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Harry Gibson a brother of Ethel Nye'si
Do you know —
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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
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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.

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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.

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. '

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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.

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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

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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
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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.

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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
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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
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mouthful of that to chew on tasted : t.
as good as any candy ever made.
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To make wax, you coo'ked maple
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syrup down thicker and spread it ’
around on clean light snow.
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Jessie Nash has rented her house
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to two college boys for the winter
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months and gone out to her son
John’s until the robins return in the
Spring.
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Shields left Sun
day morning for Lake Worth,Florida,
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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
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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
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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
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*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!
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that made this country great. Thank^
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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
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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 ­
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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
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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
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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.

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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
;
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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
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' 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
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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
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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
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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
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Irwin,
Pennsylvania,
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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."
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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
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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);

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Carrie Goodell

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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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First National Bank
Of Edinboro
Annual Meeting

February 4, 1965

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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
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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.

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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' Board of Directors, as well as Robert
E. Dowler as President and Harold
A. Ghering, Jr. as Vice President.
Milton M. Rouse, who has served
the bank for many years as Cashier,
was advanced to the new responsible
I position of Executive Vice President
jwith R. A. Fuller being designated
as Cashier and Secretary of the bank
succeeding Rouse.
As assistant cashiers under R. A.
Fuller, Phyllis Hotchkiss and Gerald
N. Pettit were reappointed and in
addition, Thomas Lloyd was ad­
vanced to the position of an assis­
tant cashier and along with Gerald
N. Pettit as assistant managers of
the McKean Office of the bank.

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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

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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

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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.

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.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:
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west of our farm from Jessie Cole down. I never did hear what hap-[;
hap-, showing
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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.
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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
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the immediate community and were ‘ Hill)
School.
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very active. The Edinboro preacher ' stead where Jim’s mother was borm^^'^^^^ ,, / ^
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also held services at these churches ; and raised is the farm now ownedj
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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
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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
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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
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before they mutilated it! could farm and it was there that Bob was
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Tom Gleeten returned to the lios- was a very nice one. It had been
world goes
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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.
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John Banko went to Florida on agine she keeps an eye on Tom Glee
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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
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place and moved to his present
Hazel flies down this Friday and both Dad both loved her, in fact.l don’t
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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
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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
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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
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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 ;

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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.”
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Edinboro Wise
Carrie Goodell

RE 2-7761
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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
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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 J-i: j
^
bigheaded match,
r l^heet with a good and very effective |
and railroad workers provided most;
remedy tb heal the cracks that
of the market,
develop in one’s thumbs during the
T
j w i n t eir season which Mr. Rouse's
brother, the veterinarian, had sent:
outfor me after reading my column
in the Weekly Sentinel,

Over this last week-end, the
General McLane Area lost one
of its staunchest citizens and
original far-sighted “architects"
of the present General McLane
Joint School System.
Walter W. Hollobaugh first
assumed office in the school sys
tern as a director for Franklin
Township in December, 1953 and
although not on the Board at the
time of his death, he had worked
diligently and maintained an ac
tive interest in the progress of
the schools.
It has been proposed by pres­
ent and past members of the
Board with whom he had served
that a Walter W. Hollobaugh
Memorial section be established
in the General McLane JuniorSenior High School Library.
All those interested in perpet
uating the memory of this man
of integrity in service to his com­
munity through the Walter W.
Hollobaugh Memorial Fund of
the Library., may make contrihutions through Mr. John M. Bor
land of Edinboro, treasurer of
the School System.
“For when
The One Great Scorer
comes
To write against your name,
He marks—
not that you won or lost—
But how you played
the game.”

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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 |
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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?

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. March 25.1965
I just heard last week that David
Reno has suffered a series of strokes
recently and that his health is not
good. It is our sincere hope that he
will regain his health. Dave went
through high school and college
with us. The Reno family were an
old and highly respected family of
this area. They lived on Lay Road,
The Johnny Reno farm is owned
presently by A.C.Moore. His father’s
farm, the Martin Reno place, was
located this way. The buildings are
all gone now. The old house as I
remember was large with beautiful
high arched windows and ten foot
ceilings. -The doorways were just
as lovely. The great stones of the
cellar walls and the huge trees that
surrounded it are all that remain.
I can remember of seeing the Reno
family coming to the Baptist Church
— the children all riding in on horse back and Mr. and Mrs. Reno driving
in in the surry or top buggy. The
horses were tied in the Baptist sheds
which were always full on Sunday.
These sheds were always the most
popular with country folks coming
into town during the week, or they
tied the horse or team there if they
went on by streetcar to Erie.
The Renos were all well edu^cated and smart as the dickens
(intelligent). Norman was always a
favorite of Dad’s. Carrie and her
husband own a beautiful old man­
sion known as Frey House in Palatine
Bridge, N, Y. It was built in 1808
by Major John Frey whose ancestors
settled there in 1689. He fought in
the battle of Oriskany and later
built this house on a 'sightly slope’
in a grove of locust trees,overlook­
ing the Mohawk River. I believe
Carrie told me there are fifteen
rooms and it still has the beautiful
eld furniture. They keep tourists.
Sylvia Skelton has been there and
her descriptions add to its captiva•ia tion. We have pictures of it and
have been invited to come there
many times. Carrie and Donald
bought it from the Frey estate when
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^Eve lyn Reno has retired from
d teaching.
I Another parcel of the Joe Klai kamp estate has been sold and re1 corded by the Recorder of Deeds.
I The acreage on which the saw mill
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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.
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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
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'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.
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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
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the first to bloom anywhere about,
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There is activity in our neighbor­ —one black, one three- colored, and
hood. Bob and Ellouise Connors have three yellow ones—in between the
started on one of the big projects bales of hay in about the center of Russell Stancliff,W. M.Curtis; Fence
Viewers — William Culbertson, Zoof one’s life—building a new home. the mow.
The country roads have been
And this is to be a home where they
pher Davis.
When the Gillaspie Schoolhouse
expect to sink roots and remain. dragged and are gradually drying
They did the planning of the house. out. Now we need a good hard spring was sold it was discovered that Al­
exander Hamilton had given the
It is to be a brick and wood two story rain to settle the ground.
To go on with the historical rec­ land for it and it stated that should
colonial with white pillars in front
and a greenhouse for Bob in the ords of this community; The town it ever be discontinued as a school,
back. A central stairway will open offices for the year 1819-Super­ the land was to be returned to the [j
into the two front rooms at each: visors, Abraham Smith, Nathaniel descendants of Hamilton. There ^
side. It will be situated north of the Ethridge: Con stables— W illiam were none tc claim it so it was sold - ;
^'-s--zd:-t present house and reached by a Campbell, Samuel Galloway; Audi­ by the school district.
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At a meeting of the inhabitants
^ contractor of finehomes.willdothe Phelps, Russell Stancliff, Jeremiah of Conneauttee Township qualified <
work. Cherry wood is featured in Curtis; Overseers of the poor—Abra­ to vote for town officers the nine­
teenth of March, one- thousand eight
’ the finishing off of the interior of ham Smith, John Williams
Fence Viewers—Richard Stilwell, hundred and twenty four, the follow- i
the house and there is no more
beautiful wood for any use. They Charles McLallen; Assessor - John ing persons were chosen by ballot: E
Supervisors — Nathaniel Ethridge |
expect to be able to move in by McWilliams; Asst. Assessors—Jere
miah Curtis, Ralph Phelps; Inspector and John Sherwood; Auditors—John |
August first.
Cummings, Nathaniel Gardner,Wil- |
Jock Davis started working for —Job Reeder.
Nathaniel Ethridge settled east of liam Buckley and Isaac Taylor; Roger
Brothers of Albion Friday of
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last week.
The migration north of Edinboro- Gill, Heinz Schulz and Perley Kline Samuel Beedy; Fence Viewers—Job
ites continues. Royce Mallorys and His great,great,great grandson, Da­ Reeder and Isaac Taylor; Town
Emmett Pifers are back home. We vid Ethridge, graduated recently Clerk -Isaac Taylor; Constables expect Joe Gleeten to pop in any from the College here and is teach­ Peter Smith and Abel Whitney.
ing in Lockport, New York, undei
time now.
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Anyone in Washington Township
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been notified of his election to Phi of advanced mathematics.
Township Policeman should call
Russell Stancliffs great, great Mike Yatzor, RE 2-6724. It is also
Zeta, Honorary Society of Veterin­
ary Medicine. Senior students are grandson is now Vice President of listed under Washington Township
elected to this society based on ex-; the Florshiem Shoe Company.
Police.
cellence in academic achievement.' Charles McLallen settled and gave
his
name
to
the
area
known
since
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honorary society in biological sci then as McLallen's Comers. Hoyt
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as Senior Class representative to the two of the descendants of this man.
Cornell Student Government which! Helen Rye is a direct descendant
works with faculty committees in of the early Culbertsons who settled
deciding certain student and col­ here.
On the 3rd Friday of March, 182C
lege policies.
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The mourning doves have returnee were elected town officers:
Supervisors—Alexander
Hamilton,
north,also. Hove to hear their calls
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peeper in a low wet spot in the Graham, Sam uel Ga How ay; A ud itors
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pasture. We brought home a bou­ -Russell Stancliff, Job Reeder, John
McWilliams, R. D. Phelps; Town
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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
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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
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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
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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.

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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
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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,
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done,the oats planted, HankGill had Mrs.Grace Campbell of High Street. II Terry
tors, spreader and Vere Wood’s high-,
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At last Harry Truman hasmttered I lift and made short work of a
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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
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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
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their new home east of Perry Lane. Dianne lying on a pillow. Fannie’s
Association will be held Mon­
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day, May 3, 1965 from 2 to 4 and
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for track by their running around mother and father, Blanche (Harri­
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when
Leeson
did
mason
work
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ing the birch trees, little boys lying
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on the grass or wrestling just from Blanche spent the day visiting with
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Carl and Elsie McWilliams ate
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winter onions to pep up meals, look-: garet and me a school picture which
Easter
dinner with her brother and
was
taken
about
77
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ago.
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pulling
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rhubarb for that first taste of rhu-| picture too.
Royce Mallorys are in Potter no day for Easter bonnets.
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Mr. and Mrs. Bob Sterrett of Pitts­
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The
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Walt
Hayes'
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and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Strats
April shower that came so quickly
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Matt Burgett, who has been on home of the girls' parents, Mr. and
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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
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time last year {the first we had ever Airport to K e n ne dy Internationa] Sunday eve Jerry and Phyllis Woods
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known her all our lives. Klines used he will be with the Security Police.
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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
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older
brother,
last weekend. Don Castle, the man
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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
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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.
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^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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Abel Whitney, Clerk
year the hen turkeys would steal been taken over by the Marquette
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(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
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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.
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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.
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For the next three months my
following names were listed |
The Former Don Porter farm, re­
alarm
will
be
set
for
4
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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Theodore Phelps
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Amanda Meabon
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them and
n t-i A their
4-ViAit* graceful
rrror'ofiil flying
f1\rinCT adds
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to the already overflowing beauty *"
Farren Hart
Salmon White
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welcome calls from the pastures and
Layton B.Goodell Martin Gillaspie
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meadows and King's Dairy Isle was of spring.
The May Apples and skunk cab­ Nathaniel Gardner Printice Ross
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doing a booming business.
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Alfred Trow
John Butler
When you make your rhubarb
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Ira Munson
Wm. Buckley
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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
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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
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”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
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Winston Sieiwood«
' Fox in St. Vincent Hospital. They creek. We’ve come home with pails Andrew Cubertson W. W. Bogue
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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
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Daniel Sipps
Robert S.
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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.
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Did you sit and watch the sunset Union City. We get the nicest trees
Greenfield
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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
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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
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troo
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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.
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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 ; ^
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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.
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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 for the old stamping ground. It's a
only the old privvy which Neil had i It's getting back pretty close to ;
magnet few can escape. George
stuffed with a couple of bales ofi where she was born and raised, too.
Twichell once told Dad that there old rotten hay and burned. The hay i ~
~~
wasn't a place in the world he could
provided the ammunition for plenty f''
have been happy to spend his last
of black rolling clouds of smoke. !
years but Edinboro.
Tony Burgett has a job in York i
Thelma Thompson of East SpringState and will start about July 1. He
field was in Edinboro Friday visiting
will practice veterinary medicine ■
' . J
rm.
friends. Thompsons recently re­
in a large and thriving dairy com-!
turned from a two month's visit to
munity. He and his folks are very
Australia. They also visited Japan,
pleased as it will be just what Tony
.
Formosa, Hong Kong, Tahiti, New
wants — working with cows and > ' "
,
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
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Edinboro Wise
Carrie Goodell

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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
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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
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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
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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.

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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.

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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.
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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

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they want—that as long aschiidren
put their feet under their parentis
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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^
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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.
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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
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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.
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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 ■
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something they could climb for
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East, flew to Detroit to pick up and|
,safety. The pompous one couldn’t
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find a tree or anything else to save
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When they returned Merle invitedj
himself.The Md farmer shouted from
Neil onto his boat to have lunch.'
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That makes ten trailers in their ' thebackbarn door, "Why don’t you carry the thrill of this first one.
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him
your
badge?"
Vernie Hardman is not showing
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looking and feeling so much bettet family and friends had hoped.
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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
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cannot tell exactly what the future
The man who dug the trench to Swedish rye bread to take along
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Mr. .and Mrs. .W. ,Oj ,W agner arrived holds. We all hope it holds great im
lay the sewer line back to Conner’s
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The Highway Department is cut­
lems. The gravelly,stoney soil cavec with their son,Bill Wagner, and
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brought them over to visit a bit high corner by the Hound Hill road.
unsafe for workers to go down to
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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
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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.
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and
as
is
so
often
the
case
after his iecent bout in the hospital,
is looking better and feeling like
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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display of peonies along two sides
swers
for
every
subject
that
was
dis­
here. We haven’t seen or heard a
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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
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right-of-ways man was around to a nasty suggestion to one of the there.
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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
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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
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that
where
they
have
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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,
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an elderly farmer looked out back iwhen I mentioned this man’s phil- James A. Perkins delivering the
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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
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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.
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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,
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Our chinkapin and chestnut trees
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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
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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.
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In the early records I find the |
following;
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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....
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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
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Majority
5
; 300 Dollars Tax
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(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
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Carrie Goodell

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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,
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: 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 |
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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
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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
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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.

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:, 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
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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.
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oldest child was graduated from I
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: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
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^ 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.
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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.
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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.

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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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beginning to collect for their jour­
neys South and the Swallows will
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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
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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.

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Carrie Goodell

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. 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.
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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.

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Wednesday, August 25th.
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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.
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Stancliffe's sale, had it resilvered
and gave it to a Canadian cousin
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for Christmas. She and Bayley
loved to go to sales and he often
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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,
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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 Their son, John, is a state forester ;
Nelson Findlays are building a
in tfte state of Virginia. John and i I new home on Route 99.
h^ father own the land their Aunt ! Twila Gleeten Reid arrived in
Cappie arid Shernian Swift owned [ | Edinboro from Santa Ana, Cali­
and where Dean lived. Those wouUi ! fornia last Saturday for a month’s
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be very beautiful building spots and .5 stay with her dad and Honey.
at this time they can be bought.
Thomas Sabol, a former resident
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Torrey at­ f of Franklin Township, Route 98
tended tlie wedding of their grand­ about three miles beyond Lavery’s
son, Thomas Torrey, in Erie last Comers, died in Florida and was
Saturday. Thomas will be a senior buried beside his first wife in the
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His wife works in Sesler's real es­ His daughter, Anna, attended
High School here and was a grade
tate office.
or so ahead of me.
Sue Stafford was transfened to
the Rondale Nursing Home August
Many, many years ago Charley
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23rd. She is giving up her home Leipart and Lon Bennett had a saw
mill on the north side of Van Dyke
on Waterford Road.
Walkers are putting in a four bay, Road on land now owned by Bus
twenty- five cent ‘do it yourself Walker. They cut the timber off
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car wash at the sight of the former the property we own and sawed'
and delivered the lumber used to
garage. It's^ nice to
know that
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uiere
“ someone left in the world with build Academy, North and South
Halls on the school grounds for $8
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per thousand. Some of the huge
old stumps still remained there
'^'4when we were youngsters and
Grandpa used to tell us that no finer
stand of timber ever grew than was
cut there.
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This is the land and the road
which the new highway will cross.
Later Horace Van Dyke had a saw
mill here. Part of this Van Dyke
Road was a corduroy road many
years ago.
The Homecoming at the Draketown Church will be held Septem­
ber 12th. This has always been a
closely knit little community and
anyone who ever lived here formed
a strong attachment for the neigh­
borhood. Many folks will return
to greet old friends and catch up
with the years’happenings and talk
of the good times of days-gone by.
There is just nothing like these
get-to-gethers of small rural com­
munities where everybody knew,
everybody and had such good times
together.
A daughter was born to Richard
and Mary Kay Engh August 26 in
St. Vincent Hospital.
A part of the Lee Stafford estate
and many years ago the Norman,
McLallen farm on the Cummings ,
Hill road has been sold to Ralphi
Batchelor. Some years ago Ralph ;
bought the Kincaid (Kady) Cum-[
mings farm at the foot of the hill
which joins on to the McLallen [
farm. Norman McLallen was the ^
father of Bert, Blanch (Bowers) and;
Dr. Jim McLallen and the brother
of Tunis, Charles, Marvin (Hoyt
and Marve Gillaspie’s grandfather)
and crippled Will. Harticks bought
the farm from McLallens. Mrs.
Archer Smith and Esther Blodgett
were Hartick girls. A brother Al­
fred married Mary Allen of the
Corners. The buildings have grad­
ually deteriorated until they are a
complete loss but Dad often told us
as we’d drive by that when Mc­
Lallen owned the place it was one
of the finest farms in the country.
Lee Stafford sold off the timber
but it is beginning to reseed itself
and with someone owning it who
cares and practices good farming
methods it can return to its former
excellence.
Ruth McLallen Mosier is a grand-i
ma and Charles and Edna McLallen
are great grandparents for the fifth
tim e. Charles Reuben Mosier and
wife have a baby boy born last
week.
A new cellar is being dug on the
north side of Crane Road a little
west of Route 99. I am told it is

Lulu Knowlton was visiting friends ^
in Edinboro last week. William
lives and works in Erie, David and
wife are missionaries and live with
their children in Africa. Rebecca
and her husband do missionary work
in Peru.
Gordon Harned had a serious mis­
fortune last week. In trying to
avoid hitting a neighbor’s wander­
ing dog with a power lawn mower
he lost his balance and severed two
toes and badly mangled his foot.
He’s in an Erie hospital.
Francis McAtee is building a
small barn on his property south
west of town. The board fences
around the horse pastures are very
attractive.
The house on the former Reid
Terry farm west of town and now
owned by a Pittsburgher is getting
a new composition covering. Part
of the huge old willow tree in the |
side yard gave way from the recent
winds.
Many folks in the Boro are won-1
dering after the escapade of some, |
of the Boro employees last Friday
night with the Boro truck purchased
with taxpayers’ money just where
responsibility lies for this equip­
ment. Last winter one of the Boro
employees delivered his wife to the

the start of a new home for John
and Helen Gallant.
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Sproul
and Mr. and Mrs. Milton Culbert­
son left Erie last Friday at 1 p.m.
on a Morg Edwards Bus Tour of the
Canadian National Exhibition. They
stayed at the Royal York Hotel list­
ed as the largest hotel in the British
Commonwealth. Saturday they
’did the fair’;, visited the flower
show, saw me evening show from
the grandstand and toured the National Shopper's Market. Inez
brought home some beautiful bone
china cups and saucers and Irene fe
brought things for her grandchildren ’^
Sunday morning they went on a tour ’"
of Toronto — the money center of
Canada and started home at 2 p.m. i
Their bus driver turned out to be
Dennis Pifer, June and Emmet's,
grandson, and from reports, a
mighty nice young man and an ex-^
cellent driver.
'
It was greatly enjoyed by both
parties andITl bet they are already
dreaming up another jaunt.
Angeline Amidon spent from Sat­
urday to Thursday in Edinboro vis­
iting friends and relatives. Earlier
this summer she visited Ethel’s
daughter now living in Columbus,
Ohio and who has two daughters
attending Ohio State University.
According to the weather maps in
Farm Journal — September, very
wet and cool. October wet and
mild. If so, it will fill up the wells
but won’t be so nice for harvesting
second crop and corn or planting
wheat.

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Carrie Goodell

RE 2-7761
.September 9,1965

As farmers, we give gas to
strangers haul cars out of
the ditch, and leave our doors
unlocked. But how long

can we keep on
being neighborly?
by Mrs. Helen Stieve
Wisconsin farm woman

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Leroy and Gertrude (Edgerton)
girls of an age that also went to
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McDaniel and their lovely and church there and they told him
Reproduced by special permission
Stan and Marcella (Sauers) Rawof Farm Journal, Inc.,
beautiful daughter, Catherine, were that when he returned to bring each son have purchased her grand
September, 1965
in Edinboro last Thursday visiting of them a man. When Klie returned
mother’s farm. The house, a lovely
old school friends and neighbors.
I
am
shocked.
Disappointed. Somehe brought seven young men with old one was built by Marcella’s
Their son, James, is now librarian him who did marry the girls. Their great grandfather Ryan. Her grand­ thing IS happening to our goodtradition.
at Clarion State College, Esther names that she can still remember mother and Liza will continue to neighbor
Friends of ours who moved to a
and Mabel Edgerton have retired
are Beckman, Arneman and Steinoff make it their home. Both ladies city tell us that in six months they
and recently visited Robert who is Mrs. Klie was very homesick and are so happy to be relieved of the
,»'eceive more than a
polite How do you do?” from any­
living in Texas.
I wanted to return home to Germany responsibilities of painting, repairone they ve met in business church
Our next door neighbor for many but Klie thought that the United I] ing, paying taxes, etc.
or community life. No one has said,
years and Mother’s old school frien4 States was wonderful and remained ;] Marcella expects to be able to
^top in when you’re out our way ”
, Sue Stafford, passed away Sunday here. She didn’t live very long and
their invitation to do
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afternoon after a month's illness. : the neighbors said she died of home- move into their new home in Edin­ so They re lonely and homesick
boro by the twentieth of this month.
Until recently, I felt that such a
Sue often talked to us of her mother . sickness. These were also the grand­
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The children just love the school self-centered attitude could never
and was buried in the McLane Ceme- parents of Will and Paul Klie of the
invade a rural community like ours.
here.
It city folks wanted to smile at our
; tery beside her father and mother. ’Corners’.
HoytMcLallens and George Cul­
hospitality, let ’em.
She leaves three daughters—Edna,
Gordon Harned has returned
We d go on, happy with our pionbertsons left early Monday morning
Margaret and Helen, grandchildren home from the hospital. His daugh­
eer heritage of the unlocked door,
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great grandchildren, a brother, ter and good neighbors look in on for a trip to Denver. They exp e c t' the shared meal, the improvised bed
? Passing stranger.
Don, who is 85 and friends from him and see that he has plenty of to go to Littleton,Colorado where
Its true we don’t actually need
Ethel was born and look up property
her old home-McLane. We can good meals.
which had belonged to her folks one another as much as in pioneer
■ only grieve because we have lost a
The blue jays have just cleaned after they ’went out west’. They days. Nor are we solely dependent
on e^h other for social life Except
friend. Sue had told us several times my filbert bushes. They grab a nut,
will all thoroughly enjoy the trip for Homemakers’ Clubs, an occa­
this summer that she was tired and fly off to the limb of another tree and lookup old friends along the way. sional baby shower, or farm auction
wanted to go and we know she’s
to pick a hole and extract the nutwe may not see our neighbors for
weeks at a time. But we live with
where she wanted to be.
meat, drop the shuck and go back
ilie
knowledge that they
The baby son of Loui^ and Ezra
for another. Next they will go after
lare there.Just let trouble befall one
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Snyder, born last Saturday, was
.of us and watch what happens.
the chinkapins.
> 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
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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

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Carrie Goodell

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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.
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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?
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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

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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

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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.
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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.
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feeling
as
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lately.
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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
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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.

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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.

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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
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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.
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} 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
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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. ^

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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
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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.
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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.
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Last week we saw state surveyors i
surveying on the Jerico road and^
through the pasture of the former
Burger farm._______

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Carrie Goodell

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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.

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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"
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I’ve
heard
everything!
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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

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Carrie Goodell
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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.
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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
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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.
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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

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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.

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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'
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Wednesday. The four have been
Carolina but wanted very much to
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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.
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in just seconds skunk fumes started
pouring out of it.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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

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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.
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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
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It’s very pleasant to drive through
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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->
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left a lasting picture. The year of sheep, traps during the winter.
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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.
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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
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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
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the Boroup Council and Mr. Brinks (contractor
and builder of tp houses m the Brinks subdivision). Please note there
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this time after the wells were drilled deep
sufficient water. Two of the freeholders in this area
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told them if they would sign the annexation petition
change
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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
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ternporary petition that would never be
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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
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showing this petition to the Township Supervisors to
it couldwas a bribe to ^t sufficient signatures on the petition so
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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
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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
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Even though
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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.
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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

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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
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1959
BOROUGH OF EDINBORO

Edinboro Wise
Carrie Goodell

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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
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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.
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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

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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.
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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.
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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;
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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.

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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
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"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
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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!!
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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.
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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
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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
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that showed up at her door. For? washers — two will hold 20 poundf;;!’^
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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
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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.

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The phoebes

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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
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For
those___
who've wondered — the
g or trees spotted for living and nest-j deeds recorded recently from the
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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

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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
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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

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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.

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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.
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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.

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away in a Los Angeles hospital
Tuesday, March 1st. His sister
Angeline accompanied his body
home to Edinboro and he was laid
to rest Saturday afternoon. Guy
was born September 24, 1886, the
second son of Tyla (Giles) and O.
A. Amidon in the family homeset,.^2^ tied by his great grandparents, Joseph and Tyla Crossett Giles, in
1796.
Guy grew up on the farm, attend­
ed Normal School and Pennsjdvania
State College and after graduating
did what many young folks from
this community with a pioneering
spirit did — went west to teach.
He taught in Brighton, Colorado
many years and then went to Oak­
ville, W ashington where he taught
until retirement. Guy was a\focational Agriculture and Industrial
Arts teacher.
While in school here he was a
wonderful basketball player. He
was extremely tall with very long
arms. The basketball games were
held on the third floor of Normal
M Hall.
Guy was graduated and away
teaching before we were born but
. it seems we have always known
- . ^ him.
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. V i pasture line fence washed out ev^ - j ery spring so they always worked
: 1 together to fix it. One day O. A.
had to be away so he left Guy and
his oldest son, George, to help
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Dad. The two youngsters were
about like two young roosters that
-r’/^-|were of a size to start crowing.,
VAll they did was fight and try to
^ outswear the other and were useless
as fence helpers.
Guy. was.aJcind and thoughtful!
person and was always devoted to!
his folks and brothers and sisters. |
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Amidons was just like home toj
Margaret and me and when it was |
time for Angeline, Guy and Ethel I
to come home for the summer va-1
vj. - cation we could scarcely wait foil
them to arrive.
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ssAfter Guy's retirement he went to
p i Los Angeles to live but returned
V >,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.

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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
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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
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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.

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★ 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.
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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
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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
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-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.

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★ 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 —
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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.

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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 ; <
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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.
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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.’’

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a broken ankle. The ankle is in a
cast and Boyd is in the Union City
Hospital.
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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
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Mrs. Wilford Swift and Mrs. Ar­ classes.
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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
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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.
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Edinboro Wise
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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

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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 |
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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
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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.

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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.
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■ 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,
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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
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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
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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.

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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
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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
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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.

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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.

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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.
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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
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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
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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

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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.
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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.
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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,
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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

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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.
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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.
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! 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
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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.
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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;
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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
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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
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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.
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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^
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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
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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.

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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
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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
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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
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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 have done differently: out neighbor One of his sons, Isaac and his wife
Nims struck this community with a had two children, Charlie and Anna.
subscription paper and the citizens Charlie inherited the farm and al­
have gushed forth, and—now behold ways intended to come back to
this fountain on our village square Edinboro to spend his retirement f
It is my proud privilege as burgess here but his wife refused to come
to receive this substantial gift from so he sold the farm to Brady Skelton.
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the representative of the givers. In
While Isaac Reeder lived there
doing so I want to say that such a and farmed and operated the saw
gift means more coming as it does mill be built the house down town
from so many givers than it would! where Tom and Honey Gleeten
mean if it came from one man. live today.
Standing here today it represents
Ben Baker was hissawyer for many
practically every man in our com­ years.
munity. Laborer, professional man,
After Reeders moved to town
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the funds that made this possible. time Nina Flynn’s folks lived there
There has been slight criticism and worked for Reeder.
that the drinking fountain for men
Shackeltons lived there. At that
has beep placed in the center of the time Reeder raised steers and sold
square: there was method in this. them. One winter, day when he
Edinboro is a water town; we are not I went down to the farm all the young
ashamed that we drink of this bev Shacks were riding steers and it;
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site would have been more suitable {allowing it.
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so old. Red and his grandfather,
A. B., set it there years ago when
he was just a little fellow. Parts
Mariottis have the stakes set to
build another house between the we were youngsters. The hay was head is trying to instigate interest have been located and it should
mowed, raked with a dump rake in another annexation grab out on
soon be in working order again.
one they live in and the recently
and cocked. If a good job of
west 6N. It’s just too bad Judge
purchased Baptist parsonage.
The real estate sale of Ray Du­
cocking was done it was almost
Evans didn’t have the same con­
Ed Culbertson has accepted a
laney
and the Mineo family is off.
rainproof. Every now and then a
teaching position in Florida and load would tip over or slide off the sideration for other land grabs by Dulaney has changed his mind and
the Boro to satisfy opportunists and
the family will be moving there
Mineos are looking for another
rack on a sideling place in the
their
pals.
house. They purchased the Var­
very soon.
field. The load was pitched on,
^geline Amidon came down,
Some more things will be exposed iety Store on Meadville Street re­
either pitched off by hand or a
from Cleveland Sunday to visit hay fork was used. All the hay in future articles. I still maintain cently.
friends and relatives and returned had to be mowed back and the that it’s tipie for more new blood
Hollands on Market Street re­
on the Boro Council and only in­ turned from their California trip
Wednesday. August 28 she’ll be,
mow was so hot. Once Jim Lavery formed voters can do it.
leaving for Florida where she plans wanted to borrow money of Dad
last week.
Our chesmut trees are loaded with
to make her home. Tuesday was and went, white shirt, dress pants,
Autumn Petrick received notice
bloom again this year which means yesterday from the army and a let­
just like old times — we walked
gray spats and all, up in the mow loads of nuts to pick up this fall.
through the fields and pasture of
to work hoping to get it. Several This^ wonderful rain has caused ter from Howard, her young son,
her old home, now so changed.
that he had been drafted and was
times Clarence Case and Marc Mor­ dozens "-of little chesmut seedlings
The stadium now stands where her
located in Fort Wood, Missouri.
rison came out to sell insurance
ancestors, the Giles family, cleared and worked in the mow, sweating to spring up in the yard. If you Howard had been working in the
the land for crops and the lake like butchers and hopirig to do : would like to get started with some freight department of the Chicago
frees of your own you are welcome and Northwestern Railroad in Min­
being made was part of their swamp business.
The scatterings were
pasture. Dad has told us that her raked and hauled in, also. It was to some as long as they last. They neapolis, Minnesota since shortly
grow rapidly but need to be kept after his graduation from General
grandfather, Hudson Giles, always
a matter of pride and economy to
carried a sharp axe on his plow have a clean field. Fields were ; watered the first year.
McLane High School. David Bab­
There is just nothing with the bit, his first cousin is also stationed
and when he came to a stump he left as meadows much longer then,
magic for plant growth as rain there. The boys’ mothers are sis­
chopped it out. We walked over
consequently bumble bees estab­
to Perrys, the only old neighbors lished nests in the fields and most charged with nitrogen from light-' ters.
left in our neighborhood, and had every farmer had a team run away ning. I always did enjoy a thunder
Roger Woods, son of Mr. and
and lighming storm. Everything—
a good visit, then home and just
Mrs.
Keith Woods, is home for
on a mowing mj^chine when they corn, oats, new seeding, second
sat and talked and talked. We
two weeks before being sent to
hate to have her go and hope the got tangled up with a nest of bees. crop, vegetable garden and posies
Vietnam. His last two weeks at
bugs and heat will send her back Usually the farmer got stung severe­ all needed it. Mother used to camp were spent learning survival
hang a rubber over the telephone
ly, too.
to Edinboro in the summers.
in the swamps preparatory to being
Then came the side delivery rake during a lighming storm and I'll sent there.
The 57th annual reunion of the
McGahen family will be held Sun­ and the hay loader which helped bet yours did, too.
Abbie Ludgate of East Normal
According to the current issue of
day, July 31st, at Glenwood Park. a lot to speed up the job and save
Street suffered a stroke Monday
the Medical Letter, a newsletter
Better plan to attend. The ranks some of the hard work.
afternoon and passed away before
Mother brought pails of ginger for doctors, the application of very they could get her to the hospital.
of this family whose ancestors set­
tled on Hound Hill before 1800 switzel to the barn when she saw hot water — almost hotter than a Our most sincere sympathy to her
have thinned but two descendants the men coming in with another perfon can stand — may often be sister, Jane. I am so glad the sis­
still live on or own land claimed load of hay and how wonderful it the best way to relieve itching ters have had several very pleasant
caused by poison ivy and insect years together since their retire­
by this pioneer family — Ruby tasted.
Kovschak and Bus Anderson.
Now that the hay is off the fields bites.
ments. It's something that has to
The transfer from Theresa Baker come but we’re never ready to
Paul Woods has sold all of his woodchuck hunters have a good
land and buildings on the east side chance of getting some game. to Bill Lang to the Boro refers to have our loved ones go.
of Townline Road and the Guy Anyone who doesn’t ask to hunt the spot of land down back where
Captain and Mrs. Howard (Julia)
Hayes place to the lane of the for­ woodchucks on this farm (and get the Boro has the piles of road build­ Ford from Huntington, Long Island,
mer Ernie Meacham farm on the some) had better not ask for permis­ ing materials, slag, pea gravel, New York, spent 10 days with Mrs.
west side to Harold KleinfeId of sion to hunt rabbits and pheasants sand, etc. Clate Baker bought the Ford’s sister, Mrs. Carl (Elsie)
land when he owned the Keystone McWilliams, and family. While
Ohio. Woods are moving to the in the autumn.
house on the Meacham place which
Saturday morning when I was Mill to store coal which came in here they attended the "Russell"
Paul bought some years ago.
patching up fence two deer kittered via the freight cars. Then every­ reunion at Chet Russell's new home
A card from Ann Behler in Mon­ across the farm, stopped a minute one used coal or-and wood to heat in Waterford, Pa.
treal tells us she and a friend are to watch the cows and then grace-H his home.
Callers at the McWilliams home:
having a leisurely trip to Quebec ’fully leaped off for the cove. l’ Thepump at the cemetery hasn't Sunday, July 17, were Mr. MerrilT
City and home via the New England mentioned it later when they were’ been working recently and folks Bowen and daughter, also Elsie’sj
states. We took it once and en­ unloading bales in the barn and i miss it. Red Austin has been look­ uncle and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Lynn I
joyed it immensely.
Frank Schiller, who was helping,: ing for repair parts at various plac­ Russell from Waterford. Merrill
A letter from Pret Bishop last remarked that there was a deer' es in his territory but they aren’t Bowen was on his way to his Class
week informs us they have pur­ crossing across the north field that ‘ easily found because the pump is ; Reunion — the Class of 1927, Ed­
chased a home in Naples, Florida.
inboro High, which was held at the*
was being harvested.
Before that they had been renting
What do you know! At last
, Carl Reppert home (nee Mildred
and paying $200 a month. Pretty some of the Boro Council's under­
i Albracht). Merrill, by the way, is
handed machinations and monkey
stiff rent. I'd say.
j a descendant of Chief Cornplanter,
I neglected to mention that
work has been thwarted as evi­
I and is on the Board of Indian Afo
Merle and Esther Hollenbeck lived denced by Judge Evans when he
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on the Ike Reeder farm at one disapproved the annexation o n
:]New York, 27 Catherine Street, i*
time — after Fred Pullings moved Water Street. Porter admitted in
: visiting her daughter Marti McDon- E
sworn testimony that ones in the
away.
jnel.
Well the haying is done until
Boro 'set up’ told him how much
time to do second crop and that
; John Borland returned from a dirland to include in the petition.
won't be much of a job if we
Now, I understand one in the 'set
jectors meeting in New Jersey, on
don’t get rain pretty soon. How
{Wednesday.
up’ who would be hard-pressed to^
different haying is today than when
find a hat large enough to fit his

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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.
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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

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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.”
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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
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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
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another,
Henry Tarbell is building a new
home back on a lot between Neal
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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.

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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
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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

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The katydids are tuning up and
When he came to Edinboro he
sing through the August days as bought a lot from S. D. Hanson on
they have for eons. The old say­ Mill Street and built a shop. Later
ing used to be when the first ones he added to it two or three times;
began to sing, "Six more weeks and used the hitched on parts for a
and then a frost. " These hot days planing mill and place where he
and nights you can almost hear did repairing. The upright or front
the corn grow. Sweet com, ap­ part was where he did his smithing,
plesauce, blackberries, ripe toma­ A little later he bought S. D. Han­
toes, milkweed pods, hoot owl's son's paint shop (where he painted
calls in the night, Joe Pye weed buggies) which stood right on the
along the dusty country roads, corner where the Grange Hall is to­
dawns come misty, grain harvest­ day and moved it across the street
ing — they’re all a part of August and made it into a house. Then it
and beautiful, beautiful late sum­ faced Mill Street. Later he pur­
chased the lot on the corner from
mer.
I know where there are some of Mrs. Church. Then he built a
the lushest elderberry bushes load­ porch on the side facing Plum Streetj
ed with green berries that you ever and the newly purchased lot be­
saw — so if you like elderberries came the front yard. Mildred Amijust ask me and I'll tell you where don was born in the house. (Ruth
to find them. If you know where Burgett owns it today.)
to look you can find enough black
Blanche Amidon manied Wirt
Colvin who died some years ago.
berries for a pie or a dish of them
In 1961 she married Ogdon Bole.
to eat with sugar and cream.
She taught school most of her
If you want lots of woodpeckers,
adult life and substituted for years
nuthatches and chickadees around
after her retirement from regular
this winter now is the time to see
teaching. She was an energetic,
that there is plenty of suet in little
interesting and very likable person
hardware cloth containers fastened
to know, a good friend and all her
to trees in your yard. They love
friends will miss her. She was
it and hang around where the suet
buried beside her parents and a
is. We filled our suet feeders last
week and the birdies knew it in no
brother in the Edinboro cemetery
I Sunday afternoon.
time.
Charley Kixschner diot a fox in
A little note — Our new College I
President comes from the University his chicken house one night last i
of Akron. George Hayes, a gradu­ week. Woodchuck hunters shot
ate of Edinboro Normal School,
five chucks and another fox in the
classmate and good friend of Dad's
fields out back of their bam one
was head of the psychology depart
day last week.
ment of that school for many years
Carl Rexford arrived in Edinboro
prior to his retirement.
Saturday for the rest of his three
Those folks who purchased goods
weeks vacation. Monday morning
at a 30% discount at the Agway
the family. Grandmother Faye
Garden Center sale came away with
Knapp and Isabelle Perry left for
some bargains. We did and saw
a five days trip through the Penn­
lots of other folks stocking up for
sylvania Dutch area of the state.
next year's needs, too.
Mrs. Borland McFadzean, her son,
Another old friend is gone
David and her daughter, Julia from
Blanche Amidon Bole passed away
Glenview, Illinois visited her bro­
last Thursday at the Presbyterian
ther, John Borland and his wife,
Home, Cambridge Springs. She
Mikke for a few days.
was the same age as Aunt Maude
Roger A. Woods, son of the Keith
and they grew up together.
V. Woods of Crane Road left Thurs­
Blanche was the daughter of
day, August 10 for Nra Trang,Viet
Smith Amidon who came to Edin
Nam. His address is:
boro in 1885. Before that he had
A3C Roger A. Woods,
had a blacksmith shop at Slabtown
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Belated Happy Birthday to Bonnie
Borland whose date was Monday,
August 8. Celebrations started for
I the gala occasion Thursday when
Patti Ball gave a party for her at
, the Ball home on Gusty Hill (and
I Sunset Drive.)

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Her many friends in the McLane
area felt deep sympathy for the
j family of Mrs. Ella Garries who
I has lived all her life in our area,
i Her funeral was Wednesday morn! ing at St. Francis Xavier Church,
! McKean with interment at the St.
i Francis Xavier Cemetery, Sterreti tania.
Tyler Proskine has bought four
acres of ground and Joe Smialek
i has bought two acres next to it
i from Bruce Batchelor on the Kinter
I Hill Road about across from Well­
mans. Bruce had 75 acres, part
of the bid Joe Taylor farm and
which butts up against the former
1 George Taylor,
Brady Skelton,
: Jock Davis farm and now college
j property.
New homes will be
' built on both acreages. Mrs. Prosi kine has a lovely garden on their
I land this summer. For a number
; of years brush had grown up on
: this land but Bruce had that and
; the row of old elm trees bulldozed
I out. It will make lovely building
spots and a good place for little
i folks .to grow up.
On Wednesday, August 17, the
ASC County Committee will spon­
sor an Erie County Land Use Tour.
Stops will be:
House of Edinboro — see how
beautiful furniture is constructed.
Holliday Acres — see a farm
converted to a golf course.
James Skelton Farm — Dairy op­
eration from start to finish.
John Byrtus Farm — See a ditch­
ing machine in operation — See a
livestock farm, alfalfa and birdsfoot seeding, forestry and other
conservation measures. View a
Christmas Tree plantation.
The Bob Connors family are on '
a trip combining visiting relatives
and sightseeing in New England.
Betty Hostettler Economy and
sons, Peter and Keith, arrived in
Edinboro Monday to spend a week
with her sister June and family.
Tuesday both families went to
Niagara Falls.
Ken Gardner has been named ad­
ministrator for the Arch Ethridge
estate. Wayne Gleeten is the
torney.
Mr.^a^id Mrs. George Bjoij|, I'
George's mother and Louise's brotlt- i
er and sister left Sunday ,for a vat- |
cation in Florida. jG&oi^e wi|l
^stay a.week and fly (ppaybe) horti^.
f The test will Stay^until Se|ftemb|^
1 and drive home;

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August 18,1966
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Edinboro Wise

Edinboro Wise
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/ Mr. and Mrs. John Smith have
sold their home at Itley to Mr.
and Mrs. John Lee Thomas. It is
a mighty nice little property on an
acre of land. Thomas’ were for­
mer residents of Albion. He works
in Erie. They have three little
folks the oldest of whom w ill start
in the first grade this fall. Smiths
have lived here twenty four years.
This closely knit little neighbor­
hood used to have a store, school,
church, post office. There is still
a thriving little country church.
I hope these folks become a part
and love this little community as
others have through the years.
Ella was a schoolmate of Mother's
when they attended the McLane
school. Last week she gave us a
little dish (sort of like a mug]|that
belonged to a wash bowl and pitcher
set. More than sixty eight years
ago before her daughter Jessie was
bom she had given our Grandmother
Parsons, who was driving by horse
and buggy to &ie, a dollar to buy
the complete set for her. This
was the only piece of the set re
maining. John and Ella are break
ing up their home and daughters
and grandchildren have been taking
their favorite pictures, dishes or
pieces of furniture home with them.
Last Wednesday eve when the
lights went out Margaret brought
out our old oil lamp that we keep
ready for such emergencies. It’s
so long between times that we
have to use it that one forgets how
weak the light is compared to even
a 25 watt bulb. It seemed about
like a lighming bug — and to think
that Mother used to sew, knit, cro­
chet and tat or read to us by that
same light. We read or got our
lessons by those lamp lights, too.
Mother always kept three good
T:aifips and each had to be filled,
trimmed and the chimney washed
each day. It was our (Margaret's
and mine) job to see that -the lamps
were filled and the pot emptied
each morning.
A bee with a very poisonous
stinger stung Nelson Travis and he
ended in the hospital as a result.
Reports around the village indi­
cate the flash rain last Wednesday
found plenty of places to force its
way into houses. Many had water
flowing along floors and in cellars.
Our lawn was strewn with dead
tree limbs and branches but the
next morning Penelec came along
to trim trees so we gathered up the
debris and they ran it through their
chopper.
Swifts had their first cutting of
early cabbage on market for Mon­
day morning. It’s bringing a good
price.

Carrie Gootlell

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We had our first taste of sweet
corn this season last Saturday when
Mrs. Everwine sent down a sack of
it.
This little item from the Farm
Journal might amuse you. A wise
judge issued the sentence. "There’s
a new car wash in Rhode Island that
indirectly owes its existence to
eggs. Here’s how it came about;
Two boys were gleefully pelting
passing cars with eggs and getting
away with it — until they plas­
tered an unmarked police cruiser.
The judge sentenced the youths
to wash police cars every weekend
for six weeks!"
Don’t forget the Chicken Barbb-cue on August 28th at the Grange
Hall from 12 to 3 or until the food
is gone.
Marshall and Inez Sproul and
Mrs. Mae Norris attended the
Dearborn reunion at Albion Park
last Saturday.
Terry Skelton, son of Jim and
Elena Mae, has been in the hos­
pital for surgery on his hand to
correct damage suffered from a
burn.
The Rev. and Mrs. George Whit­
man and family were recent callers
on Mr. and Mrs. Trola Harned.
They have been holding meetings
at Moisertown for a week.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Humpston
of Burlington, North Carolina ar­
rived in Edinboro via car and trailer
to visit relatives. Mrs. Humpston,
the former Eleanor Sauers, is a
sister of Leon Sauers of Kinter Hill.
Leon and family live on the old
home farm and it is there the
Humpstons are visiting at present.
On the way there they stopped for
short visit with Eleanor’s aunt anduncle, Sadie and Trola Hamed.
They will be returning for a longer
visit. It will be a very leisurely
trip for the Humpstons with no set
time to return to North Carolina.
Eleanor and Margaret graduated
from high school in the same class.
Matt Burgett arrived home Satur­
day night from a tour of duty in
Germany. His furlough will last
until October 15 when he will
leave for his new assignment -Vietnam.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman LeSuer
and daughter, Nancy, have been
visiting at the home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Trola Hamed of
Lavery Road.
Their visit was
shortened because of the plane
strike. They had to come by train
instead.
Carl and Martha Hazen are visi iting in Edinboro until after Labor
i Day. They are staying at Bertha
Douglas’.

It is reported that Ray Dulaney [i
has sold his house on Waterford [l
Street to the Baptists for a parsonage and purchased Henry TarbelTs |!
house on 6N west of Vunk’s Bridge. r1
The deal whereby the present {
Harold Swift farm becomes the
property of Tony and Mike Burgett
~was oonsumated‘Tuesday, August
16. Swifts will give possession
April 1.
As long ago as anyone around
here can remember it belonged to
Charley Smith and was long re­
ferred to as the Charley Smith
farm. Smith died as a result of
an accident in Fred Swift’s gravel
pit. They always figured that he
dug up under and it caved in on
him. His son-in-law who was
with him brought him in to Aunt
Maude’swherehewaslaidon a day
bed and then taken home. He
died shortly after. He had a daugh­
ter Jennie who married Mel Flickinger and a son Fred who is de­
ceased. Harold Swifts own the
Flickinger farm which is across the
road.
Tony and Mike are both in the
army — Tony in Viemam and Mihe
in camp in North Carolina.
Donna Woods entertained at a
Tupper party last, Monday evening.
Jim Skelton has been shipping
cabbage to several markets for the
last two weeks and reports the
highest prices they have ever re­
ceived in all the years they have
sold cabbage.
These rains have sure pepped up
the cucumber vines. Monday I
picked a market basket of pickles
and made 7 pints of bread and but­
ter pickles.

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We celebrated summer by going
to Mrs. Pfeffer’s sale last Saturday.
We went with a purpose - to get a
kraut cutter but after four and a
half hours it hadn’t been brought
out so we left for home. We did
see some of Mother’s folks - Viola
Veit and a niece and Ed Clapper
and many others that it’s always
a pleasure to visit with. Like most
she must have saved everything
and found a place to put it aside
as the years passed and, because
it was old and represented an era
passed, the crowd clamored for
the things brought out to be soldold cheese boxes, lovely old pieces
of china and glass, vases, wash
bowls sets, spittoons, even whiskey
bottles, dump rakes, a buggy with
a double driving pole, old lounges
and three Oak heating stoves like
the one we used to have in our
parlor. Most of the things were
nice enough to be sold piece-meal
and I’ll bet the sale lasted until
late and brought Mrs. Pfeffer a
nice little bit of cash for things
she'll never miss.
Our tomatoes are ripening fast
these days and that means canning.
Last Wednesday afternoon Mae
Kirschner was baking ginger
cookies and must have slipped on
a drop of water while taking a pan
of cookies into the buttery. Down
she went, injuring the leg which
she had injured a couple of years
ago. She’s in St. Vincent Hospi­
tal in a cast from her hip to her
toes. Charlie drives out each day
to see her.
Mrs. Ceylon Perry celebrated an
89th birthday, Tuesday, August
23rd. Her immediate family as
well as nieces and nephews and
friends came to offer homage to
one they love and respect.
Lawrenc^and Marian McLallen
are spending this week at Chau­
tauqua, taking in and enjoying all
the wonderful things this place has
to offer.
Mildred Sedgwick is in Hamot
Hospital.
A new room and garage are
being added on to the Steven
Ronto home on Hound Hill.
The Washington Township Super­
visors have passed an ordinance"
which hopefully has enough teeth
in it to clean up the junk yards
that are developing around the
township. The teeth are there if
the Supervisors have the backbone
to enforce it.
Vere and Phyllis Woods’ youngest
son was injured while riding horse­
back last week and has been in the
hospital.
John and Ella Smith of Itley have
turned over their home to the new
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be staying with her daughter and
husband, Serena and Ralph Show­
man. John has been visiting his
nephew and family in Wellsboro.
These mornings remind one that
Autumn will soon be here. One
can stand at the pasture gate.
watch the sun burst through the
early mist, hear a sheep bleat and
a rooster crow in the distance and
the world seems ahios t too beau­
tiful.
The mushrooms thrive these
moist, muggy mornings. They are
plentiful this year and we’ve found
very few that were buggy. I
wouldn’t want them for a steady
diet but at this time of year those
you find taste mighty good.

Mother always said" that August
was the time to slip plants so if
you want to carry over the winter
you better get busy.
Dan Gardner ispainting his house
Marshall and Inez Sproul spent
the week end with the Robert Fisher
family at Farrell. Marshall's sister,
Mrs. Mae Norris, spent the week
end with Miss Nancy Nisley of
Meadville.
Everyone should get a hold of
this week’s U. S. News and World
Report and read David Lawrence’s
editorial, "The Era of Anarchy".
Edna and Frank Scheidemantel
.have had a busy and very pleasant
summer entertaining
grand­
children, son, daughters, brothers
and sisters.
Laurel Hamilton (Joann’s daugh­
ter) was here two and a half weeks.
Her grandparents took her home
and brought back Lynette who
stayed a week. Davids and their
young son were here from Flint,
Michigan for a week. While they
were here Joyce and her husband,
Jane and Tom and Davids went
out to dinner to celebrate Jane
and Tom’s tenth anniversary.
Grandma and Grandad kept the
youngsters.
Saturday evening all of Edna’s
family and Jerry Fuller had a
family get-to-gether
Scheidemantels. Davids visited around at
the girl's homes and left for Mich­
igan Sunday.
Edna has a house and a heart
big enough to hold them all and
there's nothing in the world better
than having everybody home.
Joanna and her husband have
bought a farm near where they
have been living and will soon be
moving there. Their eleven year
old twin sons each have an acre
of potatoes on which they keep
complete records. Two calves
which they had entered in the
Potter County Fair won second
ribbons.
The children are all
active in 4-H activities.

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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.
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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."

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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
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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 ,
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and the snow specked mountains, r
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Food and clothing Ate very expen-i
sive. A regular supper for three at
a restaurant would run about $20.
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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
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their daughter Betty Ann and family in York State.
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These cooler days drive the flies ‘ to the screen doors and the old 1
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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
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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 \
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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
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up, layiu§ wi^ die corning ,pf ppfd < ^ weather.
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The swallows have left and in
places in the woods the robins arei i
collecting to start their autumn ;
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journey to the Southlands for the s
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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.

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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.
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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
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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
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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

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Carrie Goodell

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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.
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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
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for it.
listening with the ear phones and
nature photography was excellent
that produced the sweetest sap, the
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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
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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
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window shopping tour of Edinboro,
' I and back on Saturday afternoons.
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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.
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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^^[

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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

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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.
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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
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their mail (horse and sleigh) and i
Fred Klakamp passed away at I
North East Boro has set their
if the day was cold and stormy |
St. Vincent Hospital at the age of j Frank always brought a large cupi millagefor 1967 atll mills. What
75. He had been in poor health' of hot coffee out to the mail box does Edinboro get for the three ex­
for several years. Fred had esta- ; for Dad to drink. 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
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,
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j ( don Lane. Ruth Burgett had told to go to Cambridge for a back up
leader but Fred, a quiet and good
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man, was always right back of ; ...
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him to carrv
nart of the load. ?
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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
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1 .. the
..1, I was patWaster let Dundon work National Wildlife.
whistle which they blew to let the i ” ,
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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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

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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.

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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.

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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
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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.

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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.

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