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Whenever I see an old gray and blue This was one of the comillon practices crock marked with trade-mark "Colder and in the Blooming Grove settlement, not Wilcox" or "Sipe & Son", it suggests apple butter to lne. Thesecrocks. too. find their a family but what boiled their apple butccr place in the museum. in the fall. A few detailsmight differ in Next day when they were cool enouhoh, the variousfamilies, bur in general this they were covered with white paper and would fit any of the Helms, Ulmers, and stored away. It was colninon to snake 20 Shakersor any of the other families then to 30 gallonsin a seasonif apples were Gone are those days, gone the methods plentiful. One boiling, such as I have des- and gone many of those who were with us cribed, would make from twelve to f ourteen then--we linger on, and memory weaves gallons.Some was sold to customers in many happy recollections for us which we WiIJiamsport, for as mucla as fif ty cents a want to have and pass on to those coming gallon. after us
ACCESSIONSTO THE MUSEUM Plaqueof Incorporationof City of Montoursville.R. D. 2. Pa. Williamsport, January 15, 1886; Gift of Civil War Gun; Gift of LesterH.ill. Janaes E. Gibbons, South Williamsporr, Williainsport, Pa Pa Shutter fasteners ( or contraptions to hold U. S. Armor-Sword and Belt, property shurcers open) ; Gift of Mrs. Myles Slntschi of H. L. Beak, N. G. P. Sword of Capt of Salladasburg,R. D., Pa John Beck; Gifts of Mf.l-JesseBell, Wil- Book on Nippenose Park; Loaned by .Mrs. liamsport, Pa. Myles Santschiof Salladasburg,R. D., Pa Ladies Black Velvet Shoulder Cape, Red Scrap books and case, books compiled and Green Paisley Shawl, 'Red Weather Fan; Gifts of Mrs. Carl Hall, .IWilliamsporr,Pa by Miss Lucy Scott; Gift of Great-nephew, Mr. James Scott Clancy, Jersey Shore. Sampler of Margaret ''Clark, daughter of Col. Robert Clark of Rev. Fame; Gift of Set of Music Books which belonged to Mrs. Laura Litchard, Williamsport, Pa. Mrs. Paul Brook's father, who.played in Ladies Writing Pens, Mother of Pearl different bands in State of Pennsylvania Handlesand gold pen points; Gifts of Mrs Gift of Mrs. Paul Brooks, Williamsporr, Pa. THE Ann Roberts Davis, Williamsport, Pa Collectionof Postcardsof City of Wil- White Feathered Hand Painted Fan; Gift liamsport and surmunding country of City of Miss Mai:y Roberts, Williamsport, Pa. of Williamsport;Gift of Mrs.Laura G. Fairy Basket; Gift of Mrs. J. Robbins, Janney, Williamsport, Pa. JOURNAL 19 INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIPS Annual $ 2.00 yearly Contributing $ 5.00 yearly OFTHE Sustaining $ 1G.00yearly Life $100.00yearly To the Officers of The Lycoming County Historical Society LYCOMING HISTORICALSOCIETY I herewith accept your invitation to become a Member of the Lycoming County Historical Society Full Name
Address Please mail to HOWARD J. LAMADE, JR., Treasurer 254 Lincoln Avenue, William)sport, Pennsylvania the J O U R N A L of the Vol.I No.5 T H E JOURNAL April, 1957 LYCOMING HISTORICAL SOCI ETY firmed a report of the laying out of a road a small plot. Soon after, a man named PUBLISHED BIANNUALLY IN WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA from the mouth of Larry's Creek [o the Carter made some improvements nearby Nli\. (I;113SON G. AN'TES. P13ESIDEN'T N'IR. (,F[AI{LES S. STOEVER, 3RD. V. ])]{ES]])ENT State Road. It extended through the town- The lonesomenessof the dark forests.the Ml{ [A)rXS P. BRusstEn, ]sT. Vice PitEslnxNT ]\4[n. f]OXVAi;tl) J. ]aAX;JADE, .TtliiAsui\Et\ ships of Platt, Mifflin, Anthony and into howling of the wolvesand panthers at S.\R£-UEL J. ])ORNSIFE, 2ND. V'ICE PI\ESII)ENT MISS DELLA (,. DODSON, SECRETAI\Y R'nTToRS rhe southern reaches of Cogan House. This night and lack of neighborscaused the two road followed the main branch,or the first DR. LEWIS E. TnEISS MR. NIICnAEL N'I. WARCO men to abandon their improvements branch. as it was sometimes called. MISS 'MILDRED E. KEH,Y \'lR. L. RODNIAN WUSS'rER Cogan's cabin stood near the State Road, Extra Copies of The Journal Fifty Cents Each These three roads passed through vast and hunters coming into the neighborhood areas of virgin timber. There were sections to hunt often used it for a hunting cabin. VOLUMEI APRIL 1957 NUMBER FIVE of the township covered by great, till trees Stewart, in his history of Lycoming County, of white pine intermingled with a scatter- printed in 1876, gives this account of the ing of hemlock and a variety of hardwood first permanent settlers: ''No effort was PRESIDENT''S MESSAGE frees. In other places there were whole madeto settlethe countryuntil 1842,when mountains and valleys covered with hem- Charles Straub, Joseph Stryker, Adam Faus lock and a scatteringof other speciesof naught, Benjamin Quimby, John Akin and Last month the Lycoming Historical Society celebrated(without celebration) its trees,and other areaswere mostly of hard John WZeigel located in the western part fiftieth birthday. woods with a scattering of pine and hem- of what is now Cogan House Township, The scheduled meetings, to be held Thursday, April 4th, u-ill end the activities lock. and made quite extensive improvements. of the Society for the present season. The first lumbering operation in Cogan I petition to set up a township organization June 19ch is the tentative date for this yeah:'sSummer outing, plans for which i-louse Township appears to have originated was granted and confirmed Dec. 6, 1843 are in che making; Mr. Morris H. Housed i; in charge along the Larry's Creek Road. In the The first written record of lumbermen, As we. Membersand Friendsof the Societygo into our beautiful Museum,may Historyof Platt Township,it is statedthat their names and an account of their oper we pledge to each other, and to our Patriotic Ancestors our best efforts [o build bigger vast amountsof logs, lumber, and bark ltions begins with the year 1844. In 1844, tnd better in the years to come caineover this road to the village at the Mr. James Wood and his son, Robert, be- When chasSociety celebrates the end of the next fifty years,may our Posterity mouth of Larry's Creek, where, until 1834, gan to manufacture lumber in a crude saw- look backwith pride on the work we havedone it was ranted down the river to the markets pit. The powerto drive the pit-sawin this As your Pi:evident,I pledgeto you my very best efforts in the days ahead.Will on the lower reaches of the Susquehanna primitive arrangement was furnished by you, as i'len)belts and Friends, give of your best to make our dreams come true? River. The names of the first lumbermen Mr..Wood at one end of the saw, and Robert at the other end. Sometimeafter Sincerely, were not preservedin the early records. In GibsonG. Antes, L834, the West Branch Canal was completed 1850, he purchaseda steam saw-mill from President as far as Lock Haven, and from that date Peter Herdic up on Buckhorn Mountain, rhe lumber was loaded on canal boats at ind still later he movedthe samemill rhe mouth of Larry's Creek and shipped to doran on a four hundred acre tract near the southern markets. In 1899, the June rhe Summit Church. where he cleared con flood destroyedthe canal,but by this time siderable land and spent his remaining days. rhe Fall Brook Railroad had been built--it PeterHerdic cailaefrom New York State EARLY LUMBERING IN COGAN HOUSE was completed on June 4, 1883--and the to Cogan House with William Andress in products of the f orest were then shipped 1846. Here. near the Beech Grove School. TOWNSHIP out on the railroad. No recordwas kept of they purchased a "shingle interest" from rhe logs, lumber and bark that came out Hubbard 'Webster and started in to manu- by Mlilton Landis, Local Historian of the Larry'sCreek region, but the old facture shingles. It is supposed that they timers said it was millions upon millions made the shingles BY HAND. They worked Many years before the first pioneer made is composed of rLLggcd mountains with deep of board feet. As a goodly share of that here three years,and at the end of that a settlementwithin the presentborders of valleys, it presented such a formidable ap- lumber camc out of the southern part of lime, each had earned $2,500. In 1850 Cogan House Township, three important pearanceto the traveler that not one cared CoganHouse Township, we can only won- Mr. Herdic arid Henry Hughesbought a roads had been constructed through the [o settle on its steep llill-sides. der as to lust how many millions of feet tract of pine climber from Mr. Hayes and wildernessof the townshipand two of The second road was built across the of lumber our whole township did produce. erected therein a steam saw-mill. We are Chemwere to play an important part in center of the tou'nship and became the The rugged terrain of Cogan House quite sure this tract was on Buckhorn che settlement of Cogan House Township great highway of its dime. It was called offeredlittle inducement,at first. to the Mountain . . Hughes sold his share to and also of other townships to the West the StateRoad. The StateRoad was built early pioneers as a favorable region in which Herdic. From this tr act. Mr. Herdic realized and North of it. in 1799 from the Lycoming Creek at New- to carveout a farm and a permanenthome. about $10,000. He afterwards sold his saw The first mad was the Williamson Trail. berry via Wellsboro to Painted Post. Many To clear the land of the great tall trees mill to Mr. JamesWood, who wasstill built in 1792,and it extendedfrom Wil- of the early settlersin the township came appearedto be a Herculeantask, and so it using the same engine and boilers in the liamsport [o Bath, N. Y. It crossed the in over the State Road. was that the f orests first attracted the lum year t876 north-eastern portion of Cogan House The third road, che Larry's Creek Road, berman to this area. The first pioneer to Isaiah Hayes purchased land in Cogan Township for a distanceof three and one- was built prior to rhe year 1806. At May settle in the township was David Cogan, House.near the old Maxwell Store. in 1839 half miles find, as that part of the township Sessions1806, the Court received and con- in 1825. Hc built a log cabin and cleared and hauled logs over chc ScareRoad [o a 4 THE JOURNAL EARLY LUMBERING IN COGAN HOUSE TOWNSHIP 5 saw-mill in Penyville. In 1845, he built a In 1839, a railroad was completed froth and many operatorswent bankrupt.Many bankrupt. He always paid his men to the saw-mill in Cogan House,and in a few more Williamsport to Ralston.From that date I crew left the woods in the Spring with last penny. His Iden worked all year and years he had four saw-mills in operation much lumber was hauled over Buckhorn not a penny in their pockets,ztndall they Mountain to the railroad to a station got paid in full at the end of the year.The in the township. One mill was in partner had to show for their year's work was their yearly output of logs from Bear Run i:anged ship with March Meyer called Cogan Station, which was so named board and the clothes on their backs. from 15,000,000to 31,000,000board ker I'he first mill rlm by water power,of b:cause so much lumber from Cog.In Probably the first lumberman in the town per year. which we have any account,was started by House was shipped from there ship to sendlogs out on the log drivesto The work was hard. and the hours were Mr. Schuyler,and we presumethat it was As has been already stated,the road to the saw-mi]]sin Wi]]iamsportwas Bi]] long. The woodsmen had their breakfast located near the old Buckhorn schoolhouse Trout Run had been opened in 1852, and Howard. He took off some pine in FJook's This was in the year 1844. Isaiah put in a much lumber was hauled to the Trout Run and drove it down Little Pine Creek and wereout in the woodson the job be- water-power mill in 1845, and the same year Run railroad station. [o Big Pine Creek and on down the river. fore daylight broke.They came back for F. Witlock started a steam saw-mill. In 1851, a plank road was started and Daniel Landis and Bill Yoder worked for supper after dark Charles Persun purchased the old David extendedfrom the canal at the mouth of Howard in 1849. Nothing else is known After the 1870's, canneries began to make Cogan tract and several other large tracts Larry's Creek to Salladasburgand later was of his lumbering activities demands for hemlock bark. and from then of land. He built a water-power saw-mill extended up the second fork of Larry's Whiteman, the "Quinine King of United on to about 1913, the hemlock f crests of near the old Cogan cabin, but we cannot Creekto Brooksideand White Pine in Stages", a millionaire of Philadelphia, owned the township were stripped of their bark. give the yearhe startedhis mill. Cogan House Township and into English a large tract of timber in Bear Run. His and most of the logs wei:e left to decay in ColemanL. Weigel and Calmer Wittig Centre and still later on up Little Pine daughter, Ann, inherited this timber-land rhe woods, as there was little demandf or were also saw-mill operators, but no date Creek almost to Buttonwood. It was a rail- She married Pennfield, and after his death hemlock lumber. Hundreds of thousands is given when they starred road and, although not a good paying prop- she was married to R. J- C. Walker of Phila of cords of bark were hauled away. Soinc In 1852,a roadwas opened up from osition, in its day, it becamequite a f amous Daniel Cavanaugh of Williamsport became of it went to Trout Run to the Extract Liberty by way of Steam Valley to Trout highway and was much talked about. The her partner in lumbering off the timber in Works, but most of it was hauled to the Run. Isaac Werline came to his death by June flood of 1889 destroyed much of the Bear Run. Much of the woodswork was English Centre Tannery and the Mccul- a falling tree while he wasworking on this Plank Road, and ic was never repaired let our to robbers, and Mr. Cavanaugh had lough Tannery at Salladasburg. Some was road. Soonafter the opening of this road, Jerry and Robert Landis, brothers from a wood's bossto look after the jobbers and shipped by railroad to more distant canner- R. F. Weed built two steamsaw-mills along Liberty Township, Tioga County, often re- other activities, although he spent [nost of ies. By 1900 the last of the original hard mis road in CoganHouse Township. The lated that in their youth they drove team his nine on the job. One of the robbers. wood forests were being harvested,and for place was knoll'n as Steam Mills but, in f or Robert and JamesWood and hauled Lee, had his camp down near the mouth the 1920's the great days of lumbering in later years, was changed to Steam Valley. lumber over the Plank Road for their board of Bear Run. Further up stream at the the township were over. Since that date A map of the township, printed, in 1873, and six dollars a month. mouth of Crawford's Hollow was the main small saw-mill operationscontinued until notes the following saw-mills: F. R Weed, There was much rivalry among the team- camp, known as Cavanaugh's Camp. John the presentrifle, and quite a quantity of [wo mills; Meyer & Eisenllart, two mills; sters as to who hauled the biggest load of Fitzsimmons, the woods boss for some years mine props, railroad ties and paperwoods A. L. Conn, one mill; Christian Breining, lumberout of the township,and probably lived here. Other robbers who worked for were shipped out. It is not idle speculation one hill; Cornelius Garrison.one mill: mat dispute was never satisfactorily an- Cavanaughover the yearswere: Harrison to''estimate that Cogan House Township, C. S. Larrison,one mill; R. & J. Wood, one swered to everyone's satisfaction Dodd, "Bulldog" Charley Brown, Nate sixes largest in the county, has since i844 mill; A. Hayes, one mill; Casmir Wittig, One indy wonder why the logs were sawn Hinkle and many others now forgotten. A produced over one billion feet of forest one mill; J. Gilbert, one mill. into lumber and then hauled to the canal log slide was built up Bear Run to the main products. In the year 1876,Stewart, the historian, and railroads, while in other regions logs camp and up Crawford's Hollow. The last It is naturalto lamentthe passingof made a survey of eleven saw-mills in Cogan were sent on a log-slide co a large stream ]og drove from the Bear Run region was Choseonce mighty forests, but in their stead House Township and gave the following lnd in the spring sent on the ''log drive probablyin the Spring of t899. Many of now stands the prosperousfarms and homes F. R. Weed, two steam mills. 3.000.000 down river to Williamsport. Only two the local men from the townshipworked of a happy and contented people. It is board feet per annum; Meyer & Eisenhart, streams in Cogan House emptied into a down Bear Run. Mr. Cavanaughwas one God's will that these things should come one tnil1, 600,000 board feet per annum; stFeam large enough for a logo drive. They of the few lumbermenwho never went co pass I)avid Conn and Chat'les Persun. one each. were Bear Run and Flocks Run. whicla 60-0,000board feet per annum;R. & J empties into Little Pine Creek. There the Wood, one steam mill, 2,000,000feet per logs were sent over slides to Little Pine NEW MEMBERS annum; Cassimer Wittig, one mill, 800,000 Creek and floated down to the river to the William Gibson, TJI, Jean A. Gibson. Stroehmann, Jr., Dr. Paul B. Refs, Mr. Chas board feet per annum; Gilbert's Estate,one saw-mills in Williamsport. For the rest of Mrs. KatharineL. Barclay,Mr. and Mrs. J. Stockwell,Jr., Mr. and Mrs. John N. mill, 2,000,0.00 board feet per annum; Isaiah the township, it was more economicalto Ralph R. Craitmer, Miss Susan Kress, Miss Reedy,Mrs. Lind R. Childs,Mrs. John A Hayes, one mill, 600,000 board feet per haul the boards after they were stripped Davis, Mrs. W. Clyde Harem, Mr. Richard annum: Charles Lansom. one mill. 600.000 of their slabsand saw-dust,and the hauling Emma M. A. Kiess, Mrs. Matilda R. Sexton H. Felix, Mr. Edward R. Utz. Mr. Warren board feet per annum; Christian Breining, continued the year around. Mr. and Mrs. Httrold D. Hurshburuer. M. Utz, Miss Deborah Miller. Mr. Preston one mill, 1,200,000 board feet per annum. The great panic of 1873, which lashed N4r.John G. Detwiler, Mr. and Mrs. Law- H. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Freed Stewart states that lumber production six years, caused great distress among the rence E. Krimm, N'lr. and Mrs. Chester J. Mrs. John F. Meginness, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Chat year was 12,000,000 board feet, the saw-mill operatorsand their workmen and Brooks, Hlarry P. Luna, Mrs. W. F. Coleman. L. Dittmar, Mrs. Carrie Emans, Mrs. Abbie I)roduct of eleven saw-hills, sonar stcanl among rhc log robbers arid chair woodslncn. Mrs. GeorgeLentz, Mr. John E. Anstadt, Kent, Miss Marian Maynard, Mr. and Mrs and some water-powered mills. Tile price of ]umber and Jogs fe]] sharp]y, Airs. W. J. Devaney, Mt. and Mrs. H. J. Chas. S. Stoever, Mr. and Mrs. John Monks. 7 6 THE JOURNAL Lycoming Historical Journal Contributions EDITORIAL Mrs. Frank S. Gates. Mi:s. Bertha M. Max- R. Manson, Mr. and Mrs. John S. Stahl- HISTORY IS WHERE YOU FIND IT xvell, Mrs. Margaret C. Lindent)auth,Mrs neckcr, bliss ZelJa Pepperman, Miss Florence by Dr. L. E. Theiss Mabel A. Slack, SamuelJ. Dornsife, W A. Youngman,Rev. Malcolm D. Maynftrd, Van Person.Miss CarolineE. Stabler,Mr Mrs. Maiilla E. Leinbach,Dr. and Mrs Again and again I used to sayto iny Once you have been there and seen Bow- Robert A. DeVilbiss, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Charles B. Seedy, Miss Mary G. Mosher. :lasses at Bucknell University, "Education man'd Hi]], and the site of Coryell's ferry, W. Bluernle, Mr. John H. Foresman, bliss Mrs. Ruth G. Page,Mr. and Mrs. Harry is where you find it." I was trying to break andthe topographyat the point of ElizabethL. Gaus,Miss Edith Galls, Mr A. Fischler.Mrs. Eleanor A. Parkman,A.L them of that silly habit that is all too com- embarkation. and the islands that hid the and Mrs. C. M. Williamson, Miss Mary Pepperman,Mrs. Mary M. Hill, Capt Walter mon, of thinl
County Historical Society, a woman Cold or any placeyou wish to pur it. me shehad once read a book where a fairy Flies abounded. The life history of rhe APPLEBUTTER BOILING IN EARLY DAYS basket was mentioned, but she did not recall comon fly is a closed book. Screens were anything but its bare mention not yet heard of. Plates of molasses, jars A mullin sheet that had become too chin with sugar water, i:etched through a hole ATBLOOMINGGROVE [o hold mending stitches was washed and in a paper cover and once in, hard to gec by Susan H. Little bleached. This meant spreading it on clean out, were used to uselessly combat the fer- grass, not dried brown or sparse grass, tility and seeming undestructability hordes When we see in the stores today the boys, my brother and a cousin. The girls keeping it wet and exposedto rhe sun. of the common house fly. stnall Jars with fancy labels marked "Home- who were old enough to cut apples usually When the proper dazzling white was Our ''front room" was kept closed made 'Apple Butter '', we think, 'What do gathered about one end of the Cable, while achieved, it was .torn into strips an inch against the pests, but ] reca]] hearing the you know about fea/ home made apple the older folks had the other end, and wide. These were reveled out on each side, fairy basket spoken of as "a place for the butter, such as we had scoredawttyinlarge conversation was of a more serious nature leavingonly three or four threads in the flies to light on ' gallon clocks in our childhood days" and Sometimes there was singing. The neu middle. The raveled threads were saved Do children have play houses any more? a metnorypicture comes to me. How was songs then were "Twilight is Stealing" and and if they didn't break off, were used as I know thad Elinor Anspach had a very it made? Over the GardenWall". When we could bastings. lovely one, but I mean the kind Well, there was, of course, preparation sing ''Nellie was a Lady '' or "Tavern in From an old hoop skirt wire for three madeof junk and that imagination is the for the making of it: First of all, the apples the Town" we were consideredquine mod- riggs had been salvaged.The top one five main furnishing. We had scrubbed a de were gatheredfor cider and taken to a ern. Hymns, too, were sung, such as "Bring- or six inches in diameter. the middle one sorted chicken house and furnished it with cider press, sometimes five ot six miles ing in the Sheaves"and "In the SweetBy eighteen or twenty and the third eight or Lstrip of old carpet,some really nice pine away. t-)chertimes a hand press was used ?tnd By". The younger girls--l among them ten. Suspend these rings by means of thin boxes. broken dishes and other trash, and f or small amounts. If possible, only sweet were kept busy bringing the applesto cordfrom a shelfor low ceiling after wrap- ] made a fairy basked for our playhouse. It apples were used, the best ones being put the table and emptying the ''snitz" into ping around them strips of the sheet was about two feet in length, and I r--call aside for cutting into "snitz '' for the apple nibs on the poi:ch. Cover them well. Then sew a raveled strip sitting on one of my pine box chairs, lose butter. There were the "Rambo", the When enough apples were cut, it was [o the top one and turn or twist it into in admiration of its delicate air and its Sheepnose" or "Golly-flower", the ''Seek-no nearing midnight. By this time the smaller I fringy spiral and sew,allowing 18 or 20 white purity in the somewhatdingy check Farther". the "Smokehouse" and the "Bell- children were asleep in the bedroom, and inchesin length to the middle ring. Then en house atmosphere flower' grandfather and grandmother went home allowing 8 or 10-inches,twist a length again After the playhouseera. I did not think For a large kettle of apple butter, a [o bed. Then came the midnight lunch-- and sew to the third ring. Keep repeating of a fairy basket for i-many years. Mother barrel of cider was used,which was boiled bread, butter, coffee, new cider--possibly, until the skeleton frame you had hung up was gone and all those neighbors and down about one third, until it was strong gingerbreador pie. After this came the is well covered with the raveled and twisted friends that took an interest in one anothers and cleat. Uusally this was done in a large real work of boiling. When the appleshad strips, gather and sew the hanging ends ac work and play. copper kettle placed over a furnace in the been washed,they were put into the boiling che bottom together f orming a kasseland It is not important,bur I have a curiosity basement or wash house. on the same eve cider, lust a few at a time. Then beganthe yourfairy basketis readyto hang from about the origin and reason for a "Fairy ning while the appleswere being cut. If stirring with a broadstirred having a long the center of your parlour or "front room Basket ' mere was no furnace, it was done out in handle.This hadto be kept up steadilytill the open, in a kettle hanging from chains rhe app]es were aJ] boiled fine and smooth. in a frame over the fire, and many smoky When it was nearly done, it was rather hard PERSONAL John Reamed spent a few days of this bears were shed till the work was done. work, and it required two people to use the b£essrs.Jim Gibson, Chester Ayres, Leslie week in Philadelphia The evening of "apple cutting'' was stiller, and I think some of the young Lyon, and H.arry Allen have returned from Miss Katherine Lawson has returned enjoyed, especially by the young people couples rather enjoyed this opportunity for Eagles Mere where they were the guests from a visit to Hazelton. It was a social event in the neighborhood. I little chat. From midnight on, I can't of Stephen Brown Miss Laura Deemer has returned from Early in the evening, relatives who lived say I was an eye-witness, for we too, were Mr. and Mrs. William H. Slate were an extendedvisit to York. near and neighbors, came in to help sent to bed. In the early morning, the apple rhe guestsof Miss Carrie O. Dove over Miss Emily Sandersoncame down from Grandfather and Grandmother: never missed butter u as done rhe Fourth. JerseyShore to attendthe boat ride to one such gathering.They did their full The last thing done before raking it from Harry and Russell Hill are rusticating Mountain Grove. shareof work, as well as adding to the the fire, spices were added and sugar if at Paducohi J. Henry Cochran, the Williamsport general fun of the evening. At our house apples were not sweet enough. An expert Van Brownspent the Fourthwith lumber lnagnare,who is to be sent to the we had a lor)g table in the kitchen, and all knew lust how much cinnamon,cloves or Dore" Otto. Stare Senate. is at the Continental with sat around it, with dishes for the apples in ferrnil" co use. Sometimes they waited till Hal Browrl has accepteda position in his son. Charles. front of them. For one barrel of cider, they morning to begin boiling and worked the businessoffice of the GAZETTE AND ( Philadelphia INQUIRER -- Wednesday ) used two and a half bushel of "snitz" apples, most of the day. BULLETIN. THE REVIEWwishes the The many frierlds of Charles H. Bates, pared and quartered, always saying "Five half It always tasted the same,andre knew young man a successful career. )f 333 Park Avenue, will be glad to learn bushels of snitz". We had what was then rhe taste all too well, for it was a regular The Misses Davidson.of West Fourth that he has so far recovered from his last considered quite a modern convenience- dish on our tablesand found its way into Street. have returned from an extended severeillness as to be able to once more al] apple peeler--now this same apple school lunch. Af ter rhe apple butler was trip along tile coast from Boston [o Balti- elljoy the fresh air. He made his first I)cc]er is foLbnc] in rhc nauscun], as an pronounce(t clolle, the fire was drawn out more. attempton the morning of the Fourth antique. The peeling was done by the older auldgallon cracksbrought out to be filled 12 THE JOURNAL Whenever I see ar] old gray and blue This was one of the common practices crock marked with trade-mark "Couderand in the Blooming Grove settlement, not HE:\:'=.qn =:=1:' ; l: . =':='i,r',:?=,':=.:":L:Tell"= Next day when they were cool elaough, the various families,but in general this they were covered with white paper and would fit any of the Helms, Ulmers, and storedaway. It wascommon to ;make20 Shafersor anyof the otherfamilies then to 30 gallons in a seasonif apples were Gone are those days, gone che methods plentiful. One boiling, such as I have des- and gone many of those who were with us cribed, wou]dmakefrom tu,e]veto fourteen Chen--we linger on, and memory weaves gallons. Some was sold to customers in many happy recollections for us which we Willilmsport, for as mucl} as fifty cents a want to have and pass on to those coming gallon. after us
ACCESSIONSTO THE MUSEUM Plaqueof Incorporationof City of Montoursville.R. D. 2. Pa. Williamsport, January 15, i886; Gift of Civic War Gun: Gift of Lester Hi].]. James E. Gibbons, South Williamsport. Williamsport, Pa Pa Shutter fasteners ( or contraptions to laold U. S. Armor'- Swordand Belt, property shutters open ) ; Gift of Mrs. Myles S.tntsfhi of H. L. Beak, N. G. P. Sword of Capt of Salladasburg,R. D., Pa John Beck; Gifts of Mf.:'=JesseBell, Wil- Book on Nippenose Park; Loaned by .Mrs. liainsport, Pa. MylesSantschi of SaJladasburg,R. D.,. P.t Ladies Black Velvet Shoulder Cape, Red and Green Paisley Shawl,'Red Teacher Fan; Scrap books and case, books compiled Gifts of Mrs. Carl Hall, Williamsport, Pa by Miss Lucy Scott; Gift of Gre4c-nephew, Sampler of Marfaref ''Clark, daughter of Mr. James Scott Clancy, Jersey Shore Col. Robert Clark of Rev. Fame: Gift of Set of Music Books which belonged to Mrs. Laura Litchard, Williamsport, Pa. Mrs. Paul Brook's father, who played in Ladies Writing Pens, Mother of Pearl different bands in Slate of Pennsylvania Handles and gold pen points; Gifts of Mrs. Gift of Mrs. Paul Brooks, Williamsport, Pa. THE Ann Roberts Davis, Williamsport, Pa Collectionof Postcardsof City of Wil- White Feathered Hand Painted Fang Gift liamsport and surrounding country of City of Miss Mary Roberts, Williamsport, Pa of Willialnsport;Gift of Mrs.Laura G Fairy Basket; Gifs of Mrs. J. Robbins, Janney, Williamsport, Pa. JOUKNAL 19 INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIPS Annual $ 2.00 yearly Contributing $ 5.00 yearly QFTHE Sustaining $ 10.00yearly Life $100.00yearly To the Officers of The Lycoming County H.istorical Society LYCOMING HISTORICALSOCIETY I herewith accept your invitation to become a Member of the Lycoming County Historical Society Full Name Address Please mail to HOWARD J. LAMADE, JR., Treasurer 254 Lincoln Avenue, Williamsport, Perlnsylvania