Looking Backwards

1872

William Buckley brought to our office the other day, a corn stalk that measured over 14 feet in height.

Jacob Kramer, Williamsport, announces three days racing at the new driving park, next week. The premiums offered amount to $1200.

The Muncy Band attended the Turbotville Fair this week.

1882

Rev. E.H. Leiseming married seventy-four couples during the four years he has been pastor of the Lutheran church.

The Commencement exercises of the Normal School here held Friday evening. The teachers of the County are almost unanimous in their desire to have the County Institute held at Muncy.

The Councilmen of Williamsport were placed under arrest last Saturday, charged with neglecting to keep the streets in proper condition for travel.

Married: At the home of the brides’ parents, in Clinton township, Miss Ada Mansch was married to Mr. A.W. Herbst, on Thursday, Sept. 28th.

The Muncy Luminary and Lycoming County Advertiser

Oct. 5, 1922

Deaths: Harry A. Snodgrass, Monday night, after moths illness of typhoid fever, He was 52; Edward H. Dauberman died at the home of his father, in Delaware Township, on Wednesday night, after months illness with typhoid fever, aged 16 years.

The city carriers of the Munch Post Office report that they have been finding trash in the street letter boxes. Notice is hereby given that offenders in this line will be watched and dealt with according to the law. A heavy fine or imprisonment, or both, is the penalty for any one found guilty of this offense.

Boyd Rogers sez, “There is a woman out on R.D. No. 3, who named her son “Montgomery Ward“-because he is of the “male order”.

The Luminary

Sept. 11, 1952

70 years ago

Cynthia Guisewhite, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Guisewhite, became Muncy’s first victim of poliomyelitis on Monday when her condition was diagnosed as such and she was admitted to the Way Isolation unit of the Williamsport Hospital. Her case is the only one in Muncy in several years.

Polio struck at the Williamsport home last Frida of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Smith, former Muncy residents, when their two young children became stricken and were admitted to the Way Isolation unit.

Charles O. Little, of rear Muncy, has enlisted for a two year hitch in the Army.

A/1c John Harvey VanBuskirk Jr., of Lackland Air Base, Fla., is spending a leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey VanBuskirk. He will report to a base in Calif. Oct. 18. He spent last weekend with Jerry Frantz, J.H. VanBuskirk, and Donald O’Connor.

Deaths: Sarah Courson, former Picture Rocks resident, 85, died Friday; Harry W. Burrows, 59, Montgomery, died suddenly at Williamsport Hospital, result of a heart attack.

At the Ritz: “King Kong”

Ad: City Flour Mills, Muncy, Pa.

The Luminary

Sept. 28, 1972

50 Years Ago

10 cents

Muncy Valley Hospital’s New $900,000 Geriatric Unit Will Open Oct. 2.

With the peal of carillon bells at St. Andrew Lutheran church being heard once again, and the industrious whistle at Sprout-Waldron sounding out once more, it seems like old times around Muncy this week with familiar sounds ringing through the air for the first time since the flood.

Engagement announced of Beverly Bieber, of Harrisburg, to Roy W. Kinport, of Harrisburg.

Births: Mr. and Mrs. Miles Betz Jr., of Muncy, daughter, Sept.. 20; Mr. and Mrs. Donald Gray, Montgomery, daughter, Sept. 22; Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Everetts, Montgomery, son, Sept. 24; Mr. and Mrs. William Fowler, Montgomery, son, Sept. 25.

Deaths: Charles A. (Spook) Ellis, 71, Montgomery, Sept. 21; John Thursby, 53, Muncy, Sept. 22; Luther E. Derr, 64, born in Clarkstown, died Sept. 21; Elmer Kouf, 81, Muncy, Sept. 25; Willmar Grimm, Montgomery, Sept. 25. Harwood L. Vredenberg, 78, Muncy Industrialist, died Sept. 25; Robert B. McBride, of Muncy, died Sept. 24.

Ad: D-W Sanitary Disposal

Compiled by Ruth Fry

rfry@muncyluminary.com

WORLD NEWS compiled from various news sources

100 Years Ago

Sept. 28, 1922

President Warren G. Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations. Straw Hat Riot begins in New York City as youths aggressively taunt men wearing straw hats after Sept. 15.

The week prior in 1922, the New York Yankees played their farewell home game in Polo Grounds, won both games. Next season they will play in Yankee Stadium.

King Constantine of Greece abdicates. Benito Mussolini asks the Vatican for support of his fascist party program. Dancer, stage and screen actor, James Cagney, weds American dancer, Frances Vernon in New York City. A bolt of lightning struck an arsenal of explosives and the blast killed 144 people at the Falconara Fort located in Italy. “Gone with the Wind” author Margaret Mitchell has wed Berrian “Red” Upshaw. (She divorces him in 1924)

1922 is the first year that insulin is used in the treatment of diabetes. It was discovered by Sir Frederick G. Banting, Charles H. Best and JJR Macleod at the University of Toronto in 1921 and was purified for use by James B. Collip this year. “The Prisoner of Zenda” premiered at movie theaters.

Some of the most famous movie stars of 1922 include Rudolph Valentino, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Gloria Swanson, Lillian Gish, Wallace Beery, Jackie Coogan and Douglas Fairbanks.

Compiled by Shirley

Confer Boatman

sbboatman@comcast.net