The advance division of the women’s division of the National Recovery Act’s women’s army in Williamsport will officially start Sunday and will continue until Friday when the aim of the army will be to see a big Blue Eagle perched in the window of every home in the district. Lieutenant General Bertha M. Maxwell appealed
Most of the baseball fans of Williamsport no doubt know of Little League which has just completed its third year of hardball, but I wonder how many of them know of those responsible for the success of the league and what they are attempting to accomplish with their players. A limited number of boys between
Unemployed and needy persons who registered yesterday as family heads totaled 3,147. They registered yesterday at the city’s grade schools. Information those persons gave in their registration showed that they had 1,700 dependents. The figure 3,147 does not represent that number of wholly unemployed persons in the city as the total also includes men and
Nearly 10,000 persons attended neighborhood church services last night, the first evening of the victory holiday. Worshippers assembled to offer their thanks for peace and to honor those men and women who died in battle. The Christ Episcopal Church was filled to capacity when the Rt. Rev. Thomas Heistand of Harrisburg delivered a message of
Officer John D. Andrews “bearded” the “bearded lady” in her “den” at the carnival last week, and secured an order for money, which was owed to a local welfare agency for two years. Two years ago, the bearded lady was stranded here with a carnival company which went broke. She appealed to Miss Minnie Y.
The marvelous mathematics of the now-famed Lycoming-Spencer promotion of the Red Cross Bloodmobile Program, the catch phrase “299 plus 1” now totals 1,612 volunteers to give blood. Recognition has come to Williamsport, the Lycoming Red Cross leaders and the Lycoming-Spencer Division of the Avco Corporation for the outstanding achievement of breaking all records in the
