Forty-four young colored men of Williamsport representing approximately five percent of the Negro population of this city, are enrolled in the armed forces of the United States of America. An honor roll recently at the Bethune-Douglass Center on Walnut Street, and to which additional are being made as each new draft call summons additional selectees,
Life is beginning to return to normal for some residents of the 1800 block of Sweeley Avenue, while for others it may never be the same again. A full-scale insurance survey of the damage caused by the natural gas explosion that took two lives in the neighborhood is scheduled to begin Monday. Insurance agents and
Williamsport club women made their first definite move last night to enlist themselves in the cause of women’s suffrage. The organization of the nucleus of a committee, which will disseminate suffrage sentiment and make plans for holding a big women’s mass meeting sometime within the next six weeks, was effected under the direction and chairmanship
The first real snowstorm of the season in Williamsport and vicinity, which reached blizzard proportions, connected up with the city about 5:45 o’clock this morning. It at first looked like a light snow, but as the morning wore on it was seen that the downfall was likely to prove one of the old fashioned kind,
The New York Knickerbockers, although never really extended, had to go all out at several stages to slap down the Williamsport Billies, 78-64, in an exhibition game last night on the West Third Street wooden way. A crowd of 502 watched the Billies, playing perhaps their best game of the infant season, stay within breathing
State Police at Troop D planned to inaugurate, late this afternoon or evening, use of the new state-wide mobile radio telephone system. It was learned today. Technicians making the installation in this area installed a console unit for a 250-watt station to be operated from the Montoursville barracks over an automatic relay system station atop
