“Who’s going to cut my hair in 25 years?” That is the question that might be asked by men in Williamsport and elsewhere in Pennsylvania. The ranks of Pennsylvania’s licensed barbers are being thinned to the point that it is causing concern. “Very few young fellows take up barbering these days. I don’ think there
Much is being said these says, and more is inferred about “Williamsport waking up” and “getting busy,” “pulling together,” with the use of like figures of speech that imply a scarecrow condition of things which neither facts nor fancy justify. It is such preachments as these in the half sepulchral tones in which they are
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,
