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Organizations
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| Firemen's Monument erected at Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira. -
Byrne 16 |
| Sullivan & Bradford Counties' Pomona Grange meets at Gillett TGR-031203 |
| Lodges of the Sons of Temperance organized in Athens & Sayre
- TGR-040203 |
| A Lodge of the Red Men is organized in Mansfield - TGR-040203 |
| 84th Anniversary of the founding of the Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) TGR-043003 |
| A Chapter of Eastern Star, auxiliary to the Blossburg Masonic Lodge,
to be established in Sept. TGR-070203 |
| August 13. Odd Fellows Picnic on Fair Grounds at Towanda - Combined
28 Lodges in Bradford County TGR-071603 |
| Towanda Village Improvement Soc. Organized - July TGR-071603 |
| Firemen's Convention held at Hornellsville (Steuben County NY) July
4 - Sayre Hose Company's running team won in two events TGR-071603 |
| Elmira Masons cleared $18,000 on carnival and street fair. This is
half what is needed to clear debt on temple. TGR-071603 |
| P.O.S. of A. Convention to be held at Mainesburg 13 August TGR-072303 |
| Annual Picnic of Mitchell Mils Grange in Jackson Township will be held
26 August. Will take form of a Pomona Grange with all 37 Tioga County granges
represented. TGR-072303 |
| Galeton will hold Firemen's Convention in August TGR-080603 |
| K. of P. (Knights of Pythias) at Blossburg to hold a field day August
1 TGR-073003 |
| Independent Polish Club of Morris Run, organized four months ago, has
membership of 250 with applications coming in rapidly TGR-082003 |
| Eighth Annual Convention of Five County Volunteer Firemen's Association
- Galeton Aug 20 - 21 TGR-081303 |
| Second Annual Meeting of Old People's Union of Bradford County to be
held at Log House August 5-7 TGR-073003 |
| 17th Annual P. O. S. of A. Convention for Bradford County to be held
in Towanda Sept. 11 TGR-082703 |
| Bradford County Grange Picnic held at Troy Fairgrounds Aug 27
- over 1000 attend TGR-090303 |
| Bradford County W. C. T. U. Convention held in Sayre Last week TGR-082703 |
| Athens Camera Club is arranging an exhibition of amateur photos Dec.
3 to 5 TGR-102203 |
| The women of the Ladies' Aid Society of Judson Hill Church will give
a concert Nov. 5th assisted by talent from Troy and Austinville. TGR110503 |
| Nov. Pomona Grange Meeting at LeRoy TGR111203 |
| The women of the Circulating Library Club met to dispose of the year's
collection of books TGR121703 |
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People
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| March - Frank Loomis, Founder and Editor of the Troy Register Newspaper,
dies TGR-032603 |
| Louis, son of Dr. Frank Smith of Millerton, heads to Alaska to strike
it rich mine prospecting TGR-061803 |
| July - Adam Richter of Blossburg sustains an uninsured loss of livestock
and machinery in fire TGR-080603 |
| Nellie, the little white pony of Uel Porter that has been familiar
on Troy's streets for thirty years, is put to death out of mercy. TGR-110503 |
| Grand Jury - Bert Brace of Springfield indicted for fiendish and unprovoked
attack on the aged Hannah E. Guild resulting in her death. TGR120303 |
| John M. Hall of Roseville convicted of forgery, fined $100 and will
serve 2 years, 3 months in Eastern penitentiary TGR121703 |
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Politics
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| June - Residents of North Towanda & Sheshequin petition for a new
bridge across the Susquehanna River TGR-060403 |
| Mayor Sheehan of Elmira advanced money from his own account to give
police 20 days pay before Christmas (1902) TGR010103 |
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Public
Works
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| May - The new iron bridge at Roseville is completed TGR-050703 |
| Athens to spend $35,000 on street paving TGR-072303 |
| May - Gov. Odell of NY signs bill appropriating $10,000 for improvement
of dikes on Chemung River in Elmira TGR-052803 |
| Land leased to U.S. in Panama for building of Panama Canal - Trager
648 |
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Records
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Religion
& Church
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| New church bells in Burlington for both the Methodists and the Baptists
TGR-042903 |
| Church Attendance down for men while lodge membership increases (TGR) |
| The new pipe organ for Wellsboro's Baptist church arrived. Andrew Carnegie
paying half of the $1350 cost. TGR-073003 |
| July - Presbyterian Sunday School Picnic at Alperon Park in Troy TGR-073003 |
| New organ due at the Mansfield methodist Church Sept. 1 TGR-082703 |
| LeRaysville Congregational Church celebrates its 100th anniversary
Oct. 10 TGR-100103 |
| The new $3000 organ installed at the Episcopalian church in Wellsboro,
$1000 of it paid for by Andrew Carnegie, ceased to work. When examined
it was discovered that rats had shredded 221 of its 222 leather bellows.
TGR-100103 |
| Three weeks of Evangelist meetings colsed at East Smithfield Nov 29
TGR121703 |
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Reunions
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| Ripley Reunion to be held in Sullivan 09 September TGR-070903 |
| Aug 11 - Lilley Family Reunion at Canton Fairgrounds TGR-072303 |
| The 82nd birthday of Edwin Dewey of Sullivan was celebrated by a reuiniono
of his descendants TGR-092103 |
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Schools
& Education
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| Gov. Pennypacker of PA signs bill fixing $35 as minimum monthly salary
for teachers TGR-043003 |
| School Souvenir Books of Gray
Valley School and Holly School
and Elk Run School and Sullivan
Township Teacher Listing |
| School Souvenir Books of Berrytown
School and Mosherville School
and Beckwith School and |
| School Souvenir Books for Knoxville High School and Leetonia
School and Palmer School
and Roe Town School |
| 1903 Troy High School Graduates |
| Troy, July, J. H. White, Ph.D. of W.V., elected as principal of Troy
Graded and High Schools by the school board TGR-070203 |
| Camptown Schools to become graded - both high and graded schools. This
will increase appropriations from the state. TGR-071603 |
| There are 1,030 pupils in the Sayre schools TGR-100103 |
| There are five township high schools in operation in Bradford County,
East Smithfield, Granville Centre, Camptown, Orwell, and Luther's Mills
TGR-102203 |
| Bradford County Educational Assoc meets at Sayre 13 & 14 November
TGR110503 |
| Farmer's Institute for Tioga County - Mansfield Jan. 6th & 7th,
Millerton Jan.8th & 9th, Liberty Borough, Jan. 11th & 12th. TGR111903 |
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Social
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| July - A new innovation in social entertaining - "Progessive
Dinner Party" at Troy took guests house to house for various courses of
the meal TGR-073003 |
| Second Annual Old Folks Picnic to be held at Smythe Park in Mansfield
August 29 TGR-072303 |
| Annual Picnic of alumni of Mansfield Normal School to be held at Smythe
Park, Mansfield, August 12 TGR-072303 |
| July - Presbyterian Sunday School Picnic at Alperon Park in Troy TGR-073003 |
| Second Annual Meeting of Old People's Union of Bradford County to be
held at Log House August 5-7 TGR-073003 |
| Halloween Dance at Mitchell Hall in Troy - fifty guests en masque.
Music by Sherman's Band TGR110503 |
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Technology
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| Edison announces his perfection of the storage battery predicting the
demise of the horse in favor of lower and lower priced automobiles TGR-060403 |
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Tools
& Machinery (Farm & Home)
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| 1,350,000 Singer Sewing Machines sold. Trager 650 |
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Transportation
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| Dr. Rumsey of Covington is first physician in Tioga County to visit
his patients in an automobile TGR-080603 |
| Elmira & Waverly trolley line work will begin in May TGR-040203 |
| Introduction of Harley-Davis motorcycle by Willliam Harley and Arthur
Davidson and Walter Davidson Trager 651 |
| First cross country trip by an automobile. 52 days for a Packard -
San Francisco to New York. Poor roads discourage sales. Trager 651 |
| Wright Brothers first sustained flights in gasoline powered craft Trager
651 |
| Legislative Act of April 23, 1903 requires automobiles to be registerd
within each (PA) County. Autos may not go faster than 8 miles an hour within
any city. Autos must have two lighted lamps in front and at least one red
light behind. This annual license will cost $3. TGR-091703 |
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