Miscellaneous History

 

Excerpts from:  1901 Tylersville POS or A - Washington Camp No. 418 Journal

 

Note:  Some of the spellings may be wrong ~ handwriting hard to read ~ deciphered as best as possible.

 

 

Nov. 9, 1901

Meeting called by President Frantz.

 

By motion and order was drawn to the amount of $3.50 for finishing of furniture and painting signs.

 

Mr. Charles M. Weaver was duly invited into the mysteries of our order.

 

By various motions the secretary was instructed to correspond with headquarters as to whether we dare admit members at $1.50.

 

Nov 16, 1901

At roll call Bros. Confer, J. Day and Cooney were absent.

 

Bro. G.K. Miller was Chaplin for the night and Bro. Swartwood was sentinel.

 

Opening followed by prayer.

 

Bro. Shaffer moved and Bro. Swartwood seconded that we accept Bro. John Rhine’s offer of $4.00 for wood for 1 year.

 

It was regularly moved that we pay Bro. W.C. Caris ten cents each for the 3 plates lost at convention.  Motion carried.

 

By motion the delegates for the District Convention to be held by Camp 195 on November 30, 1901 were appointed:

Delegates:

I T Weaver

W E Frantz

C E Bongunder (?)

Benj. H Weaver

Howard Caris

A N Walizer

G O Wolf

W D Kerstetter

 

Alternates are: N J Bierly, Geo. Day, W C Caris, G K Miller, J (?) Day, N N Cooney, Henry Strouse and Henry Kline.

 

$2.41 were collected as dues.   $.30 paid for plates.

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Herbert E. Stover (1888 - 1963)

Following excerpt was taken from the article by Mr. Stover’s oldest daughter, Anna Jane Stover Dietrich, printed in the 125th Anniversary book dated 1965:

Herbert Stover was a teacher, a historian and an author.  He was the second son of Adam Kahl Stover and Jessie DeLong Stover.  His great grandparents were Peter and Sarah Kahl.  As a boy he and his brother, Leslie, worked in the fields around Brush and Sugar Valleys.  He received his teacher’s education at Lock Haven and Bucknell, and taught in schools in Huntingdon, Flemington, Lock Haven, Phillipsburg, Austin, and Lewisburg.  His first book was a textbook, published in 1945.  His first novel was published in 1947, Song of the Susquehanna.

He also wrote MEN IN BUCKSKIN, POWDER MISSION, COPPERHEAD MOON, THE EAGLE AND THE WIND, and BY NIGHT THE STRANGER.

Much of the planning of his books was done while he hunted and fished in Sugar Valley.  There history came alive and he walked in the moccasins of his ancestors.  There the water and the woods talked to him, and he listened, and remembered, and came home to write again.  To write and rewrite and, to research and study and remember old stories he heard as a child.

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The first prominent settlers in Sugar Valley were John C. Culby family, then Frederick Womeldorf, Henry Spangler, Michael Bressler, Philip Glantz, Michael Ketner, Mathias Snook, and Barnet Rocky.  It is noted that Womeldorf, Glantz, and Ketner were married to the daughters of Anthony Kleckner.

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The first water company for the borough was incorporated in July of 1861.  The P.O.S of A was established in 1872 and a community band was formed in 1886.  After Samuel D. Ilgen conceived the idea to furnish electrical power to the area the streets of Loganton were lighted for the first time in November 1926.
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In an effort to aid the reconstruction of the town the Community Club was formed in 1925.
 
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The first water company was incorporated in July of 1861 and water was brought to the borough through wooden pipes from a spring just north of the borough.  The first Post Office was established March 16, 1829.  The Sugar Valley Volunteer Fire Company was starter Oct 1, 1946.  Telephone service was in Loganton by 1906.
 
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The first organizational meeting to reactivate Boy Scouting in Sugar Valley was held in 1952. Membership over the years ranged from 5 - 45 boys, but usually had about 15 members at any one time.  The first Eagle Scout was James Bonar.  Later Sam Bonar, Ken Toner, Jim Wagner and Allen Wagner were among the first also.
 
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There are no known records of earlier Boy Scout Troops in Sugar Valley, but they did have a troop.  Some remember meeting in the old POS of A hall in Loganton in the 1940s and a Boy Scout Book from Eastville shows Miles Frank attained the rank of Tenderfoot in April of 1923.
 
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