The daylight-saving situation in Williamsport gave every promise of having daylight saving observed on citywide basis beginning Monday, May 9. Some of the manufacturing plants were on the new schedule this morning as were several stores. Petitions made their appearance in several stores during the forenoon and by noon had been signed by the heads
Williamsport will have a Community Chest. This was decided at a meeting of the executive committee held yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock in the city hall. Chairman Edgar Munson, of the welfare corporation was authorized at this meeting to appoint a committee to secure a competent director for this campaign and things now will begin
First actual city police use of the blood test in connection with an alleged drunk driving case was reported today by Police Chief John G. Good. The test was used on Jacob M. Watts of 1149 Vine Avenue, who this morning entered a plea of guilty of drunken driving and was committed to the county
The Williamsport Hotels Company on Saturday let the contract for the new hotel which is to be erected at the corner of the northwest corner of Fourth and William streets. The general construction was awarded to the W.M. Sutherland Company of St. Louis, Missouri and Erie, Pa. The contracts for the mechanical equipment covering heating
An ordinance for black outs and air raid protection authorizing Mayor Leo C. Williamson to promulgate necessary orders, rules and regulations was passed on final reading yesterday by Williamsport City Council at a special meeting. This legislation was rushed through yesterday to afford the city legal protection during the test blackout scheduled for this evening
Models representing foreign countries and various parts of the United States have arrived in this city and are and have been displayed in one of the display window at Brozman’s Women’s Shop on Pine Street, to help tell the story, “The Evolution of the Nurse’s Uniform.” The pert, little doll nurses dressed in their quaint
