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Written by Compiled by Terry A. Fye
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Monday, 04 May 2009 |
(Considering the widespread interest in genealogy and local history, The Punxsutawney Spirit is pleased to share with our readers vignettes of our area's past that reveal the ways life has changed over the past 114 years.
These reprinted reports with their original headlines and spelling from back issues of the local newspaper highlight events, personalities, attitudes, and lifestyles that made the news long ago. This series will appear on Mondays for your reflection and amusement.)
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
(May 8, 1895)
A Greek Catholic Church
The corner stone of the Independent Greek Catholic church of Clayville is to be laid on Sunday, May 12. Rev. John Sabow, the pastor, will have charge of the ceremonies, and will be assisted by Greek priests from New York and Philadelphia.
The church and a parsonage are to be built on Second Avenue. This will be one of the very few Greek churches in the United States. A cordial invitation is extended to all to be present at the dedicatory services, which take place in the afternoon at three o'clock.
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(May 15, 1895)
Laying the Corner Stone
The ceremony of laying the corner stone of the Greek Catholic church in Clayville which is in course of construction in Clayville was held in that place on Sunday afternoon, Rev. John Sabow, of this place, being assisted by a brother priest from Philadelphia. The services were conducted in the Hungarian language as the great bulk of the congregation is made up of people speaking that tongue.
Even to a person who could not understand the language, the rites were interesting. About five hundred people were present, and at the conclusion of the ceremony the resident pastor in a short but appropriate address, returned thanks to the English speaking people of other denominations who had contributed liberally towards helping them in their efforts to build a church.
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(May 8, 1895)
Popular Magazine Spring Revery
Now and then a thought comes sadly to me —
A thoughty thought that cometh in a chunk,
And makes me somehow sort of sad and gloomy,
To think what thoughts I actually have thunk.
Ah, weary soul! What am I getting through me?
Whence, wherefore now the whichness of the when?
These are the fairest things, oh fairest one, beshrew me
That soothfully come to me now and then.
Now and then I realize quite plainly
That time is passing and that life is brief,
That everything's distorted and ungainly.
And incubated and breeds a brood of grief.
Alas! Alas! The women all are females,
And of the genus homo males are men.
What then's the use in going into details?
Whereasfore the whyness of the when?
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(May 15, 1895)
DIED OF BLACK
A Little Girl Dies After a Few Days of Intense Suffering Black diphtheria, a disease of very rare occurrence in this part of the country, caused the death of Lizzie Currain, a thirteen-year-old daughter of Daniel Currain, of Adrian, on Friday of last week. The child complained of feeling unwell on Tuesday, and a physician being summoned informed the parents that it was diphtheria in its worst form.
In order to protect the other children from contagion one was sent to the residence of Thomas Morgan, Elk Run, and the other to Charles Lawson, at Newtown.
The sick girl lingered until Friday morning when she died, and in the afternoon was interred in the cemetery at Anita. It being found impossible to keep her remains any longer as such a course might endanger the lives of others. The parents of the deceased child have the sympathy of all their friends and neighbors in their hour of affliction.
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(May 22, 1895)
The "Everett Press" says that about a week ago an old man named Wethrow had violent hiccoughs, and the doctors despaired of saving his life. His mother-in-law procured a gun and crept under his bed.
When they were left alone she pulled the trigger but she had aimed the weapon upward. The powder burned the sick man's toes, and in a rage, he sprang from the bed, and dragging the woman from beneath, gave the woman a sound beating.
In his anger Wetherow forgot all about his hiccoughs, and when the doctors came, expecting to see a dying man he was dining, and they had only the mother-in-law's bruises to look after.
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