With 28 definite objectives for civic betterment set up by the Community Trade Association, the organization’s annual report reveals that despite hampering wartime conditions, notable progress has been made in 17 of them. The annual report of C.E. Noyes, manager of the C.T.A., was mailed to members today. Included in the four-page compilation are not
Two hundred City Hall lodgers, the high number reached in the month of December, will likely be duplicated by the record of the present month. Each night finds upwards of a dozen or even more lodgers seeking shelter for the night at police headquarters. And the police, for obvious reasons, do not turn them away.
Approximately 100 Office of Price Administration agents, police officers, and other state, county and borough enforcement personnel began “spot-checking” today in Lycoming County for violators of the new “no pleasure” driving order to conserve supplies of gasoline. Clarification of how the government would put the teeth in the order came at noon when O.P.A. representatives
While most cities during the past year were busy trying to hold their own and keep going, Williamsport, a survey shows, not only maintained its regular industries, but added several more to its already diversified list. Industries that have been established in the city continued to grow and, in several instance, made extensive improvements in
Williamsport’s community Christmas tree celebration Tuesday evening was a great success in spite of the inclement weather. The tree had been repaired and rebuilt it is now one of the most symmetrical the city has had, and the lighting is so perfectly placed that the illumination is splendidly balanced and the effect beautiful. In spite
Losses that will exceed $100,000 resulted from an early morning fire that destroyed the Masonic Temple business block of Montoursville. Starting in the kitchen of Lundy’s Lunchroom, 340 Broad Street, Montoursville at 1:50 a.m. the flames swept rapidly on the south side of the street, consuming nine business places, and making five families homeless. The
