| YEARS GONE BY ARCHIVES |
| JANUARY 1910 |
| Pottsville Republican of January 4, 1910 TOWN COUNCIL MEETING The regular meeting of Town Council was held Monday evening. Mr. Keller, acting President in Mr. Lautenbacher's absence. The following members were present: Bubeck, Caffrey, Moore, McKeon, Saul, Rooney, Umbenhower, Mengle, Secretary Runkle, Solicitor Noecker, Electrician Warner and Supervisor Becker. Superintendent Warner stated that the fuses had been burned out at Reed and Leininger's factory by changing the switch at the plant and that firm asked him to replace them at the borough's expense. On motion of Mr. Saul, the amount is to be deducted from the next month's bill. E. L. Thomas and I. B. Heim, a committee representing property owners on Saint John Street from Main to Union Streets, presented a petition to Town Council for the paving of that square of street. The petition was sworn to before Squire C. A. Moyer and contained signatures of more than two thirds of property owners on that square. Burgess Hartman presented his report showing nine notices served and seven permits issued and receipts from them. He also made four arrests. The Burgess suggested that the borough erect its own council chamber, lockup and tool room for the supervisor. He suggested as the location the end of saint John Street between the bank and Saylor's store. The estimated cost is $2000 and rentals now paid will more than pay the interest. Pottsville Republican of January 7, 1910 SCHOOL BOARD MEETING The School Board met in regular monthly session on Monday evening. President Jones being absent, Director Frank Brown was made chairman. The county superintendent's report on the local teacher's attendance at the county institute and of the director's attendance was read. The teachers were credited with full time. Teachers are to keep a record for one month of the requests from parents to have their children come home before a session is over. This is with a view to curb the practice. The school will send letters to those minors under sixteen who are working without the new certificate and urge them to secure the new one. At the recommendation of the county superintendent, two Friedensburg boys, Heffner and Krecker by name, were admitted to our high school provided their school district pays the full tuition as adopted last June. The board directed that only one session be held on very stormy days, the school to dismiss at one o'clock. Teachers are directed to observe Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays with suitable patriotic exercises. The principal asked the board to permit several sets of lantern slides to be gotten from the state department to illustrate various lines of school work. The state department grants free use of them only that one dollar be paid to cover transportation. The request was refused on the ground that they would divert the pupil's minds too much from regular school work. The piano was ordered tuned. Director Crevan again directed attention to his house on Caldwell Street and he would like it to be cut into the district. He was referred to the solicitor. Children becoming six years old before next May are permitted to start school this month, but must do so during the first two weeks, after which they will not be admitted. Vaccination certificates and permits from the secretary of the School Board must be presented to the teacher of first grade for the ward in which the child resides. The schools opened after a two week vacation. Pottsville Republican of January 8, 1910 COASTING STOPPED ON A NUMBER OF BOROUGH STREETS BY BURGESS Owing to the complaints of citizens, Chief Burgess Hartman was compelled to stop coasting on a number of our streets. The Burgess informed the coasters that they made so much noise that they became a nuisance. He would not have stopped them if complaints had not been made. Deputy Coroner Dr. L. D. Heim and the following jury inquired into the death of Charles F. Heisler, who was found fatally injured on the P. & R. Railroad at the stone bridge: E. B. Pflueger, G. I. Bensinger, Charles Roeder, F. D. Starr, Daniel Hill and Edward Burns. After hearing the testimony of a number of witnesses, the following verdict was reached: That deceased met his death from injuries accidentally received, all parties being exonerated from blame and recommending that the P. & R. Company maintain a stretcher and blankets at the Schuylkill Haven depot or "J" office for use in accidents similar to this. In this case a trip was made to the Mine Hill crossing for a stretcher during which time the injured man was lying in the snow. Pottsville Republican of January 12, 1910 SCHUYLKILL HAVEN AFTER A BIG INDUSTRY The Manufacturer's association of Schuylkill Haven has lines out for the big steel plants of Lebanon County which are desirous of consolidating and coming to the coal regions if a suitable location is secured. The "Republican" several weeks ago told at length of the proposition of these companies and suggested that Pottsville and the surrounding towns get busy in an effort to land them. The Schuylkill Haven association has communicated with the firms in question and feels very sanguine of landing the industry for that place. There is a wealth of suitable ground in that vicinity which is believed can be easily secured and which will be conveniently located to either or both railroads. From twenty to thirty acres is desired by the concern. The three companies which intend to consolidate are M. H. Treadwell and Company, and Lebanon Steel casting Company, both of Lebanon and the Stoever Foundry and Manufacturing Company of Myerstown. Pottsville Republican of January 19, 1910 SCHUYLKILL HAVEN GIRL CAUGHT WITH NEGROES Several days ago, Mrs. Montgomery of Schuylkill Haven, sent a letter to the Chief of Police in Reading asking him to be on the lookout for her daughter, Tharma Morlock, aged eighteen years, who had disappeared from her home and who the mother expected had gone to Reading. Detective Miller of Reading was put on th case and about five o'clock yesterday afternoon located the girl at 51 Lemon Street, a house occupied by Negroes. The girl, who is white and of prepossessing appearance, told police she had been at the Lemon Street house since last Saturday. She was locked up at police headquarters and her mother notified, who went to reading this morning and will bring the girl along home with her this evening. Pottsville Republican of January 19, 1910 POTTSVILLE BOYS IN TROUBLE Five young Pottsville men will be given a hearing before Squire C. A. Moyer of Schuylkill Haven this evening at seven o'clock on the charge of fighting and creating a disturbance on the Main Street on Saturday night. The boys in question were waiting for the last car to Pottsville, which leaves Schuylkill Haven at 12:15 a. m. when they engaged in the fight with several young men of Schuylkill Haven. The Schuylkill Haven parties were given a hearing on Monday night and paid the borough fine. Yesterday afternoon Chief Burgess Hartman and Constable Butz of Schuylkill Haven came to Pottsville where they served the warrants. The names of the Pottsville parties could not be learned. Pottsville Republican of January 20, 1910 SCHOOL NOTES On account of the stormy weather and the depth of snow only one session of school was held last Friday ending at one o'clock. Pupils have been stopped from coasting down High Street because of the danger to pupils on that street near the school building. The school authorities and the employers in town are working in harmony to carry out the provisions of the Acts of Assembly regulating compulsory attendance at school and the employment of minors under sixteen. The school authorities highly appreciate the prompt return of reports sent to them. Let no employer delay his report. Pottsville Republican of January 21, 1910 HIGH WATER CAUSES FLOOD Due to the continuous rains of last night and this morning a number of cellars in the North Ward of Schuylkill Haven were flooded. A small creek running from what is known as the Second Mountain and emptying into the old level assumed the proportion of a river causing the water to cover the trolley tracks for a depth of nearly a foot and flooding the cellars of over a dozen families. Late this afternoon the stream attained a width of nearly one hundred feet causing the water to back onto Dock Street washing out the streets besides doing damage to property amounting to hundreds of dollars. People who had all their provisions in the cellar were unfortunate to have them all spoiled by the water and were compelled to purchase others. The Schuylkill River rose a distance of about six feet causing the water to back into what is known as the Irish Flat and threatening a number of houses in that section of the town. Considerable trouble was experienced by the trolley cars on the different divisions of the lines of the Eastern Pennsylvania Railway. On the Orwigsburg division it was impossible to enter the town owing to the dam at Adamsdale overflowing its banks and covering the tracks. One car managed to get to Orwigsburg at eleven o'clock this morning and up to three o'clock this afternoon all trolley communication with that town was cut off. Pottsville Republican of January 22, 1910 SCHUYLKILL HAVEN SHORTS Robert Flammer, gas maker at the local gas works, had a narrow escape from death on Thursday. He had been feeling under the weather for several days but did not consider his condition serious enough to warrant staying at home and he therefore went about his duties as usual. While working around the generator he was seized with an attack of vertigo and fell to the floor unconscious. Noticing that the machinery was not working with its accustomed regularity, his helper made an investigation and discovered Flammer's plight. He quickly dragged Flammer into the open air and summoned Superintendent Werner and Dr. J. A. Lessig who resuscitated him and removed him to his home. In his unconscious condition Flammer had inhaled a great deal of gas and would have been asphyxiated had he not been discovered at the time he was. As it was, Flammer's family was cautioned to apply remedies and keep him awake until three o'clock the next morning in order to be sure that the effects of the gas were all out of his system. Ed Gessler, one of the fastest runners on the P. & R. main line, pulling the throttle on the engine that draws the express train arriving from Philadelphia at 10:53 a. m. and leaving here for the city at 1:59 p. m., had an odd and considerably painful experience down near Pottstown the other day. While bowling along at a mile a minute clip through Loraine, the engine struck a big crow that was flying across the tracks and the dead bird crashed through the window into Engineer Gessler's face. Mr. Gessler was so painfully cut and bruised that he had to call his fireman to take charge of the engine for the balance of the run. Mr. Gessler is very well known in Schuylkill Haven, having been a former resident of this section. Pottsville Republican of January 28, 1910 STRONG MAN ARRESTED AT SCHUYLKILL HAVEN George B. Erieg, the strong man who performed at the Lyric Theatre here in Pottsville two weeks ago, was arrested last evening while performing at Schuylkill Haven on a warrant sworn out in Williamsport, charging him with desertion and nonsupport. The warrant was placed in the hands of Constable Butz of Schuylkill Haven, who caught his man and brought him to Pottsville this morning where he was placed in the borough lockup to await arrival of officers from Williamsport. Erieg is the man who allowed an automobile to pass over him and lifted heavy car wheels while performing in Pottsville. It is stated he has an affinity in Tremont. |