The new year of 1924 got a noisy start and hearty welcome to Williamsport and old 1923 was blown out and shot out and rung out, and whistled out with the old time gusto. Even the Boreas took a hand in the New Year’s Eve celebration, the wind blowing great guns, swept down upon the
Christmas 1941 comes to a world where there is scant peace, where men search the skies for portents not of joy but of death, and where men of goodwill are, as were the simple Judean shepherds long ago, “sore afraid.” Happily, there is no blackout of the Christmas star here—no shrieking sirens to interrupt joyful
If Christmas sales are to be regarded as a barometer of industrial and financial conditions, Williamsport is enjoying one of the most prosperous periods in its history. A canvass of the leading stores of the city this morning resulted in a unanimous statement that Christmas sales this year will in all cases equal, and in
A meeting of the representatives of the six clubs that will make up the new New York-Pennsylvania State League will meet in Binghamton this Wednesday or Thursday. Thomas M. Gray and N. B. Bubb will represent Williamsport fans who are backing the proposition of local team in the new league. Final plans for the organization of
A disastrous fire of mysterious origin in a double dwelling at 1019 Louisa Street about 2:30 o’clock this morning came near causing the death of the occupants. Walter, wife and daughter, Grace, the latter 13 years of age, all jumped 18 feet from a second story window and escaped with minor injuries. The baby, 19
An exciting “wild turkey chase” occurred recently at Bodines according to a correspondent who supplies the following details. The turkey appeared in a neighboring field. Ira High, a noted trapper and unerring hunter and a lot of other things too numerous to mention, was promptly notified. He girded himself for the hunt, seized his rifle
