16 T H E J O-U R N A L past winter, and is the guest of P.B. Shaw girls in town., and we won't excludethe The attractions in the city for Miss boys either, for their weaknessfor soda is BarrJesare not to be compared with those almost as great as that of Ehegirls. When of the cabin.She hls b--;n spendingthe rhe girls are shopping and separatethey week with the Harrison family'in Nippono always wind up at Dubles, and "Miss Valley. Maggie" is a great favorite with young and Misses Florence and Anna Slate left on old Thursday for an extended visit to Miss Harry F. Foote, Jr., who is quite well Grace Caroll in Baltimore. known among the boys and girls here, Theodore Mcdowell left to spend the came up from Philadelphia on Wednesday summer with his sister in Scranton. Pa. morning and spent the day looking around Miss Carrie Dove and Henry Purdy Jeff down. He returned home the same evening on Thursday to itttend the Otto-Mann wedding in Sunbury, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. A. Thoillas Page are the .JUNK 0R ANTIQUITIES guests of Mrs. Page's parents, Mr. and ( Continued from Page 1) Mrs. A. P. Perley. Mr. and Mrs. Parley Junk". Your editors cannot help but ta will go to their cabinat the North Bend speculateas to what other such "junk' next week and Miss Perly will acco=nplny her sister home might still be lying around in dark corners of your cellars or nooks and crannies of Mr. and Mrs. William Mcguire arc Williainsport attics--guns, swords, pictures, rhe guests of Mi's. M. E. Simon on Wash- ington Street. photographs, collecting dust, dirt, grime (and if clothing or uniforms moths) I How lvlr. WZilliam Baker spent the .greater often in the past has such "junk" been part of the week in the city discarded? What Spanish American Wai:, Speaking of busy men, John Beck is World War I uniformsand artifactsare pressed for time. He has been engaged all now lying discarded and forgotten soon the week collecting for the church picnic. [o be thrown out--what precious Civil Miss Margaret Geddes has rccurn8d from War lnenlentos or yet earlier relics? Mt. Hlolyoke College. She feels quite lost without her three particular friends, Misses Your editors hope in subsequenteditions Mccormick. Slate and Parsons of che .[o/rf/zd/ on occasion from excerpts Miss M. Louise Gibson and Miss Clara of the Reno Post's papers and books 'to reconstruct and recall events that too often Gibson leave on Monday for Chautauqua Lake, N. Y have been "forgiven and forgotten holidaysthat are "celebrated"but nJ longer THE Miss Louisa Larzeleregave a delightful hallowed"; little remembered. and hss supper party on Thursday. Mrs. R. W '. Gibson returned on Thurs- commemorated day from an extended visit to St. Mary's Might we askyou again to searchyour Mrs. William Baird, nee Miss Dorr. is memories, your attics, and your cellars the guest of her parents on Marked Screed for forgotten or neglectedantiquities of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Clapp have returned earlier days; your minds before they be- JOURNAL from Atlantic City, N. J. come too musty attics, vague and unsure; Mrs. Frank Foresman is visiting her your .attics and cellars before they are parents in Harrisburg abandoned as the new split-level houses, OFTHE Mrs. John K. Hays and children are the unableto hold their casroffsfrom the past guests of Mr. Hood at Spring Lake, N. J. generations, reject them? J. Fred Coder's family ' are rusticating ' at Only restoration, reminiscences, and re their cabin near Fields verence for rhe past prevents relics from John G. Reading, Esq., and family will becoming junk before becoming antique, LYCOMING HISTORICALSOCIETY go m Eagles Mere next week to spend antiquities from turning into trash, our paso several months I rubble and trash heap rather than a hal- The most popular place in down is lowed memory ruble's soda fountain. 'i'here from 10 in The .nation which n $71i3 : loses the.morning until 5 in rhe afternoon n)ay pride in its present :" faint befound all of the prettiest and well known for posterity :F'l.oO the J O U R N A L of the Vol. I No. 7 April, 1958 LYCOMING HISTORICAL SO CIE T Y PUBLISHED BIANNUALLY IN WILLIAN{SPORT, PENNSYLVANIA On EnteringThe Old G. A. R. Hall G[!3SON G. ANTES, PR](BIDEN']' (,][ARLES G. STOEVER. 3RD. vICe: T]I{I£STDENT .IAN'lES P. BRESSLER, IST. VICE PI\EVIDENT MISS DELI.A (I. DODSON. SECI{ETAIq\' by Robert S. Ulrich \VILLIAX{ R. S]N]S, 2ND. V]CE PRESIDENT \v. ('LYDE HA]\ER, T]IEASUREI\ DIRECTORS 1957-59 DIRECTORS 1958-6o ( Editor's node) cards and can hear them hashingover the latest rumor: \'Ills. FEI\D W. COI.EN,IAN MISS ZELLA G. PEEL EnNIAN The following article recordsthe indelible Mils. 130BE]tT h'I. (,OCn]L\NE FIO\\rA]]D J. LAXIADE, IT3 'They say n'e're movin ' out tomorral imptessiori made by one of the members ])I\. L.LOUD E. WUI\STEIN MOI\Ills H. }IOUSEI 'How d'ya know? b'Ills A. ROY FLANIGAN, JR. of Pill Alpha Theta, honorary history 'All I know is that some of the men EX OFFICIO fraternity, on his first sight of the Reno sgy we're goin ' to be movin ' out come C. STE\\rAl\'1' ('0nl'ELL Post prior [o che removal and restoration mornin of their collection. EDITORS [ better pen a letter t'night. ]f we was DR. LE\VIS E. 'l'HEISS N'IR. \MICHAEL X'I. \IvARGO \IISS 'MIH)RED E. KEI.LY \IR. L. RODMAN WURSTER to move ouc I mightn't get one off fer a Fhe door now swings open freely, and spell.' b.xtra Copies of 'J'he Journal Fifty Cents Each there are no passwords needed or used [o The voices dwindle away to a drone as VOLUMEI APRIL, 1958 NUMBER SEVEN gain entrance. The peephole in the door we wanderover to the Statler'stent. As is still there, but the flap which once covered we pass by we notice a "coffee-cooler, it is now gone. A few dim lights are che who has lust bought a bottle of hoochwith only modern touchesin this room of ghosts. which to drown out the memoriesof the Junk or Antiquities The placeis filled with that smellwhich last campaign.Meanwhile, off to our right one encountersupon entering an old musty Last year your editors reminded you that ceivably in the not-too-distant future have attic. a soldier is galloping into camp at break- you, your families, or your friends may bc been discarded or disappeared little mourned neck speed. (No doubt he carries the order repositories,either in existing documents, and soon forgotten High up on the balcony,at the rear of [o move out the company "come mornin '.") diaries, papers, books, letters or p:rsonal Bue due to the efforts of th: members the building, hangs a portrait of a Yankee All around us is the smell of leather. can- reminiscences, of inf ormation which, al- of Zita Zita Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta sharpshooter.The picture is almost obliter- vas. and horses. the natural aromas of the thoughyou might considerit trivial, might National Honorary History Fraternity at ated by the dust and grime which has slow- o[d catnp life. There's a so]dier giving his be of incaluable value to future researchers Lycoming College with the consent of Ehe ly workedits uay into the paint:.It is horse one last rubdown bef ore he utrns ind scholars. We encouraged you to make remaining Sons of Union Veterans and in alnlosc as if tinge itself had tried to bury in. Nor far from where he is standing, available such papers to your editors or to spaceprovided by the College, this collection this last, mute survivor of "The Boys in there are five young soldiersmaking spot:c the Society'smuseum or, if oral, to record was saved. Slowly, laboriously but care- Bluer by bouncinga comradehigh in the air rhem for possible publication in the /o//f ?zZ fully, the collection was transferred, reno- The plush rug, which once covered rhe with a blanket ir to be preservedfor future archives. voted, cleaned, and prepared to become a entire floor, is gone; now there remains As we return to the present, our eyes In the last few months on the campus of permanent display and memorial at Lycom- buc a filthy throw rug: upon which rests ruin to the cases of war souvenirs which Lycoming College a sister museum to ours ing College a table built to the likenessof the turret now take on new life and meaning.Did has begun based on sucll materials as well The ramifications of this activity hive of the "Monitor." On top of this table is wager from those two canteens flake the asother physical artifacts a museum which b:en far reaching: the Reno Post is assured a Bible wrapped in ''Old Glory." in this rhirsr of some soldier fuse before death it is hopedmay become not a rival but an that its past will be preserved(one room way the old G.A.R. left us a motto; "God calledhim to the last muster-call?This adjunct holding of specific docum:nts and of the [nuseum is a re-creation of the and Countryl piece of wood came from a parc of Hell antiquities of the Civil \War period--perhaps former chapter room) ; the present genera- Immediately at the front arid center of called Andersonville. Who knows what cventually to be expandedinto a general bon is kept awareof a significant part of the stage, and at the central point of each horrors it has hovered over--the man shoe memorial collection of Ailaerica's past wars. our nation's past (and attendance of over of the other sidesof the room, stand at the dead-line , someone dying from [n its present scare as a Civil War one hundred persons each of the subsequent idencica] podiums whose four legs are slow starvation, a than gone mad, someone Museum it was formally dedicated in Eve- Sundays since the opening show local wooden cannons.What businesswas trans- reduced [o rhe point where he scoured rhe [and Ha[[ on April tw--ntieth as n fine interest exists); a co]]ection long "hidden acted across these tables? Only the ghosts sinks in search of undigested food. That exampleof what canb: doneand a warning is available for inspection and study; and that once peopled this room know. Back grape-shoe came from the confines of Fort of what might be lost if proper actions the chapter memb:rs have acquired exper- of the stage is a panoramic painting of Sumpcer. Who knows, it may well be that are not promptly forthcoming on subsequent fence (as well as blisters itnd calluses to:n camp life.3 Technically the picture has it was part of the first shot which threw occasions. ' rubbing and scrubbing) in handling the many faults, but historically it standswit- rhe nation into rhe bloody conflict. The The Reno Post No. 64 G.A.R. collection collection; finally, two of rhe followin." nessto rhe camp life which out great-uncles, drum resting in that cabineton our right had been slowly deteriorating; its pictures articlesin the Jo//f / were inspired by and great-grandfathers, or grandfathers knew came from a wheatfield at Gettysburg. It blackened with the accumulated dire of are a direct result of this activity As we view this painting everything present is possible that it belonged to some young decades;its rifles,swords, and accounted- if you, our members,had seenthe fades away and the figures become animated [ad who left home to go off to the g]ory iden( slowly disappear'ingor rusting away; ''collection" before rejuvcnition, your first through imagination. Looking past the tent, of war only to have his soul set eternally its furriishin.gs, papers anti records ncglcctccl. impress;on would inevitably have beer! which is supported by rifles with fixed free by a Rebel bullet, his young dreatns I'Ills collection, long neglected,could con- (Pieitseturn tn I'age 16) bayorlers, we (-an sec some soldiers playing washedaway by the blood and carnageof 4 T H E JO U R NAL 5 war. This bayonet,unmarked and unknown, stood there, timeless and untiring sentinels )brained, and these statues lent quiet of the Union Veteranson MemorialDay. might very well have stakedits thirst with As we prepareto leavethe hall with )eauty to the hall. The hall was also The W. S. Hancock Camp No. 44 Sons human blood. These many shells, cartridges, these thoughts clinging to our minds, we adorned with many paintings and litho- of Union Veterans was organized in 1888 and grapeshotat one time passedthroilgh seem to hear the ghostly strains of the graphs depicting Civil War scenes. This consistedof a military companyof the air whistling their song of death while Battle-Hymn of the Republic" playing in Memorial Day was the big day of the thirty-five Iden and three officers, a hos- boys in blue and gray hit dirt and prayed, the backgroundas a slow, hollow voice is year for Reno Post. Tile veterans would pital corps of twelve merc which acted as Please, God, don't let it land herein saying,"--that we here highly resolve Char assemblyaround nine in the morning and a hospital unit at cncainpment. and a battery Standingat the edgeof the balconyare these dead shall have not died in vain march to their lot in Wildwood Cetnetery of men [o man the cannon. They marched in two full-length statue; of George Washing- and conduct memorial services. They re- Memorial Day parades and assisted in mem- ton. With there never closing eyes they ' This painting, reaching alnaosr [o the turned to the Reno Post Hall at noon for orial services, and after Reno Post broke have looked down on this hall for man\ ceiling, has been restored--having been a hearty meal prepared by the Women's up they took over that post'spart in these years. They saw this hall when it was cleaned inch by inch by use of coothpicksl Auxiliary. After dinner they would march affairs. They still take care of the G.A.R clean and beautiful, their dead ears have Also cleanedand in the new museum in the parade,which endedat the cemetery graves and hold memorial services every heard Yankee war stories, and, if they :{ An enormous canvas which yet re- on Washington Boulevard. In later years Memorial Day. They have kept Ehehall in could think, they wou]d recall for us the mains to be cleaned and adequitte space the parade ended at Brandon Park. Here order and preservedand maintained the things they have seen and heard as they made to display it another memorial service was conducted. re]F ics After supper the Women's Relief Corps, an During the summer of 1957 Cotnmander auxiliary, held memorial services at the GeorgeZimmer, acting on behalf of sur- MarketStreet Bridge in honor of the viving Sons of Union Veterans, transfer:red RenoPost 64, G. A R., Williamsport, Pa. sailors of the Civil W'ar. The cannon used che care of these relics to Lycoming College in this servicewas invented by W. H. These relics were moved to Lycoming by John L Hunsinger Melhuish, a member of the Post. It was a Collegeand are being clearledand cata- Editorial note: but for reasons unknown, they dissolved the 3 in. breechloading cannon which was man- logued. Most of this collection is now on ufactured by the Darling Valve Company display for che public at Eveland Hall at The following article resulted from re- pos! after two years. Another attempt was searchwhich dependedlargely on the n)ade in 1870, and this time it was called in Williamsport. Mr. Melhuish spent Lycoming College. personal recollections of living relatives of 'Reno Post 64, G.A.R." The "Reno" is in several thousand dollars perfecting it, but I Editor:'s note: The author is being the friends of the local G.A.R. substan honor of GeneralJesse L. Reno,who losehis it uas turned down by the U. S. Army. kind; they kept the doorslocked so that the tilted when possib]e by checking ]oca] life in the engagement of South Mountain This cannonis still usedtoday by the Sons collection seared intactl sourcebooks.Your editors would appreciate Md. The muster dare of this third organi- corrections or additions or deletions to make zation is October 13, ]876, and A. H. stead the following as accurate as possible a was its first commander. FORTAUGUSTA record to be preserved al the Civil War In addition to Reno two other G.A.R Museum posts existed at one time. Col. S. D. Bar- 'Hrhatit Meantto the Pioneersof the SusquehannaValley FOws Post G.A.R. met over the present The Reno Post Hall on Third Street in Endicott Johnson Shoe Store on i4arket by Dr. Lewis E. Theirs Williamsport is best known, I'm afraid, to Street. lc was a much sznaller post than the citizens of this city as the ''Rummage Reno and merged with it around 1900. Read before Lycon)ing Historical Society April 10, 1958 sale place." Few citizens know that at one An organization of Negro veterans, the [n our look at the distant past, we have bets,they covered an amazing spreadof time that building housedone of the most Fribley Post, met on Jefferson Street be- to go beyond the history of the n'hate man territory; f or they were a restless,inquisitive active organizations in mis area. Some of tween Hepburn and West Streets at the in America.And the important fact is that lot, alwayswanting to seewham was ai:bund our older citizenscan rememberthe old silt of the present Hartman Coal Company' foi a long, long period Englandand France the next bend.Further, they lived on terms vets,and later their sonsmarching in office. This post was named after 'Coi had been bitter enemies, at n'ar with each of closest intimacy with the Canadian local paradesand Memorial Servicescon- CharlesW. Fribley,commander of the other every few years.That enmity carried Indians, many Frenchmenmarring Indian ducted by thad post when police had [o Eighth Regiment U. S. colored troops from over, of course, into the struggle for posses- women and living the lives of savages. help control the crowds. Today memorial Williamsport. It too, merged with Reno dion of the Neu World. Wt.en the French wanted to penecrace servicesare still conducted by the Sons of Post around 1900, its members being ac- By chance,France beganher conquest fartherinto the interior,the. Indians were the Union Veterans,but few people bother cepted with "full status far to the north. Working up the ' St. more than willing to go with them and to attend them. We today are too "busy The Reno Post grew in membership LawrenceRiver, Frenchexpeditions first show them the way to remember the "boys in blue until 1910, the muster rolls showed a tot;l establisheda post at Tadousac,at the mouth And so, through the years,the French In 1866, however, the "boys in blue of 730 members.The interior of the Reno of the Saguenay. Than was in the 1500's, pushed on through the Great Lakes to the were very much remembered. These boys, Pose Hall was majestic and well kept. before the British had arrived.Slowly the farthest extremities. Indeed, there were like all ex-soldier:s,tended to gamer to- Veterans donated souvenirs after the waf French worked their way up the St. Law- Frenchmenat Duluth before the PiJgrin)s gether to swap stories and tell jokes of and soon the Post had quite a collection of rence, founding Quebec, Three Rivers, and landed on Plymouth Rock. In one of their army life. An attempt to set up a formal relics, which were duly mounted and pre- Init of Union veterans was made in 1886 Montreal. As tidewaterextends the entire explorationsthey went along the southern served in glass cases- A collection of 'the distance,this was eilsy of accomplishment. side of Lake Erie, to the neighborhoodof I'hey adopts(t rhe title 'Pose64, G.A.R. Rogers' Group of the Civil War period was Although the French were few in num- Erie, Pa., here they turned south overland, 6 THE J OURNAL 7 guided,of course,by theirIndians, to the impossible [o march anJ' distance through to be fatal. The French population was America the counterpart of much that has scream we now know as French Creek. the almost impenetrable forests. Those who tiny. All the Frenchmenin Upper North happened in Europe in recent years, with thencedown ic to the Allegheny River, and. wished to go [o the west, had either to America numberedhardly more than 20,000 hordes of refugees fairly submerging entire so on to the site of Pittsburgh, and then continue on up the Great Lakes chain or souls. The British had more than 2,000,000 neighborhoods down the Ohio to the Mississippi, and so on go down the Ohio River. The French populationand by the time of the Revo- [o New Orleans, which was also French But that is no parr of our story.The stronghold at what is now Detroit sealed lution, twenty years later, there were significant thing is that the French,through temtory. the northern route. Fort Duquesne, it was 3,0-00,000 of chem. The French lust did their savageallies, had carried out pei:factly hoped, would seal the lower ' route. Wick All this required many years. Meantime, not have the soldiers to accotnplish their the first part of choir program. They had the British had swarmedintoJVorth Amer- rhe British confined to the lands east of + endri driven the British back-far back. The ica and the French had done everything tbe Alleghenies, the French could then But they had the Indians, and they used westernmost point of settlement in Penn- they could to drive them out. Constantly easily make conquest of a]] the remainder them promptly. Arming them, bribing sylvania was now at Chambersburg. As the they instigated savageIndian forays against of Norm America.Assuredly they were them, deceiving them, and doing everything cmw flies. it is more than 125 miles from the outlying British settlersin the north- playing for big stakes and success seemed possible to arouse hatred of the British, the Chambersburg to the Pittsburgh site--an east, burning, killing, scalping, and perpet- possible. Frenchnow sent their Indians on frightful enormousslice of territory that the French rating two of the most awful massacres But there were British leaders who under- forays all along the border. In Virginia, in had cleared of British settlers. And they ever committed in North America--at stoodthe situationthoroughly. They did Maryland, in Pennsylvania, the Indians com had brought the war so close home to the Schenectady, N. Y. and at Deerfield, Mass. not intend to be shut out of occupancy matted the most frightful atrocities, naurder- British as to scare them half out of their This latter outrageoccurred in 1704. Buc of western lands. Although there were then ing, scalping, torturing, burning. Wits despite these unrelenting and corltinuing no English settlersanywhere near the Braddock's defeat occurred in July of The problem for the Frenchnow was to terror tactics,the Frenchfound that they Pittsburghsite, the Virginians secafoot a couldn'tdrive the British out of the land. 1755. Only a year earlier, in 1754, the hold this vast territory. Obviouslythey movement to acquire lands along the Ohio, Penns had persuaded rhe Six Nation Indians muse have a stronghold far to the eastward If you will look for a moment at the map west of the Pittsbui:ghsite. They sent to se]] them another tract of land along that they could defend, and whence they behind me, you will note the red line that Christopher Gist out there to explore and the Susquehanna. The line marking the could sally ouc on endless terrifying raids I have drawn on it. This line runs along report about desirable lands. Then they boundry of that purchasewas approximately and so push the English Shill farmer east. the St. Lawrence River, from Quebec, west sentout CaptainWilliam Trent with one mile above Penn's Creek. Twenty-five There was lust 07zeplace for such a ward through the Great Lakes to Presque colonial militia to erect a defensible post, settlers had moved into this territory. They f ortification--at the forks of the Susque- Isle, which we now call Erie. Penne..and in January,1754, and so safeguardedthe were settled along Penn's Creek near hanna. Here was a gateway like that at then goes south across a shot t stretch of passageway to the west. But they did not presentNew Berlin. They were utterly present Pittsburgh. As all travel had to be land to French Creek and the Allegheny, give him enough men. Trent started to unawareof what lay ahead.The war at by water, a fort at the forks of the Susque- the Ohio, and the Mississippi.Please note build a small fort at the forks of the Ohio the forks of the Ohio meant nothing to hanna would absolutely command the the re]ative]y sma]] portion of America that rhe site of Pittsbui:gh--bur left the job to them. But suddenly French Indians fell passageup and down the main streamand lies east of the red line and the huge part go back to Wills Creek. A young ensign on these settlers and murdered or captured both branchesof the river. was left in charge. But long before the new westof it. And pleasebear in mindthat all of them but one.Penn's Creek, as you This the French understood well enough this long red line was the line of communi- strongholdwas in defensibleshape the know, flows through Selinsgroveand empties But consider their difficulties. It would cations for the French between their two French appeared in force, drove the British into the Susquehanna lush below that tOWB. require a large force of men to capture main settlements--Quebec in the north, and out, tore down the new stronghold, and This terrifying massacre,coming af ter and hold the desired site close to the English New Orleans in the south erected Fort Duquesne for their own de- many decades of peace with the Indians, and construct an adequate stronghold. Where When the Frenchfinally openedcom- fense. Thus the British were fairly check- brought the war closehome. British settlers were they co ger rhe men? And where mated. The French must have been very municationsbetween Quebec and New j along the entire Pennsylvaniafrontier were could they obtain necessary food? The Orleans, by the waterways mentioned, they jubilant when they accomplishedthis. Now terrified. Forty-six settlersfled for protection soldiers would have to come from Quebec, they were sure they could hold off the Three Rivers. Montreal. Detroit. Michili- cameto the decisionthat although they British. [o Shamokin (now Sudbury) where friendly couldn't drive the British into the Atlantic. Indians lived. But the attitude of the macanac, Farr LeBouef, Fore Venango, and they might be able to contain them in the But they felt quite different when the Indians there causedthem to leave the even from New Orleans. and other lands east of the Allegheny Mountains. British King sent GeneralBraddock with following day. As they traveled south, they scattered strongpoints. Bur the journey from They built a chain of little forts all the way a powerful force to capture Fort Duquesne were fired upon from ambush clear Mahanoy Quebecto the Pittsburghsite, on foot and from Montreal to the Pittsburgh site, to Nobody--including the French--doubted Creek and four settlers were killed. The in canoes and Batteaux, was an exhausting protect their troops in their journeys and that he would do it. His defeatwas utterly Moravians broke up their mission at Sha- journey of weeks and months. For all the [o heap hold the land. At the junction of unexpected and incredible thing mokin. and soon the Indians also retired forces available must assemble at present the Alleghenyand the Monongahelia,as What is more,it put a new face on the from the place. This evidently indicated Pittsburghand thencemarch east, on f oot we shall see, they erected Fort Duquesne situation. Now, instead of merely holding hostility on their part. and by water, to the site of present Sunbury. It commandedthe gatewayto the west.If the British east of the mountains.would The news spread like wildfire. Like I do not needto tell you that there was a they could hold that, the British coutld not it not be possible to drive them far back frightened deer the wescernmost pioneers staggering problem get beyond the Allegheny Mountains toward the Atlantic, and hold them there. ''.mp .--.nina nUr nf the Bloods Their fliollr You tray well wonder why the French I call your attention to the importance thus adding rrelnendously to French clever ceased until they reached Chambers- had to travel in such a roundabout way of waterways in rhosc (lays. Travel was rerntory burg, Shippensburg,Carlisle, and other tiny There was a very real reasonfor it, and a neccssitrilyby water, f or it was next to Buc here French lack of numbers seemed frontier villages.Here was then seen in most interesting one. The Iroquois or Six 8 THE JO U RNA L 9 Nations originally occupied the entire powerful colonial fortification in America they so greatly needed. When they had almost certain that they would have cap- territory beta,een Buffalo and the Berk- The questionnow was,could they ge! it finally gotten together a force Chat could tured the desiredf ort site at the forks of shires. The Mohawks, who were the keepers done in time? For friendly Indians had told possibly accomplish chair purpose, they the Susquehanna. With a sturdy f ort erected of the easterngate, lived along the lower them that the French were straining every marched; but it was more than a year after there, they would have assuredly ravaged MohawkRiver. They had long carried on nerve and muscle to collect. feed. arm. and Braddock'sdefeat. The expedition went up the Cumberland Valley, have swarmed down a devastatingfeud with the CanadianIn- equip an army to capturethe site at the rhe Allegheny River to Kittaning, then the SusquchallnaValley and taken the Harris dians. When Champlain first came to forks of the Susquehanna. overland to present Clearfield, where frees Feny fort, and continued eastward perhaps Canada, the Canadian Indians bcsoughc him Terrified inhabitants gathered at Harris were cut and rafts made.Then the party to Lancaster, perhaps to Reading, perhaps to join them in an expeditionagainst the Ferry,sent in a petitionfor a fort at Sha- sitiled down the Susquehanna even closer to Philadelphia. To regain the Mohawks. Knowing nothing of Indian mokin. On the very sameday, a similar But the commanderwas too wise to settled farmlands east of Had:is Ferry, rhe politics, and thinking to ingratiate himself gathering at Conrad Weiner's home near march his entire force directly to the Sha- British might have been willing to make with the Canadian Indians, Champlain Womelsdorf,sent in a similar petition. The mokin area. Indians had reported to him the a compo:omise agreement that would give consented. The Mohawks had never heard entire frontier was crying for protection, activities of the British. But Indians reports France a good part of Pennsylvania a gun fired. When Champlain's iden shoe f or the Indian outragesgrew worse. had little meaning.They were too vague Sucll speculationis not altogetheridle off their blunderbussesand killed some of Governor Morris, who had tried in vain and uncertain. Nevertheless. the French But to try to tell exactly what the outcome the Afohawksinstantly, rhe latter fled in to put the colony on a good defensive commander was taking no chances of mar- would have been is of course useless. Had terror. But rineynever f orgave Champlain and footing, was now determined that this ching his entire force direct to Shatnokin, the Englishchosen to resistand fight with the Frenchmen. As the Mohawks felt, so, fortificationshould be built. In mid-April perhapsto be met by a British army,with their backs agains tthe wall, they would in a generalway, felt the entire Iroquois 1756, he inf ormed the Board of Commis- death or capture of his entire force as a undoubtedly have beaten the French in the confederacy, and from the day of that battle sioners chat on the twenty-ninth of the possibility. So he sent forward a little group, longrun. The British had the men and onward, the Six Nations were mainly hostile preceding month he had commissioned to spy out the land.It is of interestto us to the French. Thus. when the French wanted suppliesright at hand.In the longrun Lieut. Col. Williatn Claphamto recruit a [o know that the Frenchtied their rafts they must have won the fight. to reachthe forks of the Susquehanna,they battalion to accomplish this end. This force to the shore somewhere opposite or above did not dare march south through what But whatever might have happened, one was krlown as the Augusta regiment. Major present Monroursville, and that this explor- thing is certain:when the Frenchgot to is now New York State.That was the Jatnes Bund was second in command atory band crossed over Bald Eagle Blue Hill and f bund the chosenfort site land of the Iroquoisor Six Nations.The Mountain through the very samegap that Slowly supplies and equipment were already fortified, thad put an end, once and resulting delay,, caused for this roundabout collected at Fort Hunter, near present brings Route 15 from Lewisburg to for all, to the hopeof pushingthe British Journeyto the Pittsburghsite and then Dauphin, and the regiment rendezvouedat Williamsport. back to the Atlantic. Because of the across Penne. caused the French the probable Harris Ferry. Governor Morris drove out Manly persons have regarded the story of incredible incompetence of the British com- loss of the Fort Augusta site. And just as from Philadelphiato attend the recruiting this spy group as apocryfal.However, we manders, who made one serious blunder surely, Champlain's shots on the bank of and training of the soldiers.On Julie 12 have absolute proof that the expedition took after another, rhe war dmgged on f or nearly the lake named for him, did much to cause orders were issued for the march to begin. place. The last French governor of Canada France the loss of her American empire. eight years.In the end, Francelost all of The force proceeded as far as present told aboutit in a report [o the FrenchKing Canada, and a few years later Jefferson Assuredly, the mills of the gods grind slowly, Halifax, where a stronghold was erected When this party arrived at Blue Hill but they grind exceedingfine moved her out of America entirely through for the protection of men and supplies the frowning 300-foot precipice across the rhe purchaseof Louisiana.But one thing Indeed, it was almost a year after Brad- enroute to Shamokin. Boat building began, river from Sunbury, the French spies knew is sure. When the French were stopped at dock's defeat before the French were ac for all supplieshad to be takenup the in a minute that their cause was hopeless Folic Augusta, it was the beginning of the lash able to cake advantage of the situation river--a taskalmost superhuman, so low Although the new f ort was not wholly en was the water. Then they sent a force to the east,by way completed, it was so far forward that no For chose of you who were unable to ga of Kitanning, thence overland to Clearfield, On July one the regimentmarched for Indians or riflemcn could ever cakeit. Only on last summer'spilgrimage al)d see the and from there down the Susquehannaon Sha.mokin, reaching there safely on July troops with big guns to batter down the replica of Fort Augusta, it might be well rafts trac the\, had constructed sixth. Immediately the erection of the fore sturdy oak walls could ever capture it. And to say a word about that notable strong- Meantime, the sluggish Pennsylvanians. was started. This new stronghold was to be the French had no such guns, although it hold. First of all, ler us try to pictureto scaredhalf out of their wits whenthe war built after plans drawn by one E. Meyer, is said that they had two tiny cannons that ourselves the actual situation at the site came to their very doors, at lash were moved an engineer for the British governtllcnt. Cher had lugged from Fort Duquesne. I'wo llundred years ago, when Augusta was to do something.Again and again the The structure was to be called Fort Augusta Back to the main force awaiting them erected, the region was solid forest. Among friendly Indians, through the years, had in honor, as the late Fred Godcharles points approximately opposite Montoursville went the forcsr treeswere many huge oaks.Their pointedout the strategicvalue of the out, of a daughter of King George 11. Col rhe disappointedspy party. The two tiny hard wood madethe best defensivewalls. cannonsare said to have been thrown in Sunburysite and urged the British to area Clapham drove his men hard, and by First throwing a protective embankment a strong house there. But the timorous September23 wrote the governor that "The a deep hole in the river, which gave rise to which they could retreat if attacked,the legislature, though prodded by one governor fort is almostfinished, and a fine oneit [o the name Cannon Hole. workers began [o fell che huge forest trees. IS after another,refused to vole a penny for At any rate, this succession of events In doing so they accomplishedtwo defense. Now it was a different story. The Meantime, what about the French? They illustrates perfectly the effect of topography important purposes. Not only did they war was no longer out at Pittsburgh. So had labored diligently to get together a upon human destiny. Had the French had chas securematerials for the fort, rhc legislature voted ample funds for a force char could citpture the forks of th( ulaple troops Chatthey could set in motion but they made it impossible for Indians srroiighold. And it was to be rhe most Susquehanna ilnd there erect the str{)nghoJd promptly after Braddock's defeat, it is or any other foes to slip up close 10 THE JO U R N AL 11 to the f orc unseen, although a stealthy chefort, like the curvingopen armsof a Indians constantly brought beaver skins and decades earlier savagemight worm himself forward f or man. and reached from the fort to the other furs to sell to the whites. Further. When Sullivan marched,a year after the some distance behind a tree stump. But the shore. Little picker boxes in these walls considerablegroups of Indians were always Wyoming massacre, to avenge that outrage f brest cover, on which Indiarls alwaysrelied, helped to protect the guards from weather paddling up or down the river, and they and destroy the Iroquois empire, some of was gone forever and arrows. With pickets constantly on always stopped at rhe fort, pretending to his troops came from Fort Augusta, and Horseshad beendriven to the site and guard, where they could look down on the be friendly and expecting a l;andout Augusta was an advancedpoint in the for- they were used to drag the huge oak logs actual shore, it was next to impossible for So poor Col. Burd had his handsfull. warding of supplies to Sullivan--for again into position. These were laid horizontally, an Indian or any other enemyto slip up We owe him a lot, for he not only comman- practically all supplies had to be brought in rows on top of one another, [o form a unseen behind the high river bank and cut ded at Fort Augusta when things were up the Susquehanna portion of the walls. Upright palisadeswere the boats loose. rough, but when Forbes marched 'west to With regardto Fort Augusta,the folks set up in other parts of the walls. Great Although the erection of the fort ended capture Fort Duquesne, three years af ter of this area should never fi)rgec it. When earthen embar)kmcnts were built against direct possibility of French attack, it by no Braddock's disaster, Forbes chose a new news of the Wyoming massacre swept che logs, with an outer ditch and still other: means put an end to danger. Hostile Indians route westward,and had to have a twelve through this valley, and the population fJ;d palisades.In shore,here was no mere frontier lurking, unseen,about the foot wide roadopened through the forest as one man, with Indians close behind stockade, but a fortification built according neighborhood. The soldiers very naturally f or scores of miles. Col. Byrd had mulch them, it was Fort Augusta that provided to advanced military science. (The plans greEN' tired of salt pork, and were always [o do with the building of that road.At refuge and safety. And again it checked for this fortification were drawnby a looking for fresh food. On the plain back any rate, those of you who desire to .ger the savages. After the massacre at Fort British military engineer, one E. Meyer. The of the fort grew wild plum trees.When a sharp idea of what life was like at Fore Freeland, near present McEwensville, in late Frederick Godcharles. out local historian, the fruit was ripe, soldiers would slip off Augusta should read Col. Bund's diary. No 1779, the savages pushed as far as Milton saysthat the fort was named in honor of to hunt for plums.Indians lying in waif doubt you can securea copy in the ]irown But they darednot go any closerto Augusta the daughter of King George ll.) would try to get between the f ort and the Library. So this old stronghold of freedom does One mol:e thing we might notice. During soldiers.so as to cut them off. Some of And of course, we should remember the indeed have meaning for us. It played a the two centuriesthat have elapsedsince the soldiers paid f or the plums with their part that Fore Augusta played in lager years. big parc in the history of ouil region Fort Augusta was built, the shore has receded lives.Well backfiona the fort, not far from For it was the great pillar of strength to Strangely enough, although it was never many rods. We are told that Fort Augusta the hills behind present Sunbury, was fl patriots of the region during the Revolution. beseiged,never fought a battle, never was stood 140 feet from the shoreof the river. sparkling spring. Hot and thirsty soldiers Had thee:e been a fort like Augusta at faced by a hostile force, it played a big part Now, hardly more than the width of the wanted to drink of its waters. Some of these Wilkes-Barre, the W owning lnassaflre would in the struggle for freedom. It was peer street separates the Susquehanna from the soldiers lost their lives in consequence. have been impossible. What the savages John Milton who wrote than "They also line of the old fort. Indeed,the meaningfulpart of the story did there could have been repeated farther serve who only stand and wait." His words down strean],had it not been for Fort This was a squarish structure, with out of Fort Augusta lies not in ics oaken walls apply 100 per cent [o Fort Augusta jutting bastions at each corner, so that any .nd its threatening cannon, but in the life Augusta. It would simply have meant a Although fate decided that it should only enemy who hight manage to get up close of the place. Co. James Burd who succeeded little longercanoe trip for the Indians.But stand and wait, it truly did serve exceed- to the palisadescould be picked off by to the commandof thefort after Col Fort Augusta barred the way of the savages, ingly well. We shouldaJI be gi:atefulfor shots fired parallel with the walls and close Claphamleft, kept a dial:y.This tells us as it had barred the way of the French iwo its services. to them.The survivalof the old well and striking[y of the hard life dived by the the tnagazine help us greatly to picture defenders of the f ort. At tinaes, they feared the fore, f or they give us a sharpidea of starvation, when expected provisions failed What Do We Want? its extent.It wasapproximately 200 feet to arrive, Life was cold, harsh, and depres- sing. Scores of men fell ill. Many died square.The old well, which is closeto rhe You have probably heard the remarks, can trace their family trees back to the highway, was located in the shoreward Others were scalped by near-by Indians 'They don't do enough to make the city Revolution and before. Many of us had bastion on the south side of the fort. The One great problem for the conamandant attractive. great grandparents in the Civil War and magazinewas at the other cnd of the same was that of handling the Indians. Scores 'Why don't they have a community of them descendedupon the fort with their hall? in the SpanishAmerican War. Many of wall. Roughly, these two points i:epresent us can name ancestors who played important tuo corners of the square fore. It is easy families. It was next to impossible to 'If they would only do something to parts in politics, business,industry, religion, enough to ]ocace, mentally, the two other distinguish a friendly Indian from an enemy. make life interesting around here or one of the professions.Most of us'feel corners. The inside of the stronghold was And indeed,an Indian might be friendly If you listen, you can hear the word "they that those men and women and their works filled with buildings. There was the house one day and hostile the next. So the savages used in this way many times eachday to should be remembered. of the commandant, barracks f or soldiers, had to be kept out of the f ort. They ex- refer to some mysterious group of persons Unlike some societies we do not believe storehouses, shops, etc pectedthat their friends would feed them whose responsibility it is to handle any task in ancestor- worship; nevertheless, if we can Inasmuch as the f ood supplies of the Not to feed them u'as [o incur their enmity that takes effort. It's the old story of hold up f or our youth examples of past garrison depended upon river traffic, it was Scoresthat the garrisonneeded sadly often wanting somethingdone but wanting it greatness,we shall be serving our community of the utmost importance that the boars had to be handed over to the visiting Indians And of course. more than one act of only enough that someone else can do the in a way that can be of much benefit. Re attached to the fort be protected. To accom- work gardless of the abundanceof opinion on treachery was perpetrated by the Indians. plish that end, wing walls were erected Now in Williamsport and Lycoming the callousnessand cynicism of today's boys from each of the bastionsfronting on the Finally a building was erected lust outside Cooney we have a heritage than deserves river sideof the fore.These mn out from the fore for use as a trading post. For lnd girls, our sonsand daughtersand their being kept and honored. Many local residents children will still be largely guided by our 12 T H E JO.U R N A L 13 actions and by those of our fathers. It is no backing, we should establish a permanent actions dnd by those of our fathers. It program for maintaining an adequate in- Annie Oakley's Last Shot is no idle surmise that specific history here come.This is a very necessarypart of our by Col. Henry W. Shoemaker at home carries more impact for children successful operation and cannot be handled At the tiny village of Roudenbushwhich came of sturdy stock ''; yet Jacob Moses died Chan the deeds of remote homes in books. in an aimless ]nanner. Even if all our was a flag-stop on the old Huntingdon and young and her widowed Mosher, an accrac Your son n'ill fume over studying Muzzey's members paid their dues, we could still Broad-Top narrow gauge railway, the "yel- five brunette married Frank Brumbaugh, account of the French and Indian Wars, not function effectively without substantial low house" is well remembered standing Governor M. G.'s Cousin. and, I believe but he will listen awed when told of the income from other sources. One method oi] the deftside of a shadyJane which ran the uncle of the eminentHarold massacres of the "Great Runaway" when of insuring continued income lies in paying west from the tracks. On the side porch Taken to the colony of the Brethren in local settlers lef t their homes and lands and an individual or agencya nominal contracted stood a magnificent mounted specimen of Dai:ke County, Ohio, she residedin a tiny fled from the valleysof the Lycomingand sum to be responsiblefor getting publicity the PennsylvaniaNorthern type of deer. It roadsidecabin near the county town of the Loyalsock to the refuge of the forts for the society. A paid public relations was a buck and he showed two wounds in Kingsville where shc was living wheelthe What can we. either as citizensof the man would gather material from a curator the flank and at the heart. He carried six Jay Cooke's, or Panic of '73, hit char lo- county or as active members of our Hlis- tnd from the Societyofficers and keep the even points on each antler. It belonged to cality and the family income decreased to public informed about our activities, thereby torical Society, do [o make effective use old Rudy Schuler, long a conductor on nothing much. She became expert at bring- of the n'ealth of historical material we have? insuring good will and support the Broad-Top. How did he secul:e it? No. ing down quails with a sling siiot--so ma;y To simply give it over to the responsibility These above points may seem radical, he did not shoot it but it was preserved in that she sold them in Kingsville and of a few peoplewho have limited time and but they are radical only in chat they have honor of Annie Oakley'sbringing it down attracted the attention of old Mrs. Bergs- energy is noc enough. To be sure these not been considered by our society, they are with her last shot shortly before her death stresserwho had also been a noted shooter people deservethe gratitude of the com- being used by thousands of organizations at the fairly early age of sixty-six in her youth. She induced Annie to purchase munity, but too much valuable and whose purposes are less worthy than ours. It might be interesting to identifythis her old shot gun, on the installnaentplan, iteresting material must go too long un- The board of directors surely must recognize same "Annie Oakley"--who she really ' was. ind though the family i:eligion f oi:bid the cataloged and unseen. If the small that there are a few crying needs.We must Oakley was just a stage or adopted 'name, child to carry or shoot fii:eai:ms she became community of Towanda can pay for the first recognize them, analyze them, and then and her name was not Mozee or i3rumbaugh the greatestshot in the known world. She take care of them. Let a con)mittee, a services of a full-time curator, why can't but she was the wife of Frank Butler.'a sold her game at the hotels and night clubs W'illiamsport? vigorous, forward looking committee, be world renowned rifle shoe, who as a child it Kingsville and vicinity, and confessed The obvious answer,if we stop to think, appointed to make a study and report within in Darke .County, Ohio, she defeated by to her Mother how she brought them down. is. "We can." First, we membersof the a reasonable length of time. Then let's act one point in a shooting match. Nor was her With an eleven year panic and depression Historical Society must plan a long-range on theproposals of the committee.In name Bonnie Coakley, who was the girl hanging over the country she was forgiven program involving not only entertainment conclusion,there is no reasonwhy the with a similar soundto her name.trained and becamea well-known figure in the town f or ourselves,but also some objectives in- committeemaking the study cannot use to becomeAnnie's successorwhen she re- squarewhere her bronze life-size monument volving a continuity in policy. One long people who have had valuable experience tired from public exhibition.She was a in a granite base now stands. range objective, for example, should be the in this work even thoughthey are not dark, Irish girl trained to shooting by her According to reports widely circulated, eventual procurement of more suitable members of the society. father, the heavily mustached former Ser- Frank Butler, with a handsome brown mus- quarters.There is no usesticking our heads geant at the Iniskilling Dragons. Bonnie tache curled at the ends.had come to town in the sand;our presentbuilding is too \\rILLIANISPORT SATURDAY EVENING Coakley really passed as "Anne Oakley" in and beaten all the local shots. He was told small and certainly was not designedfor REVIEW, JUNE 30, 1894 rhesummer of 1904; she won great acclaim he had yet to [neet the greatest of them displaying historical exhibits. at the Winter Gardenin Berlin all, a mere child, less than five feet tall Once our objectives have been set, we Chester Ayers is horne again. Don't say: The more celebratedAnnie Oakley was tell us something new. We merely announce who weighed 80 pounds or less. He accep must start a campaign to interest the public the fact becausewe havenot beforedone born in Hollidaysburg,Blair County in ted, more as a joke, but she bear him three and the municipal and county officials in 1860, the daughter of Jacob Moses and points out of one hundi:edshots fired by furnishing enough finzuacial support to so. Chester is in for a good time and means to have it if possible. He has been very Susanah Weis. Both were Jewish-sounding each one. Her bull's-eyes were prodigious; enable the Historical Society to reach its busytrying [o get up a picnic to go to namesand Annie had a Jewish look, e; he had never seen such markmanship be- objectives.This will not be a difficult task blountain Grove. and when this is accom- cept when she went to Europe with Buffalo fore. An acquaintance was struck up ' and but will take too muchtime and effort Bill and dyed her hair golden-:to the delight the "ladies' man", whose mustache had plished he says he won't rest until a German to justifiably expectanyone to do it without of patrons of the Paris Riding Academy. touched a thousand hearts, fell to his dismay, compensation.The best way to gec it done is well under way. If these numerous thunder showers don't dampen the ardor According to the best authority on her life, deeply in love with the white-capped, black would be to employ someone on a percen- Dr. Harold B. Drumbaugh, Assistant to downed child and a marriage was speedily tage basis. Mist clear-thinking citizens of of his spirits he will doubtless accomplish all that he hopes to. the President of Juniata College at Hunting- arranged.They would tour the country to- the city and county will agree enthusiastically don, she came of the Plain People, and as gether, giving matches; there would me mon- chat the Society and museum are valuable .Tomes Bosbyshell, of Philadelphia is these antique sectarians had much Jewish ey in it. There is an Annie Oakley Television assets to the community and will readily spending his vacation here as the guest blood, she probably had some of the' blood of George Mills. Program Chathas given her as much publi- support them. However, the support we of the Chosen People flora'ing in her vigor- cly as to the earlier Hugenot Hero, Davy need must be actively and personally It is rumoredthat the engagelllentof a ous veins. Her father, Jacob Moses, kept a Crockett, but its scenes are laid in the solicited. and Ellis takes time and work. young couple out on Washington Street hotel for farmers and his Father-in:law is about to be announced West, whereas Annie Moses, alias "Oakley Once we have acquired enough financial Isaac Weis, also kept a well run eating never crossedthe Mississippi River. Then house and slop-over place. Some said, "She how did the young, side-whiskcred,Theo- 14 TH E JO U RN A L 15 dore Rooseveltcome to give her a long At the Huntingdon station platform silver mounted English rifle? where she changed to the tiny Broad-Top From the Williamsport Saturday Evening Review, June 30, 1894 It happened at St. Paul, Minnesota, where Coach, not another person could stand. All Miss Jessie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Miss Lundy, of Williamsport, Monday wished to honor the greatest woman shot the future founderof the Booneand Croc H. F. Mann,of Sunburn,and Horace Y. evening at a small musicale, and Wednesday kerr Club was spending a few days with a in the world and a charming,dainty per- Otto, a pi:omincnt merchant of Williams- afternoon, Mrs. G. W '. Walters and the Harvard Classmate. At least there is good sonality.A great shifty engineman took port, were married at 6 o'clock last Tllursday Parson Crawford's cuff and begged an in- Misses Waters gave a small informal authorityfor this statement.Later Colonel evening in the First Presbyterian Church musicale, Miss Lundy being among the Cody, noting Annie's growing fame added troduction to the great girl. "Why must at thadplace by the Rev.O. G. Morton, you meet her"? said Mr. Crawford. "There guests present her to his EuropeanExpedition where the assisted by the Reverend Brydie, late pastor ELMIRA ECHO -- Saturday tiny girl literally "stole the show". The hasbeen on mis night train a giant buck of the church.The edifice was beautifully running ahead of my engine, "Miss Eliza Prince of Wales gave her the gold medal beth". "Lizzie", I call her. I can't slow down decorated and the cei:emony was witnessed P. B. Shaw, Ntrs. Jane Shaw, Mrs. Leggett she always wore, the King of Portugal, a and I will run him down and he will be by a large number of invited guests.Every and Miss Leggctr and Mr. Fred Bttckus are diamond ring, as she excelled his hero, Cap thing was in prevailing colors, green and at Parley's cottage at North Bend. ground to mince-mean.I want Miss Oakley cain Carver. as a trick shot. The Kaiser to shoothim dead.it will add to her fame white. Miss Grace Mann, sister of the bride. gave her a plaque and the President of was maid of honor. while beautifu] little Street car parties are quite rhe proper France,a gold colarette.On her feturn to and to Broad-Top's notoriety." ''Agreed" Miss Clarissa Peacock, of Bloomsburg, was caper nowadays, and a large. number of the 'States' she continued to travel with said the genial Crawford, and they climbed flower girl. The bridesmaids were Misses youngpeople are in the habit of going Buffalo Bill. I haveseen theirs riding inca into the passengercoach. "Have you a rifle, SarahMoody and Annie Cadwalader, of out to Vallamont several times a week. the ring at the head of the Colorlel'sper- Mr. Schuler?" she said to the engineman. Sunbury; Miss McHenry, Stillwater; Miss Now that the band is there in the evening 'Yes", I have carried a loaded Henninger formersand the Indians,but the tiny girl ever since I first s&w him ahead but Sarah Jefferie, Chester, and Miss Grace this makesa very pleasantpastime for Meyers, Syracuse, while Newton Chatham, goc as much, or more, applause than the haven't tried shooting him", he replied. warm evenings, especially when one has tall, handsome frontiersman of Williamsport, acted as best man. The no particular engagement. When we get to Roudenbush, ] wi]] stop, ushers were Messes. Charles Kramer. Sun Off-stage under: his tall silk hat, Colonel contrary to orders,and putyou in nay cab; bury; William Mann, Philadelphia; Hamster Last evening at 8 o'clock, after we had Codywol:e his long hair pinnedup with then you can climb out along the skeleton Otto, Charles Otto, Boyd Wilkinson, gor)e to press, the very amusing farce er] a huge horse blanket safety-pin, a long and of "Miss Lizzie '' and at the headlight, pre- \Williamsport; James Sharon, Newport, and titled "The Ullcxpected Guests,'' which had black Prince Albert Coat. He was always pare for the greatest shot of your life." (it Sam H. Harman, Bloomsbury. A very large been rehearsed for several weeks, was given a dignified gentleman. Annie, as she got proved her last shot too, for after her visit receptionat the CentralHotel followed the in the naw auditorium of the Y.M.C.A with Grandma Weis. she returned to Pine older, started to teach markmanship at ceremonyfrom 6:30 until 8:30 o'clock, Following was the program rendered: Piano Pinehurst, North Carolina, a place for which hurst and died, not long after Rouden- after which Mr. and bars. Otto lef t on an Solo; Miss May Lundy; Vocal Solo, Newton she always had a particular fondness. Among bush.) With the conductor'sapproval, as extended tour, af ter which they will reside Chatham; Recitation, James Hawley; Vocal her pupils were: Miss Dorothy Armstrong, the deer must be ki]]ed, the ]iEclerambling at their beautiful country house between Duet, Miss Dear and Mr. Chatham:Flute of Lock Heaven. wife of f ormer Senator train stopped and "Annie Oakley" climbed Halls and Eagles Mere. out of the coachinto the cabin and worked Solo, Harry Silverman; Vocal Solo, Miss R. S. Quigley; Miss Mary V. Fownes,and Josephine Coleman; Farce, ''The Unexpec- Miss Mary Elkins, two charmingPitts herself along the skeleton of the cab. She Miss Florence Brown will give a house ted Guests."the cast of which was made burgh girls who became golfing-champions; braced herself in the clear moonlight on party over the Fourth. Among the guests up by Messrs. Ham Foresman, Fur)k and other leading figures in the American the headlight's frame, to make what shc will be Misses Lou Deemer, Nell Allen. Hinckley,James Hawley, Irving P. Sanford, Social World. Then came the great rail- doubtless felt, might be her last shot. Soon Grace MacVickar, Jean Parsons, and Messrs. Clarence V. Mills, Will Lawson, James road wreck where Annie had nearly every the "mightybuck" wason the ti:ackswith James Gibson, Chester Ayers, Leslie Lyon Gibson Misses Man Snyder,NeJ] Allen, bone in her tiny body broken at least once, rail aloft, with the enginegaining on him, and Ireland Swank. We understand that Meme Youngman, Margaret Updcgraff, but she recovered and spent several years Annie raised her Henninger; she had used Miss Brown expectsto give quite a number Nah Hobart. Blanche Dear and Grace calmly surveying her past life of glory. She Chat frontier type of rifle previously. They of these delightfulparties during the MacVicker.The whole affair uas under had heard that Granny Weis at Hesston was were like old friends. She aimed and fired, sum her. the managementof J. P. Sanford and C.V very frail. She must visit the dear, old lady the gallant antlered giant dropped dead Mills, who deserve great praise for the while she was still here. Parson H. Crawford in the little puddleof water which ran Max Mitchell, Esq., gitve a very delightful successfulmanner in which the entertain- of the "Altoontl Times Tribune", the Grand- below the tracks. Old Schuler stopped his cabin party for his sister, Mrs. Josiah ment was given father of the famous Janet Blair who, with jerky engine and everybody cheering, sev- Horner, last Saturday. Among those present Hedda Hopper is the greatest Central eral with lanterns, descended and lifted the were Mrs. G. D. Tinsman and daughter, PERSONAL Pennsylvania thespian, has affirmed Annie s deadbuck out of the pool. There were the Miss Hagenbuch, Miss Charlotte Hong, Mrs. T. J. Crocker and Miss Elizabeth visit. She had not been seen much in her fatal marks. the bullet went in at the flank Miss Minnie Hooper and Miss Maud Crocker returned from Canadaiguaon home territory since her terrific smash-up. and cameout in front of the heart. a trick Mitchell. Mondaylast. Miss Jean Hoyt, one of the He boardedthe train at Altoona and chat- shoe, but "deadly as sin". One old farmer misc charming girls from char place, ted with hcr all the Way to Huntingdon. remarked. "Annie fired her last shot, had Col. and Mrs. D. C. Robinson entertained accompaniedthem and will makequite He drew from hcr a very delightful story won the fatal aim, and old people gazing Miss Langdon and her guest, Miss Meyer, .n extensive visit here which was to grow greater in the last chap- fit the mounted animal mich its' two wounds, of York, Pa.,the MissesWaters and their Miss Estella Leggett hatsrecurred from ter always marvel at her marchless skill.'' guests, Miss Mcwilliams, of Brooklyn, and Brooklyn where she has been during the 16 T H E JO U R N A L past winter, and is che guest of P. B. Shaw. girls in town.. and we won't excludethe The attractions in the atv for Miss boys either, for their weakness for soda is Barnes are not to be compared with those almost as great as that of the girls. Whet) of the cabin. She hls been spending the chc girls are shopping and separate they week with the Harrison family in Nippono always wind up at Dubles, and ''Miss Valley. Maggie'' is a great favorite with young and Misses Florence arid Anna Slate left on old Thursday for an extended visit [o Miss Harry F. Forte,Jr., uho is quite well Grace Caroll in Baltimore. known among the boys and girls here, Theodore McDou'ell left to spend the came up from Philadelphia on Wednesday summer with his sister in Scranton. Pa. morning and spendthe day looking around Miss Carrie Dove and Henry Purdy leff down. He returned home the same evening on Thursday to attend the Otto-Mann wedding in Sudbury, Pa Mr. and Mrs. A. ThomasPage are rhe JUNK OR ANTIQUITIES guests of Mrs. Page's parents, Mr. and ( Continued frolal Page 1) Mrs. A. P. Perley. Mr. and Mrs. Perley 'Junk". Your editors cannot help but to will go [o their cabinat the North Bend speculate as to what other such ''junk next week and Miss Perly will acco:npnly leer sister home. might still be lying around in dark corners Mr. and Mrs. William Mcguire arc of yourcellars or nooksand crannies of Williamsport attics--guns, swords,pictures, rhe guests of A'lrs. M. E. Simon on Wash- ington Street. photographs, collecting dust, dirt, grime (and if clothing or uniforms moths) I How hlr. WZilliam Baked spent the greater often in the past has such ''junk" been part of the week in the city discarded? What Spanish American War, Speaking of busy men, John Beck is World War I uniforms and artifacts are pressed for time. He has been engaged all now lying discarded and forgotten soon the week collecting for the church picnic to be thrownout--what precious Civil Miss Margaret Geddeshas returned from War mementos or yet earlier relics? Mt. Holyoke College. She feels quite lost without her three particular friends, Misses Your editors hope in subsequenteditions Mccormick, Slate and Parsons. of the /o fw4/ on occasion from excerpts Miss M. Louise Gibson and Miss Clara of the Reno Post's papers and books to reconstructand recall eventsthat too often Gibson leave on Monday for Chautauqua Lake. N. Y have been ''forgiven find forgotten holidays char are "celebrated" but no longer Miss Louisa Larzeleregave a delightful hallowed": little remembered. and less supper parry Ol] Thursday. Mrs. R. W. Gibson returned on Thurs- commemorated. day from an extendedvisit to St. Mary's Might we ask you again to searchyour Mrs. William Baird. nee Miss Derr. is i)lcmories, your attics, and your cellars the guest of her parentson Market Street. for forgottenor neglectedantiquities of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Clapp have returned earlier days; your minds before they be- from Atlantic City, N. J. come too musty attics, vague and unsure; Mrs. Frank Foresman is visiting her your attics and cellarsbefore they are parents in Harrisburg abandoned as the new split-level houses, Mrs. John K. Hays 4nd children are the unable to hold then: castoffs from the past guestsof Mr. Hood at Spring Lake, N.J generations,reject them? J. Fred Coder's family are rusticating at Only restoration, reminiscences,and re- their cabin near Fields verence for the paso prevents relics froth John G. Reading,Esq., and family will becoming junk before becoming antique, go to Eagles Mere next week to spend mtiquities from turning into trash,our past several months. I rubble and trash heap rather than a hal- The most popular place in town is lowed rnelnory. noble's soda fountain. There from 10 in I'he nation which neglects its oust loses rhe morning until 5 in the afternoon may pride in its present foredoon. its fame be found all of the precriest and well known for posterity