Over one thousand persons witnessed the annual Baby Parade conducted last night as the feature of the second evening’s program for the Lycoming Presbyterian Church festival in Newberry. Gathered along the course of the parade, from Diamond Square to Arch Street on West Fourth Street then south to the church, the group witnessed a parade
The absorbing topic yesterday was the draft which was being made in Washington yesterday afternoon and which found its reflection in the city in the long list of numbers that were posted over the press wires and were posted on the bulletin board as they were received. It was a serious day and its seriousness
July 12, 1940 Preparing to Expand Plane Training Here Expansion of the aviation training program through the vocational education department of the Williamsport School District moved a step nearer realization through decisions made by Williamsport City Council and the school district. The school board voted last night to purchase the Seth Bennett four-acre tract adjoining
Portions of 29 city streets, representing 10 miles of secondary roadway and located principally in East End or in Newberry, have been improved with crushed stone surfaces so far this summer by the municipal highway department. Twenty of the streets are in the East End, the 15th and 16th Wards, where work in former years
Picnics of the family type, innumerable auto excursions, generally, more or less family affairs, and trips to nearby pleasure parks will comprise the major activities of the patriots of Williamsport Monday, the day the 150th anniversary of our independence is celebrated. The two- and one-half days reprieve from desk, bench, kitchen counter or what have
Williamsport’s “White Wings” work while you sleep. That is, they begin to work cleaning the paved streets every night promptly at midnight. They with their big sweeping apparatus, work from midnight to 7 a.m. These crews are connected with the highway department and consist of eight men, two on the big sweeper, two on the
