1913

The Muncy high school football team played its last game of the season at the Polo grounds Thanksgiving afternoon and was again victorious. The opposing school was Saint Joseph of Williamsport.

Mrs. Homer J. Edwards is entertaining a party of Williamsport ladies today at her home on South Main street.

The Muncy high school football team held a successful dance in the Mozley opera house Friday evening.

The Muncy

Luminary

and Lycoming County Advertiser

Dec. 13, 1923

Entered into rest at her home at Overbrook on Wednesday morning, Dec. 12, Emma Alder Painter, after a long illness, aged 70 years, 7 months and 6 days.

Pierce Crawford, a former resident of Muncy, died suddenly at his home in Nanticoke on Wednesday of last week .

The motor patrolmen in the eastern Pennsylvania a district are now on duty. Two patrolmen are stationed at Muncy. The headquarters of the local patrolmen is the Crawford Hotel, Muncy.

George Single last week shot a buck which weighed 160 pounds.

Chief of Police Burn is on the search for the robbers who after ransacking the garage of the Muncy Motor Car company Friday night, sometime after midnight, escaped with $3.00 in cash.

The whir of an airplane passing over Swengle, a little town near Lewisburg, last week, brought he inhabitants out doors, when it was discovered that a store was afire. The blaze was quickly extinguished.

When Henry Struble of Canton drove too near the edge of a river bank near there, the team and wagon went over the bank into three feet of water and the wagon held the animals in such a way that the horses were drowned.

It cost $40,609 to run the city of Williamsport during November. The receipts for that moth were $18,368.

B.J. Egli of Pennsdale raised 182 bushels of wheat of a smooth variety from five acres of land. He is of the opinion that this is a record crop.Can anyone equal or better it?

The Luminary

Dec. 10, 1953

75 years ago

Muncy’s first Supermarket to open here next Wednesday, Dec. 16–The Great A&P Tea company. The building to house the market was built by H.T. Schneebeli, of Williamsport, on property owned here by him at the corner of Water and Washington streets.

The Home Economics department and F.H.A. staged a very successful fashion show on Dec. 3 as an assembly program for the student body.Featured in this show were the right and wrong ways to dress for various occasions.

Jesse E. Bartlow, son of Anna M. Bartlow, of Hughesville, recently was promoted to corporal while serving with Seventh Army’s 7th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion in Mannheim, Germany.

Deaths: Sara J. Aleck, 74, Muncy, died Wednesday; William J. Reese, 80, Picture Rocks, Dec. 7; Sarah Reese, 77, Lycoming County, died Dec. 2; John H. Cox, 68, Lairdsville, died Saturday; William H. Temple, 88, Unityville farmer, died Friday; Frances Smith, 75, Hughesville, die Friday; Melissa Barto, Hughesville native died at the age of 94 on Dec. 3.

At the Ritz: “Torch Song”

Ad: Poust’s Market, Hughesville-Christmas Tree Specials

Compiled by Ruth Fry

rfry@muncyluminary.com

The Hughesville Mail

100 Years Ago

Dec. 13, 1923

Picture Rocks

Rev. W.E. Neuer, of Mount Vison, N.Y., filled the pulpit at the Baptist Church Sunday, both morning and evening.

Mrs. C.H. Bitler has returned home from the Muncy Valley hospital, where she underwent an operation for gall stones.

The Young Peoples’ council of District No. 13, very pleasantly entertained their friends in the parlors of the M.E. church Friday evening.

The bazaar held in the Baptist church parlors December 6,7,8, was well attended. The little tots were very happy when Santa Claus appeared Saturday evening and presented each child with a gift.

The first dinner meeting of the Picture Rocks Round Table was held Tuesday evening in the Baptist church. About fifty men took part. The following officers were elected for six months: G.A. Ferrell, president; C.H. Bitler, vice president; George Derrick, secretary; and H.W. Burrows, treasurer. The officers were installed by William Gowers of the Muncy Round Table.

Town

Mrs. Margaret Huffman will expose to Public Sale at her residence, 185 N. Second street, Hughesville, Pa., on Saturday, December 22, 1923, at 1 o’clock P.M., the following: Cook stove, 2 extension tables, carpets, linoleum, chairs, bedroom suite, clock, porch swing and many other articles too numerous to mention.

Misses Laura Romelt and Maud Frontz spent yesterday with friends at Dubois.

Born, on December 8, to Dr. and Mrs. Guy Arnold, at the Muncy Valley hospital, a son.

Mrs. J.B. Gordner and family, wish to thank all neighbors and friends for their help and kindness through the long illness and death of J.B. Gordner.

A very enthusiastic meeting of the recently organized Parent-Teacher association was held Friday afternoon in the high school building, with a good attendance and a hearty spirit of co-operation.

Monroe Snyder and Cleon Myers, of Beaver Dam, were visitors in this place Sunday.

D.T. Rishel has purchased a Chevrolet touring car.

Compiled by Shirley

Confer Boatman

shirleyconfer@gmail.com