Williamsport welcomed the New Year of 1925 with the old fashioned “Hip, Hip Hurrah!”

The bells and whistles of the city blew out the old year of 1924, and brought in the new year of 1925 with the usual vigor, while New Year’s shooters were in evidence throughout Williamsport.

The tin horn crowd, who also had other noise makers, were on the streets where other celebrations were held, were on the streets shortly before midnight — and long afterwards, as in other years, and it was the typical New Year’s Eve celebration that has always been obtained in Williamsport.

All the merrymakers were not all in the street though. The hotels where celebrations were held had their quotas of celebrations and there were programs and other forms of entertainment in the clubs.

Those religiously inclined went to church. Most of the churches of the city held Watch Night services and they were well attended.

The stay-at-homes with radios heard celebrations in other cities though their speakers, and had a good time by their firesides. The reception was very good. Williamsport “listeners-in” heard Mayor Hendricks of Philadelphia make a speech and afterward heard the clock in the tower of Independence Hall strike the hour of 12, followed by strokes for 148 years of American independence. Just before the midnight hour too, the chimes of the Trinity Church in New York City came in very clear and strong and a bell ringer played a number of hymns and patriotic numbers. The celebration in Cincinnati was also heard by Williamsport radio fans. The announcer at WBAI station every now and then turned loose Cincinnati’s celebration and there was “some noise.”