Close competition between brothers marked the second running of the running the Young Men’s Bureau Annual Jalopy Derby with Lloyd Cotner of 325 Eldred Street placing first and his brother, William, placing second. Upwards of 3,000 spectators saw the running of the Derby on Market Street Hill between Washington Boulevard and Fifth Street yesterday. The
Ground will be broken by Grit Publishing Company within two weeks for a new building to be added to the two units here. The new structure is to be located at the corner of Willow and William Streets. It will be of steel and concrete, faced with red brick. The plans drawn by Bollinger and
Fire discovered shortly after five o’clock yesterday afternoon in a stockroom in the rear of the Hayes Drug Company, at 733 West Third Street, caused damage amounting to $50. Fire companies 1, 2, 3, 4 and the truck company were called to the scene on three alarms. The cause of the blaze is not certain,
A large number of residents of Williamsport, and the vicinity, enjoyed picnics during the past weekend. Perhaps the largest gatherings being those of St. John’s Lutheran Sunday School and the Williamsport Silk Company, at Memorial Park, the outing of relief workers at Camp Kline, and the picnic and reunion of the Class of 1926 of
Forty Members of the Sightless Social Club, many of whom had never attended a motion picture show, enjoyed the all-singing, all-talking production, “Broadway Melody,” when they were the guests of the Park Theater management last night. Following the theater program the members were taken to the All Saints Episcopal Church parish house, where the regular
When the confirmation of the news of the destruction of the Spanish fleet in Cuban waters came on the night of the Fourth of July there was a disposition to get up an impromptu celebration. A movement was organized but no band could be acquired for the event, and a celebration without music is seldom
