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  • 2 weeks 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.

  • 3 weeks 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.

  • 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.

  • 1 month 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.

  • 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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