of green. A sunny spend Easter with Grandpa and place on the porch until setting out Grandma and to visit little friends time will make them green aid here. Their mother, Joan Bryman. sturdy again. came down later to spend Easter This is the time of year when the] Sunday. They all returned to Cleve suckers and bullheads come up the land Sunday evening. creeks to lay their eggs. It was a . / V\ford has been received here that big event when Dad took us spear­ Arlene Skelton Wontenay has suf ing. A couple of lanterns, a spear fered another heart attack. She is and a couple of buckets and you out of the hospital but still a bed were in business. A deep hole by The flu bug bit Don Case last week and he put in a very misera-[j patient at her home in Florida. the roots of a huge old elm in the ble week. He’s up and feeling ;'| Until this happened, Arlene had pasture was our favorite place to better now but the blamed thing fj planned on coming to Edinboro look — but any of the places along with her sister Mildred this sum under the willow bushes were fruithangs on so long. mer, Arlene was one of our neigh fuL If Dad was too tired, we As we look across the fields . boihood schoolmates. would get Ernie Helmbrecht to go towards Perry’s woods we can see ■ My new sweet cherry trees, Kan' with us. In a little bay in die the color, coming back into the sas Sweet and Black Tartarian, ar­ creek in Grandpa's pasture across trees. A few warm days and the ' rived last week and are planted the road and near Darrow’s fence shad will be in bloom. The wil­ beside one. Yellow Glass, bought lows around town show up more three years ago. Yellow Glass had was the best place to see fish eggs and millions of minute fish just prominently every day. seven huge sweet cherries on it last hatched. You could always find Evelyn McComte and Inez Sproul year and we beat the birds to them. attended the Spring and Easter They are in a row in the center of lots of tadpoles there, too. The flickers or high holers are* flower show at the Phipps Conserva­ the garden along with gooseberry tory in Pittsburgh Thursday. They blueberry, red raspberry, currant back. How we love to hear theiri went with a group from Meadville bushes and a dwarf Red Astrakan song and the tattoo on a pole or] decaying limb of a tree. A hole who chartered a bus to the affair. tree. When the fruits are ripe we high up in a hollow limb is their Before leaving for home they 'did stop on the way to the bam or back favorite nesting place. the stores’ and report a very enjoy­ to the house for a nibble or to fire Laura Riley leaves Florida Friday' able day. a stone at a thieving bird. April 15, to return to her home at j The first meeting of the Trustees Mr. and Mrs. (Donna Gleeten) of the Edinboro Cemetery Associa­ Allan Cass are in Edinboro visiting Lakeside. Many of us are looking forward tion for 1966 was held at the Boro. her dad. Tommy Gleeten, of Nor­ to having Dr. Herman Offher and Hall Monday evening. mal Street. Casses have purchased his wife as permanent Edinboro Royce and Nancy Mallory arrived land in Warren, Pa. and will soon residents in a couple of years when home from Florida Sunday after­ , be building a new home there. he retires. He has purchased the noon. They stopped to see Allan Boyd Hostettler suffered a painful Dick Walker home, in anticipation and Helen ^e when they left and accident Friday afternoon. He was report Allan coming along fine* hauling a load of manure to the of that occasion. Dr. Offiier, as from his surgery and stay in the field and got the tractor hung up in most of us know, was Dean of In­ struction at the College before he hospital. I^es won’t be returning a spot of soft ground. While trying went to Washington with the Office until later in the season. to extricate himself with the use of Education there. HAPPY EASTER. EVERYONE! 1 of a chain and a fence rail the chain v'::- " ^ '1 y-. i Welcome, Mr. Doucette Edinboro Wise 732-7761 Carrie Goodell Sunday was the perfect April day. One tries to crowd into one short day so many things until the next Sunday, Before starting morn­ ing chores we walked out back through the fields to inspect the plowed fields. It was too early to see the graceful sea gulls sailing, landing to eat some bugs or angleworms and sailing again as they had all day Saturday. We could hear the cock pheasants crowing from the north and east. We walked around the garden and you just ache to drop everything else and start working right there. As the day warmed up we walked around to see how our many varieties of trees had grown during the winter and sat on a knoll back of the barn to soak up spring and talk. We decided to drive to the "Dundon" to see if the construction company had started spring work on the new road. Skunk cabbages were pop­ ping up in all the low damp spots, cow slips were in bloom in the marshy places, catkins hung from the aspin trees and the drier banks were covered with hepaticas and spring beauties. Country roads are in wonderful condition and the dust flew as in summer. Pastures certainly haven't started any yet and in three more weeks it will be 'turn out' time. I sprayed my magnolia trees with a dormant oil spray Saturday. It takes that and several sprayings with malathion in July to keep the scale down so the tree can survive. Albert Amidon was in town Sat­ urday to attend a 'Lakeside Meet­ ing' and look over his cottages. He and Joyce have purchased five acres of land at Sterrettania and are building a new house. Bob Con­ nor's /brothex^;Whq built feb's pew house, is the contractor for it. He came up to see Margaret and me for a nice little visit. We played together as children when hci usedi to spend part of his sum­ mers with his grandparents next door. Sam and Robert Stafford are both employed at Lang Electric and their father, Harold Stafford, is seriously considering disposing of his dairy. Hildur Torrey spent last week end in Pittsburgh visiting friends. Dan and Jessie Gardner and Nan­ cy Smith and her two little tots visited Helen Fox in Waterford Sun­ day. They report that she is get­ ting .along fine with her walking. Milan Pavkov recently sold a building lot on the Neyland Road to Paul Bardwell (he drives the Edinboro Upholstery truck). Bard­ well expects to build a home there. Three or 'four years ago Milan bought the old Jim Neyland farm , ^ril 21,1966 f Sympathy to Mrs. tawara Shoemaker (Hazel Dillon) on the sudden, death of her husband.Sunday, April 17 at their home,- Wate^ Street Extension. He was 80 years old. He came to Edinboro in 1958 when he retired after 49 years as inspector for the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Methodist Church,. Edinboro. Services were held at the Glunt Funeral Home, Edinboro, with Rev. E. Eugene Ankney officiating. Bur­ ial was in Edinboro Cemetery. This is the interesting real estate deal I mentioned some time back— Dr. Tom Miller and his wife have purchased fifteen acres along the south side of Bea Crandall's farm extending from Lay Road to the land of Bill Warnshuis and expect to be building a new home somewhere on it in the very near future. As plans now stand, his mother will take over their present home upon the comp­ letion of the new home. Jim Skelton planted oats on the Perry farm last Tuesday. They are planted on the home farm, also. week of his vacation and they are Those are the first ones to go in the combining pleasure with business ground around here. Ours should be for this week. planted by the time you read this. Margaret and Bernard Kingston were hosts to a family get-to-gether of Margaret's family last Sunday. The flu bug has taken its toll this week in the faculty of Edinboro Elementary. Monday there were four out ~ Mrs. Barnes, Miss Ham­ ilton, Mrs. Walsh and Mrs. Allman, Mrs. Wagner and Mrs. Robinson were at their desks — but barely. Mrs, Robinson had been out two days last week, and Mrs. Wagner had tussled with the v. over the weekend. Nevertheless, Bobette had gone with her "tribe" at 4:30 ■ in the morning Saturday, to be on [! the creek banks above Hobbs' Lum­ ber when the trout season opened at 5 a. m. And they had lots of[?i company! They report the biting was not too good, and when onef fell into the creek about 7 a. m. [ that ended that party. But daddy | Bill came home Saturday night | and took them again Sunday, when | V*'’ luck was better. f John Borland left Monday after-f noon for Chester, New Jersey where he attended the Board Meeting of Cooperative Industries, Inc. He stopped off at Mansfield, Pennsyl­ vania Monday night, and returned to Edinboro Thursday in time for the District Scout Dinner; then Friday (today) off to Cleveland. Last Saturday night did you see him on Channel 5 TV with Paul Wilcox, director and sports news commentator of WEWS (Cleveland)? It was relative to the present Otto Graham Scholarship Fund program currently in progress. (Susan Werthheimer). He sold the house to Chester Kelly and now the lot to Bardwell. Doucettes are back in Edinboro and living on Campus. Mr. Dou­ cette or 'Doucie' as many of his former students fondly named him will assume the temporary chair­ manship of the Art Department at the College. His very presence will lend the dignity, integrity, stability and leadership needed in this department. The reports of the kindly, understanding and able Dr. Butterfield as acting College President are very pleasant, too. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fisher and family of Farrell spent the week end with Dr. and Mrs. M. D. Sproul. Mrs. Mae Norris had the misfor­ tune of falling recently. She was very fortunate that she came out with only two shiners and a lame wrist. Heinz and Trudy Schulz left Monday morning to drive to Chi­ cago. Trudy has a business engage; ment there so Heinz is taking a . ' ' '' f j ^ /V . ' I :, \ s''* V-’. ^- » Mr. Aime Henri Doucette will assume the temporary chairman­ ship of the Art Department at Ed­ inboro State College, Monday, April 18. By special permission of Governor Scranton, Mr. Dou­ cette, a former Head of the De­ partment and faculty emeritus, will coordinate the administrative duties of the Art Department and handle certain art classes. Mr. Doucette who has had 40 years’ teaching experience in art education had given more service to the College at his retirement in 1960 than any person in the his­ tory of the College. He began teaching high school at the age of 15 before he had teacher training. After attending Massachusetts Normal Art School, he was associated with the George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tenn., at the University of West Virginia at Morgantown.^ He later received his Ed. M.Degree from Boston University and did further graduate work at the Uni-f’ versity of Pittsburgh. Mr. Doucette has done fine art work in ali art fields and taught simple drawing and lettering to de-f signing and making beautiful jewel­ ry as well as industrial design. He> created medallions for the Bene­ dictine and Franciscan Orders and Valadium Steel Corporation. He was a design consultant for the Keystone Carbon Corporation, has illustrated a social studies text­ book and served as editor for a book published by the Progressive [. Education Association. Honorary activities include serv­ ing as president of the Eastern Arts Association and as national presi­ dent of Kappa Delta Phi fraternity. Mr. and Mrs. Doucette are the parents of 7 grown children, two of whom make their home in Edinbora The Doucettes have been living in Florida, where Mr. Doucette has been enjoying his retirement fishing and working leisurely at his art ac­ tivities. ^ a* «.»•<* ^ A < '“i ."-hi 4/ A- ^;“ ./>:. JI ' 'ZW 'T'f-^‘ j* tr'C' -.V.- v>yyjy^--,' ■^/-^'y~£'fa4.' ★ Edinbo'iro Wise ★ ■ Carrie Goodell T*.. ■_ C^-i'. J^- i •/ - '• '■ ,v* H - y 1 ..--------------------_ --_---^ -- O-«.! H 732-7761 Xii^ l^UiV^uadC U1 lUUl 1U15 ill LllC ternoon many older folks from Erie borough for expansion of the Fort could have been seen cutting dan-: LeBoeuf Memorial will be disdelions for greens along the coun- cussed in Waterford Municipal Hall try roads. Fresh vegetables „ r-_--i ,, in . the . piajjj fQj. jjjg expansion include ■ stores weren't as abundant then and, construction of a $1(X),000 museum too, dandelions, cowslips or rhu­ and restoration of the historic Judbarb were sort of a spring tonic as; son House, said the State Museum well as tasty. Some folks like I Commission, skoke shoots. Warren Nims used? What does Edinboro do? — uses to gather young burdock shoots for; her $15,000 to buy an acre of land greens. ^ for outsiders to park trailers for Another half day of fence fixing speed boats to come in and add to and we'll have the job finished, the confusion and racket on an alAs we go along the rail fences we; ready overcrowded pond. And the pick up all the slivers and broken^ hue and cry has been that it is rap ^ pieces to use for kindling the kit- idly filling up with silt and seachen fire during the summer, weed and will eventually turn into j There are few mornings that one a swamp!! It doesn't make sense. . doesn t need a little fire in the kit- ; The swallows are back, i ^ stove to take off the chill. Willard Young and Dale Harned , Methel Wetsell Reagles will head ; have bought the Kirk Lewis farm. : the produce department of the new There are 330 acres of mostly very ^ Golden Dawn store in Cambridge level land with long frontage on Springs. both sides of 6N. The two men There will soon be some signifi had realized for several years that cant changes taking place on Mar­ the farm would eventually be put ket Street on the market and be a very de­ These soakers we've had thepast sirable block of property to own. few days and nights are going to Today, any land in this area is a slow up plowing, fitting and plant­ good investment and getting hard­ ing on the hill farms. er and harder to come by. The Charley McLallen will observe farm had increased in size as Lew­ an 85th birthday on May 9th Bessie Everwine celebrated a 78 th is bought it by bits and pieces thus birthday Sunday, April 24th. Best adding to the complexity and time wishes to a good friend. Mrs. Ev involved of searching and clearing erwine was born on her father's titles. At one time there was a lot of farm now owned by the Wayne fine timber on the farm but it was Lewis family. Linnie (Everwine) and FredLogue cut off some years ago. Anew of Grand Rapids, Michigan spent crop is starting. When Kirk was a younger man part of a two weeks vacation visit­ ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A he had a dream of having the fin­ C. Everwine, Sherrod Hill Road est barn in the community. The ' and sister Hazel and family of Erie. cost before it was completed put They arrived April 17 and left the the skids under him financially 23rd. Last Thursday they took her from which he never recovered. Tolkssitt^ jame^tbtvir, ■'ft. Y.- to-* visit He never could complete the base­ Mr. Everwine's sister Martha. As ment as it was intended. At a the Logues left for home they sale there some years ago I bought called out, "We'll see you in the a wheel barrow grass seeder. Lewis buckwheated the farm for Fall." The cellar is being dug for Dick years and did pretty well at it,too. j and Evelyn Walker’s new home in He worked away at it when he was i * the southeast comer of what in re- an old, old man. The first project the two men . cent years has been known as "Sun­ set". Our great grandfather was will undertake will be to tear down , the first private owner of that land the old house — then probably the more than a hundred and thirty bam. Part of the land at one time : years ago. Harper Cornell owned belonged to Dale's grandfather, i it at one time. He pastured his John Hamed. The Baptist manse is reported to cows on _what is today Indian Head be sold to Hanio Mariotti who had landing and Green Point. A Project 70 public hearing on built a new house between it and land acquisition of about three the Tucker house. Rumors had acres in Waterford was slated by been floating around that the prop­ the Pennsylvania Historical and erty was to be sold for a gas station Museum Commission and the De­ and a beer joint. Mariotti's pur­ partment of Forest and Waters for chase will protect their new home and put the rumors ’to rest. The May 4 J neighbors around that comer will all be relieved at the news, too. V. V- _ V, '■ The first family I ever heard Dad speak of living there were the Shermans. Over a hundred years ago it belonged to Mary Sherman Northrup's and Harriet Sherman Morey's grandmother. Nelson Sherman and his family lived there and Mary Northrup used to tell us that they-were poor- as Job's turkey and if it hadn't been for Grandpa Goodell giving them a stick of candy when they came into his store they could never have had a taste of it. The old well was a dug one at the south west side of the house. About 68 years ago the house was vacant and the well had been cov­ ered over with planks and boards. Bessie Bates (Everwine now) and her mother lived in Jennie Bigger's house (Where Joe Torreys live todaj^ She wasplaying with Gertrude Mar­ lin, the Baptist preacher's daughter. (The Baptist manse used to be where Cecil Pulling owns and lives today). The girls noticed flies buzzing around the old well and looked in. There they saw the hind quarters of a pony which were just about level with the water. Some time before Fred Stead­ man's small pony, had gotten out of the bam (Prihodas today) and disappeared. He had looked and looked for it but couldn't find it. It had wandered up there, gone; through the boards and been in the well until the little girls found it. V 4 .V ‘ - - * '. - ’■i ' -""-V- *4 ' ^ - V, -T - ' ~ v>\-, “ - '■ V- <: ••-l .• ^ - .... -'T-S' - T'' '^1 -i 4.f :: ' ^ \ ‘ , V 4 .. ‘ t K S- 4 - -V j .... V' >1 T vs -< ’4> 7> Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell The buildings and five acres of the former John Hollenbeck farm on Wetsell Ridge have been bought by Paul West. Wests will be mov­ ing there from their present home on the Franklin Center Road. West who works on the railroad has sev­ eral saddle hors’es. His son,* Leon-I ard, has recently been graduated from blacksmith.school and is al­ ready shoeing many local horses. Horse shoeing is an art in itself and one greatly lost since horses gave way to tractors and automobiles. • We always loved that farm and the buildings and hated to see the charm of the lovely old house whacked away with the removal of the porches and other alterations under the name of modernization. Don Cornell is home from St. Vincent Hospital and feeling fine. The Chester Straub family who have lived in Perry’s house at the corner of Perry Lane and Waterford Road for the past fifteen years have moved into their new home at Branchville. Carl Gifford has purchased three acres of ground with a duplex house on it in Northfield, a suburb of Cleveland. The family who have been living in part of Bill Ekelund's house on Gibson Hill Road are in the process of moving there. Sylvia Skelton returned home Fri­ day from a visit with her brother, Carl Whipple, and wife of Warren, Pa. Carl will be retired as Super­ vising Principal of the Warren, Pa. schools at the end of this term. He has held this position for twen­ ty years. Recently a large banquet with over 350 present and speakers from the State Department of Edu­ cation was held in his honor. Soon Carl-will be leaving with his ^vent^|il.destin|ji9|i Ijnj^La a^ a niemljer interdenominational representative to lecture and eval­ uate the schools o f this international organization. Mrs. Whipple will accompany her husband as his sec­ retary. They will fly to California, then to Japan, the Philippines, Bankok and on to India. While in the Philippines they will visit their son, Lt. Commander Whipple, stationed at Subic Bay, Manilla. It will take about a year to com­ plete the work. There are schools in the north and south of India. All the rain of the past week put a crimp in the plans for the week. We make a list of the things we would like to accomplish for each day of the week and if the weather cooperates, no unexpected com­ pany or problems show up we do a fair job of achieving our goals. It gives a fellow a good feeling when night comes and the end of the week comes to know those jobs are done and the coast is clear for an­ other day and week, 732-7761 ~ •■ 7^-^, ’^-•,' ’V.H''- ' ^ *. ■;,'- '* '^Vi-'" ~'-'X , May 5,1966 Our old black and white cat had There seemed to be nothing left six babies in the manger Friday ;To fill 'The first May basket', morning when we went to the barn. So how could we still sing the song Now the dog has to stay in a horse stall for she's death on cats. The Of 'A Tisket and a Tasket'? cats have their rights in the bam Carrie Goodell 732-7761. But as the gentle winds kept and don't have to put up with any .y,May 12,1966 blowing nonsense from the dog. This will be something to tell were on their return trip to Connect­ The cows are in the pasture — ' And the sun came creeping out, your grandchildren that on May 9, icut. His father was a dentist in I put on my jacket and rubbers no more stables to clean till snow : 1966 you awakened to find a half . Edinboro and started practicing And started to look about. flies. Now when we can set the an inch of snow on the ground. over Moses flawkln's jewelry store. house plants outside I'll feel free Roy and Bertha Simpkins and Later he moved his office to the I found Nature provided a shelter as a birdie. Nelle Tyler were in Edinboro last upstairs of Odd Fellow’s Hall. We Alfred Haller is back home in For most of the pretty buds Wednesday. They attended the enjoyed a generous donation of And I picked a bunch of Jonquils Edinboro for the summer and au­ Aid dinner at McLallen’s Corners fruit brought back by them. tumn. He took his neighbor and Right out of the ice and mud. Church and stopped in to visit old A new house is going up in Jim good friend, Don Cornell, to the friends, Mae and Charley Kirschner. Skelton's development known as The lesson this seemed to teach hospital and brought him home Mr. and Mrs. Donald Case spent "Skelton Town" south of town. It me from there. Saturday and Sunday with their son will belong to Aaron Nolan (con Was 'Be patient and take whatever I'll never complain again if we Fred and family of Lockport, New nected with Camera Center). comes. just get some warm, dry weather. York. The Class of '06 class reunion of For God lovingly watches o'er us Are you keeping suet handy for Mrs. Sylvia Skelton received Old State Normal School met Alum­ Yes, even the Jonquils and MumsV the woodpeckers this summer? It's word Saturday night that her ni Day with the following members a staple in their diet and it keeps brother. Dr. Ray Whipple, had standing: Frances Trow Ellicott, Five boys were slightly injured them around and nesting near. passed away. He had been ill for Perry Lane; Gordon Swift, West There are several at our suet feed- early Sunday morning a mile north I some time. Cornwall, Conn.; Minnie Fry j ers any time of day. The nuthatch­ of town. In the car were Sam and Angeline Amidon arrived in Ed- Townline Road; Ethel Weatherall; Lester Stafford, Ed Bowers, David ! inboro Sunday to spend several days Howard Powell, Meadville; Reid es work away at it, too. We put I Kovschakall of Edinboro and Leon­ i visiting relatives and friends. St. John; Belle Miller Higginson, our bird houses up this morning, j ard Aldrich of Cambridge Springs. Methyl Reagles entertained at a Philadelphia; Nellie Goodrich It is reported that the former Joel None were seriously injured. birthday dinner in honor of Edna Webb, Erie; Ruth Compton Knicker­ Klakamp farm has been sold to[ Culbertson Monday.. Those attend­ bocker, McLane; Edna Mills Hotch Mrs. David Squires and her mothei; ing were Edna and her guest. An- kiss; Madge Boylan Witherup, Bar Mrs. John McCreary. It is so beau­ geline Amidon, Abbie Wiseman, berton, Ohio; Retta Pinney, Shef­ tiful to stand by the house and look ; Irene Culbertson, Myrtle Sherred field; Myrtle Frantz Fry, Erie; off across the hills and valley. - and sister, Velma Hayes. Jessie McArthur Rose, Butler; Jer There is a clean look about the Elmer McMurren and wife were ry Quirk, Erie; Henry Peavey. farm — no hedge rows were ever back in his hometown several days Henry Peavey's daughter will be allowed to grow up on that farm. to take care of business affairs and graduated from Edinboro State The Town and Country Garden to attend his fiftieth class reunion College this year. His father was Club will hold their Garden Mart Ryes are home. They flew to a professor in the old Normal at the Boro Building May 7. You'll i Pittsburgh and Dick and Evelyn School and they owned the house find lots of things to buy and the Walker drove there to get them of the seven gables on Meadville I money all goes for good causes. i and bring them home. Street. , Better plan to attend. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Culbertson Two members of the class died I have known and been a friend iOf Lockport, New York spent Sun recently ~ Guy Amidon and the of a dear lady in this town most of day with his mother, Mrs. Edna Rev. Ivan Rossell who had married my life and I just never dreamed Culbertson. Fern Reno. she had a poetic expression for Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Swift of There are twenty-seven members things that you or I would look at West Cornwall, Connecticut were of the class still living and seven­ but probably never put into words. also in the old home town to visit teen attended the reunion. She and her husband are both good friends, attending to business af­ Frances Burchfield, Aunt Maude gardeners and have a vegetable fairs and be present at his sixtieth and a lady from Erie represented garden that is every bit as pretty class reunion on Alumni Day. This the Class of 1900 on Alumni Day. as their flower garden. year will also be his class reunion The oldest class represented was She looked out the window this at Yale. Gordon had been Supt, Luther Conroe of the Class of '98. t morning (May 2, 1966) and sat of Schools there for many years Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Torrey left down and wrote: i but has been retired for several Monday to spend ten days with "When I looked out my window j years. They spend the cold months their daughter, Joan Bryman, and this morning I in their winter home in Florida and family. And saw the ground all covered with frost I thought of my pretty flowers And wondered how many I’d lost. Edinboro Wise The Pool by the side of the garden Looked so cold all covered with ice. And I thought of the water lilies For lastyear they were so very nice. My beautiful bed of flowers All looked so crumpled and bad. And I love them all so dearly It really did make me feel sad. Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell Wasn't last Sunday a beautiful day to walk across the fields,through the pastures and woods, to sit on a knoll and look'out across the coun­ try side which is bursting into bloom and leaf or to drive around the country roads? The little wrens are back and looking around for likely spots to establish a summer home and raise a family or two. A pair of Evening Grosbeaks are nesting in a conifer tree in our garden, the black­ winged yellow-birds were eyeing the current and gooseberry bushes for a nesting spot and we saw a thrush and a bobolink Sunday, also. Larry and Nancy Earned have the framework up for their new house on Gibson Hill Road. They pur­ chased the former Eli Holt (Eli's grandfather) farm last year. We cut our first asparagus of the season last week and it tasted mighty good. 732-77P1 _____ .May 19.1966 ^ Bill Lang is now employed in Un­ ion City. As usual the dinner at the Catho­ lic Center was a huge success and there were several mighty weary ladies when evening arrived. The Vocational Department at the High School has shipped in and sold their usual large amount of sweet onion plants. Are you putting in a garden this year? It’s good for your soul as well as your body and pocketbook. Charles Carlson was involved in a car accident at Lakeside Sunday. Lynn Reynolds, a former Edinboro citizen, was involved. Biron Decker, Joe Ondrey and some of the vocational boys did the landscaping for the Weaver lot north of town which surely improves the looks of it. ^ Rains in May make a barn full of hay! Large trucks used for the new high­ way under construction west of town have made a mess of the dirt roads. ★ Edinboro Wise * Carrie Goodell J ' V. ^ ^ ^ * * '-V • V ^ ( ^ ' -- >4. 732-7761 ---- June 2, 1966 icdres youyou to death and a wet one starves have purchased the house which to death" is an old farmer's adage had belonged to Pearl Gross Miller that probably through time proved on Gusty Hill. They will remodel rnip true. the house and when completed of­ How beautiful the cemeteries fer it for rent. Both Ed and Char­ were this year with all the flowers lene are hard workers and have and how wonderful to know that heads full of good ideas and a year most folks really do remember. from today you'll never recognize Every year at this time you run in­ it. There is a good sized back to folks you haven't seen or thought yard with plum and peach trees of in years and have those good and grapevines loaded with little little visits that bridge the gap of grapes. It always gives me a time. I love it. great deal of satisfaction to see Friday morning bright and early folks like these working, planning Ruth Burgett stopped in for a cup and getting ahead in the world. of coffee and a little pow-wowon Charlene is descended from the her way to Willow Run to pick up earliest settlers in this area. her mother and then on to the fam­ Do you remember when Charley ily cemeteries in Warren County Mizener had a little house on this to fix the graves. Mrs. Prue re­ same lot and lived there? They turned with Ruth to see Mike be always claimed Charlie's chickens graduated from CoUege and spend roosted on the head and foot of his the week. Tony came home Fri­ bed. He wheeled an old wooden day night from Chicago to see the wheelbarrow around where he went graduation, also. He will be leav­ and picked up any loose, rails, ing for Vietnam in early July. boards or pieces of wood he saw Mrs. Drew Gleeten is converting lying around. This was his fuel. the second story of her house into He could be seen carrying his fid­ an apartment. Howard Fetterolf dle as he walked to the church at is doing the carpentering. It will Slabtown on Sunday mornings. His be very roomy and pleasant and a brother was the preacher there for most enjoyable place for anyone many years. Charlie always to live. seemed to be alone. I've often A lot of corn was planted this wondered if he had any friends — past week and a lot more will be anyone with whom he could sit going in this week. Clarence down and visit. Chase had com high enough that Jinx Walker has sold his cottage you could follow the rows through down by the outlet to Lee Halmi. the field last Saturday. The rows Jinx bought it from Roy and Bertha y'Jy^how up in our field, too. Simpkins several years a --------- —mm------------------- Jesse Tarbell has sold a lot to Eugene Pearson. Pearson is a road boss for Groves Construction who are building this section of the new highway 79. They expect the job here to last a couple of years. The cellar for the new house has already been dug. This (Jesse’s farm) is one of the oldest properties in the community, be­ ing settled by the McClaughrys and once part of the Lib Cannon estate. Georgia Borland has sold her house and land t('the Mukina fam­ ily (Mukina Realty Corp. )and ex­ pects to give possession this fall. Georgia's grand father, James Smith Pratt, bought diis farm of 50 acres from Charley Tryon in 1873 and it has been in her family ever since. Her father, Smith J. Pratt, bought his wo sister's shares after his father's death and this property was Georgia's share of her father's property. The school board for General McLane High School bought 21 acres frorn Georgia and her hus­ band Will in 1955 leaving them 29 acres. Charley Tryon had boutht the farm from John Cochran. Tryon's wife was a sister of Arch Proud's fa±er and to Hany and Charley True's mother. Tryons had a son Tim and a daughter Bertha. When Charley Tryon died he owned the property owned today by Jack Lov­ ett. Two or three years after Georgia’s father died, she, her mother and Harry left the farm (\>rhere Elmer Osterberg lives to­ day) and moved to her present home. She and Will lived there for 43 years. All the beautiful gardens have been planted during those years. Every stone in the rock garden, most of the trees and plants bring a memory of some friend who shared, some roadside find, a garden visited. It's surely the expression of beauty and fine­ ness of a person's soul. No one can ever love it as much asGeorgie because she created it. Do you remember when about this time the rag peddlers drove through the town hollering "rags, rags"? If you had any junk you wanted to get rid of that was your chance. The peddler drove a horse and wa­ gon out from Erie and back again with Ms load that night. This past week has been the lovliest of the spring. Every old apple tree in the countryside has been white with blossoms — or­ chards, the remnants of old or­ chards and the wild apple trees that dot the pastures. Lilac bush­ es scent the whole yard these days. It is reported that the former Echo Austin Dulaney property on Water­ ford Street has been sold and a down payment made on it. The new owners of the Variety Store on Meadville Street are the purchasers. As long ago as I can remember Myrtle Clark lived there. Bill Nelsons lived there for many years. They remodeled it and put in the fireplace. Mortimers will be moving back into their house (Dr. Hotchkiss and S. D. Hanson house) as soon as their students leave for vacation and Marian Miller will leave the College President's home and move into the apartment over the garage to be vacated by Mortimers. Faye and Glenn Knapp have been as busy as beavers Me past few weeks papering, painting, varnishing and cleaning the house on the corner getting ready for their new tenants, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gross and family, who will be moving in June first. The family had been living at Lake­ side. Mr. Gross is a state build­ ing inspector for schools in this area and at present is working on the Cussawago school. Willie Stafford of Itley Road is seriously ill in St. Vincent Hos­ pital. He was taken there May 24th. The former John Doing property on East Normal Street but in re­ cent years the property of Bill Klingensmith and Arnold Palmer has been sold to Robert Thompson. Palmers will be moving to the country. Do you remember what good gardeners Doings were? You went down there for cabbage and to­ mato plants and for the plants you needed for Decoration Day. John's flower garden in the extra lot at the side of the house was then a beautiful flower garden. He had bought the lot from Uncle Charley Austin who had bought it expecting that the granddaughter he wor shipped (Velma Walker) would! someday build her home there. John had a barn on the lot and kept two cows. He pastured the cows in a lot by the swamp which he later sold to the College and ped­ dled the milk around the neigh­ borhood. The combined picnic of Edinboro, ‘ Cambridge Springs, Venango and Saegertown Odd Fellows and Rebekas will be held June 5 at Ven­ ango Fire Hall. Dinner will be served at 1 o'clock. Families bring 'well filled baskets, own ta­ ble service and drink. Let's have a big turnout. District Superintendent A. P. Weaver was to have had the Conse­ cration Services of the Wesley Foundation new parsonage Sunday, May 22, but he was suddenly hos­ pitalized and the Reverend Mr. S.; James Schmittle had the service. A beautiful Open House followed. Those who poured were; Msdmes. Bruce Petersen, Ralph Ackerman, Harold Hopkins, Eugene Ankeny, Erwin Kerr, Richard Morey, and College students: the Misses Janet Saine, Kathy Evans, Kathy Rhodes and Sharon Siebert. The report on Mrs. James Skel­ ton who is in Room 245, St. Vin­ cent Hospital is that she is coming along very' well. She had been home over the previous weekend, then underwent surgery Tuesday. Jim's mother Mrs. Sylvia Skelton is keeping the home fires burning. The John Borlands returned Tues­ day from their long weekend at their Canadian cottage. The Henry Neunfelds of Ottawa, Canada with their two little sons spent the pre­ vious weekend with the Borlands and then they all went to Canada together. They are lovely, lively little men and we guarantee "nev­ er a dull moment" on that vacation. f - Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell Angie and Erla May Talmo are moving from the Ed Doolittle house on Market Street to her rriotl.eT’s house (Pontius) on Waterford Street. The Richard Meily family have sold their property on Sherrod Hill Road to Donald Wheeler. The or­ iginally was the farm and home of George Twichell’s grandparents, George Gillaspies. Harry Nye owned it at one time and when his widow wanted to sell it she couldn't find a buyer at any price so as a last re­ sort she gave it away to the Meth­ odist Church, Recent owners have made many improvements to the house. Most of the farm has been sold piecemeal through the year and the barn has gradually fallen in. Two new houses are going up— one next to the Crozier house on Water Street and one on Gibson Hill, nearly opposite Larry and Nancy Harned's new house. The one on Gibson Hill is being built for the Joe Wayner family at present living in a trailer in Cambridge Springs. Wayner works at Walker's garage, Laura Norton and Neil Swift were united in marriage, Saturday, June 4, 1966 at the Drakes Mills Lutheran Church. Doris and Lawrence Chapin were their attendants. After the ceremony the families gathered at Hellriegels for a wedding dinner. Our very best wishes to Neil and Laura for a long and happy married life. They are at home at the farm on Crane Road. Blanche Amidon Bole remains at the Presyterian Home and is in very poor health. Elizabeth (Beth) Cole Kingsley passed away after a heart attack last Friday. She was a cousin of Joe j Torrey. Jessie Nash and Ina Torrey Williams. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Holland of Market,Street left^nday rsorHing: ^on a leisurely auto trip to California ifwhere they will visit their son and: i'yTamily who live north of San Francisco. They will be returning in palate July. Hildur Torrey is caring for Mrs. Holland's house plants ^C>hile they are away. How wonderful it is to drive through town and not have cars full ■•jof college students shooting out at ^you from every angle. i i II u ; \ Kate Andrews arrived back in Edinboro this week. It is with sadness that we report the death of Mrs. Nina Hecker. V/e’ll miss those phone calls when she "just wanted to talk to one of us. " Nina Alcorn attended Normal School here, where she became acquainted with and later married Glenn Hecker. They settled on the I old McWilliams farm and raised I five children. In recent years, as i \ bothNina andGlenn’shealthfailed' a they moved to town and she loved : /c 732-7761 Edinboro Wise it there. She thoroughly enjoyed the trips around the country visit­ ing children,relatives and friends, in recent years. Tuesday morning a huge old tur­ tle was taking his own time about crossing the highway between the Cove and the Lake up by June Schlindwein’s. I'm not sure what di­ rection he was headed for. He was not taking any interference from anyone and was mighty independent Several cars shot by on the side of the road, then along came Bob Thompson, who stopped, and soon the old turtle had considerable tra­ ffic backed up from both directions. Each driver got out to see what the hold up was. Three or four cars back, a uniformed, snappy looking Crawford County Police Officer walked up, grabbed the old boy by the tail, remarked "Nick in Cam­ bridge Springs liked turtle soup". Put it in thebackseatof his car and took off. Traffic started moving again. Mrs. Ann Wozniak retained her office in the County Democratic organization meeting Tuesday eve­ ning. I Harold Stroebel, son of Mrs. Dori • Stroebel of Erie Street, has recently retured from the U. S. Navy. He and Marjory will be moving to Las Vegas, Nevada where he will be head steward on the administrative .level for the deluxe new Caesar's Palace Hotel. All his duties and re­ sponsibilities will cover the whole hotel and will have many persons under his direction. Marjorie will : be remembered as the daughter of : the late Paul Dundon of Edinboro. ^ Her mother, Marian Dundon, lives . in California and maintains a home ’ for her son Ed. Do you remember when fancy morning caps were the thing to wear? Margaret and I just HAD to have one because everybody else had one so Mother made very pretty ones for us of net, lace and bits of ribbon. The new Fall and Winter Sears catalogue came last week and what do you think is being featured?— an electric range made to look like the old cook stove. I can't imagine sitting on the oven door to get warmed up on a cold day, can you, or sticking your feet in the oven to warm frozen toes? Fact is,I've never seen an apple pie come out of an electric oven with ~ just the right degree of browness and juiciness bubbling out of the decorations on the top as comes from the old coal and wood cook stove. There is a difference when you take out a pan of cookies or raised biscuits, also. These are perfect June days.Many farmers around the township have started haying.Skeltons, Swifts and Axel Gardner are busy setting cab­ bage plants. As you drive along the country roads you can see where canker worms have defoliated hundreds of trees. Various bugs and scales are hitting the evergreens, too. Jim Snyder resorted to ariel spraying last week to protect his acres of Christ­ mas trees. The firemen were hosts to another very successful fire school last week end. The old house on Silverthorn Road, long the home of ArtSchrieber vv j and in recent years the property of Wilford and Neil Swift, was used for ^ demonstrating new methods of fire , fighting.The 'possums, woodchucks . and rats had taken it over. I'll bet I some of them got smoked out Sat^ j urday. •'j I found the first ripe strawberries ■ • i-in-our p^tTh fillPflffy } '. " ' - ' " ' “ t. ' . ^ 732-7761 Carrie Goodell .Tune 9. 1966 Ella Pulling passed away Friday • .. . „i afternoon at Hamot Hospital after several years of poor health. She - I > leaves her husband, Cecil, her son, 'y ^ Frank, and his family and a sister, ^ HattieSundback, of Cranesville.She / I ^ and Cecil were both working at the Pete Kirschner home when they met and were later married. They lived at McLane for many years before moving to their present home on Waterford Street.Ella will be greatly missed by her family and friends ' The Mukina family have purchased ;the Gross-Klakamp house on West NormalStreet and have a renter for it.Jerome McWilliams owned it and lived there at one time. A man by the name of L. Kent built the house sometime before 1865.Mukinas have also purchased all of the old Bartram farm except the house and lot from Harold Gifford. Vern Billings bought the farm from Mrs. Bartram (Helen and Joe Klakamp's grand­ mother). Vern used the slaughter house across the road that had been June 16,1966 owned and used by Johnny LeSuer and Arzie Bullock for the back part of the barn (burned two or three years ago). Bullock and LeSuer operated a meat market in town. \ The house on Erie Street which jcould be identified as the Mrs. Sol ^(Solomon) White-Joe Hecker house ■is being torn down. The house was built sometime before 1865. Mrs. Sol White owned it and kept a mil­ linery shop and was in the dress­ making business, also. When Joe Heckers moved to town from the, farm they purchased it and lived there several years. Mrs. Hecker loved to sit on the porch and visit withfolksshe knewwiiowalked by. Joe Lewankowski is tearing down the building. Andy Mukina had pur­ chased the property some years ago and after the building is removed I will use it as a parking lot. Mrs. Leo Hecker is now living ai San Rosario in Cambridge Springs, i i Axel and Audrey Gardner have a II new granddaughter. A seven pound 13 oz.baby daughter was born to | fjjohn and Cathy Mitchell Sunday' I morning, June 12. 1 Gary and Jean Nesbit and family arrived inEdinboro, June 9th. They d I are staying with Jean's mother, ? I Eugenia Hatfield, on Maple Drive p: ! until Friday, June 17, when they si leave for Oakridge, Tenn. Sunday ;HazelEicherand all of her family,!, the Nesbits and Mrs. Everwine's i; I niece, Winifred, and daughter spent : I the afternoon at Everwines and ate: supper there. It was a real family; ■ gathering. ■ ! A letter from Brooke Bishop tells i us that she will be going to school. 'in Mexico this summer and after school is finished will spend some time touring the country, i Bill Wagner has been in Colum5 bus, Ohio for the past two weeks I getting briefed for his new job— I agronomist with Landmar ( Ohio • Farm Bureau). He will be servicling the Payne-Paulding territory. iBill has been home for weekends, and this weekend he and Bobette, j taking with them Lynn, Betty and I'Mark are going down Payne-Paulliing way house-hunting, i Dr. and Mrs. M. D. Sproul at­ tended a Grand Lodge of the i I. O. O. F. at Philadelphia for four ! days. i ^ ^ i' ^ '■> w-At - ^ ■'•TK .... ;^v ~' "I ' ' -T5. ■> {, -^ - ^ iT"-"* < ' * ' c * Edinboro Wise * ★ Edinboro Wise ★ Carrie Goodell :• f *' -1^ r» ¥4^ f t^ ^ ^ * ''tt’ f Carn« Goodell 732-776^1 are getting shorter again, Time Hilliker,Inez Hoyt and Maude Aspin.| passes too fast. Word was received in Edinboro: Bert and Jerry Kiehl did a fast of the recent death of Ernest Mc­ packing and left for Selma, Ala^ Combs. He was buried last Mon­ bama last Thursday evening. Their day. He would have been 93 years daughter, Kay, was in the hospital old come September and was active with flu and they'll be looking after and alert to the very end. He had been building inspector for the city the grandchildren. Friday and Saturday, June 24-25, of Jacksonville, Florida for over; the Best Theater will be offering fifty years and never missed a day 'How the West Was Won.' Jack of work in all those years. He was: Torrey.son of Joe and Hildur Torrey, first cousin of Mrs. John Smith I will be seen driving one of the mule of Itley. ‘ teams in the picture. At the time David Babbitt will arrive home Jack was sporting an elegant beard Saturday from Camp Dix for a fur-, and when a Metro-Goldwyn scout lough. He will report to Camp came to the community in Dakota Leonard Wood, Missouri in early; I seeking men with beards to drive July. Cora Jones, widow of Charley [ the teams, he was chosen. Harry Gallant will soon be building Jones, will celebrate a 90th birth- i a new house souti* of town on the day June 27 at her home. The Meth, part of the woodlot which has been odist Home in Meadville. At one cleared off. It was a part of the old time Jones lived across the road Wade,later Kerr,Campbell,Gallant from Joe Flynn and later moved to i farm. That woods of virgin maple town and lived in the house next has been largely cut off but was to Uncle Ned's. once a beauty spot of the community Burr Darrow with his daughter and often used for picnics. Evelyn and family is back in the The Annie Goodrich house on house at White's Comers. Market Street has been sold by its Tony Burgett arrives home Satur­ present owners to Ralph and Darla day for two weeks before leaving Myers. I'm glad to see it return to for Vietnam. Mike will be leav­ the ownership of Edinboro people ing the same day to be inducted in­ where it will, no doubt, remain. It to the army. doesn't help any property to be con Edna Trow McLallenpassed away stantly changing hands. They will Friday evening at the age of 82. care for it with the consideration it She had had poor health for several merits. Ralph and Darla recently years. Three children, Franklin, 1 purchased the old Grim property Frances and Scott, had preceded ! next to it and have fixed it up to be her in death. Lawrence, Eleanor ! a comfortable and attractive home and Ruth, her husband Charley, and ' Both of them work hard and have sister, Frances, survive her. Edna prospered. I'm just wondering if was a wonderful mother and no : Darla doesn't have some of the one ever knew her to say an unkind acumen for getting ahead that ftirker or cross word or do any&ing to hurt Hayes displayed years ago and I've anyone. She was the daughter of never known of any of the Hayes of old and highly respected family OTTwho settled inthe Valley at an ear­ iiy uii" asking for or accepting free food ly, date. One of the loveliest of that is doled out in this couiity every the large old farm houses of that month.My best wishes for continued area was the family homestead un­ success to this energetic and ambi til her sister, Frances, sold it to tious young couple. the McCreary family some years Many years ago this house was the ago. The girls attended the Cum­ property of the JoeSmawley family mings School. Dad was their Their daughter Gertie was Dad's age teacher and we've often heard him and was in his class in Model School say that Edna Trow had the nicest along with Print Reeder, Ceylon disposition of any child he ever had Perry, Maggie and George Walters in school. Her most devoted fam­ Lily Jaynes, Alice Hanson, Edith ily, sister and friends will feel her Benjamen, Kitty McCrillis, Grace departing deeply. We are all the 'Scrafford, Fannie Shepherd, Bert poorer for having lost a fine and Dundon, Ernest McCombs, Mary gentle friend. Stancliff, Allie and Frankie Walruth villiage diat have porches on the front of the houses, using them. Carl and Elsie McWilliams and Inez and Marshall Sproul were sitting out on theirs Sunday, and enjoying watching folks go by. It's no fun to sit out behind ^e house on a summer evening where you don't see anybody. Guy Shafer passed away Monday a. m. after a long illness. He is survived by his wife and two sons. Our sincere sympathy to the family. Shafers moved to their present home, the old John Laycock farm, later the John Doing place,from Wesleyville about 28 years ago. June is producing some real sum­ mer weaker—hot and dry and per­ fect hay-making weather. The cove resounds these hot nights with bull frogs chugging, fire-flies flashing all over, mosquitoes buz­ zing and biting. The road chafers are terrible this year. First they started on the chestnut trees. Then the blooms on the late lilacs, the old fashioned rose bushes,white and pink peonies, and now the roses. Years ago the only bug you had to bother wi± was the potato bug. A paddle, a pail and a bucket of kerosene took care of them. Dad gave each of us a dollar to bug the potatoes in the garden^and the hired man sprinkledj die potatoes in. die field with paris green. The recent raid on a chicken fight in WarrenCounty brings to mind a; raid onafightof former years when local fans attended. The local boys decided what fictitious names they would use, just in case the state police did raid, and in his excite- 732-770 gp The roses are comine into thei first and loveliest bloom. It's hard; to find a farm house or home in the \ village that doesn't have a few rose ^ bushes, and they certainly give each “ ? gardener a lot of pleasure, BproulSf have a lovely rose garden. John and Ha:zel Banko give their roses great care.I love to see an old-fashioned ^ pink or red rambler at the side of j; a house or over a garden fence. They . are easy to start under a can and ; there are many that remind some-"^^ one of a friend long departed who Once brought a bouquet of them, and / yousurtedaplant after the flowerst had faded and dropped. f Probably forty-five years agO' Charlie Bowman worked f(» Dad,:' and after chores were done Sunday?^. morning,he took off for his beloved home and hill (will be Klines' today);: until time for evening chores. One Sunday he brought back a bouquet of red rambler roses and mother started a plant. It is still in my ^vj garden today and alwaj/^ brings back a chain of memories. Char-j lie had never been in the! Edinboro bank but kept what money he/had in an old shop sactcj and modier kept it secure for him-} a task she didn't much care for, so Dad took him tb the bank to openi up his first savings account. While ; he worked here in saved up enough that when he died it provided a good burial for him. One hot summer's day Dad and Charlie had been working in our field which later became the new, gravel pit. When it suddenly be­ came dark, terrific winds came up and torrential rains promised. The men turned the team and wagon toward home. We could hear the lumber wagon mame as Garfield Stafford who was rattle as the team ran along Market just ahead of him, had used. When stteet,Waterford Street,and turned die officer askedif they were brothers in our driveway. The pouring rains ’Will replied: "No, b'Gawd we came as the wagon passed through the barn doors. h'aint". Mr. and Mrs. Kingsley Bryman ' With the burning of Jim Skelton's and children are spending a mondi barn last week, the last of the in Europe as a gift of his employei:/ buildings of the old Isaac Reeder They flew to England where 'iey farm was gone and all destroyed by spent four days; in Luxeihbourg they fire. If time permits, I'll write up had an invitation to Betinbourg ihe story of the farm next week, j Castle as guests of the royal family. During World War II Bryman was knighted for rescuing the royal family. They visit Paris, Venice, Rome, Naples, dien embark on the S. S. Constitution and enjoy a lei­ surely trip stopping atGenoa,Canne^ an Algeciran and arrive home July 15. 'V" 1 i J- \ I Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell Margaret (Mrs. Don) Porter un­ derwent surgery at Union City hos­ pital last TTiursday. Last reports were that she is coming along fine. The entire community was sad­ dened by the accident and resulting death of Norman Hamed. Norman had bought his father’s farm which he operated along with his work at Roger Brothers in Albion. He is survived by his wife, three babes, his mother, a sister and several brothers. Norman was a hard work­ er. For several seasons he worked here for Neil Swift and a nicer, pleasanter boy I never saw. It was always a pleasure to have him work here. Our sincere sympathy to the entire family. It is reported that Hoch has sold his lumber business at Crossingville. He had built it to a very thriving ' and efficient concern and prospered i as he should. It is our hope that j the new owners will do as well. Virginia Swift will start her new position in the office at Hays Man­ ufacturing Co. in Erie, July 11. Edna Culbertson and her grandson, Greg, left Wednesday for a vaca­ tion visiting relatives in Canada. The Ed Doolittle house on Market Street has been sold to Donald Hayes. It had belonged to Edna Culbertson’s grandmother Amidon ' before her folks moved there. The ' first person Dad knew of owning it was MU Greenfield and I wouldn’t be surprised if he had it built. A lot of the corn in the fields around here was more than knee high by the Fourth. Jim Tolbert has deeded his prop­ erty at Cummings’ Comers over to Roscoe Robertson. Eleanor Wade Zinc is very, very ill at the Rondale Nursing Home. Abbie Wiseman left last week to spend the summer with her son, Cecil Wetsell, in Maryland. • Edna Culbertson is having a sale 0 f household goods and tools August 6tft. Oats are heading out. I haven’t seen a really good oat field this year. This will be a June to remember where farmers are concerned. Few have ever lived through such pro-i longed perfect hay making weather. 1 Two farms in Washington Town^ship are reported to have been sold which I shall report on later. 732-7761 July 7,1966 Remodeling is going on in tne former store building part of the property at Itley. Young Charles Gardner, his wife and baby daugh-j ter live there. It has been the prop-] erty of Gardners for 40 years. Ken and Elizabeth kept the store there until the second World War when food stamps and all the problems involved with war time proved too bothersome. They bought the building from Jinx and Bus Walker who had gotten it in an automobile deal with ^he fbrmer owner, Ralph Wilcox, jbe and Marie Gleeten owned and operated it for seven years at the time they were first married. Cecil Pulling, Etoy East­ man, Alton Kellogg, Dwight Bur­ roughs and Frank Beard all owned and operated the store at one time. If ±at old store could talk it could tell some mighty interesting tales for the little country store was the meeting place of the commun­ ity and everything of interest was discussed by those who came and went each day. At one time the post office was in the building, also. Then there was a post.office at McLane and one at McLallen’s Corners and Drakes Mills, too. Bun Pulling’s grandson (Anna’s son) from North Carolina was in Edinboro July 4th looking up the burial place of his grandparents. Margaret showed him where they had lived and the Millspaw farm where his grandmother was bom and grew up and the school which his mother had attended as a child (Gibson Hill School). His grand­ mother Pulling was Lillie Millspaw. Anna and her husband, who are both 70 years old and in good health, live in North Carolina in a town near the son. We had known the family as long as I can remember. Burr Pulling always sheared sheep for Dad. We always passed his farm on our way to our Dundon farm. The grandson was a very nice appearing man. Aunt Maude celebrated an 84th birthday July 6. Mrs. Thomas Sterrett, Mrs. Rob­ ert Sterrett and Mrs. Drew Gleeten stopped by Sunday afternoon for a most pleasant visit. How does your garden look? Ours is dry as a bone. The red potatoes are doing fair, the white ones are a stringy looking sight but the pusley beside them is thriving. Mildred Bruce is doing some re­ modeling to her house on West Normal Street and in keeping with its age which is good. Trying to make a modern looking house of an old one is like an elderly woman who you know is a grandmother dying her hair red, mouth painted up and smoking a cigarette. Ugh! Don Cornell is doing the paint job. Larry Hamed fell off a roof last week and is wearing a cast on a broken arm. This long dry spell and dust settling on roofe makes them dangerous business at present. Jim Sherwood who is in the armed services (Sam and Lucille’s son) is being sent to Germany. Who knows— maybe he. Matt Burgett and Leslie Stanford will have a chance to get together there. James Bowers of the U.S. Marine Corps in Viemam was badly wound­ ed apd died Sunday. He was the son of Frances and Donald Bowers. When a local boy dies there the war really strikes home. Mrs. Leo Hecker passed away late Sunday at Meadville City Hos­ pital after suffering a series of strokes. Survivors are her sons, our good friend Joe Hecker, and Eugene Hecker of Albion. Our sincerest sympathy to both sons in the loss of their mother. Her hus­ band, Leo Hecker, died in 1955. Many years of her life were spent on the farm at Crossingville. It was there that the boys grew up. The annual reunion of the 1926 and 1927 classes of Edinboro High School will be held Sunday, July 17, at the home of Mrs. Mildred Albright Reppert, two and one-half miles west of Littles Comers on route 198. Lordy, just think — next year it will be forty years since I graduated. Charles McDowell, 85, who lived with his daughter Mrs.Carlton Palmer (on the former Earl Kinter farm) passed away Sunday after an extended illness. He will be buried in the McLallens Comers Cemetery Tuesday p. m. * * >• ★ Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell 732-77R My 14, 1966 Nick Petrick entered St. Vincent So,in behalf of the ’boro I accept Hospital Sunday where he will this good and worthy gift. May it Ham McClure lived mere, jay Boylan worked the farm for several undergo surgery. long gurgle forth its good cheer for years as did Fred Pulling, Karol It’s a lively place at the Peny the horse that draws the burden of jShelhamer and Scott McLallen. Farm. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rexford, men and may their good choice of ] _ We^enjoyeda card and note from Ann Rinda.Jeff and Bradley arrived a thirst quencher be an example for Alaska and one from Mexico iast Friday morning for breakfast and their masters. jweek. We’ll tell you all about the will remain until mid-August.It’s Charles K. Henry—Burgess trip to A Mka injt^oming S en tinel a wonderful family get-together The flies are frightful oOarln^ the that they 411 live .for. we’ve watched our four oaby wrens jday and the mosquitoes chase us The Gleeten Reunion will be held being fed by their busy parents and July 24,1966 at the Edinboro Grange then leave their home this past laround the garden in the eveningsHall. Descendants of Sammy Glee- week. This bird house which Don oh well—that’s part of summer and ten,Charles and Mae Kirschner and Cornell made and gave us hangs I love it all. The John Borlands look "like a Paul and Nina Homer, will be the on a hemlock tree out back of the hosts this year. house.Another little house hanging million" after their lovely Fourth of July ten days at their Canadian I am glad the fountain is to be out in a lilac bush is also occupied. again. Its original place in the Rose Cochran ate dinner and spent cabin. They both swam, relaxed, center of the diamond will always the afternoon with Kate Apdrews. .and enjoyed the good fishing. (No be the most striking and fitting for Sunday. In the evening a friend of evidence,but we'll take their word those remembering it there. It was Kate’s from Teepleville visited her. for it. ) The Henry Neufelds with hard to get a horse or team past it Jim Skelton returned July 6th to I Michael and Tom added to their without letting them drink on a hot St. Vincent Hospital, Room 488, for I pleasure. The Merle Hutchisons are the new summer’s day. There was a place two weeks of treatmentforhis burns. for people and the town dogs to Last week he had surgery and this owners of Hoch Lumbers. Merle' drink, also. It was a fitting mon­ week will have skin grafting. I can says he is looking for a buyer foi ( ument to an age when the pace was just imagine how uneasy he is lying ‘ his Area Hi-Liter. slower, the horse was king. Charlie there and thinking of all the work Henry, the jeweler, was Burgess. to be done on the farm. All the When Mrs. Margaret Henry Clark 'oungsters have been well educated ‘■'V V. was going through her old papers ‘ tot farm work and are pitching in she found a copy of his speech and and working like little beavers so some comments accompanied it that nothing will be left undone. and sent it to me. It follows: Jim has a phone in his room so can I think your Uncle Ned made the ' talk to the folks each morning and -tv presentation speech vdiich must have keep tab on things. We sincerely been somewhere around 1910. hope all goes well at the hospital A copy of the speech made by my and Jim can return home very soon. late husband, C. K. Henry, at the The barn on the Reeder farm, part time of the formal presentation of of a large tract claimed by the the fountain. original settler,Job Reeder, in 1798 Fellow Citizens: was the last original one to remain Some people do not believe in standing. Ruth Burgett’s house was ■ miracles; I do. We have all read one of 5ie original buildings. or heard the story of Moses who Job and Nancy Campbell had smote the rock with his rod in the twelve children.One of them,James .. .ydiflerii^ss; #h » Letter to The Editor To the Weekly Sentinel, A rumor has reached our ears that Carrie Goodell is going to stop writ­ ing for our Weekly Sentinel. i Please don't harbor such a thot, Carrie. We need to know that thd voice of truth around Edinboro can' ^till be heard. Sincerely, James J. Skelton ■ V’ I i f '4 ■-‘YjrYY 5Y’ i, ‘ ^ a:' '-vaV- '?f Edinboro Wise e MLvans uisapproves Annexation To Edinboro Carrie Goodell 732-7761 uid you ever ^at green tomatoes The electric clock on the front and onions cooked together? Cooked of the Red and White store on right and properly seasoned they Meadville Street is just what was make a mighty tasty dish and one A petition seeking annexation Evans ruled that the annexa- west edge of Edinboro along the needed in town and is mighty handy. well liked in our family. We had by Edinboro of four parcels of tion, approved by Edinboro Water St. extention. Mrs. Drew Gleeten has rented those and sliced cucumbers last [and in adjacent Washington council if the court agreed, her newly made apartmentto^ new The petition for annexation week. The only thing missing to Fownship was refused Thursday would be in the interest of only was filed in October 1964, and a family on the college faculty. He make the meal perfect was little one of the four lot owners. by Judge Elmer L. Evans. series of hearings have been will teach Spanish and is from new potatoes fried in butter. Green He< said the prime mover in held since then. northern Michigan. She is also a apple pie was our dessert. Our red the petition was C. C. Porter, Evans ordered an additional teacher and a six year old son will astrakans are ready for use. one of the owners, who “seeks hearing on July 6 because he start in to school this year. annexation principally to secure was not satisfied with all as­ A group of children of high school This is the second week we've the benefit from connection with pects of testimony taken by the ! age from Corry, Albion, Erie, had cukes from the garden. How the Borough sewer and water bo^rd of commissioners. Cochranton, Wattsburg and Grove good they taste. system.” —Photographically reproduced City are at the college for speech The Village Garden Club of Mc­ therapy under the direction of Mrs. Opposed to the annexation from The Erie Times. Kean visited the garden last was another owner, Richard R. David Lawrence. Between supper Wednesday evening. It’s always a Rodack, who, Evans said, “has time and bedtime 5:30 to 9 p. m. pleasure to have these lovely ladies these services.” on Wednesday Mikke Borland has come and I hope they come again these children, one completely The petition favoring annexa­ next year. tion was also signed by the oth­ deaf, many with limited use of Red Austin fixed the pump at the hands, etc., at her home to work er owners, Anna M. Baker and cemetery last week and now every­ with ceramics and have punch and Hazel V. Shoemaker, Evans said Porter offered them “reim­ thing is fine. cookies. The things the children bursement for the additional tax The lightning storm last week are doing is really remarkable. obligation” they would incur caused considerable damage and This is just one of the many little through annexation. loss, around the community, A bolt known things that these two people Neither of the women ap­ of lightning struck and killed a do for the good of mankind and to peared at recent hearings in the heifer which was standing near the make the world a little better than case, Evans noted. barn at Ken Gardner’s, another they found it. Based on testimony he heard bolt came in and set Phylis Woods’ Work on the construction of Vere from Porter, Rodack and a electric cook stove on fire. During court-appointed board of com­ ______ _ . ^ and Phyllis Woods' new home X, ^ ^* the previous electric storm the old starts this week. It’s to be a two missioners who furnished back­ pine tree in front of the Woods ground in the matter, Evans ruled that Porter’s problem of house was struck. Dr Florek £ noticed it was on fire and stopped f . story, colonial style house and sewage disposal “taken alone, is placed so they can see the barns insufficient” grounds for appro­ in to tell them. One of the huge from its windows. val. old maples in front of the Ceylon I “Public interest is required in Chicken thieves were active ai Perry house was struck. such proceedings, and public in­ a farm east of Edinboro last Friday The barn on the Bill Kuhn farm terest is more than the interest night. south of town burned last week. of a particular individual in a I saw this in the ’Township News' particular instance,” the judge Alec Torrey, father of Joe Torrey and thought you might get a smile said. and Nessie Nash, built the barn — On his way to London to The lots are situated in Wash­ many, many years ago. ington Township on the south-j assume his post as executive officer Mrs. Russell (Catherine) Gleeton of the Anglican Communion, of Zanesville, Ohio has been visitBishop Stephen F. Bayne, Jr., was ing in Meadville and Edinboro the asked how he felt about his new -past week. She came to Edinboro duties. "Well, " he said, "I am Friday to visit Tom and Honey and left Tuesday. The lady who brought rather like a mosquito in a nudist her to Edinboro also brought Ruth camp. I know what I ought to do but I don’t know where to begin. " ^ McLallen Stafford along to visit Everyone was saddened by the : her brother, Charley McLallen, and accident last Friday that injured ;! Frances Ellicott. Sunday evening Aunt Maude, Liza Ryan, Lillian Kline, Eliza­ accompanied by Hildur Torrey and beth Sauers, Ethel McLallen and N orma Culbertson, The fol ks hac Jessie Nash, drove to the Presby­ terian Home at Cambridge Springs been to Ashtabula shopping and to call on Blanche Amidon Bole had enjoyed a very good time. and Ogdon. Blanche didn't know Near Norma’s home in Erie a truck loaded with unruly boys was Aunt Maude this time and Ogdon harassing them as they drove along is poorly. According to Farm Journal August In a second they had hit a tree and is to be hot and wet. It often with the exception of Norma whc happens — one extreme follows Was shook up all were injured and X, ' '■ f• ' 'v X ,-\K are in the hospital. another, Henry Tarbell is building a new home back on a lot between Neal Manross's house and the new one Stan Raw son. | Another accident Friday evening involved four young men on ?N west of Flynn Hill. Fortunately innocent folks in other cars weren’t injured as so often happens. Dr. Florekdid patch work on them and sent them to the hospital, also. Frank Connell’s barn burned to the ground Monday afternoon. Three fire companies responded to the call and saved the„huge old house nearby, It'Waa ap eticmrmpus barn and was full of new hay. It is a terrific loss and who in this day and age could afford to re­ place such a building. Like all farm neighborhoods since time be­ gan, neighbors pitched in to help house and care for the stock left homeless. These summer thunder storms bring to mind a story that Tommy Gleeton used to tell: Branch Blod­ gett, if working in the fields, al­ ways sought shelter in a privy if a thunder and lightning storm came up. One day while both men were helping thresh a sudden summer storm struck and Branch made dash for the building of refuge. When the storm was over and he emerged Tommy said, "Branch, why do you always make for one of those places when it starts to lightning?" and Branch replied, "You never heard of one getting hit, did you?" Joyce and David Redfield of Erie Street have a baby daughter born July 23rd at St. Vincent HospitaL She has been named Jennifer Joan. The King’s Daughters Sunday School Class of the Methodist Church held their monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. Drew Gleeton on Gleeton Hill. Those attending were Mrs. Erma Perry, Mrs. Win­ field, Anna Roth and her daughter Arlene Reese of Townville, Mae Norris, Mrs. Ted Freeman, Mrs. Fetterolf, and Mae Kirschner. The Deloe Agency is handling the selling of Wagner’s house across the road. The Earl Kinter property in Waterford has been sold and Paul Babbitt will auction a sale of the personal goods August 6tii. Wilford and Helen Swift and Ken and Elizabeth Gardner leave Mon­ day for a month’s trip out west. They will cross the Trans-Canadian Highway to Vancouver, Washing­ ton and Oregon and back through Yellowstone, etc. Mr. and Mrs. David Timko who built a new house on part of the* Perry farm on 6N are the parents of a baby daughter born July 22nd. at Union City Hospital. Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell i-’v;-' ; ;■(■''■ ^ t-w-„ ""-■• ^ < -i' r^' ,i:‘ - ,;4 .!: ' f'c r - . -^v ~ V V V t ^ 732-776- August 4,1966 Harry Pratt of Lawrence Park munity than a series of band con­ visited his sister, Georgie Borland, certs through the summer. Every­ a few days last week. 1 can just one would enjoy it. A lot of money imagine the long and pleasant is spent and a lot of work done in DUTIES OF TOWNtalks the two had. Georgie went our school music department- - wh) to Lawrence Park for the week end. not give the youngsters a. chance to' Lansdale High School (near Phila­ SHIP SUPERVISORS Weather such as we 're having now show off their skills and the sup­ delphia) for many years. His father, ^4—many Cltiz_ens know the is perfect for mildew and blacli porters an opportunity to enjoy it? Earl Kinter, passed away recently t duties of the Township Supervisors spot to take over so keep roses and Dennis Brown passed his drivers and he is here to settle up the i are that they elected? Do they your favorite lilac bushes dusted to test. know if diey are performing them estate. Chuck's grandmother, Mrs. Don Cornell is painting "The Thorpe, used to work for Mother: as required by law or are they neg­ prevent it. Either bush is a sorry Beehive, "216 Erie Street. mess once it takes over. and how we loved her. She coulo lecting to do what is required of and bridges. Township Supervisors Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lamson from make an extra doll for us from a The area where Jim Skelton's them by law? are "Duty Bound" to attend road barn once stood has been cleared Erie had supper Thursday nite with little of nothing and there was al- | Non-Performance of the duties, meetings and conventions. "This to the creek and looks beautiful. Paul's sister and husband, Mr. and' ways enough pie dough left for .. I or neglect of duty, are just causes includes the Annual County Con­ Stakes have been set on the other Mrs. Carl McWilliams. Mrs. Lam­ some fancy little tarts. , !for removal. Lack of knowledge vention and of course the Annual son will be remembered as Eliza­ side of the road for the building of Stella Ley of Franklin Township i of all the duties is not an excuse in Convention of the State Association. i' the eyes of the Court. Any Super­ They are required to erect index a new pole barn to replace, in a beth Y oung formerly from Edinboro. has been tapped for jury duty. Don Case and Don Cornell had small measure, the one that burn­ Marjory Storch has been hired to visor or Supervisors are subject to boards; festablish and construct a ed. It will house the dry cows, supper Thursday with the Eugene teach in California and left last f arrest for Misfeasance, Malfeasance system of sewers and drainage; pro­ Sherwoods. Sunday to drive through. She will| or Nonfeasance in Office for failure vide a supply of water for public and machinery, etc. Council Meeting was Monday be stopping on the way to visit| to perform the required duties and private use and may create a water 1 notice, too, that Art Williams | district; furnish police protection to on Lay Road is also in the process nite July 25,.iind.the quarterly Erie Gary and Jean Nesbitt. obligations. Conrad Stolls are building a new of building a pole barn. Many County Boro Association was held Many persons refer to them as the citizens; pass ordinances needed brick modern home just west of j Road Supervisors, there is no such to serve the best interests of the cit­ years ago the original barn on that July 27 at Union City Golf Club. 'The Elizabeth Circle from the their present home. We think the j Office as Road Supervisor. izens generally; such as to control' farm burned after haying. The old Swift school house formed the Methodist Church met Tuesday, one they're living in now is lovely , j Many persons run for the Office and prohibit the dumping of ashes, nucleus for the present barn and has July 26 at the home of Glenda with its beautiful old trees and | of Supervisor just to be one of the garbage, refuse anywhere in the style of architecmre. It is for sale. Supervisors with no knowledge what township even on private property;' been added to from time to time Swank. Don Case had dinner July . 24 Bernard Cowleys have sold a strip, the office entails. They make no to prohibit nuisances. Other regur ever since. Have you driven by Vere Woods with Don Cornell and the Mc­ of woodlot extending from Sherrod effort to obtain a working knowledge lations includes fireworks, parks, Hill Road to Silverthorn Road which of all tiiat the office entails. Some cesspool and sewer drainage, health, recently and noticed where they Williams. The Scottish Rite picnic was held Katherine's father always referred have cleaned out the brush down have a selfish desire of their own, fire prevention, public amusements, by the creek on the east side of the July 30 at-* Conneaut Lake Park. to as the dog's leg part of the farm. such persons are utterly unfit for the dogs running at large, naming farm. It will no doubt reduce the Quite a few from Edinboro attended. A lake will undoubtedly be made job. streets, transient merchants, public The "Street Car" picnic (North­ whereby the new owner can secure wild life that formerly inhabited To remove a Supervisor from of­ safety, building codes, junkyards, ' it but how much nicer it looks - - western Electric Picnic) was held water for irrigating his Christmas and “ fice for neglect or Non- Performance landsubdivision, planning like a beautiful park site. It July 31 at Water Works Park, Mead- tree farm. of duties merely entails a petition zoning. Frances and Helen Burchfield had of five (5) per cent of the electors would take a lot of courage to start ville. Pa. Not many from here are All road construction and recon-l, as their guests this week Mrs. a project like that and see it to left any more. But with their of the Township. When presented struction of roads must be by con­ children and grandchildren, about Florence Torrey Blystone and her to the Court of Quarter Sessions, the tract advertised and by competitive completion. sister Bertha of Meadville. The Court may issue a rule upon such bids only. Any work done in ex­ Do you remember when Edinboro 75 attended. Doris Zindel is home this week ladies are cousins of Helen's. Supervisor to show cause why his of­ cess of one thousand dollars with­ used to have a yearly Harvest Home with her parents - Mr. and Mrs. Wednesday they ate dinner at the fice should not be declared vacant, out advertising for bids is "ILLEGAL' Picnic? Everybody packed up picnic basket and came. You could Ralph Zindel Sr. aid dinner at the McLallen's Corners and another be appointed in his and makes the Supervisors libel for The BiUrWagners moved from Church. When Helen and her stead. eat at tables provided or spread out arrest for not doing so. a horse blanket that was room) our area Monday. Of course we Grandmother Tuttle used to live in Many persons are elected to the They must defend the Township enough to lay out the dinner anc had known it was to happen but we part of Grandpa Goodell's house, office because tiiey are well known in any Court action to the full limit the family to sit around its edges had not expected to lose Bobette, Florence often came to visit and in the community and are popular. such as annexations of sections of Horses hitched to buggies or surreys Mark, Billy and Lynn Ellen this we have pictures of her that she had I This does not mean that they are fit the township. Failure to do so were tied to trees. A very few soon. Bill came home Friday with given Grandma. She was a for the job. They may be good makes them liable for charges of folks came in automobiles. A pro the news that he had a nice house, beautiful young woman and the farmers but they could be completely Malfeasance- - Nonfeasance and gram was provided -- Coleman' and they were to take possession dress she wore was lovely. unfit for the job of Supervisor. Misfeasance in office. This is a Jimmy Snyder is selling off some Band from Union City was hired to Monday. What a weekend for All meetings, both regular and misdemeanor and they may be fined be there and play off and on during them! Sunday they had dinner of the timber from the fifty acres special are PUBLIC MEE-HNCSat up to $500. 00 and removed frorr the day and how we loved to hear with the Richard Kodaks. Monday he owns along the Kate Schine Road, which time any citizen of the Com­ office and shall be subject to sur­ that band music. A contest to catch as they left, they dined with the monwealth may attend. No busi­ charge to the extent of the damage a greased pig was always popular Dale Gormans. As the Semi drove ness may be adopted except in an thereby sustained by the township^ I remember that Romey Lasher off with the furniture, Mrs. John "OPEN" meeting. In short Township Supervisors are caught it once. Catching a pig Mares of Franklin Center climbed Among the required duties of all required to do many things--not without any grease is a real feat into her car with dust mop, broom Township Supervisors are care and just be satisfied to come to a meet­ and bucket. The house was im­ but catching and hanging on to maintenance Of all Township roads ing once a month and then go home. greased one was a real challenge maculate, and Bobette and Rose Bus and Jinx Walker had a tractor looked "beat". fixed so it could keep going round Little Tammie Linn Kiel, bab) and round in a small patch of ground daughter of Gloria (Hertig) and without an operator. The platform Gary Kiel, passed away August 1st would be cleared during the after at the home of her grandparents, noon to permit local men with Mr. and Mrs. Allen Lambein. The Missionary Alliance Confer ambitions for political office to speak. When one local man talked ence is being held at the camp his wife sat under the platform tc grounds west of town this week. act as prompter and Dad always Chuck Kinter was in Edinboro claimed that in the man's excite Sunday looking up old friends. As mentof speech making he wet him a young man he had attended McLallen's Corners School, Edinboro self. I can't think of anything that High, and went to college when we would be finer for our home com did. He has taught art in the Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell 732-7761 __ _ A^ust 11, 1966 ■w: % *■ *5" ~5vf-. t-'n-‘*. - v7^ *‘''*“^ 2. •U- -'f V « - V -1- If. " .■ - % ' "» X , ,t , . ^ " n~ ,c ■ V-f •J 1. •7^ ^”7?r t'V -V ^ f. ^ rn. ■^' ^.sTUfe.- .^ -'. r^7 'T- ■f■ ..f'' •* _ ,; fr ■ *:' .7 . Xf -XiT ^ *«. 'f"‘ ^ ^ r ^^ , ' ^ V ^~v r ^ , ^ ^ .V'J '/ ' ■'-'5,f:>£ < , ' "r'S^AVv/ ;,. '5- -* '•yi; , 7_'- ‘ ' ■'■ ,t.7,^;.' ^ • ’ . .' "'t. 73i September 1,1966 <-> /■'. r-.. -/ #»*/tj.' Edinboro Wise , y-7"'r- Wasn’t Sunday a perfect day for the last one of August? When you get offthe main roads a deep farm quiet lay upon the countryside and as we stopped along a roadside and looked off across the hills that would soon be a blaze of color, wondered where the summer had gone. I've never seen the pear trees hang more heavy with fruit than this year. Neal and Gladys Billings left for home Sunday after visiting friends and relatives in this area. Gladys used to be our Sunday School teacher many years ago - more than 45. I still have a tie rack she gave me for Christmas one ? year. Her mother was house| mother at Reeder Hall then. I noticed in the legal notices in i the Morning News that Donald Helmbrect and David Redfield have dissolved parmership. Redfield will continue to operate the construction company individually. Mrs. Donald Case and Beatrice arrived in Edinboro last Tuesday evening from Alaska. What was to have been a three week's trip turned into an eight weeks one due to the airlines strike. I’ve been dying to tell you about this trip all this time but I promised I wouldn’t peep about it until she was home again. Maybe next week I’ll have the story for you. Anyway she got there safely al­ though a few hours late, had a wonderful time, saw lots and lots of interesting things and a pleasant belated flight home because Bea­ trice, an experienced traveler, came home with her. Bea left Saturday to return to Alaska. I Because our politicians were too afraid of losing a labor,vote to do ; anything about the strike and the : vacation became a prolonged one, | Bea and her roommate decided to | offer her mother a job ~ doing the j cooking for $5 a week. They | came home one night to find her reading instead of cooking and cut her wages to $2. 60. What fun! and a trip she’ll never forget. Mrs. Cynthia Prue is spending some time at the home of her daughter, Ruth Burgett. Evan and Arlene (Harned) Brown and children arrived in Edinboro last Thursday and will be spending a week here visiting Evan’s mother and sister and Arlene’s dad and sister. Evan is teaching in re­ search at the University of Georgia and Arlene is one of the sweetest,: most attractive and cultured young woman to ever grow up in our town. They are a fine young couple and relatives and friends alike can be mighty proud of This summ^r~they bought a camper and took a leisurely trip to the West Coast visiting all the points of interest. They, like so many others, thought visiting the Redwood forests was the highlight of the trip. A garden center such as Agway has operated the past couple of years is needed in this community. Agway is closing that part of its 'business and returning to a strictly feed, seed and fertilizer business. A couple who would establish such a center and carry goods that gardeners want and need along with a lawn mower repair business that you could really rely on would have it made and have the blessing of the entire community. Joe Gleeten and Aunt Maude attended the Osborn reunion Satur­ day and on the way home stopped in at St. Vincent Hospital to see Mae Kirschner. Caroline and Harry Strats arrived here Saturday to spend a vacation with her mother, Mrs. Drew Gleeten, and also see her sister and husband, Barbara and BobSterrett. They will be seeing lots of other relatives and friends, too. Helen Gornall accompanied by her parents, Bertha and Roy Simkins, have been on a car-trailer trip to California and back. Doris Leacock Wise was in Edin­ boro last week. She was in Erie for interviews concerning a teach­ ing position there providing she can secure a release from contract with her present Board. Folks south of the bridge at Hobbs’ Mill are complaining of the smelly, contaminated con­ dition of the water in the creek supposedly resulting from the overcapacitated condition of the Edin­ boro sewer plant.. When we can tomatoes we add a little onion, pepper and celery. It takes away that flat tomato taste and adds a little zip to the flavor. Our Sweet Russets are ripening and are mighty good but we miss our ol(J Golden Sweet tree at this time of year. Ifwe were going to the field and ex­ pected to be gone all afternoon. Dad would put a half dozen or so in his .pockets so we could eat them as we worked. Alfred Haller has returned to Pittsburgh to spend the winter with ; his sister. Mamie Stanford leaves Thursday, September 1st,, for a two weeks trip to Germany to spend the time with her son Leslie who is in the air force there. Leslie has bought a small car and saved his thirty day leave for just this occasion-so he and his mother can travel through Germany, see the sights and be together. He has been in Berlin for fifteen months and both are homesick to see each other. Mamie leaves the Erie airport at 1:37 to fly to Kennedy Airport where she will be met by Barbara and husband. Dr. and Mrs. Richard Bahn, who will take her to dinner and see her on the plane at 9 p. m. She will arrive in Berlin the next morning at 11:45 where she will be met by Leslie. She arrives ( home September 15. Such a | pleasant trip couldn’t happen to ( , a more deserving per son and our ; very best wishes to her. Do you remember when you went; into a grocery and asked the grocer if he had good cheese - depending on how you like it - stout enough to bite back or mild and rubbery? j He took his knife and sliced off a i generous taste and if it suited you, (you told him to cut off a couple ,of pounds which he wrapped and just the shape of the package made you think of crackers - crackers and cheese and a ring of baloney. Just one thoughtless moment and days of payment for it! Last Saturday Jesse Koon had started up the baler to start baling and it missed so he had to rethread it. For some reason Anthony Sokall, a hay buyer, was bent Over the kicker on the baler and ♦ : accidentally hit his atm against the trip. The kicker threw him up in the air and against the wagon. He has one broken' rib and internal ; injuries. He was taken to St. J Vincent Hospital. ; Dr. Miller has purchased a lot west of Dick Walker’s at Sunset and Ray Carlson is excavating for the cellar of the new house. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Glunt, Sr. | have returned form a two week’s vacation at Ocean City, New Jersey. Several brothers and sisters went together to rent a cottage and there the clan congre­ gated to enjoy the beach, just re­ lax and catch up on visiting. Ruth McLallen and Grace Glunt visited their parents one week end. Harry Glunt’ssister, Mrs. Caro­ line Ferguson, will be the new house mother at Ed in-Hall for the coming college year. Mrs. Fergu­ son’s husband passed away last January. She has a son who is married and has a home of his own. She anticipates pleasure with her position and being near re­ latives. She is also a cousin of Louise Bjork’s. She will arrive in Edinboro Sunday. Mrs. George Cope (they own the former La Bounty house) came home from the Crawford County Fair with several first and second prizes on jellies which she had entered there. The former Ceres Twichell, her husband and grandson are here from Kansas City,. Missouri visiting her cousin, Lorna Sheets. They arrived last Friday and Ceres and grandson will be staying on for another week. She was Leverett Twichell’s daughter and they lived in the house on lowerMeadville Street later owned by Charlie Zortman. A college teacher lives there now. REMEMBER: " He that planteth a tree is a Servant of God ... He provideth a kindness for many generations . . . And faces he hath not seen will Bless Him." -r-,’ n- ., \’r- ^ im 'h'"SkK'' September 8,1966 Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell Bob and Lillian Evans are enter­ taining at open house in honor of the fiftieth wedding anniversary of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James E. Evans, at their home on Meadville Street on September 18 from 2-6 - p. m. Evans were married in her home in Ema, Pa. by the Rev. Murdock, the Methodist minister. They went to Atlantic City on their honey­ moon. When 1 asked Alice how they hap-1 pened to decide on settling in Ed­ inboro, she replied, "For many years we and my folks used to spend a week or so of summer in Edinboro and always stayed with Bert and Rose Cochran. We loved Bert and Rose, loved Rose's wonderful cookP, ing. Bob, our only child, wanted to stay here and because he was S the center of our lives we decided ^ to come here until he was through school and then go back. We’ve | lived here twenty-seven years - | five years in the Marvin McLallen • house on the corner and twenty-two years in the Effie Wade house, our j present home. We love the town, I our home and now could never think i of living anywhere else. " By the time you read this the Perry farm with the exception of the house and an acre of ground and the timber rights will become the property of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to be used for future college expansion. This is the first time it has been out of possession I of the direct line of the Perry family I since Eunice Perry and her twin I sons, Samuel and Samson came by covered wagon from Massassachusetts and settled. Two generations, Samuel's son Darius and Darius' daugher Alice (Rob Shields’moth­ er) were born Tn‘the Tog‘house "oh the north side of the creek before, the house was built south of the creek and nearer to the barn more than a hundred years ago. A little foot bridge was built over the creek to get from the log house to the barn. South of the present house had been a log school house, taught by Parney Crossett. It was one of the earliest school houses and Parney was one of the first teachers in this community. Faye Knapp has the hour glass which Parney used to tell time for classes. 732-7761 - '5^- V r Samuel Perry and Parney Crosseu were married and had twelve child­ ren. Darius was the father of Alice and Ceylon, Alonzo who owned the Ghering farm was the grand­ father of Luceil Ghering. Stillman and Alonzo Perry were the great grandfathers of Bertha Crandall. Mary Perry Slocum lived where Royce Mallory lives. Gilbert Perry owned the farm where Russel Walker owns today. It was his daughter Sophie who climbed up on the barn roof and put in the colored slates to mark &e date of its erection. He was also Reuben's grandfather. Horatio was killed in the Civil War. Carl and Elsie McWilliams and relatives of Elsie's from California visited two of Elsie’s brothers in Ohio Friday through Sunday. How in the dickens do big fat crickets manage to get into a house. We’ve caught three and put them outside. 1 do like to hear them sing. We had a card from Angeline Amidon. She is settled in her new apartment at Clearwater Beach, Florida. She says from her windows she can see both the Gulf and the Bay. She left Cleveland August 28. Mike Burgett arrives home Sep­ tember 10 for a furlough. Julia Fuller Sherwood and her son Ronald who will be a senior at Col­ lege here were in Edinboro Saturday. We saw Mrs. Case's pictures of her visit to Alaska one night last week and thoroughly enjoyed them and the comments of each. Pictures taken at a community project sim- - " ilar to our school fairs and abouti* on the same scale showed the folks r ^square dancing and several campers, ! of tourists who had traveled the Alcan Highway. Other pictures showed a moose along the highway that a motorist had hit and broken two of its legs, a trip to Mt. Mc­ Kinley, the long, lonely highways ^ v ^ bordered with tall narrow spruces , , i and the snow specked mountains, r : Food and clothing Ate very expen-i sive. A regular supper for three at a restaurant would run about $20. ‘ j Lightning storms had ignited forest fires and thousands of acres burned off near the Fort, and the smoke r ‘ made folk's throats sore. Soldiersl vstationed there were called out to^ fight it. BertKiehls spent a few days with .. & their daughter Betty Ann and family in York State. " These cooler days drive the flies ‘ to the screen doors and the old 1 " seed flies to cracks around the win-, i j dows where they can crawl in for the winter. Our cellar shelves are pretty well filled and except for some tomato juice and plums our canning for this season is about over. We've ' saved our pepper seed and different kinds of tomato seed for next year and pulled all the onions whbse tops are dead. We put the onions in the corn crib to dry off before taking , them down cellar. The strawberriesi are still bearing and sweet as honey at this time of year. September was the month Mother \ ' used to start putting down eggs in; i salt so we had a good supply to use during the winter. Our hens with ^ the exception of one or two gave ~ up, layiu§ wi^ die corning ,pf ppfd < ^ weather. ' .. ' The swallows have left and in places in the woods the robins arei i collecting to start their autumn ; ^ journey to the Southlands for the s ' winter. i-s.c J 'A- '' r; - -.V - % ^tC. ,-rT r ' :> Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell 732-776'l ■jA-rJ jr. ^->7; - t % >1. i-J- , ■? Happy New Year, folks. Haven't we had perfect Christ mas weather these past two weeks? I'm willing to carry in more wood and coal and shovel snow just to get It. After New Years though it can quit. Our first seed catalogue " Geo. Parks" arrived last week and I have my order made out and sent you like to raise asters, try their Super Giants mixture and Massagno I raised them last year and they're truly beautiful. Joe Gleeton will be in Florida by the time you read this. Mae and Charlie Kirschner spent their Christmas with the Paul Homer family in North East. Paul came to get Mildred Sedgwick in Cambridge, - Kirschners here and returned them in the evening. Ken and Elizabeth Gardner enter­ tained all of their family January 1st for a combined Christmas and New Years. I wish you could have seen the box of beautiful and varied varieties of Hollj^ from Oregon which a friend sent to Helen Fox for Christmas. The leaves are much shinier and the berries fatter than the varieties grown around here. Later on I hope try starting some the cuttings under cans and hope for some success. Georgia Borland spent Christmas day with the James Wolfe family ! in Erie. Jimmy came out for Georgle, they all went to church, went to Laurel Hill where Will is buried, had a late Christmas dinner and he brought her home in the evening. We have lost another good life time friend. It just doesn't seem possible that we can never again visit with Don Harrison, listen to his stories of early McLane. He fg never could tell us apart so always made out our statements The Good­ ell Sisters. He used to tell us that he could stand at his place and see in any direction that he looked properties and buildings that his ancestors had owned and built. All the Harrisons, Frank. Don, Glenn, May^ Florence, Sue and Blanche went to school with Mother, Uncle Ed and Uncle Clate. Gusty Everwine always claimed there never was a better carpenter than Don Harrison. One that he built here was Park Skelton's house in Girl Town. Most any time last summer that he had some spare time he was out ^^ggiug or planting in his flower beds. He knew their botanical names as we as their common names and often referred to them as such. 1 Bishops called Sunday afternoon December 18, from Naples, Flori­ da to tell us they would be arriving here December 26 to spend some time with us. They got as far as Titusville. Preston who did not have snow tires had several bad skids, the storm was getting worse so they decided to hike for home. They called December 26, we had a good visit with Brooke, Pret and Dick. Dick (the blond twin) leaves for California and from there to' sSaigon where he will be stationed; iwith the Joint Chiefs of Staff, j The "^Sfespeh Silva family of I Gleeten Hill entertained Mrs. i Silva's parents, her sister-in-law ; and four children from Chicago i over the Christmas week end. ^ .There is no lovelier time than at I Evan and Arlene Brown and the children Linda and Mike arrived in Edinboro December 23 to spend Christmas with the folks, Mrs. Caroline Brown and Dorothy and Henry Gill. Gordon Harned, Arlene’s dad, ate Christmas dinner with the families. They returned to Georgia Thursday, December 29 th. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Erb and Helen's sister visited us recently. They live in Carlisle where they purchased a home. Helen is still teaching. Milton and Richard both work for the same company. Milton and family are in Holland ■ where they will be for three years. Richard was home for Christmas but has been in Europe and Africa and will work in twenty-eight countries before completing his Christmas when you hear from acj tually hundreds of friends. Letters present unit of work. Catherine's i telling of their past year, their husband is in charge'of public re­ I families, almost all with a sincere lations for a college in Ohio. They invitation to come for a visit—all have one little boy. I enclosed inside a beautiful ChristGeorge Kline has sold his timber. ' mas card and it truly warms one's The purchasers are skidding out ■ heart to know that you are relogs to the Rice Road and loading j membered. them there. It is all virgin timber I Ihope you are blessed with strong and mostly maple. These trees I religious principles and feelings— had made up one of the finest and ; otherwise one would be disgusted largest sugar bushes in this area for I and disillusioned by the group of the last hundred years or more. i preachers who first dashed out that Klines could always tap a couple j'God was dead’ and now telling ^ of weeks before others and the 1 young men how to avoid being : early runs produced the highest -i drafted. j grade syrup. The syrup making I Faye Knapp left Christmas night I equipment is up for sale. George's J for Waltham, Mass, to spend the ? great, great grandfa±er, Peter ^ week with the CarlRexford family. : Kline, settled on this land in 1795. ] Carl’s sister accompanied her. [ Arnold Campbells of North East j Ann Rinda, Jeff and Bradley were | and Grace Campbell spent Christ­ mighty happy to see their grand-; mas at the farm homestead south mother arrive. Little Connie and \ of town with Robert Campbells I Steven Hays are just as happy to Grace returned home with Arnolds, I have her back home. for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Kiehl had A Christmas note from Clyde and all of their family home with them Gladys Wilson tells us that Clyde over Christmas. had been quite sick for a couple Mr. and Mrs. Joe Torrey left of months last . summer ^ December 21 to spend the holidays better now. ; with their daughter Joan and I'll tell you right now that we j family in Cleveland. Melvin ate too much during the holidays ; Torrey and family spent Christmas and it's going to take a month ] with his brother, Rodney Torrey, starving and walking 200 miles to I and family in Erie and then visited get rid of the effects of it. j his folks and Joans in Cleveland There must have been a hundred ; before returning to their home in little snow birds, some cardinals, ■ Indiana. Joe returned after New chickadees and nuthatches around i| Years but Hildur stayed on a few our back feeder this snowy morning. i days longer. Several woodpeckers were eating Bernard Williams (his father is away at the suet, too. Superintendent at Penn-Union) I — If yyou already — haven't . w.. I, .....A J, had a spent his college vacation at home : stomach full of Bobby and Jackie with his parents and little sister I Kennedy, their relatives and fellow Laurie. -------------Layton SwiftMable and daughter Linda spent Christmas and the holi­ days in Jamaica. Mrs. Gladys Caldwell spent | Christmas with her daughter Vir­ ginia and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Buel, of Conneautville, Pa. travelers, read the article entitled "Rift of Kennedys and L. B. J. " in| the Jan. 2 issue of U. S. News & World Report. That ought to be I enough to sicken anyone of them. The driver of the Boro truck with k snow plow raised and lights flash-1 ing delivers his wife clear to the[^ back entrance of Penn-Union many! mornings. Bill and Arlene (Proud) Parsons and daughter Patti called at our house Saturday forenoon on their way to Warren, Pa. to attend thel funeral of Bud Proud. But (Clair) was the son of Arch and Rose Proud and Arlene's brother. We hadn’t seen them since Charley Cole's i funeral. One of their sons is with the FBI and one of their daughters is in the Waves. She is stationed at the Naval Air Station, Memphis, Tenn. to attend Aviation Store­ keeper School. She had attended j the University of Kentucky. Billj and Arlene live in South Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky. Bill is con­ nected with The Gibson Art Com­ pany and Arlene's brother, George, is Vice President. Arlene is the| very image of her mother. Albert Amidon was in town Saturday looking up old friends and attending to his six cottages at Lakeside which he rents to college .| boys during the winter months. Did you notice how well stocked all of our Edinboro stores were at holiday time this year—and with @ articles you really need or could want? Carrie Goodell ------- . ..r ---------------- - p Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell 732-776’! In the name of progress this beau­ tiful old woods and the sugar camplv;'. gathering nuts every fall, going I blackberrying,picking wild flowersji cutting a hemlock Christmas tree, [ As a reward Miss Ruttle often When I first came to Edinboro We had street cars then which will soon be just a memory to the (from Wheaton/Illinois) about took groups of girls to Jolley’s took us "way far away’’—so it folks who knew it and loved it. forty years ago another young Drug Store to the cozy little room seemed-to Erie. The schedule I’m just glad I grew up when I did teacher and I used to take walks in with its round tables and metal was often erratic in snowy weather and could experience these things. the evening for the pleasure o f chairs where each student could but there was usually a feeling of How we’ll miss the color there in "window watching." Margaret guzzle an ice cream soda. This accomplishment when one went to the autumn. It always seemed the Bailey-the other young teacher- was, of course, the high point in Erie and back in order to see a rainbows ended in that woods, too. had a delightful sense of humor and; the afternoon of the hiker. play in the old Opera House. We The Rev, and Mrs. Harry Wainused to imagine who and what the During the Depression years Mr. had excellent plays there. right and family visited her folks families were as we boldly looked Jolle'y was often asked to bring When the bus service was in Sharon and spent Wednesday and into the lighted rooms. Many of (one) soda and four straws. Stu­ established I can remember how Thursday between Christmas and the homes on the mainstreet-Erie, dents would sit for hours in that thrilled we all were~to have that New Years with John and Mikke Meadville street had large framed I little room where now prescriptions big handsome vehicle come in and few days before returning to theii! \- Borland. pictures of their ancestors on the I are dispensed. Mr. and Mrs. out of our town and take us easily home. : Dorothy Kunkle, McLane, rewall. Some homes had beautiful i Jolley were always wonderful and safely where we wanted to go. Jinx and Mildred Walker leave t, turns to her teaching at the beold fashioned cylindrical lamps but I friends to the students. When the The Saturday night square dances for a winter in Florida this Satur­ [, ginning of the second semester. all looked peaceful and cozy as we I Jolleys gave up the soda business on the street in front of the Robin­ day. Glenn Knapp and Nelson [i Did you used to hop bobs in the peered in from the all enveloping 1 in their store something delightful son House drew everyone with any Tuttle left Friday morning for a !l winter time? The road would be darkness. spirit at all. Those who didn’t went too. vacation there. ;,i bldwn full between Mark Drake’s At that time there was no movie p Another "watching activity" that dance had fun watching and Monday, January 9, would have (Connors) and our place and that in Edinboro. There were of course ^ seemed a part of Edinboro’s Main chatting with their friends. Traffic been Dad's 92nd birthday. Aunt distance seemed like a mile when no TV’s and not many people Maude ate dinner with us that day. Street life was that of looking to through the'town did not seem to owned even a crystal radio set. I we were youngsters. It was the see what new pictures Mr. Kupper concern us. James and Evelyn Stewart's new coldest stretch, too. had brought one crystal set from I mustn't forget to mention the had put in his tiny little windows. home on Lay Road isprogressing One evening last week when Chicago-a gift from my brother pleasure that "Sammy" Gillespie nicely. Sometimes there one got the first' Margaret went into the chickdn Bill who was a radio engineer and brought to all clothes conscious Have you noticed that little coop she discovered a possum in a announcer from KSD in St. Louis. view of newly weds or of n e w ,women of Edinboro. She had a jumper affair skidding out logs hen’s nest. We pried it out with a The other teachers who roomed | babies or graduating classes. Often [well stocked supply of dresses in from Perry’s woods to an area north a fork, carried it outside and,, where I did (where the MacNees I Mr. Kupper would include some ' ithe back of the Gillespie store but of their barn on Perry Lane? We finished him out there. family now lives) would gather in | new view of the lake which he ftlshe loved to "talk clothes" with There’s f knew all those trees--the huge hem­ another around and we’re watching my room where we took turns | often added to his, collection. „ His iany stroller who might come down locks, the beech, the maple trees ^ for it. listening with the ear phones and nature photography was excellent that produced the sweetest sap, the 1 but his individual photography left I chuckling with excitement and joy much to be desired. This little ^ This store is now the Esley large Ash on the hill near the as we heard from distant states. Apparel Shop. To me, the spot sugar house, the dozens of large Among the women of the faculty I shop was next to Mr. Kupper’s ; often brings memories of " Sammy." hickory trees scattered through the ' there was one who owned an auto- jhome which stood when the Presby- ; The Hopkins shop always had an woods, the twin maples, the two mobile, a Ford owned by Grace jterian House has been built. interesting array of aprons and buttonwood trees in an open spot in Grahanj from Mercer. After the i The flash pictures which Mr. materials and pretty things that any the sugar bush, the huge old bitter­ evening meal in Haven Hall she iKuppertook with the old fashioned young stroller might enjoy. We sweet vine that covered the top of f-' would often take her friends out for j flash sticks sometimes caused gales had no DimeStores-had to go to a thorn tree. There were always pf laughter or shouts of exaspera­ Erie or Meadville for those. ra little ride. The chariot was lots of squirrels, red , black, gray precious to her and we felt wei tion at the college. After a group I started to write this piece about |- ; and fox in that woods. A deep, must be unusually careful lest wes was all posed for a shot, the flash Windows for today we have such long valley with a tree lined creek 'stick would not go off and Mr. ^ an emphasis upon them in our | mar it in any way. coursing the length of it was so Kupper would patiently start all j homes. Today however the cur- | Life moved at a slow pace. beautiful at any season, but on a Frequent faculty picnics, sleigh ; over. j ■tains are usually drawn in the eve- | moonlight night almost too beauti­ There used to be a funeral parlor ; ning^nd a stroller today could not | . rides, parties and evenings of con-; ful and one of our favorite places versation filled in our free evenings '; where Jerry now has his market. ■ have the diversion -of looking! for a weiner roast. The old sugar when we were not occupied with f Needless to say we did not stroll through the windows meeting the | house that we loved has fallen in. paper work, class preparation, or ‘ to that point but we did enjoy gaze of the ancestors upon the | Generations of the Perry men going in to look at the Fords which walls. (Needless to say, we not college functions. tapped those virgin maples, Mr. Skelton exhibited in the next longer feel it is necessary to have | What an importance we attached gathered the sap, attended the pro­ building where Mr. Kunkel has his Aunt Min and Uncle Jake to walking! The Women’s Ath-; or r, cess of boiling it into maple syrup, letic Association under the capable f furniture store. We could at least Grandma and Grandpa as our chief cut dead wood all winter for its direction of Miss Nettie Mai Ihittle ' look and " ah" and ’’ oh. ’’ decoration.) fuel supply, savored the sweet and The next store was an old ■ arranged both long and short hikes delicious steam that filled the ” for every girl on the campus. In [; fashioned dry good store run by sugar house, dipped the large tin isSSM, As the case of a long hike. Miss i Mr. and Mrs. Klingensmith. dipper into the boiling sap and Margaret liked to sew, we often Ruttle would follow in her big car cooled it in the creek nearby in went there to look at new dress (this was later years than those of order to taste and te&tjts_sweeiness^ materials. Miss Graham’s Ford) and she Itwasa day and night job and hard Coopers Store with its huge would pick up any stragglers with work but Ceylon Perry loved sugar collection of cards always lent a . sore feet or great fatigue. Some making time above all others. spirit of excitement to a casual '' '1 * 1 girls walked to Cambridge Springs window shopping tour of Edinboro, ' I and back on Saturday afternoons. - >.f-- ' For this feat they got extra points of credit in the W. A. A. Did you ever see time go so fast? A week has barely started until it's gone. The weather is so mild,'the snowfall so light and crusty you can walk anywhere in the fields or woods, so much good reading around to be read, sewing to be done, house and barn chores look­ ing you right in the eye, frequent visits of neighbors and friends, an occasional snooze after dinner—the days surely are full and we love every minute of them, Pauline Skelton’s mother passed away and was buried in Meadville. She and Wayne remained here a Januarjj^^27^1967 Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell Wasn't this a beauty of a January thaw? According to my diary we had weather similar to this in 1965 (Monday) with 50° temperatures. I walked around my garden and along the rail fences to see how things were coming through the winter and to see how much damage the bunnies had done. Sunday we walked through the fields and pastures and as we neared Shelhamer’s pond a Kildeer gave a startled cry and flew off a dis­ tance. George Bjork reported hearing a robin last Friday. The crows have been out around all winter. With the fields bare they'll probably find a mouse or two as they sail around overhead. This warm weather is bringing the skunks out at night also. Edinboro and McKean folks were shocked and saddened by the acci­ dent Saturday night which took the life of young James McCommons. We feel especially sorry for his brother William. His grandparents, Mrs. Nellie McCommons of Market Street and Mr. and Mrs. William Gaylor of Meadville Street, all of Edinboro, a sister Mary Suzanne, uncles, aunts and cousins survive. The McCommons family came to Edinboro to live about fifty years ago. Our sincere sympathy to the family. Edna Culbertson left via plane for a month of visiting her son Ed and family, Carl and Dorothy Hall, Angeline Amidon, Laura Riley and other friends who live in Florida. Jessie Nash has closed her house and will be staying in Erie with members of her family until warm sunny days arrive in the spring. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Campbell, Michigan, visited his mother, Mrs., Grace Campell, High Street. Howafcl helped his brother Bob do chores so they could all go out to Arnolds at North East. How good it is for the boys, their families and their mother to have these get-to-gethers. The buds of the early crocus in front of the house are showing color and the snow drops are peep­ ing through the ground. What miracles are performed by a few warm days and a little sunshine. I love 'em, don't you? If you would see the thriftiest fusciaplants you ever saw, look in Bob Connor's green house some time. He has magnificent amaryllis bulbs in bud, a tree rose 'which was in bloom at Christmas time beautiful geraniums bloom­ ing and a dozen other blooming plants. Frances and Helen Burchfield have both had bad colds and now Mrs. Ceylon Perry has one. ! tA' Edinboro Wise 732-776'l Glenn Hardman, 79, passed away January 15, 1967. He was born in the old family homestead on Hardman Hill east of Edinboro. His father and mother, John and Mary Pulling Hardman, lived there and worked the farm. Later John Hardman bought the i thirty-two acre farm east of John Wetsell's present farm. About sixty-three years ago he sold it to John Hollenbeck and bought the Peter Lick farm which was passed on to Glenn, their only child. Dad often told us that a finer man never lived than John Hard man. Gusty Everwine has often said the same thing. About forty-five years ago the original house burned and a large new house was built. Some years ago a large new barn and milkhouse were built to supplement the old one. After Glenn and Verna Shields were married they lived for a while on the farm now owned by Jim Beerbower, then moved to the farm owned by his parents, y Glenn had a butter, buttermilk, and egg route in Edinboro for many years. He owned the Jack Wetsell farm on the Ridge and worked it along with the home farm. He with the help of his twosons, Johnnie and Harold, had maintained a large dairy for many years. An oldest son Paul lives in Erie and a daughter Marjory (Mrs. Roy Carlson) lives north of Edin­ boro. Three grandsons and a granddaughter also survive. Edna Culbertson has sold her house, barn and lot to Tra-Mar who have purchased considerable property in that area. That land at one time belonged to Charley Kent. Sometime before 1875 the house and barn was built and in 1875 it was owned by the Rev. Edward Rogers, a Baptist minister. , Seventy years ago Jane Green | owned it. It came into the I Herrick family who were related < to Jane Green and was purchased | by Tom Culbertson from the Her- ' rick heirs. Dad always told usi what a nice bam was on the pro­ perty and would have liked to have | owned it. It was always considered ' a very desirable property to own. When it was built no one could have dreamed that one day it, would be sitting right on the street. | Fern and Vivian Herrick are both | living and both are blind. Blanchej Whipple and Fern who both live in ■ Pontiac, Michigan talk to each^ other via telephone frequently. When Blanche gets a letter and news from a friend in Edinboro shej calls to read it to Fern. News from^ Edinboro still means more to themj ^ than from any other place^^[ Carrie Goodell •'-'=1 A - OV y 732-: February 2,1967 Washington Township millage re­ and paved over for the ireeways,, mains at 7 mills for this year's factories, suburbs and shopping i taxes—despite the recent land grabs centers that seem hell-bent on i initiated by Edinboro during the past taking over all outdoors. Yet the ten years. Now we'll see what Boro race to rescue a little open space I Council comes up with for their before it's too late is not lost.: i millage. Recently it has been 14 There's still hope and here*s why. mills, twice that in the Township. More people are realizing that ' Large equipment is moving earth undeveloped land is neither wasted! i preparatory to the erection of new land nor unused land. A bit of woodsy; I buildii^ along Perry Lane. It is creek or meadow has many uses— [ approximately“he^ where the at it's best open space is a contin­ northeast end of Amid on'sold sugar uous thread of nature woven into I the fabric of the community. | bush stood. The past week of spring like ; Monday forenoon a large land weather has been hard on country owner west of town reported to the! roads and in places they were be­ township policeman, Mike Yatzor, I ginning to break up. Log trucks, that a pack of dogs was chasing a! milk trucks and school buses are jherd of seven deer. One farmer in ^ heavy and hard on roads. that area recently shot one of the ^ Mattie Jeffords, Sylvia Skelton dogs, one was killed on the highway , and Frances Ellicott all ate supper and it is hoped someone can shoot; Friday evening with Mrs. Ceylon at and hit the rest of them. Perry, Faye and Isabelle. The four ' John Banko drove Forrest and ladies enjoyed a good supper and a Berniece Allen to Florida last weekj good evening of visiting while Faye They will be returning in a couple and Isabelle did up the dishes. Later •of weeks. ! Faye took them to their homes. One George and Ruth Fellows also left . of these ladies is past 90, one will lastweekfor a vacation in Florida. I be 90 next August, one is past 80 They will see Vic ^cGahens, Ken-I and one in her seventies. All are nedys, probably Joe Gleeten and [ keen, witty, active, interesting and other friends and relatives while dear. there. Thursday will be Ground Hog Day-! Just in case you're interestedhalf your corn and half your hay I can a boro or township resident in­ The winter is supposed to be half spect the Wage Tax Collector's over. j ! accounts? He sure can. All public Don Cornell found a snow drop in’ records are open to any citizen of; bloom by the side of his house last, Pennsylvania at any reasonable time f Friday, He had a birthday Friday. commonly defined as office hours. Evelyn Walker baked a chocolate Mrs. Grace Rockwell is reported birthday cake for him and he ate !to be coming along fine from re-, supper at our house. Don has been j cent surgery. She is now in the ! doing all the painting inside and | "self care unit" of the hospital and out on Dick and Evelyn Walker's! will soon return home. new house, i Mrs. Walter Hayes, Angling Road,' Roscoe Mitchell of Waterford hasj has returned home from Union City; contracted with Don Fox to buy the! Hospital where she has been under-? woodlot, some workland and the j going tests. In years gone by an open January location of the apple orchard along the Crane Road. Don*s father,; as we have experienced this year Charley Fox, set out the orchard would have been an opportunity to after he came to this part of the; get a lot of plowing done. We have i country to make his home. When | often heard Dad tell that the first we were youngsters those trees hung year he taught the Pifer School loaded with apples most every I Will Pifer did all of his spring plowing during January. It was all autumn. Can a township compel a borough done with teams and walking plows, to give them connections to a farmers had to take advantage of borough sewer line and disposal every break in the weather and| plant? Yes, and if the price can­ most farmers had their crops in just not be agreed upon the case should as early and in just as good shape go to court for court adjudication. as with tractors today. The days As written in Changing Times— were long, the work hard but the Every year a million more acres satisfaction was great too. of America get shaved off, torn up Carrie Goodell v''V. v'"' 'V- j#. Edinboro Wise -4 IkM 732-77'* Carrie Goodell February 9,1967 George's mutner anu our mother; were life long friends too. Mrs. Cynthia Prue (Ruth Burgett's ; mom) left Sunday to spend some time with her other . daughter,: Beverly of Parma, Ohio, before re-^ turning to her home in Willow ! Creek. A new house is going up on the Angling Road. Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Sproul, attended a reception given for Mr.; and Mrs. Harold Anderson at Venango. Mrs. Anderson was the former Kathaleen Mosier, daughter of the late Jonas Mosier and Ruth : Mosier. She is also a grand-l daughter of Charley McLallen of Perry Lane. l The Homemakers Class of the Presbyterian Church met at the home of Anna Decker Monday eve. Jim Borland was ^taken to San Rosario in Cambridge Springs last Thursday and he's not too happy about it-he'd much rather be in his own home. The woodchuck didn't see his J shadow in this neck of the woods. ' ' j Whoops for an early spring! Lorna Sheets called last Friday afternoon to tell me that Don wasn't the only one in the village to have a snow drop in bloom. She had one in bloom out by her front step. ! You can notice the difference in ■? -'r the length of the days now. 1 -• ,4 don't need lights in the barn for ; ..V: morning or evening chores any '? longer. j 1 talked to Ruth Knickerbocker • Monday and she told me that George is coming along fine. He ^ . ■ will be in the hospital this week . and next before he can return home, s , George, Margaret and I were in High School and College together. , He and I completed work at Gra- i ■V. duate*'SjChool, University of Pitts-s hurgh at 'thg same time also. * . .i" xs-...-. I--'-,.-'-:. 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Libbie had lots tra mills that its tax payers have to blished his home on the farm at i of flowers and the snow drops which pay that North East doesn't get? the foot of Cummings Hill which f have been in front of our house for Certailiiy EdifiboFohas adequate"" the Klakamp family had purchased more than fifty years were bulbs police protection for the needs of from Bert McLallen. At one time she had given Dad. Some of those its citizens. If more protection in their lives the Klakamp boys, same bulbs are ones we had given is'needed to keep college students Fred and Joe, were as widely in line why doesn't the college to Don Cornell. known as anyone in the entire absorb the additional cost instead Last Thursday was such a springy community. coraiiim.uy. They luey operated a ^ Margaret and I took oft across of boro citizens and tax payers i threshing machine, silo filler and : our pasture, across Shelhamer's Shelhamer's < being assessed the additional costs? saw mill, made great quantities pasture to the woods and on to Dun- ; Why does the Boro Council need of Joe , maple , , „syrup. , • * wasj the j ( don Lane. Ruth Burgett had told to go to Cambridge for a back up leader but Fred, a quiet and good , , , „, ° , . 1. u r r us the road had given way by the man for Crawe? With 1800 citi­ man, was always right back of ; ... . , ° ot ,. ^ 11 j j bridge on the lane so we looked at zens in this Boro surely someone him to carrv nart of the load. ? ° , j __ carry his part that. We had always loved that could be found here. Even a re­ They made a very successful team. little bridge. Dad had told us that placement might be in order. We always waited eagerly to see John Dundon had alwa^ h ad Did you read the article on hos­ their huge steam engine belching trouble with the wooden bridge that pitals that was featured in the last black smoke followed by the large was there washing out every spring. issue of the Ladies Home Journal? threshing machine turn in at our Then you could p*iy your yearly It will be well worth your time to driveway or drive by on the way road taxes by working on the roads read it. to another farm. Some one, often at some time during the year. John The following are excerpts from their father, followed along be­ Straight Talk by Ernie Swift Dundon was a stone mason' as well hind with the team hauling the as a very good farmex. Dad who as appeared in the last issue of water1 tank. u- VWe .1, loved to* hear 1 .. the ..1, I was patWaster let Dundon work National Wildlife. whistle which they blew to let the i ” , ^ The following letter is an indi­ . ^ ^ J 1. J 1 off his taxes by putting in a stone neighbors who changed hands know i and concrete bridge more than | cation of what at least one member that it was time to start. i of the younger generation is think­ Fred married and shortly after a sixty years ago on this road. The ing. baby daughter Evelyn was born to bridge ^ still good, the earth " I am a concerned resident who them his wife died. His always works leading up to the bridge loves her home state very much. faithful sister, Nellie, and Silas ; gave way enough to bury a car I can't vote yet, so I thought Ryan took the little girl to raise: in it. We found pussy willows out this might draw some attention to i and love as their own until she in their pearly gray coats. the serious dilemma I feel we are died at around the age of fifteen.^ Mary McLallen went to see her getting ourselves into. "Do we really need to spend He leaves another sister, Elvie, doctor in Greenville last week. who is living in Florida at present. He removed the cast from her billions of dollars to convert our They all went to school to Dad. hand but the one on her leg re­ ^ forests and parks into cluttered ; Fred leaves two cousins living here' mains. He is very pleased with zoos? By cluttered I mean com-^ fort devices such as tables, fire­ ' in the village - Helen Rye and her recovery from her recent acci­ Hazel Snyder. He is at rest and dent. place installations and other man­ none could wish it otherwise. | During the recent warm spell made extravaganza. We have We planted our tomato and before this last snow Don Fox enough of these organized play pepper seeds Friday and put the picked parsley, swiss chard and pens already. People who really box on top of the warming oven rhubarb about four inches long want to see nature in an un­ until the seeds sprouc The bot- i from the garden. molested form could come here tonT heat makes the seeds gef- ; Joe and Hildur Torrey left Sun­ and enjoy our guardian efforts. minate in a hurry. There are four ; day to spend a few days in Erie Those who come to sit in our kinds of tomato seeds and Italian wilderness areas with beer cans, with their son Rodney. sweet peppers. We've got eleven t Mike Burgett is to arrive home radios, and books would then be kinds of evergreen seeds in the icel Saturday from Camp near San : forced into observing nature as it box for stratifying before planting? Francisco for a few days at home * really should be observed and dethis spring as soon as the frost gets ’ with his folks. ; rive something worthwhile from out of the ground. Helen Fox had a recent letter the experience." Charley Kirschner is driving a ; from Mary Gleeton Larson. Lar­ . If such philosophies are at all 'new to him' Buick. His old green i son's son, Jerry, who was recently * prevalent with even a s m all car played out on him going up i promoted to Major was presented Hardman Hill. The Buick is a | with minor decorations and the gray car with a white top and | Silver Star for bravery in Vietnam. . looks very nice. Jerry volunteered and has been ac­ A fire last Friday did considerable cepted for training for outer space. r "i \ damage to the Frick house just this Nancy Petrick reported seeing : side of Tabor's Comers. For many, four robins last Saturday morning. : many years the farm belonged to Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Robertson Frank and Libbie LeSuer. LeSuers and Jim Tolbert of Cummings Hill kept bees and for years they sent road down to Conneautville Sun­ a cake of clover honey and one of! day afternoon to visit Roscoe's buckwheat honey to Margaret and | uncle, John Smith. They report me for Christmas. Dad carried: John as in fairly good health and quite satisfied there. He was very happy to see someone from home, too. r "'"•V ’.vVC-x' ’ ■ J- , — ',"5 V . - „, > A - . ..... 1............ minority of our younger generation, then there is some hope for Ameri­ ca. The basic problems as ex- ! pressed by this young lady should , shame the cynics and give pause , to those in high places who conti- ; nue to pander to commercialized : recreation. If you aren't an associate mem- ? ber of the National Wildlife | Federation find a friend who is and ask to borrow a copy of i; National Wildlife. You'll never j; regret it. And I'll bet you'll be- ^ come a member. Junior and ^ Senior high school teachers could use it to great advantage. Boy ; Scouts would love it. I am reading the new book " Behind the Dim Unkown" edited by John Clover Monsma and enjoying it very much. With public inter- . est in science and scientific ex- i ploration rising as man probes the universe-from outer space to the mysteries of human life-the ques­ tion of reconciling scientific find-, ings with traditional religious teach ings has become more pressing. In This book twenty-six notable scientists from twenty fields of natural and physical science-all monotheists-discuss the unsolved (and probably unsolvable) problems within their own fields and ex­ plain why they believe in God. ' Carrie Goodell i 4 * r' Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell . 'V > \> 732-776T Forty-four years ago the 6th of many more. Grange folks in the this month Bill Warnshuis came to pictures were Faye Knapp and live and work at the Curtze Farm \ Isabelle Perry., Reuben and Faye when It was in its glory. That Perry, Marshall and Inez Sproul, winter there were days and days Margaret and Wilba Kline, Joe and that the temperature was zero or Anne Ondrey, Stella and Clair Hoch, below every morning and it rarely Louise and Ez Snyder,Grace Miller, got up above 15° during the day. Esther and Merle Hollenbeck and Those were the days when people several members of the Junior had ice boxes and you used ice in Grange. them so ice had to be cut and An article that needed to be stored in ice houses for summer and written and then widely read ap­ year around use. peared in the February 20th issue Curtze's ice house was back of of Newsweek. It was titled "Free the house where Therasses live to­ Education" and written by Milton day. Dad always referred to it as Friedman. Another timely article the Hank Cutler farm. Wilbur appears in the February 27 issue of Billings's ice house was south of U. S. News & World Report. What's the foot of Tarbell Lane and Frank behind the revolt against higher Walker's was in the barn back of taxes for schools? the house on Waterford Street. Chiefly It appfears to be a feeling Wilbur Billings drove a horse on among property owners that they a Jigger that scored the ice mark­ have shouldered as big a burden as ing It for cutting. Elmer Brookthey want to bear for school costs. houser, Emerson Rogers and his In recent voting in Los Angeles two older boys, George and Leo­ and a mid west community the nard, Jim Tolbert and Erney Web­ latest examples of growing tax­ ster all helped to cut ice ( it was payer resistance to rising costs of sawed) and Romie Lasher and education are a mandate to school George Burchfield worked as pike directors and authorities to move polers to get the ice floated to the ; shutes to boxes on the bob sleds. toward a reduction of the load on Fred Swift, Clem Anderson, Ed [ property owners. Davis, Wilbur Billings, Curtzes i Developments in California are and Frank Walker all had teams [ seen as signaling an important shift hauling ice. i in public attitudes on the whole That winter Curtzes put up six | issue of taxes and education—a hundred tons of ice which they \ change that may be reflected in used for cooling milk. The ice \ many other parts of the country. froze to a good eighteen inches in I The folks in Claude Shelhamer's thickness that winter. \ house up the road have moved into Do you remember when Wilbur [ Mrs. Shafer's house on Laycock Billings peddled ice around town [ Road. to all those who had ice boxes? f The high winds Wednesday night Frank Walker used a lot of his ice ^ trimmed out the dead branches of in the meat market. the big maples around town. Yards Dons Chapin entertained at a were littered with dead branches. baby shower last Friday evening Clair Stafford's mother of Water­ for Mrs. Neil Swift. .« ...............* ford passed away recently. Clair Last fall Trudy Schulz had the ■ and his family live back by the excellent idea of taking pictures 1 cove in a new house owned formerly (colored slides) of Edinboro friends . by Mike Onda. Before that they of her son Fred and his wife Dolores ■ had owned a farm at McLallen’s who have bought a home and set- i Corners. Clair works at Penn-Union. tied in the state of Washington. The wind last Wednesday night She intended to send them for ; took off part of the roof on Bernard Christmas but on second thought ' Colvin's barn and carried it to the decided it would make them too ' apple trees on the hill. Rafters, homesick and decided to send them sheeting boards and roofing all later. Last Tuesday evening she went. Bernard and his son-in-law, brought them down to show us be­ Joe Skalko, have been working like fore putting them in the mail Wed­ beavers to replace it before a snow nesday morning. The pictures were or rain storm develops. wonderful. Some of them were: Curly and Esther Halmi are in Mrs. Buchanan who looked just as Florida for some warm southern 4fshe could speak to you.Hank Gill sunshine. on his tractor, Mrs. Brown and [ Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fisher and Dorothy Gill holding Cathy's baby, I son of Farrell spent the week end Carrie, several members of the ' with Inez and Marshall Sproul. Grange, Joe Ondrey, Jim Skelton i and little son Brian, Elmo Hayes, ^ Gary and his little daughter, Ken ‘ and Elizabeth Davis and many, i- Vere Woods has taken over Schruer's Dairy largely in a man­ agerial way until next summer when upon completion of necessary buildings at his farm just beyond Water Street all operations will be carried on there. At present the name, the help and the operations will remain the same as it has been. Vere owns the old Mose Reeder farm always cpjiSidered. Qne, oi the good farms in this community. A picture of the buildings surrounded by wooden fences is shown in the 1876 Erie County Atlas. Moses Reeder was the first farmer in this community to have a silo. When the Normal School had to . find a place to dispose of its sewage they asked permission of Mose to pipe It to the creek and let it run in there. Mose had a daughter Estella who he wanted to have a teaching position in the Model School (later Music Hall) so he of­ fered to give the Normal School its wish if they would give Estella a job. Estella got the job and the school garbage went in thcreek for many years. Thegroun's , round the buildings and the buildings have been kept clean and neat and at­ tractive and It should be an ideal location for a business of this kind. Vere and Jim Skelton both own old Reeder farms. We've enjoyed through the winter some mighty delicious potatoes that Vere raised on that farm. No better bakers ever came out of Idaho. The Edinboro Bakery has changed ^hands and Robert Peterson and his wife Lois are now the owners. Mr. v? Geiger is retiring, but he is staying by for a bit to help them get started. The Petersons are from Anondale, Virginia, and have a son Michael, >■ 11, and a daughter Janet who will be 10 February 28. They are at­ tending Campus School. Mr. Peter­ son is the brother qf^yne Peterson I who teaches Art; ih Edinboro State j College. * i' - '*• - \ * if ^ t v'’. ^V . ^ , ^ iMarch 9.1967 hr- Edinboro Wise Carrie Goodell ★ Edinboro Wise 732-77r , March 2,1967 Carrie Goodell Penelec will spend $100, 000 to These last cold, snowy and windy relocate jL-poition, of an existing line through Edinboro as a conse­ days have reduced our wood pile quence of Edinboro College ex­ but I love a few of these days. The pansion. It was constructed about stoves sing. It's a good time to twenty-five years ago. Dad and get some sewing done, a book Dr. Boyd tried their best to have read, try some new recipes, write the company locate it elsewhere some letters and dream about i at that time and now they've GOT spring. Frances Elliott of Perry Lane j i to. It will take out of our fields several sets of poles which were celebrated an 81st birthday last ■ eyesores in the fields and eliminate Sunday. The celebration started having to work around them. The Friday evening when Lawrence and ' poles will be relocated across the Marian McLallen came from Ash­ old McCammams pasture, the Will tabula with a birthday supper and | on Sunday Don and Eleanor Me- | Dundon farm, through Bertha Haye ^ Namire and the family came with I ?* woods to a line separating Brum­ baugh's land and land now owned a birthday dinner for the Aunt Frances and father, Charley Me- t by Offner (part of the old Mike Lallen. [ Hardman farm) and southerly along the line between Henry Gill's farm Wilford and Helen Swift, Ken and Heinz Schulz', through the and Elizabeth Gardner and Mrs. ^ Brady Skelton (formerly George Helen Hayes left last Sunday after Taylor) farm and on down the line. noon for a two weeks vacation in Marguerite Butterfield is spend­ Florida. ing the winter in Spain. j I have been reading with interj est the recent articles that have ; appeared in the Sentinel con­ cerning the taxpayers organization . at McKean. I*ve been wondering : if such an organization in Edinboro wouldn't be a good thing — one with clearly defined objectives so the taxpayers will KNOW the problems that confront their of­ j f „w:V* 4. ' ^ ,r- -t, - r ’ "-'r V. « ' '‘ - 'i - -.'C / 5 ’ ' ' - , ; '.' v'/ " -- .-"r; ^ , '' i K-y ' tf”* -J- L' ~ I ’-<,Va: ' ' ' ^ ‘ V , ’I’' . ‘ ficials and HOW they handle them, how their hard earned tax money is spent, etc. Mrs. Lillian Zinn, 86, of Erie who passed away last week lived in Edinboro as a young lady. Her father, the Rev. Fisher Wilson, was the Baptist minister here and they lived in the house now owned by Sadie Daubs. George Knickerbocker came home from the hospital last Wednesday and is coming along slowly but well at home. Kenneth Ryan celebrated a birth­ day March 8. Kenny was also a classmate of George Knick's and ours. After hearing of all the things that have gone on in this com­ munity in the past month or six weeks I've decided a large city has nothing on us - just more of it. Dr. McNerney answered ques­ tions concerning the college in an interview last Sunday night on Channel 12. I liked his straight forward look and answers and with NO SOFT SOAP or pussy footing as is so often used in official circles to cover up making a direct answer. I am a firm be­ liever in coming forth with the right answer or keeping still. Our new President will have ■ many satisfactions as well as problems in our college. There is also some house cleaning to be taken care of, too. I think we have a capable man. Johnny Hardman of Sherrod Hill has returned home from Union City Hospital where he had under­ gone surgery. Dr. M. D, Sproul attended the Crawford County Pamona Grange at Guys Mills. He showed inter­ esting slides of Pennsylvania Dutch people and customs in Bucks and Lancaster Counties. ^ - - y /* -i-. ;;r 4"’’^ 7 '' ‘ ■" V ■rs--.il. '’tv’. -/ ' *' '7.' ' ■^'i" * . -A ,i j*.>'if'7-''''^.' „i' m\ .. ' " ~ fe* srV.- J Mrs. Clifford Steadman, Mrs. Marshall Sproul, Mary Warner, Mrs. Carl Bonnell, Dot Freeman, Phyllis Hotchkiss, Darla Myers and Darla’s aunt, Anna Decker, Mrs. H. A. Ghering, Bonnie Bor­ land, Pattie Ball, Wilda Zessinger, Maridel Warner, Mrs. Tom Adams, Mrs. Porter, Mrs. Max Fuller, Lois Meabon, Flossie Therasse and her husband, Irene Biby and Patty Mukina were among the ladies who attended the Cleveland Flower Show last week. They reported they had a fine time and enjoyed every minute of it. Our sincere sympathy to Edith Swift on the recent death of her father. You may not think that spring is just around the comer but look at the blue skies and the fleecy clouds that move quickly across ±em and you know it can't be far away. I can look across the fields and woods and see and feel it in every direction. After a warm rain and some sunshine you can smell it too. - /S' ‘ ^ —I J 732-776'l *■ ArVv .. . ^ ' -i ' r '?■ r 4-' .... • «'•- ■' ‘"c V ”, .-S'. A.-.- . > -V--"'* T'* "v ^ s. I'm beginning to think about fence fixing, planting little trees, putting up seed oats, buying grass seed, slipping begonias for the summer garden, giving the magnolia trees a spraying with dormant oil spray. We need a good warm rain to settle the ground. The grackles, red wings, song sparrows are all back north and robins are a dime a dozen. Sam Sherwood saw and heard wild geese last Friday, Don Cornell heard them Saturday and I saw an(T~lreaTd=^em Sunday morning on .the way to the bam to do chores. We have three kinds of spring bulbs in bloom on the south side of the house. The bright gold winter aconites are the touchiest to get established but well worth the effort when you finally do succeed. We wish to extend our sincere sympathy to Roscoe Robertson of Cummings Corners and Don •4-;i Robertson, McKean on the death of their mother, Hattie Smith Robertson, of Waterford. She was the sister of John Smith until re­ cently a resident of Itley. We had known the boys’ father for tv - •-) many years when he used to buy cattle from Dad and Don had been a favorite young friend of Dad's from the time he worked for Harry Sterrett in the farm imple.ment business. i[ A baby son was bom March ■ 2itd at Hamot Hospital to Paul and'Joyce Zimmer Hurta of Kline" Road. Things seem to be jingling around the village. It's going to be interesting to see the out­ comes. Joe and Hildur Torrey are in Cleveland with daughter Joan and children until after Easter. Hildur left two weeks ago and Joe went last Thursday with Birchards. Mrs. Buchanan received a letter from Fern Herrick McMahon of Pontiac, Michigan telling her that Blanche Whipple had passed away and was not brought back here for burial. A space had been re­ served in the family lot and Blanche intended to be buried here between Ned and Naomi. I sup­ pose it really doesn’t matter but it's sad, too. We had a letter ‘from Joe Gleeton who has been wintering in Sarasota, Florida, He says if we'll promise no more snow after April 1st he will Ibe heading north the last of this month. i' - V -...A, tv's . 732-77' Carrie Goodell ^ j r--C *■ ............ _ V ^ r>-'\ ^ . V ‘ ''f , March 16,1967 J 'V - You can see the fruits of Gerry and George Fellow's winter workmany piles of neatly piled locust fence posts all ready for farmers to buy and get to fence fixing. There's always plenty of that to do every spring. Many of our happiest memories are of helping Dad fix fence each spring. Mr. John Borland returned Tues­ day late afternoon from Cleveland where he had been attending to matters m his office there; Wed­ nesday he left for the monthly Board of Directors meeting of Cooperative Industries, Inc. at Chester, New Jersey. He will re­ turn late Saturday. I ' ^ '% % r ^ ^ V, .,-r ■" ^ ^.,'-'5 a X CA-r*- A A*' Vif ■ . AV A A CjfeV ' V, A. ' *-\ '■; C. i. . 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