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1 month ago | 
wcexaminer.com | Robert L. Baker
News from 1925:Memorial services are to be held at Sunnyside Cemetery at 2 p.m., May 30, by J.W. Reynolds Post 98 of the Grand Army of the Republic. The people are all invited and requested to be present and furnish flowers. Saturday, May 29, will be American Legion Poppy Day. The funds go to disabled soldiers, the soldiers orphan fund, and for Memorial Day exercises. The Pittston Gazette reports that Wyoming County is the first to tackle the task of building up its undernourished children.
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1 month ago | 
wcexaminer.com | Robert L. Baker
News from 1925:The newspaper this week goes to our readers in enlarged format, having added one column to each page. With practical unanimity, the bar of Wyoming Count has endorsed the candidacy of Hon. Charles E. Terry for a third term as judge. On May 1, the High and Dry Cottage at West Falls was broken into and robbed. Three men from Wilkes-Barre have been charged with the robbery.
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1 month ago | 
wcexaminer.com | Robert L. Baker
News from 1925:A very fine musicale was rendered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Ogden Saturday to a crowded house under the direction of Prof. Wesley Gavitt. The Meshoppen Orchestra personnel were as follows: piano, Marion Filkins; solo violin, Prof. Gavitt; first violin, Mildred Woolcot; John Love, violin obligato (a)Alden Filkins; Harold Woolcot; violin obligato (b)Merla Dibble, George Jennings; cornet. Frank Colt. M.E. Rev. Josiah R. Wagner, 86, died Thursday night at his Lehman home.
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2 months ago | 
wcexaminer.com | Robert L. Baker
News from 1925:Ray Jackson of Mercur, brother of Schuyler Jackson of Tunkhannock, lost his barn, farm machinery, and cattle in a fire Sunday afternoon, and friends have started a subscription of funds to aid him in getting on his feet financially again. The Wyoming County Red Cross has secured 546 annual memberships. Mrs. O. Smith Kinner, Red Cross chairman, thanks all who contributed. Willard Duirling, 63, died of heart trouble at his Second Street home April 26. Burial at Sunnyside.
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2 months ago | 
wcexaminer.com | Robert L. Baker
100 years ago:The public meeting of the Ku Klux Klan advertised to be held at the baseball ground on Saturday evening materialized. About 40 cars filled with hooded men and women from the Lackawanna and Wyoming valleys burning crosses and Ks with the crowd estimated at 1500. Though the crowd was large, the best of order prevailed. It was Tunkhannock’s first experience of the sort. The funeral of Mrs. Thomas Flynn, mother of Rev. William J.
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Mar 19, 2025 | 
wcexaminer.com | Robert L. Baker
100 years ago:The First National Bank of Montrose observed its 50th anniversary last week. Meshoppen: Mrs. F. H. Arnts died and was buried Mar. 13 at Vaughn Cemetery. A group of eight Kiwanians from Pittston was in town last Thursday to outline the steps necessary to form a local Kiwanis Club. Rev. Samuel Tolley died in Factoryville Mar. 12. The funeral was held on Sunday, but a few hours later, Mrs. Tolley died. Both were English by birth. He was affiliated with the M.E. Church of the Wyoming Conference.
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Mar 12, 2025 | 
wcexaminer.com | Robert L. Baker
Fire which started in the Kellogg Store Sunday morning wiped out that building, but also the barbershop of Theodore Rogers and leather goods shop of George Kutz. Fagots from the burning building set fire to the barn roof of H. Stanley Harding and also to the Methodist Church roof. A heroic and successful effort of firefighting was made by Carl Hunter of LaGrange. The first issue of the ‘Orange and Black,’ published by English honor students of the local high school, came out last week.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
wcexaminer.com | Robert L. Baker
100 Years Ago:Mrs. M.C. Gay is dangerously ill. Michael J. Callaghan, former superintendent of the local woolen mills, died at his West Harrison Street home Tuesday after a long period of having a feeble heart. He is survived by a widow and four children. A large delegation of cottage owners at West Falls are registering protests against the increase in valuations in that vicinity. Mrs. Elizabeth Means has sold her store building on East Tioga Street. Dalton: Born to Mr. and Mrs.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
wcexaminer.com | Robert L. Baker
In 1925:Noxen now has electric current, and business places, churches and homes are being wired. The Opals Club of Factoryville motored to Bunker Hill Feb. 17 to the home of Steve Hartman in honor of the birthday of Albert Kehrli. The guests traveled to the home and played many games. On Feb. 18, Fred J. Addison of Old Forge and Miss Wilda F. Wildrick of Vernon were united in marriage at Center Moreland by Rev. Charles Dempsey. Rep.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
wcexaminer.com | Robert L. Baker
In 1925:There are 1,396 farmers in Wyoming County. George Hardware Co. planting time will soon be here. Electric house heating will soon become general, and it is more a question of how soon there will be a sufficient electric pool generated to heat the homes of the land than absence of demand. Miss Mabel Martin, who is one of the teachers in the Meshoppen school, suffered a severe attack of tonsilitis recently. She has returned to her school.
