16 T H E JO U R N A L NEW MEMBE RS 1961-62 sawedtheir boardslust an inch or two Agnor, Mr. Harry .E. narrower than two feet. so that no .one ' 70? Hepburn St:, Williamsport Beck, Mrs. J. August 252 Edgewood Ave., Duboistown could prove that they camefrom king's Bradford. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin trees. Pines that could have made suitable 1852E. Third St., Williamsport Bush.Mr. and Mrs. Alvin C masts for the mightiest British navy ships R. D. 2, Muncy were sawed up into loiscs and rafters and Coney, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel 4i7' Maple Ave., \Villiamsport other small kinds of lumber. Throughout Cook. Miss Vera 723W. Fourth St., Williamsport the New England colonies rhe minor costello. Dr. Francis V. colonial officials sided with the settlers 835 'W. Fourth St., Williamsport Ecker. Dr. and Mrs. Herbert and did everything possible to defeat the 115Roderick Rd., Williamsport law. Fox. Mr. and Mrs. Reuben 54 Upland Rd., Williamsport Gilbert. blIP. and Mrs. Ward There was much more to the struggle 439'Broad St.. Montoursville Gleason. Mrs. James B chan can be related here. But the longer the 1001'First Ave., Williamsport British tried to enforcethe Broad Arrow Goodell. Mrs. Helen HI. 412 'Academy St., Williamsport regulations, the angrier became the colonists. Heim. Mr. and Mrs. Horace S. 723Broad St.. Montoursville They beganto sei;e British mast ships and Herrold, Mr. Dewey S. 213 Market St., Selnsgrove fire on British navy boats. The British Hilsher. Mr. John H.. Sr retaliated by sending armed vessels to re- 1400 Alemorial Ave., Williamsport Johns.Mrs. Earl L capture the stolen boats. Finally Admiral 325 Campbell St., Williamsport Graves sent Captain Mowatt, with f our Kahler. Mr. Clark B 10f N. Market St., Muncy vessels, to Destroy Falmouth. These ships King, Mr. Harry H. 1280 Hepburn St., Williamsport fired bombs, grapeshot, and cannon balls, Kohler. Mrs. Ida destroying four hundred homes and making 652Fifth Ave., Williamsport Maya, Miss Chrissie several thousand colonists homeless. The 121N. Loyalsock Ave., Montoursville Krebs. Mr. and Mrs. Robert aroused citizens fought off the landing 1440Lafayette Parkway, William.spot't parties that Captain Mowatt sent ashore Peterm.an. Mr. Roy C. to completethe job 1197Penn St., Williamsport Ryan,1325 Mr.Woodmont Edward Ave., Williamsport Noc only did the Bmad Arow's oppressive Schleh. Mrs. Helen 125Gump ian Blvd., Williamsport regulations infJaine the American mind, but Schneebeli.Hon. and Mrs. H. T it also played a parr that we have hardly Hollywood Circle,' Williamsport Seltzer. Mrs. R. E appreciatedin deciding the resulting war 85 GrampianBlvd., Williamsport Shafer. Mr. Horace of the Revolution. England had not kept 12g IBennett St., Williamsport up her supply of navy masts. It was only Shelley, Dr. Donald 42g ' Market St., Williamsport a' ci:idle bef Ogle Bunker Hill that England Shipman, Mrs. Spence. D. THE 128 W. Mountain Ave., South Williamsport received the last cargo of masts from New Smith. Miss Teresa 819Louisa St., Williamsport England. For years, British navy masts had Smith. Mrs. William H been deteriorating sadly. During the years 2106 Lycoming Creek Rd., 'Williamsport these masts had dried out and become Stearns. Mr. and Mrs. George 400 'Upland Road, Williamsport Steele. Mrs. Charles G. brittle. Their strength and resilience had 2327Riverside Drive, South Williamsport gone. Thus England entered the war ill Sum.o.Mr. and Mrs. Carl JOU RNAL 530 S. Mountain Ave., South Williamsport prepay:ed, so far as her navy went Struck. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 353 Woodland Ave.., Williamsport In 1778 Admiml Byron's fleet was scat Walters, Mr. George R tired by a storm off the American coast 160f Warren Ave., Williamsport OF THE \Vurster, Mrs. Gordon and masts and bowsprits by the dozen were Proctor Star Route, Williamsport cracked. In the fleet of Lord Howe, that Yearick. Mr. and Mrs. Don 1655 Hlepburn St., Williamsport Evans. Misses Lucille and Winifred year, twelve of his thirteen ships of the 1054 Wayne Ave., Williamsport line wereunfit for duly. Two yearslater Steffan. Mrs. Eva P LYCOMING HISTORICALSOCIETY 2232W. Third St., Williamsport a West Indian hurricane practically dis- Grugan, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew abled a British fleet, shattering masts and Proctor Star Route, Williamsport Mcgovern. Mrs. Peter J spurs.. It required many weeks for the fleet Farr.301 Mrs. Grampian Stella M. Blvd., Williamsport to reach a port where repairs could be 2205 Lycoming Creek Road, Williamsport made. And it was lack of masts that pre- Stahel. Mr. Kurt Proctor Star Route, Williamsport vented Admiral Graves from relieving Briel, Mrs. Phyllis Miller SUMMER 625 Fifth Ave., Williamsport VOLUMEll Cornwallis at Yorktown. In the end, the Hazen, Mr. Emerson ?n .. 652 Cemetery St., Jersey Shore r..y5 Broad Arrow did much to separate America Emery, Mrs. Max L NU'MBER FIVE 1962 and England. 688 Seventh Ave., Williamsport £. the J OU RNAL of the T HE JO U R N A L 3 LYCOMING HISTORICAL SO CIE TY PUBLISHED BIANNUALLY IN \VILLIANISPORT: PENNSYLVANIA THKSUSQUKHANNABOOM DR. JANIES P. BRESSLER, PRESIDENT MR. F]ENRY P. PERCIBALLI, SECT\ETARY DR. LLOYD E. WURSTER, IST. VICE PRESIDED'r N4R. W. CL\,DE HAIER, TREASUREI\ h,'IR. RICHARD L. MIX, 2ND. VICE PRESIOENT By Gibson Antes DR. R. MAX GnGItICn, 3RD. VICE PIRESIDENT Major Perkinscame to Williamsport in ember 5, 1849, when a meeting of the ])IRECTORS 1961-62 DIRECTORS 1960-1963 rhe year 1845 from somewhere in New Eng- stockholders was called, and John Leighton \4RS. ROBERT COCHRANE Nln. WILLIAbl R. Sixes land. John Leighton of Maine accompanied was made Chairman and Elias Lowe was blISS NIAI{GAnET B. COIXYEI.L bliss Sux Bisnop Perkins from Philadelphia with the object appointed Secretary. The next day arrange- NIR. JOIIN ANDREWS in view of engaging in the Lumber business, ments were made to build 12 piers, 5 to Iter. SAN[UEL J. DO]\NS]FE TRUSTEES and if circumstances f avored, to establish a be built in the Spring and che remainder MR. WIIJLIANI SINGS l\IR. Wn.LiANgR. Sills Boom. At the place called ''Long Reach in the Fall. Under a contractentered into MRS. G.ORDON WUnSTER N4R. KENNETH D. RHONE all the requisitesfor a Boomexisted. On on December 8Eh, more piers were to be bIllS. JAb£ESB. HUI-FR[AN the south side, mountains insurmountable built that would make the structurecom- to the overflowingof logsexisted, and the plete for all the logs that would come EX OFFICIO bermin the river at this point and for down the river the following Spring W. CLYDE HAIER miles above, naturally draws logs to the In 1866 the Linden Boom was built by south side of the rivet:, and the river being connecting the two islands and in 1873 EDITORS practicallylevel at this point and for miles was rebuilt by putting in 41 more piers DR. LEWIS E. T].]E]SS NIR. I\£lICnAEL M. 'WARGO above, prevents the possibility of su,ift The first mishap was the flood of 1860, hIl\. L. RODN{AN 'tVUItSTEI\ NhSS NIILDI ED KEWL\ currents during the low water stages. With- when the Boom was broken and fif ty out suchan arrangementto securethe logs million feet of lumber were carried down until they could be manuf actured, it would Extra Copies of The Journal Fifty Cents Each be uselessto build mills. Before the build- the river. The Boom was six miles long and would hold 300,000,000 feet of lumber. ing of the Boom wham few logs were floated down had to be watched, and even The annual average expenseto keep the chen many escaped. Men in small boats Boom in repair was $40-,000 securedthe logs and madethem into small The Company received $1.00 per 1000 rafts. To prevent loss at night large fires feet of Jogswafted out, and curried over to CONTENTS were built on the shore and on float boats the owners. The logs were designated by anchored in the ' middle of the stream and marks placed on the ends before they leff men stationed at several points to catch the woods. These marks were registered che logs. This was hard and dangerous lnd were on file. The SusquehannaBoom Gibson Antes } work. That was the method of floating When the great flood of June 1sr, 1889 4 logs dowd the river until Major Perkins Civil War Letters John J. Shaffer completed tu'o temporary Booms in March came, the boom was filled to capacity and of 1849,one at GooseIsland and the every log was lost and many went into Chesapeake Bay and some out into the Conrad Weiser's Trip Up Th: Loyalsock -- Clark Kahler 5 other nearly opposite where the permanent Boom was finally located. The flood of Atlantic Ocean. About one half of the logs were recovered. Where enough could be History of Ostonwakin Farm ( Part VI and VII) Mabel E. Eck 6 1849 gave the temporary booms enough of a test, thad it convinced skeptical lumber- recovered at one place, mills were built men that a boomcould be built to be and they were manufactured on the spot 8 The Old Franklin Building SchoolBell -Arthur Pepperman profitable. The work of getting the logs into the The Susquehanna Boom Company was Boom and rafting them out, took about The Vanquished The One Room School Clarence Mcconnell 9 incorporated by Act of March 26, 1849 eight months and approximately150 men The original issue of stock was for 10-0 and boys were employed.Pay for the men averaged about $1.50 per day. Aimed at America, The British Broad Arrow Wounded England shares with a par value of $100.00 each Dr. Lewis E. Theiss 14 John Leighton had one share, John Dubois The total number of logs handled through 25, Matthias Dubois 25, JamesH. Perkins the Boom during its lifetime was 31,606,557 24, IsaacSmith 20, and Elias Lowe 25 and this amountedto 5,545.298,406feet i6 New Members No orgarlization was effected until Nov- of lumber. 4 T H E JO U R NA L TH E JO URNAL 5 and was glad to hear that you were well. alive or not. If she can't write I think it CIVIL WAR LETTERS I hope your health will continue. You would be a very good way for her to learn LETTER FROM WILLIAM SHAFFER'S GREAT GRANDFATHER spoke in your last letter of General Hooker by writing a few linesto me.Mother as TO HIS FAMILY stoppingthe newspaperin the Army but I want to write a few lines to Mag yet I Camp Bassent rumor that they are going to keep them this was a mistakefor we get paper daily thinkI will haveto closeor I w'ill run March 1, 1863 longerbut if they want to havewar at and as regular as ever did. We had a very out of news. I still keep well and hope Dear Father: homelet them try it on f or the true senti- deepsnow here on the 22. There was fully that I may until expiration of my time. This is the Sabbath day and I have con mentsof thisman are I will not stay.If two feedof snow fell. On that day loud But before I close 'l would say 'that if cluded to spend part of it in replying to McCllan could be reinstated it would cause reports, could be heard from all parts of the I can gec a good situation in the Army yours of the 24th, which was duly received a rejoicing in the Army of the Potomac, Army from the thundering cannon in perhaps I will not come home at all, I will last night at the late hour of 9 o'clock such was never heard or known of before remembrance of trac noble Washington, see . . . Ihope the time will soon come Also informing you that I had received one for all confidence is placed in him. Soldiers, the Father of our countrv. when this war will be over for there are previous to that but thought I would not knowing exactly whamhe is and what he I would like to write to all but money but a few that do not wish for its disappear- answer until I goc an answer to it which can do, while others are trying experiments in the army is scarceand stampshard ing. I will now bid you goodbye by hoping has now come. And lam now going to and trying what they can do and there are to get.So I will haveto get alongby to hear from you soon again try [o give you what I call a family letter but few who like to have experiments sending my best wishes to Frank, Emma. Affecionally, You will perhaps infer from the heading madeof their lives and certainlyis a serious and Jane. I hardly ever hear if Emma is John J. Shaffer of this letter that we have changedour thing when taken into consideration. I do camp but we are still at the same place. not think they will attack Frederickbsurg Our Brigadier General has gone away for again, for they are moving a great deal of a short while and our Colonel is acting our force away fmm here but its hard [o Conrad Weiser's Trip Up The Loyalsock in his steadand from this we nameour tell. Iliad a letter from The Roberts the camp. Yesterday we were again mustered other day. They were at Minors Hill six By Clark Kahler in tor pay, but how soon we may get it miles from Washington. He was well. Will In 1737, Conrad Weiser left his home deep. At one time choy were without f ood I am not able to say,but f or my part I Eldred, George's son, was here to see us near Reading, on February 17, to make a f or four days and so weak and exhausted, hardly think we will get any more till our yesterday.He has come back to his regi- trip to Onondaga, New York, as a mes- that they were only able [o make one mile time is up. We have now f our months pay ment. Father,I think I must stop so I would senger for the Provincial Government. He chat day like to write some in this for mother and due us up to the last of April which will figured it would take him 25 daysto make March 29, they crossedthe river ac make sixty eight dollar:scoming to me. Margaret. We still have a full allowance rhe journey. Towanda, where they found the Indians You scaled that you were all patiently of mud and fair prospects of plenty more He arrived at Sunburn, March 8; where low in food and all the men out hunting waiting my return was counting the time. for it has been raining last night and this he obtained Indian guides and set out on Here the river was in flood. and the women So are we but we cannotarrive to any forenoon but has and more cleaned up. foot, March 16. They went up the West and children were gathering acorns and precisetime that we will be clear.We do Those scainps were thankfully received. I Branch, and crossed Muncy Creek, under artichokes washed out by the river. Corn not know for sure from what date our will write to Smull and Wilson. but be- great difficulty, Mai:ch 21, then continued was nearly all used up, but they gave one time runs from but we ratherthink we tween attending [o what I have to do and on to Loyalsock Creek. blanket for about one third bushel'of corn. will stanfor homein April,I thinkwe writing together I am kept busy. My respects Here they fired their guns to attract They persuaded an old woman to make are allawed twenty days to go home in. Well to all. Tell Dekaas I got his letter:. Write attention and were brought acrossthe them some mush soup and il few corn cakes. you say you are going to try coatingor soon and leave ine know how you make creek, which was in flood, to Madame The first nourishment they had for days, outL] that you can get a job if you can get one Montour's Town. Madame Montour tried and some of the Indian guides got sick. at the price you said.I think you will do Johr] J. Shaffer to do her best,but told them food was While here there was a heavy thunder- well and cannot do much better unless very scarce and that the mountains were storm and then freezing weather.The next you could rent a good farm. If I was at Bell Plain, Virginia full of snow and the Indians above were day they set out again, and reachedOnonta, home I think I would coal a while with March 1, 1863 destitute. Dear Mother New York, on April 3 you at them wages,buc if I do get home They traveled up Loyalsock, which they On April 11, they reached Onondaga, I do not know f or sure what lwill go at. As I said in the beginning I intended had to crosseight times on then: first New York, where they were receivedby I sometimesthink I will go to school,but to make this a f emily letter. lam going day. The raft they madebroke into pieces, the Council Chiefs of the Six Nations. I will lust mention here than if you can to try and fill the remainder of this sheet so !hereafterthey cut a pole, which they While this f oute was shorter in distance. come across a good chance for me at for you. [ often heard you say there was held onto, to keep from being swept awad it was also the most difficult and danger- nothing like being economical and surely something between this and char time for I havefound it to beso since I amin the Their journey took them by the way of ous; so that thereafter Weiser chose 'the to engage it for me. If the young folks Barbours,Hillsgrove, Lincoln Falls, Eldred. route up Lycoming Creek, by preference keep on getting married up there, again armyfor I find it convenierltto kill two Overton, then down Millstone Creek. Pow- Note: Weisergave the old woman,who we get there they will all be old and we birds with one stone wherever I can, but ell, Monroe, down Towanda Creek to cooked the meal for them, 20 steel needles lef t alone. I expect there is another greer I am trying to kill three u-irh this one. I Towanda,Ulster, Athens and then north and 6 leather shoe laces. Because she did excitement about the draft. There is con acknowledge it was negligence on my part until they reached Onondaga. and I shouldhave answeredyour letters not have grease or meat for cooking, she siderable talk in the army about it, espec- In crossing ovcr rhe mountains, they cooked the corn-meal in lye water, to make ially the nine-monthmen. There is a great and this I am. Letters were kindly received encountered deep snow, in places armpit it slippery and better tasting for them. 7 6 THE JO U R N A L T H E JO U R N A L ber, 1894, conveyed his one half undivided cabbage.The celery businesshas been in- Parts VI and Vll interest in and to the said premises to creasing. each year, until 1933 he grew History of C)stonwakin Farm Mary W. Mahaffey, his sister, wife of thirty acres of celery. Delos S. Mahaffey. His reputation as a gardner had increased By Mabel E. Eck (Continuedfrom Winter, 1961Issue) May W. Mahaffey and husband Demos S. [o such an extent that in 1933 he received Mahatfey continued with the farm, dairy PART VI the order to supply the LycomingCounty architecture.These were the largest barns and mce horses.They planted a grove of Relief with over a million planes ot cabbage, John Ott Rockafeller's portion was in Lycoming County northern Maples between the bank barn tomatoes, and mangoes for the relief gar- afterward purchased by Oliver Watson of He was interested in stock. He purchased and the Mansion: also an orchard of dif- dens of Lycoming Coup)ty. Foi: many years Williamsport thai:ty head of Jersey thorough-breda, and ferent varietiesot apple trees.They furn- he has also grown 'SeedOdes' for one of scarred an up-to-date dairy. This was the I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary ished part of the mansion f or their private rhe largest seed companies in the United Jane, incerinarried with Charles Rawle, the prize herd of cattle at one time use which was their summer home f or a States. farm I lately purchased in Montoursville A small building, close co the carole number of years. Here they entertained known as Governor SchultzsFarm on which One day in late winger of 1910, James barn, called the milkhouse was equipped to many of their friends. A few years later A. Eck and JosephHoffman, the hired she now resides, as a part of her share of care f or the milk. Here the milk was put they had businessreverses and these con- man went to the canal to bury a calf. They my estate, the balance of purchase money through an air-cooler,and bottled for the tinued until the farm was shenft again dug the hole deep and accidentally struck due the Lloyd heirs to be paid by the wagon. , in 1909. a vein of sand. The sand was taken to executors. His keenestinterest was horses.Racing Together with the improvements thereon Mr. and Mrs. CharlesRawle lived on horseswere his pride. He built a half mile Harrisburg and tested by the State Dept. consisting of a large back dwelling house, of Highways, also by Mr. Russell, Supt. the farm for 44 years. In all these years race track in the thirty-six acre plot east three f arid barns, grand stand, several sheds, of the P. R. R. The report was, "It was the of the drive between the main highway they did nothing to improvethe land or ice house,fruit trees,and all other out- finest sand for concrete work in Uihe the buildings; instead when they sold, they and the Reading Railroad. He erected a buildings; che same having been sold by State. removed the large south window in rhe Judge's Stand and a Grand Stand. The me [o the said granteeon the secondday Grand Stand would accommodateone thou In 1920 the sand pit was opened and hall that matched the colonial doorway. of June Anna virtue of a writ Fieri Facias operations were hearted; sand and gravel Mary J. Rawle (formerly Mai:y J. Wat- sand persons. A barn was built especially for saleat the Eck farm. In 1922the firm for these horses, called the Race-Track issuedon the 5th dayof April Anna Domini son) and CharlesRawle, her husbandof 19(;9, out of the Court of Common Pleas Montoursville, Lycoming County, sold to Barn. It was behind the Cattle-barn, extend- of James A. Eck ar)d Sons, Sand and Gravel of Lycoming County as of June Term one Company was established consisting of George W. Lentz of the City of Williams- ing south almost to the Reading Railroad. At one time he had housedhere one thousand nine hundred and nine. Number James A. Eck and his four sons pore, on the second day of April, 1888 the Twenty-seven at the suit of Clarence L. said farm, f or the sum of twenty-two hundred head of fine horses. On a very hoEstill evening,the twclvrh thousand dollars. He then turned his attenion toward the Peaslee, Executor of John F. Carothers, of July 1932, Helena was walking through deceased against Delis S. Mahaffey and the Maple Grove; she happenedto glance George W. Lentz was one of the Lumber mansion. He shingled the house using May W. Mahaffey. In Witness Whereof, toward the bank barn. The sun was setting King's of Williamsport. He immediately twenty-four inch shavedshingles. He built I have hereunto affixed my signature this in che west and she thougllr, "ls that the prepared plans to improve che water two ice-houses. wood shed. smoke house. 9th day of June Arno Domini 1909.The reflectionof the sun on the windowor facilities and buildings bake-oven, and a butcher-house two stories He had a drilled well. encasedfor the high; alsoa porch on three sidesof the Sheriff of Lycoming County is that fire in the emery." She called [o Mansion. The interior of the house was On the Severlthday of July Anno Domini Charlotte who was reading the evening pump.This well was two hundredand 1909, before me, che subscriber, A Notary paper on the front porch, "I believe the fif ty feet deep. A wind mill was erected redecorated in the best taste of the day. Public, duly and fully qualified and coin barn is on fire." Charlotteran toward the and attachedto the pump. The water tank The exterior was painted yellow with white missioned Loomis Peasleeand Helen Wilson barn and by thad time the smoke and flames held five hundred barrels of water. From trimmings. A bath room was installed on Peaslee,his wife. in consideration of the the second floor, and the kitchen was equip- were bursting forth from all directions. this tank, wager pipes connected the Man- sum of Twenty-two Thousand and Five Helena stood in the middle of the grove sion and the barns. A beautifully designed ped with the best plumbing fixtures of hundred dollars convey and confirm unto tower of wood, seventy-five feet tall, pro- char period. This was probably the first shouting "fii:el fired" The whole neighbor- tected the well. This tower could b: seen bathroom in Montoursville. JamesA. Eck and wife, Martha J. Eck, all hood was aroused by this shouting and came to our aid It took two yearsto completethis build- of a certain piece or parcel of land, situated for many miles and was a land mark until in the Borough of Montoursville, the said it was destroyed by fire in 1932 ing programme.He then invited aJIhis Very little could be done. One mule farm of Delos and May W. Mahaffey untied himself and jumped over the manger He remodeled and enlarged the Bank friends and neighborsto a barn dance.This barn and then built another Bank barn for Henry C. Parsons,Notary Public. and escaped. Little James Eck,. the nephew, was the outstanding social event of the year. JamesA. Eck was the first owner of cattle, opposite,on the east side of the Mr. Lentzdid not live long after this. with the help of his playinares,drove a He died without a will. this farm to be a gardnerand farmed:by herd of dairy cackle into the pasture. The drive-way. The lumber used was native occupation.He moved his family consisting large sand trucks, somefarming implements, pine and other -hardwoods. The mows PART Vll of a wife, and eleven children into the wagons, and the automobiles were saved. In were large enough to hold ['wo hundred mansion November 30. 1909. fifteen minutes the roof on the big bank tons of hay. The grainaries were built of The said George W. Lentz having died He immediately built eighty hot-beds plowed and grooved hardwood,. and large intestate, leaving to survive him Harry W bai'n fell in. Everything around the barn Lentz and Mary W. Mahaffey as his only for early production of vegetable plants and burned; chicken coops, hog pens, corn enough to store six thousand bushels of lettuce. He specialized in vegetable plants, grain. These barns were built with venti- heirs, and the said Harry W. Lentz and cribs, the high tower, and che fire was especially celery, tomatoes, sweet corn, and spreading in all directions despite the heroic lators made of wood, the latest type of barn wife, by deed dared the llth day of Octo- 8 THE JO U R NAL T H E JO U R N A L 9 efforts of five fire companies. The carrie W. Lentz were destroyed by the fire. barn was next to be on fire. but it was We have erected a new bank barn on partially saved by che efforts of many men the old site with all modern improvements, The Vanquisl\ed The One Room School and fire companies a brick garage,a chickencoop,- a wind Thirty-five thousanddollars worth of breaker and the cattle barn has been razed. By ClarenceM. Mcconnell damagedone in a few hours.What a The new has risen up to take the place catastrophes The gr ain smoldered for three of the old. We have restored the mansion According to County records,there wel:e passed on and inf oi:marion is no longer weeks.Five dayslater someof the big 104 one-room schools; ten two-room schools, available, that some permanent record of rafters were sciJI burning. It had to be as it was in the days of Governor Shultz and one three-room school open in Lycom- the location, name, and the closing date watched day and night f or a week. All the except we have added all modern improve o feach school should be recorded and pi:e- buildings that had been erected by George ments in electricity and gas. ing Countyduring the 1936-37term. This served for posterity. A survey of such closed was approximately half the schools that at schools was begun in May, 1961. Contacts one time were required to serve the citizens were made throughout all districts where of this large geographical area of 1,215 there were schools known to have been square miles. To the bess of our knowledge closed before 1911--the date when state and research, there were 212 one-room reimbursement began for closed schools by The Old Franklin Building School Bell the Department. Several schools, unknown schools in operation at one period of time [o many of us, and the closing dates have Notes furnished by Arthur Peppermai or another in the county; 19 two-room been discovered and other:s are still un- buildings and 4 three-i:oombuildings. Dis- available at this time; for example--the October 28, 1955 tricts having three and two-room buildings location and closing date of the Muncy Dam would close one room of che building at School, the closing date of the first room of the English Center School, or the closing Mr. Peppermat) was Principal of that I across the street, where it was kept until a time as population decreased, and finally school from about 1900 for one year and date of the Gospel Box School in Jackson later years. From there it ' was removed aH, if necessary,and transport the remaining was afterward, for many years, Principal to the Curtin Building, now located north Township. In rhe frequent changeoi school secretaries throughout the districts,. the old of ehe Curtin Building. of Brandon Park, as a parc of the Lycom- pupils to a consolidated school. Antes Fort, ing County Historical Exhibit, where it Salladasburg and Pennsdale are exceptions. record books were no longer regardedas This bell, now in the Historical Museum, valuable and so almost 100qa of them have was located for many years. was cast by Crane & Company, Philadelphia, Beginning with the Fall term of 1962- been destroyed in 1818 out of bell metal On Armistice Day at the end of World 63, there will be only two one-room schools The accompanying list of schools (com- Mr. Pepperman does not remember when War I Dr. Charles Youngman, Sr., and his in operation in Lycoming County. These plete as available from known sources) is rhe bell was put into the old Franklin son Charles, Arthur Pepperman, George will not be typical "One-Room Schools" as school located on Mulberry Street, at the Washington Collins, the old Civil War included. Anyone having further informa- corner of Edwin Street. veteran, janitor of the Cui:tin Building, the term implies because instead of each tion concerning such schools will perform Arthur Pepperman'sson Carl arid John elle having gradesone through eight as a real sei:viceif they will communicateit During the Civil War when the news to the CountyOffice. A four by six map came into the Western Union Telegraph Youngman (verify) had a carriage made oi:iginally designed,they will be graded-- and had the bell ready to be rung when of the county has been prepared for a pei:- Company, then located on Market Street, Rose Valley housing grades one to four manent record, showing the location, char Lee had surrendered at Appomatox, Armistice Day was declared. When the and the BeechValley Schoolgrades five to news came Dr. Youngman,Sr., had a the order in closingby color, as Dr. Charles Youngman, father of John eight, both in Gamble Township. Several well as the year closed. This map Youngman and ])r. Charles Youngman, was hammer ready and struck the bell rather forcefully, making marks on the bell that meetings have been called to ascertain the is [o become the permanent possession passing the place. He hurried to the Frank- of the Historical Museum, in the N:ewman lin Building and askedthe Principal if can still be seen there. The bell was carried \ sentiment of parents regarding the discon- by these persons in the parade thad followed tinuance and the additional cost of education School,under the sponsorshipof the Lycom- he could ring the bell. The Principal ing County Chapter of the Pennsylvania would not allow the bell [o be rung until the receipt of Armistice Day news and was then returned to the Curtin Building where and transportation [o the joincure consoli- Federation of Junior Historians he verified the newsby sendingone of dated schools, but in each case the majority his boys down the Western Union it retrained untie the new Curtin ]3uilding ANTHONY TOWNSHIP to was build and some of the relics of th; voted to retain their community schools. office. When the great news was verified, Historical Society were stored there. From Greenwood 1928 Dr{ Youngman was permitted to ring These schools must now remain open until Ki.ess 1937 the bell. It was the first bell to be rung mere it was moved to the present location additional facilities can be provided for of the Lycoming Historical Society Museum Stony Gap 1952 in Williamsport on the news of Lee's sur- Chem at the Loyalsockville center at some (4) Steam Mill render. When the news of peace came with the 1959 future date,and the district decidesto join (5) Pine Run 1959 Shortly after 1900 plans were made for Second World War, Hubert H. Russell. the erectionof a new schoolbuilding on better known as Bucky,. and a group of the organization, grades one through twelve, ARMSTRONG TOWNSHIP the Franklin lot, and before the work of men placedthe bell on a truck and jclined or is mandated to do so by Jegislarion. Jacks Hollow 1921 demolition began the bell was secretely in the parade celebrating that event For several years I have keenly felt that Mosquito Valley 1925 rmoved to the Fire Engine Company No. (As dictated to JesseS. Bell) before many of rhe older citizens have Gibson 1931 10 THE JO U R NA L THE JO U R N A L 11 BASTRESSTOWNSHIP FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP LEWIS TOWNSHIP MCINTYRE TOWNSHIP Bastress1930 ( 1) Clees 1946 Kelly 1904 Mcintyre 1844 1890 (2 ) Baxter 1946 Run 1924 Gray's Run 1912 BROWN TOWNSHIP Gray's ( 1) Keebler 1950 Corner 1924 Sechrist 1913 Trout Run 1914 (2) Road 1950 Bobst Mountain 1938 Langdon 1917 Pump Station 1917 FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP ( 1) Bodines i960 Pleasant Stream 1919 Childs Hill 1929 (2) Trout Run (2) i960 Red Run (3) Slate Run ( 1) 1911 Germany 1931 ( 1 ) 1906 ( 1 ) Chestnut Grove 1947 ( Consolidated new 4- (2) 1959 room ) 1960 (2) 1916 1920 (2) Bald Eagle 1947 Marsh H.ill 19% BRADY TOWNSHIP Pleasant Valley High School closed 1942 (1945-47) 1949 LIMESTONE TOWNSHIP ( 1) Stone ( Canton Jointure) (2) Somerset 1942 ( 1) Starr (1947-49) 1962 Oval (one room) 1892 Oak Grove 1958 (2) Lairdsville (2) 1962 Moore 1914 McN ETT TOWN SHIP ( l-room 1919-47) Mountain 1918 Yorktown 1919 CASCADETOWNSHIP Joint Consolidation Riedy 1920 Leolyn 1928 Mclaughlin 1923 Lairdsville Elem. 1962 Eck 1921 Slacks Run i926 Masters 1933 GAMBLE TOWNSHIP 1943 Masten 1931 ( 1) Jamestown Mcllwain 1941 Loder i902 Collomsville (2) 1943 Wallis Run 1900 (2) Ellenton 1945 ( 1 ) 1900 Oval 1947 Ely Parson's Hill 1946 (2) ( 1) Butternut Grove 1921 Four-room brick across street from CLINTON TOWNSHIP (2) Chestnut Grove 1921 MIFFLIN TOWNSHIP Wallis Run present building; burned in 1917. Clintonville (2 ) ( 1) 1900 Rebuilt in 1918-1919.High school Plank Road 1902 1942 ( Burned ) 1927 (2) closed in 1929. Present four rooms Brick Davis 1929 ( 1) Rose Valley (reloca.) .nn.n]iHacpd grades ] -4 Mud Run 1930 (3) Baptist 1930 (2) Beech Valley ( reloca.) Chestnut Grove 1943 (4) Mountain 1930 HEPBURN TOWNSHIP LOYALSOCK TOWNSHIP Canoe Run 1946 Pine Street 1930 1930 First Forks 1959 (5) Factory Fairview 1929 Mountain Grove 1930 1931 ( 1) Main Creek 1959 (6) ( 1) Klumpp Limestone i929 1930 Balls Mills (2) (7) Muncy Station (2) 1931 Mill Creek 1929 Pleasant 1931 (3) MILL CREEK TOWNSHIP COGAN HOUSE TOWNSHIP (3) Valley Sand Mill 1929 (4) HepburnviJJe 1931 (4) Baier1928 Steuben 1918 (5) Union 1929 (5) Crescent ( 1) Hires 1947 Steam Valley 1937 elem ( 1) Grandview 1936 ( Consolidated 1936 (2) Gortner (Mud Hole) 1947 Brookside 1940 and sec. (2) Eagle with Lycom (3) Heshbon 1936 Green Mountain 1945 ing) 1931 MORELAND TOWNSHIP Beech Grove 1948 (8-room Market St. Secondary school School annexed Pleasant Grove ( 1 ) Cogan House 196] Closed 1949 by (2) Summit ( 2 ) 1961 Williamsport ) ( Backbone ) 1926 ( l-room closed 1930-40 JACKSONTOWNSHIP Green Valley 1937 Zuker (Sugar) Hill 1904 LYCOMING TOWNSHIP Hill 1946 CUMMINGS TOWNSHIP Laurel Run 1947 Gospel Box Pleasant Hill English Mills Independent OPPS 1954 East Hill 1915 Raked Maple Spring Eight-Square 1958 State Road (Closed Ramsey i9i6 Mountains Frenchtown 1962 Carsontown 1925 Kohler 1947-48) Waterville Centennial Perryville MUNCY CREEK TOWNSHIP Reed Quiggleville Muncy Dam DUBOISTOWN BOROUGH North West 1908 JORDAN TOWNSHIP High School 1906 Prairie 1921 McHENRY TOWNSHIP Shane 1918 ELDRED TOWNSHIP ( 1 ) Biggertown 1929 Bluestone 1908 Fairview 1932 Christian Hill 1947 (2) Cleveland 1929 Ross 1912 (2) Clarkestown i932 Excelsior 1949 (3) Peterman 1929 Okome ( 1928) 1933 (3) Glade Run 1932 Quaker Hill 1950 Gordrler (Lore) 1954 Cammal( 1940) (4) Turkey Bottom 1932 ( 1) Warrensville 1959 ( 1) Richard's Grove i962 2 rooms (2 ) 1945 (5 ) Guide (3) 1932 (2) Notch Eldred L959 (2) Saleh 1962 JerseyMills ( 1945) 1947 (6) Port Penn (2 ) 1932 12 T H E JO UR NA L T H E JO U R N A L 13 MUNCY TOWNSHIP PLUNKETTS CREEK TOWNSHIP WATSON TOWNSHIP UNITIV MONTOURSVILLE AREA Friends Quaker School 1911 Factory 1898 Independent 1898 JOINT SCHOOLS Pennsdale (Relocated) 1914 Hessler 1900 Harbor Mills 1933 1. Barbours Elem. ( 3 rooms) Center 1934 Hensley ( Store Box) 1904 Tombs Run 1959 2. Two l-room schools (Gamble Twp. ) Halls Station i936 Stryker 1913 WOLF TOWNSHIP 3. Loyalsock Valley Elem. 1961 Bush 1947 1934 4. Lyter Elem. Constructed 1959 Steinhilpher ( 1931) Pine Run 1931 Oak Run 1948 ( 1) Barbours i936 5. Montour St. Elem. (3 bldgs.) Steck 1932 (Consolidated Penns. (2) Proctor ( 2 ) 1904 6. Jr.-Sr.H. S. Addition ( 1) Hunt.ersville 1938 dale to two rooms in 1914 1936 (2 ) 1955 To 3 rooms in 1949 1950 ( Consolidated 3-room ( 1) Newman UNIT V SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT 1955 To 6 roomsin 1958 1959 (2) Fairview AREA SCHOOLS A. J. Barbour (3 ) Villa Grove 1955 School) i936 1. DuBoistown Elem. Remodeled 1960 NIPPENOSE TOWNSHIP WOODWARD TOWNSHIP 2. Nisbet Elem. Constructed 1959 River Mill 1919 PORTER TOWNSHIP Stewart 1918 3. Mountain Ave. Elem. Vilas Park 1940 White Oak Grove 1945 4. Southern Ave. Elem. Morgan Valley 1921 Granville (2 ) 1923 (1) Ferguson 1941 ( 1) Pine Run 1948 5. Central Elem. Constructed 1959-1960 ( Consolidated in (2) Nice's Hollow (2 ) 1941 (2) Forest (;len 1948 6. Old Central High and Com. Hall present 3 room (3 ) Glen Grammar ( 2 ) 1941 (3) 1948 7. Jr.-Sr.H. S. building) 1923 ( Consolidated Porter Limber Bridge 1951 8. Sr. H. S. Addition 1962-1963 Twp. Elem.) 1941 Linden 1954 OLD LYCOMING TOWNSHIP (Consolidated 10 UNIT VI - WILLIAMSPORT AREA SALLADASBURG BOROUGH Woodward Twp. JOINT AND LOYALSOCK Bottle Run 1945 One-hoom closed 1946 Elem ) 1954 TOWNSHIP Oak Grove (2 ) 1952 Rented to Mifflin Twp. later To Williamsport 1961 l Trout Run Elem. Constructed i960 Re-opened-consolidated1-4 2 r959 HIGH SCHOOLS CLOSED IN Hepburnville Elem. 1928and PENN TOWNSHIP 3 rooms ( 1959) 4 rooms ( 1960) 3. LYCOMING COUN'lY Old Lycoming Elem. Neff 1919 4. Round Hill Elem. Constructed 1959 Oval--3-year ( Converted) 1919 1929 1933 SHREWSBURY TOWNSHIP 5 1959 (1) Lyons 1930 WoodwardTwp. Elem. 1954 and 1933 Pine Grove Montgomery(Houston Ave.) 1904 6 (2) Marsh Run 1929 Williamsport City Elem. Bldgs Dear 1937 S. Williamsport (Converted) 7 Highland 1918 1932 Three Area Joint High Schools 1944 Muncy (Old Normal) 1873 8 Muncy Creek Tivoli1930 1946 Senior bligh School 1947 Picture Rocks(Converged) 1926 9 1958 ( 1) Frantz Mapleton1934 1949 Jr.-Sr. H. S. (Loyalsock) 1957 ( 1) Mccarty 1947 Point Bethel 1947 Hepburnville(Converted) 1928 10 Ralston (Abandoned) 1949 J. Geo. Bechc Elem. Addition 1947 1961 1962 (3) Sugar Run 1946 susQUEnxNNA TowNSHIp Hughesville (Converted) 1 1 Four Mile Elem. 1959 1960 PLATT TOWNSHIP Nisbet (2 ) 1959 PRESENT EDUCATIONAL CENTERS ( I room closed) 1941 IN LYCOMING COUNTY PAGES UNIT Vll AREA Cement Mills 1943 JERSEY SHORE Mlartins UNIT 1 - EAST LYCOMING SCHOOL JOINT SCHOOLS 1956 UPPER FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP DISTRICT ( 1) 1958 l Oval Elementary i929 Larryville Heilman 1938 1. Lairdsville Elem. Constructed 1962 (2) Level Corners 1958 2. Antes Fort Elementary 1923 Pleasant Hill 1946 2. Picture Rocks Elem. Converted 1946 3. Salladasburg Elementary i96i Fairfield Center 1950 3. Hughesville Elem. 4. Porter Township Elementary 1941 PINE TOWNSHIP ( 1) Loyalsock 1959 (2 buildings) Converted 1956 5. Avis Elementary Rogers 1901 (2) Farragut 1959 4. Jr.-Sr. H. S. Constructed 1954 6. South Avis Elementary ( 1) Chestnut Grove 1917 7. Broad Street Elementary Snow WAsmiNGTON TOWNSHIP UNIT II - MUNCY AREA JOINT (2) 1917 SCHOOLS 8. Walnut Street Elementary (3) Texas 1917 Texas 1917 9 Junior High School Remodeledi96i Glen 1. Muncy Elem. Constructed 1958 10 Constructed 1959 ( 1) 1921 Laurel Ridge 1923 2. Pennsdale Elem. Constructed 1958 Senior High School (2) lva 1921 Hillside 1945 3. Jr.-Sr. H. S. Addition 1958 English Center (2) Pleasant Green 1956 LIBOR'I'Y AREA JOINT SCHOOLS Pikes Peak UNIT 111 MONTGOMERY AREA First room in 1904 ( 1 ) 1957 1. Cogan House Elem. (4-room) 1961 Secondroom 1957 (2 ) Elimsporr 1957 .JoiNT SCHooLS Oregon Hill (2) (3) White Hall 1957 1. Elimsport Elem. Constructed 1957 First room in 1945 ( Consolidated 2. Montgomery Elem. Constructed 1958 CANTON JOINT SCHOOLS Second room 1959 Elimsport Elem.) 3. Jr.-Sr. H. S. Addition 1958 1. Ralston Elementary ( 3-room ) 14 TH E JO U R NA L THE JO U R NA L 15 timber, in the royal woods was a crime to no local jury would convict an American Aimed At America, The British Broad Arrow be adjudged in courts of admiralty,. where inhabitant. there was no jury and the judge held office In 1727 the British passedstricter timber at the pleasure of che Crown. laws, which were approvedby GeorgeI Wounded England As the ''King's woods" meant all the These laws created even greater resistance land or forest not already granted away on the part of the Americans.A new Sur- By Dr. Lewis E. Theiss to private persons, these f crests included veyor General,David Dunbar, was sent to in effect all che inconceivablyhuge area erlforce these regulations. He tried force Thee:e were of course, many reasons for ritories throughout the world. As all ships of woodlands east of the Mississippi except- With British troops he drove lutnbermen the American Revolution. It was England's were then made of wood, a very pressing ing the narmw ship of land that bordered out of their homes.burned their mills, and idea that her Americanpossessions should need arose for trees that would make proper ehe Atlantic. If this area was to be settled, seizedthe timber they had cut. On one remain a source of raw materials which masts. There were not too many such trees the trees #rzd to come down. And as the occasionhe sent men to Exeter to remove England would make into merchanEable left in the British Isles. So the parlimenr pioneers came to America with but practic 'stolen lumber." These emissaries, while products and then sell to the Americans passed a regulation pi:oviding for the l:e- ally one idea--to own land, clear it, and feasting at an inn, boasted of what they and others.Another British idea was that tention of all possible mast' trees for the create farm homes--the folly of these Brit- were going to do. Whether what f ollowed Americans should not engage in trade with royal navy--treesof two feet or more in ish regulations becomes glaring evident. set the pattern f or the later seizureof tea other nations other than the British. Nor diameter and of suficient length. These trees There was another thing the British did in the BostonHarbor: or not, a group of should they engage in ship building. All were to be marked with the Broad Arrow. not understand.That was the characterof settlers disguised as Indians set upon these these restrictive ideas were annoying This was a blaze. or several little blazes. the American settlers.Folks who had the deputiesand beal them severely.At the enough,but the BroadArrow was probably that together produced a mark not unlike courage to move into a forest populated by sametime they cut the rigging and sails of che worst of all the footprint of a crow. Thus in the British countless numbed:s of wolves. bears and the boatsin which the obnoxiousvisitors Isles trees fit f or masts were so marked Today, we hardly even know wham the panthers, to say nothing of swarms of other had come and madeholes in the bottom broad arrow was, so persistenely has and might not be cut for any purpose other of their ship. The deputiesfled from the our attention been directed toward the animals that would prey upon livestock and than [o provide mastsfor the royal navy crops--and on occasion even kill human inn. boarded their boats. and set sail. But annoyingstamp act; but the stampact This regulation may have been all right beings--such folks inevitably developeda when they f bund that their boats were was no mole than a splinter in the flesh, for Britain, but to apply it to America was degree of hardihood and courage thad the sinking, they grounded their craft, waded and gained so much emphasis,no doubt, worse than nonsense. Take Pennsylvania tightly-governed British knew nothing ashore, and hotfooted it f or Portsmouth alone and consider its timber. For close because it was pi:actically the last of the about. And so, inevitably, the colonists But there was more behind this resistance oppressive acts passedby the British parlia- to 350miles--from the Delaware to the moved freely into the king's woods and to British regulations than merely the desire ment. In short. it was the last link in the Ohio line--there stretched an unbroken beganto fell the treesand defy the myal forest such as the world had never seen [o cut more trees. New England almost ##Z chain of oppressive acts that so angered authority. the colonists. before.There were not simply millions of to be a maritime community.Its towns all It was probably the effort to enforce least trees in this incredible woods. bur In New Hampshire the inhabitants threw lay close to the water. There were innum- the Broad Ai:row regulation that really billions of them. Of this fact the British down the gauge to royalty by clearing erable snug harbors. And excellent boat created the deep-seared American hatred of seemingly had no comprehension.What townships, by which move they declared, timbers grew practically to the water's edge. British oppression.The situationcan prob- was more, if America was to grow and in effect, that the royal domainwas really So these early New Englanders built boats ably best be summedup by sayingthat develop and increase in population, count- private properly Massachusettsdid the same and set up trade with the West Indies. It the British authorities had no comprehen- less numbers of these trees d /o be /e//ed thing. One of the restrictive laws against was practicallythe only way in which the sion of the situation in America. and that so that the pioneerscould develop fields cutting the King's treeswas that providing down dwellers could make a living. So New they madeabsolutely no effort to inf orm for the production of food. So it is evident for the useof the car-O-nine-tailson the England developed a relatively large sea themselves about the situation. So they how foolish it was to try to apply the Broad bare back of a timber stealer. You can trade. A British act of 1729 would, if proceededto make and enforce the laws for Arrow regulation to America. imaginewhat indignation this terrible form strictly enf orced, have sadly crippled if Americaon the basisof the situationexist- The situation was even worse than this. of punishment would arouse in the hardy not altogetherdestroyed this trade.Thus American settlers. ing in England. In shore, they utterly lacked When the American settlerswent right on rhe New Englanders were almost f orced any comprehension of the face that condi- by British regu]ations to become ]aw break- felling possible mast trees, the British tried At any rate, in 1717 Surveyor General ers tions in a colony--such as America--might co enforce the regulation. The King backed John Bridger reported that of seventy pines differ from those of the home country and up his authoritywith a policeforce. He marked with the Broad Arrow at Exeter. When a settler was convicted of cutting therefore required to be handled differently. created the office of Surveyor General of only one remained standing. Try as he a mast tree, his fellows sometimes made up In no casewas this stupidity more pro- His Majesty's Woods in North America. would, Bridger could seldomprove tree to }nim the sum he had been fined--which nounced than in the case of the Broad In New England and New York alone theft. For after the colonistshad cut the on occasion was large. The Americans used Arrow. the forest covered 100,000- square miles King's trees and draggedthem into the all sorts of devices to f ool the British What was the Broad Arrow? After the Bur in 1711 Parlimentpassed an act for streams to be floated to sawmills, it was authorities. They marked worthless trees battle of Trafalgar, the British navy became rhe preservation of white pine and other practically impossible to prove where the with the Broad Arrow. Timbers that had amazinglypowerful, for England had sud- pine trees growing in her Majesty's logs had been cuc. The British authorities beenseized by the British authoritieswere denly became a leading world power arid colonies'' thad applied all the way from got nowherewhen they went to law to stolenfrom them and sawedup so that needed a tremendous navy to police her ter- Maine to New Jersey."Trespass", or stealing enf oi:ce the Broad Arrow regulations, as they could not be identified.The mills 16 T H E JO U R N A L N EW MEMBE RS 1961-62 sawed their boards lust an inch or two Agnor, Mr. Hlarry E. narrower than two feet, so that no one 707 H.epburn St., Williamsport Beck. Mrs. J. August 252 Edgewood Ave., Duboistown could prove that they came from king's Bradford.Mr. and Mrs. Marvin trees.Pines that could have made suitable 1852 E. Third St., Williamsport Bush. Mr. and Mrs. 'Alvin C masts for the mightiest British navy ships R. D. 2, Muncy were sawed up into loiscs and rafters and Coney,Mr. and Mrs. Daniel 47 Maple Ave., \Villiamsport other small kinds of lumber. Throughout Cook. Miss Vera 723W. Fourth St., Williamsport the New England colonies che minor costello. Dr. Francis V colonial officials sided with the settlers 835 'W. Fourth St., Williamsport Ecker. Dr. and Mrs. Herbert and did everything possible to defeat the 115 Roderick Rd., Williamsport law. Fox. Mr. and Mrs. Reuben 54 Upland Rd.,.Williamsport Gilbert, Mr. and Mrs. Ward There was much more to the struggle 439' Broad St.. Montoursville Gleason. Mrs. James B than can be related here. But the longer the 1001 First Ave., Williamsport British tried to enforcethe Broad Arrow Goodell. Mrs. Helen H. 412 'Academy St., Williamsport regulations, the angrier became the colonists. Heim. Mr. and Mrs. Horace S 723 Broad St.. Montoursville They began to seize British mast ships and Herrold, Mr. Dewey S British navy boats. The British 213 Market St., Selnsgrove fire on Hilsher. Mr. John H.. Sr. retaliated by sending armed vesselsto re- 1400 1NlemorialAve., Williamsport Johns. Mrs. Earl L capture the stolen boars. Finally Admiral 325 Campbell St., Williamsport Graves sent Captain Mowatt, with four Kahler. Mi'. Clark B 102 N. Market St., Muncy vessels,to Destroy Falmouth. These ships King, Mr. Harry H 1280 Hepburn St., Williamsport fired bombs, grapeshot, and cannon balls, Kohler. Mrs. Ida destroying four hundred holmesand making 652 Fifth Ave., Williamsport Maya, Miss Chrissie several thousand colonists homeless. The 121N. Loyalsock Ave., Montoursville Krebs. Mr. and Mrs. Robert aroused citizens f ought off the landing 1440Lafayette Parkway, Williamspoit parties that Captain Mowatt sent ashore Peterm.an, Mr. Roy C 1197 Penn St., Williamsport to complete the job. Ryan, Mr. Edward 1325Woodmont Ave., Williamsport Nor only did the Bmad Arow's oppressive Schleh. Mrs. Helen 125 Grampian Blvd., Williamsport regulations inflame the American mind, but Schneebeli.Hon. and Mrs. H. T it also played a part that we have hardly 870 Hollywood Circle, Williamsport Seitzer. Mrs. R. E appreciated in deciding the resulting war 85 Grampian Blvd., Williamsport Shafer. Mr. Horace of the Revolution. England had not kept 123 IBennett St., Williamsport up her supply of navy masts.It was only Shelley, Dr. Donald 428 Market St., Williamsport a' trifle b;fore Bunker Hill that England Shipnlan, Mrs. Spence D. '128 W. Mountain Ave., South Williamsport received the last cargo of masts from New Smith. Miss Teresa 819 Louisa St., Williamsport England. For years, Bi:itish navy masts had Smith. Mrs. William H been decerior aung sadly. During the years 2106 Lycoming Creek Rd., Williamsport these masts had dried out and become Stearns, Mr. and Mrs. George 400 'Upland Road, Williamsport brittle. Their strength and resilience had Steele. Mrs. Charles G 2327Riverside Drive, South Williamsport gone. Thus England entered the war ill Sump,Mr. and Mrs. Carl 530 S. Mountain Ave., South Williamsport prepared, so far as her navy went Strunk. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 353 Woodland Ave.., Williamsport In 1778 Admiral Byron's fleet was scat- Walters, Mr. George R. tered by a storm off the Ametican coast 1601Warren Ave., Williamsport Wurster. Mrs. Gordon and masts and bowsprics by the dozen were Proctor Star Route, Williamsport cracked.In the fleet of Lord Howe. that Yearick. Mr. and Mrs. Don 1655 Hepburn St., Williamspol't Evans. Mlisses Lucille and Winifred year, twelve of his thirteen ships of the 1054 Wayne Ave., Williamsport line wereunfit for duty. Two yearslater Steffan. Mrs. Eva P 2232 W. Third St., Williamsport a West Indian hurricane practically dis- Grugan, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew abled a British fleet, shattering masts and Proctor Star Route, Williamsport Mcgovern. Mrs. Peter J spans..It required many weeks for the fleet Farr.301 Mrs. Grampian StellaM Blvd., Williamsport to reach a port where repairs could be 2205 Lycoming Creek Road, Williamsport Stahel. Mr. Kurt made. And it was lack of masts that pre- Proctor Star Route, Williamsport vented Admiral Graves from relieving Briel, Mrs. Phyllis Miller Cornwallis at Yorktown. In the end, the 625Fifth Ave., Williamsport Hazel. Mr. Emerson '7 ..q . Broad Arrow did much to separate America 652 Cemetery st., Jersey Shore /~9=3 Emery, Mrs. Max L and England. 688Seventh Ave., Williamsport