Bright and shiny with blue and gold binding covers the R.L. Polk & Company’s new 1930 city directory, including South Williamsport, DuBoistown and Montoursville, is just off the press and ready for distribution over the city. It contains all the major directory departments including the statistical and history of the city, the miscellaneous departments, the alphabetical listing of names, which is course the principal feature of the book the householders, the classified numerical directory and the telephone guide.

Many and are interesting are the items to be found such as the fact that there are more than 100 manufacturing establishments in Greater Williamsport or that there are 2,700 farms in Lycoming County or that the assessed valuation of the city is $29,564,345 or that the postal receipts for 1938 were $458,427.30 or that the estimated present population of the city is 49,000.

The alphabetical section covers 528 pages beginning with AAA and ending with John Zwyer. It includes some sizeable lists of family names which the Millers and the Smiths with totals of 376 and 358 respectively are good examples.

The directory shows that there are 73 physicians as practicing in the community, 46 dentists, 178 grocers, and 53 automobile repairers, not one horse shoer, although five blacksmiths are listed.

Other features of the directory are the miscellaneous department presenting lists of city, county, state and national governmental officers and a numerical telephone guide of the territory covered by the directory.